Very good Game, Solid melee but crappy map.

User Rating: 8.1 | Castlevania: Curse of Darkness PS2
This game is great, the story is great, the battle is great (even though they could do more about the devil forging) the only down side was the frustrating map. Each path might lead you to a fork adn when you have chosen your path you discover that its a dead end, so you need to go back and try teh other path, then you continiously bump into forks and usualy find dead ends. The most frustrating part that when you are looking for a save station cause you are going to die and sudenly you find a map which shows you there was a save station just right back there, it feels like you wana hit your head against the wall. The shop isnt anything special, the merchendise in this game and the currency obtainance were not worth being noticed. One of the most interesting things they add to this game is the weapon forgery even though it was kinda messy and some recipes were extremely difficult to forge, such weapons as the Death Scythe, Muramasa, 7 blade sword etc were great. The actual story, battle style and some of its feature are great but they become cursed from the extremely monotonus map.