1. SilentSputnik

   10

   Oh my goodness, this game is genius! The character progression is brilliant. There's so much room for a player's personal style to be shown online. There's plenty of technical skills to be learned over the course of hundreds and hundreds of hours of gameplay.… Expand

   • Helpful? 0 of 0 users said Yes.
2. Lwppopz

   8

   I never knew that a platform game could work so well as a online multiplayer game. Other great game in the Castlevania series, some new fresh ideas. Although multiplayer could have been more fleshed out and drop in and drop out co-op would have been nice. It's starts of hard but after a while you soon have better equipment and it's still as much fun every time. For me this is one of those games that gets better over time as you soon figure out all the things you can do and what all the stats means. I have only played as the one charcter, so I still have many hours of gameplay left if I'm to try the other. This game is not for everyone's taste, but amongst all the FPS's every where it's nice to get a change and a b****y brilliant game.… Expand

   • Helpful? 1 of 2 users said Yes.
3. Yakuul

   7

   An interesting idea for a game. I give it a 7 versus a lower score due to it being a relatively novel idea and working well in what it attempts to accomplish (i.e. being a multiplayer metroidvania style game). However, it can feel sluggish at times, and the feeling of exploration and discovery is noticeably absent once you've finished the paltry 6 levels. Granted, finding new items is always exciting, but it seems like there is too much grinding to be done. Overall, I find HoD to be a positive experience and worth a try, but perhaps only for those who are fans of the series. Playing a game like this really makes you thirst for a real Castlevania 2-D adventure on an HD console, though...… Expand

   • Helpful? 2 of 2 users said Yes.
4. JudgeMental

   3

   Whoever decided to put an 8-bit graphics style game on XBLA is a bit out of touch. Now I'm not saying 8-bit is bad, but let's be honest. This game came out in the same month as LIMBO, a game that managed to look gorgeous with only two colors, and Lara Croft GoL, a combat platformer with very nice graphics. The game was unoriginal, offered a terrible navigation and menu setup, and looked like it was from the 1980s. Not worth the money.… Expand

   • Helpful? 1 of 5 users said Yes.

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