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Castlevania 2 (NES) and the Summer Game Fest Recap

Wow that is a lot of game news, and we're absolutely not covering all of it, but we talk about what interests us, and also Grand Theft Auto 6, which does not interest either of us.

Castlevania 2 is a game preceded by its reputation, which honestly is sort of unfortunate because it really isn't as bad as that reputation makes it out to be. While far from perfect, it's ambitious and interesting, and also the victim of an infamously poor localization, documented in painstaking detail here: https://bisqwit.iki.fi/cv2fin/diff

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