It was a darker than black fall night with a chill in the air that you could feel deep in your bones. I sat in my dimly lit game room battling the minions of an ancient evil in Castlevania for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Each and every ghoul I took down sharpened my whipping skills into a divine like perfection that I would eventually need to win the night. I marched stage by stage until I finally made it to the dark one himself, Dracula. It was a hard fought battle that required all my cunning and strength, but in the end I was able to come out on top. Dracula was defeated just as a new day dawned, and I could now say that I have beaten Castlevania.
I set a goal to beat Castlevania earlier this month in honor of the Halloween season. It feels great knowing that I was able to complete the challenge. Like I said before in a previous post, Castlevania was one of the games I had missed out on growing up. I never played a game in the franchise until a couple of weeks back when I started my run at the original. I'm looking forward to seeing what the other games bring to the table because I had a blast playing this one. I've heard the second game is bad because of the changes to some of the play mechanics, but I have always liked to keep an open mind about things until I have experienced them for myself.
