It seems from this description that the game is packed with ideas, but each one passes by quickly and before you know it the adventure is over. It’s a neat idea that adds some puzzle-solving or otherwise breaks up the action. He also can for some reason transform at different points, into a fish, a crawling bug, or a water elemental. For example, you might need to freeze a water spout or burn a wooden barrier to progress. Kale has a fire sword and soon gets an ice spear to swap between each has a slightly different attack pattern, and can interact with environmental objects in different ways. There’s a few gameplay innovations that are unlike the standard Castlevania format. Stages can be replayed to farm experience or find upgrades, but you really shouldn’t need to. This is following the older stage-based Castlevania format, but it does have pickups to boost your health or magic, and experience points to upgrade your weapons. Other than that the DS does allow a map display on the bottom screen-big thumbs up, always appreciated-although the level design is pretty simple. It’s a vestigial feature but harmless, as it’s not required. The camera is also used at certain points in gameplay to give you a bonus based on the predominant colour of a picture you take. An amusing feature after clearing the game is to take pictures with your DSi camera and insert your own face into the characters’ dialogue portraits. For as brief as the plot is, it’s not too terrible. Lydia has amnesia because of course she does, and then there’s a twist which to be fair Castlevania never did: Lydia was a vampire all along. You are Kale Belmont, whose girlfriend Lydia is targeted by Dracula Ritter the vampire. The game’s quite easy (with the exception of the one tedious dragon boss), and betrays its mobile phone origins with a limited scope and animations that don’t live up to the buttery smoothness of its inspirations. And it does a decent job at that! But the review’s not over there, unfortunately. Soul of Darkness is Gameloft’s attempt to copy the look and feel of a post-Rondo Castlevania game.
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