Castlevania Retrospective, Xbox Live Bound

astrokid writes "From last week, 1up is running an informative look back at the Castlevania series. Although I am looking forward to Portrait of Ruin for the Nintendo DS, I really hope Konami finds a way to release a 2D game for one of the next gen systems." Funny you should mention that. An anonymous reader writes "The greatest Castlevania game -- and possibly 2D game -- of all time, Symphony of the Night, is headed to Xbox 360 Arcade!."

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Re:Now the question is....

[Jarlsberg]

Doubt that -- it's the PS1 version that will be ported to XBLA.

Re:Now the question is....

[steveo777]

Some of the best games of all time... Anyway, SotN on Saturn had just a few quirks that the PS1 version didn't have. The "Rune Sword" was named "Verbotem" like the animation showes. A few other weapons were named differently as well (mostly they didn't over-translate all of them). I'm not completely sure, but I do know that the Japanese Saturn and PS1 versions have slightly different creature animations and backdrops. The stone angels in the backgrounds aren't covered up with vines or wings. There creatures that are half and half lizard/woman aren't wearing any cloths and their boobs bounce around, along with a slew of other creatures. The only other difference I can remember is that in the Saturn version you could explore 201.0% of the map, whereas the PS1 version only allowed for 200.6%.

I just looked it over on wikipedia and there's a few more things, very interesting.