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Castlevania Advance Collection rated in Australia.
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I really just want Order of Ecclesia which I'm guessing won't be in this collection. Carts for that game are super expensive these days & there's no digital version.
I thought Dawn of Sorrow was the only one that had that shit with the seals?
I hope this is real. I would love a collection with the GBA games. It'd be awesome if it included the DS games as well and they could throw in Harmony of Despair too for good measure.
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Unless confirmed otherwise, I would really advice against assuming/hoping that the DS games are included.
The entire GBA and DS selection of Castlevania games is kinda big. I would assume Konami would prefer to split both.
The entire GBA and DS selection of Castlevania games is kinda big. I would assume Konami would prefer to split both.
I hope this is announced soon (like, this month). I can't wait to replay these.
Also announce a new game based on the Netflix series while you're at it! 🙏🏼
Also announce a new game based on the Netflix series while you're at it! 🙏🏼
Yo holy shit. Damn I'm getting ahead of myself but it has to be the case, I remember playing PoR in both En and Jp back in the day being surprised they even had the option. GBA games definitely don't unless they're going in and adding English voice clips to the GBA games lol.
I loved circle of the moon, bought it with my gba
Never played the other two so this would be great
Never played the other two so this would be great
In terms of the main game, yes and you need the stylus to remove blocks in like 2 rooms and thats it. Portrait has a bonus mode with 2 characters that is all about using the stylus so that makes 2 games, I think Order might have something as a bonus feature but not sure.
hey, the last collection had EIGHT games
some of them were bad games, but that's beside the point
Yeah I wanna echo this. HoD I think is too maligned, it's rough around the edges sure, but I don't think it's any worse than CoTM.
It's actually a looker too, just has a horrible rep from being seen with raw pixels so much.
Speaking of, I really hope they can try to do something about the brightness/add an appropriate filter and do something to address the audio quality.
Yeah, what Harmony of Dissonance needs the most imo, is better audio quality. It is one of the worse sounding GBA games, which is saying something. It's a shame because I think the soundtrack is super interesting (and makes use of the "dissonance" mentionned in the title, which can make it a hard sell, especially if the sound is atrocious. But I believe it could be reevaluated as a truly great entry. I really liked the characters and areas in that one, it could be pretty hellish and unsettling.
Also pretty weird to see Konami being better in making the Castlevania catalogue available than Square is with Final Fantasy.
The touchscreen situation in Portrait of Ruin is... complicated. The main story and one of the bonus character modes don't use the touchscreen at all, but the other unlockable character mode is entirely touchscreen driven, so that would be pretty damn complicated to try and figure out and may even need to get dropped from the game entirely if it's just not workable for anything other than Switch in handheld mode. OoE is safe, though, and would honestly be just fine with having the second screen act as an on-screen map/bestiary in the upper right corner.
Unfortunately emulating the DS games would require a lot more work. Konami is continuing their 'lowest lift' approach which means they will almost definitely stick with the GBA games. If it sells really well they could consider doing another collection, but don't count on it.
It's possibly a weird licensing issue.
Symphony of the Night on 360 uses the original PSX dub/translation, while the recent PS4 port uses the updated PSP dub/translation - and apparently Konami had Sony's help with the port.
Porting SotN to the Switch (and PC) does seem like an obvious choice though, doesn't it?
But I'd really prefer that it was based on the original PSX release than the PSP version.
Or, ideally, an updated version with enhancements like widescreen support.
There's already a romhack to bypass the touchscreen interactions in Dawn of Sorrow.
Figuring out a way to make the dual screens work may be a bit more complex for a commercially-released product. It's easy enough to work around in emulators.
GBA games can still look good today, with the right filters.
One of the problems I recall running into, though, was that Aria of Sorrow has some rooms with flickering backgrounds and they look really bad on a TV with fast response times.
The GBA screen's slow response times blended them to more of a fade effect than a flicker. Even shaders intended to simulate that effect did not help.
I think these were taken with a CRT Guest/Venom shader preset I was working on.
They may not be to everyone's taste, but it's an example of what a shader can do with the GBA artwork.
I think it was a reaction to a similar Final Fantasy thread, but yeah, it was weird.
Well done. That hurts almost as much as the original thread.
I certainly hope this is true. I've been wanting a GBA CV Collection to play on consoles for ages now, and it'd be great if it was actually/finally happening! It's kind of funny, but CV games were always the first games I bought for my Nintendo handhelds, and usually the main reason I'd buy a Nintendo handheld in the first place. I bought a GBA for Circle of the Moon, as at the time, I had no interest in anything else that was on it lol
Being able to play Circle of the Moon (I have no idea where my cartridge disappeared to :( ), Harmony of Dissonance, and Aria of Sorrow on my PS5 would be amazing!
Being able to play Circle of the Moon (I have no idea where my cartridge disappeared to :( ), Harmony of Dissonance, and Aria of Sorrow on my PS5 would be amazing!
Thinking about this... As Konami is very nice with pricing for those things, I'd rather have 2 collections for $19,99 each than a single one for $39,99 for a simple reason: 2 platinum trophies.
Holy shit, is this finally, really happening? That one recent thread about being fine with where the series is at now summoned this into existence lmao. No matter what combo of games it is from the handhelds, this is going to be a definite buy for me. GBA + DS would be nice, but even just the GBA games are worth a collection for sure (Circle of the Moon and Aria of Sorrow hype, but even Harmony of Dissonance is decent even if the music is hilarious), and maybe DS ones would be later down the road with minor adjustments.
The Requiem port won't come as it was made with assistance from Sony (and using their technology). Konami would have to issue a new port for it to come to switch, but other than that there's nothing that would impede the game from coming to any other platform.
Classic collection is great though. Probably definitely worth it to get both.
It's possibly a weird licensing issue.
Symphony of the Night on 360 uses the original PSX dub/translation, while the recent PS4 port uses the updated PSP dub/translation - and apparently Konami had Sony's help with the port.
Porting SotN to the Switch (and PC) does seem like an obvious choice though, doesn't it?
But I'd really prefer that it was based on the original PSX release than the PSP version.
Or, ideally, an updated version with enhancements like widescreen support.
There's already a romhack to bypass the touchscreen interactions in Dawn of Sorrow.
Figuring out a way to make the dual screens work may be a bit more complex for a commercially-released product. It's easy enough to work around in emulators.
GBA games can still look good today, with the right filters.
One of the problems I recall running into, though, was that Aria of Sorrow has some rooms with flickering backgrounds and they look really bad on a TV with fast response times.
The GBA screen's slow response times blended them to more of a fade effect than a flicker. Even shaders intended to simulate that effect did not help.
I think these were taken with a CRT Guest/Venom shader preset I was working on.
They may not be to everyone's taste, but it's an example of what a shader can do with the GBA artwork.
I think it was a reaction to a similar Final Fantasy thread, but yeah, it was weird.
Well done. That hurts almost as much as the original thread.
yeah I have been really impressed with how these typical collections have been including decent filters. Even the NG pocket color games on switch have a nice look to them.
And the collection before that had just two games.
Im with OP. Assume this is the Advance games (as per the title) and be pleasantly surprised if it's any more…
Requiem? That's just the PSP port being emulated on the PS4, it's not really a collection.
I think it needs to be more than two things before it qualifies as a "collection"
Well, I've still not played Harmony of Dissonance so I'm in for that almost certainly mediocre outing
YES!! I love Harmony and Sorrow and can't wait to play them on Switch!! Please slap SOTN on there while your at it, please…
No reason to expect the DS games when it's called the Castlevania Advance Collection. I'd imagine it'd just include the three GBA games, and some extras like interviews and artwork and stuff.
Personally, I'm totally fine with just getting the GBA games for this next collection. And maybe, if it does well, they'll find a way to port the DS games too, and adapt the touch screen functionality of those games accordingly. It's Konami, so I can't imagine them really wanting to invest in that level of work at the moment, so I wouldn't expect DS games anytime soon.
Honestly, I loved Harmony of Dissonance. Aria of Sorrow is still my favorite of the GBA CV's, but HoD was really good, I thought. I had no idea that others didn't like it until I came to forums like this one, but I personally liked it a lot. I know I wouldn't call it mediocre by a longshot. The only thing that I probably didn't care much for was the soundtrack, which I felt was very limited compared to other games in the series, but the gameplay was fun enough to me.
Personally, I'm totally fine with just getting the GBA games for this next collection. And maybe, if it does well, they'll find a way to port the DS games too, and adapt the touch screen functionality of those games accordingly. It's Konami, so I can't imagine them really wanting to invest in that level of work at the moment, so I wouldn't expect DS games anytime soon.
Honestly, I loved Harmony of Dissonance. Aria of Sorrow is still my favorite of the GBA CV's, but HoD was really good, I thought. I had no idea that others didn't like it until I came to forums like this one, but I personally liked it a lot. I know I wouldn't call it mediocre by a longshot. The only thing that I probably didn't care much for was the soundtrack, which I felt was very limited compared to other games in the series, but the gameplay was fun enough to me.
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Dawn of Sorrow had some kind of glyph drawing thing for finishing off bosses and such, but I don't remember what other touch control stuff there was in the others.
In DoS you have to draw the seals after you beat bosses. There are rom hacks that auto draw the seals so not necessarily a huge challenge. I don't recall anything in OoE. It's been too long since I've played PoR.
