Castlevania

[Satoryu]

I played through SotN again recently. The map is only at 199.3% w/o Dracula and Shaft's rooms though, so I'll need to backtrack eventually and find whatever rooms I'm missing so I can get that last achievement.

I'm willing to bet at least half of the rooms you're missing are save points.

[Acid]

You know what they should remove (from the Castleroids)?

Bossdoors.

I remember when I first played SotN... I always felt tension because I never knew if there was a boss waiting for me in the next room. Now we have shiny blue doors that yell GO BACK AND SAVE.

[borockman]

Lol agreed, be wary of overly huge/symmetrical room.

[Solar]

I remember when I first played SotN... I always felt tension because I never knew if there was a boss waiting for me in the next room. Now we have shiny blue doors that yell GO BACK AND SAVE.

Wasn't there a huge loading time that let you know anyways and you could still turn back and go save?

[CephiYumi]

You know what game series I like?  Castlevania.  It's pretty fun nya

[Flame]

You know what game series I like?  Castlevania.  It's pretty fun nya

Sure is.

What I like about Caslevania is that you never know how much HP the boss has left. (outside of a few of the 3D games) So it makes it more tense, and your like "WHENS HE GONNA DIE ALREADY!"

Unless your fighting legion. You can tell with him. It. Them.

[Fxeni]

Sure is.

What I like about Metroidvanias is that you never know how much HP the boss has left. (outside of a few of the 3D games) So it makes it more tense, and your like "WHENS HE GONNA DIE ALREADY!"

Unless your fighting legion. You can tell with him. It. Them.

Fixed that for you, since they have a health bar in the old games.

[Flame]

Oh. well. I never played the older ones.

[Mirby]

I have. Good games, just pretty hard, like most of Konami's early offerings.

[Chainsaw Guitar]

The 16-bit era was the high point in the Castlevania series IMO. The only game I didn't like was Super Castlevania IV. The super friendly controls trivialized everything that previously made Castlevania challenging. Plus, the music was rather mediocre. It especially makes me bitter that most people overlooked Castlevania Chronicles, even though (or perhaps because) it was truer to the original.

[Mirby]

Well part of the reason may have been that the series, in many players' eyes, had moved on to the newer "Metroidvania" stage, with exploration and leveling at the forefront, and found it to be a tad bit old. Which is sad, because *technically* it was. However, that doesn't change the fact that it was an entry in the series that as of then hadn't been released here, so they felt they needed to. I think.

[Chainsaw Guitar]

Well, it's on PSN now. And I still don't hear people giving the praise this deserves despite the Dracula X Chronicles and The Adventure Rebirth getting all the love. ;_;

[Dantonumanoa Ongdolota Amycronicon]

Which is the game with Soma Cruz? That one looked interesting, but I never got around to playing that thing.

[Blackhook]

Aria of Sorrow (GBA) and Dawn of sorrow (DS)

[Emiri Landeel]

I like AoS and DoS

Soma's games are interesting.
Collect the soul from every monsters and use them to your advantage.
And that made the games have very good replay value.

Cos you'll definitely want to get every souls, at least to see what do they do.

[Blackhook]

And every walktrough is different because you never get the same souls at the same time (except for the boss´ souls)

[Emiri Landeel]

@Spectro D.
If you gonna play the Soma's games.

My suggestion is, try to obtain peeping eye's soul  (That flying eye thingie) once you saw one passing by.
It will give you an ability to spot the cracked wall that leads you to a secret room.

Pretty useful.
(And it has the same function in both games)

[Align]

It has a low drop rate though, so may want to wait until you've beaten the game and got a better luck stat. And are hunting for secrets.

[Mirby]

A pain in the ass to get, but worth it. Oh god yes, it's so worth it. I killed like 800 in DoS before finally getting it.

I went to the first room of Demon Guest House (with all the skeletons), and kept dropping from the room above, killing the eye, jumping back up to that screen, falling, repeat.

[Flame]

Also, advice, when Fighting Legion in Aria of Sorrow, to get his soul, destroy the ENTIRE outer shell of bodies before you kill the inner core. Otherwise you dont get his soul, and its pretty good.

[Blackhook]

How do you get Death´s scythe in AoS..I never got it...

[Acid]

Get Death's soul

Forge into a weapon.

[Blackhook]

How do you get Death´s scythe in AoS..I never got it...

[Acid]

Yeah I just noticed. My bad.

Death's sickle can be found in the Clock Tower, in hard mode only.

[Satoryu]

You need Giant Bat to get it.