Quote Originally Posted by kupomogli View Post
only the most hardcore Castlevania fan, you know the ones, the ones that play little outside the same shit repeatedly to the point that they can do world record gitched speedruns flawlessly and likely already have 1800 hours playtime on Haunted Castle Revisisted.
That sounds a bit rude. If it's what they enjoy, I don't see the problem. Also, only robots can speedrun games flawlessly.

I don't know which revision was used in the collection but part of the game's kusoge reputation comes from that Konami liked to jack up the difficulty for their games for the western markets, to varying degrees of dickishness. Sometimes they just made Hard difficulty required to see the ending (compared to Normal in Japan), and sometimes they did Contra: Hard Corps.