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7016057 No.7016057 [Reply] [Original]

After unlocking Maria, why in the hell would you ever play as Richter?

She's got a double jump, a slide, and a basic attack with boomerang motion.

Sure, she's got way less hp than Richter, but her added agility makes it easier to avoid being hit.

Yeah, Richter has some redeeming qualities himself, but other than bragging rights, why would anyone bother with him over Maria?

>> No.7016058

The game is Rondo of Blood.

My bad for not mentioning that.

>> No.7016064

>>7016057
>Why in the hell would you ever play as Richter?
Whip and strut is what I came for, whip and strut is what I'll play.

>> No.7016083

Makes it way too easy. RoB is already one of the easiest classicvanias (if not the easiest), but she makes it completely brainless. And the game isn't flashy or fast-paced enough to be fun as a brainless masher.

>> No.7016091

>>7016083
You think so? I'm having a harder time with it than Super Castlevania 4. Playing with Richter puts it almost on par with #3 for me.

Maybe I just suck at video games now, idk

>> No.7016127

>>7016057
You play as Richter because you're not a little girl
Simple as

>> No.7016134

>>7016057
Maria is easy mode. Not specifically labeled as such, but clearly put in for that reason.

>> No.7016142

I played the remake on psp and i agree, it's so funny tho seeing a little girl that throws birds demolish dracula's army

>> No.7016148

>>7016127
I'm also not a hulking mass that knows how to use a whip and there's no such thing as undead armies or dracula. What's your point?

>> No.7016151

>>7016134
Well I need it.
Everytime I play as Richter I get my ass handed to me.

>> No.7016153

>>7016142
Birds and fucking cats lmfao.

>> No.7016179
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7016179

>>7016057
Where can I find a 12 year old with a rack like this

>> No.7016272

>>7016179
They're turtles.

>> No.7016286

>>7016179
You need to be a jew to nail white 12 year olds carefree.

>> No.7016302

>>7016179
Kys pedo.

>> No.7016518

That's like saying why ever play anything harder than easy mode.

>> No.7016521

>>7016518
That's exactly what he's saying. This board finally died with allowing 6th gen.

>> No.7016535

Hmmm yeah she's easy modo but Richter's still pretty damn op if he uses the bible.
And Richter tanks more damage than Maria.
So while it might seem like she's easy mode, the game can be easy with Richter too. Maria's double-jump still gives her the edge, since it's basically an improvement over Richter's backflip, but at the end of the day the game is easy with both characters. It is the easiest classicvania, although it has some of the best bosses (some are better on SNES Dracula X due to lack of slowdowns, though).
And speaking of Dracula X SNES, that's the one that actually feels on par with CV III, it's pretty challenging and doesn't give you the bible subweapon.

>> No.7016587

>>7016535
What is hard about XX besides the Drac boss?

>> No.7016592

>>7016057
I don't want to be Alucard's cock holster.

>> No.7016609

>>7016587
Well on the 1st level alone you've got medusa heads, flip-trick platforms and insta-kill spikes, and a final chasing section that's much harder to pull off than the rather braindead easy chase in Rondo's stage 2.
And Kerberos, a boss exclusive to XX, is more challenging than either dragon bosses on Rondo's stage 1. And the water serpent dragon, which is in XX's underground water level, is more challenging on XX than on Rondo because it doesn't have slowdowns.

>> No.7016643
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7016643

>>7016057
RoB's Maria makes a great point for why the Classicvania formula is such a bad concept. She basically controls like Alucard from SOTN (and other IGAvania characters), with full air control and snappy movement. And what would you know, this makes the game piss easy. So the game was only hard because of the stupidly rigid control scheme. The epitome of artificial difficulty.

>> No.7016663 [DELETED] 

>>7016286
lol

best sex I ever had was with a twelve year old weeb at a convention back in 2007, I was like 21 at the time. Four foot nothing but she had a killer rack...

>> No.7016727

>>7016057
>Reddit spacing

>> No.7016729

>>7016179
Brazil

>> No.7016737

>>7016057
Maria is cuter

>> No.7016748

>>7016643
The level of ignorance in /vr/ is something I am always amazed by. I've been out for a year, and this is the post I find first? Thanks for keeping me out, shithead. See y'all in a year!

>> No.7017086
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7017086

Why is there no improvement hack for Rondo of Blood that makes cutscenes skippable?

>> No.7017106

>>7016535
Richter can do a backflip?

>> No.7017108

>>7016643
>gravity and winding-up your limbs is artificial difficulty
Anime-shits

>> No.7017172
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7017172

>>7016057
Maria makes the final boss way too trivial, and her ending doesn't change for the better if you have the rest of the maidens. That's about it, I swap Richter for most of the game otherwise.

>> No.7017206

>>7016057
She's a playable cheat code, a novelty. Richter is who the game was designed for.

>> No.7017234

>>7017106
Everybody kek at this n00b

>> No.7018102

What were they trying to do to Maria where Richter found her?

>> No.7018170

>>7018102
I think Shaft was trying to corrupt her power into serving Dracula

>> No.7018618

>>7018102
Shaft was unlocking her latent powers, as explained by the remake and supported by her Judgment character profile - he just didn't count on a Belmont barging in before he could finish brainwashing her.

>> No.7019305

>>7018618
And I think that was also supposed to lead into the removed SotN ending where Shaft possesses Maria after Richter fails him, forcing Alucard to kill them both.

>> No.7019520

Making the game easier is the point of her inclusion. Using different characters instead of selectable game modes was always one approach to handling difficulty. Maria is little girl mode, literally.

>> No.7019547

>>7016748
no one cares retard

>> No.7020252

>>7016057
Only an absolute baby faggot bitch would ever play as Maria.

>> No.7020254
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7020254

>>7016643
>artificial difficulty.
You mean video games?

>> No.7020270

>>7016521
Ahahahahaha fuck off, you said that about the Dreamcast years ago.

>> No.7020273

>The English version of OG Rondo on Dracula X Chronicles has cheesy 90s-style dub VAs
Unf.

>> No.7020305
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7020305

>>7016179

>> No.7020308

>>7019305
were did you got that?

>> No.7020320

>>7016748
Cope and dilate faggot, go back to Resetera.

>> No.7020431
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7020431

>>7019305
That's actually a really good point, Shaft finishing what he started as a backup plan. Dunno if that was the intent but it makes sense. If I'm getting it right that means there are two unused Maria fights: the first as her normal self for the Holy Glasses that was implemented in later ports to mixed results, and the Black Maria fight in a bad ending where she's controlled by Shaft. Supposedly there are even more details and leftovers in the Japanese version but TCRF are just kind of forgot about it and had a notice about it forever. Wonder if Saturn/PSP clips are in it.

>> No.7020436

>>7016057
She's easy mode, if you want normal mode you play as Richter

>> No.7021289

>>7020436
>posting the same shit because you didn't read the (short) thread