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Castlevania for the PSP Unveiled
1up has the news that Castlevania is coming to the PSP for the first time. Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles will bring not one but two games from the classic side-scroller series to the portable console. The pack will include the title Rondo of Blood, which is a brand-new release for the United States, as well as the much beloved Symphony of the Night. The network is featuring an extensive preview from Jeremy Parish, as well as video and screenshots of this sure-to-be-bestseller PSP title.
That 10 years from now, 99% of American Castlevania fans will *still* have never played Rondo.
Seriously, who actually owns a PSP? I don't think I've ever even seen one.
Subject says it all. There aren't many good titles for PSP, but this may well be one of the better ones. :)
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Man and this whole time I thought it was just for stalking pretty girls and watching Spiderman ride atop a train.
Glad to see Symphony of the Night getting re-released though; just wish it were for my DS as well.
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Dracula X Chronicles features a remake of one of the best Castlevania games: Rondo of Blood plus -- get this -- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, the best Castlevania game ever.
Phew...for a minute there I thought this was going to be an all-new Castlevania and I was going to have to buy a PSP. And SoTN the best Castlevania game ever? I mean, it was good, and it ushered in the "modern" CVs, but best?
Anyone else think the comments just weren't rendering right before they turned off ABP and saw ads?
The PSP scene is reminiscent of the Dreamcast mod scene, although unlike Sega, Sony is making a lot of futile effort to fight it every step of the way. I picked up a PSP when it dropped to $200, and although I only own one PSP game (GTA:Liberty City Stories, I bought it because it had an exploit to run homebrew on firmware 2.5, this was when the only downgrader was for 2.0), I am very satisfied with my purchase. The emulators on it run quite well, and furthermore the screen is gorgeous. One of the most amazing gaming experiences I had was playing Street Fighter 2 on it for the first time, and remembering back around 1992 when SF2 was topping all the arcades and thinking at that time that a portable version would never be possible.
Sadly, PS/2 was yet another victim of USB, which doesn't care what you plug into it, the electrical slut.
Yes Zonk, there are games on the PSP, with more rated 8/10 by Gamerankings than the DS, in fact.
(This coming from someone who has a DS and no plans to get a PSP anytime soon)
Links don't really work... if you can't take my word for it that the current score is 30-26, pick DS or PSP as the console, and allow at least 40 results. I used a minimum vote count of 20.
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Is it some kind of new Game Boy?
I see there is a Game Boy and a Sony logo attached to this article?!?
This can't be a real Castlevania game; the title is wrong! It should be something like:
Castlevania: Noun of Nominal Adjective
A Castlevania geek speaking... Chi no Rondo is my favorite game in the series. Having played the PC Engine game to death and still not being tired of it, I'm excited by this news.
I have been wanting to see a rerelease of it for years now. I watched the video and it looks like they redid the entire game in 3D but kept the game the same. If it plays identical to the original(s) then I will be sure to pick it up... once it comes out on a system that I own. Hey Konami, Wii version please.
BTW, the video shows the path to 2' (alternate first stage exit) first then rewinds and shows the main path. It also looks as if the sound effects/music is missing when it does the newly added cinematic cuts. Other than that, looks good. Really good.
And the controller. The touch screen of the Nintendo DS is arguably suited more to games with lots of controllable units such as March of the Minis than the PSP's analog stick is. Had Sony not bought Psygnosis, Lemmings would definitely have been a DS title, not a PSP title.
I was in the same boat with my PSP, it was collecting dust for months. Until I installed custom firmware on it that allows you to take the games you own, put them on a memory card, and never have to lug around UMDs again. Plus of course NES/SNES/etc. ROMs, but that enters into a whole other world of questionable legality that I have no interest in debating, but at least it is out there.
You can also take the DVDs you already own, convert them and throw them on a memory stick and watch to your heart's content without having to buy the same movie multiple times. AND I've been able to take my own original PS1 games, rip those to a memory stick, and play them on the PSP. I have a box full of my old Playstation games that have been collecting dust for years that I'm having fun playing again. Being able to put multiple games on memory stick has also gotten me buying games for it again and using my PSP more in the last month than I did in the whole time I've had it.
Sony may say whatever they want but allowing me to use the PSP how I want to (which does *not* include piracy) has directly caused me to purchase games for it that I never would have again.