Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997)

by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo, Konami
Platforms:
Xbox 360, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation, PlayStation 3, Sega Saturn
Genres:Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Platform
Themes:Open world, Action, Horror
Game modes:Single player
Story:
Having been awoken from his eternal slumber by the reappearance of Castlevania, Alucard must once again face the evil minions of darkness. Use your vampiric powers, along with weapons, potions, and other magical relics to change the tide of battle. A mixture of platform and role-playing action with many hidden areas and secrets. Can you discover them all?
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One of my favorite PS1 games. Remember playing this back in the day. It is so deep and full of character. Absolutely the best Castlevania game along with Ecclesia.January
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user avatar@Januaryuser avatar@January
January 03, 2026
One of my favorite PS1 games. Remember playing this back in the day. It is so deep and full of character. Absolutely the best Castlevania game along with Ecclesia.
user avatar@Iceraivenuser avatar@Iceraiven
January 13, 2026
This game was addicting when I had it on playstation and i have been wanting to play it again all these years later, I also loved that you also had to complete the castle upside down and the Voice Overs were good too.
When I first played this game, I was completely blown away by the transition from a platforming game to an action-adventure game with RPG elements. It has aged like a fine wine both mechanically and audio-visually, still serving as one of the most important foundations (along with Super Metroid) for the "metroidvania" genre. It's criminal that such a historically important video game hasn't gotten a more widespread re-release on modern platforms outside of the Sony ecosystem.
I Love GOG and your work, help me and community to save this game. Please only together we can make changes in this Geek World we are Making together, thank you GOG, i love you. OMG GOG, thank you so much, this Game made my youth, and is living in me today and forever, thank you CSOTN is the Best of The Best. Thank you.
user avatar@UncleBobbouser avatar@UncleBobbo
January 30, 2025
Seriously a crime that this has never been ported. The PS1 loading times are awful, and the PSP dub is just not as iconic. Despite the game being admittedly pretty clunky it stands tall as one of the coolest games from a console generation defined by really cool games and I would love to see a definitive version on PC
It's not a long game. It's not a lot of things. But what it is is a fun game with a great replay ability that doesn't take 80+ hours, and something you still can use a lot of time on collecting things or getting the different endings. The pixel art is a blend of sprites of older Castlevania games and newer introduced with the game, and it looks amazing to say the least. The mix of 2D and 3D is really impressionable! And the music, oh man! I still listen to the soundtrack, it's so iconic! A release on GOG would be an instant buy for me, since it's kind of hard to get a hold of the game through normal means. If you want the original you have to pay a ridiculous amount, or buy the PSP remake of Rondo of Blood (I own this already), that has the game in it as a hidden bonus if you unlock it. But then you can't play it on a bigger screen which is kind of sad. I just want to play the darn game on a huge screen to see it in all its glory, accompanied by huge speakers blastin the soundtrack!
user avatar@TeaCharmeruser avatar@TeaCharmer
January 31, 2025
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Nuff said. But as I have to put enough characters I just mention it's absolutely brilliant music and impeccable vibes. You can't go much more classic than this. Entire genre got the name partially off of it.
user avatar@Musikajruser avatar@Musikajr
February 01, 2025
video games to me used to be grandmas house game(she has a NES and loves mario) SOTN is first game that made me want to play a video game after I saw it once on a relative playstation 1 back in 98. aged so well on everything from graphics to gameplay. one of the best game ever and personally I consider it THE best game ever.
user avatar@Perkluntuser avatar@Perklunt
February 01, 2025
Ha les folles soiree sur ce jeu avec ma game gear ! Superbe jeux.. Devoir debloque des nouveaux personnage avec des capacite hors du commun.. Jadorai le ninja vert. Je crois quil lancait des etoiles tout en fzisant des sauts Que de souvenir
user avatar@RWuser avatar@RW
February 01, 2025
Castlevania Symphony of the Night is a classical gem. It influenced a lot of other video games with it's incredibly rich content, amazing gameplay and epic moments. I hope you bring it back to life with even more improvements. Better graphics, maniability, more content, the ability to run, more challenges, more equipments and bosses.
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