The Castlevania Thread

Castlevania discussion seems to have gotten lost in another thread, and since
there seem to be a few of us playing assorted Castlevania titles at the
moment, I thought I'd start one here. Anyway.

So I completed COTM last night:
http://lofi-gaming.org.uk/diary/2007/01/castlevania-circle-of-moon-gba_30.php

Which is the second CV game so far this year

I've moved on to Harmony of Dissonance already, and put about an hour and half
in so far. I'm a little jarred with it actually, as I wrote in my diary:
http://lofi-gaming.org.uk/diary/2007/01/castlevania-harmony-of-dissona...-gba.ph

"And so it's out with Circle of the Moon, and in with Harmony of Dissonance.
I've played it for almost an hour and a half already, and I'm enjoying it.
There's something not quite right about it, though. Maybe it's the way Juste
(your character) has a bizarre blue glow and shadow trails. Maybe it's the
fact I had to start again completely powerless. It could be that L and R
perform dashes rather than special moves. Or perhaps it's that you don't have
DSS (like Circle, which is effectively the same as the souls in Dawn of Sorrow
for the DS). It could even be that you don't feel like you're actually in a
castle for much of it (so far), with strange rooms and caves and caverns and
things.

But in other ways, it's more like Castlevania. Specifically, some of the
baddies from Super Castlevania IV reappear, like the bone snake thing, and the
bone towers (which were in Circle, bit in a bastardised form). You collect
money too, and can manually "twirl" your whip.

And then it has bits like Dawn. Like a shop. And great added bits like the
ability to quick save anywhere. You can sort of tell it was made between the
SNES and DS games, anyway.

So to the game itself proper then. I've killed two bosses already. There was a
bat cluster, and a big skeleton with a large sword who I whipped in the
kneecaps. I've seen about 25% of the map, collected the Ice and Fire books,
loads of armour upgrades, and assorted relics including Lizard Tail. I'm
really missing the double-tap-to-run and double-jump powers though. I'm sure
they'll become available at some point.

I'm saved up near a boss door for now. That's for next time's play, though."


Any news on a date for SOTN for XBLA?

deKay
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On 1 Feb, 15:17, deKay <a... DeleteThis @lofi-gaming.org.uk> wrote:
> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des 1 Feb 2007
> 14:35:50 GMT, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do uk.games.video.misc,
> yawatina tan reek esk Chris Whitworth <usenet.ch... DeleteThis @parm.net> fornis do
> marikano es bono tan el:
>
> >> I have 15 or more DS games I want to buy. Sadly, I don't have the money, and
> >> have a big pile of other games unplayed which make me feel guilty.
>
> >> I'm due an overtime payment from work this month, so I expect I'll splurge.
>
> >Good lad
>
> There's an additional problem in that I've been "trialing" many of the games I
> want (e.g. FFIII, Yoshi, Hotel Dusk, Mario 3 on 3, Kirby, Castlevania), and
> now I want them even more
>
> deKay
> --

Then buy them - self gratification through the medium of material
gains is good for the soul.

If I could float around your head whispering "buy themmmm buy themmmm"
in a ghostly voice I would, but unfortunately you'll just have to
imagine it.