Free Symphony of the Night

[Mystical Spork]

Do we honestly have to start a movement like with MVC2 to convince Konami to bring Symphony of the Night and Rondo of Blood to modern platforms?

It's been years since they both have been exclusively released on PS4, so that can't mean it permanently exclusive when it could literally sell more if it was released on every other digital store.

And before anybody says. "jUsT EmULaTe oR pIrATe iT, BrO". Not everyone wants to risk their computer to malware or a trojan virus. I just want the convenience of being able to play it anywhere whether it be on PC or Switch, I'm not going take a leap of faith downloading illegal roms on the internet.

[ZAC]

To be fair, buying a legit game copy and extracting the iso to use for emulators is always an option too, much safer than finding roms online.

[Mystical Spork]

Originally posted by ZAC:

To be fair, buying a legit game copy and extracting the iso to use for emulators is always an option too, much safer than finding roms online.

Sure is... Now how long is that going to be the best solution before expensive copies become even more rare in the following years? You can kind of see how that's going to be a problem.

[RussTech]

If you're still getting viruses from downloading ROMs in 2024, you're really using the wrong sites.

[Mystical Spork]

Originally posted by RussTech:

If you're still getting viruses from downloading ROMs in 2024, you're really using the wrong sites.

Some of us just don't want to take the risk. Not to mention, a lot of them are recently being shutdown by Nintendo's lawyers.

[680x0]

folie à deux the thread.

[Tsuki Zero]

You know, I've been thinking why perhaps SotN is in a kind of hell...

I had two short videos (less than 20 seconds), whose focus were on gameplay, claimed by Sony Music Entertainment.

So maybe SotN's soundtrack AS A WHOLE is owned by SME, and SME is overprotective about it and won't just let Konami use it willy-nilly

[Saph]

With how they've been releasing these in collections and so far and covered every single character who appeared in Harmony of Despair including Getsu Fuma, I'm half convinced they'll just release a port of SotN with Rondo and Harmony of Despair with all the DLCs. And I'd buy that ♥♥♥♥ day 1 with zero hesitation.

[ArmeniusLOD]

Screw SOTN. It's overrated. I'd rather see Legacy of Darkness, Lament of Innocence and Curse of Darkness on PC.

[Tsuki Zero]

Originally posted by ArmeniusLOD:

Screw SOTN. It's overrated.

I actually agree. I have the same feeling about Super Metroid: people put it in a high pedestal, but it is badly flawed, as evidenced by the successors doing things better than they did by a large margin.

[RussTech]

Originally posted by Mystical Spork:

Originally posted by RussTech:

If you're still getting viruses from downloading ROMs in 2024, you're really using the wrong sites.

Some of us just don't want to take the risk. Not to mention, a lot of them are recently being shutdown by Nintendo's lawyers.

There are whole collections on the Internet Archive that are safe to download.

[GoldInfinit7]

I agree. When I saw this on the Steam front page, I was like please let it include Syphony of the Night and was disappointed when it did not have it. I mean come on, it's like my most hoped for Castlevania game to be on PC, i mean officially.

Also, Lament of Innocence, that would be great too.

[Rocket2049]

the ps4 port isn't even good, i still rather play the OG ps1 game.
bad re-dubbing, new glitches, maria completely changed gameplay wise,
and massively overrated game, all the GBA and DS games are much more fun and have more content, i 200.6% SOTN in under 8 hours not even trying or using any glitches and none of it was really that fun, nostalgia is blinding.

[marcew44]

Originally posted by Rocket2049:

the ps4 port isn't even good, i still rather play the OG ps1 game.
bad re-dubbing, new glitches, maria completely changed gameplay wise,
and massively overrated game, all the GBA and DS games are much more fun and have more content, i 200.6% SOTN in under 8 hours not even trying or using any glitches and none of it was really that fun, nostalgia is blinding.

I disagree. Circle of the Moon and Harmony of Dissonance are worse than SoTN, Aria of Sorrow is the only GBA Castlevania that succeeded in making a Castlevania on par with SoTN.

[Tsuki Zero]

Originally posted by marcew44:

Originally posted by Rocket2049:

the ps4 port isn't even good, i still rather play the OG ps1 game.
bad re-dubbing, new glitches, maria completely changed gameplay wise,
and massively overrated game, all the GBA and DS games are much more fun and have more content, i 200.6% SOTN in under 8 hours not even trying or using any glitches and none of it was really that fun, nostalgia is blinding.

I disagree. Circle of the Moon and Harmony of Dissonance are worse than SoTN, Aria of Sorrow is the only GBA Castlevania that succeeded in making a Castlevania on par with SoTN.

No, you are completely wrong. Here's why:
Circle of the Moon's castle not only felt MASSIVE, but also the game was far more difficult/challenging. Plus it has more "modes" (of course, all basic Nathan Graves with different loadouts, but still more fun than whatever SOTN had)
Harmony of Dissonance did the "two castles" right, by legit changing them rather than doing asset flip like SotN did, plus there's a mode where you have no magic and it makes the game more challenging AND fun.
Aria of Sorrow FAR surpassed SotN by multiple points.

Perhaps you should get your nostalgia goggles off, I took mine off a long time ago.

[marcew44]

Originally posted by Tsuki Zero:

Originally posted by marcew44:

I disagree. Circle of the Moon and Harmony of Dissonance are worse than SoTN, Aria of Sorrow is the only GBA Castlevania that succeeded in making a Castlevania on par with SoTN.

No, you are completely wrong. Here's why:
Circle of the Moon's castle not only felt MASSIVE, but also the game was far more difficult/challenging. Plus it has more "modes" (of course, all basic Nathan Graves with different loadouts, but still more fun than whatever SOTN had)
Harmony of Dissonance did the "two castles" right, by legit changing them rather than doing asset flip like SotN did, plus there's a mode where you have no magic and it makes the game more challenging AND fun.
Aria of Sorrow FAR surpassed SotN by multiple points.

Perhaps you should get your nostalgia goggles off, I took mine off a long time ago.

What nostalgia goggles? I wasn't even alive when the game released in 1997, nor do I have an "emotional connection" to it. I just think SoTN is better than the 2 first GBA games, with Aria being where they finally struck gold again.