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Discovering Castlevania 64

A
Further
Forty
Minutes of Failure

or try to tap the jump button
to climb up, as a lot of people’s
instincts would force them to do,
This isn’t really the game’s fault he will just fall off.
as much as it is mine, but I’ve
now realised if you tap the jump Wrapping
Up and
button fast and play around Conclusions
with the analog stick Reinhardt
does strange little bunny hops in As my time with Castlevania
random directions that seem to passed and I continued to take
defy physics. I can’t stop doing notes on things I started to realise
it, and it is starting to have a that this game was suffering
slightly derogatory effect on the from more problems than it has
atmosphere.
polygons. Considering there’s
only about six polygons in it
Speaking of jumping, there’s a that’s not as bad as it sounds, but
major issue with platforming in Castlevania has aged horribly and
this game as well. There are a lot has a lot of nagging issues that
of jumps that Reinhardt can only make it largely unplayable today.
make by grabbing a ledge and However, I have played en