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Title: What do you love most about Harmony o Despair?
Post by: crisis on October 15, 2011, 01:10:31 AM
I love how it's the first true multiplayer Castlevania game that bridges the gap between fans that was only limited with the DS titles. I Also love how it has new artwork for each character (except Simon for no reason)

I also love how you can zoom in & out to see what's going on in the entire level. However it may be useful or useless depending on the player. The dot size might be too small for some people when zoomed out, depending on your TV so it's really hit or miss. Personally I don't mind playing it with it zoomed, it offers a new perspective that hasn't been experienced before, but it really depends on how you want to play.
Title: Re: What do you love most about Harmony o Despair?
Post by: Super Waffle on October 15, 2011, 02:42:45 AM
Charlotte.
Title: Re: What do you love most about Harmony o Despair?
Post by: Dark Nemesis on October 15, 2011, 03:39:12 AM
I like that it gives you the ability to play with almost every character that appeared in the series, allowing you to equip them with armors and other stuffs!!!
Title: Re: What do you love most about Harmony o Despair?
Post by: Chernabogue on October 15, 2011, 03:43:15 AM
Music.
Title: Re: What do you love most about Harmony o Despair?
Post by: KaZudra on October 15, 2011, 05:07:58 AM
making Friends via Random players.

Over Half of my XBLA friends ended up being Castlevania mates, the CV:HD was the best community for an XBLive title.

I expect the same on PSN when of course, when I get my PS3 (eventually)
Title: Re: What do you love most about Harmony o Despair?
Post by: cecil-kain on October 15, 2011, 06:12:23 AM
Love is a bit of a stretch --there's just so much to complain about...  Every time I look at Super Mario Bros Wii, I think about what this game could have been...  At least the remixes kick ass.
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Post by: Reinhart77 on October 15, 2011, 06:56:09 AM
i enjoy the familiarity of the action with the new pick-up-and-play format. 
Title: Re: What do you love most about Harmony o Despair?
Post by: shelverton. on October 15, 2011, 09:02:12 AM
I love how Harmony of Despair made me lose all interest in the Castlevania series, which has made me discover other games instead, great ones. Might as well rename this forum "General HoDespair Discussion". There are so many threads about this effin' game. I realize people REALLY like the game, and I am the one who don't belong here anymore :(
Title: Re: What do you love most about Harmony o Despair?
Post by: uzo on October 15, 2011, 09:30:54 AM
The inclusion of the hunter skills being a button and a direction combination is really nice. Too bad the rest of the game sucks horribly.
Title: Re: What do you love most about Harmony o Despair?
Post by: knightmere on October 15, 2011, 09:36:02 AM
I like being able to fight through different Senarios throughout the series with the hero of my choosing.  And most of the boss fights are really fun.  The gameplay is a good fusion of the retro games and DS ones. 
Title: Re: What do you love most about Harmony o Despair?
Post by: DarkPrinceAlucard on October 15, 2011, 11:01:55 AM
Definitely the online multiplayer aspect of the game.

It just had so much potential to it.

I have always wanted to play Castlevania with friends and other people and this game finally let me do that.

I just wish they would have not recycled as much and actually made a few new unique maps for the game.

And I also wish they would not have made Soma and Shanoa so broken and overpowered.
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Post by: JR on October 15, 2011, 11:06:06 AM
I think my favorite things were the Origins and Fuma stages. I thought it was a really nice bonus to see both of those as DLC, especially since it all kicked off with that awful (and overpriced) pyramid stage.
Title: Re: What do you love most about Harmony o Despair?
Post by: Flame on October 15, 2011, 11:57:58 AM
The art is it's ONLY saving grace. There is nothing else about it that is too remarkable. Even the music is not the best. its all rock, all the time.
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Post by: Munchy on October 15, 2011, 04:07:35 PM
The hilariously bizarre voice clips. Who in the hell says "You take this!" in real life? And why does Shanoa sound like she's plugging her nose when she says "Lightning"?

Also thoroughly enjoyed the shout-out to Getsu Fuuma Den. Now if they'd only make a new game...
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Post by: Kusanagi on October 16, 2011, 12:58:09 AM
Hmm for the most part it would be playing with friends online and offline that's the best aspect for me. I find the bosses also challenging and fun to fight as well, and having all the characters from the different eras just adds on to how much Im enjoying the game.

May not be every person's cup of tea, but for those that it suits the taste its an ever growing awesome experience xD
Title: Re: What do you love most about Harmony o Despair?
Post by: Flame on October 16, 2011, 01:21:27 AM
Thing is, you can easily make a game like that and still be much better. Judgement for its downfalls, at least does the premise alright. a Time traveler from the future brings different heroes  from different eras (as well as the antagonist duo of Death and Dracula) to fight this time monster. There. Instead we have this sorry excuse for an excuse "oh its this book and theres castle dracula in it and the recorded heroes are gonna take the castle down from inside the book and stuff. There is no actual story here." At least Judgement even had interactins between the characters in the pre fight banter, such as Simon recognizing Trevor as his ancestor.
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Post by: Abnormal Freak on October 16, 2011, 01:27:54 AM
I like the different zoom options, that you can see the game pixel-per-pixel, zoomed in, or have the map fill the entire screen.

Other than that, I fucking hate that game with every ounce of my being.
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Post by: Vrakanox on October 16, 2011, 07:56:22 AM
I like that I can play as Alucard in HD. I don't like when people get mad at me because I can't jump kick off of skull heads in chapter 9.
Title: Re: What do you love most about Harmony o Despair?
Post by: DarkPrinceAlucard on October 16, 2011, 08:48:55 AM
I don't like when people get mad at me because I can't jump kick off of skull heads in chapter 9.

There really is a easy way of doing this and its not really your fault if it goes wrong.

The person who throws the skull should throw a second one AFTER you have jumped off the initial one.

If he doesn't than that makes it pretty hard to do so.

I had the same problem when someone kept throwing a single skull at a time.

But when I played with someone else who knew what they where doing and threw a second skull that I could kick off of than that made it ALOT easier and faster.
Title: Re: What do you love most about Harmony o Despair?
Post by: Odile Kuronuma on October 16, 2011, 01:17:09 PM
Hmm let me see.
...The recycled sprites  ;D

Title: Re: What do you love most about Harmony o Despair?
Post by: KaZudra on October 16, 2011, 02:18:30 PM
Thing is, you can easily make a game like that and still be much better. Judgement for its downfalls, at least does the premise alright. a Time traveler from the future brings different heroes  from different eras (as well as the antagonist duo of Death and Dracula) to fight this time monster. There. Instead we have this sorry excuse for an excuse "oh its this book and theres castle dracula in it and the recorded heroes are gonna take the castle down from inside the book and stuff. There is no actual story here." At least Judgement even had interactins between the characters in the pre fight banter, such as Simon recognizing Trevor as his ancestor.

on the contrary, if they did add a story it would have been stupid.
you just gotta learn than MOST ganes don't need story, just have fun.

Title: Re: What do you love most about Harmony o Despair?
Post by: Opium on October 16, 2011, 03:51:41 PM
I've started to not play this game as much.  I'm getting too frustrated at the amount of time I have put into trying to get good items to no avail.  I think I have beaten level 6 on hard mode about 50 times by now, and I still get crap from the golden chests.  When I say crap, I mean crap - like super potions or even items that come in purple chests.  The best I can do as far as luck items go is double sun/moonstones, and I'm not even sure if that helps since the role of luck is fiercely debated online.  Some say it does nothing, some say having higher luck is actually hurtful when trying to get good boss drops and that the only positive effect it has is for soma souls.  If I could just get my hands on something like valmanway then I think I would start liking the game more, but for now I'm sick of being the only guy on the team who doesn't have any great items and I'm getting bored and frustrated.
Title: Re: What do you love most about Harmony o Despair?
Post by: DarkPrinceAlucard on October 16, 2011, 04:55:52 PM
I'm getting too frustrated at the amount of time I have put into trying to get good items to no avail.

I know what you mean.

It took me 20 tries with friends beating Level 11 on hard before I could finally get the Muramasa+1 sword.

And now I have currently been trying to get the Sonic boots Beezlebub and I have beaten the level atleast 15 times now and STILL have not gotten anything.

But thats nothing.

For the past week or so I have been playing online with people on stage 10 trying to get the valmanway sword.

But even after beating the level atleast 30 times now I still have not gotten ANYTHING.

I understand making a item hard to get but this is just ridiculous lol.
Title: Re: What do you love most about Harmony o Despair?
Post by: KaZudra on October 16, 2011, 06:05:28 PM
I know what you mean.

It took me 20 tries with friends beating Level 11 on hard before I could finally get the Muramasa+1 sword.

And now I have currently been trying to get the Sonic boots Beezlebub and I have beaten the level atleast 15 times now and STILL have not gotten anything.

But thats nothing.

For the past week or so I have been playing online with people on stage 10 trying to get the valmanway sword.

But even after beating the level atleast 30 times now I still have not gotten ANYTHING.

I understand making a item hard to get but this is just ridiculous lol.

that's nothing, it took me roughly 200 times to get Sonic boots
Title: Re: What do you love most about Harmony o Despair?
Post by: GuyStarwind on October 17, 2011, 02:41:12 AM
I love Omnia Vanitas. I think it's so cool and I wish I could do it in real life.  :'(
Title: Re: What do you love most about Harmony o Despair?
Post by: RegalX7 on October 17, 2011, 02:49:00 AM
That it revitalized my interest in Castlevania, after Lords of Shadow took it away. Still, a lot of stuff in Harmony of Despair really pisses the hell out of me.
Title: Re: What do you love most about Harmony o Despair?
Post by: Flame on October 17, 2011, 07:50:33 AM
on the contrary, if they did add a story it would have been stupid.
you just gotta learn than MOST ganes don't need story, just have fun.
Judgement's was pretty ok.

HD barely has a setting. just an "excuse" for having the all them characters together and for all the other stuff it does. a story for it would have benefited it, no matter how simple.
 Would have made it seem a bit less like a cheap cash in and look like they actually put some effort into it.
Title: Re: What do you love most about Harmony o Despair?
Post by: Kusanagi on October 17, 2011, 06:57:23 PM
Thing is, you can easily make a game like that and still be much better. Judgement for its downfalls, at least does the premise alright. a Time traveler from the future brings different heroes  from different eras (as well as the antagonist duo of Death and Dracula) to fight this time monster. There. Instead we have this sorry excuse for an excuse "oh its this book and theres castle dracula in it and the recorded heroes are gonna take the castle down from inside the book and stuff. There is no actual story here." At least Judgement even had interactins between the characters in the pre fight banter, such as Simon recognizing Trevor as his ancestor.
It was a point made by a number of fans that the game lacked any decent amount of storyline (especially after DS releases). I agree that the game could be made just like Harmony of Despair but with an actual storyline (Though I'd opt for more characters and stages over working on a storyline).

If they ever do make a sequel, I want to see stuff like the characters from the 3d games being made into 2d sprites . Particularly Aeon from Judgement, since he's a decent character and can assemble all of the heroes of the different eras and probably would have reason to do so. That and interactions between the characters would be just as awesome in a sort of story mode of the game. Since majority of Harmony of Despair has been just copy and paste, having some elements that are made from scratch would help Harmony of despair as a whole.

I actually was working on a made up pitch for a sequel for Harmony of Despair with stuff like that (just for fun), but haven't had time to work on it as of late. Wouldn't know if anyone would want to read it either (Im a lengthy typer as you can see xD).
Title: Re: What do you love most about Harmony o Despair?
Post by: Jago on October 23, 2011, 01:32:01 AM
The game is really addicting

Lots of characters to choose from, and they each have their own playstyle and upgrades

Music is cool too

Being able to pick from 8 or so different color palletes for your character

The challenge...the experience of playing with other friends and teamwork is great.

Figuring out new strategies by trying out different moves and equipment

The only nitpick I have with the game is I know 8-bit is cool and all...but I wish they would have used the 16-bit, CV4 Simon.
Title: Re: What do you love most about Harmony o Despair?
Post by: scarhcqc on October 23, 2011, 01:36:01 PM
that's nothing, it took me roughly 200 times to get Sonic boots
Ha Ha Me Only 16 Time's But 436 Time's On Fuma Stage As Fuma&Richter And No Fuma Gear :'(