Jeremy Parish

NES Works #15: The Other Castlevanias

Added 2020-10-07 13:00:05 +0000 UTC

Apologies for being a bit of a liar. This episode was not on the upcoming video release schedule I posted a few weeks back—Elite has been pushed back a few weeks. It's just that I started working on the next Metroidvania Works episode and realized the brief overview of Vampire Killer I posted in Metroidvania Works several months back didn't really get as deeply into the workings of Vampire Killer as I think it should have in order to lay the groundwork for Castlevania II... and, on top of that, I've been intending to put together a companion Castlevania video that encompasses all the alternate versions of Simon's journey for a long time now. So here we go.

This episode is unique in that it's been through three different revisions. Initially, I was going to put Vampire Killer in one episode and the other three games in a follow-up, but upon further consideration I didn't really feel nine minutes of standalone Vampire Killer material was THAT much more informative than the four minutes given over to it on Metroidvania Work. So I did a second episode with Haunted Castle appended, which clocked in at just under 12 minutes. But that felt a little awkward, so I went ahead and added the other two games as well, which brings us to our current 21-minute form. (This also accounts for why I'm wearing different clothing in the host segments.) I definitely don't have time to create additional work for myself like this, but you know, for Castlevania I'm willing to make an exception. This once.

Edit: I threw in a 90-second bonus at the end this morning to bring the running time to 22:30. Because why the heck not.

Anyway, hopefully you don't mind a bit more Castlevania content this Halloween season than advertised.