Castlevania: Harmony of Despair

I'm pretty sure there's no thread for this yet. Anyway, with the exception of Judgement on the Wii, this is the only online accessible game in the Castlevania series now. It's been out for a few months now and, despite only having six levels, it still holds my interest.

In short, you and up to five other players explore a large stage, killing enemies, finding treasure, and inevitably fighting a boss at the end. It all sounds very tedious, but you're constantly being rewarded with new items and there's a harder difficulty to stave off boredom.

There are five playable characters from around the series and some downloadable ones as well.

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There's also a downloadable stage, but there's only one and it's not quite as entertaining to play as the original six. There's also some downloadable music packs, but I wouldn't recommend them unless you have no way of downloading them off of the internet and have some extra MSpoints laying around.

Anyway, let me know if any of you guys have this. I need some people to play online with.

I'm downloading a demo right now to see what it's like.

I must warn you. The game is very difficult in solo. I had to replay the first stage at least five times before I was skilled, and leveled enough to beat it.

Erazor wrote:I must warn you. The game is very difficult in solo. I had to replay the first stage at least five times before I was skilled, and leveled enough to beat it.

Well, this is a Castlevania game, right?

Jmh wrote:

Erazor wrote:I must warn you. The game is very difficult in solo. I had to replay the first stage at least five times before I was skilled, and leveled enough to beat it.

Well, this is a Castlevania game, right?

Yeah, but I think it's difficult for different reasons.

The graphics of this game look quite good.

I'm expecting good things from this game.

There's been a major update released for this game as of late.

Johnathan, Julius, and Richter haved been buffed a bit with all of their sub-weapons requiring less magic. Soma and Alucard have had a few of their weapon's strengths tweaked. Charlotte has been nerfed a bit. Shanoa is relatively the same. I really don't know or care about Maria or Yoko's updates so whatev.

The multiplayer setup is thankfully much more streamlined.