Castlevania

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8-bit action-platforming at its finest	Algus	7/10
Castlevania = Good times.	Captain Steel	8/10
Yes, you really CAN eat meat from a wall in this game...	CMoriarty	7/10
Difficult, frustrating, but darn, well worth your time.	CO Adder	8/10
Don't fear the reaper...	discoinferno84	7/10
White Man Can’t Jump!	Genjuro Kibagami	7/10
I await your poorly written hate mail with open arms.	hangedman	3/10
The Castle Is Calling You, Simon...Your Destiny Awaits!	Kain Stryder	8/10
Fear the Reaper	Mariner	8/10
A difficult and primitive precursor to the more legendary games in the Castlevania series	Overdrive	6/10
How does the first in the series compare to the rest?	Psycho Penguin	9/10
The Vampire Hunt has just begun	RazorX3	8/10
Featuring the import cart and 30% more cowbell over the leading Castlevania review.	Tachibana Ukyo	7/10
You can't go wrong with awesome retro gaming! One of the best series ever began right here.	UltimaterializerX	7/10

The beginning of the greatness	Alucard517	8/10
Dracula, a dark castle and a hero with a whip...all in one game? Awesome!	BimmyandJimmy	8/10
Vampire hunting at its best!	Braben	9/10
The Belmont clan's NES debut: As good as it has always been	Celtic Forest	6/10
Not that exciting	charlamain	5/10
How can such a simple game be so perfect. (fanboy review)	DarkSaiyan20	8/10
Grap your whip and some popcorn, cause its showtime!	dOuBLe_oh7	8/10
The beginning of an excellent console series	DReed	8/10
Classic.	dtm666	10/10
Enter the legend of the resurrected Count	EOrizzonte	8/10
Before all the fancy nouns, there was this.	FFMrebirth	9/10
A classic horror platformer	GameSultan3	9/10
Wooden stakes. Garlic. Sunlight. Add a whip and a triple cross-boomerang to the ways of vampire-slaying.	Halron2	8/10
A bloody good time	horror_spooky	9/10
The first game in the series is frustrating beyond belief!	ice beam	8/10
Whip it....whip it good!	KasketDarkfyre	10/10
Welcome to Castlevania	Neon_Knight2	8/10
For hardcore Vampire slayers only	Ofisil	6/10
A stiff, clunky, and remarkably unfun start to an eventually great series.	Phediuk	3/10
Hard as nails... or stakes in this case	plasmabeam	8/10
Simon says your NES collection is incomplete without this great one	Retro	8/10
Challenging old-school gameplay at its finest	Simply Dave	9/10
You'd think killing Dracula once was enough, but no...	terrisus	10/10
A cutting-edge classic!	Vegita	8/10
Where it all began	wolverinefan	7/10

The birth of the whip	Ali_X_Rexus	7/10
I’m a Belmont...	Arkrex	8/10
I can't believe that there is a bad game in this great series.	Blind Guardian	3/10
Top notch music, top notch game	bruplex	10/10
Great start to the best Action series on the NES	Emptyeye	9/10
Whipping vampires for fun	Falsiloquos	6/10
The beginnings of greatness.	fduboo	7/10
Konami nailed dracula, pun intended.	Green Goblin	9/10
One of the best NES games.	Jack Bando	9/10
Welcome to the world of Castlevania, where skeletons and bats explode.	Jetforcebelmont	9/10
ph34r this game	Mikester	9/10
What a terrible clone of 8 Eyes!!	MMcPhun	8/10
The one that started it all	Mordecai the Mad	7/10
The introduction to annoying airborne Medusa heads!	neonreaper	8/10
This tagline will more than likely get a mention in TotD	PUhler	7/10
Not enough meat on this zombie.	RageBot	7/10
Quite a fun game.	RareManiac23232	9/10
This is definitely a game you cannot afford to miss for your classic NES	Ratking	9/10
I don't VANT this game!!	RXavier	5/10
Fun, but far too easy	sarevokmb	8/10
Certainly a very good start for the CastleVania series.....	shigman	8/10
The beginning in the greatest action/adventure series.	Spektre	8/10
Castlevania is born	Van Veen	8/10
A classic, no doubt about it!	Walker Boh Ohmsford	10/10
3 Inches of Dracula	XCommander	9/10
old game, but classic one.	Yakuza	6/10

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