castlevania dawn of sorrow..

[Richter Belmount]

I didnt really like it to much till.
That the fact that the graphics were too dark , gameplay was the same(still fun) and didnt hear the music to great.
But I got a nintendo ds lite and kinda turned it around a bit for me , sure the gameplay is the same , but the game simply looks amazing on the ds lite all the colors man , and character designs look amazing if anyone has seen it , also I dont know if its just me ( i think it made the game sound better as well) .

[mailman187666]

yes I actually did notice the DS lite makes a lot of the color and detail stand out much better. I don't know so much about the sound being a great deal better. But the lighter screen definately makes it look that much better. I think a DS lite is worth the purchase even if you do own a reular DS. I just hold onto my old one in case anybody wants to play some 2 player or something. But try going from Dawn of Sorrow to Aria of Sorrow and you'll notice a big difference in those two titles as far as visuals go. I didn't think there was much difference until i went back to the older GBA ones. Try checking that out.

[NE146]

What I noticed on the DS lite is at the highest brightness setting, when you kill something that dies with flame in a dark place (like the eyeball creature near the beginning) the flame that comes out is super bright I love it.

By the way.. 30+ hours into Castlevania DS. I just finished it

[Daniel Thomas]

The game really comes alive in Hard Mode. The trick, of course, is to sell everything and begin again from scratch. The game becomes hard again. Classic Castlevania hard. Yay!

I killed waaay too many hours on DoS. I'm sure most of the DS owners here have.

[studvicious]

I'm playing it right now on my Lite and I'm enjoying every minute of it. I'm about 6 hours in and about 68% done.

[calthaer]

The strange thing for me was that I had the 3rd GBA game (Aria of...something) plugged in when I started Dawn of Sorrow, but I didn't get the bonus items that I was supposed to when the game started. I am going to have to try to start a new one sometime and see what happens.

[cyberfluxor]

They finally got this game restocked in my area but it was limited! My friend picked it up 3 days ago at Best Buy and is loving it, but finding it quite difficult. I wondered up there today because I just got paid and can go grab it but it's sold out around the corner so I'm going to have to dash across to the other city when I get off work at 9pm and get one of the 2 last copies they have. I'll keep everyone informed of if I manage to get it.

[dbiersdorf]

Best DS game to date.

[studvicious]

The strange thing for me was that I had the 3rd GBA game (Aria of...something) plugged in when I started Dawn of Sorrow, but I didn't get the bonus items that I was supposed to when the game started. I am going to have to try to start a new one sometime and see what happens.

I'm not 100% sure but to get the special item at the start you need the GBA game AND a finished game file on it.

[exit]

This game brought the series back to life for me, since the last couple of releases just felt like failed attempts to creat another SOTN.

[cyberfluxor]

Got it!! They just had 1 left and I grabbed it. They're all out in my area again.

[Lothars]

I love this game easily one of my favorite ds games

it's an awesome game, I would recommend it to everyone

even though getting the souls is not always fun it's such a great game.

[-hellvin-]

The strange thing for me was that I had the 3rd GBA game (Aria of...something) plugged in when I started Dawn of Sorrow, but I didn't get the bonus items that I was supposed to when the game started. I am going to have to try to start a new one sometime and see what happens.

I'm not 100% sure but to get the special item at the start you need the GBA game AND a finished game file on it.

Yes, you need to have aria of sorrow with a completed game file. A lot of people had problems when the game came out and found out they had pirate copies they had gotten online, which won't give you the item because it lacks a simple line of code. Glad I buy all my gba stuff new.

[Nez]

God damn it now you tell me, ugh goodbye free items.