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Castlevania‘s best-known and loved musical engineer, Michiru Yamane, was interviewed by 1up recently about the music of Castlevania. This is fascinating stuff, as this woman’s done most of the music in the series since Bloodlines. 1UP: Prior to Symphony of the Night, you had written music for Castlevania: Bloodlines, which appeared on the Sega [...] Kotaku’s Mike Fahey has published an article called “Game Changers: Sequels that Scared the True Fans.” Among the reasonable entries on the list such as Metroid Prime (which is only my favorite video game) is a Castlevania game. Surprise, it’s Symphony of the Night, arguably the most favorably remembered game in the franchise. Why was it [...] I’ve added a few more components to my collection recently that I’d like to share. Today, I received the Symphony of the Night promotional artbook and manga that came with the Japanese PlayStation game, after buying it on eBay last week. Before that, I received a box of Nintendo Power magazines. The lot was to include [...] A trip to my local Hot Topic store today netted me this great Castlevania shirt. It has a classic image of the title screen of the first Castlevania on NES, complete with “push start key” text. While I’m not generally one to dump $19 on a tee shirt, I couldn’t resist this. On the other hand, what [...]
I mentioned how I recently got Konami Classics Vol. 1, which is a compilation of three Konami Xbox Live Arcade games on a disc, but couldn’t give any impressions because I didn’t have the ability to run the game. Now I can do that. Similar Posts: |
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As of Friday, I am the owner of my first Xbox 360 console. I held out for years for a number of reasons, the most important of which was the notorious unreliability of the platform. Some amount of resentment toward Microsoft that built over years of using their products was also involved. Eventually, as the reliability was improved with the “jasper” chipset in the latest models, it began to make sense to get the console after all. As a gaming journalist at Aeropause.com, I’m offered review copies of a number of games, and most of these are for Xbox 360. Now I can accept those games and review them.