Re: first Castlevania DS screens

"menu boy" <ilmobixSPAMIT@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> If you like playing the same old thing over and over that's fine...for
you.
> I can't sit around mindlessly doing the same thing constantly.
Castlevania
> hasn't changed much since the first one except for graphics.


That's not true.  Symphony of the Night was a major departure from the
established Castlevania formula up to that point.  It was the first to
have
leveling up, stats (other than a health bar), and of course, the main
character was not a whip-toting Belmont.  It changed out the old map type
for a Metroid-style map--huge, with a lot of vertical height and secrets,
and free-roaming.
And it was so damn cool and refre****ng that they've based all the recent
Castlevania games off of it, though none have matched it.  If you want to
argue that it's been long enough since Symphony of the Night and they need
to freshen up again, that'd be a valid argument.  But saying Castlevania's
been the same since #1 is simply not true.  There have been a lot of
changes.