Castlevania Dominus Collection

Yet another incredibly high quality collection from Konami and M2. This time packaging the 3 Nintendo DS castlevania games plus haunted castle PLUS an unexpected but welcome remake of Haunted Castle. The DSvania titles are 3 of the most celebrated games in the series for a reason, all packing content rich engaging metroidvania's with the same level of polish and detail (to a degree) as SOTN and AOS before them with tons of extra modes to boot. Dawn of Sorrow doesnt have a fixed luck stat sadly but the button based seals and mouse enabled touch stuff for Balore's soul is super nice, even if a bit awkward for speedrunning. Even beyond visuals and game balance all 3 games pack some of the best music youll hear in any video game ever, let alone just on the ds. Geuinely stunning OSTs with zero bad songs to be heard, even in a game as bad as Haunted castle the ost slaps. Haunted Castle revisited got a drop dead amazing re-arrangement of the og versions ost and like i just said its amazing. I would say emulation is perfect but im pretty sure these are all native ports given the file size of the game is significantly bigger then the advance collection and anniversary collections before, either way as someone who has played these 3 games on many different variations on real hardware and emulators these play flawlessly and have no real major errors that should affect you. The collection is basically perfect and should be an instant grab for an CV fan or anyone whose interested in trying these games.

Great ports of 3 great games at a great price. I am pretty reticent to pay for cashgrab ports of old games, but if this was the industry standard I wouldn't be.

An incredible collection, including 3 of the best Igavanias and a really good remake of Haunted Castle! This is quite possibly the best Castlevania collection out there, for various reasons.. First of all, the games included! ALL of these are a blast to play, and they even turned the seals in Dawn of Sorrow into button QTEs of sorts, which is a fine solution to the touch stuff that plagued the original. This one is very useful, it shows all three screens at once! This means you can see gameplay, map AND stat screen all at once without having to swap between map/stat, this makes this collection pretty much the MUST way to play these games for me now (and also the ability to use more comfortable controllers). Haunted Castle Revisited is quite short but damn sweet, it's one of the easier classicvanias out there but it's a nice 30 minutes romp for sure! Sad that it doesn't have achievements though. So yeah generally this collection is the best way to play these games, they're very responsive too, I didn't notice any input lag even with the collection's vsync enabled, and I am VERY picky about input lag. In fact, i'm pretty confident the Advance Collection does have some input lag, which I really didn't notice in this one. This collection has only two issues for me, one of which can be fixed First one, the frame pacing is all whack, it makes the collection have a somewhat inconsistent choppy scrolling (Portrait of Ruin is a bit inconsistent natively though). You can fix this by setting your monitor to 60Hz, a bit annoying to have to change my monitor's refresh rate but at least it can be fixed. Second one, the game is running at an increased *internal* resolution, which makes some graphics and rotating sprites look worse than how they'd look at native resolution, and there's no way to fix this. No idea why they just didn't upscale the resolution without touching the internal one, but eventually you get used to it.

Dracula is no more.

3 joyas de Castlevania en un solo pack. Quien conoce y jugo estos juegos en la consola original sabe de que hablo. Junto con la Advance collection es el mejor pack que podes tener de castlevania y sobre todo si te gusta el genero METROIVANIA. Los 3 son buenisimos!!

A fantastic collection that let me rediscover some of the Castlevania games I played back in my younger days. Every title still holds up remarkably well, with outstanding soundtracks, gorgeous pixel art, and gameplay that is both fast-paced and surprisingly deep. Konami did a great job with this collection, making these classics easily accessible on modern platforms. Whether you're a longtime fan or new to the series, this is an easy recommendation.