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Drawing equal inspiration from its own predecessors and from landmark action RPGs like Zelda II and Metroid, Symphony worked as a love letter to a decade of Castlevania adventures, a rousing defense of 2D graphics and gameplay in the face of an industry-wide shift to 3D, and a rich new evolution of platform gaming in its own right.

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The most widely beloved entry of the Castlevania franchise by far, Symphony of the Night not only changed the direction of the series but also defined an entire genre of gaming. Symphony of the Night (PlayStation, 1997) A true high point for 8-bit gaming, DraculaвЂ™s Curse remains exceptionally playable nearly 30 years later.

The addition of partner characters opens up both new combat tactics as well as new ways to navigate the castle, giving an already expansive adventure (itвЂ™s roughly three times the size of the first Castlevania) enormous replay value.

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though pro players may elect to go it alone for extra challenge. Protagonist Trevor Belmont can travel one of several different paths to the end of the game, and he can team up with one of three different vampire hunters for help tackling Dracula. So is it really all that bad? And thatвЂ™s precisely what makes DraculaвЂ™s Curse so brilliant: ItвЂ™s a game about choice. and on top of that, one of the playable characters has a power that renders the entire chore trivial. Then again, that route is totally optional. This would be a perfect NES action game if it werenвЂ™t for a miserable late-game design choice along the underground path to DraculaвЂ™s castle (it involves the need to climb falling blocks, using deadly hazards as stepping stones). Castlevania III: DraculaвЂ™s Curse (NES, 1989) Unique and strange, itвЂ™s a fun finale to Koji IgarashiвЂ™s run as the seriesвЂ™ producer.Д¬astlevania III: DraculaвЂ™s Curse Konami 4. Every level turns sprawling metroidvania maps into a self-contained challenge to be beaten (with the help of friends) within a time limit. ItвЂ™s a visual mess, but the whole thing hums with a sort of manic energy that never gives you time to stop and contemplate the strangeness of the whole affair. Players can team up to make a mad dash through multiple remixed versions of DraculaвЂ™s home, controlling characters ranging from 8-bit Simon Belmont to Order of EcclesiaвЂ™s Shanoa, battling a wide range of monsters and super-bosses. Clearly designed as an attempt to create an online, cooperative Castlevania game with as small a budget as possible, it consists almost entirely of recycled material drawn from across the entire franchise, smashed together with little regard for consistency or cohesion. Harmony of Despair is a case of the latter. Sometimes, practical constraints can suffocate the life from a game but every once in a while, they work to its benefit. Harmony of Despair (PlayStation 3/Xbox 360, 2010) Simon appears as a huge, hulking protagonist whose whip spans nearly the entire screen once powered up to compensate, the action here moves far more slowly than in previous games and tends to be decidedly lower on difficulty.ДЄ killer soundtrack, a corny haunted house atmosphere and lots of interesting Super NES-specific effects make for a memorable journey, but the underlying gameplay suffers from the awkwardness of being, somehow, a dramatic reinvention of the Castlevania concept tied slavishly to existing mechanics. As an attempt to rework the 8-bit Castlevania concept for 16-bit hardware, Super Castlevania IV plays like no other chapter of the series. Super Castlevania IV recounted Simon BelmontвЂ™s journey through the original game in an expanded format that owes a great deal to Castlevania IIIвЂ™s expanded journey to DraculaвЂ™s castle. This, the purported inspiration for Lords of Shadow, was a reboot of its own in many respects.

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