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  • never dienever die Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    I’m so happy that Circle of the Moon is just as much fun as when I was 11. I’m much better at the game though, cause 11 year old me was a dumbass when it came to this game.

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  • Ashaman42Ashaman42 Registered User regular
    edited April 19
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    Mount Caburn playing peekaboo in the morning fog. That was a cold cycle to work.

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  • KoopahTroopahKoopahTroopah The koopas, the troopas. Philadelphia, PARegistered User regular
    edited April 19
    Picked up the collection on the Switch cause I had some gold coins for $5 off. And yeah, I'm noticing that Circle is much easier than I remember. The grind is the same though, spent 10-15 minutes farming a Slime for Venus so I could get +25% strength and +25% luck for when I need it. I like the card system but the drop rates are stupid bad.

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  • ZundeZunde Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    I was dead-set on it being like 39.99$ because Konami but 20$ is really good to me.

    But like i'm a dumb-ass who would pay 20$ for just Aria of sorrow alone.

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  • AbsoluteZeroAbsoluteZero The new film by Quentin Koopantino Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    If I hadn't literally just played through Aria I would be all over this.

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  • Shenl742Shenl742 Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Picked up the collection on the Switch cause I had some gold coins for $5 off. And yeah, I'm noticing that Circle is much easier than I remember. The grind is the same though, spent 10-15 minutes farming a Slime for Venus so I could get +25% strength and +25% luck for when I need it. I like the card system but the drop rates are stupid bad.

    Apparently...the rewind feature lets you reroll random drops...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wCF1lRj9vs

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  • KoopahTroopahKoopahTroopah The koopas, the troopas. Philadelphia, PARegistered User regular
    edited April 19
    Holy shit I might actually use rewind then lmao.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Shenl742 wrote: »
    Picked up the collection on the Switch cause I had some gold coins for $5 off. And yeah, I'm noticing that Circle is much easier than I remember. The grind is the same though, spent 10-15 minutes farming a Slime for Venus so I could get +25% strength and +25% luck for when I need it. I like the card system but the drop rates are stupid bad.

    Apparently...the rewind feature lets you reroll random drops...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wCF1lRj9vs

    That is a game changing feature, so long as you have the patience... dang.

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited April 19
    Patience nothing, that's a thousand times easier than running back and forth between rooms. This has pushed the game to an easy sell for me.

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Some autumn colours:

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    Patience nothing, that's a thousand times easier than running back and forth between rooms. This has pushed the game to an easy sell for me.

    It's DEFINITELY easier, but who knows how many times you'd have to rewind to get the result, is the thing. Rewinding 100 times in a row wouldn't be fun either.

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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    DS Collection when?

    I need Order of Ecclesia and Portrait of Ruin on modern console.

    Hopefully they won't take forever to do this... but they will.

    Do yearly quarters in the video game industry work at the start of the year? If so, the end of September is a good time to push out ports and give the quarter a little boost. Similarly, the DS ports would be used to boost the end of some future quarter, maybe a year from now before Halloween.

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  • rahkeesh2000rahkeesh2000 Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Hearing whispers that the Advance collection audio (or music at least) is better than the originals, or at least vs original hardware. Less crunchy.

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  • KoopahTroopahKoopahTroopah The koopas, the troopas. Philadelphia, PARegistered User regular
    edited April 19
    Hearing whispers that the Advance collection audio (or music at least) is better than the originals, or at least vs original hardware. Less crunchy.

    Yeah, there's a toggle setting too to turn off HD audio if you want the crunch.

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  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    I really want this but I just got Chasm so maybe this winter

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  • JazzJazz Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Crosspost from Switch thread:

    I picked up the Castlevania Advance Collection. And have now remembered how shit I am at Circle of the Moon. (Or it's just harder than I'm used to, but I was shit at it on the GBA too.)

    Also apparently I didn't know the European release of that one was just called Castlevania here. Also apparently Dracula X was called Castlevania: Vampire's Kiss too.

    I'm genuinely surprised how full-featured and nicely done this collection is, from Konami in particular who seem to have so little interest in video games these days - but then, they also nailed the PC Engine Mini, so I guess when they do something now they do it right.

    But this REALLY shows how nice GBA games on the Switch can be, and how fantastic a 2D Metroid compilation would be, at least Fusion and Zero Mission. Come on, Nintendo. You know it makes sense.

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  • rahkeesh2000rahkeesh2000 Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Jazz wrote: »
    I'm genuinely surprised how full-featured and nicely done this collection is, from Konami in particular who seem to have so little interest in video games these days - but then, they also nailed the PC Engine Mini, so I guess when they do something now they do it right..

    The key in both cases, as in many others, is M.2

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  • JazzJazz Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Jazz wrote: »
    I'm genuinely surprised how full-featured and nicely done this collection is, from Konami in particular who seem to have so little interest in video games these days - but then, they also nailed the PC Engine Mini, so I guess when they do something now they do it right..

    The key in both cases, as in many others, is M.2

    Yeah, they're a pretty good marker of quality.

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  • TelMarineTelMarine Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Out today is pretty sweet, $20 for four games is reasonable. Probably gonna get it soon but not right away.

    Holding out hope Limited Run or equivalent will announce something, but I'm not sure this collection is for me...I'm only really interested in Circle of the Moon since I've never played it. I already have the GBA release of the Castlevania Double Pack (which includes Harmony of Dissonance and Aria of Sorrow) and own 2 versions of the PC-Engine Dracula X.

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  • TelMarineTelMarine Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Geez, these collections really are somewhat necessary. I was checking pricecharting.com just to see what some of the GBA/DS cartridges cost, and they are off the charts. Just Castlevania Double Pack (which was $20 at release) and Order of Ecclesia complete in their boxes could net nearly $300 total. Yeesh. Make these games accessible!

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  • Jealous DevaJealous Deva Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    I’m sure if they bothered to do the advance collection the ds collection will probably come. The only real thing is what to do with touch screen mechanics (which IIRC is only even a bog issue with some alternate character modes).

    So am I the only person who thought Harmony of Dissonance was a better game in no magic mode?

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  • rahkeesh2000rahkeesh2000 Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    So am I the only person who thought Harmony of Dissonance was a better game in no magic mode?

    Only played through it once and my impression was it was lacking in many ways, so sure, maybe this helps.

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  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    What’s Iga up to these days? Is there going to be a Bloodstained 2?

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  • skeldareskeldare Gresham, ORRegistered User regular
    edited April 19
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    What’s Iga up to these days? Is there going to be a Bloodstained 2?

    https://www.ign.com/articles/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night-2-sequel

    There seems to be, at least as of May

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  • never dienever die Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Fuck off Dracula. Beat him finally in Circle of the Moon, which I never did as a kid. He has way too much health, and so his randomly flying around last form takes forever to kill. Used Cockatrice and Uranus to summon giant chickens to murder him.

    Booted up Harmony of Dissonance and...it feels real squished and like they over-corrected on the complaints on the screen being too dark in Circle of the Moon? Like everything is weirdly bright and blocky. Didn't like it.

    Booted up Aria of Sorrow. Never played this one, so I'm looking forward to biting into it. The style and look is really good. You can tell this was built years into the GBA's life.

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  • SyphonBlueSyphonBlue The studying beaver That beaver sure loves studying!Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    never die wrote: »
    Fuck off Dracula. Beat him finally in Circle of the Moon, which I never did as a kid. He has way too much health, and so his randomly flying around last form takes forever to kill. Used Cockatrice and Uranus to summon giant chickens to murder him.

    Booted up Harmony of Dissonance and...it feels real squished and like they over-corrected on the complaints on the screen being too dark in Circle of the Moon? Like everything is weirdly bright and blocky. Didn't like it.

    Booted up Aria of Sorrow. Never played this one, so I'm looking forward to biting into it. The style and look is really good. You can tell this was built years into the GBA's life.

    Well I mean...You gotta remember, it was originally made for the OG GBA, so they kinda had to overcorrect there. The problem is now you're playing it on a Switch (or whatever) which has, ya know....lights.

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  • rahkeesh2000rahkeesh2000 Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Is there not some kind of original-looking darker filter included?

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  • AbsoluteZeroAbsoluteZero The new film by Quentin Koopantino Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    I could never play HoD because the crazy blue highlight around the main character was super distracting. It was probably OK on the original GBA, but I was playing on the SP by the time I tried HoD and it looked horrible there too.

    Aria, however, is perfect.

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  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    In the HoD version in the collection, I sometimes had one or two question marks that were on the right edge of the screen, outside the border of the game window. Any idea what these are or how to access them?

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  • skeldareskeldare Gresham, ORRegistered User regular
    edited April 19
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    In the HoD version in the collection, I sometimes had one or two question marks that were on the right edge of the screen, outside the border of the game window. Any idea what these are or how to access them?

    I checked and I still don't know what it is but under the pause menu settings, it's Gadget Settings. All it says is "Displays obtainable collection items in the current area."

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  • never dienever die Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    SyphonBlue wrote: »
    never die wrote: »
    Fuck off Dracula. Beat him finally in Circle of the Moon, which I never did as a kid. He has way too much health, and so his randomly flying around last form takes forever to kill. Used Cockatrice and Uranus to summon giant chickens to murder him.

    Booted up Harmony of Dissonance and...it feels real squished and like they over-corrected on the complaints on the screen being too dark in Circle of the Moon? Like everything is weirdly bright and blocky. Didn't like it.

    Booted up Aria of Sorrow. Never played this one, so I'm looking forward to biting into it. The style and look is really good. You can tell this was built years into the GBA's life.

    Well I mean...You gotta remember, it was originally made for the OG GBA, so they kinda had to overcorrect there. The problem is now you're playing it on a Switch (or whatever) which has, ya know....lights.

    So I 100% believe it was an issue, but I played Circle of the Moon on an OG GBA back in the day and never had an issue.

    Aria seems to have found the happy medium.

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 19
    Circle of the Moon released in March 2001 and Harmony of Dissonance in June 2002. Aria of Sorrow released in May 2003 and cleaned a lot of things up. Metroid Fusion came out in November 2002 and it's way better put together than most of the Castlevania games.

    Holy shit did Konami crank out these games like they were COD or Madden. They took three years off for the DS games and it really show. All three DS games were fantastically made and a collection of them would be incredible.

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Here's the original file -- if you still want to do something with it in the sober light of day, feel free.

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  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Jazz wrote: »
    Also apparently I didn't know the European release of that one was just called Castlevania here.
    I think Konami had a habit of naming the first Castlevania game on any system just Castlevania, at least in the UK.
    First N64 game? Castlevania.
    First GBA game? Castlevania.
    First PS2 game? Castlevania.

    You know, just to make sure it's real easy to talk about them.

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  • HedgethornHedgethorn Associate Professor of Historical Hobby Horses In the Lions' DenRegistered User regular
    edited April 19
    skeldare wrote: »
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    In the HoD version in the collection, I sometimes had one or two question marks that were on the right edge of the screen, outside the border of the game window. Any idea what these are or how to access them?

    I checked and I still don't know what it is but under the pause menu settings, it's Gadget Settings. All it says is "Displays obtainable collection items in the current area."

    Yeah, it's displaying special collectables in the area: I think relics, spellbooks, and furniture (less certain about that last one). The question marks turn to icons when you've obtained the item in question.

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  • HedgethornHedgethorn Associate Professor of Historical Hobby Horses In the Lions' DenRegistered User regular
    edited April 19
    never die wrote: »
    Fuck off Dracula. Beat him finally in Circle of the Moon, which I never did as a kid. He has way too much health, and so his randomly flying around last form takes forever to kill. Used Cockatrice and Uranus to summon giant chickens to murder him.

    Booted up Harmony of Dissonance and...it feels real squished and like they over-corrected on the complaints on the screen being too dark in Circle of the Moon? Like everything is weirdly bright and blocky. Didn't like it.

    Booted up Aria of Sorrow. Never played this one, so I'm looking forward to biting into it. The style and look is really good. You can tell this was built years into the GBA's life.

    Yeah, I beat that final fight in Circle of the Moon myself a few days ago. I have no idea how you're supposed to reliably get hits on Dracula's final form without Uranus summons, and I have no idea how anyone would ever find Uranus without a guide telling you to go back and farm the first boss room.

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  • Jealous DevaJealous Deva Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    So am I the only person who thought Harmony of Dissonance was a better game in no magic mode?

    Only played through it once and my impression was it was lacking in many ways, so sure, maybe this helps.

    Well in the base game bosses just flat out die to magic like it is nothing and it trivializes things a lot, playing as joe average Belmont rather than Juste the Wizard makes a lot of the fighta a lot more interesting.

    My main problem with the game was there was one spot where you could miss something and have to spend 20 minutes backtracking later on to get it (it was before you unlocked multiple ways to go between castles) which was annoying as hell.

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  • DisruptedCapitalistDisruptedCapitalist I swear! Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    Man, I might be really fucking high, but I would pay some money to get that third one as like a wall fixture.

    A 1000 piece puzzle would be pretty fun.

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