Gamerscore Blog: Castlevania Symphony of the Night on Xbox Live Arcade

Okay, so this is probably my most favorite game of all time. The music, artwork, and gameplay dance around each other in this sort of tribal ménage à trois of complete and utter awesomeness. If you have an Xbox 360 and you’ve never played this game: download it immediately, quit your job, stockpile junk food, sell the kids and play it. It’s that good.

I await the post-apocalyptic day in which roving bands of video game hippies tour the country just to fight one boss — just to play one level — on antiquated Xbox 360s and PlayStations. People watching the gamers will shout out the quotes as if it was the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

“It was not by my hand that I am once again given flesh. I was brought here by humans who wish to pay ME tribute.”

Click on the image to see some photos Ron took in and around the MV booth last week.

Here are some photos from my trip. There will be more later.

The demo for this game is fantastic. It has some of the best graphics I’ve ever seen on the PS2. I really like how the boss battle is intertwined with the entire level. It will be interesting to see how the story pans out in the full game. The art direction in the original game was superb, but the style and colors in the new game are even better. If you haven’t seen it, the opening animation is straight out of movies like Jason and the Argonauts or Clash of the Titans.

I forgot to mention GameZombie.tv! Spencer Striker, a fellow MIME student, was able to get some great interviews this past week from industry icons like Harvey Smith, David Jaffe, and Raph Koster. Look forward to seeing these clips on the website!