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Castlevania Double Pack

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Pretty much anytime Castlevania makes an appearance on a hand held, you know it's going to be sweet. This double pack features both Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance and Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow; two of the best games to ever be released for the GBA. In Harmony of Dissonance, you play a descendent of the Belmont clan, armed with your trusty whip, while Aria of Sorrow takes place in the future. In both games, you storm a foreboding castle and take on hordes of murderous monsters and beasts as you navigate through the labyrnth-like castle. The graphics, sound, and control in both games are superb 2-D blasts, and are two of the best Castlevania games ever designed. If you missed out on both games when they were first released, consider this your second chance to pick them up, and if you're still holding on to your GBA and are craving some fantastic side scroller action, look no further.

Aira of sorrow and harmony of dissoance were originaly released a few years back on gameboy advance but due to limited printing of the carts the only way to play them was to pay a stupid amount of money for a second hand copy(unless you purchased them when they first came out).

Anyway here is the chance to redeam your sins and pick the games up the second time round.

Castlevania is a explration game much like Metroid, you explore draculas castle but not all areas can be accessed at once. During your explration you will upgrade your wepons,level up, collect souls/books and fight many well thought out bosses.

Harmony of dissoance uses a boos system where you collect books hidden around the castle and by combining books you upgrade your wepon allowing you to progress.

Aria of sorrow uses a soul system, by defeating bad guys some times there souls will release and each soul gives you a different ability or attack and there are loads to collect alowing you to progress through the castle.

Both games contain severial endings bad and good ones the bad ones are usally easy to get but the good ones will require you to collect certian souls and compleate extra areas of the castle.

I really cant recomend these games enough konami is a great developer and 2d castlevania is what they do best so grab a copy now before they become rare again im sure you dont want to be paying $90 on ebay next year.

Aira of sorrow is the prequal to dawn of sorrow on Nintendo DS so check that one out to, also circle of the moon the first GBA castlevania.

For less than the price of the games seperately,the double pack gives you the opportunity to play two great games without any loss of the individually packaged ones. But even if it were a little more expensive, the Castlevania series are some of the coolest games ever, so it wouldnt matter.

I'm not a gamer----I usually play my BookWorm game for a bit and then quit. BUT, this Castlevania game is addictive. I LOVE it!! The monsters are GREAT...I find myself really getting into the game. My only regret is that I don't have a lot of time to play---wish I did. This is definitely going on trips with me.

I was very excited to see Konami release this double-pack. Finding these games at a reasonable price before this release was next to impossible. First off I'll start with HoD. Graphically near similar to PS1. Deepest game of the three for GBA. Castle exploration was a lot of fun with neat secrets. Fairly difficult but not that tough. Music is average GBA quality. Story is negligible but if you played any modern Castlevania then you know what to expect. Replay value is excellent. Castle is huge. Worth purchase by itself but then you get a whole other game. AoS takes the game into a more modern setting with a new feature of soul consumption making it's replay value next to none in excellency. Graphically superior to most GBA games and near PS1 quality. Sound is Okay. Music repeats often. But good for GBA. Smaller castle than HoD but not by much. More linear than other entries. You are never really in over your head so difficulty is minor for veterans. Just make sure you got the right soul for the job. Both games are lots of fun. Especially, if you like Metroid games than this should be your next purchase. On my 10 best for all systems. Can't beat the value of 2 games in 1. If you get sick of one play the other. I play these on my DS and have no problem with controls or battery life. A must for long trips or short bathroom visits. Highly recommended.

I've never been a big fan of the Castlevania series because I always felt that they were too hard. I was suprised when I found Double Pack, and it was a good deal for two seperate games that are both very good alone. Let me just clarify something- you get two games on one GBA cartridge, and you're able to switch from either at the screen that pops up when you turn the GBA on. Anyway, I didn't like Harmony of Dissonance as much as I liked Aria Of Sorrow because I feel AoS had a lot more depth with the weapons. You have a HUGE number of weapons to discover, buy, and weild. They all have their own speed and damage, and all kinds attack styles. On AoS, also, you have the ability to capture souls off random monsters as a drop, and they give you special abilities that you can choose from, like radiating fire, throwing a grenade, or letting you glide on a big jump. These are some amazing platformers, and they're nice and compact- just perfect for a road trip. These are, by far, the best game I've played on the GBA next to Minish Cap and Harvest Moon: More Friends Of Mineral Town.

As far as Castlevania's go, this is one of the best buys you can make, both games on the doublepack offer hours of fun. they are similar but not the same so you get a whole other experience.

In all honesty I only wanted to get Aria of Sorrow, but when I found that there was a double pack containing that game and also Harmony of Dissonance for only 10 dollars more than either game, I knew I had to get it. I was not disapointed. In my opinion Harmony isn't one of the better Castlevania games, but it can be a fun game to play while you need to kill some time. Aria of Sorrow is one of my favorite games in the series, there are many great weapons and equipment to get, and also the ability to collect souls to gain new abilities and attacks makes for a lot of play time.

I would give Harmony by itself maybe 3 stars, but since it is packaged together with an awesome game I have to give the double pack 5 stars for pure value.

For thirty bucks, you get two of the very best games out on the gba, and in the entier Castlevania series. While Aria of Sorrow is a much more polished game, Harmony of Dissonance has a "Spell Fusion" system which I found to be much more fun, when compared to the Soul collecting found in the former. Both games offer tons of hours of gameplay, so you won't be taking the game out of your gba anytime soon. My only MINOR gripe is the varying difficulty levels found throughout BOTH games. Sometimes you'll fly through sections, others times you won't make it down a corridor without losing a good chunk of life. Same goes with the bosses. As a fan of the series, this is expected, but if you're new, be ready! This is only minor because, frankly, you'll be coming back for more! Pick this up now to add to your GBA or DS library.

I liked it alot. Harmony of dissonance has its flaws but overall it was a worthy purchase.