- #MEGAMAN SPRITE GAME HOW LONG FULL#
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#MEGAMAN SPRITE GAME HOW LONG FULL#
Special thanks to Frogacuda, Johnny Undaunted and everyone else who offered suggestions, made corrections or told me I was full of shit. Saturn Richter was snagged from MrP's Castlevania Realm. Too many levels were tech demos, and perhaps recognizing this Konami never reused techniques like the rotating tubes and levels.ĭOS version screenshot snagged from Abandonia.Ĭhronicles remake & DS sprites snagged from the Castlevania Dungeon. Yes, musically it was awesome, but I don't think it stands against Dracula X or SotN, despite its advancements over the X68000 Dracula. The graphics were often muddy, and the whip action was not as tight as in other games. It was a game that struggled to really hit its stride.
#MEGAMAN SPRITE GAME HOW LONG PC#
The PC version was also missing, but this has been rectified!Ī "faltering SuperNES outing"!? WTFzOMFG!! Yeah, faltering. You missed the C64 version! I did! I'll be adding it as soon as I can. Of the two DS games above, one is from a JPG, the other from a lovely PNG, both from the Castlevania Dungeon. Unfortunately there are no DS emulators that work with Castlevania, and most of the screenshots online are JPGs, which are useless for the purposes of this comparison. Many sprites have white or light-coloured elements which disappear against the white page background. I like the effect, I feel it elevates the sprite from the page. Several people have raised interesting points about this article:ĭid you have to use the drop-shadow on every sprite? Yes, I did. One can't help but wonder what Konami's artists were thinking when, in 1998, two years after the release of the Playstation and Saturn, they were asked to produce another GameBoy iteration, with all the resolution, colour and memory limitations that entails. The heroes in all three GameBoy games retained their whip toting appearance, even while inexplicably becoming left handed. The original GameBoy presented serious challenges for all pixel artists, but Konami's artists rose to the task. It could be said that Konami had maxed out the hardware from the start, using all four available colours and gaining only few pixels in size by the time the third game was released. The artists at Konami were very successful in creating characters from one hardware generation to the next, maintaining the same spirit from the original games while taking advantage of the new hardware's abilities.ĭuring the NES' reign the hero changed very little, only a handful of pixels in the shoulders changing from one sprite to the next. The main character frequently changed, and in some instances a female took the lead.
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The series has graced the NES, Super NES, Genesis (MegaDrive), MSX, Amiga, Arcade, X68000, PS1, PS2, N64, GameBoy, GBA, and DS. The only Nintendo platforms since the NES without a Castlevania were the Virtual Boy and GameCube. The series started on the Nintendo Entertainment System hardware, and has appeared on most systems since then. Only a few games have strayed from this, but even when a Castlevania game offered a new weapon there was usally a whip that could be equipped, or a whip-wielding alternate character. Except for a few unpopular attempts at 3D the series is still in fabulous 2D.įor most of its run, the Castlevania protagonist has used a whip as the main weapon. Despite this it is still a mainstay of Konami's game lineup, and has so far graced more than ten different game systems. It's incredibly popular in the Western world, but is a consistently poor seller in its native Japan. (note: this is a reprint and minor rewrite of a segment that appeared in my book)
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