Nintendo DS outlook in 2006

[Jeremy]

So no evidence then. What a shock.

[Joust Williams]

Evidence of what? I didn't see anything that really grabbed me. There were nice touches, but it still boiled down to the Metroidvania style of play we have seen in 5 or so previous tites in the series with not much that makes it stand out.

[Clash!]

I just got the Mario Kart DS bundle last week, and then bought like 3 more games for it. I fucking love this little bastard!! If you don't own Polarium, go buy it. Its $10 at Toys R Us, and its major league awesome.

[g0zen]

Joust's heart is in the right place (never thought I'd ever see myself typing that), there is some rampant Nintendo fanboyism on this board and needs to be kept in check. If that means unsubstansiated trolling, so be it.

But I hadn't even... nevermind.

I'd like to think when you do it's cleaner, more pure. Spo is just, dirty.

Oh, and he sucks.

Evidence of what? I didn't see anything that really grabbed me. There were nice touches, but it still boiled down to the Metroidvania style of play we have seen in 5 or so previous tites in the series with not much that makes it stand out.

Meh, the other ones were limited by the GBA technology, Dawn of Sorrow is the spiritual successor to Symphony and that makes it special. There will probably never be another good 2D Casltevania after this one, so really it deserves all the praise it gets.

[Geen]

Meh, the other ones were limited by the GBA technology, Dawn of Sorrow is the spiritual successor to Symphony and that makes it special. There will probably never be another good 2D Casltevania after this one, so really it deserves all the praise it gets.

It was okay, but I really do think it gets way too much praise. I enjoyed the game, but I can't honestly say I enjoyed it more than Harmony or Aria.

[g0zen]

I enjoyed the game, but I can't honestly say I enjoyed it more than Harmony or Aria.

You should, because it's by far the better game. Really, how can you compare Aria to Dawn when Dawn is Aria with better graphics, better weapons, cooler souls, and more content? The idea that Aria is somehow the superior of the two makes no sense whatsoever.

[Geen]

You should, because it's by far the better game. Really, how can you compare Aria to Dawn when Dawn is Aria with better graphics, better weapons, cooler souls, and more content? The idea that Aria is somehow the superior of the two makes no sense whatsoever.

How about the fact that as I was playing Dawn of Souls it had felt like I had already played two games that were shockingly similiar in the two to three years before that?
Dawn of Souls, on a whole, is a better game, but it's so similiar to the GBA Castlevania games that it's really just more of the same.

Similiar case in point? Mario & Luigi 2. Good game, but it's just more of the same stuff that was in Mario & Luigi: Super Star Saga and most of the changes were for the worse.

But, back on point here, Stuff gets old if you don't mix it up a bit. Castlevania going Metroid on us was mind blowing back in 1997(?) when SotN came out, but I think it's in dire need of a change again if they plan on making this many Castlevanias in such a short period of time.

[g0zen]

Castlevania has changed, for the worst. Look at Lament and that new one, that's the new face of Castlevania and it sucks. That is what makes Dawn of Sorrow so important, it is the last of its kind, and the best since SotN. How many of you really think they'll pump out another on the DS? I say the odds are slim to none, and even if they did, how would they make it better than Dawn of Sorrow?

The point of this conversation is that Dawn of Sorrow is the ultimate Castlevania on a handheld. And it is. It's not overrated.

[Geen]

Castlevania has changed, for the worst. Look at Lament and that new one, that's the new face of Castlevania and it sucks. That is what makes Dawn of Sorrow so important, it is the last of its kind, and the best since SotN. How many of you really think they'll pump out another on the DS? I say the odds are slim to none, and even if they did, how would they make it better than Dawn of Sorrow?

The point of this conversation is that Dawn of Sorrow is the ultimate Castlevania on a handheld. And it is. It's not overrated.

... You really don't think they'll make another on the DS? I think that's seriously silly to think. I'm sure Dawn did just as good, if not better, than the GBA games. I'm sure Konami will have another DS Castlevania out in the next two years.
Now, the question remains, will it be another in the cookie cutter fashon of at least the last three GBA Castlevania games (I never played Circle of the Moon, so I can't speak for that one), or will it be something that actually plays differently? I guess we'll have to wait and see. :-P

[g0zen]

I guess we will, it still doesn't change the fact that I'm right about Dawn of Sorrow.