Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS) Reviews

With all the hype and attention on other Playstation titles like your Tomb Raiders, Resident Evils, Crash Bandicoots and even your Final Fantasies, people may overlook one of the Playstation's best games ever made; Konami's huge 2D adventure game and cult favouite CastleVania: Symphony Of The Night. The storyline starts off as vampire ...  Read the complete review

Castlevania is back leading where the last incarnation left off. It introduces the game with the original ending to the last SNES game and draws you in from there. The first thing that hits you when playing this game is the basic graphics. Fair enough they are adequet but still in 2d and not even sharp or hi-res for that matter. The game ...  Read the complete review

I played this on my Snes and looked forward to getting my hands on a copy. I couldn’t wait for the official release so I got this game on Import. I like 2d platforms and this is a very good game especially when you get turned upside down it plays like a very new game and there are new areas which open up. Some very large ...  Read the complete review

This is certainly one of the best platformers that I've played in a long time. It was getting to the stage where I thought that nothing new could be injected into the genre, but this game managed to add some great original ideas, and provided an enjoyable and worthwhile game-playing experience. Basically, the plot is that after ...  Read the complete review

If you ask people for a list of their favorite SNES games, there is a good chance they'll say Castlevania. If you ask a Playstation gamer their favorite Playstation games, I'd be very surprised if this title was mentioned. In this title you start the game as Richter Bellmont, in the scene from the end of the second (less popular) ...  Read the complete review

Castlevania for the playstation will probably prove quite hard to track down now. It never made much of an impact wqhen it first came out and I was able to pick it up cheaply in a sale. It's a shame really because this really is an excellent platformer. The graphics and music are atmospheric and well produced. It uses large detailed sprites ...  Read the complete review