Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow

[Anonymous]

Why hasn't anyone commented on this game yet? Normally, there's at least one thread on the board about the latest Castlevania game up at least a month before it's released.

Anyway, I haven't even heard much in the way of news about this one. What's the deal?

[ItalianStereotype]

konami is starting to fuck with castlevania a bit much for my taste.

1. this castlevania is in the future, i know that it was an inevitability, but i still don't have to like it.

2. the main character isn't a Belmont and there is NO excuse for that at all.

3. they did away with sub-weapons, although i am a bit curious about this ability absorption idea...

[Grazzt]

Megaman vs. Dracula

[Anonymous]

konami is starting to fuck with castlevania a bit much for my taste.

1. this castlevania is in the future, i know that it was an inevitability, but i still don't have to like it.

2. the main character isn't a Belmont and there is NO excuse for that at all.

3. they did away with sub-weapons, although i am a bit curious about this ability absorption idea...

I'll admit, the idea of it being set in the future is a bit troubling, but I'm still curious to see how that will pan out.

As for the character not being a Belmont, what about in Castlevania: Bloodlines? Neither of those two were Belmonts.

[Zomboid]

[quote=ItalianStereotype]
As for the character not being a Belmont, what about in Castlevania: Bloodlines? Neither of those two were Belmonts.

I said that last night. He said he liked it but that was before he was a "gaming perfectionist".

Anyway, the game itself looks alright but I get the feeling it won't have the classic style :(

[timrpgland]

I'm looking forward to it. One of those that you'll have to wait and see how it turns out.

I still have faith.

[pickleninja]

As long as the character has a sword and neato stuff, I'm happy :)

I gots faith in the game.

[mew barios]

well. the rom was dumped either last nite or this morning. so i'll play it for a while and offer my thoughts. maybe. o.o

[timrpgland]

I didn't realize it was in my newest NP. It looks pretty damn cool and it came with a nice poster :)

[Ninjavenom]

Aria has indeed been dumped, (http://www.angelfire.com/falcon/nextgenemu/gbaroms.html) and i'm playing it now. :D

[timrpgland]

I'll wait for the cart.

[Ninjavenom]

Very honorable, and i'd do the same, but i don't have a gba, or money to buy one, so it looks like i'm the cheap bastard route. It's an awesome game though, way better than the other two for gba. The soul collecting system is fun, and you'll use souls far more often than sub-weapons in SOTN, which may be a blessing for some and a curse for others. The graphics are totally sweet, and the animation is very well done. I'm fighting Death right now, and he is god damned hard, as always.

[ItalianStereotype]

death was easy as fuck in SotN. two crissaegrims and two rings of varda and i killed him in under 10 seconds.

[Anonymous]

The hell do you need two Crissaegrims for? Isn't one enough?

[ItalianStereotype]

i like to alternate. most of the time i keep a crissaegrim and a mourneblade, but not for the bosses. hell, i killed galamoth somewhere in the neighborhood of 15-20 seconds with them.

[Ninjavenom]

I got tired of the criss, so now it's Holy Sword and Combat Knife, baby.

[ItalianStereotype]

i suppose the criss can get a bit old, but you should try the badelaire instead.

i think that is the right one...

[Ninjavenom]

You had better be playing this fucking rom, wop. >:

[ItalianStereotype]

i don't know if i want to now...a fucking 9 mm? are you serious?

[Mockery]

Been playing this rom for a little while now, damned fun game so far... though I'm always finding I wish I could jump higher. Must find more items!

[mew barios]

the 9mm is funny :( way too weak to use normally.

anyhow. i jus beat it. and i must say, this is the best cv since sotn. very fun to play around with. i meant to see what the 'fake' ending was but i accidently got the good ending. o.o whoops. ah well. i'll play it again in hard mode :O

[ItalianStereotype]

what other futuristic bullshit did those heathens include?

[timrpgland]

The cart's out so I'll have to find it.

[Ninjavenom]

The only other really futuristic things i can think of are military-uniform zombies, hand grenades, and the character Hammer, who wears fatigues. The castle itself ages, but the monsters don't, so there's still a ton of old enemies, and some weird new ones, like a lion's head in a ring of fire that rolls around.

[whoreable]

Damnit I want my flash cart so I can play it on my gba >: damn hong kong companies >:

[mew barios]

the most futuristic stuff could be better classified as 'almost modern'. o..O

just play it. it's good. good good good. :O

[Zomboid]

It's fun, but I must admit...the hand grenades made me stop and say "what the fuck?". I suppose it's only a little worse than henry's gun in legacy of darkness though.

[mew barios]

ok i retract my statement. o.o there is one futuristic item. if it would offend you to see it, don't play boss rush mode. o.o

[Ninjavenom]

I decided not to tell stereotype about it, it would only enrage him to a maximum amount. It must remain secret!

[ItalianStereotype]

thus far i have only gotten pissed about the zombie soldiers chunking grenades at me.

i am more pissed about harmony of dissonance, all they fucking did was put SotN on GBA with a belmont instead of alucard.

[timrpgland]

Is that such a bad thing?

Harmony of Dissonance was excellent.

[ItalianStereotype]

it shows a lack of creativity in the series when its the same enemies and weapons, just a few different names.

anybody have any hints about beating the Big Golem below the Dance Hall? for some reason he keeps whipping my ass.

[Zomboid]

Would that be the stone golem or the armor one similar to the siege golem in warcraft 3?

Either way, just keep getting close, attacking, then dashing back before he swings till he dies.

[ItalianStereotype]

this is the big stone one. that is what i was trying before, but i can't find a pattern to get in and get away without being clobbered.

[Zomboid]

I don't know then. All I had to do was quickly get in while his arm wasn't above my head (though I did it while it was up too) and slash then back out.

[Ninjavenom]

Duck and chop right next to his feet. There's a little bit of his foot that can touch you without you getting hurt, so you can get an extra hit in before he steps forward.. If you've got enough health, you shouldn't have to move much, if at all. Watch out for when he moves his hand near his head, though, that's when he'll try to grab you.

[ItalianStereotype]

man...fuck the Big Golem, Death has royally owned me.

[mew barios]

death isn't so difficult if you compulsively fight curlys to get their soul. o.o

when he changes into his second form, let him flutter off into a corner, an then unleash your attak. :O

[ItalianStereotype]

easier said than done, friend mew.

[mew barios]

..or you could jus buy lotsa potions from hammer. :D

[mew barios]

you know. i just noticed that they took hammer's voice clip out of the english version o..o

:(

[Mockery]

Where the hell do I go after beating that big golem? I've lookd all over the place and gotten good stuffs, I can walk on waters and I got a crazeh sword, but I can't find the next damned boss >:

[mew barios]

urf. from walking on water you can get into that floating gardens area. i think o..O it's all blurry in my brain. if you go in a straight line from the castle entrance you'll see it. well almost straight. you needa go down a level after the second save point. but yeah. and that leads to the clock tower. and the fight with DEATH. O.O!

[Mockery]

I have no idea where you're talking about :/

[mew barios]

http://home.earthlink.net/~akumajo/caosmappy.gif

[Zomboid]

I also had some trouble finding the next area after the golem. I spent like 2 hours going around levelling up and getting weapons before I found it :(

[Ninjavenom]

Now i'm stuck looking for Fire Demons, cuz i can't read their names. I've collected a good amount of souls, though. Khali's soul is absolutely SATAN.

[mew barios]

the only place i rightly recall where flame demons are is in the forbidden area. which is the lower right corner of the map. they're huge and red and kinda fade into being like all deviltypes. can't miss em. o .o

[Ninjavenom]

oh, i totally annihilated those guys. I got the soul too, but i thought it was supposed to let me spit fire as a bat?

edit: oh, it does.

also:

http://bastardninja.tripod.com/cosmos.txt

:D:D:D:D:D

another edit: Here's some nifty little animations i made.

http://bastardninja.tripod.com/flamestab.txt

http://bastardninja.tripod.com/panthropus.txt

http://bastardninja.tripod.com/vortexroom.txt

[snake]

if someone wants to mail me or upp this ROM to my ftp Ill be happy as an autobot with an oil change.

please pm me if you wanna take the time.

[ItalianStereotype]

sorry, it just doesn't work like that.

oh, and if you had bothered to read through the entire thread, you might have found a link somewhere...

[snake]

how do I crawl under things? it keeps me from getting items and reaching places. Do you need to crawl or is it a spell or something else?

Also, what are the rooms with the demon pictures and hourglasses for?

I havent played CV since SNES :(

[ItalianStereotype]

you need a particular soul to slide under objects.

on another note, does anyone know where the sky fish is?

[snake]

thanks. Which mob do I need to kill to get the soul?

[Ninjavenom]

I don't know what the fuck a sky fish is, but it might be that one in the room that just sits upside down on the floor. Wish i remembered where that was. Near the Coliseum, maybe?

[snake]

I wonder if the game is fucking up or supposed to be this way.....

In the "private chambers" or something like that there is a room with a headless lady. When I enter the room, a head on a shelf starts to move toward her, she gets up but the head just race past her and she freezes and goes completely white so you can only see the shape of how she looks like. Is this some riddle or the game fucked up? Im playing the ROM on a boyscott advance emulator.

[ItalianStereotype]

um....your game is fucked up.

the sky fish (i think that is its name) is the one that you have to stop time to see.

[Mockery]

Nice work on the animations Ninjavenom. I love that big skull thingy, that was one of my favorite things in the game.

Also, does anybody know of a really good place to buy the game boy advance flash rom pack thingy that allows you to transfer the rom files from your computer to a GBA cartridge?

[Immortal Goat]

There was only one real inclusion of what might be considered "mordernizing" in the game. One of the weapons you can get is a revolver, but thats it. Aside from it being mentioned as being in the future, you really cant tell. And the soul set was sweet as hell. I got a kick out of shooting lightning from my hands, i liked being able to walk on water, and I just about shit myself when I found out I could turn into a bat. A BAT FOR FUCK'S SAKE!!! HOW SWEET IS THAT?! Well, anyway, I'm off to kick some more Vampire ass, I still have the other 2 Castlevanias for GBA, and I want to beat them all.

[Girrvusensu]

But they should do away with the castlevania title and call it 'DRACULA XTREME' or something equally absurd, since there is no castlevania to it... (I want a REAL castlevania game, Simon belmont!, no bullshit vampire gone good characters to follow the trends of today, no present day crap, and I WANT THE WHIP BACK)

[Ninjavenom]

Shut the fuck up, Nonbeliever! >:

[Kitty of Doom]

I just started playing Aria of Sorrow and I've been playing nonstop. I just got up to Death and he thourougly kicked my ass several times before I decided to go back collect some more souls and level up. I got a soul from a Valkrye(sp?) and a Great Armor. The valkrye summons a giant sword that does some pretty heavy damage too. After that I went back and kicked some ass!

Does anyone know how to kill that bunny thing opposite to the entrance of the headhunter boss? It always freaks out when I approach it and sends me back to the entrance. I just got a soul from a devil and you can turn into a demon!

[ItalianStereotype]

you have to kill the granfaloon (aka Legion for you non-Symphony peoples) and take his soul.

[Juttin_w]

What happened to justise Belmont?

Did he die?Who is the main character?
??????????????
:/ :/ :/ :/ :/ :(

[Juttin_w]

I thought aria of Sorrow was only for PS2. :/

[ItalianStereotype]

are you seriously this stupid? is this the best that we will be able to expect from you?

first, there are centuries between Juste Belmont and Soma Cruz. Castlevania has always been like that, there has never been a main main character. ass.

second, PS2 is WAAAAY the fuck off the mark, have you ever even SEEN Castlevania?

third, this thread is more than a month old. did you bring it back just so that I could make you look like a jackass?