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If you like castlevania, check this out!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

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.

Castlevania Double Pack

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

come on its Aria of Sorrow and Harmony of Dissonance, how could it possibly not be fun???

Double pack holds double the value

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

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.

Two Top-notch titles in one Cart?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

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.

Goodness

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

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

Great pack of games.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Great pack of games especially if you are a fan of Castlevania.
Harmony of Dissonance follows the story of Juste Belmont; part of the famed family of vampire hunters. Collect relics under the moonlight in Dracula's castle and discover your destiny!
Aria of Sorrow is the first part of the perils of Soma Cruz. It is the game that preceeds the DS title Dawn of Sorrow. Taking place in the future(2035) Soma Cruz and his friend are transported to a mysterious castle during the first eclipse of the 21st century.
Fun games I recomend them fully!!

It was really worth a purchase

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: January 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I never played a castlevania game in my life. But when I completed Dawn of Sarrow on DS, I started to look for another castlevania game before playing Portrait of Ruin. Aria of Sarrow was one of the finest castlevania games.

Good deal, better games.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

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.

Excellent package

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

By themselves, these 2 games would probably get 4 stars, but together for the price of a game and a half I think it's worth 5.

Both games are inspired by the Symphony of the Night style gameplay (borrowed heavilty from Metroid) of having a large castle to explore at your whim, but needing certain abilities to reach certain areas. Both games also feature excellent save features that all portable games should have.

Harmony of Dissonance
This is probably the better of the two just because of its save feature. After you use your first save room, you gain the ability to save the game at any time (excluding during boss battles) from the pause menu, and continue playing. This saves all of your progress up to that point, but whenever you load up the save you will start back from the last actual save room you used. It makes the game a little less tense when exploring difficult areas, and can be used to save yourself some backtracking (which this game has in excess).

The only main weapon you get in this is the whip, but you get the usual assortment of mini-weapons (dagger, axe, holy water, etc) and can combine them with elements to form magic spells). It's a fairly simple magic system, which is just how I like it for short games like this.

This game was not that difficult, but still managed to be fun.

Aria of Sorrow
This game's save feature works differently, in that you can save at any time (after your first save room) but the game ends, when you start it back up, you'll be in the same location, and your save reverts back to the last actual save room you used. Not as useful in game, but nice when you have to stop playing unexpectedly.

This game brings back a large assortment of weapons for you to use. From slashing swords, thrusting spears, slow but powerful hammers, etc. It also replaces the mini-weapons idea with souls you (randomly) collect from your enemies. While the souls that enhanced you passively, and the ones that granted special abilities I found useful, the actual weapon-like ones I found diminished in usefulness as the game went on.

This game was actually somewhat difficult, with certain areas I dreaded going into.

Two of the Best Game Boy Advanced Games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The Game Boy Advanced Castlevania games are some of the best in the series. With two games on a single cartrdige, this is a steal. They've perfected the 2d portable adventure game. Leveling, items, maps, magic, and action. What more could you want?

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