Topic: Missed out on SOTN. What's the best Metroidvania that can substitute?

[The Zeldaniac]

So I missed out on SOTN, what's the best metroidvania that can substitute it for me? I've played a little bit of each of the GBA ones, but I really only care for AoS. Is there any better metroidvania I could play to get the closest experience of SOTN?

[e105beta]

So I missed out on SOTN, what's the best metroidvania that can substitute it for me? I've played a little bit of each of the GBA ones, but I really only care for AoS. Is there any better metroidvania I could play to get the closest experience of SOTN?

"Missed out"?

Do you have a PSP, a PS3, or an Xbox 360? If so, the game has been released on each of those consoles.

If you don't, your best bet is going to be AoS or DoS.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

uh, why not just play symphony of the night?

That game is so easy to find nowadys, its on Xbox 360,PS3, can be played on the PS2 and PSP (through Dracula X Chronicles).

Not to mention emulators.


But the closest games as far content (such as weapons and enemies) and abilities wise that are the closest to SOTN are obviously Castlevania Dawn of Sorror and Castlevania aria of sorrow.

Other games have the metroidvania formula but these 2 resemble SOTN more than others.


EDIT

E105 beat me to it lol.

[Flame]

Just play SotN man, how do you "miss out" on a widely available game and need a substitute?

it's on PS1, PS3, Xbox 360, PSP, and you can emulate it on PC for free.

[Inccubus]

Pretty much your choices are:

Circle of the Moon
Harmony of Dissonance
Aria of Sorrow
Dawn of Sorrow
Portrait of Ruin
Order of Ecclesia

My personal favorites are AoS, PoR, and OoE in that order. But I'd recommend you just play them all including SotN just as Flame suggests.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

Pretty much your choices are:

Circle of the Moon
Harmony of Dissonance
Aria of Sorrow
Dawn of Sorrow
Portrait of Ruin
Order of Ecclesia

My personal favorites are AoS, PoR, and OoE in that order. But I'd recommend you just play them all including SotN just as Flame suggests.

Think he means which is the closest as far as content and resemblance to SOTN goes, not a list of all metroidvanias available, although I could be wrong.

[The Zeldaniac]

Just play SotN man, how do you "miss out" on a widely available game and need a substitute?

it's on PS1, PS3, Xbox 360, PSP, and you can emulate it on PC for free.

Nope, I don't any of those platforms... sucks being a Nintendo fanboy sometimes. And I have yet to figure out how to work a PS1 emulator.

[The Zeldaniac]

Think he means which is the closest as far as content and resemblance to SOTN goes, not a list of all metroidvanias available, although I could be wrong.

You are correct, "the closest as far as content and resemblance to SOTN" is exactly what I'm looking for.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

You are correct, "the closest as far as content and resemblance to SOTN" is exactly what I'm looking for.

Well as I said before Aria of Sorrow and Dawn of Sorrow are the 2 games your looking for.

Though the downside to Dawn of Sorrow is those damn magic seals.

[Viskod]

Whatever you do, try to watch the cutscenes from the original SotN not the PSP version on YouTube so you can fully appreciate the genesis of some great Castlevania based memes.

[beingthehero]

Dawn of Sorrow.

[Flame]

Nope, I don't any of those platforms... sucks being a Nintendo fanboy sometimes. And I have yet to figure out how to work a PS1 emulator.

not too hard.

download the emulator (EPSXE is your best bet), then get the bios I believe? you can probablu google that. then get the rom. from there it's pretty straight forward.

I would make it a point to get an emulator working just for SotN. the other metroidvanias range from great to bad, but they are all really just pale imitations of the original.

[X]

If you have a GBA I would recommend Circle of the Moon and Aria of Sorrow. Those two are the best next to SotN. The others seem to fall short in more then one way.

[RegalSin]

GBA games were all a clone of the SOTN.

SOTN is really a reference to Kid Dracula.

All of these games and above makes no sense, and follows no Canon, I would just play "Circle of the moon", it seemed like the most decent of the clones, that made some sense. Not including the NDS or PS2 games.

..............

However, we are talking about exploration, not straight forward action. Their are many "Mellenium, apocolypse, games on the SNES, that plays like a modern day CV. As well as "Rondo Of Blood". I say ROB because the levels of SOTN, are all from ROB, but they extended the areas.

Also do not fret, SOTN is not really the first Castlevania to have a Metroid/Kid Icarus gameplay, there is the N64 games. However it is in 3d, does all the same thing that SOTN does but was an experiment, and follows the official timeline of the games.

[Flame]

GBA games were all a clone of the SOTN.

SOTN is really a reference to Kid Dracula.

All of these games and above makes no sense, and follows no Canon, I would just play "Circle of the moon", it seemed like the most decent of the clones, that made some sense. Not including the NDS or PS2 games.

..............

However, we are talking about exploration, not straight forward action. Their are many "Mellenium, apocolypse, games on the SNES, that plays like a modern day CV. As well as "Rondo Of Blood". I say ROB because the levels of SOTN, are all from ROB, but they extended the areas.

Also do not fret, SOTN is not really the first Castlevania to have a Metroid/Kid Icarus gameplay, there is the N64 games. However it is in 3d, does all the same thing that SOTN does but was an experiment, and follows the official timeline of the games.

i seriously think you are just some kind of troll. I can't fathom anything else that doesn't include some form of brain damage.