[Hack] Aria of Sorrow: Reprise (Game Boy Advance)

Aria of Sorrow: Reprise es un hack de Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (2003) para Game Boy Advance creado por Xanthus que lo convierte en un roguelike, permitiendo que el castillo se genere  de manera aleatoria cambiando la estructura y el diseño de las habitaciones con sus enemigos y objetos según se va jugando.

El parche para poder jugar Aria of Sorrow: Reprise se puede descargar desde ROMhacking.net y tiene que ser aplicado a una ROM americana de Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow con cualquier programa compatible con archivos en formato .IPS, como Lunar IPS o Floating IPS.

Características de Aria of Sorrow: Reprise:

• Procedural generation using the filename as the seed.
• There are six generated areas, each contains rooms from two ‘vanilla’ areas
• Each area has a special feature in the 3rd room (Stat pickup, a different shop, money, etc.)
• Most rooms have been customized to better fit this mod.
• When you defeat a boss, the castle is randomized, stronger enemies/ items can spawn, and a new item is added to the shop.
• Randomized progression. There are progression soul indicators outside each area.
• There are 19 randomized effects which affect certain rooms (e.g. poisonous enemies, higher knockback, or changing physics, etc.).
• Weapons, Armor, and Accessory pickups are spawned in a mostly progressive order with some randomization.
• Soul item pickups are randomized
• New Equipment and Soul effects / balancing (full details in Balance section)
• Four available difficulties, optional setting to delete your save on death.
• Hard/Nightmare don’t have potions in the first shop and get more difficult over time.
• Game saves after leaving a boss room.
• Outer walls in rooms can contain hidden breakable items.
• Includes patches authored by Dev Anj to make LCK more impactful, and INT improves red souls instead of STR.
• Other gameplay changes such as diving with a single jump, faster slides, better bounce on divekick.
• Julius mode: Hold L while hitting start on the file name entry screen.