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Castlevania II: Simon's Quest

Part of the Castlevania series

(3.9)

1988

Castlevania II: Simon's Quest is a platform-adventure game produced by Konami. It was originally released in Japan in 1987 for the Famicom Disk System, and in North America in 1988 for the Nintendo Entertainment System, respectively. It is the second Castlevania game released for the NES, following the original Castlevania in 1986. Set sometime after the events of the first installment, the player once again assumes the role of vampire hunter Simon Belmont, who is on a journey to undo a curse placed on him by Dracula at the end of their previous encounter. Dracula's body was split into five parts, which Simon must find and bring to the ruins of Castle Dracula in order to defeat him. The game notably deviates from the traditional platforming of its predecessor, incorporating role-playing and open world elements.

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Darth Smeagol

Dark Lord of the Sith

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Castlevania II: Simon's Quest

The first one is more appealing to me in that you can jump right into combat. The RPG elements in this sequel are a turn-off.

Brian McGuinness

A little TOO Raph

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Castlevania II: Simon's Quest

This was the only Castlevania I owned as a kid. It's crazy hard. There's like no way you could beat this game without a Nintendo Power back in the day. Plus the music legit scared me (I was 27, give me a break) (JK I was like 8 or 9).
It's good, just old school Nintendo hard.

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Castlevania II: Simon's Quest

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I feel much the same way about this game that I do about ET for Atari. Ambitious, misunderstood, and ahead of its time, but it doesn’t have the same excuses that game had as far as I know. It looks and sounds great and there are some really cool ideas here, even if they aren’t implemented especially well. Plus, there are just some utterly baffling decisions. Why are the boss battles such a disappointment? Why do the townspeople outright lie to you? Nonetheless, I do pick this one up occasionally and have a fun time when I do

Mason Thibodeau

Here since Season 1

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Castlevania II: Simon's Quest

I got this for my 8th Birthday, played it all day and then for the next 3 nights I had Nightmares. My Mom ended up taking it back.
I did play through it a couple of years and I enjoyed the story.

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Billy Okun

Founding Member

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Castlevania II: Simon's Quest

Not my favorite Castlevania game for sure. But it was their attempt of trying to bring the RPG style weapons and upgrades that was perfected in Symphony of the Night and the other games on GBA and NDS. Also, this game is the reason the amazing Bloody Tears exists.

Dan Tucker

May the Force Be With You!

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Castlevania II: Simon's Quest

The peak of the NES experience for Castlevania and the reason the "vania" part of "Metroidvania" exists. As with so many sequels on the NES they perfected the controls, the gameplay is cleaner. Holds up still.

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