Let's Play Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (badly? Probably)

[Tomapella]

So Castlevania: CotM came out in 2001 and was heralded as the followup to SotN, generally receiving good reviews as one of the GBA's early must-have titles, despite flaws like being impossible to see unless you were playing under a large array of 500-watt stadium lights. I played it back in the day and struggled intensely with its fairly high difficulty, I being quite the crappy gamer as a kid. Now that time has passed, I've put a bunch of hours into Dark Souls, so maybe I'm better now? I'm craving some Metroidvania action, so I thought I'd give a LP of it a try!

This is the first time I've really tried to do live commentary on a thing, so it'll probably improve over time. I know there're some filler words in there, and that I say "Symphony of the Night" more in this video than in raocow's entire LP of that game to this point, but I'm looking forward to rediscovering this game!

Episode 1 - Backlight - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvQMXnz ... e=youtu.be
Episode 2 - Dogfight - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL3PUF1 ... e=youtu.be
Episode 3 - Left? Right? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItK38_i ... e=youtu.be
Episode 4 - Necromancer in Flight - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcgHQXO ... e=youtu.be
Episode 5 - Frostbite - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKNLPys ... e=youtu.be

[Xalnop]

I just helped walk my brother through this this weekend :) It can get kinda grindy at times but I think it's one of the better Castles in the vanias

[Tomapella]

Yeah, I'm surprised by how much I like it actually. It's a little bland-looking compared to some of the other games in the series, but the gameplay is really solid.

In today's video, I beat the first boss! I think I exaggerated its difficulty just a bit, but it's still a bit of a shock to be plowing through everything in the game up to this point and then have a boss that can cross a large room in a single leap and fire death lasers.

Let's Play Castlevania: Circle of the Moon - Episode 2 [Dogfight]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL3PUF1 ... e=youtu.be

And here's Episode 3, in which not much happens except some good old fashioned exploration. Next time'll be a lot more eventful, I have a feeling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItK38_i ... e=youtu.be

[Xalnop]

How much do you care about spoilers? Like if I were to suggest certain enemies to kill a lot of?

[Tomapella]

Oh, I don't care at all! I played through this game years ago and wound up grinding for just about everything, but I don't remember where any of it is and I did look at a map before today's recording, so go nuts! Liking this game more and more as I get further into it.

Speaking of which, episode 4! In which I kill a floating skeleton in a bathrobe and learn how to smash walls with my face.
Episode 4 - Necromancer in Flight - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcgHQXO ... e=youtu.be

And episode 5, which takes us into this game's clock tower equivalent and features playing around with different cards. Yay, fun stuff!
Episode 5 - Frostbite - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKNLPys ... e=youtu.be