Terrible keyboard configuration that you can't change.
Only buy if you have access to a controller.

Really cool collection. Aria of sorrow is the best of the bunch. Harmony of Dissonance is a close second, albeit a bit frustrating with back tracking. Dracula X is a return to the classic game style and can be a bit tough, but looks and sounds great. Circle of the Moon can feel kinda clunky and is very unforgiving but it sets up the framework for what the later GBA games would adopt in terms of game play and style, so a fun game if ya have the patience.

Great port or great games, i'm gonna be sure to pick up the DS game collection as well at some point.

I mostly picked this up to play Aria of Sorrow again as that is one of my favorite handheld Castlevania's. Always been a fan of Soma and the non whip weapons and the soul collecting. I think Aria was my first ever Castlevania game as it was.

I quite enjoyed Harmony of Dissonance a lot. Juste was a good protagonist and I enjoyed being able to dash both backwards and forwards. map layout was pretty good and there were two versions of the castle that many later games had.

Circle of the Moon was my least favorite. I dunno, the difficulty is something a lot of people complain about, but I didn't find it too bad. I just wasn't as into the characters and map layout for this one. There was also only one version of the castle so it was shorter.

Of course, I'm not great at Dracula X, but Richter is my favorite Belmont. This one is more of a console game, and has the linearity difficulty and restrictions or the early S/NES games.

I also played the alternate modes for each game. Aria was short, basically bush rush around the castle in about a half hour. Harmony was quick, you could do some speed run glitches to get to the end boss in less than 10 minutes. Circle of the Moon alt mode required a full playthrough. So play each game once, do two of the alt modes in less than an hour, and then a full second playthrough of Circle for all achieves.