{"id":2864,"date":"2018-07-28T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=2864"},"modified":"2018-08-31T17:29:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T17:29:53","slug":"castlevania-symphony-of-the-night-200-6-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/2864","title":{"rendered":"Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night – 200.6% Finally!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>20 Years Later – Finally 200.6%!<\/p>\n

At 42 years old, my personal Castlevania<\/b> history dates back three decades to the original on the NES. Like so many others, I’ve played just about everything. The classic trilogy, Bloodlines<\/b>, IV<\/b>, SOTN<\/b> and its subsequent GBA\/NDS titles, the PS2 3D ones, LoS<\/b>, side stories, etc, etc, etc.<\/p>\n

And at the top of that heap, to me, remains Symphony Of The Night<\/b>. It’s just so [insert 20 superlatives we’ve all heard]. Anyhow, while I was a day-one adopter in early 1997, I never made it past 197% or so. This continued when I replayed it in the early ’00s, and again when I got the PS1 Classics version on the PS3. Oh, and when I replayed it **again** on the PSP with Dracula X Chronicles<\/b>. <\/p>\n

My itch for more Castlevania meant another replay of Rondo Of Blood<\/b>, now on my Vita, and…why the hell not, let’s do it again! And now my goal was to *finally* get the elusive 200.6%. Methodically going through the game room-by-room, I made it to the end of the second castle, started doing my clean-up and realized…I missed Mudman. No! No!!! So bummed, I took a day or two off before heading back in and finishing it all off. <\/p>\n

Little did I know that getting 200.6% was still achievable despite my oversight!!! And so finally, for a game I started playing just after my 21st birthday, is now (sorta) 100% complete at my tender age of 42! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

20 Years Later – Finally 200.6%! At 42 years old, my personal Castlevania history dates back three decades to the original on the NES. Like so many others, I’ve played just about everything. The classic trilogy, Bloodlines, IV, SOTN and its subsequent GBA\/NDS titles, the PS2 3D ones, LoS, side stories, etc, etc, etc. And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,145,4,26],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-2864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-worst","category-blog","category-castlevania","category-games","category-high-scores-accomplishments","tag-castlevania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864","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=2864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2866,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions\/2866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}