Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance

Name: Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
Released: 2002
Rating: 52.47

2002

Action, Platformer

Harmony of Dissonance occurs in the fictional universe of the Castlevania series, set fifty years after Simon Belmont vanquished Dracula's curse, Harmony of Dissonance focuses on his grandson Juste Belmont and his quest to rescue a kidnapped childhood friend at Dracula's Castle. Harmony of Dissonance makes use of a 2D side-scrolling style of gameplay, similar to many of the previous Castlevania video games. The castle consists of two "layers": Castle A and B. (wikipedia)

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CV: HoD, キャッスルヴァニア白夜の協奏曲, 惡魔城白夜協奏曲

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2002

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Bobbles

Rated 01 Nov 2021

Not as good as its predecessor, losing the difficulty and the complex magic system of Circle while ladling on even more backtracking. But the core gameplay is still good, and it's fun to zip around with the new dash mechanic. The graphics are also clearly improved.

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Heliophage

Rated 11 Sep 2019

If the prior entry dragged things out by making you take it slow, carefully hopping through tedious passages and grinding away for cards and XP, this tries the opposite technique of dragging things out with sheer walking distance as you breeze ever onward through one long, trivial hallway after another. At least they're much prettier hallways than last time, and there's a nice variety of overpowered magic attacks to play around with while you're at it.

Rated 11 Sep 2019

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Ocelot

Rated 29 Dec 2018

one of the easiest games I've ever played. loaded it up in an emulator and bulldozed it in about three hours. that's not to say it's a problem, but man was it underwhelming in a series that's supposed to have at least, like, one tough boss fight in a game. it's downright amazing that Aria came out just a year after this and blew it completely out of the water.

Rated 29 Dec 2018

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Ytadel

Rated 04 Feb 2018

This is the only one of the six games that form the GBA/DS Castlevania trilogies that I've never beaten. I just found something about its aesthetics - both visual and aural - to be kind of grating and ugly. No huge problem with it on a gameplay level, but nothing that stands out about it either. Maybe the endgame/final boss is amazing and would have boosted my score, I don't know and may never.

Rated 04 Feb 2018

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Velvet Crowe

Rated 02 Feb 2018

I actually dig the mobility options in HoD since the dash is far more versatile than it is in other games. But fuck me is the level design grating. The boss fights are incredibly cookie cutter and one-dimensional, and for as cool as the movement options were the enemy and level design never really pushes you to use it. Also the game is both a visual eyesore and eye ache, among the worst Castlevania games in terms of presentation and style.

Rated 02 Feb 2018

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