{"id":3093,"date":"2018-11-15T20:36:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T20:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=3093"},"modified":"2018-11-15T20:36:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T20:36:53","slug":"castlevania-symphony-of-the-night-200-6-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/3093","title":{"rendered":"Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night – 200.6% Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just four months later<\/a>, I’ve 200.6%ed Symphony Of The Night<\/b> again! In the process, I managed to platinum Castlevania: Requiem<\/b> as well. Two of the best Castlevania<\/b> games in one package? I shelved Red Dead Redemption 2<\/b> to play 20-year old games. What a world.<\/p>\n

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To address the port itself – it’s lazy as hell. The options and modes are pretty pathetic and it’s missing some truly basic items. You can’t turn off the overly-used rumble feature? Simply no option at all? But while it’s a real bare-bones title, the games are rock solid. Playing through Rondo Of Blood<\/b> again reminded me just how awesome it is – handily defeating the other games of the era (see my recent retro-game backlog!) The game’s hype is spot-on and it’s a must-play from the series. <\/p>\n

There’s little to say about Symphony<\/b> that hasn’t been said yet. There was really no way I wasn’t<\/i> going to 200.6% this beast. I was reminded of its few bullshit moments which come from a different time. However, the whole experience was just remarkable, just as good as ever. In addition, the trophies really gave me reason to try things I never would have and even after so many playthroughs, I learned new things. This game is a legend and yet another run solidifies it as a top-10 ever game. (Or so…that list is tough to quantify!)<\/p>\n

So, after not playing the game fully to completion in the prior 21 years, I’ve now managed to do it twice in four months. Not bad. <\/p>\n


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Just four months later, I’ve 200.6%ed Symphony Of The Night again! In the process, I managed to platinum Castlevania: Requiem as well. Two of the best Castlevania games in one package? I shelved Red Dead Redemption 2 to play 20-year old games. What a world. To address the port itself – it’s lazy as hell. […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-3093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-worst","category-blog","category-castlevania","category-games","category-high-scores-accomplishments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093","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=3093"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3103,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions\/3103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}