I love that these games are getting more attention! I recently played Aria of Sorrow and I loved it.
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Aria of Sorrow and Dawn of Sorrow are the standouts here for sure. Not that the others are bad, but those two are just exceptional.
I need to start that second one!
It's good, but beware the OG DS version. There's a tacked-on minigame when you beat a boss that requires you draw a symbol on the screen to finish the fight. If you mess it up, the boss comes back to life (not full anyway) and you have to kill them again. Early bosses aren't so bad, but later bosses have some ridiculously complex symbols to draw. It's infuriating and stupid. I'm sure the new release does away with them in some manner.
Good to know! I’ll check that out. I remember hearing something about this in a review.
The best games in the series imo
I'm looking forward to playing through the DS Castlevania games, I've avoided emulating them because I didn't want to deal with the touch control parts.
Maybe Emulation is something you would look into? I actually prefer emulating the games myself, over playing the official Steam version (not at least because of the Shaders). Also there are lot of Mods (also known as Romhacks) for these games.
I imagine they must have given these are playable on PC, and doing them with a mouse would be just short of impossible.
The Steam Input system allows you to customize controls with lot of features available. So if they butcher this up, you have at least tools built into the Steam Deck to customize it. But it requires some time and effort, and that's not always someone wants to put into to play a classic game.
The Steam versions are usually less expensive than hunting down the game cartridges and the hardware necessary to copy the contents to a PC ;)
That's true. But there are legit ways to purchase Roms and extract them for use in your favorite emulator. In example the SNES Classic console from Nintendo, or the Genesis and Sega Games collection on Steam. If I were to buy Castlevania Advance, I would probably extract the Roms for use in RetroArch.
I've emulated the GBA games in the past. I think the port is actually very well put-together as far as emulated games go. I do wish the menu with savestates were a little snappier.
I only tried to emulate the DS games once or twice. I'm sure DS emulation is better now, but it was really rough, then.