Castlevania Advance Collection Review (PlayStation 4)

by Jim Smale · September 27, 2021

Our Castlevania Advance Collection Review goes back to a time when vampire games were all the rage, So we join the fight against Evil in the Castlevania Advance Collection, a compilation of timeless action-exploration masterpieces! In addition to the three legendary Castlevania games that were first released in the early 2000s, this collection also includes Castlevania: Dracula X.

Castlevania Advance Collection Review Pros:

Gorgeous graphics.
703.6MB download size.
Platinum trophy.
Works on Playstation 5.
Tutorials vary from game to game and how they are implemented.
Four games – Castlevania (Gameboy Advance), Castlevania Harmony Of Dissonance, Castlevania Aria Of Sorrow, and Castlevania Vampires Kiss.
Game version – American, European, and Japanese. (each has separate saves)
Music player for all the game’s soundtracks.
Gallery – concept and game art.
Each game has a story button to give you the general gist.
All game/video/control settings are on a per-game basis.
Screen settings – standard, pixel perfect, and full.
Can rebind controls.
Rewind feature.
Gadgets – (on/off and different in each game) shows if a monster should have been obtained from a battle, display if any items remain in the current area, shows what DSS and action cards are obtainable in a battle.
Save and load replays.
Choice of wallpapers for the border art.
Save/load when you want.
High-quality sound option.
Encyclopedia for all the info on enemies, lore, and items/weapons.
Can easily quit back to the game select screen.
Castlevania Vampires Kiss has six screen settings – standard, pixel perfect, full, 4:3 with filter, pixel perfect with filter, and full with filter.
All settings can be changed whenever.
Each game shows a last played date and time stamp.
Fast loading times.
Every game’s cutscenes can be skipped and text fast-forwarded.
Powerful soundtracks.
An amazing collection of games.
Castlevania Aria Of Sorrow – is like your Symphony Of The Night, earn exp and level up, Metroidvania, equip new items, enemies randomly drop loot, etc.
Castlevania (Gameboy Advance) is a more hardcore experience that uses a DSS mechanic whereby you collect and activate action and attribute cards to change the game and how you play it.
Can use analog and d-pad.
Each game has 10 save slots.
Castlevania Harmony Of Dissonance is like Symphony of the night complete with the same enemy models, abilities, and save rooms.
Castlevania Vampires Kiss is actually the Snes version of Rondo Of Blood.

Castlevania Advance Collection Review Cons:

The game menu does take a short while to load and close.
Castlevania is very clunky showing its age kind of game.
Quicksave and load are menu options so it’s not as fast as you would like.
No museum or history pieces.
Doesn’t add anything new to the games.
The rewind feature is a button combo that’s less than ideal.
You can’t just do an overall setting change so you don’t need to go into each game’s settings.
Vampires Kiss runs a bit sluggish.

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