Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance

THE GOOD:
Deep,Engaging Game

SUMMARY:
Circle of the moon was good but this..this is just great! everything i hated about COTM has been fixed here. An easy to use magic book thingy replaces the card combos in the previous game. Juste Belmont controls really well and has a whip (DUH!) i could go on forever about how good this game is but ill just sum it up in PERFECT! I havent been that much into castlevania and now i am...thats saying a little too much, Its also VERY addictive and fun to play...considering its not so hard to SEE now. the game takes place in 1748,WAAAAAAAY before the last game and features big,colorful, atractive graphics to back it up.Juste controls better then Simon in the last game (easier too)and the magic system is re-done, as i said before....and its massively filled with hidden rooms and secrets everywhere you go.

THE GOOD:
good old Whip cracking action, Juste, the castle, and the room that you get to build out of stuff you find in the castle, Maxim

THE BAD:
to short

SUMMARY:
This is a good addition to the castlevania games, another fine job on the GBA, this was the first one and then AoS was another, but one before this CotM, that was horrible, not to rag on that here, HoD, was a game that had cool characters evil and good, Juste (good) was a cool character with his whip, and you could add stuff to equip on the tip, then Maxim (Evil) he was cool because you got to use him after you beat him and he has a sword, sorry but after playing all the castlevaniasbefore it, I played with a whip (except SotN)...but got tired of using the whip and liked using the sword, which is why Maxim is good in HoD, Alucard was awesome in SotN, and Soma was good in AoS...

THE GOOD:
-graphics and animation on the characters
-the holy fist+wind book combo
-playing as Maxim is fun
-2 castles!
-different whip add-ons

THE BAD:
-too short
-not enough magic combos at your disposal, per sub-weapon
- its a little easy
-the experience points that the enemies give out decrease every time you gain a level, making level 99 impossible to get to

SUMMARY:

This game would be better than Circle Of the Moon if it wasn't so short and easy. Its not too easy though, if your new at the genre you might have some trouble but i only died once(i mastered Circle of the moon, so i was prepared for this). there are also 2 castles, one evil one and one uhh more evil one, you will occasionally have to switch through both of them.
If your new to castlevania and wondering what its like, i think you should pick this onr up, its brighter and faster paced than Circl of the moon.

In the beginning, there was Symphony of the Night for PlayStation. Konami mixed the action elements of Castlevania with a RPG system of equipment and exploration. It was simple, but the result was absolutely astounding, and Konami released an extremely well received Castlavania title. Then, after several years of fans clamoring for a sequel, Konami finally released Castlevania: Circle of the Moon on the Game Boy Advance as a launch title. Though it was an excellent game, it was still somewhat different from Symphony of the Night, and so, Konami started developing the next game in the series that would be the true successor to Symphony of the Night. That game is Castlevania: White Night Concerto.

The game starts off 50 years after Simon Belmont defeats Dracula for the first time. You take the role of Juste Belmont, the great grandson of Simon, who has journeyed to Dracula's castle together with Maxim, his childhood friend, to save Lydie, another childhood friend who appears to have be...

THE GOOD:
-graphics
-2 castles
-cool looking speel combinations
-collectable items for Juste's room, GREAT IDEA!
-larger characters look cool
-Bosses are well animated
- the wind book+sacred fist thing is so cool!

THE BAD:
-i didn't really like the idea of combining magic books with sub weapons, wince you can only carry 1 cub at a time
-bosses are too easy
-navigating through the castle is sometimes confusing
-the music wasnt ass good as the other game's
-should've been cooler whip add-ons

SUMMARY:

Man, is this a good game! It's so addicting I couldn't put it down.It combines great 2D action with RPG elements> The bosses looked so cool! but were too easy and navigating through the castle is kinna hard(its hard to remember where you gneed to reurn once you got the item needed). This game is worth checking out if you liked the first one and if your into good 2D RPG games

THE GOOD:
good story line and different ending

THE BAD:
too short, and too little things to collect

SUMMARY:
-should had made the game with much higer level......
-items to collect should be more.....
-also able to trade items with friends
-more magie items
-able to choses the main role
-more bosses to defeat
-able to lenghten the wipe
-alter weapons like swords or knifes

THE GOOD:
Much improved on the original Castlevania Advance - great graphics, a haunting soundtrack and a near perfect RPG/platofrm/action genre meld. I triumph.

THE BAD:
Can get a little too complex in areas, giving a lot of cunfusion. Also, although less so than Circle of the Moon, the dark game doesn't bode well with the dark GBA screen.

SUMMARY:
This was a sequal that I was all over - the second Castlevania made exclusivly for the GBA, and I had high hopes, mainly because the first was absolutely brilliant. I wasn't dissapointed.

Harmony of Dissonence takes all of the aspects that made Circle of the Moon so great and improved on them. I recieved this with mixed feelings.

The graphics are superb. Not exactly testing the GBA, but they look a lot nicer than games that do, if you get my drift; its not power, its skill that ultimatly decides the quality of a game's graphics. This is shown very well, and although its too dark for a GBA game, the textures are extremily good, as is some of the...

THE GOOD:
everything is good: great graphics, very addictive role playing system, lots of items to find, big castle to explore.

THE BAD:
since i have to put something here, the music isnt as great as circle of the moon, but it is still good.

SUMMARY:
this game is very addicting, you'll find your self sucked in like you were with super metroid. go buy it now!! a nice feature is that the game starts out fairly easy, than gradually gets more and more difficult as Juste gains levels.

I absolutely love this game it's just as entertaining as symphony of the night for the ps1 even if I found it a little shorter. Just is a great main character and reminds me very much of alucard.
The music is very atmosphere and adds to the game and the backgrounds are very impressive especially on the sky walk way.
One of the few flaws I found was just as in circle of the moon the sprites animation wasn't the greatest, I also found it hard to get save points sometimes and felt they could have threw in a few more.

all in all I thought this was an amazing game and one of the best gba games I've played thus far. I reccomend it to anyone.

Well what a pleasant surprise this game was an excellent sequel to the allready notorious and equally fantastic circle of moon.
This is possibly one of the best games in the series along with my favorite, symphony of the night, and castlevania XX on the snes.
The game is a bit easy on the difficulty of enemies, and the bosses are relatively simple, but what is the true interest of the game is the completion of the game with a 200% on youre screen
Anyhow i recommend this game to any fan of the series!

also juste is a very charismatic character only beaten by Alucard