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Castlevania: Harmony of Despair is out on XBLA now, and it's pretty darn amusing. You get to chose from Soma, Alucard, Jonathan, Shanoa, and Charlotte and basically... run around and do Castlevania stuff. The real fun is playing with multiple people and solving puzzles and teaming up against enemies together. It's basically the Smash Bros of the Castlevania world. A highlight of the game so far? Probably huge bosses who break out of their little boss rooms and go wandering around the whole map, so you have to chase them and attack them from different angles. Oh, and finding escargot hidden in walls... and eating it without question.
The only thing that sucks is that there's no local multiplayer, which has pretty much plagued this generation of gaming. You know, some of us have people who we're perfectly capable of sitting down right next to and playing together with, instead of making them go home and come on Xbox Live to do it.
Technically, it'd be a little difficult to keep track of each other in this game with just one screen between you. I'd rather the option be there, flawed as it may be, rather than not at all, though. But anyway, game's still awesome regardless, and it's also playable solo as well.
~REAL LIFE UPDATE~: The air conditioner is dead until sometime next week, but at least we have some temporary little setup downstairs so I don't die of heat exhaustion while playing Mario Galaxy 2. Mario may indeed die multiple times in heat-related deaths, however.
Also, the online class I need to finish to fully qualify for my degree is over this weekend! It's a Peace Studies course, which I've taken a liking to. So hey guys, if we achieve WORLD PEACE anytime soon, it's probably because of me.
Speaking of peace, yesterday/today was the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. My Japanese teacher's mom and dad were survivors, and I took a class specifically about the bombings, so now it's sort of a special thing for me, too. Do yourself a favor and rent "Barefoot Gen", which is an anime based on the events, and cry your eyes out. It'll do you some good.
The only thing that sucks is that there's no local multiplayer, which has pretty much plagued this generation of gaming. You know, some of us have people who we're perfectly capable of sitting down right next to and playing together with, instead of making them go home and come on Xbox Live to do it.
Technically, it'd be a little difficult to keep track of each other in this game with just one screen between you. I'd rather the option be there, flawed as it may be, rather than not at all, though. But anyway, game's still awesome regardless, and it's also playable solo as well.
~REAL LIFE UPDATE~: The air conditioner is dead until sometime next week, but at least we have some temporary little setup downstairs so I don't die of heat exhaustion while playing Mario Galaxy 2. Mario may indeed die multiple times in heat-related deaths, however.
Also, the online class I need to finish to fully qualify for my degree is over this weekend! It's a Peace Studies course, which I've taken a liking to. So hey guys, if we achieve WORLD PEACE anytime soon, it's probably because of me.
Speaking of peace, yesterday/today was the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. My Japanese teacher's mom and dad were survivors, and I took a class specifically about the bombings, so now it's sort of a special thing for me, too. Do yourself a favor and rent "Barefoot Gen", which is an anime based on the events, and cry your eyes out. It'll do you some good.
