Comments on Hardcore Gaming 101 - Blog: 25 Years of Vampire Killer

The 1:16-1:20 is from Dracula Perfect Selection, t...

2010-02-26T17:25:03.383-05:00

The 1:16-1:20 is from Dracula Perfect Selection, that one album with all of the silly rapping. The rendition of Vampire Killer sounds good, though.

The order:
CV1 NES
VK MSX
CV3 US
CV3 JP
SCV4
Dracula X SNES
Dracula X PCE
Bloodlines
X68000 Roland SC-55
X68000 FM
X68000 Chron PS
SotN Saturn
Circle of the Moon
Harmony of Dissonance
Dawn of Sorrow
Castlevania Legends
Dracula X PSP
Judgment
Dracula Battle
Dracula New Classic
Dracula Perfect
Castlevania Rebirth
Lament of Innocence

Great video! :) It's wierd how the NES ones bl...

2010-02-26T16:51:19.817-05:00

Great video! :) It's wierd how the NES ones blend together, and to a lesser extent the 16 bit ones, at least in my opinion. One of the best video game themes, but I wish Konami could be a bit more subtle about the homages (like how that one SPOILER fight in SotN had the Beginning theme remixed in a very wierd way).

This is fantastically awesome. What's the gam...

2010-02-26T12:40:57.417-05:00

This is fantastically awesome.

What's the game/remix from about 1:16 to 1:20?

For that matter, do you have a list of the order of the tracks you used? There's other stuff I couldn't identify, but that one section is the one I'm most curious about.

I love Vampire Killer to pieces, but for me, my fa...

2010-02-26T04:22:42.187-05:00

I love Vampire Killer to pieces, but for me, my favorite Castlevania music (and favorite video game music OF ALL TIME) will always be "Opposing Bloodlines" from Castlevania Dracula X, and ONLY the SNES version (The CD version's synths are weak, and the Chronicles version is only OK). Just hearing that funk guitar over the synth string swell makes me nostalgic, and don't forget all the cool SID-esque arppegios the strings do in the middle of the song! IMO there has never been a more rousing segue into a loop point of a SNES song than that synthpad sliding down the keyboard twice and then the synth bass going BOWBOW BOW BOWBOWBOW. Plus, by both composition and sample choice, the song OOZES Konami flavor. Whenever someone mentions Konami music, "SNES Opposing Bloodlines" is what I think of. Then again I'm in the weird camp who LIKED SCD:X for SNES, so YMMV.

But VK is my second favorite song. I like the sort of Siegfried and Roy vibe they gave it in SNES Dracula X.

That was totally awesome. I don't think the Ci...

2010-02-26T02:32:45.392-05:00

That was totally awesome. I don't think the Circle of the Moon version sounds too out of place, especially since you included other crazy remixes(like from Chronicles). Well done editing.