So I Played Castlevania Symphony of the Night in 2023 | Clayton Morris Plays 

Clayton is a gamer too. I love it!

The fact that Clayton is a gamer is like finding out your uncle has a secret yacht.

I'm 69 years old and I played sotn many times and it's still my favorite game

It’s so nice to see a man speak about games in a level-headed way, who doesn’t speak through a static cartoon avatar and smash cuts to stale, tired memes at every opportunity. I’m glad I found your channel!

I am glad you finally played this! a classic for all time!

The meme-worthy voice acting was replaced in the Requiem release.

I watch redacted… I would’ve never expected this… the Morris family has some things figured out, that’s for sure.

Still one of fave games..of all time. And I'm here from Redacted and as a 45 year old gamer.....new sense of respect Clayton!!

Dude, you're only just playing this NOW? Oh, man. SotN is the absolute pinnacle of aesthetic, presentation, features and plain FUN. I only tried it when I was in my teens after it had been out for a few years, but I never imagined Castlevania on a big ol' map. Over time, it eventually got to be my all-time favorite video game of all time. Rando seeds keep it saucy. Cheers.

Homie is a gamer! That's eeeeef'n awesome. You and Natalie are my favorite news anchors of all time. And I'm 42.

This is one of my favorite games of all time, and yes, once you reach the 100% mark get ready be blown away. This was so cool!

Richter: "Die monster. You dont belong in this world" Dracula: "That delivery is soo wooden, you can drive it to my heart and kill me"

I did NOT expect you to be an old school gamer!! Glad you're in the club with us 😁

Such a classic game! I had no idea Clayton was into games too. Love this!

This game is legendary

Love the channel, honestly thrilled to see this side of you, non Redacted 😉 SOTN was way ahead of its time and has aged like fine wine. Side note also available on Android and I believe IOS, best played with a controller

I just bought a CRTV at a yard sale. Found a copy of Synphony of the Night on Facebook. Now I’m actively trying to track down a PS2 to play it on. Can’t wait!!! Also, love Redacted Thanks for fearlessly reporting the truth that others won’t

Schmoo, the little ghost at the library drops the Crissaegrim , the best weapon in the game wich is a one handed sword , however it is an extreme rare drop so wearing aaccesories to raise LUCK definitely helps , This sword is ideal for grinding other items or for finish the game without much difficulty, personally I only use it to grind other items since otherwise the game becomes very easy . If you are a collector and want all the weapons and shields, you definitely need this sword to speed up the grinding process

The Retro Hour podcast interviewed the guy who worked at Konami Japan who did the Symphony of the Night translation. He said he had to take a lot of licence with the dialogue because it didn't translate well from Japanese to English. He also said that in those days no one higher up checked his work so he had free licence to do what he wanted. When I first got an MP3 player in 2005, I use to listen to the SOTN soundtrack when I was working.

Why am I just seeing this now? Clayton is a gamer? And this is legendary game.

There's so much depth to this game. The replayability is phenomenal. You'll be learning new things for a long time.

This is awesome! Had no idea you had a based video game channel! Looking forward to more content.

I don't blame you for not keeping a fixed eye on all things gaming when you were in university. The PS1 especially was just flooded with quality titles, so even stone cold classics could easily slip through the cracks. This was the golden age of video games after all.

A few notes that make the fact that this isn’t in Switch even sillier. This game can be played on Xbox 360, Xbox One and Xbox Series machines as well(it’s a digital 360 game but it’s fully backwards supported for the newer consoles). You can also get a PS2(which are far easier to find then a PS3 or PSX because they sold so well) and play the PSX game on that.

I was in HS at the time of my Playstation tenure. Like you, I played the hell out of my PSX, even chipped mine then would rent games, copy and burn them which I still have books of CD-Rs (I know...I was bad and have since reformed my pirating ways). Also like Claydon, I missed this game! I never played it until like 2010. I love this game so much that I bought an original disc to put up on my wall.

I still have my original game with the Prima guide. Best. Game. Ever.

Sotn was what kept me into gaming.

The ps1 days were the best. 36 year old gamer here. I'll never forget playing SOTN with my older bro when it came out.

7:00 this isn't the original voice track from ps1.

My mother bought me Simon's quest (castelvania 2) on the nes as a kid. I think it was the hardest game I ever played, I couldn't understand where to go or what to do, it was so frustrating !!! and we had no access to nintendo power in Belgium at the time and no internet of course so that game was a curse to me ! because of it I never tried any other Castelvania after that I was too scared ... maybe now is a good time to make peace with the franchise ! Thanks for a great video again Clayton !

Symphony deserve a oscar grammy and then Dracula X second place. Symphony sounds track was top notch.

I still have my original copy from my childhood “I’m 37” I have played many hours and love this game

Finishing a game is the most awesome feeling that one can not forget. Level up indeed!

Hey Clayton I loved this game so much I beat the secret versions of it and had them saved on a memory card on my old PS2. I recently saw it was in the PS store and of course I bought it and downloaded it and it is just as good as I remember it. Always told everyone that this game was the best Castlevania of the franchise.

Wow! Clayton! I did not know! Castlevania SOTN is one of my all time favorite games, and hearing your detailed perspective about this cult classic makes me want to play the whole game all over again! I hope you don't stop reviewing classic video games. I'm interested to see what else you'll review. As for the acting, it's not as bad as Resident Evil 🤣

I played for the first time Rondo of Blood and Symphony on the night back to back in late 2019 and it was an amazing experience, I couldn't put the controller down until I finished. I felt very proud and accomplished when I completed 100% Symphony of the Night. I also did it on PS4 with the Requiem Collection you suggested, great video!

the timeless game that age like a fine wine.

Me my brother and my dad played this game around the time it first came out. We got the Game from AMES. We all thought we beat the game. And then my brother found out something soooooo amazing. And so many people still never found out. This is literally of best games on PS1

I play it on PS3, also Apple TV w/RetroArch

Really nice channel I'm glad that you sent me over here from redacted I'm 54 been ranked many times in my life and will never stop.

such a great game!

I just beat this game on my Miyoo Mini Plus.. that's the only way I had to play it..but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Great game. I just beat Prince of Persia The Lost Crown, which is a fantastic metroidvania as well, and now I'm working on beating Hollow Knight. If you haven't played these other two games, definitely try them out

This is hands down the best ps1 game ive ever played!!!

I was 16 when this came out, still one of my favorites!! Been watching Redacted for years, just discovering now that you have a gaming channel! mind blown.

Awesome

Flea man has been around since the original Castlevania and has been in nearly every one since.

We need this released on the Switch. Hello 👋 M2!

Loved it so much fun when I was a little one 😆👍

I bought requiem as well, but i did it for rondo of blood. I love the 16 bit Castlevanias the most. It was a real shame that they seperated rondo of blood from super Castlevania and Castlevania bloodlines. Konami is a jerk for that. Symphony of the night was great too though, you should play bloodstained ritual of the night.

My first game on Ps1.. castlevania is my favorite game line. The Ps3 Lords of shadow 1 and 2 are has a great story and its narrated by Patrick Stewart. Excellent story of the roots and creation of Dracula and Belmonts.

I remember required reading lists in high school but there needs to be a required gaming list as well. Symphony of the Night and Shadow of the Colossus should be at the very top of that list.

For anyone who loved this game, also try Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night which is a spiritual successor made by the same lead developer, Koji Igarashi. It even has a wink and a nod version of Alucard, with a different name of course, you can find in the castle. So many similar eater eggs. Be aware the Switch version has slowdown issues though as this game uses Unreal Engine 4. Anyways, he was so upset Konami never allowed him to make more Metroidvania games for consoles, he left and created his own company to do just that. He also made some handheld Metroidvania games at Konami for the Gameboy Advance and Nintendo DS, if you're looking for even more games like this he made.

amazing content. i am mystified that your getting so few views.

SOTN is just one of the best games ever made... Period.

One of my favorites. Still have it on my psp❤❤❤❤❤

I played it when it first came out, never finished it

I ended up with a trigger finger from SOTN. Put goggles on. Kill the or i stead of Dracula. It starts over. Inverted and new.

I'll have to give it a shot on the ps5. Your review really sold it to me. Have you invested in Konami 😂.

Hey Mr Clayton Morris sir good afternoon happy Tuesday so glad you are doing ok and enjoying your day and afternoon and week thanks so much for letting all of us know about this awesome game great role plays and everything. Wonderful game appreciate you Mr Clayton Morris man for explaining this amazing game to everyone I hope you enjoy your afternoon and evening and week you and your family enjoy the rest of your week😃👍.

Castlevania is a great series and SotN is downright amazing.

One of the first games I got when I got my PlayStation. Ive also got the Japanese version which has 2 extra rooms that the American version doesn't have.

It's funny, I bought this when it first came out and I wasn't into it, so I ended up bringing it back to the store. Not sure what I was thinking back in 1997... maybe I was just ready to move on from platformers to 3D polygon games. I recently got back into the game via the Duckstation emulator, and man oh man, I got hooked. What a terrific and nostalgic game.

Castlevania: Rondo of blood turbo graphics got to try it!

I got an Odin 2 to play handheld, such a wonderful machine.

I just finished the x360 version on my Series X and it was an incredible experience. I hope they remaster this game soon!

You need to try "oddworld inhabitants Abe's odyssey" is one of the best games ever made that aged beautifully

Sotn is a timeless classic.

sotn is one of the greatest games ever made, i put it right up there with SMB3. And I am not talking about the network file sharing protocol ;).

Cool channel man! Had no idea!

Yeah I was so disappointed it wasn’t part of the Castlevania collection as well.

Man, CastleVania: Syphony of the Night is one of the best CastleVania games to date in my opinion. However, I would really love for them to remake it with Unreal 5 or whatever Konami wants to use.

The cheesy voice acting isn't that bad. It's just that we today have higher expectations. Even for Resident Evil 1 when it came out, the VA was so cheesy people actually mistook it for a horror parody.

Best way to play SOTN is honestly on an Xbox. The 360 version is still available via the marketplace, along with Harmony of Despair which is the GBA semi-sequel. Also, the Lord of Shadow’s 3d action games are available and totally worth playing.

Cool game .. u shud play tomb raider 1 2 4 and 4 maybe underworld also . It's hard but it's a classic . Puzzles that will make you think

I'm at 3 minutes and 32 seconds into the video.Gotta say sotn is bundled up with rondo of blood,the second best castlevania game...but its only on ps4

Find the Lucky Mode passcode and use that not that you’ve beaten it legit. Luck starts aggressively high but all the other stats are pure glass cannon level. Basic, “I Reincarnated As The Weakest Hero With The Strongest Weapons: The Anime: the game.”

If this game is long and exhausting, you could nickname it: "Castle Drain Ya" I sincerely apologize for that joke and I promise it won't happen again. 😁 Grover/Eve 2024 😄

This game makes me sad because the closest thing we have gotten since is subpar aria of sorrow on advance. "Dance of Pales" is my favorite OST track.

I don't normally play videogames as an adult. I gave it up in my late teens. But every few years I try to play some games. I do watch gaming content, though. Nostalgia and all. The PSX is my favourite console. This year I decided to play games again. I beat a few, including Symphony of the Night. I consider certain games to be beautiful works of Art. Breath of Fire IV, Resident Evil (GameCube), Super Metroid, Final Fantasy IX, Silent Hill, Castlevania Rondo of Blood, to name a few. Symphony of the Night is a work of Art. I enjoyed it immensely. My only complain is that the special moves and the Crissaegrim are game breakers.

Man I got to watch Redacted now lol love you brother

The best version out there for Sotn is the Xbox 360 version which is the ps1 version but with higher resolution

Nothing cheesy about the voice acting. It was done pretty well. What? You prefer snoop dog as dracula?

Damn, I finished this awesome game two times this year : first in august on PS4, and the second on Recalbox original PS1 version emulated, on september. Both close to 100 % (97% I believe) and I still playing now with Belmont. This game is so great. For all what you said. The loot is may be the weakest point, but there's a lot of stuff to experiment. I advise you to try Aria of Sorrow now, it's the same game with a Pokemon feature (capture ennemies capacities). I was a video game journalist at that time, and while I launched it a week-end, I had never get the opportunity to finish it. Now it's done, I have taken the time too play it, and I'm pretty sure I will dive in again next year.

i know this is an old video, but i highly recommend checking out castlevania: lament of innocence for PS2. i think it's an extremely underrated castlevania game and the soundtrack in my personal opinion is superior to symphony of the night. check out these two songs on youtube - leon's theme and garden forgotten by time. i think they will blow you away. there was also a sequel called castlevania: curse of darkness on ps2 and xbox that i've never played, but it has an amazing soundtrack as well. i listen to castlevania soundtracks on youtube all the time! best music in gaming! the composer michiru yamane is a goddess!

Just finished this game for the first time. Played both the ps4 and 360 versions. The ps4 version has a familliar bug. If you die, your familliar will not spawn when you reload your save. And you will not be able to equip a familliar. The way to fix it is to close the game and re launch, then your familliar will be available

Fleaman is one of the most annoying yeah lol this was one of the best reviews of the game. Mainly it's because it's not reviewed from a technical standpoint but based on what made it fun for you and just the way you explained it reminds me of how we explained the game to friends. It's like a conversation with a friend. Really cool.

Clayton Plays Rocks!! 🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻

Waw Castelvania 😄 i played this game on Game Boy on 1990, I was 11 (what a beautiful epoch) Help me please: How to convince my 7 years old to show interest to the retro/vintage games (street fighter, final fight, king of dragons…), instead of those fortnites, minecraft… 🧐 Warm Regards from Morocco and great job on Redacted ! 🤝

What wrong with you you just now playing this? I played this all the way through it twice on the PlayStation 1. And then it was only $5 or something on Series x so I bought it and I've had it for several years. But just decided to play it about a week ago. And what lets you know the game is an absolute classic is that almost 30 years later the game is still just as amazing and still produced just as much dopamine release in my brain as it did back in 97 and 98 when I played through it twice. The whole atmosphere, the music everything is just amazing. Edit... I know it's hard for people to believe is that a game released in 1997 can be just as awesome has any game released in 2024. This is a game that held up so well that even if it was released in 2024 it would still be just as amazing.

Clayton you must play the Castlevania Advance Collection. Its a three game collection. They are alot like Symphony. Usually $10 on sale and available on all systems

They likely don’t bundle it because it is a dense game with a massive number of drops, an intuitive magic system, and it has a pretty strong New Game+ system.

Clayton should get the PS Portal if he wants that game on handheld totally.

The original dialogue from the ps1 was even cheesier lol. I love it. Unfortunately they changed it to what you heard since the psp re release which was a bonus you could unlock inside the psp game castlevania the dracula x chronicles (a remake of rondo of blood)

Though I still have my original PsOne disc, the best way to play in my opinion is the PsOne Classics version on PS3/PSP. I'm not a fan of the PS4 version at all. It's handy to have around, but I think anyone who hasn't played Symphony of the Night yet should play the original version FIRST! I never liked the Xbox 360 version very much, but after the PS4 version came out, I realized the Xbox 360 version wasn't THAT bad... But at the end of the day, it's great to have so many options, and I do have all of them except the Sega Saturn version. :) Really cool to see you talking about one of my favorite games of all time! My fiance and I have been watching Redacted for a long time.

Classic!

Sadly, the VA was changed for all versions after the original PSX release, starting with the release on the Rondo of Blood remake on PSP. I prefer that VA, it's even cheesier, it's so campy it's fantastic. Though that VA is different, so it sounds like they recorded a third time for the PS4 release. The Xbox 360 release has the same VA as the PSP. I should point out in reference to what you're saying you don't want spoiled...um it doesn't "happen" at all. You have to figure out with some very minor clues. It's so hard to figure out that most of my friends growing up who had played it, I had gotten into arguments with them that it exists, and for them, it did not. So I had to show them how and that it was very real. Until the internet, you'd be surprised how many players have never found it, no matter how often they've gone back and forth. My guess is a lack of recollection on a few hidden areas that are only accessible after unlocking certain equipment, like one special armour that breaks one specific trap type. It's very easy to miss unless you get into two specific conversations with one person. Then re-enter a special room with a specific sub-weapon and use that sub-weapon in the room, leading to a secret, that leads to another secret, that unlocks a special accessory that has to be equipped to unlock yet another secret in the "final boss" battle, that then unlocks the truly special secret you're trying to avoid spoiling.

🎉Michiru Yamane🌹 The Shield Rods are something else.

For me I recommend itas an absolute must play but at the same time I do not consider it the best in the series. For me it's either Castlevania the original Dracula's curse more specifically the famicom version or rondo of blood.

That voice acting is actually different from the original Playstation version of the game. It actually sounds a bit improved. The dialog seems improved as well. For example, in 7:36 they replaced the well known line, "What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets!" with "Ha! Mankind. A cesspit of hatred and lies." The latter feels like it would be a much better translation of what he was supposed to say. Also, if you really enjoy this Casltevania, I'd suggest you try out any of the Castlevania games made by Koji Igarashi (he goes by "Iga" for short). He's responsible for taking Castlevania in this direction, so his games are similar. SotN is probably the best of his games, but the others are still VERY good. Harmony of Dissonance... while good... is probably my least favorite of his games (the horrible music has something to do with that)... but HoD has a similar "gotcha" moment like SotN does when you think you've 100% the game... but it's done in such a way that is really shocking and it happens much earlier in the game. I don't want to spoil it. The other games... Aria of Sorrow, Dawn of Sorrow, Portrait of Ruin, and Order of Ecclesia... are all FANTASTIC. There's also Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night... a game made by Iga that is basically the successor of his Castlevania games after he left Konami. You can tell Bloodstained was made by the same guy responsible for SotN. I highly recommend it!

This one got by me during my early Playstation days but I just recently came across a newer game with some similarities. Its called Skul and I highly recommend it. Its a platform game as well with a ton of versatility and you can put a lot of gameplay into it.