The normal enemies can be killed with relatively simple tactics - choice of weapons, spells and jumping / sliding around. I thought the bosses would be frustrating, but they were a joy to fight. of grunts, clinks, thunks and Shanoa makes her own screams and soundbites as well. The audio is well done, there are good musical pieces and the occassional sound bites from the NPCs help the overall experience. The menu system works well, the game loads quickly. The controls are responsive and well laid out. Its a well paced (and well told) story, with plenty of action, character levelling, loot / secret finding etc. Very repeat gameplay as with any game ever made - but the key ingredients are there to make this well worth your time. You will end up running, jumping, sliding, hitting and menu-ing a lot. Unfortunately for Shanoa, there is more to the story - exploration, betrayal, understanding and finally - the fight with Lord Dracula himself. After some cutscenes, your task is to catch the traitor Albus, and return the 'Dominus' spell back to your teacher - ending the quest. You play as Shanoa, a student at the Order of Ecclesia. It is really a very enjoyable game but it can sometimes be very frustrating too.Ĭastlevania: Order of Ecclesia is a action platform game with RPG elements of character levelling and gears. Every minute above four gives you a different reward but that won't be too much of a hassle. In order to do that, you have to level-up a bit after you complete the game and raise your statistics so as to manage to complete them in under four minutes. One final note is the difficulty to obtain all the items that the two boss rush modes have to offer. With the final boss it will take many tries but if you learn his moves it won't be a problem. For the normal bosses, with some practice, it can be done eventually. In order to get a medal from the bosses, you have to beat them without taking damage. But it has one major difficulty for the completionists. The game is the easiest of the three on the DS and that goes for the bosses and the final boss too. It has a nice soundtrack and two endings, depending on a quest and if you complete or not.

Of course you still need to carefully map every area and search it completely for every item.

It has a very nice story with a few surprises along the way and as Portrait Of Ruin, offers quests for rewards.

Another good Castlevania game on the DS system.

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