>>94365A few shots from the other day or so.
I'd recommend Aria Of Sorrow to anyone who liked Symphony Of The Night, though not quite as vast in space and content, it's much more focused and tight in its design.
If I were to describe how SoTN feels, it's like they didn't have entirely clear design goals and just made up a lot as they went. You go to an upside down version of the castle, which the game makes no insinuation about at any point, just throws at you for exploring every area and finding all needed items and events of the first castle, otherwise the game ends early and you can easily miss out on 50% of the game without realizing. In a way, this is great, because they actually put the effort into adding lots of content knowing that some people would actually miss it (many modern devs are terrified at the thought that you might miss something they did), in another, the upside down castle feels kind of underdeveloped at parts, there's some new music tracks, but a lot of the upside down areas share many of them, and as you would already have all the movement abilities by this point, traversing the upside down castle is generally not difficult, outside of some new monsters being more aggressive and difficult.
If I were to speculate, it feels like they started work on the upside down castle late in development, possibly even came up with it late in development, and didn't quite have the time to do everything they wanted to. Still it comes out pretty good overall.
AoS doesn't have a second castle, however it feels like from the start of development they had a very good idea about what they wanted the game to be, it doesn't have the somewhat haphazard quality to it that SoTN has. It also feels somewhat more original, compared to the the previous Harmony Of Dissonance, which felt a lot like it wanted to be SoTN.
>>94371thx
Nice to know that someone else enjoys this posting, even if it's just blabbering about stuff I like and think is cool.
