The game’s concept seemed like a load of shit to me. Hell, they probably don’t even have cool enemies like Alastor for Soma.
But anyway, it’s one of those games that you would play for a little while and then realize that you miss playing the other games in the series on a different console. For this case, the DS Castlevania games.
It’s monstrously disappointing. When I set myself on buying all the Summer of Arcade titles, I thought Hydro Thunder was going to be the “I guess I’ll buy it since it’ll be essentially free even though it looks ghetto” title, but it’s actually this shitty fucking game.
It’s sprite rips and shitty level design (hiding behind the excuse of “it’s meant for multiplayer”) combined with some of the worst music remixes I’ve ever heard. When I heard the remix of the Dawn of Sorrow Boss 2 theme I nearly fucking cried; only the thought of Dr. B’s perfect pecs and amazing ass (no homo) kept me sane.
Same. :sad:
Also where are the fuckin’ Belmonts? Why are we starting off with gay ass Jonathan as our primary whip user?
Another thing: so Soma and Alucard can be equipped with a variety of weapons, but no multiple whips/swords/etc. for Jonathan, no different books for Charlotte, no different glyphs for Shanoa? Fuck that.
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But seriously, fuck this game. Fuck it harder than Dr. B fucks whatever hot girl next door you had your eye on.
I think it was the destructoid review that said that it was really hard to beat it solo and with 6 people due to the difficulty scaling.
I’m confused about what you’re saying about weapons though. There isn’t any restriction on stuff, once you have it you can use it. It works mostly like how they did from the characters respective game with some exceptions. Soma works the same as his games, which is collect more souls and skills power up. Shanoa has absorb spells to get glyphs but her x and y weapon glyphs seem only to come from boss drops sadly. Alucard collects weapons and has to find scrolls for his skills. Jonathan only seems to have a whip so far when I play with him but he levels his subweapons like PoR after finding them. Charlotte is pretty different in that she has to absorb spells. Also about the no leveling in this game, you do level your spells and skills. Once you get them stronger your character gets stronger all around too. Like after I leveled Shanoa’s glyphs like ignis, nitesco, grando and fulmur, her regular x and y attacks do more damage even though I’m using a confodore which is the starting weapon.
You are right about having to start a stage over after dying (you can be revived in multiplayer) like older games. It’s not too bad though, once you make it to a boss once, you basically get it down and easily get there with enough time to kill the bosses a few times over. Most of the time would be spent on the first exploring the place, checking out how the contraptions work and nabbing some treasure. Once you go through it once or twice, you typically would have an idea of a route you would like to take.
I sent you a message if you’re down for some games. my tag is MmM Exquisite. I haven’t ran co-op yet though.
Yeah I’ll have some time to get on tomorrow, hopefully some of you will be around. I really like running the missions with teams of non-idiots, and the characters are all fairly unique which is pleasant.
I’m having a blast with the game so far. I’ll send you a message soon, Keits. I can’t say I’m a non-idiot yet as I haven’t played it all that much though.
We’ve got a couple of people in WI playing, Keits. We’re on late, like after midnight. We’ll be on tonight if you are interested.
Who likes soundtracks to Castlevania games?
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.7% drop rate on Brauner soul. I don’t think I can stand that.
Sorry but Castlevania SOTN had the best soundtrack of all time. All time!
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I’m biased towards difficult games because I’m one of those masochistic gamers, working on beating Super Ghost and Ghouls atm… managed to beat it once, didn’t have the willpower to go through it a second time but I will do it someday…
Also, Aria of Sorrow seems so disappointingly easy… beaten it once and doing another run through on hard but I’m currently running through this game with no problem… I’m just going to drop it…
Maybe I’ll try beating Castlevania IV again… it was fun… but castlevania chronicles was better due to having that remixed soundtrack…
I’ll think about getting it, but it seems pretty bad compared to past versions…
Um… I wasn’t trying to debate whether or not SotN soundtrack was the best. I was simply providing a link to the Castlevania HD soundtrack, but ok.
I played the demo yesterday. I thought it was way fun, though kinda frustrating because I took literally every wrong turn on the way to the boss til I got there.
Does this game support same-console multiplayer at all? I’m going to a friend’s place out of state for a few days and thought this’d be fun game to bring along on my HD.
No unfortunately. Co-op is only on xbox live.
Hell yeah dude. I’ll get on around then as long as my fiance and roommate dont want to watch any tv shows with me around then.
Maybe the concept could have been executed better but it’s not a bad game. I’ve singled through the first few levels but that’s it. Been playing with Johnathan mostly, trying to level up subweapons.
I’ll probably try to play it more this weekend if anyone is going to be on.
hell yea! #1 on chapter 3 hard by like 7000 points. I bet that would be gone by the weekend :wonder:.
Well anyways, if anyone wants to play with me my tag is to the left. During the day my brother plays jonathan and soma so he probably would skip over random invites but if you message him he probably would be more likely to play with you. I’m on the night though playing Shanoa. I hear chapter 3 on hard can drop chaos rings so I wanna farm that place for that crap. If it’s as broke as it is in Por I’ll spam ignis all day.
I didn’t know there were glyphs for Shanoa to absorb. Too bad the Nitesco glyph is no longer a weapon. Boo.
Also, you know what I love about the poison mushroom pickups that cut into a way bigger chunk of your health than you thought possible? NOTHING.
And the supposedly “awesome” music continues to annoy.
Multiplayer is marginally fun. Too bad there are way too many other games that do it better.
NINJA EDIT - This game is terrible. I typed this entire post waiting for the “quick match” (nice grammar Konami) to find a match, and now I can’t back out. B doesn’t work. And earlier, trying to join teams, I’m told I can’t join, and am booted to the title screen. Good work, Konami: like it couldn’t have just put me back in the custom games view!
Seriously, this game is trash. It plays like trash, looks like trash, sounds like trash, and has a trash UI. If I could do it over again I wouldn’t buy it even though, with the Summer of Arcade rebate, it would have been free. Where the fuck is Yaris?
Who made this game again? Because it sure as hell wasn’t Dr. B.