"Stay positive, and let the jank wash over you"

The jank brings out the philosophical side of Burst and I love it

Always enjoy the positivty, especially in the sea of negativity that is most of KZfaq these days. You have more patience than I, I find it hard to go back to this era of 3D games and if I do I find myself playing the 2D or 2.5D games, like I was playing Tomba a little while ago and fell back in love with it.

Loved the review! I know a few people who will be shocked to know THIS was the game that made you change how you look at the N64. Always good to see more people talk about this game in a positive light!

Love the Rob Liefeldian tiny hands and feet

I eat this content up. Keep it coming BURST

I’ve never been able to get into the first one, but I think Legacy of Darkness is extremely underrated….. or maybe it’s just because I love N64 games with dual “analog” controls

I played this game in the early 2000s on my N64 and although I never owned it, 2 weeks of rentals was enough to complete both characters good and bad endings. Back then the camera did the game dirty, but it wasn't something that was as rage inducing as many reviewers have said, sure it was rough but 3D controls were in it's infancy, you wouldn't expect a game of the late 90s would play as polished as the game from this age, which is super biased by them.

I really appreciate the positive message in this vid. Keep up the good work friend 💜

I've mostly stuck to your longer form video compilations which are awesome, but I decided to try this one out and it was very appreciated, I've been thinking about buying an N64 since I never had one growing up and missed out on a lot of games. The motorcycles always bothered me as there at least 50 years off from anything like that being invented, but it's fantasy horror and I shouldn't care lol

Thanks for sharing your open-minded look at this game!

My first Castlevanias were those on the Gameboy, the Original and Belmont's Revenge. Neve rbeaten either as a kid but for Belmon'ts Revenge I found a cheat code that wouöld drop me straight at the Final Boss. I forgothow it went, but it was similar to the Password you got when Crystal Castle was the last remaining of the hub castles. Which is also how I found out, I either misplaced to symbols or confused one for another. In any case, Castlevania 64, love it. It was the first CV I made progress with, though it was Legacy of darknbess I managed to beat first. Never owned either, so I had to rent them. Years later I even bought LoD to reexperoience the game and still liked it. There's so many wrong with the games on the N64, that it's a real blast to play through. The biggest fun was the weird/bad German translation. Mandragora was translated to Duck Imitation (Entenimitat) to name one thing. Worst part inb the original was Carrie's underground waterway, though. The pillars were so small, I always drowned in the poisonous water unless I got really lucky. LoD fixed that problem by making the pillars bigger. Saddly, LoD didn't add the new tower levels to Carrie or Reinhardt. But Cornell visits all of them. There are valid reason to dismiss the game, like the overall bad camera controls or the running speed. Weirdly, jumping forward is faster than running. The more you know.

Great video. I liked your message at the end. I never thought this game was as bad as they said in the day. It is flawed but not terrible. This was their first try into a 3D Castlevania. I do prefer the later updated Legacy of darkness.

I keep forgetting 3D cats open any games even exist. I keep thinking things like if the genre is literally called metroidvania and then how can we don't have a 3D Castlevania game to match Metroid Prime?

i feel inspired by a castlevania 64 video

hey cool video! loved the message

Come for the jank game review, stay for the profoundly life-affirming philosophical insights 👍🏻

lol the nitro

If you’re loving Castlevania 64, I’m afraid you’ve already been 64-pilled my friend! Great game

In jank we trust!

Maximilian Dood, lost brother.

Fair enough, but for my part I'm ready to forgive such amount of jank only if the rest is a masterpiece. 😅 Also I never feel any "acomplishment" after I somehow manage to finish an unbearably janky part. It just makes me want to insult the game even more. lol Anyway, nice vid as always.

I'm curious how you came to this mind set. For me I used to throw TV shows, movies and games I didn't like into the same "Ugh, bad" corner of my mind. But once I started actually programming myself, I found out just how much work goes into making any form of media, and started to really dislike the takes on the internet that slam "bad" games. When you think about the amount of time it takes to make then game, it feels really unfair to the developers, artists and musicians who poured hours and hours of their lives into this project to just call it some combination of bad words and bathroom jokes in my opinion.

What even is happening in this thumbnail? I mean, i guess i don't care because a video on C64 is one i _will always_ watch, but it's like... modern art , or something 😄

Why indeed?... lol!

I don't think it's that bad.

More personal growth reflection content pls

Really can't stand what IGA did to this series. I get people love those games (and I do too, as it happens) but even he admitted he was fundamentally changing everything about Castlevania and what it was to suit what he wanted to make. And that's just it, you say the 64 Castlevania is an outlier, but it wasn't. Beyond the whole it being 3d thing, it's 100% in line with the original series. It's also the last ever bit of media, in any medium, to be made in the original style and idea of what Castlevania was. Everything about it, from it's gameplay ideas/focus, it's atmosphere, visual style, all of it is very reminiscent of the original trilogy (particularly the original game). Whereas SotN is nothing like those games. At all. Because it wasn't meant to be. It was a spin off title, that Konami didn't really care about, so they had total creative freedom to make it totally different. Yet somehow, SotN became the blueprint for almost all Castlevania media released since, whilst a game that actually resembles Castlevania is deemed an outlier. It's really pretty ridiculous. Talking about closed mindedness, the later reboots like Lords of Shadow and the Netflix show (which are both themselves very different from the original Castlevania titles) somehow get blasted for changing the lore or the style of the series when compared with the "source material". The source material people are referring to? The IGA era games that changed everything about Castlevania and didn't remotely resemble their source material. You couldn't make it up. It's just an utterly insane direction that this franchise went in. It's a real shame that the 64 titles ended up being the last breath of Castlevania before it's name got adopted by a series of reboots/soft reboots that weren't remotely interested in being what Castlevania was to begin with. (I like the IGA titles, LoS and the netflix show, but doesn't change the above at all)

If you ended up having some fun with this title, it would be worthwhile to check out Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. Imagine less jank, much smoother controls, and a similarly wild and varied stage selection. Just the first game though. 2 is weird and the DS version is not good