Aria of Sorrow kinda has the novelty of doing all of these concepts and ideas first but DoS is still a worthy sequel. Still love how batshit insane the abilities in these games are, Soma Cruz is so cracked.

Recently played through the GBA trilogy so it was refreshing playing one of these games on a more powerful console. Some cool set pieces here that would have been hard to pull off on the GBA. Sprite-work is also, thanks to the ds, on par with SOTN which says a lot

The new artstyle is sadly very sauceless with almost soyjak-esque character portraits. Ayami Kojima, we miss you 💔