A fan of the old, classical games myself, I found SOTN a great game with great ideas and a decent story. However, it is true that it becomes a tad easy once you get the Duplicator (for those of you who never played SOTN, the Duplicator is a trinket that lets you use an infinite amount of any *use* item that you carry) and buy a flaming shuriken that can insta-kill almost enemy you fight, even though this is balanced with the fact that it costs 500,000 bucks. Took me 3 hours to get that much. Anywho, nice to see that you have the spark of nostalgia in you, Yahtzee, unlike most retarded people this day in age.
Zero Punctuation: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
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Still the game is 99% brownm and red (a little green here and there). Great game although.Sgt. Sykes said:
I was hoping Yahtzee would touch on some of the reasons Symphony of the Night is monstrously overrated, like the giant empty hallways of boredom and the entire second half of the game where the area isn't called "Frozen Catacombs" and doesn't recycle the game's worst BGM (Finale Toccata or whatever it's called) ad nauseum.
Because it is in the Seekrit Society Of Game Critics Rulebook- Thou Shalt Not Admit you liked Myst, or any of the sequels, because doing so makes you a Braniac Nerdling, and we Can't Have That.hurricanejbb said:
Myst fandom is the secret shame of gamers everywhere... except for those of us who have come out of the library closet.
lovelovelove the retro reviews and I'm sure I'm not alone when I say I wouldn't mind more of them in place of some of the more obviously bland titles
This is true, but you said you are only at 27%. The begining half of SoTN is very well designed, and still challenging. Therefore still fun. however as both Egoraptor & Yahtzee stated, the game eventually has your character so strong that he practically breaks the game.Fronzel said:
Eventually at this point when you have all your powers, there are still plenty of minor things to grab (like those health & magic power ups) but by then the levels aren't designed around the player's abilities, but rather by vague avatar strengths (such as having a sword that does like 200 damage per swing).
SoTN is a great game (it is a little too long), but I really just miss the old linear style. My problem is that Konami justs wants to continue with Metroidvanias rather than Classicvanias
Or it could be because, despite its obsessive cult of fan's beliefs, the game did have some legitimate flaws.C. Eleri Hamilton said:
It was a fairly linear string of puzzles jacketed in a game-like veneer of travel consisting of a progression of (for the period good) CGI stills. Despite the puzzles themselves (which range from logicalc common-sense approaches to esoteric point and click pixel hunts and infuriating trial and error crapshoots) there isn't much actual gamePLAY compared to more adventure oriented puzzle games. Additionally, other than to soak in the nostalgia of low resolution early period Computer Generated Terrain graphics with edges so jagged they can be used to grate fine spices and zest citrus, there's no real replay value. The puzzles are static and merely require knowing the answer and where to find the pieces. Unless you're in it to relive the story, but at that point the puzzles are just tediously designed doors to let you progress through the rest of the game.
None of that makes Myst a bad game, but it was definitely a product of its time. One of the primary driving forces of the still newborn CD-Rom market, the immersion that drew people into it falls short in comparison with games released even a few years after it. Its cult status as "that game" for so many people hinges on that nostalgic feeling of playing it for the first time back then, not an evaluation of how it plays in comparison now.
Yatardzee.....please just stop.
You have been diluding yourself for sometime now. Im sure you can tell by the lacking of watchers over the past few years but your coming off like some young jap teen angst toon from FF.
Your basically becoming Edward from Twilight.....and probably just as small, thin and whiny....oh wait.
Just switch it up before you become a sad memory.
You have been diluding yourself for sometime now. Im sure you can tell by the lacking of watchers over the past few years but your coming off like some young jap teen angst toon from FF.
Your basically becoming Edward from Twilight.....and probably just as small, thin and whiny....oh wait.
Just switch it up before you become a sad memory.
Sorry about MK9 being banned in Australia Yahtzee. Its good as a fighting game, and they have an interesting way doing story mode for a fighting game. But I don't think it has too much appeal to people that arn't competitive. I guess you can see a lets play or something. Here is the best fight I have seen for MK9. No fatals in this vid, but this vid has the best players going at it with good commentary to give insights on how the game works.
Too bad its truth.
No subtlety for this.
Been watching him for years and just feel like Im watching some teanage junior who requires medication and a hug from dad.
No longer funny, informative or frankly even worth a review.
There is no review hear any longer.
Look I loved the guy when he came out. Flat out Genius and funny. Now....he just needs to get laid and get some meds.
Dude, for real
No subtlety for this.
Been watching him for years and just feel like Im watching some teanage junior who requires medication and a hug from dad.
No longer funny, informative or frankly even worth a review.
There is no review hear any longer.
Look I loved the guy when he came out. Flat out Genius and funny. Now....he just needs to get laid and get some meds.
Dude, for real
Well done. When I saw the title my first reaction was one of confusion followed by the fear that you'd eviscerate one of my all-time favorites, one still considered the best Castlevania out there today by most. In it's time it was glorious. There were secrets like the Sword Brothers glitch and Axe Armor mode I didn't learn until over two years into the game.
Poison Mist is exactly what you said, one of those optional weapons you don't need but get as a reward for beating a boss harder than the last one. SoTN can do much better than that when it comes to ridiculously broken weapon/ability combinations but that's part of the fun really.
Indeed the game's easiness is its greatest flaw, something that all Metroidvanias after that have all endeavored to fix to varying degrees. I'd recommend trying one of the DS ones next time you're in the mood for a retro review but, hey, variety.
Poison Mist is exactly what you said, one of those optional weapons you don't need but get as a reward for beating a boss harder than the last one. SoTN can do much better than that when it comes to ridiculously broken weapon/ability combinations but that's part of the fun really.
Indeed the game's easiness is its greatest flaw, something that all Metroidvanias after that have all endeavored to fix to varying degrees. I'd recommend trying one of the DS ones next time you're in the mood for a retro review but, hey, variety.
He didn't rag on Myst, he said it only survives a play through if you're playing it with nostalgia or an *extremely* open mind, which is somewhat true. Some games just don't stand the test of time to newbies.
Not to be pedantic but...the Japanese didn't invent Alucard. I believe it was an old American film that coined the name first. AVGN did a point on it in his Castlevania retrospective.
That was unexpected and AWESOME, I just love this game. I bought it on PSN (well, when it used to f**** work) as soon as I could and, like Silent Hill 2 is your scape pod of bad games, Castlevania SotN is my bunker.
And hunting for the enemies just to complete that list is something somewhat interesting. Although you forgot to mention the absolute amount of useless itens that you will NEVER use and the tottaly useless magics. And that the only sub-weapon that is worth your time is the axe, wich is a life-saver in Clock Tower.
And I have to agree with you. Reacting with that back jump even with an 1 hp damage is annoying as hell.
And hunting for the enemies just to complete that list is something somewhat interesting. Although you forgot to mention the absolute amount of useless itens that you will NEVER use and the tottaly useless magics. And that the only sub-weapon that is worth your time is the axe, wich is a life-saver in Clock Tower.
And I have to agree with you. Reacting with that back jump even with an 1 hp damage is annoying as hell.
Now Yahtzee has finally given his opinion on SotN, I'd actually be interested in knowing what he thought of Aria of Sorrow on the GBA. Not a full review of course, it'd be too similar to this to be worth the time, but just a potted summary of his opinion. In his review of Lords of Shadow he mentioned those 2 games together as examples of the pinnacle of the Castlevania series and, having played both, I personally hold the somewhat heretical opinion that Aria of Sorrow is actually BETTER than Symphony of the Night- it's better balanced, the soul system is fantastic and it has the most fascinating story of the entire series (it takes place in the FUTURE after Dracula is permanently DEAD for one thing).
I didn't hear him complain about the lack of good gamesJamesStone said:
besides last time we had a game like DKCR was during the SNES era
I think the game is then outside of "lack of variety" stuff
and he will get another chance to bash the Wii which he loves to
and the game is hard
so I see no reason why not to review it
