Dunno, I like my computer elsewhere, I have a big house and my bedroom is just not optimal for my computer. I can see it's nice to be able to surf from a comfy chair or bed (it's why I have a very nice couch), but it just doesn't work for me:)

Okay after spending a lot of the evening breezing through levels even on Knight (I swear some of the synergy in this game's combat system is just amazing) I am now getting my arse handed to me badly, lol, sometimes this game does that on some fight and you just have to put it down and come back to it later (you could drop the difficulty but I've only made that exception once!).

The funny thing is I laugh at enemies that used to make me groan before. More vampire warriors? Bring it on, lol. Don't want to spoil some of the other big enemies for people (because you're gonna crap your pants when you see them), but one really big one was hard for about five minutes until I realized how darned obvious he was.

Using Chainsaw on one bonehead enemy is also very satisfying:)

Buy this game, seriously, game of the year!:) Okay I'm done now.

Along with Enslaved I'd say this game is the biggest surprise positive of this year. Enslaved perhaps even moreso since it wasn't very advertised here, I just saw it at the store all of the sudden and bought it in a drunken stupor.

I've played both (but not finished any) now and Castlevania is the better game by far. Much more depth to the gameplay, in fact I'd say it rivals God of War 3 in that department.

Beating God of War 3 on Titan difficulty (which is brutal) is a good warm-up towards beating Castlevania on it's equivalent, but it's not fake difficulty. If you're good enough you can breeze through without ever dying, just takes a lot of practice to become that good.

I just finished it at 3am this morning (it was so strong at the end I just kept saying, "one more puzzle", "one more boss", ...).

Awesome ending and like I keep saying, super deep combat system. Yeah, Paladin mode on combat heavy levels is brutal (3x Greater Werewolves == ouch!). I've literally caught myself saying, "Man, I'm doing really well here," then I take a hit, lose my focus (game and real life) and I'm dead not 10 seconds later.

I don't want to spoil anything, so I won't post a video, but I've watched ones where people literally slugged it out with some of the toughest bosses in the game and got perfect block after perfect block, and knock down after knock down on them.

These bosses are hard. If you reduce the difficulty the game doesn't give you more health, more healing items, or less enemy HP. Everything still works the same except the enemy attacks slower. How about that? The game is so well balanced and the combat system is so deep that that's the biggest difference I noticed between the difficulty levels (and may be the only one, in fact)! You still have to handle a warg like you should or you're going to die. There's no difficulty that will let you sit there and tank damage or out-dps your foe.

Also, everyone ranks the final boss way high on difficulty, I actually had very little problem with that boss, even on Knight mode (we'll see how Paladin goes). It took me a few extra tries and I pressed one of the cut-scene action buttons too soon and got insta-killed, but other than that I really felt like there was way more room for error than on some other bosses.

I plan on taking on the chapter 3 boss on Paladin tomorrow, if I can do that, I can do anything in the game, imo. I'll probably play through Enslaved afterward, before finishing up Castlevania on Paladin.

Again, it still gets my game of the year. I might recommend the PS3 version so you can avoid the disc switching which gets awful old. That's my biggest gripe, even though I installed both discs on the hard drive, I still was stuck swapping discs. When you do play this (as you all should), tell me how you feel when you pull off a perfect, upgraded ground cutter on a big baddy:)

DROOL.

It really is, awesome I mean. Enjoy Darksiders though, it's fun in its own right, ridiculous, over-the-top-giggle-when-you're-drunk fun, at times, in fact, and you got it at a pittance of a price for what's packed into it:)

Loving it man - playing on hardest difficulty for first playthrough... And it's starting to get hard! Just wish I could use a controller.... *grumbles*

Just spanked the hardest boss in the game on Paladin, woot!

Cool, I think Darksiders was fun on Apocalyptic, honestly. There's some normal groups of monsters that gave me more trouble than bosses in that mode, it was almost diabolical (and I suspect a bit on purpose).

Yeah, I'm up to that part where I first go into the "other" world or whatever, the four shining beacons of light with the gauntlets... Two were easy, but the one where I have the reducing life meter and need to kill 50... FUCK but that damn big monster that comes when you've killed about 45 or so... I HATE HIM!!!!!!!!!! Kills me every fricking time.

And the other one where you have to kill 50 with one hit kills - same thing. SO frustrating. But I'll get there dammit.

I wasn't going to bother with this because it appeared to be the death of my beloved Metroidvania 2D Castlevania games but it's encouraging to hear that it's good. Damn, the list of games I want to but can't play is growing... need a PS3 but don't want to give Sony money. D=

Save the life chests for when the big guys pop on the poison level, then dash to the furthest one, grab it, and unload on whatever's near. If one of em comes over, dash the other way and grab one or two more kills. You can actualy double jump over their shoulder (to the right as you face them) when they do that big overhand swing. Do you have Chaosform back yet? If so you can just use that on them.

The flourish kills one is hard you just have to keep getting them, whenever a bat pops you should jump up and flourish kill him since you don't have to wear them down first. If you can weather the big guys for a moment you get at least 3 bats at the end.

Do yourself a favor and come back and play those at the end. You'll laugh at how easy they are by then:)

Actually, I totally clocked the bitch after I vented on here. Funny how sometimes walking away for the day then coming back to it can make everything click.

My fekking god but this game is EPIC. The flying level was fun - and now I have the "throwing star". Too awesome. I should be near the boss of this flying level....

She's fairly epic looking, but I think some of the normal baddies on that level are tougher than her. Yeah, I had to do that a bunch on Castlevania, walk away, grab a bite, check email, clean, or whatever and come back later and do it in 1-3 tries.