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Sweet and really really creepy

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: November 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Very cool game and a awsome addtion to the Castlevania tradition

Could Have Been Better!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty cool, but I was just expecting more blood and gore. The monsters really are not all that. Leon Belmont (the star of the game) actually looks kinda funny with his blonde hair running around doing all these tricks. A cooler looking character would've made this game a lot better.

Konami usually makes good games. Take "Contra: Shattered Soldier" for example. It completely rocks and it's not a 3-D game! I think if Konami made "Castlevania: LOI" like they did "Contra: SS" it would have been a lot better. More intense and action packed.

Anyhow make sure to have a memory card in hand when playing "Castlevania: LOI". I was going to buy this game, but it's great that I RENTED it before dishing out my $50 to own a copy. Again it's a pretty cool game, but it lacks something that only the classic "Castlevania" series had. Stick with "Devil May Cry"... it is SOOO much better than "Lament of Innocence"!

Good Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is not the best game.I like the graphics.Also the game is not as bloody as I was thinking.The encyclopeadia is cool.It has enimies and foes like mad diver,evil stabber,golden knight,zombie,[3 types normal,frost,and flame]skeleton[6 types normal,red,storm,archer,knight,and swordsman]and more.OK to let your kids play cuz it's not that bloody or violent.But overall it is a good game.

A Disappointment

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: February 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Many of the video game magazines are of the opinion that this is the first 3D Castlevania game to be worthy of the name. It is better than that joke on the Nintendo 64, but that's not saying much.

The action is tedious and repetitive, and the levels are way too simple for their size. You'll spend a lot of time just walking all over the place to hit switches. BOOORING! To make things worse, most of the rooms are nearly identical. While playing this game, I felt like a rat, running through a maze, looking for my piece of cheese. The music is weak too, and I was really expecting better in this department since the music for Super Castlevania 4, Bloodlines, Dracula X, and Symphony of the Night was first class!

If this kind of game interests you, I'd suggest 'Devil May Cry' or 'Metroid Prime.'
They're actually good!

best castlevania i have ever seen

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

lament of innocence follows a classical storyline; Leon Belmont's fiance is captured by a vampire named Walter Bernhard, and Leon gets a whip, and he battles through an ancient castle in search of his loved one. the end

thats not the case, however; the storyline is just that, with several little quirks. the detail of even the smallest rooms is stunning, and the action is smooth(smooth as buttah) so that the play doesn't stop, nothing slows down, etc., which makes it a fast-paced, but fun and VERY challenging game. the music is perfect for most of the situations; and the action sounds are simply superb. 6/5 at the least

Great monsters

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: May 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

There were quite a few things about this game I enjoyed. The story line was excellent. It started off typical(guy says girl from X)but takes a dramatic twist when you have to kill the girl you saved. That is sweeeet. There is an abundancy of different monsters and the bosses are well done. I thought they could have did a little more with Death, but the creature in the prison of eternal torment was amazing....A THREE LEVEL BOSS! Wowzers. I thought a lot of the whips were a little to difficult to find and I completely hated how you had no control over the camera angle. All in all this game was a little bit short, but I thought it was a real keeper.

Nah don't bother.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: May 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I played this game and it made absolutely no sense - maybe if it was Yaoi or something it'd make it worth playing. But I recommended Devil May Cry 3 anyday.

In the Beginning...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: October 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Castlevania is finally back. After years of GBA titles that continued to draw upon those SoTN fans by "re-vamping" the 2D side-scrolling action the series is famous for, finally we get to experience the Belmonts on a next-gen platform. To be honest, I've played every Castlevania game the US has ever seen. All in all, each title has it's own merits and flaws, (as the N64 crowd found out the hard way), but finally Konami has seen fit to get back to the basics that made Castlevania games great.

The first thing you'll notice about Lament of Innocence is what a lush environment you've been abandoned in. The graphics and sound, while all still comparable to Rygar and DMC in their similarities, are tweaked to a gothic perfection. The hallways bask in candle light and dark corners hide even darker enemies this time around. While it's true that the level design is pretty simplistic, fans of the series will appreciate the new vision of enemies and fast action. The Castlevania games have always, I've felt, needed to sell you on the atmosphere first, that you're in Dracula's castle, and that the fun is slashing your way through it. LoI certainly has the ambience you've hoped for, but it has it's definite flaws. The game has old-school flair and some great throwbacks like the Red Skeleton and Floating Eyes, but the problems that plagued this PS2 title have already been seen in others before.

Let's get to gameplay. First of all-hallways. Like them? Great. Want to spend most of your time running through empty ones whipping candles for hearts all day? Me either. The set-up is this: Hall, room of enemies, hall, room of enemies, hall w/ a couple enemies, repeat. Combos are cool, but really it amounts to a lot of button-smashing, though the in-game toggle for Items/Equip. is a nice touch. Saving the game is a must, but after running through count-less halls the need to save gets old. Leaping and whipping-hold of things can be a pain sometimes, but overall the camera just kinda hovers around Leon. The camera could have added to the cinematic experience, but while not as bad as DMC2, it doesn't add to the sweeping and legendary views it could have.

Now let's get to cutscenes and plot. A game as grand and long-awaited as LoI, touting the "Beginning" of the Belmont saga needs better than this. Put this way, Super Castlevania 4 for SNES had a better, creepier intro. I don't want to read about Castlevania, and lords and crusades...I want to see them, and LoI makes ya read text. Cutscenes here are usually very polygon-ish. After seeing the beautifully rendered Rygar and how deftly those worlds were created, well, Castlevania needed that 4-star treatment too. The storyline is OK, and certainly there are twists, etc. that will leave true fans wanting more, but not for this story, just more Castlevanias that can really nail it the way SoTN or Castlevania 3 did it.

In the end, Lament is a fun game to play, and fans will love what they see on the surface here. The depth isn't there, however, and the game ultimately is another "the next time they should do it this way..." sort of games. Gone is the GBA/SoTN style of RPG, it's a 3D incarnation of the 2D soul of the series. Great graphics, better sound, and cool bosses, enemies, and attention to detail. Bottom line: if you're a Castlevania fan at all, you'll love what they got right for this installment, but will still be plagued with the nightmares of what it could have become.

Old Feel Perfectly Captured

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Imaging you're playing the ORIGINAL castlevania on the NES. Now, extrude it into 3D... And you have this game! With an amazingly fast pace, beautiful graphics, great background track and sound effects--Lament of Innocense perfectly captures that classic feel we all loved about the early games in the series--just with a BIG 3D TWIST! If you like action games, this will hold your hacking and slashing (or wipping in this case) needs for some time!

It's a fair addition to the castlevania seris

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game has great graphic, good story, and some weird but cool music. The levels look to alike so it's easy to get lost, but they are detailed. Voice acting is just awful. Awsome spcial effect and atmosphere. Game is somewhat short and repetative. I like the combat system a lot. It is a good game.

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