Zero Punctuation: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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i think you'll find the Count Alcard actually comes from the 1943 hollywood movie "Son of Dracula"
Actually, I think you were spot-on with Portal 2...at least, you were the first reviewer I saw to call it out on the over-long connecting sequences where I felt like I was playing "Where's Waldo" with portalable walls.
Excellent retro review...you really ought to do this sort of thing more often. Maybe folks will appreciate your snark more when they don't have $50-$60 of confirmation bias going against it.
Excellent retro review...you really ought to do this sort of thing more often. Maybe folks will appreciate your snark more when they don't have $50-$60 of confirmation bias going against it.
Again, certainly not expected.
A good and fair critique of the game. I'm really surprised that he never had the chance to play it until now. I always found it amusing that the XBLA version was a literal direct port of the PS version, and that it came out on Xbox before the PSN.
If you're like Yahtzee and missed out on this game when it originally came out please make it a priority to download a copy of it.
A good and fair critique of the game. I'm really surprised that he never had the chance to play it until now. I always found it amusing that the XBLA version was a literal direct port of the PS version, and that it came out on Xbox before the PSN.
If you're like Yahtzee and missed out on this game when it originally came out please make it a priority to download a copy of it.
I always love the retro game reviews, but why now? Maybe nothing came out last week, but what about the week before, or before that? There have been a lot of great games recently. Also, I'd love to hear your reaction of Brink's single player, since it's MP focused everybody only talk about that.
I wish I would have waited to buy this on my MGS4 PS3 instead of on my 360 when it dropped cause the d-pad sucks. Trying to pull off some of the spells for the achievements are just way to damn hard.
Well, here's something nobody expected today!
But a well deserved review nonetheless. Loved it!
Especially since it made me all nostalgic and I have it sitting on XBLA right now, begging to be replayed.
Quite right on how games like this can't be made anymore right now.
Even games that do require a bit of thought (Portal 2) take you by the hand most of the time.
This one just gives you a big **** YOU when you're stuck or missed an ability somewhere.
And don't we just all secretly love that?
But a well deserved review nonetheless. Loved it!
Especially since it made me all nostalgic and I have it sitting on XBLA right now, begging to be replayed.
Quite right on how games like this can't be made anymore right now.
Even games that do require a bit of thought (Portal 2) take you by the hand most of the time.
This one just gives you a big **** YOU when you're stuck or missed an ability somewhere.
And don't we just all secretly love that?
Youn know one thing games today could stand to do that this one did is have more different types of enemies.
And not just the same one but now a different color.
And not just the same one but now a different color.
I'm guessing not, that sword is so freakishly overpowered it's absurd. Four huge (long range and covers a good vertical range too) & high-speed slashes (that don't stop you from moving) per button press on a sword with a reasonably high damage output.... for each swing; not only that, you can dual-wield it. Two Crissaegrims plus two Rings of Varda (the game made great use of names from The Simarillion) plus button-mashing equals the final boss being dead in a matter of a couple seconds.CrazyCapnMorgan said:
Either way, it's fairly clear Yahtzee didn't spend the time needed to acquire many (if any) of the absurdly overpowered items you can get late in the game; that particular flaw would've almost certainly been mentioned in his review. Most of them are random drops (nothing too absurd for rarity, usually), but there's a good chance he would acquire at least one going through the Inverted Castle. That being said, the sheer variety of fun weapons you can get in the game is mind-boggling; many of the late-game & horrifically overpowered ones have some incredibly fun effects (including hidden moves; for example, you can pull a variation of the Hadouken using the Fist of Tulkas using the same button combination), they just have the unfortunate tendency to suck a lot of challenge (not that there's a lot to begin with) out of the game.
Don't get me wrong, I love Symphony of the Night.... but damn, it didn't just have one broken weapon; it had the entire bloody armoury!
Brink isn't out until Thursday in Australia. And even if it was out on Tuesday like in North America, did you really expect him to buy it, play it, write a script, perform the script, make all the drawings/the rest of the video, and hand it off in just a day?Grey_Focks said:
Don't expect Brink next week either. A few years of old episodes tells us that new games don't get reviewed that close to their launch dates.
Yea, once i got the Leap Stone i found a wealth of new areas.Fleeker said:
Im starting to run into doors that require the Myst transformation so i have a feeling that ill find it next, i already have the Wolf.
And for inverted Castle, i need to have the Golden Goggles and one other Golden Object before the fight with Ricther right?
After a while I enjoyed Symphony for it's exploration and progression, but the combat is really pretty lame most of the time. Also, I finished with the shield that, when used with the shield rod, causes massive damage to anything that stands in front of you. Say, for example the final boss, who has no where else to go. I just put my shield in its face and waited for it to die.
Curious why he bothered to mention Mortal Kombat. I'm guessing it was merely for the sake of adding another joke. Can't imagine he'd review another fighting game if he could actually get his hands on it.