What did you Accomplish in Gaming Today?

[Arras]

Highly recommend Aria of Sorrow rather than Dawn.
The art style in Aria holds its gothic scenery while Dawn goes for an anime-style, which I highly dislike for Castlevania games because the gothic art is far more beautiful and detailed than anime in everyway.

Aria adds a lot of things to the series and is quite addicting actually, completed it with all souls, reached level 99 and 100% completion.
Definetely the best Castlevania game in the GBA by a mile.

If you are going to get a Castlevania game for the DS, I recommend Order of Ecclesia instead.
Just my opinion though, hope you find it useful.

Like the first half of Ecclesia is linear though. Dawn of Sorrow is much better imo.

 

[TripleSMoon]

Highly recommend Aria of Sorrow rather than Dawn.
The art style in Aria holds its gothic scenery while Dawn goes for an anime-style, which I highly dislike for Castlevania games because the gothic art is far more beautiful and detailed than anime in everyway.

Aria adds a lot of things to the series and is quite addicting actually, completed it with all souls, reached level 99 and 100% completion.
Definetely the best Castlevania game in the GBA by a mile.

If you are going to get a Castlevania game for the DS, I recommend Order of Ecclesia instead.
Just my opinion though, hope you find it useful.

Like I said, I already have Dawn of Sorrow. I'm going to play Aria of Sorrow first, but I need it to get here first. It should arrive in the mail today.

I played Portrait of Ruin, which had the anime visuals, and eh... it just looks awful. Especially Brauner and Death. There's nothing terrifying about the game's art direction. It's a shame that Dawn of Sorrow is the same. Oh well.

I'm actually saving Order of Ecclesia for last, since I've heard so many good things about it.

 

[Tattorack]

What did I accomplish with games today?
I completely replaced all the tracks from Warzone 2100 with custom ones.
Now I can play the game with dark ambient dubstep and ambient electronic music!

 

[MegaAce™]

I played through Persona 4 Golden today, along with the additional Hollow Forest and the True Ending.

 

[Issac]

Taking a break from the final run of Eternal Darkness (doing that tomorrow), the last chapters are SOOOO tedious.

Recently I beat Zanac for the NES, Mega Man, Mega Man 2 (both on Normal and Difficult), and Castlevania

 

[nasune]

Finished my Ocarina of Time three heart no death run today. It took me five tries (I actually deleted my save and replayed the entire game when I died) but it was a fun little challenge.

 

[TripleSMoon]

Finished my Ocarina of Time three heart no death run today. It took me five tries (I actually deleted my save and replayed the entire game when I died) but it was a fun little challenge.

What was the furthest you got before dying and having to restart?

 

[nasune]

What was the furthest you got before dying and having to restart?

Bongo Bongo. And in all honesty, that death wasn't completely my fault. I had to rewire my controller because it didn't function correctly during the fight. (I'm using an old Xbox Controller that's in a pretty bad condition, and the buttons stopped working mid-fight :S )
Edit:
The five tries were:
-Stalchildren in Hyrule Field (I was an idiot,and forgot to pause my game before walking off )
-Stalfos in the Forest Temple (Those things deal two hearts damage per jump slash, and there were two of them)
-Morpha (This death genuinely made me angry with myself, because I had never lost more than three quarters of a heart to him before)
-Spirit Temple (Which I tend to do before the Shadow Temple)(I was careless, and fell of a high ledge with only half a heart left, knowing what was going to happen when I hit the ground was rather painful )
-Bongo Bongo

Unfortunately a three heart run also means no fairies, or it would've been much easier .

 

[Nathan Drake]

Like I said, I already have Dawn of Sorrow. I'm going to play Aria of Sorrow first, but I need it to get here first. It should arrive in the mail today.

I played Portrait of Ruin, which had the anime visuals, and eh... it just looks awful. Especially Brauner and Death. There's nothing terrifying about the game's art direction. It's a shame that Dawn of Sorrow is the same. Oh well.

I'm actually saving Order of Ecclesia for last, since I've heard so many good things about it.

If I had to rank the DS entries:
Dawn of Sorrow > Portrait of Ruin > Order of Ecclesia

I feel Order of Ecclesia deviates too far while still trying to maintain the metroidvania style. I found it too easy, and considering I actually spent money buying it, I was terribly disappointed in my decision. Dawn of Sorrow probably has the best gameplay and map of the lot, while Portrait of Ruin isn't spectacular and is slow to get going, but is ultimately a good followup. Order of Ecclesia is just, I dunno, blah. Maybe people liked it more because it isn't very hard and had an easier time overlooking the other shortfalls because of it.

 

[TripleSMoon]

If I had to rank the DS entries:
Dawn of Sorrow > Portrait of Ruin > Order of Ecclesia

I feel Order of Ecclesia deviates too far while still trying to maintain the metroidvania style. I found it too easy, and considering I actually spent money buying it, I was terribly disappointed in my decision. Dawn of Sorrow probably has the best gameplay and map of the lot, while Portrait of Ruin isn't spectacular and is slow to get going, but is ultimately a good followup. Order of Ecclesia is just, I dunno, blah. Maybe people liked it more because it isn't very hard and had an easier time overlooking the other shortfalls because of it.

That's interesting. Most of the reviews I read said that Order of Ecclesia was "a return to difficult Castlevania."

 

[Nathan Drake]

That's interesting. Most of the reviews I read said that Order of Ecclesia was "a return to difficult Castlevania."

wut. I blazed through that game and was ten different kinds of disappointed that it was so short, so linear, and so easy.

 

[TripleSMoon]

wut. I blazed through that game and was ten different kinds of disappointed that it was so short, so linear, and so easy.

I have no clue. That's just what I read.

 

[Judas18]

I completed the national dex in Pokemon Y ^^

 

[Sakitoshi]

I remembered I was playing P3FES the answer and continued. fused some nice personas(can't remember right now who were) and grinded for the boss, I'm on Caina and the boss wiped the floor with my party. has been difficult play with the old battle system after playing P3P.

 

[Marth16]

Played through Rogue Legacy two times. Standard monsters aare now lethal as fuck.

 

[Issac]

Played through Rogue Legacy two times. Standard monsters aare now lethal as fuck.

Are they lethal as fuck now? I think they already are that the first time through (I just suck at that game)

 

[Marth16]

Well, there are now only tier three enemies. The bosses are now really easy though.

 

[emigre]

Just finished Watc Dogs on PS4. It was pretty meh.

 

[Bean_BR]

Finished InFamous: Second Son yesterday. A bit short, some glitches here and there (falling in limbo is a classic), but it's a great game. Now I want to play inFamous: First Light.

 

[Taleweaver]

I played quite some mobile games the past week (been on vacation). And while there was a 3DS XL someone brought (with that NSMB game with all the coins), I have to admit I had more fun with these little (and free) android gems:
-Power flow (up to 8x8, though it's not that hard once you get the knack on things)
-Move (completed every free level perfectly)
-Piano tiles (hard to tell, but 2-finger piano is fun )
-Flow free & dots circuit (sort of the same game...not that hard, but LOTS of levels)
-Linky dots (I know this as a brain breaker. It's fun, but the levels could be more challenging )
-water logic (remember that gallon riddle in Die hard with a vengeance? This is that game. And damn, do I suck at it)

On the PC, I started playing saints row 2. I can see why everyone thinks it's fun (it is), but no matter what I do, those controls are FREAKING TERRIBLE.