Recently purchased, played & beaten

[Samus Aran]

same

[ncba93ivyase]

so why does everybody think circle of the moon is the best on the gba

waaaaaaaayy too much messy backtracking. it's better than HoD but AoS is much much better

[Samus Aran]

the problem i have with circle of the moon's backtracking is that certain rooms get replaced with hordes of later enemies, effectively making old areas just as hard to get through as new ones lol

and too many long hallways that just repeat the same enemy pattern three or four times. all metroidvanias do this but i feel circle of the moon does it more than usual.

also i'm pretty sure just about everyone likes aria of sorrow more, lawlz. it's a much more popular game in general, seems to me.

[ncba93ivyase]

more and more people seem to dislike * sorrow because it supposedly started the trend of pussyboy characters and whiny animu plots

generally it seems that the most popular metroidvania castlevanias are sotn, cotm, and order of ecclesia

[spoiler]i think dawn of sorrow is the best[/spoiler]

also the worst part about cotm's backtracking is that it's impossible to remember where you were supposed to go. there are a bunch of little objects strewn around the map that you can eventually pass but they're all so far apart and you can't remember where the fuck you encountered them (because yeah i'm totally going to remember where that generic box was) that it's just annoying

and yeah too many long repeated hallways.

[Samus Aran]

oh yeah i could see people blaming sorrow for that "trend" although i don't really see that trend to begin with tbh

soma's definitely not a pussyboy character lol. he's pretty dorky but i like him a lot. dawn of sorrow has really lame anime character art of course but aria's is fantastic.

also sotn is still my favorite metroidvania but only by a little bit. i like aria of sorrow almost just as much.

anyway i'm almost done with circle myself, i just got the key to unlock the door from the beginning where the last rite takes place, so i guess that's the final boss.

oh and i have to say the dss system is inferior to the soul system. especially in that the dss cards are far too rare - i'm nearly done with the game and have only found three of the god cards and like 75 percent of the second set of cards

and it is annoying how all the hidden items are just hp, mp, or heart upgrades instead of cool unique armors or something like in all the other metroidvanias? it could have been a combination of both, since there are no weapons (i actually don't mind this, i like using the vampire killer whip)

still though this is a pretty great game just not as good as the other metroidvanias i've played (which have been sotn, aos, and dos). planning on ecclesia next sometime, since i already own it.

[Samus Aran]

one more complaint: enemy variety at an all-time low with a gazillion different elemental versions of both the armors and the devils

and i cannot even begin to describe how incredibly annoying the dark armors and most of the devils are. especially the ice and wind devils. they are more or less impossible to take on without taking too much damage for it to even be worth the trouble. super annoying enemies in this game.

[Commander Fuckass]

Portrait of Ruin > SoTN > Dawn of Sorrow >  Order of Ecclesia > HoD


imo anyway

[Samus Aran]

Portrait of Ruin > SoTM > Dawn of Sorrow >  Order of Ecclesia > HoD


imo anyway

sotm?? symphony of the might??? sircle of the moon???

[TooB]

is this strictly metroidvania were talking here?
i really like circle cuz it still focused on whip

[Commander Fuckass]

Portrait of Ruin > SoTM > Dawn of Sorrow >  Order of Ecclesia > HoD


imo anyway

sotm?? symphony of the the might??? sircle of the the moon???

yep

[Classic]

Beat: A Link to the Past.


Over too soon. :'(

[Samus Aran]

Beat: A Link to the the Past.


Over too soon. :'(

highly suggest playing the oracle games sometime

[Classic]

Oh yeah, I have them on my 3DS. I forgot about them.

I guess I'll start on those next. 

[Nyerp]

playing 4 games at once whoops

[TooB]

danganronpa is..... interesting.... to say the least.
fuckin wierd characters...