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Castlevania Advance Collection |OT| Pixels in the Night

Komatsu

Member
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General information

Developer: M2
Publisher: Konami
Genre: Action
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One
Release date: September 23rd, 2021
Price: $19.99 USD

Games
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
Castlevania: Dracula X

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Nice OT. (Wait, isn't this collection also on Steam? You don't currently list "PC" as one of the platforms...)

Excited to play these games!
 

daveonezero

Banned
COTM was so bad bruh plz tell me why u like that shite
Yeah I started playing it recently and couldn't get into it.

Then tried HOD and skpped that.

Aria is it for me though. I like it and DOS. Order of Ecclesia is good too but I DIdn't like the weapon system in that. Felt like you were forced to just use two of the same thing on each hand.
 

anthony2690

Member
Picked this up last night, playing tales of arise currently, then I'll probably play lost judgment & then I'll finally give this a go!

Might do Dracula X first and then work through the advance games in order of release.
 

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Only ever played Aria of Sorrow, and never all the way through.

Started Circle of the Moon - seems pretty basic but I'm liking it well enough so far.
 

Andyliini

Member
Great OT. I just bought this yesterday and gave it a quick spin. I really like they included all three localized versions of all three games so I can play each of them and compare. It's a shame I can't share saves between each other, but I understand bthat would be difficult to do.

Anyway, I'm glad Konami is rereleasing them and doing good job with them as well. Hopefully this sells well so Konami can release more collections. There are still some games that have never been rereleased.
 
Is Dracula X worth playing if you've already played Rondo? It's the only 2D Castlevania I haven't played cause I was always under the assumption that it was a poor man's Rondo.
 

tommib

Gold Member
Not sure about the OT, theres some lack of information about the collection(like type of renders for instance).
I want to buy it for the Switch but was trying to find info on renders on YouTube. There’s nothing.
 

Naked Lunch

Member
This being done by M2 makes the collection a must buy.

Aria is just as good as Symphony of the Night - this is the star of the show.
Circle is just ok and Harmony is too easy - but they are still worth playing.

SNES Drac X is a weird addition but I guess they didnt know where else to collect it. I remember being so disappointed by that game when I rented it in the 90s, comparing it to Castlevania IV - and even more disappointed when I played the real Drac X a decade later. I hope they re-release the real PCE Drac X/Rondo on more modern consoles - pretty sure its only on PS4 right?
 
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tommib

Gold Member
Castlevania: Anniversary Collection had some rough menus on the PC version so I'm hoping those are addressed in this release. Now all Konami needs to do is a Silent Hill compilation and we're all happy.
No, no more SH collections, please. We don’t want to feel that pain all over again.
 
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Kuranghi

Member
I'm addicted to those high end CRT filters in RetroArch now and I made a pretty sweet one for GBA games as well so I think I'll stick with PC for these.
 

NeoIkaruGAF

Gold Member
Circle of the Moon with a backlight is straight up cheating, lol. And thank God for the option that highlights enemies that drop cards. Fuck random drops to the end of the Earth, then fuck them off some more to outer space.

The gameplay loop is still nice, but the game is so stiff. I forgot so much about COTM. That stone-breaking power, lol. What a cheap way to bar progression. Not to mention those crates...
 

Azurro

Banned
I can finally play Dracula X again. :)

I mean, I could with emulators, but it's not the same as on a console.
 

Fake

Gold Member
Castlevania: Anniversary Collection had some rough menus on the PC version so I'm hoping those are addressed in this release. Now all Konami needs to do is a Silent Hill compilation and we're all happy.

Just Sillent Hill 2 emulation would be better at this point.
 
Put a good 2 hours into Circle of the Moon yesterday. Still holds up. The Super Metroid gameplay loop is still one of the best out there.
Circle of the Moon gets too much hate. It's definitely the weakest of the three gba games but it's still a damn good game. If it had the back dash I would put it on the same level as Harmony of Dissonance, but still a notch below AoS

Is Dracula X worth playing if you've already played Rondo? It's the only 2D Castlevania I haven't played cause I was always under the assumption that it was a poor man's Rondo.
Nah, not really. It might be fun to see how Dracula X bastardizes Rondo, but it's a pretty average Castlevania game.
 

Saber

Member
In which order should I play these? Release date?

I would say either Harmony or Aria. Pretty solid games.

Circle is a mix bag in a bad way. Has some serious drop issues and magic builds are kind of dropball, you gonna aways be dry on mp even with very little use.
 
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