Before I gonna review this, let me talk about the history of the great Castlevania franchise made by Konami, in the 80's, the first Castlevania came on NES which is side scroller horror that you go whip some deadly monsters in the Castle and defeat the evil Dracula which is fun to play with and considered to be best 2D side scroller horror on NES, there is a sequel comes with Castlevania 2 Simon's Quest which is 2D side scrolling RPG which is unlikely the original Castlevania, I say it's not good as the first ones but it has a lot of mistakes in gameplay, then there is a another sequel comes with Castlevania 3 Dracula's Curse which brings back the same elements as the first game with huge improvements over the second game, I say it's a good fun to play on NES.
In 90's, Super Castlevania 4 came on SNES, I found this game is fantastic when comes with awesome gameplay, stages and boss levels, I say it's the best 2D side scroller horror on SNES and so with the SEGA Genesis classics such as Castlevania Bloodlines is great too, there is a game called Castlevania - Rondo of blood on the T-Gfx CD which is never came out on UK and USA but I have to say it's a great game which is only in Japan unless we can get it on SNES version which is called Castlevania:Dracula X which is decent port for SNES but not good as the T-Gfx CD version which comes with awesome soundtrack, Cutscenes and able to use save data to continue the game which SNES can't handle it due to the limited of cartridge size, so I say the SNES is not that bad at all, there is a another game called Castlevania - Symphony of the night comes on PSX regarding to be best Castlevania games ever created from the fans and critics who given a lot of 9 out of 10 which becomes very successful games, I have not completed the game yet but still the outstanding game for PSX, then there is a 3D adventure game called Castlevania 64 for N64 considered to be worst on the series and so with Legacy of Darkness is god awful too, in 2000's, I have not played some of the modern Castlevania games yet until I got a Lords of Shadows for PS3 which came released in 2010, so now i'm reviewing this.
Castlevania - Lord of shadows is a action adventure games and reboot of the franchise which comes with different story and the character in the game, the story is about Gabriel Belmont set his journey to fight the dark lords who taken over the people town's and collects the pieces of god mask to get his wife Marie back from the dead who been murdered by the devil, I say the story is quite different from the main series because it's a rebooting from the original series, Gabriel Belmont is a good character in the game, he kicks lot of monster ass with light and shadow magic, Holy Cross whip with awesome combo moves, cool stunts in QTE and he can climb and jump walls which is cool about this guy, this game comes with 12 chapters to complete and took me about 2 weeks to complete, you may also download the 2 extra chapters as well, in the gameplay, the combat moves is likely similar to God of war series, you can attack the bad guys with whip and throwing items, you can also upgrades the combo moves, learn new moves and relics moves to improve the player's performance, the character can able to climb and jump the walls to find a way to exit which is likely compared to Altair from Assassin Creed series and Lara Croft from Tomb Raider series did a better job, the puzzles is hardest thing to solved the problems when you get to the levels and there is a puzzles room to activates the door open to get through, I say game controls and gameplay system considered to be very good in the game, the graphics is decent for character design, level stages, backgrounds and textures, the music and sounds is outstanding for epic soundtrack, awesome sound effects and great voice acting, the special features comes with artwork, chess games like and downloading 2 new chapters which is ok'ay but needs more than enough to have, ok'ay can it be a good Castlevania games yet, lets find out.
Gameplay 8/10 - Gameplay is good for basic combat, magic and learn new moves to upgrade which makes a impressive performance for gameplay.
Graphics 7/10 - Graphics is decent for character design, levels stages, backgrounds and textures.
Music and sounds 9/10 - Outstanding music, Awesome sound effects and Great voice acting.
Special Features 6.5/10 - Artwork, chess game like and 2 new chapters to download is ok'ay but need more stuff to have.
Downside - Levels can be confusing to find.
Puzzles can be difficult to solve problems.
Overall 7.5/10 - It's a very good Castlevania games, so looks like Konami did a great job for this game.
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