Never in my many years playing games has my curiosity been rewarded so greatly than during my play-through of Symphony of the Night. Dracula’s Castle is just a delight to explore not because of the incredible variety in environment paired with beautiful music, but also due to the memorable combat. SOTN does an incredible job utilizing space to craft interesting mob/boss encounters, which does all the heavy lifting to compensate with the lack of variety in the player’s arsenal. Enemies all have distinct attack patterns and specific hurtboxes to challenge the player even when highly leveled up, which reduces mindless whipping through enemies on your way to the next part of the castle. Go play this game.