Completed Dawn of Sorrow and started Portrait of Ruin. I remembered Dawn of Sorrow being more enjoyable than it was this time around. If you don't go out of your way to grind for souls, bosses become ridiculous damage sponges. Since the collection doesn't have achievements for anything besides just killing bosses and beating the game on Julius mode, I tried to quickly steamroll through, but it's just not fun to play like that. They also had a perfect opportunity to remove the stupid magic seal minigame with the stylus pen, but they decided to just give you the option to do a quick time event instead of using the mouse pointer, which is admittedly not as bad but still annoying. Julius mode continues to save this game. Portrait has been much more enjoyable so far. I've never played the other two games, so I'll have to wait for a final vertdict on the collection as a whole.