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Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (1989)

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Part 2. This is easily one of the hardest and most BS games I have played. It really tested my patience. It takes the nonsense of the previous games and just turns it up to 11. The beginning of the game starts off innocently enough and isn't too bad. You even get to choose branching paths and there are multiple characters you can recruit into your party. It even has the first appearance of Alucard into the series. Super cool. I did one run of this, thinking I may do multiple playthroughs with the other characters, but after experiencing Dracula's castle I thought better. Holy cow, is ths game hard and unforgiving. I thought the original threw a ton of cheap crap at you, but this one is even worse about it. Some of the later levels are just truly agonizing and will really test your skills. I'm all for a challenge but unlike the last two games in the is series this one isn't as nice. This game is constantly trying to kill you in the cheapest of ways. Enemy spam, death pits with poor enemy placement from RNG. Birds, stupid, stupid, stupid, birds. Some of the bosses are pretty tough and grueling challenges. Death has 2 rough phases, there is a 3 phase fight against mummies, some charging mallet freak and some nasty flying demon. This game is just freaking hard. Heck, Dracula is 3 phases and there is no helpful checkpoint right before him. If you die, and you will, you have to play the whole level again. This game is just brutal and unforgiving, but not exactly in the way I consider fun. Some of the level design made me question my love of gaming and the hobby itself. Enjoy my bind playthrough.

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