Castlevania – Harmony of Dissonance (GBA)
Harmonised! My first game this year! All three endings – sad, meh, and happy – so Boss Rush mode and music player mode are both unlocked. I was level 49 at the end and finished it with 100% so the boss, like the other bosses in the game, was pretty straightforward. All in all, despite getting off to a bit of a shaky started, Harmony of Dissonance is an excellent game. It clocked in at a shade over ten and a half hours, in the end, and no frustration in sight.
Some of the bits of Dracula were a real git to find, and you need them for the good ending (and even to reach the final-final boss) but worth it in the end. As ever with metroidvania style games, there’s a significant amount of back tracking, but by the time you get to level 40 none of the baddies pose much of a threat.
So onwards and upwards – time to finish Dawn of Sorrow.
February 20, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Hurrah!
I agree with your synopsis of the game, in that it starts off a bit “uh, hmm” but ends up ACE. CoTM and AoS were both great all the way through, but HoD took a while to get going.
I’m not really enjoying the PS2 game. And am out of GB games to play. Portrait of Ruin *must* arrive soon.