I beat SotN again and feel lost. I understand why people want to break this game to pieces. I want there to be more of it.
Ah well.
I have faith that one day it will be completely and accessibly hackable and weāll see some interesting projects.
Same for the GBA games.
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Harmony of Dissonance is particularly fertile ground for doing weird rearrangements of its levels.
I am playing the original Castlevania on my PSP now. Trying to do it somewhat authentically - no save states, no looking up walkthroughs.
The first level is a better tutor than the first level of Super Mario Bros. It teaches more complicated concepts in an equally sleek way. The game is not as hard as I thought it would be (so far). Iāve beaten the mummies a couple of times now, still working on the next level.
I can see why @CourierRice described this as a perfect game.
It was beautiful when I realized that I could just walk forward and Medusa Heads would never hit me.
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something s been bug(punk)gin me since I lookt up Japanese ostn fan pages
so the familiars in sotn are pretty cool, yeah. use them for secrets, level them up in obscene ways, look at cute animations
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most of us probably did the obsessive soul collection in X of Sorrows and glyph absorption in OOoooeEEEE and just testin every dSSang magical card combo in COTM
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charlotte has summon spells in POR? donāt know about that
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then Curse of Darkness, god bless, had innocent devils
but did anyone here use non-COD familiars as an actual thing? a preference? a habit? an addiction?
past all the aforementioned
in my wide imagination I Struggle to imagine anyone playing COTM with any combo of Saturn+attribute card active
easier to see the use of Guardian Souls in Sorrow but not on a regular basis
Shanoaās pets are nice, can pull a few tricks, but in most combat scenarios?
There has to be some people out there who use familiars for more than novelty and I want to know if any of these people are here.
I seem to remember using the bat familiar in Dawn of Sorrow early in the game. Itās easy to level up to the max, and then you get 3 bats. Pretty useful early on.
Other than thatā¦not really. I mean, the Sword Familiar in SotN is useful at times, and since itās free, I just leave him on.
Maybe Iām not understanding the question but I did like having the sword familiar around in SotN for a sense of companionship in the same way that I liked having a trio of owls present in Ecclesia
I just remembered that I lost my DS Stylus thanks to Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow. It had those bosses where youād be using the buttons to play Soma, then suddenly youād have to very quickly switch to the stylus to draw the arcane symbol to kill the boss. If you screwed up the symbol or waited too long then the boss would revive with half health or something similar.
I was riding the bus a lot, and therefore playing my DS a lot. I was on a tough boss and could not get my stylus out on time to kill it. So instead, I jammed the stylus under my leg so I could get it easily. Unfortunately I left it there, and it was never seen again.
Thanks Obama
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Whoa. People actually used the stylus for that?
I justā¦ had always used an index finger.
gecko fingers are good for opening sliding glass doors whose handles have fallen off, but
not so good for our touchscreen future
My fingers are weird and kind of greasy all the time, and they cause just enough friction on those old DS screens to make my swipes inaccurate.
yup, weāre eternal clam-hands on the love tester leaderboards
Maybe once per day my hands are dry enough that I can get three sentences out using a Swype-style keyboard on my phone. Then itās warmed up and the lubrication begins and I have to switch to fat-fingering
I hate fingerprints so I just use my finger joints for everything touchscreen related.
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