Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

If I’ve said it once, I have said it a thousand times; this is the greatest game ever. There is really nothing wrong with this game whatsoever. If you enjoy old school side scrolling, or you just want a really good adventure game to play on your 360. Look no further than Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, you won’t be disappointed at all!

Beautifully paced and with the sort of gothic visuals that would scare Marilyn Manson. [Issue 19, p.116]

One of the nicest things about the game is how aurally pleasing it is. The soundtrack is masterfully constructed and each distinct area has its own background music.

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is easily one of the greatest games of all time, this is a pretty solid version minus a few oddities and a piss-poor d-pad (if Konami brought the game, the least Microsoft could do is give us a decent pad for it now), and at the price of $10 it's a steal.

The game holds up better than the majority of games even half its age, and provides a rich gaming experience that will have 360 owners drooling in anticipation of the next great retro release on Arcade.

If you've been hankering for a good 2D Action RPG that lets you dash around as a half-vampire in a massive dungeon, maybe it's time you go back and check out the game that really started the modern Castlevania phenomenon.

As a 360 game, Symphony is weird. The Achievements are insanely easy and seem to have been chosen at random. None of them require any real thought to accomplish, either. Symphony is the easiest two hundred Achievement points you will ever earn.

Pour un jeu de 97,c'est une œuvre d'art. Je n avais jamais vu un aussi bon jeu

this game is so broken but thats not a knock against it still keeps the fun upside down lol

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

The way people glaze this game to this day astonishes me. IMO, it really does not hold up all that well. Combat and platforming both feel awful and unsatisfying, especially because it is such a giant PITA to actually be able to hit enemies that come at you at even a slightly weird angle, and boy oh boy does this game love flying enemies with weird or even completely unpredictable patterns. And every time they hit you, you get knocked back! Splendid! And whoever thought mapping the special weapon to up+attack was a good idea must have not had too many brain cells to rub together. JUST MAP IT TO A SINGLE BUTTON FFS, you have enough of those on even a PS1 controller to be able to do that. The graphics don't look all that appealing, the music is decent, I guess, and the UI is straight-up horrible. Like, unless you already know the game or have the manual, it will take you a decent amount of time just to figure out which UI element is supposed to symbolize your health. Hint: It's not the number next to the heart, nah, that would be way too logical! The story seems bare-bones to the point of almost being non-existent (I stopped playing after a few hours), getting around the map with Alucard's slow shuffle is no fun, and the layout of the castle will frequently have you wondering where tf you actually need to go in order to progress. For my money, if you want to play an old titan of the genre, go with Super Metroid, it's the far superior game (although it does share some of the same flaws to some degree, but e.g. the controls are not quite as clunky and the music, atmosphere, and world design are a thousand times better).

rubbish i purchased this and its shert not likeing this either i like this back in the olds but not anymore