America: Castlevania Bloodlines Europe: Castlevania WATERlines

"Conglaturation, John and Eric! You have fulfilled your destiny! Now, John will die from overusing the Vampire Killer and Eric will be slaughtered in front of his daughters, come back as a ghost and watch as they're turned into vampires. Yay!"

Essentially, the ending of Castlevania: Bloodlines is akin to when you complete the Pokedex in a Pokemon. Just a simple Congratulations.

Unless you're playing on the European version, in which Pikasprey Yellow is instead Pikasprey Blue because... wait, that's your gameplay channel

"Dracula's second form" is actually Elizabeth's lackey, Drolta Tzuentes, buying time while Dracula powers up

You actually can know about the 5 73 sound test thing, as "5 7 3" is "ko na mi"" They use it in several things, including the name of their arcade hardware.

People should watch these as much as the Pokémon ones.

No one ever mentions another move that Eric can do with the spear. He can spin it 180 degrees from left to right and vice versa. "Castlevania: Bloodlines" is an excellent entry in the long running series. The music is always fantastic.

Glad your first vid of 2019 was a Castlevania one!

I love that the secret code was 05 and 073. I am not sure if it has been said before but the digits "573" can be read out as "go, na, mi" in japanese. This number has been used by konami in a number of their games, for example highscore placeholder scores. I have not yet realized there might be some secret codes associated with this number.

i think this is the most underrated in the series, my favorite part is the changing locations where it feels like your on an adventure and using real life buildings like the leaning tower, and the setting of WW1 was cool too even if it it could have gone farther with it. another thing is the graphics, im a sucker for 16 bit graphics and the game does a great job showing it off.Overall great game.

0:31 The most neglected ones are the 3d metroidvania ones on ps2 - Lament of Innocence and Curse of Darkness. Bland visuals aside, I felt these games were solid and translated the formula into 3d really well. I'd love a sequel with proper modern graphics

Oh Konami, seemingly never interested in making HD collections for old Castlevania games. And they wonder why people pirate their games.

9:13 Then why didn't they Replace the Red Skeletons with Blue Ones?

Bloodlines is still one of the finest Castlevanias ever made. And that music...oh sooooo goooood!

Oh boy! It's an upload from my favorite Castlevania channel! Time to see this get no views since it isn't Pokemon.

I thought Eric Lecarde could do a spin attack with his staff going left to right and back again, it was super helpful.

This was also the first Castlevania game to have Michiru Yamane as it's composer.

Great work! I love these types of retrospective/reviews for Castlevania. Been playing these since I was a little kid, and for a new fan, you didn’t miss a beat. I’m very happy to see another fan join the club.

This was my first Castlevania game, and probably my favorite. Soooo glad to see you cover it, and in such depth. Fantastic video dude.

A character based on Elizabeth Bathery was one of the Main Antagonists of the animated movie Hellboy: Blood and Iron. It's also heavy on the horror and is split in focus between Hellboy and Broom.

Good to see some more Castlevaina!

As always, amazing content dude Im always happy when you upload some castlevania, thank you

WHAT?! IN BLOODLINES YOU CAN GRAB ONTO CEILINGS WITH THE WHIP?! NANI?!

Something to note about death punishment in this game: Playing on easy will cut your crystal count in half rather than deplete it outright. Though playing on easy also skips several minibosses and cuts Bathory's second form from the bossfights, which you may or may not want to do.

Yay! Another Castlevania game review! I don't play Castlevania but I do enjoy these kinds of videos. Makes me want to get into the series.

So glad to see you upload

Fantastic review. I recently did a run of this as John and was blown away. I had always read/heard it was a lesser entry. That’s obviously not true. It’s great.

Yay, new pikasprey upload!

One of my favorite KZfaqrs doing one of my favorite castlevania games!

This is an engaging and informative retrospective. Thanks!

Thank you for covering this game, i really enjoyed it!

Love this channel. Cant wait the pikasprey yellow Digimon video

I love ur reviews, pretty nice detailed and fun to watch, also your voice sounds so nice to me for some reason ^^

The only real issue I have with this game is that I feel like having limited continues doesn't fit in a series that's as punishing as Castlevania. Granted, the game does give you passwords and only features six (rather lengthy) stages. But I'd rather just have it so you get sent back to the start of the current stage whenever you run out of lives.

Love this please do more of these

I love this game; thanks for covering it!

First of all, great channel, both this one and the blue one. After watching this video and follow the let's play, I noticed that there are two aspects of Eric's character that you do not seem to know. The first is that, with your weapon at the highest power level, if you do not release the attack button too fast after attacking, the spear cross opens and Eric makes two hits in the same attack. Although it seems that the animation is always done, only if you hold the attack button enough Eric makes the two impacts, taking twice as much energy from his opponents. The second is that, if you keep pressing the attack button and press the pad from right to left, or from left to right, Eric makes quick turnstiles with the spear. This tactic sacrifices the distance of the spear but, done at the right moment, can damage several quickly and even shield you from projectiles that would normally be difficult to dodge or deflect. Hope this can help you. Greetings from Spain.

I been watching only your playthrus videos and i got suprised seeing a 17min video from you, then i remembered you also had this channel

ITS GONNA BE ON SWITCH!!!!!! I'm so stoked that this is happening so i can FINALLY play this again, i haven't played it since i was like, a kid kid haha

glad i can finally give this a go through the castlevania anniversary collection

Finally! A new video :D

Awesome review! I love this game a lot.

Aye, a Castlevania upload!

I was just playing this yesterday and I have to say that I love that the sprite for John Morris looks like an absolute unit

Yay, more castlevania videos

Well made video man. Keep it up. ;)

Loved your Castlevania playthroughs on Blue. More Castlevania!

Never thought of Dracula as a Person to have a Brother/Sister

To be honest, most games of this era didn't have amazing endings. And most people didn't play just for that anyway. lol But, I get what you mean, though I think at least the cutscene for the ending in this is really cool.

I really like when you do these Castlevania games. Your video on Aria of Sorrow made me wanna try that game.

I always love it when games have you travel around the World in different stages.

Hell yeah another Castlevania review!

Ever since they released the Castlevania Classic Collection, I gave this game a try and fell in love with it. I prefer the Japanese version included though, since the American version has an absolutely unnecessary amount of Fleamen in the palace of Versailles.

Thankfully one bit of information on this video is now outdated, Castlevania Bloodlines will be re released on The Castlevania Anniversary Collection and the Sega Mini both out in 2019

Oooh I'm interested

god fucking bless these types of videos

I am incredibly glad this game is coming out with Anniversary edition. I've wanted to play it since this video came out.

In Dynamite Headdy(from Treasure) you can see another method with rotated cylinder. But it rotates you around a boss in center

Just bought SotN a few minutes before this was uploaded. Good sign.

You make the best Pokemon hidden content/Lost Content videos :( Please make more Asprey

Yay! Pikasprey Castlevania! :D

I love the music of Bloodlines, largely because of how unique it sounds from all other Castlevania games thanks to the Genesis soundchip. Stage 2 and 4 songs especially are really good.

The moth powder scene is hard too see , it makes me feel better knowing some one else experiences the same thing . Also thank you for warning us if your going to use speed up, that really hurts my head . Cheers pikasprey thank you for all of this re-watchable gold .

This is hands down my favorite of the classic Castlevania games, maybe one day Konami will remaster or remake it like they did with Rondo of Blood on the PSP.

so excited for bloodlines to be on NSO. Always wanted to play it since first seeing this video!

I just realized Eric Lecarde may have been originally intended to be somehow related to Alucard since he has Alucard's Spear, plus his name ends with 'Lecarde' which sounds just like 'Alucard'.

I feel like the Death Battle in Bloodlines might’ve been the inspiration for the King Dice Battle in Cuphead. King Dice conjures a die that you need to parry to move an icon across a game board. Landing on certain spaces get you teleported into a mini boss room.

impeccable timing

The moths poisonous powder messed with my eyes also , it happens in a lot of old games

Never played Castlevania games, but this video may give it a chance. It looks pretty awesome to be honest! The art style loosely reminds me of Golden Sun somehow. Also the buff vampire slayer reminds me of Jojo xD Great video man! ✨

Now we have the Castlevania collection and the upcoming Genesis Mini.

This look like a lot of fun. Also Pikasprey is the greatest game reviewer ever

I know you get annoyed when people bug you about games and whatnot but thanks for making videos. They are always fun and very educational.

Weird, I was just re-watching your Castlevania videos yesterday--

I was thinking of commenting : "you know, it's about time for another video, right?" On the last gem collecting video. Lo and behold

Bloodlines is among the series one of the best titles in my opinion. It deserve to be recognized.

As soon as you mentioned the green aura on the weapons I was thinking "Man, I bet people love to speed run this game using that." and sure enough...

Pikasprey, you're one of the few KZfaqrs that has a good format and can make subjcects I'm not familiar with interesting. Do continue making more videos on Yellow, and enjoy 2019!

"I guess we have bloodstained to make up for the stage based Castlevanias" And that too, aged like milk

I think the whip swinging might be a reference to castlevania for the atari 2600 where literally the only use for the whip was to cross gaps

I find it funny how there were these 16-bit non-nintendo entries in the series that led to fantastic sequels. I guess it shows how creative you can be with story if you try. In any case this was cool to see. This game has been on my radar and seeing it in action is encouraging, though i do hope an easy, legit way to play this will pop up. It'd be neat if this got a treatment similar to Rondo Of Blood / Symphony of the Night, released in a combo with Portrait of Ruin

Bloodlines is honestly one of my favorites. It's super underrated for what it is.

11:29-11:43 Is that a reference to Mothra? Damn, never thought Castlevania would reference Godzilla and their Kaiju's...

Dude! Great video again! Hopefully you're not still taking shit for not always doing Pokemon games, because I really dig the Castlevania stuff as well. Keep it up!

Every time I get some interest in Castlevania to look into this, I learn about another PAL version being butchered by censorship back then... :(

Happy new year

0:37 Koumajou densetsu: Am I a joke to you? Ok but really, more people should know about that series. Classic Castlevania but with flying is a really good idea, and, at least in the second one, is very well executed.

1:50 actually they aren't descendents of the Belmonts, John just got the vampire killer when Richter disappeared after symphony of the night and gave it to another family of vampire hunters called the Morris'

Johnny is the much faster and more powerful of the two. He moves faster in the air and his powerful attack in the air helps him blitz through enemies. Lecarde is locked to the ground where he can't gain any ground while attacking. Also, you can regain the super subweapons by collecting two of the same subweapon. Which is pretty easy.

Yay more “Christianvania“ content please!!!

Seeing Pikasprey playing Castlevania games makes me want to see him talk about the Castlevania timeline, particularly the timeline made by GamerThumb

One thing I recall (though I'm not sure if I'm correct) is that Eric's spear has a bit of a odd hitbox, making it slightly hard to get a handle on than John's whip.

Good news. This is one of the games that's gonna be in the Castlevania collection next month.

January: it's sad that Bloodline has never been re-released March: Sega Genesis mini announced with Bloodlines being one of the games on it. Got to love the nearly perfect timing that Pikasprey had here.

Great video Love Bloodlines/ new generation It’s not quite as good as super castlevania4 but still amazing and pushed the Genesis to it limits

I have never heard of this pokemon game before

Before 200 views. Also third. But on to better stuff, great video! Keep up the great work, love it.

My biggest complaint about this game is how much stuff is just never explained to you, like Eric's super jump or John's ceiling swing or holding up to increase the power of your subweapon. I know this stuff is meant for experimentation and checking the manual, but there's a point where it just feels like the game expects you to know stuff by reaching a certain point without ever hinting at any of this stuff existing at all. I flat out didn't even know about the super jump or charging your subweapon until watching this video.

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