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Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
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The first Castlevania installment for the Game Boy Advance, following up on Castlevania: Symphony of the Night's "Metroidvania" style while introducing a unique magic ability system involving mystical cards.
5 ★ (7)
4 ★ (20)
3 ★ (8)
2 ★ (1)
1 ★ (0)

Suffer the true curse of darkness

At its launch in 2001, Game Boy Advance was a system about to step into the future of portable gaming, while simultaneously attempting to push down hardware costs whenever possible. The first version… Read more

Watch Me Whip. Now Watch Me Melee.

Castlevania is hands down one of my favorite game series ever. As time goes by, I find myself constantly wanting to go back to these games, specifically the 2D entries, and I wanted to do this again h… Read more

Great launch game, great metroidvania

I liked the direction the series was going here; collecting made rewarding via detour challenges, decent sequence breaking opportunities, travel made easy by running and jumping over regular enemies,… Read more

The Castlevania that mixes the old with the new

The boomerang continues to be a effective weapon I couldn't just play Aria of Sorrow without playing the other GBA Castlevania that I happen to own Circle of the Moon. They both may be from the same f… Read more

Mobile and ready

Castlevania as a franchise isn’t super important anymore. Lately it’s polygonal titles (and even a 2D one) have been good to middling to crap according to online aggregate scores. While I’ve never rea… Read more

A Good Launch Title

It’s not often that a system gets a launch title with as much clout as Castlevania, but the GameBoy Advance got lucky. In this adventure Nathan Graves fills the role of the vampire hunter when Camilla… Read more

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