Castlevania Advance Collection

Castlevania Advance Collection contains 4 games Dracula X is often compared as a demake of Rondo of Blood but is quite good. Nice music bosses platforming classic castlevania at it’s core not the best but not bad 7/10 (remember to have an axe for Dracula) Circle of the Moon is first metroidvania after SoTN and it’s great. Story exists, Map layout is nice secret rooms are somewhat hidden but there is one problem rooms are HUGE for no reason. Main mechanic in the game are DSS cards which you combine to have different effects and that is a brilliant system but they ♥♥♥♥♥♥ it up with one thing. Drop rates are abysmal less than 2% on average and they only drop from specific enemies. If that doesn’t bother you great. Music is fantastic for a GBA game also Nathan movement is really stiff. Bosses are nice and there is a bit of twist to Hugh (btw the game is considered non canon). 8/10 Harmony of Dissonance have a better story that is really interesting with a big twist. Different endings that change and voice acting. I don’t really know who thought that but it’s nice Juste and others have sometimes a voice line but in Japanese? Weird though Konami is from Japan so maybe that’s why but they have those voices in American version (Idk about EU and JP). Juste moves much better than Nathan but holy ♥♥♥♥ colors are so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bright. It was made cause of the backlash from CotM since GBA didn’t have light to lit up the screen and it was hard to see. It came at the cost that in the future on emulator or collection playing it is turning some people down cause of these colors. Another thing that made it worse since so much GBA power went to colors Juste have some blue lines that outline him and it’s ugly. Time to talk about elephant in the room music is just horrendous I genuinely can’t listen to this. Castle map is bad (in game map) room layout is better but still far from perfect and you will be exploring TWO castles that have almost THE SAME ROOM LAYOUT. It does have spell book system that is a downgrade from DSS but still works nice basically you pick up a bible for example and have different effects if you equipped book of ice fire etc. Good game 6/10 Aria of Sorrow is a game that is not overrated btw. One thing I do find that was somewhat bad is drop rates of some souls in game if you go for 100% other than that nothing else to say. Peak music combat characters bosses castle rooms exploration souls system merchant secrets weapons etc. 10/10 will play again. Unironically collection is worth full price just because Aria is so good. 9/10 collection. Try on sale if you don’t know if it will click with you.

Circle of the Moon is a very fun game that rewards exploration even in the lategame a la Super Metroid and unlike games like Symphony of the Night, which constantly dumps garbage into your inventory that you do not care about. This is a game that makes asks you to make use of what you get and by golly will you. Harmony of Dissonance asks the bold question: "What if we made an entry in a series known for great music where we purposely made every single track completely terrible?" It also asks, "What if we made an entry in a notoriously difficult series that is so pisseasy that at no point in its six hour runtime does it ever feel like it has justified being made?" This is a game where every tool you get exclusively opens one area that is in the location mathematically calculated to be as far away as possible from where you got the tool to maximize the amount of time that you waste on the game. Harmony of Dissonance makes you feel like you're playing a game that was designed specifically to stall you past the two-hour refund mark even though it was released 25 years ago. Aria of Sorrow walks back all the mistakes in Harmony of Dissonance and brings back that Symphony of the Night pick-up-a-bunch-of-worthless-garbage but also asks you to grind every single enemy in the game for six hours for completion. It is not as pisseasy as Harmony of Dissonance but there are harder bossfights in Lego games. Exploring does not feel like as much of a waste of time because there's barely any to do. Dracula X is the worst excuse for a video game I think I have ever played in my life, and I've played Monster Hunter: Wilds. Nothing about this game justifies its own existence. The final stage of Dracula X is a five minute stage that will take you on its own longer than you took to beat the entirety of Harmony of Dissonance and maybe Aria of Sorrow. It has was I think is legitimately the worst boss in any video game I have ever played. Dracula X is so bad that if it was removed from this collection, the collection could probably be sold for $25. TL;DR: Circle of the Moon is the only game in this collection that is better than the Zelda CDI games but it is so good that it on its own warrants a purchase maybe even off-sale. Harmony of Dissonance is bad. Aria of Sorrow is boring but it's kind of funny how hard you can ♥♥♥♥ on every single enemy in the game. Dracula X is so terrible that it makes the entire collection worse by being attached to it.

muy buena evolución, hasta su peak gameplay de la advance

It's good, mostly for those who played the games back in the day. Aria af Sorrow is by far the best title in this set, but the others are a refreshing reminder of how games can get better over time and experience.

先FK KONAMI为敬 移植的实在是太捞了 月轮 我最喜欢的一部 难度确实是最高的 100种组合确实有凑数的成分 实际上有用的就那十几种 而且这游戏提示做的也不是很完善 我几年前玩就是破完铁处女直接去地下水脉了 法师模式的数值个人感觉有些不合理 手感上有些老恶魔城的味道 白夜 手感上刚好和月轮反过来 有些飘 表里城确实有特色 但是实在是太绕了 因果律塔那里要来回转几次 男主的好基友Maxim竟然一分钟不到就拆完了 晓月 集大成作 难度适中 并且本作特色是刷魂 刷东西这点做的比月轮好多了 至于血之轮回的那部SFC移植作品 传统的act城 由于是移植 素质不能跟血轮比 最终boss处甚至地板好几个坑 很难让人认为不是故意搞玩家的 不评价 FK KONAMI

雖然4樣都是玩過的遊戲但是重玩一次依然感到滿足 遊戲最大的變化就是新增即時存檔讀檔和時間回溯的功能 這對想中斷遊戲但還沒走到存檔點說很方便 另外時間回溯對於月輪和曉月圓舞曲這種打倒敵人會低機率出現道具的狀況變得更好調整 唯一要注意的大概就是鍵盤控制沒辦法更改 控制器可以更改 以鍵盤為主的玩家會極度不方便

An excellent collection of old metroidvania castlevania games from the GBA era. All great games really. Aria is the goat tho. Would recommend. (Although you could always Emu)

Another great collection...minus Aria of Sorrows' absolute dog sh*t drop rate

恶魔城GBA三部曲 月之轮回： ★★☆ GBA三部曲中的第一部，我是按倒序玩的，经过前两部的提纯以后打这一部还能接受，缺点是手感极其僵硬，跟另外两部作品没法比，操作手感非常非常别扭，需要双击方向键才能奔跑，玩一段时间左手就酸痛的不行，最后只能请出用来打格斗游戏的hitbox来玩，勉强能接受糟糕透顶的手感。 也是最肝的一部，dss卡牌系统很有意思，上百种组合，但是卡牌爆率极其感人，为了刷一张卡就是半小时起步，太折磨了 boss难度超高，特别是最终boss德古拉的容错率贼低，幸好游戏本身支持倒带，打错操作可以立马撤销，节省了大量反复读档的时间。 地图设计挺不错的，但是把推箱子能力放到最后，导致去竞技场的路线要横跨整张地图，实在是太蠢了，传送点非常少，容易让人失去耐心。 -------------------------------------- 白夜协奏曲： ★★★★ 最简单的一部，几乎没有卡关，表里城设定有趣，但关卡设计不够合理，路线规划不好的话需要大量的反复跑图，好在几个传送点的位置还可以，而且跑图可以开霸体法术直接化身大运一路创过去，花的时间精力也能接受。 法术系统做的不好，经常因为不小心捡到不想要的副武器而换掉了自己想要用的法术，如果能跟月轮一样自己想用什么法术就用什么法术就舒服了。 最重要的是这一部不用肝！不用盯着那该死的爆率反复刷掉落物！只需要探图并收集就行了，这点我非常喜欢，月轮和晓月肝的太枯燥了。 -------------------------------------- 晓月圆舞曲： ★★★★★ 最好玩！三部曲里的最后一部，也是我接触恶魔城正作的第一作，在遇到晓月之前我简直是在乱玩，让我喜欢上恶魔城这系列作品。荒城回廊那首歌印象极其深刻。 机制上也很有意思，像后来的血污就参考了晓月的刷魂系统，大部分怪物都会掉落可供主角使用对应能力的魂，而主角用的甚至是加强版，三种不同的魂系统结合了传统的法术，变身形态，强化buff等等各种机制，可玩性十足，并且这一部主角不用一直甩鞭子，武器系统也是特别多样，可惜武器系统的强度平衡做的一般，在整个流程中体验好的武器就那么几把，不过拿到神器以后还是相当爽的。 boss难度适中，整体流程偏短，有些魂的爆率贼低要刷，总的来说也是不怎么卡关的，推图的时候的补给不少，而且还能随时从背包嗑药，既富有挑战性又有逃课手段，最推荐的一部。

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