Play Castlevania 4 Online

Game Overview

Castlevania 4 on SNES is one of those games that just feels right from the moment you press start. You’re Simon Belmont, storming Dracula’s castle (again), but this time the whip has this satisfying, fluid snap to it—way better than the stiff NES version. The first level throws you straight into crumbling ruins with zombies shambling out of the dirt, and the music? Absolute banger. That gothic organ track kicks in, and suddenly you’re fully committed to whipping candles for hearts and ducking under Medusa heads.

What I love is how the stages twist and turn—literally. There’s this one part where the whole screen rotates 90 degrees while you’re platforming over bottomless pits, and it shouldn’t work, but it does. And the bosses? Huge, screen-filling monstrosities that make you scramble for patterns. Took me three tries to figure out the bone dragon’s trick.

It’s not just nostalgia, either. Even now, the atmosphere holds up—stormy skies, flickering torches, and that eerie echo when you enter a new room. Just don’t get cocky with the jumps. Those stairs will betray you.