There's now a translation for the Saturn version of Symphony of the Night that ports over the PS1 translation to it. So you can play the Saturn version and experience the new content without being fully lost in the menus and story. There's a prepatched version up on CDRomance. Official thread for the translation can be found here: https://segaxtreme.net/threads/translating-dracula-x-sotn.24647/

Bernie Stolar did a lot to hurt these Japanese games coming to the West like the Working Designs releases.

This has been and will always be my #1 favorite game. Beaten it hundreds of times, only a few without the keep inventory glitch (felt so satisfying to beat it the intended way), but this is the game that taught me how to "get good" at a game without giving up on it. I still speedrun the game to this day.

Just discovered this channel, my type of content. Much love !

SotN is one of the games I put the most time into, playing it on a ‘Capcom Collection’ disc with my xbox360. I even remember going through the castle with my grandma watching, in awe of the game’s art and overall appearance. I recall the castle’s basement especially, with the eerie wails mixed into the music causing it to really stick with me.
It’s the first metroidvania I’ve ever beaten (though I never got the bad ending, stumbling across the way to the true ending while looking up guides for other items). I’ll miss the iconic lines from the og voice acting, but maybe I should get it for another playthrough on my ps4.

I'm glad i've stumbled upon this video

Nice

Excellent video!😎🤟

Crissaegrim!

I always wished for a DS port if this to supplement DoS, PoR and OoE. Such great games.

Rondo of Blood is the best, just the victim of multiple confusing rerelease attempts.
Great review I beat sotn recently and didn't resonate with it at all, gorgeous game with an amazing ost but I just felt like there was too much fluff and all the boss fights were so messy and uninteresting.
Disregarding the combat and there's tons to love about it as you say and it is the cornerstone for a lot of games I love, it's a load of people's favourite and I don't like ragging on it.

Also the rings were a Castle of Cagliostro reference if people haven't seen that wonderful movie yet fuck em 😤

I was right about to close out of the video, but then he puts on my jam in the end credits, and I couldn't stop groovin

I'm finishing my first playthrough now and I have to say. I found the gold ring, took it to the clock room, nothing happened so moved on.

Much later, found the spike armor, remembered the room with the spikes, found the silver ring and it all clicked. Especially because silver and gold go together.

So maybe I just got lucky, but I found the inverted castle first playthrough blind. And usually I'm not able to figure that kind of stuff out on my own

I prefer a bit more later handheld games for replay value because as a whole the castle here (with its inverted form to do every time) it's a bit more of a patchwork than the other places. Makes sense because it's a magical place, a nightmare, but still i like a bit less "chaos" ;)

For the 360 port my game basically loses video connection when I enter the chapel right after you talk to Maria it flicks on and off but stays mostly off I have to hide in the far right nook looking at the forest how do I fix this do I have to restart for now I'm using the shitty ps4 version with new dialogue

The best soundtrack in SoTN is Woodcarving Parthita

Finally, kinda surprising you haven't done this one before.
Now here's one question left: Memories of Celceta when?

What a chad.

What you said at the end is too real. The Vania communitys relatively small and we all like to point out the SOTN simping every now and then. Larger game discussion/personalities go one about it as if it's the only one. When Bloodstained came out it was constantly compared to this game when it took standout elements from all the Igarashi games; soul steal, side quests in a village hub, crafting, arching weapons and plenty of easter eggs to the series even before his time. Yes, the journalistic opinions will just say "A SOTN spiritual successor. Get some of that nostalgic SOTN action".

It takes away from how the formula changed so much. Going through the GBA and DS games (hell even the PS2 games) you see a ton of quality of life improvements. Choosing where the teleprompter brings you, arching weapons, bigger weapon variety (most in SOTN feel like the same sword or knife), using items from the menu, better post-game areas, better bonus character playthroughs, better boss fights and the list can go on. Not to shame SOTN, but it was the amazing foundation that did have room for refinement and improvements. SOTN started it all but, and to this day is a perfect game to sink into, but there's even more to enjoy with games like Aria and Ecclesia even surpassing it. This isn't even mentioning the linear games, which seem to be fading from relevance more and more. Rondos still super praised but the others deserve as much love (3 to this day executed the partner mechanics the best, 4 and Bloodlines are painterly beautiful and atmispheric)