Whilst it’s great that the option was included for four players to play locally, I can’t imagine it ever being enjoyed the way it deserves to be. Before you know it your character sprite is the size of an ant and after focusing on that for so long, it really starts to mess with your eyes. Moving more than a few metres away from any of your buddies is enough to start giving you some serious disadvantages. It sounds harmless in theory, but anyone who’s played Harmony of Despair will be able to back me up on just how far the screen can zoom out if you let it go. The problem is that, rather than using a traditional split-screen paradigm to facilitate local multiplayer, Konami have kind of cheaped out and just used the game’s zoom mechanics to keep both players on the screen at once. When playing solo you can zoom in and out to rather extreme levels in order to get a better view of the whole map, and to see where your team mates are. It isn’t quite as sweet as I thought it would be though, leaving a rather bitter taste in my mouth after my reviewing was done.
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I was rather critical in my review of the XBLA version of Harmony of Despair about the lack of local co-op or LAN gameplay, so I was mightypleased when Konami then announced that the PS3 version would support local multiplayer. The multiplayer was the big element that was meant to get a boost in the PS3 version. Getting the DLC stages and characters right away is a nice touch It’s a fun greatest hits of Castlevania if you will, and it becomes a deep and challenging romp when you throw in a few of your buddies as well. The stages and characters who originally starred in the XBLA version of the game are nothing to smirk at either, with some clever level designs being traversable with some of your favourite characters from Castlevania’s illustrious history. You can now also play as Yoko Belnades and Julius Belmont as a result, and the new stages also help to pad out the package and provide more bang for your buck. The six stages and five characters of the vanilla XBLA release have been bolstered out of the box on PS3 with the new DLC stages and characters that were released after C:HD’s initial release.
Whilst it doesn’t feature the same exploration focus as its single player brethren, you constantly find new weapons, armour and spells as you play, a factor that provides more than enough incentive to keep ploughing through stage after stage. You and up to four of your friends have to make your way through the stage and vanquish the boss within a deceptively tricky thirty minute time limit. It’s a multiplayer equivalent of the boss rush mode that features in many of the classic 2D Castlevania titles.
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The game still offers a depth and challenge that series fans will loveįor those of you are too cool to follow hyper-links, here’s a brief summary of Harmony of Dissonance.
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