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Simply Simon
Nov 6, 2010

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The Sorrow games loving own and this is shaping up to be a great LP, I'll be following this for sure!

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Simply Simon
Nov 6, 2010

📡scanning🛰️ for good game 🎮design🦔🦔🦔
Dawn of Sorrow loving owns, it's my favourite Castlevania. I could never really get into Order of Ecclesia, and I have yet to try Portrait of Ruin (but I will this weekend, it just arrived!). Aria for me is like proto-Dawn, still slightly clunky, but overall really good and the perfect stepping stone.

A bit of criticism: you grinded out all of those souls and promised diversity, then you proceeded to use your sword for the first five minutes of the video. It got better at the end, but I'd appreciate if you mixed it up a little more now that you took the time to grind out all those options :).

Oh, and I don't know if it's the case in Aria too, but in Dawn at least Souls actually get better as you aquire more of them, so the extra Minotaur Soul would boost your STR more, and you could have gotten better drops if you had first farmed a few Dancer Souls. Should be an easy check if that was in Aria too (check the Minotaur STR boost), unless someone comes here and tells me I'm stupid or right :v:.

Simply Simon
Nov 6, 2010

📡scanning🛰️ for good game 🎮design🦔🦔🦔

Simply Simon posted:

Dawn of Sorrow loving owns, it's my favourite Castlevania. I could never really get into Order of Ecclesia, and I have yet to try Portrait of Ruin (but I will this weekend, it just arrived!). Aria for me is like proto-Dawn, still slightly clunky, but overall really good and the perfect stepping stone.
So I started playing PoR and so far I really like it! The level design is refreshingly there after OoE's vast stretches of nothing happening, the bosses err on the side of piss-easy which I'm more than okay after OoE's insane slugfests and the combat system is unique and not overcomplex.

If you care for story (why would you, though), you should give it a pass; it's loving terrible and far too much so far. But whatever.

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