Castlevania Symphony of the Night

^I refuse to click on that link until you distinguish "Dissonance" from "Despair".

Oh, for goodness sake, Harmony of Despair isn't Jar Jar Binks. Let's try to keep the melodrama in the "Be right back" threads.

I was alluding to the plague that has become the abbreviating happiness of this forum.

I have no quarrel with either Dissonance nor Despair, other than the fact that I may never get to play Despair.

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Originally Posted by j_factor

I thought Circle of the Moon was outstanding. I think the response to that game was a little muted because it was hard to see on the original shitty GBA screen.

The DS ones were certainly cookie-cutter, though. I was puzzled by all the gushing Dawn of Sorrow got. I enjoyed it well enough, but it was a bit stale.

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Have you not played Order of Ecclesia? It's my favourite one in that style after SotN. In fact, if not for my nostalgia over SotN, I'd have to say that OoE is perhaps even better. It's head and shoulders above the other two DS games.

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I'm asking for trouble, but I gotta speak from my heart:

SOTN > Super Metroid

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Lots of people think that. I'm included.

To be honest. This is the first time I've ever heard of such comparison. Symphony of the Night is leagues ahead of Super Metroid in every aspect.

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Originally Posted by QuickSciFi

I was alluding to the plague that has become the abbreviating happiness of this forum.

I have no quarrel with either Dissonance nor Despair, other than the fact that I may never get to play Despair.

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Why not? You can play Despair offline on you're own, you don't have to play it online.

Because I don't own a 360. In the unlikely event I do purchase one, I'll only be buying hard copy games for it.

I've downloaded the demo on my PS3. It's a cute idea on paper, but it's ultimately pretty lacking in execution, IMO.

Awesome soundtrack, tho.

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Originally Posted by Breetai

Have you not played Order of Ecclesia? It's my favourite one in that style after SotN. In fact, if not for my nostalgia over SotN, I'd have to say that OoE is perhaps even better. It's head and shoulders above the other two DS games.

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I never got around to playing Order of Ecclesia. When it came out, I was very much lacking enthusiasm, and nothing/nobody at the time screamed "it's head and shoulders above the other two".

It is not that much better, just the art style is what Castlevania should be. It is clearly the third game in the DS series.

I would never place it above SotN. For example, you fight a skinny boy with rapid-fire dual-weilding pistols that jumps around. That is very, hmm, 'special' ?

Also Castlevania HD (LOL GET THE JOKE, FUNNY KOANMI) on PS3/360 is NO GOOD. Stay away from it and just download the OST. It feels like a fan game for multiplayer scrubs. Anyone with slight taste in video games will be repulsed by it.

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Originally Posted by Kogen

Also Castlevania HD (LOL GET THE JOKE, FUNNY KOANMI) on PS3/360 is NO GOOD. Stay away from it and just download the OST. It feels like a fan game for multiplayer scrubs. Anyone with slight taste in video games will be repulsed by it.

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I wouldn't go that far. It's nowhere near the best 'Vania game, but it has it's moments. It's a half-decent, boss rush game. That's good enough for me.

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Originally Posted by Kogen

It is not that much better, just the art style is what Castlevania should be. It is clearly the third game in the DS series.

I would never place it above SotN. For example, you fight a skinny boy with rapid-fire dual-weilding pistols that jumps around. That is very, hmm, 'special' ?

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I don't get what you're getting at?

Agree symphony of the night is the best castlevania ever, its true that the saturn version has new levels?

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Originally Posted by Kogen

I would never place it above SotN. For example, you fight a skinny boy with rapid-fire dual-weilding pistols that jumps around. That is very, hmm, 'special'

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What does being skinny have to do with being gay? Ever heard of Elton John? That guy's fat as hell.

I just mean girly men in general. When I think Medieval settings or Castlevania, I do not think slender men jumping around with rapid-fire pistols. I think of guys with buttchins whipping stuff to death.