A well-crafted action experience, Castlevania Advance Collection is well worth your time.
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Very Positive on Steam (91% positive from 2.4K reviews)
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Join the fight against Evil in the Castlevania Advance Collection, a compilation of timeless action-exploration masterpieces! In addition to the three legendary Castlevania games that were first released on Game Boy™ Advance, this collection also includes Castlevania: Dracula X and some never-before-seen sketches and artwork from the games! All four games are enhanced with newly added modern features such as Rewind, Save/Load and Replay, making this the best way possible to experience these classics or discover them for the first time! This collection also boasts a handy Encyclopedia, a Music Player with all soundtracks and you can even change the ROM Region to play all games in different versions. FEATURED GAMES Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (GBA) - This was the first Castlevania title released on Game Boy Advance! The story follows Nathan Graves, a vampire hunter apprentice who enters Dracula's Castle along with his Master in order to prevent the dreaded return of the Count. Combine action and attribute cards to create over 80 unique spell effects, ranging from fire whips to ice blizzards, with the 'Dual Set-up System'.
Runs well on modern hardware.
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An outstanding way to play some retro Castlevania classics. Let me start off by saying this collection as a whole is MORE than worth the money, especially if you see the prices on ebay for some of these games, so that alone, makes this worth the money, as well as the extras such as artwork, music and the inclusion of Dracula X for SNES, love it or hate it, I enjoyed it! The games themselves aren't exactly terrible but are a product of their age, each one is the Metroidvania style, each with their pros and cons, some great, some okay, with Aria of Sorrow being the best out of the three, but my main criticism with these games, especially Circle of the Moon and Aria of Sorrow? is THE GRINDING! MY GOD, THE GRINDING!, if you want 100% achievements? you need to grind for those card drops and souls, and some are as low as 0.2% chance to drop! With typical emulator pack functions such as save states and rewind this isn't too bad as you can rewind to before you killed an enemy to get the game to reroll the drop, but doing this for 20-30 mins at times is not fun, it's tedious and irritating, would have been nice to see some modification in this collection to fix that. Overall, a great collection, and far cheaper than buying the physicals on ebay! pick it up if you want some nostalgic Metroidvania goodness, just make sure you have patience if you want to 100% this collection!
great sprites, beautiful sprites, everyone is saying it
Really good collection on this, i really recommend Harmony of dissonance that game is really underrated! the settings on this launcher is bare bones and there's no volume slider but the games itself is worth it
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