Topic: Yahtzee Reviews Symphony of the Night

[Ridureyu]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/3188-Castlevania-Symphony-of-the-Night

And surprisingly, it's one of his more positive reviews!  He took issue with the obtuse method of reaching Inverted Castle (i kind of liked that, though. It wasn't too obvious, but it wasn't too obtuse), and the borked difficulty curve (Well yeah, he's right about that one), but otherwise he likes the game!

[Odile Kuronuma]

His reviews are hilarious. He also did a review for LOS. He doesn't like it

[darkwzrd4]

His reviews are hilarious. He also did a review for LOS. He doesn't like it

Yeah, it was hilarious considering that most of us would consider what he is saying about SotN to be heresy.  Then again, it does have its flaws.  Considering that it was the first game like that in the series, it was really well done.  The problem is that its successors were for the most part clones with a slightly new combat system.  They didn't really have the "wow, this is a great and new game."  What they had was a "it's a clone of SotN.  Still good though" impression.  Well, at least that's how it was for me.

On another note, does anyone have a link to this guy's review of LoS?  I would love to see it.

[Kale]

Odile, where is your avatar from? looks pretty awesome.

Anyway, he's pretty spot on for most of it. But he's wrong with alucard's reaction to attacks. He has more than some other games for sure.

Also love the mention of Mortal Kombat... I hope he dcan get his hands on it, cuz I would love a review of it. As it's AWESOME!

[beingthehero]

On another note, does anyone have a link to this guy's review of LoS?  I would love to see it.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/2251-Castlevania-Lords-of-Shadow

[Harrycombs]

That was pretty good review. He was pretty fair to it.

[Munchy]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/2251-Castlevania-Lords-of-Shadow

Agree wholeheartedly with this review. Except for the free-roaming bit (and with all REs sucking before 4); wasn't always part of the series, but I think LoS would've benefited much from that structure.

His SotN review is great too. I love the little pictures, especially with Simon behind the wheel of a wrecking ball. And the poster "Every time you palette swap a child DIES." LOL

[jestercolony]

Regards to LoS -

I enjoy the fact people give games crappy reviews but don't really understand the game actually does split itself off from GoW or SoTC... The factor is the combat system is so detailed, half of the crap that goes on really isn't even explained in game.

Castlevania was never a "free" roaming game (unless you count HC/SQ) until the later titles (SoTN...etc.) Secondly, why even bring up RE? This guy needs to go back to journalism school and needs to stop playing games on the snore easy setting and actually sit down and play the game in full detail instead of attempting to rush it like every other snot-nosed video game journalist who do reviews, that are out there.

Ironic part is people sometimes complain that LoS is a love story... Okay? And? Look at some of the other titles in the series. The game (when a storyline was given) was based around "loss" of something. Either it be the love of your life or your soul, it happens.

le sigh...

[Sindra]

(and with all REs sucking before 4)

You watch your mouth, boy.

[Munchy]

You watch your mouth, boy.

Hey, those were Yahtzee's words, not mine. Don't shoot the messenger.

There's a little bit where he brings up RE4 and there's a picture of REs 1-3 in a trash can. I forgave it mostly because the review was hilarious and he made some really good points outside of that one.

[Ridureyu]

The thing is, even when I disagree with one of Yahtzee's reviews (and I do from time to time), he's pretty well-informed about them.   A lot of his caustic, acerbic comments are because it's good show business to be kind of a jerk. 

It's kind of the same with political pundits on the air - they get more viewers and more money if they're rude and nasty, even though most of 'em are nicer people in real life.  And I'm talking about pundits on both sides, pelase don't derail this into complaining about specific ones:-P

[Munchy]

The thing is, even when I disagree with one of Yahtzee's reviews (and I do from time to time), he's pretty well-informed about them.   A lot of his caustic, acerbic comments are because it's good show business to be kind of a jerk.

Exactly. He's like the AVGN; to enjoy it you have to take in the fact that it's his shtick.

Also, to respond to jestercolony on the story front, my problem with LoS wasn't that it had story, or even a love story. It was that this particular story was, well, formulaic and kinda corny. This isn't to say that this isn't a standard for Castlevania, but the buildup of expectations made the problem far worse than it could have been. For all the emphasis they put on the plot being heavily emotional and how much they hid it from the public view, when boiled down it's not much different from Curse of Darkness. Or Lament of Innocence. The main difference was the higher paid voice actors, better sense of foreshadowing and the concept of doubling, which I thought was actually pretty cool and reminded me of Spirited Away. But otherwise the execution isn't much better than IGA's plots.

[Ridureyu]

When I lived in California, I knew a radio personality who-shall-remain-unnamed.  His show was kinda big in the area, had some exposure nationwide, but wasn't SUPER-HUGE. On the air, he was a loud, obnoxious, sarcastic, crude jerkass.  In person?  Complete teddy bear who was always afraid of accidentally hurting people.  Really nice to people he would have yelled at on the radio.  Generous and polite to a fault, and pretty much the opposite of his on-air personality.  When asked why?

"Well, that's what it takes to keep the show going."

[Munchy]

OMG.... his review of DMC4... I'm dying here...

[Odile Kuronuma]

Odile, where is your avatar from? looks pretty awesome.

Anyway, he's pretty spot on for most of it. But he's wrong with alucard's reaction to attacks. He has more than some other games for sure.

Also love the mention of Mortal Kombat... I hope he dcan get his hands on it, cuz I would love a review of it. As it's AWESOME!

Yeah it's pretty awesome . Found it on Danbooru while looking for Castlevania fanart.
http://danbooru.donmai.us/data/cf7f4ab058f8be84d393ed5f67931983.jpg
I found some pretty nice CV pics, but I'm too lazy to start a new topic