Back from work and a nap. Now, I shall speak up.
Castlevania's one of my all-time favorite game series. I will admit I am most well-versed in the Igavania platformer-RPGs, and not the old-school hard Classicvania games. Still, I've got Rondo of Blood and the original trilogy on my bucket list. Let alone
64 / Legacy of Darkness!
Top three games are probably in order:
Portrait of Ruin,
Curse of Darkness and Dawn of Sorrow. Honorary mentions to
Aria of Sorrow and of course,
Symphony of the Night. I've played Which brings me to this post.
Yep, SotN seems kind of easy. I get they were experimenting with a new game system, and it'd make sense for Dracula's dhampir son to be seriously powerful. But yeah, the late game becomes a slog because the only way they could challenge you is to make the Inverted Castle unfair at times. In theory I should like an open-world scavenger hunt for Drac's body parts, in a map that works surprisingly well upside-down. In practice, I despise the Inverted Castle.
After a while, none of the Igavanias are quite challenging. Mostly.
Circle of the Moon and
Order of Ecclesia are still a challenge to me, but perhaps for all the wrong reasons at times?
If there is a concession for the Igavanias compared to Classicvanias though, it's the Belmont fights. They are agile and hard-hitting just like the player, and really sell the idea that the Belmonts are badass even compared to your main protagonists in those games.
Yes. Even though Reinhardt Schneider is more my speed. But have you considered:
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Jonny Morris? Or even...
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...Charlotte Aulin might be more your speed? And if you're ignoring how dirty he got done in the Netflix series, there's also...
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...Hector. :)
