DogofWar
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Having just finished Aria of Sorrow for the second time I was curious what you guys think.
Circle of the Moon apparently isn't very popular and I don't see why, it is my favorite of the three. Of course it was also the only one I owned when GBA was the current console, so nostalgia might be a factor. But I have played it to death, it was my first entry to the series as well. The gameplay is relatively hard but it has great variation from the very beginning of the game and the DSS system allows to quite easily and fast change your set up. The soundtrack is amazing as well:
The one bad thing about it is the farming you might have to do for certain DSS cards, since you really want to have all of them due to the effects they make. Some of them are kinda worthless in the end as well.
Aria of Sorrow is also a great game that has aged very well. Absorbing souls and gaining the abilities of enemies makes for great and varied gameplay, it encourages tedious farming of every single enemy, since you want their souls as well. Which makes it even worse than Circle of the Moon in that regard. The story is also kinda silly even by Castlevania standards.
Then we have Harmony of Dissonance. I have never made it very far in this game. It looks like shit quite frankly and the gameplay seem extremely outdated. Can someone hype it so that I will want to give it another chance?
Circle of the Moon apparently isn't very popular and I don't see why, it is my favorite of the three. Of course it was also the only one I owned when GBA was the current console, so nostalgia might be a factor. But I have played it to death, it was my first entry to the series as well. The gameplay is relatively hard but it has great variation from the very beginning of the game and the DSS system allows to quite easily and fast change your set up. The soundtrack is amazing as well:
The one bad thing about it is the farming you might have to do for certain DSS cards, since you really want to have all of them due to the effects they make. Some of them are kinda worthless in the end as well.
Aria of Sorrow is also a great game that has aged very well. Absorbing souls and gaining the abilities of enemies makes for great and varied gameplay, it encourages tedious farming of every single enemy, since you want their souls as well. Which makes it even worse than Circle of the Moon in that regard. The story is also kinda silly even by Castlevania standards.
Then we have Harmony of Dissonance. I have never made it very far in this game. It looks like shit quite frankly and the gameplay seem extremely outdated. Can someone hype it so that I will want to give it another chance?