Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
A worthy successor to Aria but the story isn't quite as interesting.
Also needed to continue our Metroidvania series! Soma moves like fuckin MOLASSES. Beat one boss.
Killed like four bosses now? It's pretty fun. Soma still moves sooooo slowwwwww.
I'm liking this a lot more. I'm not totally sure what's so different yet.
I cheated myself the soul getting ring because you know, fuck farming. I know it's more reliable now but dang there's still some farming!
Got through a massive chunk here, "beat" the game with the wrong ending, so had to go back and track down Paranoia and then I went around jumping into all the mirrors for a while before actually beating Dario.
Okay, stayed up a bit later than I should have to beat this, which I suppose is a good sign. I do like how fast it is to chunk through these.
This felt fine though overall. I think the evidence increasingly mounts that I need to replay Aria and Fusion to see how I still feel about both, although I'm pretty certain I beat Aria a few years ago. But I think Order of Ecclesia is next.
Playing these games now has really just shot up my love for Metroidvanias. I have some ideas for why I forgot about this but I think this is fodder for a Deep Thought so I don't want to give too much away right now.