/vr/ - Retro Games

Here's my problems with SOTN.

Firstly I think that the death screen hangs on far too long so if you die you have to watch it without skipping. It's long as hell too. You could argue it gives you more incentive not to die but it just irritates me they couldn't let you skip it.

Once the castle is flipped (or maybe it was a bit after?) the challenge really starts to fall off. Like the only way you could keep it challenging is if you avoided killing stuff as much as possible so you were lower leveled by the time you got to that point. I always find myself powering through the bosses, not even trying to avoid them But at least there's Galamoth right?

To 100% and get everything is a real grind and I'll admit this is a very minor gripe since you don't need everything. The argument could be made that grinding cash extends gameplay much farther than it would have been. I guess I wish some skill was involved in getting hard to reach items rather than just putting in lots of dull time doing the same stuff over and over.

I thought the final form of dracula was a real letdown not just because of the whole "powering through everything" problem, but also just because his battle and design looked very uninspired. His attacks had no gusto, it was just this big weird monstrosity kind of clawing back and forth occasionally. I just felt like they could have done something more intimidating and feel "final" for the final boss and form of dracula.

But, I do love the game and I've played it all the way through, twice. The soundtrack has got to be my favorite in the series by far. There are many things I love, like that succubus save point totally caught me off guard and is probably one of the most memorable parts really. That battle in that one arena with the (fake) hunters from Castlevania 3 was both hard and also effectively caught me off guard. I just wanted to point out some things I disliked because that's a lot easier than trying to list all the stuff I liked.