A great Castlevania game but just too short.
You go around whipping, slashing, punching, and bashing 2-D enemies pretty much like the other Castlevania games. If you thought it was the old Castlevania on the the NES, you are wrong and right at the same time. This time you, Jonathan, an 18-year old who has been handed down the legendary vampire slayer first owned by the great Simon Belmont, will be accompanied by Charlette, a 16-year old master spellcaster. Even so, it the same game on the NES basicly. But that game was awsome, and as they say, don't fix it if it' not broken. As you progress and defeat over 150 types of enemies, including bosses from Dawn Of Sorrow, Ritcher Belmont, possessed daughters Stella and Loretta, and of course Dracula, you will come across paintings that serve as the meat of the game with a boss at the end, all exept for one called the nest of evil where there are a whopping 7 bosses. This does not include the two you fight but don't have to kill. In all there are 9 paintings. They don't take that long to beat though. That's the problem with the game. It's short. The large number of items, equipment, spells, etc you could collect makes it last longer, but that gets boring pretty soon. The game does have modes where you can play as Ritcher Belmont, The Sisters, and even Old Axe Armor (An enemy) . If you get a certain one of the two ending (the good ending), you unlock Boss Rush mode 2 and 3 (boss rush mode is when you try to defeat bosses in the least time possible), Sisters mode, Ritcher mode, and Sound mode. As you move on, you will unlock relics which allow you to do things like a giant flaming uppercut that when used in a row can make you "fly", jump off of yor partners shoulders, and a critical attack. Sound
The sound is awesome. There great sound effects and the music is a sensation. It's upbeat, but at the same time goes along with the whole what's at the bottom of the hall, mabye I shouldn't go there because there might be a monster that will kill me thing going on when you are low on health and to progress you need go down the hall. I'm talking about the adrenaline rush. Not much else to say here.
Graphics
Amazing. The monsters are so detailed and even have the own death animation. It's even fun to watch them die. Like once I killed a sand worm and it started spewing blood all over. :) The backrounds are extremely detailed. The coolest thing about the graphic is the in the intro cutscene it's in full 3-D and it's sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo smooth and cool. There nothing else to say now, but that the graphics are Soooooooo Awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Closing Comments
The game is short but before it ends it's fun, extremely fun. :)
Note: When I tried getting the word sound over one of the paragraphs, for some reason the word goes right after "attack." i'm not sure why but it just might be it updating the review. If it is i'm not going to take down this note because im lazy and am not going to keep on checking.