I paused on Curse. I'm up to one of the last few boss fights, and I think I need to level up a bit more.

How far are you in Curse?

90 some percent. I'm about to fight Isaac in Drac's Castle. What can I say, I like the game-plus I hear if you beat it you get to play as Trevor so that'll be fun.

Who's the boss-is it the legion granfalloon thing-man I hate the last part where you fight the nucleus dude.

Though I did level up about 20 levels since.

Okay, you're farther than me. I'm at the 2nd Trevor battle, and I haven't beaten Legion yet. I started going back to fill in some missing areas on my map to level up a bit.

I ended up putting the game on the shelf while I played Dawn, but when I left off I was working on the Tower of Evermore. That Tower is TOUGH.

And yes, if you beat the game, you can play through as Trevor. The game has a LOT of hidden content, like:

If you start a new game on a PS2 memory card with a Lament of Innocence save file on it, near the beginning of the Abandoned Castle you'll find the Moai Statue, which is a one-time super healing item

There's a hidden Innocent Devil that's insanely hard to get. You have to get a Miracle Egg, for starters...

####. I used the egg already . . .

and the devil is the pumpkin head guy-dammit. I made a sucky sword with that egg.

Yeah, Trevor is a tough fight. All my familiars died before I beat him. I think I used a punching weapon either the shellfists or bangankhas or whatever. I believe there's a combo with them where you can do an attack that does 100 damage. Either way, the fists do fast attacks that keep Trevor from doing some nasty damage.

Tower of Evermore-thats the 50 level tower with all the baddies, right?

The one in the forest or the chapel area?

You got a Miracle Egg? Good grief. Those are INSANELY rare. Well, sort of. Anyhow, you use that to make the Pumpkin Mace, and the mace somehow lets you get the Pumpkin ID, which from what I hear is more of a gag thing.

Tower of Eternity is the hidden tower, BEHIND the Tower of Evermore. You need a bird ID with Long Glide to get to it. It's insanely hard, because it's all like Level 72 enemies, plus some only found in there. However, at the end are Golden Bones, and that's the only place to find them for sure (technically they can appear wherever Skeletons appear, but it's incredibly rare), and I believe Golden Bones ALWAYS drop Miracle Eggs. The only other thing that drops them are Evil Cores, but that's their Rare Drop.

My biggest complaint about Curse (and it's a big one for me) is that so little of it takes place in Castlevania. You have the Giribaldi Temple, which LOOKS like a Castlevania area, and then you have the final area, but that's it. The other levels were cool and all, but they just didn't feel like Castlevania areas. I think they were trying to give it a Castlevania II/III feel, but I didn't care for it. Plus, the soundtrack paled in comparison to Lament of Innocence, though it was good. The theme for the Town of Cordova was awesome.

I kind of liked the expansion beyond just castlevania, but if they made castlevania Castlevania rather than just running around outside and then a couple of rooms indoors (granted it extends to seven or eight levels, but it's a simple layout of follow the map). let the castle be an entire hug itself as well as part of a larger hub

That and all the indoor areas were really repetitive. I can handle symmetry and similar decor in rooms, but when you've got an entire castle that doesn't change in room design . . .

And I agree, Cordova music was great-so is the tower music. Abandoned Castle isn't bad.

Though Lament's music was kind of the same-only about 3-6 good songs, the rest weren't so great.

Now symphony had a ton of good ones-Tragic Prince, Dracula's Castle, Moonlight Nocturne, etc.

Sad to say, I still haven't played a Castlevania with Bloody Tears or Vampire killer-I'm not worthy, I know.

Yeah, you have played a Castlevania with Vampire Killer: Lament. The song 'Admiration for a Clan' has Vampire Killer in it, around the middle. XD

The best CV song is Requiem for the Gods, the theme you hear in the Chapel in Symphony.

Well, its in the ending credits-not in a level.

Eh, I guess it counts.

Personally my favorite is Moonlight Nocturne, but Vampire Killer, Bloody Tears, Tragic Prince (and there's another I'm forgetting . . .) that are really good, too.

Requieum of the Gods has that classic sound-what with the harmonious singing of chapel hymns and such.

Also, for those who don't know, there's a new Castlevania in the works for the DS. It's tentatively titled Dracula Castlevania, and is rumored to support wi-fi online play in some form. Woo!

Hmm...one of these days I'll remember to check on this forum more as I would've jumped in a lot sooner had I seen this thread. Been a _huge_ fan of the Castlevania series since the original Nintendo days - yes, I know the Japanese game was very different (in part because I bought it when they released it for the Playstation ) - and it's actually a large part of why I even bought a Nintendo in the first place. Great series (and I really wish I knew more about emulators so I could go back and play some of the old games easier).

I'm enjoying Curse but I'm always notoriously slow at these type of games because I'm always paranoid of missing a secret or screwing up and making the wrong item (see: the Miracle Egg/Pumpkin situation) so I end up never doing anything. Pathetic, I know...

I can email you an NES emulator and CV 1-3 for it. There's nothing to it at all. You can even save anywhere you want. :D

I have other...goods, but I dare not name them in a public forum. :>

Have you played Lament of Innocence?

Hook. Me. Up.