First Post: Let's talk Castlevania.
Feb. 4th, 2005 10:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ghostdriveFinally managed to beat Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow last night (well,
actually it was early this morning around 2 a.m. Damn insomnia).
Despite having been sitting on my shelf for about a year since I bought
it, I managed to complete the whole game in 2 weeks. I have a bad habit
of buying games and then just forgeting to get around to playing them.
Final Fantasy games especially suck me in and distract me from the
other games I have. Quite a fun game, despite some cheesy dialogue.
The main character, Soma Cruz, has now become one of my favorite Castlevania characters, but even his pretty boy looks can not beat those of the ever elegant Alucard (who is also in Aria of Sorrow going by the name Genya Arikaado.) Alucard is the ultimate pretty boy of the Castlevania games, at least in my opinion.
Aria of Sorrow has 2 endings: a regular ending and a true ending. You can only obtain the true ending by finding 3 certain souls (the Flame Demon, Succubus, and Giant Bat), having the 3 ancient books, and then defeating Graham, who has gained the power of Dracula. To me Graham was fairly easy to beat, but then again I was at level 64 when I faced him. After beating him, Soma in turn gains the powers of Dracula, and since he doesn't want to have Dracula's power you must find a way to return him to normal. Man, Soma turns into some creepy looking person when he gains his powers, I was more than happy to defeat the final boss in order to look at his pretty face again.
All in all the ending was fairly average, though when Mina, Soma's childhood friend asks him if being in the castle has changed him, Soma replies, "Yeah it's changed me. I'm a lot cooler now." UGH..... bad dialogue kills me.
I'm happy I managed to find a good majority of the souls in the game (about 85% of them). Still curious whether Mana (formerly of Malice Mizer) did the soundtrack to this game or not. Don't remember where I heard this rumor from though.
The main character, Soma Cruz, has now become one of my favorite Castlevania characters, but even his pretty boy looks can not beat those of the ever elegant Alucard (who is also in Aria of Sorrow going by the name Genya Arikaado.) Alucard is the ultimate pretty boy of the Castlevania games, at least in my opinion.
Aria of Sorrow has 2 endings: a regular ending and a true ending. You can only obtain the true ending by finding 3 certain souls (the Flame Demon, Succubus, and Giant Bat), having the 3 ancient books, and then defeating Graham, who has gained the power of Dracula. To me Graham was fairly easy to beat, but then again I was at level 64 when I faced him. After beating him, Soma in turn gains the powers of Dracula, and since he doesn't want to have Dracula's power you must find a way to return him to normal. Man, Soma turns into some creepy looking person when he gains his powers, I was more than happy to defeat the final boss in order to look at his pretty face again.
All in all the ending was fairly average, though when Mina, Soma's childhood friend asks him if being in the castle has changed him, Soma replies, "Yeah it's changed me. I'm a lot cooler now." UGH..... bad dialogue kills me.
I'm happy I managed to find a good majority of the souls in the game (about 85% of them). Still curious whether Mana (formerly of Malice Mizer) did the soundtrack to this game or not. Don't remember where I heard this rumor from though.
