Castlevania 64

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99K plays 1999 #Action#Platform

Castlevania, also informally referred to as Castlevania 64, is a 1999 action-adventure game developed and published by Konami for the Nintendo 64. An expanded version of the game, Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness, was released later in the same year.

Castlevania is the first 3D game in the Castlevania series. The player selects one of the game's protagonists to control: Carrie Fernandez, a young orphan gifted with magic powers, or Reinhardt Schneider, the whip-wielding heir to the Belmont clan (the series' recurring protagonists). Carrie and Reinhardt set out on a quest to stop Count Dracula's impending return to power after a century of dormancy. The characters travel to and explore Dracula's grand estate in their mission to defeat the count and his horde of undead minions.

From Wikipedia's article Castlevania (1999 video game), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Keyboard controls

N64Player 1
Stick↑↓←→
AX
BC
ZZ
LA
RS
C buttonsIKJL
D-padTGFH
StartEnter

Hotkeys

  • 1 Quick save state
  • 2 Quick load state
  • 3 Change save slot

A gamepad with an analog stick plays much better than the keyboard.

Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).

Emulator help & troubleshooting

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Keyboard controls

N64Player 1
Stick↑↓←→
AX
BC
ZZ
LA
RS
C buttonsIKJL
D-padTGFH
StartEnter

Hotkeys

  • 1 Quick save state
  • 2 Quick load state
  • 3 Change save slot

A gamepad with an analog stick plays much better than the keyboard.

Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).

Emulator help & troubleshooting

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Pixel Verdict

Castlevania 64N64

3.5 Good job

Metascore 78

What the reviews talk about

Key wordsflawedoutstandingfrustratingeasychallengingfun

What the critics said

  • Next Generation reviewed the game, rating it three stars out of five, and stated that "the promise within Castlevania is evident in some of the game's stronger features. But overall, the game fails to revitalize a series that has always been so flawlessly defined in two dimensions."

    — Next Generation, 1999

  • Andy of Game Informer, said the game's "evil", not because of the content but the poor animations and "clumsy controls".

    — Game Informer, 1999

  • Game Informer's Tim Turi in 2012 felt that it was frustrating and flawed; it had a "special place" for him however due to its "desperate lonely atmosphere."

    — Game Informer, 2012 (Tim Turi)

From the Reception section of Wikipedia's Castlevania (1999 video game) article, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The words are the critics'; their full reviews are on the publishers' pages.

Scores

  • Metascore 78/100 · N64
  • GameRankings 73% · archived average
  • Electronic Gaming Monthly 9/10, 9/10, 9/10, 8/10
  • GamePro 2011 4.5/5
  • GameSpot 2009 8.2/10
  • IGN 8.2/10
  • Next Generation 1999 3/5
  • Gamers' Republic 1999 B
  • Game Informer 1999 6.5 /10

From the review table of Wikipedia's article. The face takes, first that applies: the Metascore for this platform, GameRankings' archived average, our average of the critics (one number per publication, a panel averaged), one review alone, the players' rating. Critics and players are never mixed.

Players' rating: 59/100 · 300 votes

Full reviews

Face key

  1. 1.00+
  2. 1.540+
  3. 2.050+
  4. 2.560+
  5. 3.068+
  6. 3.575+
  7. 4.080+
  8. 4.585+
  9. 5.090+

5.0 Outstanding! · 4.0 Great job! · 3.0 Good job · 2.0 Could be better · 1.0 Wake me up when it's over · A thumbs-up adds half a point. Our own drawings, in the spirit of the faces GamePro magazine used in the '90s.

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