31st October 2003, 1:13 PM
Damn I'm good as Spanish!
I've been Lament of Innocence for a couple of hours now and the game really does kick ass. It starts off slow but then really begins to build up, and it's a great combination of the SotN play style and Castlevania IV. The graphics are very nice, the level design is... okay that could be improved upon, the music is really incredible (my vote for best video game soundtrack of 2003), and the combat system is superb. At first glace it does seem a bit like DMC but once you get deeper into the fighting system it becomes very different. It's far more complex, and much more acrobatic. However this is definitely not a straight beat-em-up like DMC is. The emphasis is on exploration even more than it is on fighting, so this is definitely more like SotN and the past three GBA Castlevanias then it is like DMC.
I've been Lament of Innocence for a couple of hours now and the game really does kick ass. It starts off slow but then really begins to build up, and it's a great combination of the SotN play style and Castlevania IV. The graphics are very nice, the level design is... okay that could be improved upon, the music is really incredible (my vote for best video game soundtrack of 2003), and the combat system is superb. At first glace it does seem a bit like DMC but once you get deeper into the fighting system it becomes very different. It's far more complex, and much more acrobatic. However this is definitely not a straight beat-em-up like DMC is. The emphasis is on exploration even more than it is on fighting, so this is definitely more like SotN and the past three GBA Castlevanias then it is like DMC.