Zero Punctuation: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

[DTWolfwood]

it stands the test of time!

eh perhaps they call them Clark/Bruce because its 1 syllable. you know being all fat and lazy and such that all comic book nerds are, its faster to say and also faster to type.

 

[blaquenoise]

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.

 

[Maclennan]

I never expected Yahtzee to get to this game, its an old favorite of mine.

 

[Lucane]

Though you said you never did play it at the time, it couldn't have been a distraction while your mother was drinking booze....

He meant that towards people who might be overly nostalgic about it.

"Overall Dirty knickers passes the nostalgia test in that I liked it as game(as in having no prior relationship with it.),and not because it distracted me from my mothers drinking problem when I was fifteen."(Someone could remember something as being more enjoyably if it also took time away from more painful thoughts at the time but that not being the case for Yahtzee with Castlevania:SotN.)

Eerie I started playing Castlevania last weekend ...(yes because of the down PSN, though not the point right now.) He has a point it about the learning curve it took me 20 minutes to figure out how to use the magic attacks. (From reading the PSN digital user's manual.)

 

[Assassin Xaero]

It's safe to say I was not expecting that. In fact, I even prepared a big rant on you not bothering to play any of the multiplayer for Brink...

My afternoon is ruined.

You know it just came out yesterday, right? And it is a multiplayer based game, so even if he did get it early, it would just be for playing the single player. Plus he does all the reviews ahead of time. Playing through an entire game, making/recording the video, and sending it to The Escapist so they could get it ready all in 24 hours would be murder...

 

[Fledge]

Meh. I didn't even smile

 

[Tulks]

Well, that was interesting. I expected him to tear apart something like Homefront.

Well, there is a brief disparaging reference...

 

[Rhatar Khurin]

Funny review as always, never have played any Castlevania games in my entire life imo.

One thing though.. All these years i have see people in MMOs and other games with Alucard as their name and up until now it never twigged that it was merely Dracula spelt backwards.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

I wasn't expecting this game as a review,but it was awesome to see an "oldie".

 

[Kujakuseki01]

Interesting choice.

Best game currently on the XBLA. Still the best side scroller ever made.

 

[Grey_Focks]

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Bah, you kids and your sense-making. Seeing as how I never even realized Alucard is Dracula backwards, you really shouldn't expect much in the ways of intelligence from me.

 

[LobsterFeng]

I was expecting you to review Homefront eventually, thanks for finally giving your stance on that.

 

[Falseprophet]

I pretty much skipped out on console gaming between 1994 - 2002, but I always loved Castlevania. So this was the game I spent years trying to track down a used copy of until my friend found one and gave it to me for my birthday. Then it showed up on PSN less than a year later. Typical. But totally worth it.

Also, among the best game soundtracks ever, hands down.

 

[Mudkipith]

And just when I thought you couldn't do another consecutive decent review; you did a great one.

 

[Joshimodo]

I was literally taking a bite of a baked bean sandwich when he mentioned it.


Fuck, man.

 

[beema]

Giant Duke Nukem Forever ad surrounding Zero Punctuation. Oh sweet delicious irony.

I violated my works' policy of "no videos today please" just to watch this. I guess it was worth it.

 

[kara_bulut]

Yeah ZP could do more old games.

There is an entire Star Wars series waiting to be bashed (Except Jedi Knight)

 

[Aptspire]

Alucard...still sounds more legit than snilboG, though :/
also, yeah, some of the enemies in that game are God hard, imo

 

[xchurchx]

plz mr crawshaw
rip the shit out of socom 4 and the disgusting use of native accents

 

[Senaro]

I almost bought this one the other day, got hooked on all of my old GBA/DS Castlevania games again. I never played Symphony, so maybe this is a good time. I think it's half off on XBL now, too.