Games of Milon's Secret Castle were split into three distinct phases.

Phase 1: Make it to the well with the correct items to complete it.

Phase 2: Actually complete the well.

Phase 3: Figure out what you need to do in the towers in order to beat the game.

I made it to phase 3. Sometimes.

I always found this the easiest of the NES Castlevania games.

I found Castlevania 2 to be way easier. I mean I wouldn't always get a "good" ending, but I could be guaranteed to be beat the game sooner or later, as long as I just kept slogging through it. The only boss in the whole game was Dracula.

The challenge to Castlevania 2 was figuring out the ridiculous adventure game bullshit, which was impossible without a guide.

This is a good, and quite hard, game, but it's certainly not the best. I go for Bloodlines too as my favorite.

Bloodlines was a great way to end the series. SOTN, although a breath of fresh air in the context of 1997 (first Casvtlevania in years, one of the few 2D games on PS1), was the beginning of the end of the precision platforming and difficulty of the earlier games. Turning Castlevania into a grindfest was a huge mistake.

The bottom with that fork was the short cut.

Wow, was this scripted to have him fail for more laughs? I know it's some middle aged guy being hilariously beaten by old games, but he's usually a lot better than this. Here he just keeps walking straight into enemies and never uses Alucard's bat to skip the problem areas even after he knows about it.


How can you beat Ninja Gaiden but not this? That's like beating Battle Toads but not a Mario game.

I'd argue that, unlike Ninja Gaiden, the biggest challenge in the NES Castlevanias is adapting to the clumsy, unintuitive control scheme. During the owl stage I was yelling THROW THE CROSS ARINO GOD DAMN but realized it took me awhile to reliably use subweapons while jumping.

You must own some hacked Castlevania cartridge that removed the holy water, because that's the only reason I can see for someone saying that CV1 is way harder than CV3.

You don't even need the cross. Just jump and whip the owls before the reach you. It's like he forgot the jump button existed the entire video and kept getting hit into pits by flying enemies. Since that's pretty much the entire Ninja Gaiden experience I was baffled how he managed to beat that one but not this.

It took most kids 15 minutes to realize the knife was the worst weapon and that Alucard/Grant were mostly useless for anything but bypassing problem areas. Arino never figured it out after 8 hours of Alucard's weakass fireballs failing to kill anything before it hit him.

It's a funny video but it almost seemed staged. Out of the tons of 8/16 bit era games these guys dig up, Castlevania 3 was the hardest? Your average Mario game is more difficult.

If they really want ratings they'll throw him to the mercy of Ghosts n Goblins or Battletoads.

I remember one time my brother was on acid, trying to play Super Mario 64, and I kept fucking with him and telling him he needed "The Rainbow Key". It's right there in the lava, man.