Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin

starfox48's Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (Nintendo DS) review

Casltevania Portrait of Ruin

I had just bought a DS recently and thought me being a huge Castlevania fan, what better to buy than one of the two out there.  So i picked up Portrait of Ruin.  I was kind of depressed with the lack of a touch screen use in the main storyline, but hey what could you really do with touch screen functionallity in a Casltevania game.  It was convienient to have the map always displayed on the top half of the screen instead of having to pause and look at the map to get that 100% area complete achievement that i always take the task of doing.  Other than that I've heard that there have been many problems with this game.  The most noteable one is a huge flaw but if you are able to catch it the game runs smoothly.  All in all I say it  is a good addition to the whip slinging adventures of the Casltevania series and it was a good change of pace with the partner system.

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