@@NicoPlaysIndies Of course Loved them when I first played them I still own my copy of Dawn of Sorrow from ‘05. It was my first DS game Aria of Sorrow was my actual dive into Castlevania games, but I was already exposed to Castlevania from the 64 game that my best friend let me play
Man I wish Soma, Johnathan/Charlotte or Shanoa were in Smash rather than Simon and Richter. Johnathan/Charlotte would probably be the hardest to balance with being able to character swap. But Soma and Shanoa I think would be interesting. They could almost work like Kirby in taking abilities. If Soma launches an enemy or KOs you see the soul come to him. Or hold down special down for Shanoa and it draws it in but leaves her vulnerable, like Cloud charging a limit. Weapon wise I don't know, too many options.
Dawn of Sorrow is my favorite of all the Castlevania games and I'm so glad I can play it again as well as the other fantastic DS games on the Dominus Collection
Order of Ecclesia is def the best. Dawn is the most annoying even with the m2 enhancements but still a great title. I love the level based structure to Ecclesia and the well thought out difficulty curve. In Dawn of Sorrow you can just tank everything like in SOTN, the gameplay gets easier as the game goes on. In Ecclesia they returned to having an actual difficult Castlevania game with a fantastic difficulty curve.
Dawn of sorrow had the best idea with the tactical soul system making every enemy interesting in that you never know what soul you'll get, Portrait of ruin had the best map designs given the freedom paintings allowed the devs and finally order of ecclesia had the best executed and balanced mechanics in the series. On a first playthrough basis Dawn feels the best since the surprise of each new soul is a great feeling but imo is the least replayable of the DS trilogy once you have obtained 100%. Portrait of ruin is usually regarded as the least popular since the combat mechanics weren't as interesting as the tactical soul system but imo is better than dawn because its the only castlevania that goes beyond the aesthetics of a castle, more replayable given you have a mage type character, and has more interesting boss with arguably the best dracula fight in the series. Order of Ecclesia had the most balanced combat mechanics in the entire series period. The stamina like MP bar, boss designs, end game mobility with magnes and redire makes this game the most replyable given how high the skill ceiling is compared to the rest of the series. But besides the gameplay imo has the least interesting maps of the DS trilogy.
Each of the Castlevania DS games are great in their own way. My favorite touch with DoS is the Julius mode. They really wanted to evoke Castlevania III with that one and did a good job.
If we can just got SOTN on Steam I'll have almost all of my favorite CV games. Idk if they'll ever go as far as putting the N64 and PS2 games on Steam but I'm here for it
I'd like to see them just get the complete collection up at this point. 3D Collection with the 2 N64 games and Curse of Darkness & Lament of Innocence. Then maybe one last collection with Dracula X Chronicles, SOTN, Ps1 Chronicles and Adventure Rebirth maybe? Harmony of Despair and the Lords of Shadows games are at least backwards compatible for Xbox so IDK if they'd re-do those but just give us everything. It's not like they're making new games for the series :/
Very cool Review! Personally I prefer ecclesia from the DS era, however sorrow as still aged as wine! I love his soundtrack and is sooo cool playing as alucard again on Julius mode!
Each game on the collection has a major charm but imo order of Ecclesia was the best. It broke a lot of rules, but it had the best music, a fresh story, insane post game and a lot of monsters that were brand new. The only thing I would’ve changed about the first two games is the art direction, however
I'm going to wait till I finish replaying PoR and OoE before I admit my favorite but if I'm going off my memories I'd tend to agree. I recall OoE being my favorite, I'm looking forward to replaying them so I can see if I still feel that way.
Dawn is easily the worst of the DS trilogy and honestly feels like a watered down Aria of Sorrow. It’s still a decent game but best? Not even on its platform.
Nah Lets be real the only bad thing is the magic seals and the souls droprate If i will say something about aria being superior to this one is the movement speed of soma, is more faster and better and the story But the rest of things Dawn did better than aria
@@saidbrizzo2187 The magic seals, the souls drop rate, the weapon crafting system, most of the souls being worse versions of arias, the characters, the story, the music, most of the area designs, most of the boss fights, worse than aria.
@@AscalonMaster i already didn't sayed that? The only thing i have not sayed is about the weapon craft sistem And why is it bad? I found it pretty fun but i can see that it might be a little annoying crafting a weapon and then just find it there And the souls? Nah pretty much the personal tastes in aria i found a lot of souls pretty useless Aswell i did in Dawn the only soul that i found worse that in aria is the flame demon, because is no more a reference to dracula's fire attack
@@AscalonMaster and about bosses...nah aria has some great bosses like Julius and Graham but most of them were kinda forgettable In dawn i found a lot of bosses pretty fun And The MUSIC?! Are you for real?! HOW? Is worse than aria You have the fricking best version of Dance Of Illusions an amazing intro music a top 3 best clock tower themes of all castlevanias Dude i respect your opinion but common you are just hating for the sake of just hate
Luck does nothing in Dawn
Julius Mode was so GOATed they based the entire next game around expanding its multi-character control system
Luck does next to nothing in DoS and is a waste of time. Use the Soul Eater Ring to get Souls.
Literally, this and Aria of Sorrow are my two favorite Castlevania games, with Portrait of Ruin being a close third
Soma's games are definitely great choices!
@@NicoPlaysIndies Of course
Loved them when I first played them
I still own my copy of Dawn of Sorrow from ‘05. It was my first DS game
Aria of Sorrow was my actual dive into Castlevania games, but I was already exposed to Castlevania from the 64 game that my best friend let me play
Man I wish Soma, Johnathan/Charlotte or Shanoa were in Smash rather than Simon and Richter. Johnathan/Charlotte would probably be the hardest to balance with being able to character swap. But Soma and Shanoa I think would be interesting. They could almost work like Kirby in taking abilities. If Soma launches an enemy or KOs you see the soul come to him. Or hold down special down for Shanoa and it draws it in but leaves her vulnerable, like Cloud charging a limit. Weapon wise I don't know, too many options.
Well theirs Pokémon Trainer (Squirtle, Ivysaur, Charizard) and Pyra/Mythra.
Swappable in battle characters,
Added Jonathan/Charlotte sounds possible.
Dawn of Sorrow is my favorite of all the Castlevania games and I'm so glad I can play it again as well as the other fantastic DS games on the Dominus Collection
Order of Ecclesia is def the best. Dawn is the most annoying even with the m2 enhancements but still a great title. I love the level based structure to Ecclesia and the well thought out difficulty curve. In Dawn of Sorrow you can just tank everything like in SOTN, the gameplay gets easier as the game goes on. In Ecclesia they returned to having an actual difficult Castlevania game with a fantastic difficulty curve.
Dawn of sorrow had the best idea with the tactical soul system making every enemy interesting in that you never know what soul you'll get, Portrait of ruin had the best map designs given the freedom paintings allowed the devs and finally order of ecclesia had the best executed and balanced mechanics in the series.
On a first playthrough basis Dawn feels the best since the surprise of each new soul is a great feeling but imo is the least replayable of the DS trilogy once you have obtained 100%.
Portrait of ruin is usually regarded as the least popular since the combat mechanics weren't as interesting as the tactical soul system but imo is better than dawn because its the only castlevania that goes beyond the aesthetics of a castle, more replayable given you have a mage type character, and has more interesting boss with arguably the best dracula fight in the series.
Order of Ecclesia had the most balanced combat mechanics in the entire series period. The stamina like MP bar, boss designs, end game mobility with magnes and redire makes this game the most replyable given how high the skill ceiling is compared to the rest of the series. But besides the gameplay imo has the least interesting maps of the DS trilogy.
Well said!
Each of the Castlevania DS games are great in their own way. My favorite touch with DoS is the Julius mode. They really wanted to evoke Castlevania III with that one and did a good job.
If we can just got SOTN on Steam I'll have almost all of my favorite CV games. Idk if they'll ever go as far as putting the N64 and PS2 games on Steam but I'm here for it
I'd like to see them just get the complete collection up at this point. 3D Collection with the 2 N64 games and Curse of Darkness & Lament of Innocence. Then maybe one last collection with Dracula X Chronicles, SOTN, Ps1 Chronicles and Adventure Rebirth maybe? Harmony of Despair and the Lords of Shadows games are at least backwards compatible for Xbox so IDK if they'd re-do those but just give us everything. It's not like they're making new games for the series :/
Very cool Review! Personally I prefer ecclesia from the DS era, however sorrow as still aged as wine! I love his soundtrack and is sooo cool playing as alucard again on Julius mode!
Great review!
Each game on the collection has a major charm but imo order of Ecclesia was the best. It broke a lot of rules, but it had the best music, a fresh story, insane post game and a lot of monsters that were brand new.
The only thing I would’ve changed about the first two games is the art direction, however
I'm going to wait till I finish replaying PoR and OoE before I admit my favorite but if I'm going off my memories I'd tend to agree. I recall OoE being my favorite, I'm looking forward to replaying them so I can see if I still feel that way.
@@NicoPlaysIndies enjoy the trip down memory lane! I’m about due as well
It is! Goated
I only played dawn of Sorrow... It was one of the best games ever.
It's the best castlevania
Thanks for the review, I enjoyed it!
Dawn is easily the worst of the DS trilogy and honestly feels like a watered down Aria of Sorrow. It’s still a decent game but best? Not even on its platform.
Nah Lets be real the only bad thing is the magic seals and the souls droprate
If i will say something about aria being superior to this one is the movement speed of soma, is more faster and better and the story
But the rest of things Dawn did better than aria
@@saidbrizzo2187 The magic seals, the souls drop rate, the weapon crafting system, most of the souls being worse versions of arias, the characters, the story, the music, most of the area designs, most of the boss fights, worse than aria.
@@AscalonMaster i already didn't sayed that?
The only thing i have not sayed is about the weapon craft sistem
And why is it bad? I found it pretty fun but i can see that it might be a little annoying crafting a weapon and then just find it there
And the souls? Nah pretty much the personal tastes in aria i found a lot of souls pretty useless
Aswell i did in Dawn the only soul that i found worse that in aria is the flame demon, because is no more a reference to dracula's fire attack
@@AscalonMaster and about bosses...nah aria has some great bosses like Julius and Graham but most of them were kinda forgettable
In dawn i found a lot of bosses pretty fun
And The MUSIC?! Are you for real?!
HOW? Is worse than aria
You have the fricking best version of Dance Of Illusions an amazing intro music a top 3 best clock tower themes of all castlevanias
Dude i respect your opinion but common you are just hating for the sake of just hate