Castlevania: Harmony of Despair (2010) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Castlevania: Harmony of Despair

Castlevania: Harmony of Despair is a crossover platform-adventure game that features a new map system which allows players to see the current quest map's entire setup, as well as up to six players at once over…

68 4 August 2010

What Castlevania: Harmony of Despair is

Castlevania: Harmony of Despair is an adventure game developed by Konami and released in 2010. It is available on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Castlevania: Harmony of Despair is a crossover platform-adventure game that features a new map system which allows players to see the current quest map's entire setup, as well as up to six players at once over Xbox Live. The game was first leaked as an OFLCA Rating on May 27, 2010, then officially announced for Xbox Live Summer of Gaming 2010. Later in the year, the game was unveiled as a playable demo in the Konami booth at the E3 Convention of 2010.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, historical and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Castlevania series

Castlevania: Harmony of Despair is the 65th of 108 entries we hold in the Castlevania series. The next entry was Castlevania: Lords of Shadow in 2010. Its critic score of 68 is 11 points below the series average of 79. The highest-rated entry is Super Castlevania IV at 100.

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How it was received

Castlevania: Harmony of Despair holds a critic score of 68 out of 100. That places it above 30% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 2 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Castlevania: Harmony of Despair launched on 4 August 2010, within three weeks of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, StarCraft II, Limbo and Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, StarCraft II, Limbo, Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition.

Cheats and codes

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