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SmokedHostage on 25 October 2009

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Pyramid Head on 25 October 2009

use that 360 to grab symphony of the night



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Fab_GS on 25 October 2009

Symphony of the Night is the best Castlevania, IMO. If you can tolerate the awful cheesy voice acting, you'll love it to death.



darklich13 on 25 October 2009
Pyramid Head said:
use that 360 to grab symphony of the night

THIS!!!!

Really all of the 2D Castelvania games are worth looking at. The 3D ones I would stay away from though.  I think there was one on the PS2 that was ok but it didn't feal like a Castelvania game.  If your liking the Order of Ecclesia I would get the other 2 DS Castelvaina games and all the ones on the GBA because they are esentually the same. But really, the best of the best is SOTN.



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lestatdark on 25 October 2009
Kenryoku_Maxis said:
lestatdark said:
If you are loving Order of Ecclesia, then you should definetly get Aria of Sorrow, Dawn of Sorrow, Circle of the Moon and the best of them all, Symphony of the Night.

If you're looking for a more classical Castlevania approach, the best ones are Castlevania IV, Castlevania X: Vampyre Kiss and Castlevania II: Simon's Quest.

*cough* I think you meant Castlevania III.

No, castlevania II: Simon's quest. Do not confuse with Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse. That was the crappiest castlevania game ever released.



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d21lewis on 25 October 2009

Castlevania ll was my 1st. It gets a bad rap sometimes, but I love it. Since then, I've played 1, 3, 4, Symphony, and Aria of Sorrow. I'll get the new Kojima influenced one when it comes out. There's just too many of them.



elprincipe on 25 October 2009
Peterisyum said:

I just bought my first Castlevania game: Order of Ecclesia, im 3 hours in and absolutely adore it so far. Yes its rediculously hard. And Im not greta at it. But the cobat is deep and grinding is actually fun. I hear that this one is pretty similar to all the others. It's amazing konami has kept the same gameplay going for so long kudos. Also, what r other great castlevania games I should get list the top 3 in ordser of godness. I can get all of them so dw about that :)

Welcome to the fold.  OOE is probably the best DS game out there bar none.  Close behind is Dawn of Sorrow.  Try that one next! Of course, games like Symphony of the Night, Circle of the Moon and Aria of Sorrow are all-time classics.

If you enjoy the action more than the RPG-type elements, you might also enjoy the older games that don't have those things.  Can't go wrong with Castlevania, Castlevania III, Super Castlevania IV, Dracula X or Castlevania Bloodlines for that.



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Khuutra on 25 October 2009

Order of Ecclesia is easily the best of the handheld Castlevanias, so you may be spoiling yourself a bit.



lestatdark on 25 October 2009

@Khuutra

You really think Order of Ecclesia was the best handheld Castlevania? I don't know, the story isn't quite as good as in Aria of Sorrow, the characters don't have the charisma as Soma or Arikado, and plus, the whole soul system of AoS is one of the best i've seen in a Castlevania game.



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Khuutra on 25 October 2009

Well I'm glad you're using Aria instead of Dawn, and yes, I would see Aria as being the closest thing.

The part I liked best about Order of Ecclesia is that it reinjected some of the action-platforming elements that had bee missing in the series for a while, and made the levels somewhat more linear in a move away from the Metroidvania formula. I found that refreshing.

Also it was much harder.