Comments on: Unreal Game Review: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

By: cheiwe

cheiwe — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:14:23 +0000

this is an amazing game. i could beat the inverted castle in under 2 hours time with ease. i want to know the world recoard forr the amount of time took to beat it

By: Madison

Madison — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:11:28 +0000

@ Napalm Clambake

Oh, no, I didn’t mean to suggest that next-gen games drop online and multiplayer…it just seems that those features are a major focus presently, and the idea of single-player gaming has become sort of a lost experience.

Your idea, though, is pretty cool.

By: SirEdward

SirEdward — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:37:45 +0000

Loved it then, love it now.

By: frank

frank — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:20:06 +0000

I finally played this game and beat it this year on my psp. Definitely aged well. Awesome game

By: Napalm Clambake

Napalm Clambake — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:07:41 +0000

Next-Gen games shouldn’t drop online play and multiplayer. They should introduce it to old-school games like this one. I think SoTN would be awesome with two Alucards running around. Let each player go anywhere in the castle, solve puzzles together, or explore separately for a while, find items and then meet up to share/trade loot. If you find a boss, recruit your buddy to come to your point on the map and fight it with you. Introduce powerful spells and attacks that you and your partner can do if you’re in the same room together…

I think that’s the direction 2-D style exploration games like this should take. The next Castlevania game should be a co-op experience for $15 on Xbox Live arcade. I don’t know why this hasn’t been done yet. It’d be my dream come true.

By: Madison

Madison — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:52:22 +0000

@ Kevin

The music is appropriately haunting, yes. It’s amazing how much fun I have playing this game. I’m almost disappointed I’m just about done with it.

Thanks for reading.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:43:41 +0000

Crisseagrim ftw

This is one of my favorite games of all-time. It was among the best, graphic-wise, on the PSX. Gameplay and weapons are obviously great features, but I think the music is the game’s undervalued property. Amazing, gothic-tinged orchestra tunes that really stepped it up in terms of music production in games.

Just an incredible game all around, and I still find myself wanting to play it more than a decade after I first played it.