game: Castlevania: Curse of Darkness

Castlevania: Curse of Darkenss is second Castlevania game on the ps2, the first being Lament of Innocense. Since I am a Castlevania fan I beat all the games that come out in the series and I though it was time to beat CoD. This game was probably the worst Castlevania to come out since Symphony of the Night.............(actually now that I think about it this might be the worst Castlevania game I have played). As a 3d Castlevania, LoI was better. The problem with the first 3d Castlevania on the ps2 is that the map layout was an assortment of boxes linked together with a long corridor. Instead of learning from this mistake CoD still used the same layout of enter a boxed shaped rooms and corridors. Why they chose to keep it like this I do not understand. The 3d Castlevanias on the N64 were better with map design as it was more free roaming 'world map type game' and not restricted to boxes.

One thing that was interesting in this Castlevania is that enemies drop materials in use you use and combine to make your armor and weapons. Nice concept. Another interesting concept was the familiers. In this game familiars play a huge part, as you can level them up and receive spells for them. Overall this game was a HUGE disappointment and the worst Castlvania game I have played.

I would rate it a 4.5/10.

-Roberth

Associating Music / A song to a person?

I find this interesting. I go through periods of time when I will continuously just listen to one album or artist and during this period I will have some sort of revalation to one of the songs relating to another person. For example, there was a NIN song that I was obsessed with for a long time and just kept listening to it over and over again (it was off the Downward Spiral album) and at one point it just came to me, that it reminded me of this girl (that looked like the preppy chick from Sex and the City) in my senior high school Spanish class. So everytime I listen to that song I get the image of that girl in my head and that is what the song reminds me of mentally. A weird association.

This not happen very often, it has happened before with a MF Doom song of the Mad Villiany album. And recently it has happened with the Fugees album The Score and the song Manifest/Outro. What is even more particular is all the associations have been people and more specifically female. My theory is this happens when a female (or human) somehow has a strong presense in my life. But how I associate a certain song to that certain person is beyond me, maybe it is random...maybe it is not...I am leaning towards not. Anyway I found this interesting.

-Roberth