Castlevania Harmony of Despair - or, metroidvania as crack
Posted: 01 Oct 2011, 17:55
Harmony of Despair is a game in which you and your team go into a chapter run around a lot, kill enemies, open chests to get items, and solve puzzles in order to get to the boss room, where you hopefully kill the boss and get a really rare item.
There are 11 chapters with 2 modes (normal and hard) unlocked as you beat them (so beating ch1 normal gets you ch2 normal, and so on until you beat ch. 6 normal, where you get ch.1 hard), except that the last 5 are dlc, (except 7 which is free on PSN).
There are 10 characters: Soma, Alucard, Jonathan, Charlotte, Shanoa, Julius, Yoko, Richter, Simon, and Fuma, the last 5 being dlc (except Yoko and Julius on psn).
It's FINALLY out on PSN for 15 dollars with Chapter 7, Yoko, and Julius unlocked automatically, and Chapters 8, 9, 10, and 11 cost 2-4 dollars each. Richter, Simon, Fuma, and Maria are also about the same price but i'm too lazy to check it right now maybe i will edit it later.
It's been out for a while on xbla for 15 dollars (i think) without ch7, Yoko, and Julius unlocked automatically and the levels and characters cost slightly more too. I think the reason for this was because in some contract there had to be some advantage to getting the game on PSN if it was ported from xbox blah blah.
Anyway the reason i say this is like crack is because many people (at least on the gamefaqs boards) say it is, and have reported logging 200 hours on the game, and people have written what are pretty much essays on how they think the luck system in the game works, and someone actually got an answer from konami about one aspect (boss chests' luck are determined by the person who opened it) and it's pretty fun from my perspective.
Also, there may be a lot of grinding if you want to go about maxing your characters, but this is true of any game like this, and you should be able to manage fine in the general game if you are decent at metroidvanias and don't try to use new characters on chapter 6 because this will make you die and get mad a lot.
Anyway the main reason i made this thread is to say "hey this game is cool get it and maybe we can play!!!" and also for you to share PSN/XBLA names with each other. I only have the PSN version so yeah, but talk about the game and your experiences... now.
There are 11 chapters with 2 modes (normal and hard) unlocked as you beat them (so beating ch1 normal gets you ch2 normal, and so on until you beat ch. 6 normal, where you get ch.1 hard), except that the last 5 are dlc, (except 7 which is free on PSN).
There are 10 characters: Soma, Alucard, Jonathan, Charlotte, Shanoa, Julius, Yoko, Richter, Simon, and Fuma, the last 5 being dlc (except Yoko and Julius on psn).
It's FINALLY out on PSN for 15 dollars with Chapter 7, Yoko, and Julius unlocked automatically, and Chapters 8, 9, 10, and 11 cost 2-4 dollars each. Richter, Simon, Fuma, and Maria are also about the same price but i'm too lazy to check it right now maybe i will edit it later.
It's been out for a while on xbla for 15 dollars (i think) without ch7, Yoko, and Julius unlocked automatically and the levels and characters cost slightly more too. I think the reason for this was because in some contract there had to be some advantage to getting the game on PSN if it was ported from xbox blah blah.
Anyway the reason i say this is like crack is because many people (at least on the gamefaqs boards) say it is, and have reported logging 200 hours on the game, and people have written what are pretty much essays on how they think the luck system in the game works, and someone actually got an answer from konami about one aspect (boss chests' luck are determined by the person who opened it) and it's pretty fun from my perspective.
Also, there may be a lot of grinding if you want to go about maxing your characters, but this is true of any game like this, and you should be able to manage fine in the general game if you are decent at metroidvanias and don't try to use new characters on chapter 6 because this will make you die and get mad a lot.
Anyway the main reason i made this thread is to say "hey this game is cool get it and maybe we can play!!!" and also for you to share PSN/XBLA names with each other. I only have the PSN version so yeah, but talk about the game and your experiences... now.