When I went to pick up DoS, all they had was Portrait of Ruin. Which isnt as good. I went back on the day they got their shipment in and they had like 5 copies. Just do that. raven_squad
I disagree for several reasons.
I do believe that if you only play through the story portion of either one once, DoS is a better game.
However, if your looking for content, no castlevania, or frankly any game on a handheld including Advance Wars, can give you the sheer amount of content available in PoR.
The levels are far worse, for the purpose that most of the development time wasn't spent on level design, but instead, creating the vast number of unlockable things, the item system, the WiFi system, the vastly superior boss rush modes, the play through as a side character mode(which is absolutely magnificant) and the vast number of awesome available gameplay mechanics involved with having 2 characters on the screen. Not to mention the addition of moves that were glaringly omitted from DoS, like the repeatable celing thrust punch, and the ability to wield a whip....and what whips you wield, oh yes, no other Castlevania has ever had such an amazing variety of whips that have been so fun to use, culmenating in the victory over Trevor's ghost to obtain the Vampire Killer, which is an AWESOME moment in gaming history. Even the subtle character animations are astounding.
Dawn of Sorrow might be the best traditional castlevania next to SotN, but PoR, to most hardcore Castlevania fanboys(check the gamefaqs forums) is THE castlevania of the 21st century. It's the first game to update the series in serious and amazing ways. People have put well over A THOUSAND HOURS into PoR and still not maxxed out their characters to their liking, or completed all the challenges the game has in store.
Just listening to most casual DS reviews, however, you wouldn't really know that, and just playing through the game once, you might assume DoS was the better game. The 7 hours you streach DoS to last, might be better than the first 7 hours of PoR, but the last 993 hours of PoR is where it really shines, lol.
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