Castlevania-Retro Review #2-NES Review #1

Ah, Castlevania. How I love this game. It is one of my favorite games of all time and spawned one of my favorite game franchises. I truly do love the castlevania games, with a few exceptions **Cough**Adventures**Cough**

Either way this particular game on the NES is a masterpiece so let's delve in to the original Castlevania. 

Story-In this game you play as Simon Belmont a vampire hunter who has to kill Dracula. Of course he has to get through his castle which won't be easy. Along the way you'll fight many monsters like mermen and medusa.

Gameplay-Castlevania, like most NES games, is an action side scroller platformer. The level design is splendid. It's gothic and is all the levels are unique and fun to play through. There are also a variety of secrets in castlevania and every time I play the game I find a new one. The controls are kind of stiff but it's not to bad and you'll be able to get use to it. The main thing you'll do in this game is use your whip to kill monsters and I gotta say killing monsters with the whip is so satisfying. There are also many other items as well. By the way for anyone who hasn't played the game yet the hearts don't refill health. They are ammo for your items. You'll need pork chops you find in walls to regain health.

The boss fights are great fun as well. There all unique and fun to fight. Now this game is hard but every time you die you feel like it's your fault not the games. It's still has a fair challenge. 

But this game gets everything right. The items are all fun and helpful to use, the level design is great, the controls are pretty good, and there are many secrets that you can try to find. The gameplay has so many good things going for it.

Gameplay score-9/10

Graphics

The graphics are pretty good. They're detailed and add a gothic but charming atmosphere to the game. They are actually really good by NES standards.

Graphics Score-8/10

Sound-The soundtrack is one of the best on NES. Every tune is an 8-bit masterpiece. Each piece of music pulls you in and really gets you hyped up. It's really great. Like I'd download this on ITunes 

Sound Score-8/10

Enjoyment-I really enjoy almost everything about this game. It's frustrating but it's fair and still fun. I love the music, the atmosphere, the gameplay ,everything. My enjoyment level of this game is really high. I loved fighting monsters, I loved the bosses, all the items it was a blast. 

Enjoyment Score-18.5/20

Overall-43.5/50

Grade-87%.    B

So yeah my review of castlevania. Personally I think this game should probably get an A but hey it still got an awesome score. If you haven't played this game go play it. Or play any of the other castlevania games(except Adventure). Well hope you enjoyed the review. I'll see you guys later.