| A little over a moth ago I purchased a gamboy advance and a couple of games. One of those games was.....SUPER MARIO ADVANCE! The other was Castlevania: Circle of the Moon. After playing Castlevania for a while, I started to remember being young and spending many irritating hours in front of my television play Castlevania 2 on my NES. Those memories apparently flooded my brain because before I knew what I was doing, I had bought the first 3 castlevania games on eBay. When they finally got to my house, I decided to start with the logical choice, so I poped number 3 into my NES and turned on the power (more on that in the review for castlevania 3). After that, I decided to see if number two was as complicated as I had thought when I was like 5. I was pleasantly surprised when I found out that yes it was in fact just as confusing (if not more so) now than it had ever been. I think this is due mainly to the fact that you really have no idea what to do and where to go unless you have a walkthrough. The story basicly says that Simon Belmont (the hero of this and number 1) has been suffering from a curse placed on him by Dracula when he offed him in the first adventure. Somewhere between 1 and 2 Simon gets it in his moronic little head that the best way to cure this curse is to go around to neighboring towns and seek out the many haunted mansions throughout the countryside to find Dracula's body parts (aparently after he died the first time he also blew up) which are guarded by his minions that somehow escaped a serious beating in the first go around. But as idiodic as all of this sounds so far, you haven't even learned the reason that he wants the body parts yet. He plans to take the body parts and use them to resurect Dracula so that he can attempt to kill him again to somehow break the curse (yes, I know how redundant that sounds as well as how stupid he is for wanting to bring Dracula back to life with no certanty that he will win round 2). Any of you that are still willing to stick with him on his suicide mission should be prepared for an insanely difficult game made only harder by the fact that whenever night falls the monsters become twice as tough, all buildings in town close, and oh yeah, I almost forgot about the zombies that appear in town after hours (apparently Simon having a curse is the same thing as Dracula cursing all of the towns and forests and everything in between). The game then becomes near impossible unless you either a) have a good walkthrough, or b) are extremely good at solving puzzles and decoding riddles (even with that some of the people flat out lie to you so the game becomes mainly killing monsters and solving puzzles and riddles based on guess work, so I recommend getting a walkthrough). |