Board 8 > Daily reminder that Order of Ecclesia is the best Castlevania game.

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In terms of gameplay and level design, anyway; Symphony of the Night will always win out in terms of atmosphere. Still, I'm replaying the game for what must be the twentieth time (clean HM LV1 run awww yeah) and I really can't believe how amazingly well-designed this game is. Every glyph has its uses.

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I'm inclined to agree

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OoE has horrible level design because they're all way too small

and then the one level that looks like it actually has promise turns out to be entirely linear

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Just finished this game today and yeah, have to second this based on the ones I've played!

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it was pretty not good for a castlevania game

which means it was still good, but disappointing

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it's an underwater adventure ride

CotM son

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From: foolm0ron | #007
CotM son

Blandest game ever

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cotm is awesome, but it plays a lot more like an older castlevania, where you're trudging slowly through every room to make sure you don't get ****ed, whereas the new ones you pretty much cruise through most areas really quickly until you hit a boss/hard enemy

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It's weird because I think CotM and OoE are easily the two best Metroidvanias.

i think ooe is pretty much at the bottom

i didnt really play harmony of dissonance though and everyone likes that the least

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I can't even begin to imagine how anyone could think Harmony of Dissonance was better than any of the others, it's really bad.

OoE is far and away the best CV since AoS, I'll say that. It feels like the first real step for the series after Aria, instead of those uninspired retreads like DoS/PoR(fun, though they were)

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From: Paratroopa1 | #012
I can't even begin to imagine how anyone could think Harmony of Dissonance was better than any of the others, it's really bad.

Also this, holy f***ing s***, HoDiss***sucks is bad

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heh

and i thought dawn and portrait were much much better than either order or aria

goofy cv opinionzone

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also para should make more listy

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it's an underwater adventure ride

Harmony of Dissonance is way better than Circle of the Moon

spellcards worst ever

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SOTN > all

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I was playing Portrait of Ruin and it froze on me multiple times so it's automatically the worst.

OoE is easily the funnest.

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i think ooe is pretty much at the bottom

Sounds to me like the more linear style of OoE just isn't your thing! In terms of challenge and design, it's pretty exceptional.

And I happen to really enjoy Harmony of Dissonance, but we're not going to get into that.

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Shanoa Quest the best

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plus a character theme I'd put in the top 5 of all time castlevania themes with the classis



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AoS the best.

OoE doesn't have much replay value.

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OoE got a lot better after a kinda blah early portion, but I'd still put it near the bottom of the series.

Which still makes it great, of course.

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From: SantaRPG | #021
CotM has it's issues. But it's certainly not bland. It's one of the few castlevania games that provided a challenge to me even when equipped with the best gear + grinding.

"Challenge" doesn't make it not be bland. It's bland because most of the areas look awful, the enemies are horrendously repetitive, most of the levels amount to the same stretch of terrain copy pasted with the same enemies in the same spots, and most of the bosses follow a one or two attack pattern and boil down to killing you from tedium because unless you get the right combination of cards (yay random drops you'll never see if you don't know where to farm them!) your damage output will be atrocious. Hugh is the only boss in the entire game that's remotely interesting to fight.

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^Not to mention most of the music is recycled, and that game was hell on the eyes when it was first released.

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