Alucard:"This castle is a creature of Chaos. It may take many incarnations." Alucard(Translated):"This castle is a creature of Konami. It has to change to keep the game fresh and new."

@-PV-

4 жыл бұрын

Too bad that came to a screeching halt lol

@setsers1

4 жыл бұрын

@@-PV- too soon, fucker.😠😆

@setsers1

4 жыл бұрын

🤨😒Maybe if they'd release every CV game in America, that'd be great.😠😆

@ashbasher22nerd93

4 жыл бұрын

Resurrected with Bloodstained and it is too right.

@8squared007

3 жыл бұрын

Well this didn’t age well...

"Dracula die now or leave this world, you'll never belong here." V.s. "Die monster you don't belong in this world"

"And that's how I easily defeated Dracula once and for all!"

@wwetitle818

7 жыл бұрын

That's bullshit!

@ryasson1830

7 жыл бұрын

Kotori Birb Like mentioned in the video, this first battle is a retelling of Rondo of Bloods final boss. In SotN, you can easily defeat him because Richter is just too damn powerful and has much better control compared to Rondo of Blood. "And thats how i easily defeated Count Dracula once and for all" is in fact bullshit, because the final boss of RoB is much harder. SotN made it look like Dracula was just a pushover

@datalphalion

5 жыл бұрын

Guess who’s in Smash.

@spiriteouspoet02spiriteous13

5 жыл бұрын

DatAlphaLion RICHTER!!!

@yoman8027

5 жыл бұрын

@@ryasson1830 Nah, the final boss of RoB is very easy. The true final boss of the remake, on the other hand...

"But you probably won't listen to me anyway, will you?" *immediately searches through eBay for a PS1 copy*

@russiancheems2275

3 жыл бұрын

Me: arrrg matey time to set sail

@Meta_Productions

2 жыл бұрын

Then realizes the price

Well, to be fair, Dracula's voice actor sounded like he was enjoying himself. :P

@game84cube

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly, that make can make some cheese sound good. Also he can belt out a death scream. Not to mention his Bible verse quote

Damn it Johnny! This is the second video we've done on the same weekend! xD Great job, brother. Loved it.

@You115Tuber

10 жыл бұрын

First like :)

@SomecallmeJohnny

10 жыл бұрын

My apologies good sir, :D Thanks dude.

@joeysilvia9252

10 жыл бұрын

....Am I the only one who hopes the both of you will do a collab review one day?

@codenamezq8027

10 жыл бұрын

***** Especially since they just reviewed the same game.

@joeysilvia9252

10 жыл бұрын

YES. I swear, if this does happen..I think my life will be complete.

"and thats how I easily defeted count dracula once and for all" "THATS BULLSHIT" XD

1:57 "NO! THIS CANNOT BE! AHHHRHHHH!!" 2:24 - Damn that's hot especially for someone who's 300+ years old. (Being a vampire can do that I guess) 8:53 - that's a lot of Castlevania Action in those hands. 10:53 - UPSIDE DOWN!! OH NO!! 18:14 (as Alucard) "But you probably won't listen to me, will you?" Love that.

10:38 "This chick's out for fucking blood!" *the screen clearly shows her attacks only doing 1 damage* ...Alright then.

@SomecallmeJohnny

10 жыл бұрын

In microliters.

@Goldenknight01

10 жыл бұрын

***** That's my very first castlevania game and I really like it a lot so spend $10 and play it.

@DefaultGray

10 жыл бұрын

***** I'm gonna bet Lewis.

@ultimatespideyhero

10 жыл бұрын

One step at a time ted. One step at a time.

@PrinceSolarLunarEclipse

10 жыл бұрын

Holy Mail Ted, Holy Mail. Makes Richter and Maria impotent.

Praise Shaft, is the video working for everyone now?

@balljoint5853

10 жыл бұрын

YEEEEESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@JohnthePhantom

10 жыл бұрын

so about that Ghost 'N Goblins... :D

@ZecaLauletta

10 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@gigginoxplayer

10 жыл бұрын

PSST ,Hey, Johnny, play monster hunter 3 ultimate after your console review. :D

@HoudiniJr

10 жыл бұрын

WE DRINK THE THE GHOST OF THE GHOST OF THE DARK PRIEST SHAFT!

Thank you Alucard. But the Prince is in another castle...

@kirashura_

8 жыл бұрын

+Vehrn321 that's gay

@titaniumtogakiss5421

8 жыл бұрын

+Elijah Ortiz okay...

@kirashura_

8 жыл бұрын

Connor Edwards I rather play sonic 06 then talk

@Vehrn321

8 жыл бұрын

Elijah Ortiz That's an insult.

@kirashura_

8 жыл бұрын

Vehrn321 I know..................I think

Fun Fact: SotN was built on a 3D engine, which is why the Saturn port was so underpowed

One thing about the credits song that Johnny kind of dismissed, it's actually done by Cynthia Harrell, You know... SNAAAAKE EEAATEEEEER!

Imagine a Symphony Of The Night remake with the asthetics of the Castlevania material featured in Smash Ultimate.

@gishigoshi

Жыл бұрын

Imagine you getting bitches

@ForrestFox626

Жыл бұрын

Please don't give me hope

Konami...how the might have fallen

@GreenNinjaTea

9 жыл бұрын

Monty2289 More like rocketing downward

@esmooth919

8 жыл бұрын

more like sank to the bottom of the Abyss like a rock tied to an anvil.

@yulikitten

8 жыл бұрын

+AlucardJ1977 Is that Arikdao in your profile picture? :)

@yulikitten

8 жыл бұрын

*****​ I gotta admit. I'm straight and I still think that Genya Arikado is sexy. No homo, though.

@vinnythewebsurfer

4 жыл бұрын

Can confirm. Still massive cocks

I really like Johnny's "Oh No!" part when the Inverted Castle appears. I don't really know why, but I find it funny.

@keebs5780

5 ай бұрын

Why

Aw come on, who doesn't love the original voicework from this game? "Your words are as empty as your soul!"

@OrtadragoonX

9 ай бұрын

What is a man?

@doktor-be3ku

6 ай бұрын

​@@OrtadragoonX A miserable little pile of secrets!

I just tested the video myself a few minutes ago and it was working just fine. If this keeps occurring, I'll begin the re-upload process.

@SomecallmeJohnny

10 жыл бұрын

***** But now it's not even loading for me. This Error shit is really aggravating at times.

@KurukatoLukitotakufu

10 жыл бұрын

Working so far, but we'll see I guess.

@KaiserOniZ

10 жыл бұрын

Spin around in your chair really fast and maybe it'll work then :P.

@DrIMPRATICAL

10 жыл бұрын

SomecallmeJohnny This happens to ReviewTechUSA about 90% of the time. You are not alone.

@ZecaLauletta

10 жыл бұрын

It says there's an error and doesn't specify which is it

"And That's how I defeated Dracula once and for All!"(THAT'S BULLSHIT in background)-SomecallmeJohnny 2014 LOL

@chloecheng8656

10 жыл бұрын

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@airzyre1972

10 жыл бұрын

Did u even watch the vid?

@chloecheng8656

10 жыл бұрын

trutrutrutrutrutrutrutrutrutru tru tru tru tru tru tru trutru tru tru tru tru tru tru tru tru tru tru tru tru tru tru tru tru tru tru tru tru trutru nope

@airzyre1972

10 жыл бұрын

:P Watch it

@KidSnivy69

9 жыл бұрын

Hilarious

Please review the GBA Castlevanias!

@MusikageKira

6 жыл бұрын

I've been waiting for 3 years Johnny. 3 years!

@bathtubbarracuda2581

6 жыл бұрын

IMO those are probably some of the weaker titles in the series (discounting the infamous LoS trilogy, of course).

@surprisedwoody1025

6 жыл бұрын

IMO, No. :P

@mdstevens0612

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Aria Of Sorrow is like my favourite game of all time! That one needs so much more love! Harmony Of Dissonance was also enjoyable, but Circle Of The Moon was the one I had the least fun with

@johnathonturner2279

5 жыл бұрын

Come on, Johnny! Give us more Castlevania reviews!

"That whip-dangly-thingy". Truer words were never spoken.

@keebs5780

5 ай бұрын

Actually there are a lot of more true things in the world so I don’t know what your problem is dude have you read an English before lol 😂you are funny 😂

I loved the ending theme: 'I am the wind." Made me cry the first time.

The mist transformation is actually super useful for traveling through the reverse clock tower and all those super annoying areas once you get the power of the mist and gas cloud particularly.

5:42 "The one you'll probably use the least is the mist transformation" Tell that to 7 year old me who thought this game was hell in the second castle and spammed mist whenever health was in the yellow just to get to a save room.

Love how this ended on the "hidden track" on the PSX version. I just bought Castlevania: Requiem on the Playstation store, and just finished the SOTN side.

My favorite game of all time. To me everything about it is perfect.

@keebs5780

5 ай бұрын

Wrong it’s not your favorite game

The “ONLY UPSIDE DOWN!” part scared me so badly

I"m playing symphony of the night right now and omg this game is awesome

@trixahon

2 жыл бұрын

how is it now

@dontpreorder2783

2 жыл бұрын

Idk but I’m gonna buy that mf’er and play it somehow

@brycecartwright2403

2 жыл бұрын

Sooooooo good, even now

@dontpreorder2783

Жыл бұрын

Welp, you finished it, twas pretty good

the inverted castle blew my mind when i first encountered it, but after about 15 minutes it lost its luster fast

Damn this game is gonna be 20 years old!

@keebs5780

5 ай бұрын

No

"In about 10 seconds flat" This is why I love you, and you're almost at 100, 000 subs, congrats dude!

fun fact Alucard is Dracula backwards

@thomasink5264

8 жыл бұрын

That means something

@HatsunThePidgeon1

8 жыл бұрын

+Wizard King ya don't say

@ethanciotti4324

8 жыл бұрын

+Wizard King thank you for pointing out the obvious, moron!

@chachawho435

7 жыл бұрын

Ethan Ciotti I did not know

@zeethezebra

7 жыл бұрын

Wizard King Wow, didn't know that. Awesome.

"But you probably won't listen to me anyway will you?" Damn good one johnny!

Great game. Beat it twice this week. This and rondo of blood are my two favorite castlevania games. Both in my top 10 favorite games of all time

I like the Saturn version the best, despite its graphical errors; only because of the content it adds. The creator is openly disappointed in it, but I can not blame him. He expected this version to be FAR superior to the PSX version, which it SHOULD have been; but the team did a half-assed job with it. They added content in a very good way, in that I enjoyed all of it. Especially Cursed Prison, as it helped me navigate a certain area I felt needed a crossover bridge, complete with my favorite organ piece in the game; and for some reason, has ACTUAL transparency effects that this version was "not capable of" well, newsflash, they only put effort into the new areas and new enemies for those effects. Truthfully, the Saturn is capable of transparencies, something that many consider a myth. The system can do "partial transparencies" from what I understand, but they are generally the same deal when programmed correctly; namely, on the Saturn exclusive enemies. The team also had the 4MB of RAM available to them at the time, but did not even consider using it; hinting they probably cared less about how high quality the port was. The RAM would have guaranteed a lot of things, specifically: - No load times of the sorts. - Possibly even more animations to this already beautifully animated game. - No slowdowns. - Even more rooms into this already humongous castle. - Transparencies. - Areas that are not stretched, but look like much higher quality versions of their original counterparts. - NO HORRID MESH EFFECTS. - Maria's animal attacks having their awesome transparency effects from the opening stage, instead of horrible outlines. I could list more, but the list would be big. The short version of it is that the Saturn was HIGHLY capable of giving this game a blessing in disguise. By this, I mean the Saturn has lots of gems already that nobody knows about, but the disguise part comes from the fact that many hate the Saturn (the disguise), but would have came across this gorgeous remake (the blessing) and fell in love. But again, with a half-assed team doing the task, our expectations were shot down. Despite all of these reasons that you would expect should make me HATE this version, I still love it. Because well it has all these negatives, it has lots of other good things about it. Including, but not limited to: - New additions of music. - Utilizing the Saturn's separate sound integration feature well with the higher quality music and sounds. - New levels that look MUCH better than the rest of the castle, only because they were made for the Saturn. - Maria. - Richter's new costume. - New enemies. - Some awesome new weapons. - The most comfortable 2D pad for 2D games that make spell casting a BREEZE. There are just as many good reasons to acquire this port than there are bad. It suffers a lot, but makes up for it in very miniscule ways that you simply can not dislike. I would probably recommend the original first, even only if it has the cooler graphical effects thanks to not being a shoddy port. But, once you play through that, get the Saturn version, choose Maria and SUMMON THAT BLUE DRAGON AND KICK SOME ASS.

@littlejoe145

8 жыл бұрын

+Medachod no

@Medachod

8 жыл бұрын

littlejoe145 don't care

@darkboy19O7

8 жыл бұрын

+Medachod You lady, get a cookie for being one of the few smart AND calm people on the internet

@Medachod

8 жыл бұрын

Mario&Luigi More specifcally, KZread :P the forums I post in are much calmer than any argument I have ever had on KZread.

@esmooth919

8 жыл бұрын

u want a good example of transparency, look no further than Sonic 3D Blast/Flickies Island

One of my all time favorite games I remember playing this back in 1999 when I was 10 ive played it countless times and still love it.

This video didn't surprise me at all John. I only had to record you gushing about it for hours in our BSC playthrough of it. I really probably should download it on the PS3 though, just so I can say I played it. Eh, I'll play some more Final Fantasy IX instead.

@SomecallmeJohnny

10 жыл бұрын

You...never...played it?

@Littlealex655321

10 жыл бұрын

Play it. Becuase i think johnnys review said enough.

@Goldenknight01

10 жыл бұрын

Play the game Ryan! Also, It's BSC is "your" main channel at this point since you didn't upload any videos on your own channel 2+ years ago?

@norsewolf98

10 жыл бұрын

SomecallmeJohnny Feel Betrayed John?

@projextlucian4476

10 жыл бұрын

SomecallmeJohnny i've played it and i find it a wonderful game, i still have it on my psp from the psn and it was well worth the money

18:14 That is the single greatest thing he's said in any of his videos to date XD

11:13 yeah right, I thought the upside down castle thing was genius.

Ah... My favorite 2D side-scrolling game. It blew my mind when I saw an article in a gaming magazine in 1998.

That was fantastic :) and i'm saying this as a long time SomeCallMeJohnny fan, that was one of your best vids in terms of pacing and writing. Just brilliant, you made me like Symphony of the night more than i already did, and its one of my favourite games of all time. And a console review is a friggin awesome idea

@keebs5780

5 ай бұрын

Why bro you don’t know a thing about The vania I am sure you probably can’t do it again lol buddy 😂

Maria is definitely my hard mode.

One of my favorites! I still have my original PS1 CD that I got for Xmas ‘97. I was really sick and spent a couple weeks in the hospital, but thankfully I had Symphony of the Night to help me get through. Some of my greatest video game memories are of this game. Thanks!

Looks like Castlevania is finally in Smash!!

SoTN has one of the best soundtracks of all time. I actually bought the damn cd from amazon. I still play that shit today.

@theemeraldbeast2506

7 жыл бұрын

Old ps1 games store their music in cd form so if you wanted to listen to the soundtrack you should just pop the actual game in a cd player

@juliusbelmont350

Жыл бұрын

@@theemeraldbeast2506 The actual game is WAY more expensive than the soundtrack cd, 20-30 bucks for the soundtrack, NEW and sealed!

@Dravianpn02

5 ай бұрын

​@@juliusbelmont350yeah but xbox and mobile symphony has differences that to me, make those playthroughs not as great as a ps1 run. The sounds are different in console versions than the original. That's a big thing for me.

I always admired how many enemie types there where in the castle nowadays they just recolor the same 5 enemies over and over again and each has its own castledex entry :D

Just played and finished this recently for the first time on PS4, absolutely loved it and I am hooked on the Metroidvania genre after playing this!

Apologies for being soo late to the party, but I loved this video. The Hidden Track at the end was an awesome kick in nostalgia. Just for this... I'm booting up my PSP and playing this again.... (for the 100th + time if not higher). Thank so much for sharing this with us. I'm now officially Subscribed. :)

"First Castlevania game I ever beat." -Somecallmejohhny Same here man in fact, I just beat it! Yay!

@DanielAyy

3 жыл бұрын

In fact, same here too!

@kid_dicey4429

3 жыл бұрын

Same here as well!!

@sirwolffang9065

3 жыл бұрын

Same man this game made love the castlevania franchise

@BlueflagAlpha

11 ай бұрын

Same

Try out Shadow Complex and Rush 'n Attack remake on the XBLA.

you've just been added to my all time favorites

Thank you for using the hidden music track, I'm glad someone else remembers it.

So, I played and beat Symphony of the Night, and I have to say that I personally didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. Personally, I liked Order of Ecclesia more (in terms of the Metroidvania formula), but I can see why everyone loves Symphony. Maybe because I played it on my PSP via Dracula X Chronicles had something to do with it. It's good, but admittedly very frustrating. My favorite game is Lament Of Innocence, because it's an origin story (which I always love), the atmosphere is great, and the music is amazing. I didn't grow up on the series, but I got into it because of these reviews. So, while I personally have gripes with Symphony, thank you Johnny for introducing me (and probably many others) to this great series of games!

Johnny, I just wanna say thanks for introducing me to Castlevannia series in whole. Got Symphony of the Night on my Vita. Love it and my favorite on is Super Castlevannia IV. Im a sucker for SNES games

Your reviews just keep getting better man! Keep up the fantastic work.

The voice at the end scared me a bit you definitely got me Johnny!

Adding funds to my PSN account and getting this bad boy on my Vita first thing tomorrow! It's gonna look great on that screen!

Hands down my favourite game on the PS1 and probably my favourite game in the series. :).

@creamcheese3679

8 жыл бұрын

+williamsvpro Yea, I definitely agree. It's like it came out of nowhere considering, retrospectively, the impact it has had. Too bad major game makers since then haven't incorporated the great aspects of this game all that much into new games.

Wow. I had no idea about most of those abilities, I have been having the roughest time trying to play this game! Thank you so much!

Man, the wait for this video was certainly worth it. There's so many other half-assed reviews of this game out there that nearly always miss a huge amount of details about it (and sometimes even bashing it for lazy-minded and biased reasons... pfft), but you took enough love and care to actually mention everything that needs to be mentioned about it and give proper praise to all the bits that deserve it (aside from the needed mention of all the weaker points of the game, every single one of which I completely agree on). Loved that nice touch at the end with Alucard's sound byte from the hidden track, lol. *Great* freakin' job, Johnny. Can't wait for your console review - that's an awesome idea!

Just finished the game for the first time... Man, absolutely masterful. I started out by playing all the preceding Castlevania games, and I can understand why this one was such a huge hit, apart from destroying everyone's expectations of what a "Castlevania" game could be. It was just a joy to play. And heck, even when it started to get a little easy due to all the leveling and equipment I'd acquired, it was still enjoyable because I went above and beyond to find that stuff, so I earned the satisfaction of obliterating everything in my path.

@keebs5780

5 ай бұрын

I think you’re lying bro you are definitely lying

@Dravianpn02

5 ай бұрын

​@@keebs5780what are you talking about?

@keebs5780

5 ай бұрын

@@Dravianpn02 he’s lying

@Dravianpn02

5 ай бұрын

@@keebs5780 about what?

@keebs5780

5 ай бұрын

@@Dravianpn02 he literally lied in the post dude he didn’t do that I don’t know why he would do this but it’s messed up

Been going back and playing the game boy advance games and really enjoying them! Would be sick if you eventually did like a portable CV marathon!! Hope the move went/going well!!

You did a great job at translating your enthusiasm for this game! I was already considering playing this but now I definately will, as soon as I finish up Portrait of Ruin.

Man what a great review. I remember getting this for my PS1 back in 1997. It came out Oct 31, 1997. Also got the original soundtrack as well. Truly one of the best Castlevanias of all time!!

Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow and its sequel, Dawn of Sorrow, are amazing Metroidvanias in their own right, and the successors to Symphony of the Night. Also, its not exactly the same, but Dust: An Elysian Tail has all the armors and the upgrades and the hootinanny

Thanks for this vid, Johnny. I didn't know Castlevania was that awesome... started playing it last week, reached the good and bad endings, and had a good time exploring the game. Really, thanks for your great review.

@OmegaTaishu

10 ай бұрын

Years later, still replaying it occasionally.

1:58 That's me getting up every Monday for school.

Just wanted to say i appreciate the finer detailed comparisons to all of the different titles and cut content between them seeing as the new requiem re-re-release is coming. Little late here, but love all the many but short, descriptive clips on everything you were pointing out n had to comment. Shows you weren’t lazy about it and deserves being pointed out. Nice. Subbed ;)

I love this game. One of my all time favorites.

One reason not to play the Saturn one first is because much of the important text is in Japanese. You may not figure out that you're required to purchase the jewel of open, you won't know to equip two specific rings at a certain part of the game, and you won't know to equip the spike breaking armor (or that said armor even breaks spikes) to get past the long hallway in the chapel. Speaking from experience, the Saturn one was the first version I played through back in the day, and each of those parts caused extreme frustration and I had to resort to a walkthrough (that's not to mention I thought Richter was a normal character, so I started playing the game as him first.. oops). I do recommend playing the Saturn one, but only after being familiarized with the game and what you are supposed to do. Unless you speak Japanese, resort to a walkthrough or manage to make it through the game via dumb luck, it will be kind of frustrating.

This was a game I went in nervous because I didn't know anything about the game. But upon playing it and overtime, quickly became my favourite game of all time. Now that's the special kind of games that can do that for me.

this is by far the best SoTN review ever i have ever seen. It covers everything i've known for SoTN for all these years. And I really like how you bring things up from the Sega Saturn version which i really liked.

An error occurred, please try again later...... *screams internally*

Thank you for this awesome review Johnny! Just finished the game for the first time and started my 2nd playthrough! Keep up the great work dude! Ohhhhh, still waiting for your dark souls marathon of reviews! Cheers from Greece!

@gozinta82

8 жыл бұрын

+mitsos_misfits If you keep the save from the first playthrough (not sure if you have to get the real ending or not), copy the save file, then load it and rename while in the game to "Richter", you can play as richter which is the hardest version.

Johnny: "You go play Symphony of the Night. But you probably won't listen to me anyway, will you?"

I had never played a castlevania game then I watched all of your castlevania videos so I decided to get Symphony of the Night. All I can say is wow how did I miss out on this game when I was a kid. Its fucking awesome thanks for showing me what an amazing series I almost missed out on

Can I just get a Castlevania Collection, Konami? Please? Follow Capcom's example. But don't split the collections.

@michaelrhett4958

5 жыл бұрын

ppedro2112 I actually got an ad for that before this video started.

@jrpludacrous

5 жыл бұрын

Looks like they're doing the Johnny method and putting Rondo of Blood alongside Symphony of the Night For little over $20, that's a good deal

@TheRockLobsterMafia

5 жыл бұрын

@ppedro2112 I agree, but the new voice acting has grown on me to be honest.

@SonicPlayerz45

5 жыл бұрын

@@michaelrhett4958 Me too.

@hollisdodd6853

5 жыл бұрын

Bro you are gonna shit your pants theres a Castlevania Anniversary Collection coming

True story: This game came out around my birthday and I didn't know a lot about it but it sounded like something I wanted to buy. I went to a Funcoland with my birthday money and they didn't have a copy of the game...but they tried to sell me Nightmare Creatures instead, telling me it was like that game and showing me a bit of game play. I declined that purchase and found a store that did sell it. Best decision made ever, money well spent, game still works and so does the PSone.

Wonderful review! I love this game, a classic.

I watched one of your videos, then I watched about another 20. You’ve got another subscriber bro. Keep up the good work. And yeah, I’ll try to play Symphony of the Night.

You're going to review the PS1 Console, that so awesome! Oh man I grew up with the PS1. Never grew up with the NES, SNES or Sega Genesis. REALLY looking forward to the review Johnny. :)

any fans of symphony should definitely try the DS and GBA games..especially the sorrow games (aria and dawn of sorrow). they feel almost like direct sequels to symphony..and Soma from the sorrow games is even more of a versatile character than alucard due to being able to equip abilities from every enemy in the game

@tgsachris

9 жыл бұрын

Itachi Uchiha A megaman of the castlevania games? Where do I sign?

@pichugirl6

9 жыл бұрын

Itachi Uchiha I love aria of sorrows, but unfortunately I wasn't a fan of Dawn of Sorrows for a few reasons. which i'm not gonna say cause spoilers to anyone who hasn't play the game. And it's almost sad given I never knew castlevania till my brother got Dawn of Sorrows. and after watching AVGN's review of the series.

@meganmartin3373

9 жыл бұрын

***** I can think of a few non-spoilery reasons why I don't like Dawn of Sorrow anywhere near as much as Aria. First, and I dunno if this is actually the case or just how I perceive it, but everything just feels so much SLOWER in Dawn. Soma moves and attacks more slowly. Enemies in general move and attack more slowly. When you defeat enemies, their souls fly at you more slowly. It's especially bad in the extra mode after you beat the game, since there's no way to move faster in that version. Second, getting everything is a lot more tedious in Dawn. Lots of souls are more powerful the more copies of them you have, so you have to kill those enemies a lot so you can get 9 of their souls. But souls are also used for upgrading weapons, so you have to kill even MORE enemies to get extra souls for weapon upgrades! And on top of moving and attacking feeling slower, there simply aren't any very efficient ways of killing certain monsters, which can make grinding for their souls even more of a pain. Especially if they have a low drop rate. In short, not only is there more grinding, but the grinding was also made more frustrating to do. Third is a more personal point, but I'm not a fan of a lot of Dawn's music. I liked some of it, like Condemned Tower, but stuff like Dracula's Tears, After Confession, and Underground Melodies kinda got on my nerves, which is a really big deal considering I love Castlevania soundtracks in general. Fourth, I'm really bad at drawing those seals that you need to draw or else the bosses revive with some of their health back when you kill them.

@pichugirl6

9 жыл бұрын

Megan Martin Drawing the seals aside. I didn't have much problem with that as much as people hate it. I can agree that we all wish that gimmick wasn't there. As for level grinding it's really a pain to try an get everything cause by the time your close to the last level you realize it's impossible to collect all the souls and upgrade every weapon to the max, which makes you have to play it again. I "sorta" didn't mind that some souls have a power level, but i can agree it's more painful to max every soul level especially if some enemies have a low soul percentage. I can think of 1-2 boss fights i'm not particularly fond of facing.

@robotsnake9374

9 жыл бұрын

Itachi Uchiha Yeah, I beat Aria, it's a great game, and I prefer it over SotN. Thanks Itachi!

when john does the voice over line at the end of the vid i always get the biggest grin

Good commentary. Thanks for the video.

Finally got to try this game for the first time today. It's... okay. So far. Haven't really found much yet in terms of weapons or whatever, but I'm getting there. Slowly. I just need some time to break the game in.

One of my favorite reviews from Johnny in a long time. I think it helps a lot that he doesn't spend 15 minutes talking about the story. Which I don't think is bad by itself. but sometimes that can drag his reviews quite a bit =p

nice ending creativity, liked your review of this classic!

John: When you hear for the 68th time- Me: darn, he was so close to the funny number!

Actually, my first Metroidvania for the Castlevania games was Aria of Sorrow! ^-^

I know one game that's structured like this that is neither Metroid nor Castlevania. And I think you do too. Dark Souls.

@VladNorris

10 жыл бұрын

Dark Souls is pretty crippling in the control scheme and it's at times unnecessarily hard.

@BlackMetalWorld

9 жыл бұрын

VladNorris what? Buuullshit, the controlls are fine and it's only hard because you make it hard.

@VladNorris

9 жыл бұрын

***** So having limited movility, along with insane damage ratios is certainly easy. Even if it's technically fair challenge it goes to the point it becomes discouraging. Inb4 I get a n elitist response saying I suck at the game

@BlackMetalWorld

9 жыл бұрын

VladNorris You suck at the game because you have no patience. You CAN be really agile,or you CAN be a sluggish tank, it all depends on your playstyle. First-timers should stick to tank, keep your shield infront and observe the opponents pattern, then attack, there are only 2 bosses that don't get beaten by this strategy.

@VladNorris

9 жыл бұрын

***** Exactly the shit I expected you to say.

I love how when he talks about breaking the game with the shield is has gameplay footage of himself trying to use a shield and getting hit anyway.

wow, you have just shown me a hell of a lot of the game i never knew about, ie the spells etc etc

It got me interested in Castlevania this year. I have no nostalgia for the game but consider me impressed, both PS1 AND PSP. Several play throughs, Normal and Luck (both with and without Death Glitch) and still very fun.

Those fairies are SO cute! and maria....... omygod maria.

Its been 9 years Johnny... But I finally listened to you

I have wanted you to do this game for so long Johnny thank you so much

I heard the creator of this game was inspired to make this game open ended and replayable because he saw how many copies of the NES games were in bargain bins and for so little money. Wish developers today would do that. they see their game in the bargain bin...3 months after release. they shrug and go talk DLC.

never played any Castlevania game, love Symphony of the Night to death XD thank you, Johnny :') I always love watching your reviews and LP's and one day want to start an LP channel of my own.

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Hey thank you for this review, I just learned a friend never heard of Castlevania and since SOTN is my favorite I was looking for reviews and yours was perfect for it.