Zero Punctuation: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

[beema]

Giant Duke Nukem Forever ad surrounding Zero Punctuation. Oh sweet delicious irony.

I violated my works' policy of "no videos today please" just to watch this. I guess it was worth it.

 

[kara_bulut]

Yeah ZP could do more old games.

There is an entire Star Wars series waiting to be bashed (Except Jedi Knight)

 

[Aptspire]

Alucard...still sounds more legit than snilboG, though :/
also, yeah, some of the enemies in that game are God hard, imo

 

[xchurchx]

plz mr crawshaw
rip the shit out of socom 4 and the disgusting use of native accents

 

[Senaro]

I almost bought this one the other day, got hooked on all of my old GBA/DS Castlevania games again. I never played Symphony, so maybe this is a good time. I think it's half off on XBL now, too.

 

[twm1709]

I actually played this one last year. It's a great game, but the difficulty curve could really use some work. By the end I combined a rod thing with a special shield and I was so overpowered, Dracula himself only lasted 3 seconds against me.

 

[Tricky1421]

All these reviews that you do make me want to play all of these games just to see what you meant.

 

[Jonsbax]

The low as shit difficulty really killed this game for me. The game got into a boring grind of running through same areas and occasionally finding some stuff I didn't need, but I still managed to get to the final boss and beat the game (the real one). As for the RPG, different equipment and all that I can understand, but leveling up didn't really contribute anything to the game except maybe unbalance it further.

So yeah, I'd take Rondo of Blood, remake or not, over these Metroidvanias any day.

 

[Adahn one]

just finished it yesterday on PS1 emulator and today Yahtzee has done a review. It's a sign!

 

[Xariat]

best review in a long time, funny as shit

 

[I forgot]

I can't be the only one who found it a little stupid that Yahtzee made such a discriminating remark towards the Japanese about Alucard when
1) I recall that first being done in the Son of Dracula movie made by Americans in the 1940's
2) How many shows besides Hellsing have a character named Alucard that's japanese?

I swear Yahtzee can't go a single review on a Japanese game without mentioning that it's Japanese or making some prick comment about them.

 

[Antari]

See its not always nostalgia!

 

[velcrokidneyz]

One of my absolute favorite games. Replay it every now and then, sooo fun when you get the cruicigram, too bad its a pain in the ass to get, still amazing tho.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

I saw the title and went, "What?" Then I realized that, yeah, there's really nothing major out at the moment, so good choice.
I remember playing this game and only getting the first half done. Then I remember my brother telling me that there was more to it. Then I went back and got the second half done. THEN I found out that there's the perfect ending, so I had to go and get that too. Did you get the perfect ending Yahtzee? That was a real chore.

 

[AyreonMaiden]

One of my absolute favorites. Played this after playing the DS/GBA Castlevanias, AND the GBA Metroids, and not one of them holds a candle to it.

 

[Aiddon_v1legacy]

The Alucard thing is actually American in origin, having been using in the 1930s film The Son of Dracula.

 

[katsabas]

I pretty much skipped out on console gaming between 1994 - 2002, but I always loved Castlevania. So this was the game I spent years trying to track down a used copy of until my friend found one and gave it to me for my birthday. Then it showed up on PSN less than a year later. Typical. But totally worth it.

Also, among the best game soundtracks ever, hands down.

I prefer this one. Wow, Y really caught me with my pants down on this one. He reviewed and enjoyed it? Who would have thought?

 

[nukethetuna]

Well, it's nice to see that the massive following this game has probably isn't just nostalgia. I did forget that Alucard has to take a pretty massive fall backwards when anything scrapes him though. Imagining a kid dropping their icecream on his pants and him flying backwards was good for a laugh.

 

[Ericb]

(though the subway puzzle in the Selenic age was hair-pullingly frustrating if you didn't know what you were doing)

Are you talking about that one where you guessed the cardinal coordinates through individual sounds or something like that?