Not the best in the Castlevania series, But Good Enough.
User Rating: 9.5 | Castlevania: Harmony of Despair X360
Single Player: Single Player mode is pretty much just the usual castlevania charade of Choose your character, Select their weaponry Unless you play as Julius or Johnathan....Then you're just stuck with the whip and usual subweapons, Everybody gets their own type of Subweapon system, Like Alucard has magic, soma has soul types, and Whip wielders have martial arts, And the usual armor system of select the best armor you pick up of buy, The use item system kinda sucks, you can stack only one item for the whole level and the stack amount is limited like high potions are limited to 3 only and the super potion is limited to 1 only, although that's understandable seeming as it heals 9999 health, You can also change the colours of your characters on the character select screen and change their voices to japanese by selecting your character, then holding down the right trigger and selecting the colour you like, Anyway the Level select consists of 6 levels in total, level 6 being the last one of course AKA dracula, but you can also purchase more DLC levels for your game, Anyway the gameplay for the levels is the usual thing of you have a time limit of 30:00 for the whole level, The whole level is just made up of rooms from most of the games just mashed together, No random enemy spawning, just set enemy spawning, Chests around the level have random gear from past games and some new items in them, red chests are gold chests, and brown chests have a chance of becoming a mimic, also enemies drop items as usual, and on some of the levels the bosses have moves that can hit you outside of the boss room, or they come out of the boss room after you instead, attacking you every 5-10 seconds, Also on hard mode every enemy does 32 damage, all brown chests are mimics, and the bosses sometimes have new moves, there's secret items on each level and that's about all of it covered apart from multiplayer.
Multiplayer: Just the same as single player apart from more friends to go around with, if you open an item chest, everybody gets a separate item each, blue chests are Water of Life which you need if someone dies to revive them, the bosses are a bit harder, levels may take longer or shorter depending on who's playing with you, and you can all be the same character to confuse everybody, and you all share the gold from the chests, That's about it really, All in all 10 out of 10, apart from having to pay for new characters and levels, AND Music packs, Goddamn Konami.
