Best Castlevania Games Of All Time
The Castlevania series has been one of the most prolific and long-running in all of gaming, with the success of its many games--including some of the greatest games ever made--even leading to a popular Netflix animated series. With such a big selection, it wasn't easy to rank the best Castlevania games, but we did our best and are almost certainly going to have you disagree with at least a few of the choices and placements. These are the 10 best Castlevania games, raanked
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Some of the games on this list can be found in the Castlevania Anniversary Collection and the Castlevania Advance Collection.
We saw several NES franchises make big changes with their second installment before reversing course back to what worked before when a third game eventually released. Super Mario did it, Zelda did it, and Castlevania did it, too. The non-linear but often cryptic and tedious Castlevania II: Simon's Quest was followed by Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, which took a more linear approach without being as straightforward as the first game. It featured multiple playable characters, some of whom you'll recognize from the animated series, both these objections didn't mean the game was easier. Instead, it's arguably the hardest of the original trilogy, to the point that it's reasonable to rage-quit and never actually finish it.
The game that started it all on the NES and began--at least in terms of release order--the ongoing struggle between the Belmont family and the legendary vampire Dracula, the first Castlevania did a whole lot right. Its art direction and music, limited as they had to be on the system's basic hardware, are still classic today, and the enemies are just as iconic. Fighting literal Death and
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