PlayStation classic Castlevania: Symphony of the Night has been released on mobile all of a sudden and completely without warning.
The iOS and Android port costs $2.99 / £2.99 and comes with touchscreen controls, with revamped menus to boot, but is said to be fully compatible with controllers. It also has a new continue feature - which probably means you don't have to wait an age every time you die as you're sent back to the title screen.
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It seems this mobile port is based on the PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 4 versions of Symphony of the Night, rather than the original PlayStation 1 version. That means it has a completely new script and voice acting that, unfortunately, doesn't have the iconic line, "What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets!"
It also has extra familiars, new credits music, a boss fight against Maria, and Maria is playable. Everything else is pretty much the same as the 1997 original. The timing of this couldn't be better as Castlevania Season 3 arrives on Netflix on March 5.
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If you don't know, in Symphony of the Night you play as Alucard - the white-haired vampire in the Netflix series - as he tries to stop the evil that has overtaken Dracula's castle. We gave it a 9 in our Castlevania: Symphony of the Night review from way back in 1997, saying that it's "one of the finest 2D platforms game yet seen."
One of the directors of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Koji Igarashi, went on to make a spiritual successor to the game recently in Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.
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Chris Priestman is a freelancer who writes news for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.
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