[Impressions] Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (DS)
My girlfriend got me Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (DS) this weekend. So far I’ve only spent about 2 hours playing the game but I’ve really been enjoying the game and can highly recommend it to anyone who owes a DS and enjoys Castlevania games.
The main difference between this Castlevania game and past games is that the game is broken-up into separate areas on a world map instead of the one large castle map. This eliminates the mindless wondering that you sometimes encounter in past games while trying to find where to be next. All the exploration and secrets are still intact, just in manageable chunks.
Weapons are now in the form of “glyphs” that you find from killing monsters and absorb. You can equip and combine glyphs for different heart special attacks.
This is quite a hard Castlevania, but not in the bad way. You will die a lot, but if you save a lot you won’t be too frustrated and just keep trying until you beat the boss or area you were stuck on.
This is easily the best looking 2D Castlevania I’ve played, great animation and sprites. The sound is also impressive, there is even a “surround” option to enable surround sound for headphones.
I can’t wait to play more.
