Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Has anyone else played this game? I think it’s awesome, different fom the rest of the CV series, as in you don’t play as a Belmont, but rather as Alucard, the son of Dracula, and it’s an RPG, rather then just a side-to-side action game, it has an awesome story-line, and TONS of secret items, locations, and bosses, and not to mention, if you get several secret items, then the length of the game DOUBLE’s when you defeat the "last boss" since you will then be able to play through the castle again, in an upside down version of itself O_o…

The game is VERY hard to find, and I regretfully traded my copy off (for FFT, which just so happened to be re-released the next year as a PSX Greatest Hits…)…

I belive it also was #23 on Entertainment Weekly’s top 100 Video Games of all time O_o

Great game, very very fun, one of my all time favorites. Unfortunately it gets pretty easy playing through it a second time. While the game does have rpg elements I’d still call it a side scrolling action game. I’m not sure how hard it is to find anymore but I know my friend picked up a copy last year for under 20 dollars since its a greatest hit now.

One of my top 5 favorites. This one I’d recommend to anyone. As Durendal said it’s more "side scrolling action" than straight-out RPG. It’s fast-paced and boasts tons of exploration, replay value, one of the best VG soundtracks ever–the works.

Glad I was able to steal "my" copy from my cousin!

Incidentally this is the only Castlevania to date that really had an impact on me. I think Aria of Sorrow for GBA is supposed to be similar, but I haven’t really been checking the news on that.

Originally posted by Durendal
Great game, very very fun, one of my all time favorites. Unfortunately it gets pretty easy playing through it a second time. While the game does have rpg elements I’d still call it a side scrolling action game. I’m not sure how hard it is to find anymore but I know my friend picked up a copy last year for under 20 dollars since its a greatest hit now.

It’s a greatest hit now O_o?

Wow, I’m gonna go hunt a copy down O_o, I haven’t played the game in a few years O_o

And as for it being an RPG, the only thing I saw that was non-RPG’ish about it, was the battle system, sure it’s side to side, but the battle system doesn’t make it an RPG, there are many RPG’s without the traditional battle systems… This battle system just happened to have that of a side-to-side action game… But it did implement RPG factors into the battle system (HP, MP, Level, stats, equipment, spells, experience, etc…)

Greetings.

Heh, now THIS is a great game, yes? I’ve played almost all of the Castlevania series (Well, the ones released here in Australia and whatever ones I’ve got on Emulator), and there’s one thing which draws me back to it. What is that one thing? Simple. The music. I’ve never played any other game with the same atmospheric music as this one. I have to thank my friend Enkidoh for getting me the OST as a Christmas present. The music is beautiful, haunting and moody.

The game itself, is pure gold (At least that’s what I think). If you wish to consider yourself a Castlevania Connoiseur, you have to at the very least played this game, if not own it.

Go! Go to your nearest computer game store, and demand a copy! Go now!

SotN would be the top of my fave Castlevania games. A hard second would be Aira of Sorrow. Though I would rather want to own the Sega Saturn JPN version of SotN, mostly because you can play as Maria just like in Rondo of Blood.

I heard that the one for Dreamcast was going to rock… but it got canceled when a bug in the game kinda… exploded the Dreamcast when you did an Item Crush. o_O

Truely a great game indeed..I’ll never foget the first time I played it…because the intro said "Final Stage; Bloodlines", I thought I’d done some kind of code to skip to the last level…well I soon found out that it was the end of a previous Castlevania game, and that this one had no levels..

I think Konami nailed everything with this game..RPG elements as well as old school side scrolling…and the relics (items that enabled you to transform, jump higher, etc.) were great. So many secrets in this game…it’s funny, because to fully complete the game (getting all 200.2 percent), you have to activate the Sword Brothers Glitch…heh. If anyone wants to know how to do that, you can always ask me (or just as easily go to Gamefaqs.com…)

And yes..finally, I’d like to say…

Originally Posted by chibiDL

one of the best VG soundtracks ever

Amen to that.