{"id":1487,"date":"2013-11-22T01:47:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T01:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2018-08-31T17:29:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T17:29:54","slug":"castlevania-mirror-of-fate-hd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/1487","title":{"rendered":"Castlevania: Mirror of Fate HD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/splash_cvmof_hd_logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/splash_cvmof_hd_logo-300x228.png\" alt=\"Mirror of Fate HD\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/splash_cvmof_hd_logo-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/splash_cvmof_hd_logo.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This $15 title was about perfect&#8230;for $15.  Had I paid full price on the NDS, I may have been upset.  However, the quick jaunt through the title was fun, and appropriately priced.  <\/p>\n<p><b>The Good<\/b><br \/> The music was pretty cool.  It was moody, we didn&#8217;t get any <b>Vampire Killer<\/b> tunes and that&#8217;s OK.  It was different.  The story was a bit strange, and at first, I couldn&#8217;t figure out WTF happened at the end.  However, <b>SPOILERS<\/b>!  Trevor turning out to be Alucard was a pretty awesome take on this non-canon side-story.  <\/p>\n<p><b>The So-So<\/b><br \/>The game&#8217;s combat was pretty weak.  I actually preferred exploring the castle over actually fighting.  Some of the platforming was ok at best.  <\/p>\n<p>Overall, it wasn&#8217;t the best <b>Castlevania<\/b>, nowhere near it.  In actuality, it may have been one of the worst but I&#8217;m still glad I played it.  It&#8217;s made me interested in <b>Lords of Shadow 2<\/b> and made me wish I never lost my first <b>LoS<\/b> save game.  After getting 100% w\/ Simon, Alucard &#038; Trevor though; I&#8217;ll likely never touch this game again.  :)  That&#8217;s OK.  It was fun while it lasted.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This $15 title was about perfect&#8230;for $15. Had I paid full price on the NDS, I may have been upset. However, the quick jaunt through the title was fun, and appropriately priced. The Good The music was pretty cool. It was moody, we didn&#8217;t get any Vampire Killer tunes and that&#8217;s OK. It was different. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,145,4,28],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-castlevania","category-games","category-reviews","tag-castlevania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1489,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/1489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}