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Castlevania Harmony of Dissonance: Two Sandboxes of Violence

Castlevania Harmony of Dissonance is the third Castlevania game on the GBA console, and the only one to actually have a player control a Belmont, Juste Belmont, and his time to battle the Belmont family’s greatest enemy, Dracula, though not everything is as it should be. Harmony of Dissonance begins with Juste and his friend Maxim arriving at the recently restored  Castlevania, something that should not be as Dracula was defeated less than 100 years ago. Maxim, who located this castle, suffering from amnesia and weak tells Juste to continue without him and save their mutual friend, Lydie, from the horrors that lie within Dracula’s restored Castle. Juste, plays similar to any Belmont, using the family whip, Vampire Killer,  as his one and only primary weapon while having access to various sub-weapons. Unlike many other users of the Vampire Killer, Juste is an experienced spell caster and, upon discovering the spell books hidden within the Castle, can combine the elemental attribut

Digimon Anode/Cathode: A rough beginning of a franchise.

  Digimon Digital Monsters Anode/Cathode Tamer can best be described as Pokemon Conquest but made for the GB Color, and with the general writing of the original Red/Blue games. A relic of it’s time that would be a kickoff point for the franchise on the hand held, and remain a strange part of the digimon franchise as a whole decades later. Digimon Anode/Cathode follows young boy Ryo Akiyama who, on Christmas eve, is contacted by the Digimon Agumon, who is seeking someone to take his partner’s digivice and help save his friends. Ryo agrees and gets a proper explanation. Following the original Digimon adventure anime up until the battle with Machinedramon, in which he fused with a Chimeramon, resulting in the Digimon God of Time, Milleniummon. Using it’s new power Milleniummon quickly captured all of the digidestined and their partners except for Agumon. With no partner of his own, Ryo must rely on the power of Tai’s digivice to recruit enemy Digimon to Ryo’s side, while rescuing t