I do believe he was involved with that one. Circle of the Moon (such he wasn't) and Harmony are both weak, but Aria of Sorrow is really ace, loved that one.
When i played Circle of the moon at the time i thought it was amazing. was probably the game that brought me into the Castlevania series in fact. i personally preferred the darker tone of the graphics and it was far more challenging. Whether that was because it was limitations or it was because it was a decent challenge, i would say a bit of both. You certainly didn't have a shop and it was entirely luck based what items were dropped. Plus it had some pretty vicious sections like the underground gallery with all its poison inducing monsters/plants and of course to top it off the 2 zombie dragons boss fight. A notoriously difficult battle. But what stood out for me was the map design. On the whole i found it pretty good, yes there were some sections that were a bit dubious but it minimized backtracking as essentially if you kept moving forward you would eventually see and go everywhere and detours were kept to a minimum.
although, i suspect a large amount of that was because of hindsight. i played the hell out of that game. DSS worked, but it was a mixed bag as not all the skills were all that good or effective. Looking back it was basic compared to other outings and it hasn't really aged that well. Still, good memories compared to HOD.
HOD on the other hand, i hated with a passion, garish/basic graphics, awful sound and soundtrack, poor level design didn't help it.
AOS was a great game. hell, i even wrote up the game script for gamefaqs!
@neogunhero - I finished Kiwami in 43 hours and Kiwami 2 in 48 hours, and I play games ssllloooowly. I think they are more like 30 hours for sane <ahem> I mean average people. Yakuza 0 took me a good bit longer at 86 hours.
Looking into my time for Yakuza Kiwami 2 i sunk a staggering 97.1 hours into it. Suffice to say i enjoyed it a lot.
You only have to play golf once. It seemed like the system they put in was fairly good but I just never wanted to play it.
I flat out forgot where my club even was. That's one of the places you are supposed to spend your money at. Buying weapons is the other. If you don't do either, money just piles up.
yeah it was for the tutorial. If the game didn't offer do overs i would have been thrashed with ease. The idol game so far i'm not making any money and its doubly annoying that if i want to change hair styles etc it costs money. made worse that it doesn't even give you the stat changes until AFTER you confirm, but still no numbers etc. So no idea whether a certain style if better then another. Absolutely stupid. Will still try and keep playing if it gets me good money though.
