In a moment of sheer boredom, I beat Castlevania III again yesterday. God bless emulators.

Has anyone seen some of the new screenshots from Curse of Darkness? It's looking NICE. Specifically, there's a shot from the Xbox version of Hector standing outside the castle in what looks to be a garden or gated area. Off in the distance, through extreme fog, you can see the lights of the castle glowing through the windows. It's gorgeous. I'll go get a link to it.

Man! Look at the detail in his clothing and hair. This game's gonna kick!

One thing I'm a little hesitant about with Curse is that Michiru Yamane, the music composer for Symphony and Lament (and some others) is going back to a more rock-oriented score over Lament's incredible classical style. Le sigh.

I have to agree. I'm not too concerned about the actual quality of the soundtrack but i am worried about it dampening the Horror atmosphere of the game.

Here's another thing I hope that 'Curse' gives us: "Freelook". It was a sin in Lament to have all those beautiful enviroments and yet no way to really look around and examine them.

There's a hands-on preview of 'Curse' on gamespot.com, in the PS2 section. Lookin' good so far!

Where are the Castlevania legions!? Have you not seen the new stuff from Curse? This game is, to use the vonacular of the day, going to 'own your ###'. Well, it's definitely going to improve Lament's flaws, and be a better game to boot. I also think it'll be better than Dawn of Sorrow, but I'm also incredibly tired of 2D Symphony-clone Castlevanias...

How can you be tired of follow ups to Symphony of the Night? Especially when Dawn of Sorrow...well, I won't spoil it. Castlevania has always worked better in 2D for me.

Unless Curse of Darkness fixes some major problems with exploring the castle, namely having to walk through an entire area to get to one place (instead of using teleport rooms), then I'll wait till it's a little cheaper to get it. I liked Lament of Innocence just fine, but I enjoyed the 2D Castlevanias a whole lot more.

So now that curse of darkness has been out for a while and I've come back-any takers on the game.

I think it's pretty good-though definately slight improvements of Lament-its more of a combination between Lament of Innocence and Symphony.

I'm ashamed there's no free-look, but the teleportation, various weapons, fight with Trevor, and extension beyond the castle kind of make up for it.

I bought Dawn of Sorrow for the DS. Great game. If this doesn't make you get a DS, nothing will.

It actually is what made me get a DS. Long story short, I really ragged on the DS for awhile...then I saw that it really was almost on par with the N64 hardware.

Then I found out it had free Wi-Fi games on the way.

Then came Castlevania, and I gave in. I LOVE the DS now, and Dawn of Sorrow rocks four kinds of hard.

I'm stuck at Abbadon now, though. Pain in the keister... >.>

sounds interesting-thats the sequel with Soma Cruz, correct?

Yeppers. Storyline is nothing special, until the end. There's three different endings, and the second ending sets up an ACTUAL STORYLINE for Julius Mode. Go figure.

Basically, they took Aria of Sorrow, polished it up so the gameplay, Soul System, and machanics worked better, and then gave it near-Symphony level graphics. If you have a DS, you should get this game.

I'd love to, but I'm addicted to Curse of Darkness.