Castlevania Advance Collection includes three legendary Castlevania games that were first released in the early 2000s: Circle of the Moon, Aria of Sorrow, and Harmony of Despair. In addition, this collection also includes Castlevania: Dracula X and some never-before-seen sketches and artwork from the games! All four games are enhanced with newly added modern features such as Rewind, Save/Load, and Replay, making this the best way possible to experience these classics or discover them for the first time! This collection also boasts a handy Encyclopedia, a Music Player with all soundtracks; and you can even change the ROM Region to play all games in different versions.
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My seething, burning hatred for Konami as a corporation aside, they really do make a fine anthology. It includes all three regional variations of all four games, Circle of the Moon has an encyclopedia that is easily referenced throughout play, the rewind function is seamless and makes grinding for items far less obtuse than in the original releases, and it includes enhanced audio- which is a godsend while playing Harmony of Dissonance.
A suprise for sure but a welcome one
Amazing collection of some of the best Castlevania games. Loved the added user interface and sub menus to make collecting items and other stuff easier and keep track of that.
Fantastic collection of the GBA Castlevania games. While these games aren't too hard to find and play by other means, its great to have them on PC, with some bonus QoL and polish. Not much was updated for the games themselves though, which is ok. As an achievement hunter, its always a bonus to be able to play older games like this with achievements to go for.
Now please bring the DS titles. Please.
Now please bring the DS titles. Please.
I didn't expect to be saying this about a Konami product from the 2020s, but Castlevania: Advance Collection is a gold-standard for what a collection of retro games should be.
This collection features all three GBA Castlevania games, those being Circle of the Moon, Harmony of Dissonance and Aria of Sorrow, all of which can be played in their American, European or Japanese versions. There is little to no input lag, at least on the PS4 version, and the emulator comes with all sorts of convenient functionality, like save states, a clip function, a rewind function and remappable controls, a checklist that not all retro game collections manage to fill.
It goes a step further than that, however, adding an encyclopedia with information on all enemies and items, as well as what it calls "gadgets". Those gadgets are helpful UI elements that aid in the completion of each game: in Circle of the Moon, they show which enemies carry an unobtained DSS card; in Harmony of Dissonance, they show key items and furniture pieces present in an area; finally, in Aria of Sorrow, they show whether Soma has picked up the soul of an enemy he's fighting at that moment. All three gadgets are very welcome additions to their respective games.
The collection also comes with the SNES port of Rondo of Blood, Dracula X... but we try not to talk about that one.
This collection features all three GBA Castlevania games, those being Circle of the Moon, Harmony of Dissonance and Aria of Sorrow, all of which can be played in their American, European or Japanese versions. There is little to no input lag, at least on the PS4 version, and the emulator comes with all sorts of convenient functionality, like save states, a clip function, a rewind function and remappable controls, a checklist that not all retro game collections manage to fill.
It goes a step further than that, however, adding an encyclopedia with information on all enemies and items, as well as what it calls "gadgets". Those gadgets are helpful UI elements that aid in the completion of each game: in Circle of the Moon, they show which enemies carry an unobtained DSS card; in Harmony of Dissonance, they show key items and furniture pieces present in an area; finally, in Aria of Sorrow, they show whether Soma has picked up the soul of an enemy he's fighting at that moment. All three gadgets are very welcome additions to their respective games.
The collection also comes with the SNES port of Rondo of Blood, Dracula X... but we try not to talk about that one.
A great collection of mostly "fine" titles, held up especially by Aria of Sorrow. Though the game quality can be a mixed bag (Dracula X in particular sucks ass to put it nicely), putting all of these now-elusive and expensive titles into a far more affordable collection is something I'll always champion game companies to continue doing.