Sorrow isn't even the word anymore

Ah, Castlevania, I remember going through Dracula's castle and whipping skeletons to death. This is Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow for the DS, and like other Castlevania games, it requires you to stare hard at your DS with your sweaty palms on its sides for hours and hours of leveling up and trying to figure out if that's the right route to explore. But hey, it's Castlevania, what do you expect? Casltevania takes place in 2000 and something, you play as Soma Cruz, an exhange student to whatever school he goes to, but that's not the point. In the game, you have many many weapons to collect and upgrade into massive weapons of destruction. In the game, you venture through a replica of Dracula's castle, killing bosses, searching for secret routes and obtaining many abilities from the bosses you kill. The level up system is pretty straight forward, and you can upgrade your weapons from the souls you capture. Most of the game is all about collecting souls from monsters, but it is annoying to massacre each moster hundreds of times until you get that soul. Each sould gives you an ability that will make the game much easier, pretty much. If you like other casltevania games, or feel like playing a side scrolling RPG, this is the one for you! I give Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow for the DS a 3.5... out of 5