I HAVE WAITED ALL DAY FOR THIS! YES!

Yes! It's not Monday without RFGO!

Also, it's 4 in the morning here so it's not technically Monday. Does this mean I have two Mondays this week and no Tuesday?

i have been waiting all my life for this! also the secret dino run content is full of win and pizza rolls

FINALLY!

I need to go to bed and get up and prepare for finals, but screw it!!! im listening to retroforce.

I'm sad to say, I've never played a Castlevania game. Yes, I know. But I do have Dawn of Sorrows on my DS so I'll attempt to blaze through it.

Sorry for the lack of deep Castlevania talk on the Castlevania episode. We had a lot to catch up on, what with us being off last week.
We may do another Castlevania show in the future, though. The amazing series deserves more time. :)

i loved Simon's Quest :)
they should really remake it with a nice 2-d HD-ness like all the ones you talked about last episode!!

The fact that Reaprar spelled "ransom" wrong completely negates his entire comment.

Hey wow, Collete's voice is normal! And all this time i thought she was a robot. Now that i think about it, I'm kinda dissapointed actually.

Just so you know, Dyson & Co., Rev gave out the DinoRun password on one of the last Podtoids. I wonder if I was the only one actually used it though. I nearly pooped a cat, it's so sweet.

Ya know, I don't remember much about the game except going into towns but Castlevania II was one of the few Castlevania games I beat.

Other random points...

Castlevania is referred to as Demon Castle Dracula in Japan. Why they changed the name in the U.S. is beyond me, but yeah...Castlevania's so bad-ass that it doesn't even matter. As for my favorite playable character, that'd probably be a tie between Alucard and Richter.

Granfalloon (or Legion) was originally in SotN. It was called Granfalloon in the U.S., but Legion is the more accepted name for it, as it's been used since then.

As for whips, I really don't mind not having them. I'd hafta say that PoR did whips right with Nebula. In case you're not familiar with it, it's basically a homing whip of sorts.

A week without Chad Concelmo?! Impossibleness.

Colette's Painting should have a fire-breathing Chocobo

Sharpless and Reprar: ORLY? Rev spilled the beans on the code, eh? Well, two things need to be said. I'm pretty sure that Rev WASN'T FUCKING SUPPOSED TO. (I may be wrong.) And the code has changed. At least I was told by .tiff that it had been changed by Rich.

Apparently someone hacked their rom file (??) and figured out the pizza rolls password. So I was told that this new password was the, uh, new one.

Blacksunempire: Naw, I ain't slacking. I just got caught up in some craziness that couldn't be avoided. It was pretty awesome, for sure, and I may tell you about it on the next show. That is, as long as 'Loose Nukes' doesn't get all butt-hurt if I tell another story from my day to day life.

'sides, two shows out of 50 ain't too shabby. I think Toph and I are tied (maybe) for shows missed.

And yes, I eagerly look forward to the next Castlevania episode. I need more! It is my sustenance!

@Dyson
Actually, Rev said that Tiff was supposed to reveal it on that episode of Podtoid, but she couldn't be there, so he did it for her. So, I assume that they were supposed to do it first, since Tiff was the one who was supposed to do it and she's Ms. Dino*Run Password.

Ah, marvellous, this shall keep me going whilst I toil away in work.

Sweet sustenance. bravo.

What is a podcast but a miserable pile of secrets?

Don't worry Collette, you are not alone with the love for Castlevania 2. I will rant about it if no one else will damn it all!

It was the first of the series I played when I was in elementary school. IMO, it has the greatest music in a Castlevania game aside from Symphony of the Night. Everyone forgets about the final Dracula's castle music, but it was very original and had the most amazing feel to it. If you managed to get that far in the game and actually find Dracula's castle, that music filled me with a sense of awe and excitement.

It was one of those early games on the NES that was a true social experience to beat it. No one ever beat that game on their own. No one. Unless you cheated and had a Nintendo Power. Even then I don't remember the Nintendo Power walking you through the entire game. Back in the day when games were hard enough that you got stuck playing them, you had to have friends who had a brother who had some friend from another school that knew some trick they discovered to get further. Thats how we figured it out when I was younger. You had to know someone that knew someone that knew something. Everyone would come over to that someones house to sit and marvel at how he did it and then brainstorm on how to get further in the game. A bunch of wide eyed 8 year olds hanging on the edge of their seat watching the Grim Reaper get owned by a slick looking Simon Belmont was amazing at that time. We cheered when we first got the morning star! That too was an awesome moment.

Remember the feeling you got when you discovered a castle on your own? Or the feeling of great accomplishment after having beaten a castle and memorized where all the invisible blocks were. How about when you came across a hidden town in the middle of the night and you prayed for daylight before you were hunted and killed by night terrors and fricking annoying black crows as you jumped across water. This is what makes Castlevania 2 stand out for me. The sense of discovery and immense enjoyment I got from figuring things out even if I needed to get help from friends across the street.

Say what you will about the game, love it hate, its all good. I'll understand not everyone had the great experience with it that I did. But for me, that game meant something back then.

End Rant.

Castlevania 2 was the first NES game I got that wasn't a pure twitch game. Yeah, a lot of the shit in it was unfair (yeah, fuck you, "white crystal"), but it introduced me to the weird Videogame Information Underground that existed before the Internet. There was always that one kid who somehow found out all that shit. You made friends with that kid right quick.

Oh--another thing about Simon's Quest: it gave me a chill up my spine that I wouldn't get again until the advent of survival horror. It was my first play-through, and I get to that first town, unclear about what to do next. I walk up to a guy and hit B (I think) to talk to him at the precise moment the day/night cycle switches over. So it looks like I went up to him, engaged him, and in my mind's eye, I see him turn (and in my kid imagination, he's all pale and sweaty) and say ominously "What a horrible night to have a curse" and then it's HOLY TITS WHERE DID THESE ZOMBIES COME FROM

So no, Colette, you aren't alone. More Zeldavania!

Great Show! You guys are awesome!!

I want to throw out that I actually liked Castlevania 2. I also fail for not having completed Symphony of the Night yet.

I also fail because I tried to type in the password on DinoRun and nothing happened. Do I press enter afterwards?