super castlevania annoying time limit?

[Nihil Reich]

Why is this the only one with a time limit that actually ends up limiting you? Wanted to ask if I'm playing wrong or smt, I completed all the other ones except bloodlines before this, and never once the time limit was a problem, now I'm in the first level of Super, thinking about how good this is and the time limit just kills me.

[Klampus]

You shouldn't be trying to collect absolutely EVERYTHING on the screen, but you shouldn't need to rush either. I beat the first level with a little over 100 seconds to spare. I had about 175 on the Japanese version, but that just might be because I'd had a little practice :D

[Nihil Reich]

Originally posted by Klampus:

You shouldn't be trying to collect absolutely EVERYTHING on the screen, but you shouldn't need to rush either. I beat the first level with a little over 100 seconds to spare. I had about 175 on the Japanese version, but that just might be because I'd had a little practice :D

thanks for the response, turns out it was just the first level, I only heard the countdown sound once more in the entire game. I must've looked around a lot at the start :)

[Klampus]

Now that I think about it, I do remember one other level being annoying time-wise; it's the one with a lot of mode 7 effects where you have to swing around alot.

CV4 is a good game, but I much prefer Bloodlines (which has no time limit at all!)

[Nihil Reich]

Originally posted by Klampus:

Now that I think about it, I do remember one other level being annoying time-wise; it's the one with a lot of mode 7 effects where you have to swing around alot.

CV4 is a good game, but I much prefer Bloodlines (which has no time limit at all!)

Yes! Bloodlines was my favorite also, absolutely loved it. I'm now playing Castlevania Chronicles on an emulator after finishing the anniversary collection and it fells close to Bloodlines to me, really fun levels/designs, it again has a time limit though.

[Buffster]

I never have a problem with a time limit in SC4 because there is plenty of time to reach the end of level. Although, on the 5th level, the time limit is extremely small. But yea, time limit is very unnecessary for this game.

[Methos-Kyuubi777]

These games were designed off of Arcade Format. Spend a Quarter, get Five Minutes. That is where the idea for a time limit came from. According to lore, Simon did it all in five or six hours. His second adventure "CV II: Simon's Quest" took a few days to hunt down Dracula's remains, get them all together at the ruins, and kill Drac again.

(Granted... the map is actually small for that game, but still. You are walking all over Wallachia for that... or at least... what they could put in for it.)

The Time limit, at the time of SCV4 was for a challenge. After this game, came 'Nocturne in the Moonlight,' AKA 'Symphony of the Night' where there was no time limit, which followed Bloodlines in terms of not having one... and Iga had taken the reigns of the series. After 'SotN' was Castlevania (N64) which had a 14 day time limit... but it was supposed to be 7, which was fixed in 'Legacy of Darkness' version of the game for the Nintendo 64.

Literally, the OG Castlevania games were made from the Arcade Type Game, as were most games on the NES, SNES, Genesis, and others. Pay $0.25 and you get five minutes of playtime. 'Haunted Castle' was the only CV Game in an Arcade, and it was re-released in Japan on PS2, with a few features that the Arcade Machine did not have. (Infinite Continues... that was the only thing that sticks out in my mind. The rest was just graphics.)

Honestly... the only issue I have with the games (I'm saying all of them) is the controls on a keyboard. I need to get another Xbox-One controller, or a new PS4 Controller. (Keyboard sucks with these games. I'm a 'WASD' Guy... Arrow-keys are useless imo.)