Castlevania Symphony of the night overated ?

[Sleepyprince]

kupomogli said:

Sleepyprince said:

In fact, what strikes me first is the core mechanic of the game. Your character is slow and you can attack only once. Plus, except by being equiped with estoc your character stops when it attacks. Those little details prevent the game from being fast paced, fun and challenging. Because the character is slow, developpers had to dumb ennemy and pace of the game down. Plus, playing a rigid character is never really funny. 

Everyone keeps speaking about the possibilities the game's items and relics offer but they're often really useless. The only main trick is to equip shield or other protections that prevents damage for one type of element attack.

I just want to say that this isn't true at all.  I've even started a new game just to prove a point.  Haven't played the game in awhile and rushing, so this really isn't my best performance, but SotN has a lot of tricks that you can use to speed up character attacks.  Now there are some things I didn't show in the video, like let's say that you attack while on the ground, some subweapons can be used before your animation finishes.  Though I did show how doing an aerial attack before you hit the ground cancels out your animation allowing you to do a second attack, this allows for you to either dodge out of the way afterwards or get another attack in if it can kill the enemy.  Further in the video I show how one subweapon is useful to do make your two hit combo in less than a second turn into a three hit combo.   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpSLwnV9bpk&feature=youtu.be

Most people who play the game often will use the backdash to get around.  Whenever I played a lot back then I actually didn't move around unless I was using the backdash as it's around twice the speed of Alucard.  I don't really like getting into the habit of doing it though because it makes the game less fun imo.

A lot of platformers where you attack you only have a single attack and it doesn't make those worse.  What about when you're on the ground and swing your tail with the raccoon suit on Super Mario Bros 3, you can't move until the animation is completed. 

Now, I'll agree that SotN is overrated, but only ever so slightly, as people put it on a pedestal above all else, but, even though it's slightly overrated, it belongs to be very high up there as it's easily one of the best platformers. 

I already know all those tricks, except the one you do when you two-hit in the air ? Oo. How do you do it please ?