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I paid zero attention to this since early KS content looks like they phoned it in. Everyone seems to be playing it. Is it good? Are the devs full of poz?

>>16621033

>Is it good?

Very.

>Are the devs full of poz?

They have a complete disregard for current year, as shown by the MCs jiggling boobies, poses and titty demons.

>>16621033

>Is it good?

You're likely to feel the same way about it that you do about the existing IGAvanias, since it's essentially just a modern iteration of it with some minor changes.

Does Miriams appearance change with equipment? Do you get to play as Zangetsu? Does Alfred from CotM show up?

How's the music? I recall the orchestral version of that one track from CotM was pretty bad.

>>16621025

Dude, lore. Lmao

>>16621155

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

And music is pretty cool, not the best Yamane has ever made but some tracks nail that oldschool SOTN feel.

>>16621155

Yes but only with head equipment and some accessories, further customization to the outfit (color only), hairstyles can be done with a specific NPC.

Apparently, yes.

Yes, you fight him/

Music is okay, cotm music is way better imo.

>>16621177

>>16621186

Cool. How toaster friendly is it?

>>16621025

Because Konami fucking killed Simon. This is just him showing that Castlevania is right and truly dead and if Konami does bring it back it'd just be a zombie.

>>16621287

This is 4K? Looks like shit.

So, what I got from the shills is that 1. Bloodstained is just an average metroidvania, 2. it has no particular personality or unique gimmicks, and 3. difficulty and music in particular are the major letdowns.

Eh, I'll just put it in the backlog and forget about it.

>>16621350

Pretty much this. It's worth a play but it's so bland that any more would undoubtedly be boring as fuck. I'd more quickly replay Harmony of Dissonance before picking this up a second time.

>>16621350

It doesnt need to do anything grand. It's a solid metroidvania and that's all people should want out of it.

>>16621155

Music ranges from so-so to great.

>>16621013

>this game is the best Metroidvania by far

I doubt it. It looks pretty good, though. How's the exploration? Does it come anywhere near touching Hollow Knight in world size and area character?

>>16621500

>Does it come anywhere near touching Hollow Knight in world size and area character?

Even assuming that's the standard, not really. With maybe two or three exceptions, the individual areas feature very similar room layouts and platform arrangements, and are mostly populated by enemy recolors.

>>16621371

>>16621350

Lol what on earth are you on about? The game is quite literally metroidvania perfection. It has a lot of personality and very interesting lore. The game is difficult enough to make you grind on even normal mode and the music is the best the video-game industry has seen in a while.

Did it get cracked to have that patch that fixes bugs yet?

>>16621534

>The game is difficult enough to make you grind on even normal mode

What the fuck are you talking about, the only remotely difficult boss is Zangetsu and you can still breeze your way through that one just by bringing a couple High Potions with you. Every other boss and enemy engagement is embarrassingly easy.

>>16621537

Why would it need to get cracked? Isn't the GOG version the same?

This reads like a shill thread

>>16621816

How dare people like a recently released game.

>>16621842

It is forbidden to talk about modern games anon.

So where can I pirate this?

The game is really fun so far, but those god awful Kickstarter-backer soyboy portraits are really getting on my nerves.

>>16621886

Here's the magnet from last thread. Just keep in mind the lack of modes and bugginess mentioned in >>16621610

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>>16621904

yer my matey

Since 2007 people have developed a bad habit of shitting all over older franchises. Unless it's Mario, Zelda or some other oddity, you are pretty much guaranteed bad reviews for any franchise older than 2007

This is because of a literally unholy alliance of Xbots, Sony Ponies, companies that pay shills, CoD fanboys and similar gamers who want to berate and demean every franchise that came before CoD 4: MW.

In fact, most reviewers of today have their roots in the mid-late 2000s when the console wars were at their peak and people were bullied into supporting Xbox 360 or PS3 over the Wii. The mildest form of abuse was ridicule, and the more harsher forms included verbal abuse, emotional abuse and social isolation.

There is literally a social apartheid against classic gamers, niche gamers, Nintendo fans, SEGA fans so much so that Jim Sterling deliberately gave BOTW a low score to bring it down from 98 on metacritic, all the while calling Nintendo a shit distributor and fuckhead toymaker. Metacritic's boss (a slave of the Xbot/Pony site called Gamespot) soon praised Jim Sterling for his abuse.

While the ultimate goal of most may only be to show the superiority of FPS, realistic racers etc., deliberately damaging the review scores of other franchises will cause their eventual death. In fact many franchises have already been killed by these ponies. And many of them want to see all who threaten their dominance destroyed.

>>16621926

Kinoseur detected

>>16621917

Bloodstained is getting good reviews, including one from Jim Sterling, so I don't think that holds water, within the context of this thread anyway.

>>16621935

Jim sterling's ONLY stopped shitting on pre-CoD franchises after the massive BotW uproar which also caused his site to be DDoS'd several times and ended his career to some extent. He's been behaving apologetically ever since, but at heart he's part of the conspiracy to a great degree

>>16621917

Anon I will admit around 2007 there was an anti-retro game narrative tossed about but ever since companies decided to cash in on there old games via those mini consoles, kickstarter campaigns,selling remastered collections,etc retro gaming become cool to like again. Your copy pasta out of date.

>>16621993

If that post is copy pasta, can you prove it by providing a link to a previous iteration of the post?

>I will admit

You seem guilty. I bet you are

>cool to like again

To a small degree, yes, but the same culture continues. Look at how people are shitting on bloodstained and other classic franchises

Boots are best weapon by far once you get the double jump. Pretend you are Mario and goomba stomp everything to death. The Techniques are shit, but they are generally too slow or unreliable to use in real combat anyway so just spam stomps

That's assuming you don't count spells as weapons at least, in which case you can just hose everything with Void Ray, or switch to Tis Rozaïn if the enemy is extra dark resistant. Cheap, high damage, instant cast laser beams kind of break the game.

>>16621917

Is this implying BotW isn't mediocre as all hell?

>>16622020

other then token shitposting every game gets without exception everyone is sucking bloodstained dick to high heavens. Also

>Bloodstained

>Classic

If anything the people negative on it are saying its not as good as SotN parsing the classics you think are under consent attack.

>>16621534

>literally

>>>/reddit/

>>16621917

Not wrong

I read on Kotaku that it's better than the civilization brave new world expansion pack.

>>16622386

Civilization is worse than Chess. Each game takes 10-20 hours. Plus there's no real combat or anything like that.

Metroidvania is the supreme genre

>>16621534

You sound like a shill, and the graphics are shit compared to 2D metroidvanias so it's obviously not "perfection".

It is just a 3D/HD Aria of Sorrow.

I mean, it is a good igavania, but it isn't even top 3. Iga completely forgot about the best game he made, except for the female protagonist.

Had a 100% file in less than 15h so no telling me I didn't play it.

I want to fall for the shilling and play it. But it looks so damn ugly. Why

Any pozz shit? Bout to buy a copy but seeing so many journalists circlejerk over it worries me just a bit.

>>16622445

Also, Aria of Sorrow had more interesting hidden monsters with unique souls, which means Bloodstained is even worse than the game it tried to emulate. At least it is better than the atrocity Dawn of Sorrow is.

>>16622448

It looks atrocious, especially on high res monitors. Cutscenes are comically bad. 3D is creatively used for one of the exploration powers though, so I will give them that.

>>16622451

No blatant pozz. Game is well worth a pirate if you like the genre.

>>16622462

i was expecting the game to have a bit more order of ecclesia references but its straight up just long hair miriam and that's it.

No ice and fire wolf head glyph.

even the great axe thing is there but it looked way better in dawn of sorrow than this - hell a lot of the visuals are flawed compared to the DS games.

>>16622462

>3D is creatively used for one of the exploration powers though

No its not. Hard to guess which power you are even thinking of since none of them use 3d at all, but I guess I'll just go through all of them:

>Handicraft

Pick up an object and move it. Only works on a couple very specific objects, otherwise it can be used as a low damage attack (not the object, just the giant hand). Has nothing to do with 3d envirnments and would work perfectly in 2d.

>Double Jump

It's a fucking double jump. You can also bounce off enemy heads and breakable torches

>Reflector Ray

My first guess of what you were talking about. Laser beam reflects off the environment and teleports you to the endpoint. Uses strictly 2d hitboxes for reflections.

>Aqua Stream

Propel yourself in water. Fully 2d

>Deep Sinker

Walk under water

>Invert

Flip gravity for yourself alone, we're playing VVVVV now (also a 2d game).

>High Jump

Exactly what it sounds like, except you can use it an unlimited number of times consecutively.

>Zangetsuo

Not really an ability, just a plot item to attack something specific

>Accelerator

Go fast. Notable for being the only traversal item you keep in NG+. Not actually necessary at the point you get it

>Dimension Shift

Teleport about 10 feet past walls. The most 2d of them all.

>>16622937

Ah dammit I forgot blood steal. The ability you use exactly once to remove an obstacle.

>>16621371

>It's a solid metroidvania and that's all people should want out of it.

>and that's all people should want

You shills even talk like rotten gaming journos.

"Bloodstained is a mediocre metroidvania, and that's good"

"Entitled gamers don't deserve Bloodstained's plain mediocrity"

>>16621534

Screencap this bona fide shill, for training purposes. And they said 8ch is too small to get shills.

Should I ask drawfag thread to make Miriam and Shanoa swap outfits?

>>16621383

Know that Sakurai and his team have more love for the Belmont clan than Konami does. Iga killing them off was mercy.

>>16622454

That's why the nun tells you to sell your shards, anon. You can declutter your menus to your heart's content.

>>16621193

Should be fairly toaster friendly, let me check the reqs.

>Intel Core i5-4460

>R9 280X/GTX 760

Wh… The fuck? The game isn't THAT pretty. Must be Unreal 4's overhead. I mean, as long as you have a quadcore and your GPU isn't a relic you should be alright. Pirate it to test before buying.

My great great great grandmother works for Konami and they're making a new 3D castlevania.

>it's set in modern times

>the new belmont is a female punk rocker vocalist

>Dracula and his goons are representations of current social and political topics

>death is a female and is also your mentor

>>16621917

This.

>>16623569

Well, atleast iga did say that if he was given a chance, he would gladly work on a new castlevania.

>castlevania '99 never ever

>>16621013

It's "Bel Monte"

>>16623524

Yes, specially if they act friendly to each other.

>>16623919

Doesnt it launch next week on the switch?

>>16623922

It can be pirated for Switch right now.

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>Can't run on my trash laptop without constant slowdown and audio stuttering

Aw

>>16623864

Of course they would be fast friends.

Is there enough content to justify the price? How's the fanservice and level design?

>>16624213

The castle is pretty big and i've heard there's an inverted castle in this one too, besides a healthy amount of secret bosses and one extra playable character so far.

Is it worth 40 bucks now? to me it is since it scratches the castlevania itch perfectly but might not be to someone who isn't as into it.

If you're unsure wait a couple of months and see what the free dlc brings to the table you know, when in doubt pirate

>>16622937

I was talking about Invert, since it also reverses the camera, something like MUSHA (or the more famous VVVVV) never had the ability to do because of being 2D

Inverting the camera is interesting because it makes the gravity inversion seamless. Of course, they never used it to its full potential in this game so more wasted potential. And it doesn't excuse how ugly the game is at all.

>>16621013

>The BELMONTS make a return as the "revenant" in Bloodstained: RotN. On his character page, the "brave demon" is said to hold the power of the whip

Makes sense Castlevania is a undead franchise

>>16624059

It seems like people are trying extremely hard to hate on this game. It just comes across as really forced, like they feel obligated to do it because that's how things are done on /v/, but to an absurd almost comical degree, where you must shit on the game even if it is excellent.

>>16624517

Consider an AMD. Costs less, comparable Per-Clock performance, more cores.

>>16621013

>better than SOTN

Bullshit. This game looks ugly as fuck. Fucking 2.5D garbage trash worshipping retard.

>>16621534

>"personality" and "muh lore" are what make this metroidvania good

>Not the actual gameplay

Get the fuck out and never come back

*4 years ago*

Reviewers:

>OMG FINALLY WE'RE GETTING ANOTHER CASTLEVANIA!!!

Comments:

>OMGGGGGG FUND IT NOW!!!

*Game releases*

Reviewers:

>It's the same old Castlevania shit

>8/10

Comments:

>I'm still on the fence

>>16624593

It felt bigger playing through it, only bigger ones are sotn if you count inverted castle and harmony of dissonance's.

But maybe you just move slower and it's all placebo effect.

>>16624593

I'm kind of sad that the finale of the game is Big Small World and Ice Caves. You go through a fucking dark portal you made by slicing the moon to get there and it's just… An upscaled version of another area.

>>16621917

While true, there are some points I feel need to be made. I'll sage since I'm late to the thread and the post is already off topic.

Like this anon >>16621993 said, they're starting to move from outright hating old shit to "embracing" it for a quick buck to get you to buy the rom (in some cases obtained from the internet they wish to scrub them from), remaster, remake with soulless updated graphics and changes to the original content (like shoehorning in diversity where there was none or removing jokes because current year), or complete reboots/"long awaited sequels" that just rape the corpse of the dead franchise with all of the above changes and then some.

BOTW was actually pretty shitty as a Zelda game even if it had a great engine. Hopefully BOTW2 will be everything every anon who hoped for "BOTW engine in a real Zelda game" wants, but we'll see. I also think it's worth saying that while Nintendo may not hate old games, they are still not accepting of vidya preservation with their more aggressive defense of their copyrights (taking down roms constantly, and the whole jewtube thing). They still shit out games that are worse than their predecessors like every other company too.

Finally, your entire copypasta reads like it was written by a faggot redditor or someone who's been gone a really long time. Your console war terms for drones seem outdated, in particular ponies. I've not seen that one here in a long while. And for that autist that asked the previous fag for proof, calling it pasta is not necessarily accusing it of having been literal copypasta, it's an adequate descriptor for any giant post like this that is inviting enough to feasibly become copypasta.

>>16624517

>metroidvania game is a metroid copy with metroidvania genre slapped on it.

SotN made it's own genre, that´s the main difference. Metroid doesn´t have stats and different weapons. The difference seems small, but it does make a huge change in gameplay.

>>16624593

>although that's taking the genre name too seriously in my opinion.

But then how the fuck are you supposed to find similar games? Yes, I could play several other games like Shantae, Guacamelee and Hollow Knight, and they are nice games, but they are NOT what I´m looking for. I want to play something like SOTN, not something like super metroid, even if I do like the later as well.

>I don't think guardedly describing something "serviceable" and then going on to call it "the best Metroidvania by far" really jives

It does, because the game is basically the previous games but better. It does have all the good qualities of the later and considering more content MIGHT be added later for free, then it's a pretty nice game on top of the content already in.

>I'm fairly confident that the sum of all of Order of Ecclesia's maps is way larger.

You have a point here, but the thing is the design of the overall map. The center of Bloodstained map is a bit bigger than SOTN and Aria map. Also, now that I calculate, not quite, OoE is pretty big even with the small areas, because Dracula's castle is pretty small.

>>16624599

Consider posts like this >>16624596 that care more about how it looks.

The game itself have a good gameplay.

>>16624717

>I'm late

No you are not.

Your whole post can be reduced to

>Aiming for something new that might fail against going for what everyone knows that already work with little to no improvement

And you can contrast 2 of these things in 2 highly anticiped kikestarters

>Mighty Number 9

You can argue that conman tried to improve Megaman gameplay by adding a completely new thing that have nothing to do with megaman. The game ended up being mediocre and an actual copy of Gunvolt, and Gunvolt plays better.

>Bloodstained

Bloodstained is pretty much all previous Igavanias tried to be pushed into a single massive game, because they knew that worked and tried to do little to none new things.

The key difference between those two is that the people that gave a shit about them actually wanted the same, regardless of that being good or bad. Iga did a good job in that sense, while Inafune not only fail in delivering a megaman game, but failed at delivering a good game at all. Look at Megaman 11, it´s ugly 2.5D, but people liked it, because people like Megaman.

The reason people liked this game is because people liked SotN.

>>16624729

>Your whole post can be reduced to

>Aiming for something new that might fail against going for what everyone knows that already work with little to no improvement

I did not say anything about the game at all, no idea what you're on about. I have no issue with games that stick to a particular accepted formula nor games that try to innovate. I like both types of games as long as they are fun (to me), have some passion put into them, and don't try to fuck with me politically or philosophically. This tends to not be true of kikestarter games, but there are exceptions. I've not tried this game yet, so I thought I'd skim the thread for some information first instead of wasting my time downloading the whole thing with my shit internet or watching some faggot play it on jewtube and having to skip around while jewtube throttles me down to 10Kbps for using youtube-dl and ViewTube. I quite enjoyed CotM so I imagine this game will be fun as well even if it is a bit lacking in the graphics department. A lot of 3d doujin games aren't great graphically, and still manage to be very fun solid games. So I'm willing to overlook that if the game is actually as good as CotM.

>>16624729

>Metroid doesn´t have stats and different weapons

it has energy tanks, back-up energy tanks, missile capacity expansions, super missile capacity expansions, power bomb expansions, different beams and sometimes secret techniques. Sure, you can't switch between different different pieces of armor, unless you count turning various suits on and off, and it doesn't have a Luck stat, but the differences are minimal.

I'm not saying they play the same way, but SotN didn't bring much new to the table.

Look, anon, I love both series with Metroid inching out the lead, they went in slightly different directions, but the core gameplay mechanics remain the same:

>find items

>find upgrades

>fight boss

>get mobility item / specific type of door opening item

>backtrack to newly accessible locations for upgrades and new areas

>>16624299

Rotating the screen is absolutely something a 2d game can do. It might be a little difficult for something on an old console, they'd probably be unable to render the spinning so they'd just instantly flip everything. The reason something like VVVVVV doesn't do that is becuase you have to flip so often and so quickly it would be more disorienting and probably a little nauseating.

>>16624863

Metroid's upgrades are linear, once you get them, there's no reason to use a different weapon or suit. Contrast that to Igavanias where different weapons have different swing arcs, different wind ups, different recoveries, different elemental effects, etc.

>>16625017

Are you saying SM would be improved if it had Prime-style beams?

>better than SotN

This game is the Greta Van Fleet to SotN(and AoS)'s Led Zeppelin. Sure, it plays well and it's fun and all, but I could've gotten the same experience just playing SotN or AoS. I fail to see what this game does that those other two don't. Shills feel out in force for this game right now.

>>16625107

You could say the same thing about Mega Man and New Super Mario Bros., they're all fucking clone sequels, your statement's redundant.

>>16625107

It didnt need to do anything different. I don't understand what you would have wanted anyway.

>>16625017

There's never any need to bother with taht shit in CAstlevania. Just equip whatever you found that has highest attack power.

>>16626033

Note only Gremory and Alfred gave me any trouble at all to perfect. Bael is so easy that I think the fight might be broken and not working as intended.

>>16625574

There's more to a weapon than it's attack stat in Igavanias. Right at the start of SOTN you get the Red Rust, the Short Sword, and if you can figure out a basic red skeleton puzzle, a Baselard. Of all three the Baselard has the lowest ATK, but the highest DPS because you can swing it twice as fast as any other weapon.

>>16626042

I think the Bael fight is just kind of shitty, I don't think there is anything wrong with it programming wise

>>16626480

The bael entry on the archives shows that he's 100% resistant to everything, but he seems to take normal damage and dies pretty quickly.

So is it toaster friendly or not? The specs say if I've got a potato it's fine, but I can't tell if that's a joke or not.

>>16626719

You will never know for sure until you pirate it, anon.

Anyone got the patched GOG installer? CODEX install packs don't work on my machine for some retarded reason. I want to support this game but I can't spare the 70 dollarydoos right now.

>>16626719

I have an AMD 6700 (old card from 2011), it runs at 30fps on the lowest settings. So I guess it's semi-toaster friendly if you can stomach low frame rates.

>>16627515

Try Fitgirl repack?

>>16627632

>Try Fitgirl repack?

I don't know if fitgirl's repack has the day one patch/patches this game apparently desperately needs.

When are people going to stop sucking off this hack already? Igarashi was involved–and not in any directorial capacity–in literally one good Castlevania game.

>>16628175

>guy makes actually good games and proves once again he can keep making them

>its a hack because i dont like him

This is some TORposting quality.

>>16628268

Post the uncensored version you coward.

>>16628268

Well, Miriam a cute.

>>16628188

No, he's a hack in the original sense of the term because he rips off other ideas and then executes them poorly (Symphony of the Night).

>>16628336

You sir, have shit taste if you really think symphony of the night and his other castlevania games are rip offs and a poor game, this is the last (You) you will get until you start being serius instead of an annoying contrarian that presents no arguments.

>>16628175

All of his games have been universally well received by fans of the genre, this title gives them everything they wanted with some nice quality of life improvements. Unlike western devs that are completely up their own ass, Iga actually took criticism like an adult and improved his game accordingly. People are trying so goddamn hard to hate on this game for /v/ brownie points, it's so hilarious to watch unfold.

>>16628350

Symphony is as blatant a ripoff of Super Metroid as they come, where do you think the term "Metroidvania" comes from you oblivious retard? You have to be utterly blind to not even see how the map system was cloned outright.

>>16628359

>All of his games have been universally well received by fans of the genre

What genre would that be? Metroid-likes? Fans of Metroid tend to be quite critical of the half-assed way Igarashi games try to rip off its progression and world design.

>>16628579

>SotN is not perfect, but is pretty good.

It's not even pretty good, "mediocre" to "it's garbage" is the only genuinely reasonable range of definitions one can assign to it. SotN is a half-assed mess of unrealized mechanics, complete lack of challenge, and poor level design. In a testament to Igarashi's hack-ness, it's incredibly telling that he had zero involvement in the best of Konami's Metroidvanias. Why in the world was anyone hyped for more of his lazy excrement?

>>16628359

>this title gives them everything they wanted

Also really gotta laugh at this claim. Something a lot of Metroidvania fans have desired for a very long time is well-balanced action pacing. Hard to do with a level-up system, but clearly not impossible as Circle of the Moon demonstrated. Judging from all the complaints about how easy the game is in this thread, it's pretty clear he failed abysmally at that once again. Igarashi is a hack who only cares about spectacle, he really doesn't understand action platforming design.

>>16628704

>Symphony is as blatant a ripoff of Super Metroid as they come

You have played neither apparently.

While the concept of expanding the map via getting new abilities in a connected map is the same, SotN has leveling systems, different kinds of weapons, spells, unlockable characters and all kind of other bullshit metroid never had nor needed because they are different games.

According to you all modern 2d platformers are mario ripoffs aswell?

>>16628842

I suppose you have a point. While I've played and own nearly every game in the Metroidvania "genre" (Portrait of Ruin disappointed me so much that I never bothered with OoE), I haven't surrendered my critical thinking skills and can still manage to critique the serious unresolved flaws of most of the games. I guess it's possible to do a lot of something and still not be a "fan".

But then "fans of thing like thing" is a rather circular argument, isn't it?

>>16628704

I think SOTN is vastly superior to any Metroid I have played, mainly because exploring is just so fun.

In Metroid you don't explore.

No.

What you do in Metroid is constantly WASTE your time shooting at walls or setting bombs because they are constantly forcing you to look for secret passages. As a result, Samus becomes more like an inspector doing mundane, boring tasks.

Metroid has also been always very forgettable in terms of enemies, environments, bosses, weapons… And Samus has a much more limited range of range of abilities. She isn't just that fun to play with.

>>16629456

Castlevania 2 at least understood fucking landmarks and how to make a world where distinct areas look distinct.

35 bucks for a 2 hour game, 4 if you are doing most completionist stuff?

>>16629516

Convinced you've never actually played a Metroid game.

>>16628935

>What you do in Metroid is constantly WASTE your time shooting at walls or setting bombs

>Metroid has also been always very forgettable in terms of enemies, environments, bosses, weapons

what fucking horseshit. fuck off.

>>16629632

I think it was 12-14 hours for me, although that's still a pretty steep price. At the very least I'd pirate before trying.

>>16629667

Nigger, Metroid 1 was notorious for reusing the same hallway, what, five times? Natural landmark based navigation is almost impossible in Metroid.

>>16629746

Sure, 12 hours if you are bad at video games and take your sweet time with every little thing. By all standards you would seem to be actually even worse at the game than the average pleb,

>>16629795

>and take your sweet time with every little thing

Taking my time with exploration in a game based around exploration for the one and only time I can ever play this game blindly is a bad thing? Post your own 100% completed save file or shut the fuck up.

>>16628862

>I guess it's possible to do a lot of something and still not be a "fan".

Actually, yes, because playing it doesn't mean that you like what you are playing.

It sounds like you don't like the game because of the things of it's own genre and because it isn't Metroid, so it sounds more like you like metroid more than you like castlevania, and you are mad the game is not metroid.

It doesn't even makes sense.

>>16629456

>>16629516

Imagine being so utterly defensive about criticism for Metroidvanias that you feel the need to compare crap like Simon's Quest favorably to Metroid.

>>16629755

Getting lost at certain points was literally the whole point in certain parts of Metroid. It made you pay extra close attention to your surroundings to understand where you were, because in fact those "reused hallways" weren't in fact identical.

>>>/v/16621917

>typing in full redtext because you want attention

>>>/gaschamber/

>>16631389

Simon Quest isn{t even that bad, but you can see an extreme difference in gameplay. Metroid is focused to the point it{s almost linear if you don' count sequence breaking, while Castlevania 2 is so open ended, it's tedious.

>>16631392

>in fact in fact

Are you fucking stupid?

>>16632063

In fact he isn't ,it's you that is the stupid one in fact

>stumble into Gebel's throne room

>lmao stand around and use heretical grinder until I'm out of mana, attack a couple times, kill boss

>whoops game over, fuck you.

I get that this clearly isn't the ending and that the church is up to some shady shit and that is probably going to lead me down the true story path but motherfucker I picked up a couple of cool item drops in lieu to that bullshit which I lost after the save rolled back.

As a matter of fact, so far all of the bosses have been really easy. I killed that dragon the same way getting hit twice. The only bosses I've had issues with were Zangetsu and the bloody bathtub ho. Every other boss I've been able to just facetank and use a spell I picked up at the beginning of the game to kill them ez.

>>16634483

I meant en route instead of in lieu but it's been a long day

>>16632758

stop playing without the day 1 patch, go pirate a decent version

>>16634510

this IS the patched version

>>16634651

Sell the extra shards you dont use for shekels.

>>16634696

I'm not talking about extra shards, I'm talking about how half the red shards are just "Summon X"

>>16634483

I dont get why retards dont save before boss doors, epsecially if you realise there's a save room next to evenr boss door previously. I was watching some other fag play recently and the retard just didnt get through the whole game that save rooms always appear next to bosses and was whining baout shitty map placement

So what's the most overpowered game-breaking build so far?

I love when people find combinations of things that just break the game balance.

>>16635300

>spoonfeed me

>game too hard!!!

Get out.

>>16631392

Imagine being so utterly defensive about criticism for Metroid that you defend lazy as fuck copy pasted level design.

>>16635327

It's not hard you dumb nigger, nor did I say anything about it being hard, jesus christ. If you're implying I want builds like I asked because it's hard you're wrong because I like to play through normally and then use game-breaking shit after because to me that's fun.

>>16635300

Dragon breath

Man, the animation and look of the true final boss is real nice. Shame she's hidden behind typical IGAvania "how in fuck did anyone figure this out"

Hot nun + crystal skin for some reason got me all hot and bothered and I can't understand why.

>>16636314

As far as I know, it's just a room to relax in. The music might be easter eggs. No one as far as I've seen anywhere has figured out anything else about it.

>>16636474

I mean, that's all the other locked rooms. Celeste seems to just be an odd one out, is all.

>>16636495

Yeah, im just weirded out because theres shit going on in all other secret rooms, it might be an item combination noone has figured out yet.

>all those "it's perfect! 10/10 game! Better than any metroidvania EVER" responses early on.

Can we just admit this is a shill thread already? If you like the game, that's fine but there's no way it wasn't started to shill.

Also Bandit Blade is just Alucard's sword.

It even has the same input for the teleport slash.

>>16636534

>Sage as a downvote

>Trying to "deny (You)s"

>That reaction

I'm not the one that needs to go back, it seems. Deny it all you like but it's pretty clear to anyone taking look at things.

>>16636578

I don't care about (You)s, I'm saying it's a sign of the cuckchan refugee. And a shill is a shill. There's a distinct difference between talking about a game and advertising the game and the rampant yes-men early in the thread put it solidly in the latter group. You can't deny this.

>>16636608

Yeah, at this point, even if something is shilling, I think I'd rather have that than all discussion of a fucking video game being forbidden on the video game board, and the thread being anchored, because their MIGHT be a shill somewhere.

>>16636608

>NO ONE CARES.

That's an awful lot of text for not caring, and a fairly big reach to assume I'd be autistic enough to report a shill thread. I'm sorry that yet another anon's stating the obvious but if I'm wrong you're more than free to just ignore it.

>>16636622

>might

It's pretty blatant early on.

>>16636630

You never know. It could be one very excited sperg. It happens. Either way, I'd rather have discussion of this game than not have it.

>>16636641

Do you have Slay the Spire for the Switch? Completely different genre, but it's really good and decent portable. Robot Named Fight can be janky (FUCK THE COOLANT SEWERS GODDAMNIT) but it's also fun.

>>16636620

I remember playing the demo about a million years ago and getting raped by spiders after wandering around a little. Is it actually good?

>>16636644

Unless there's some IP hopping I doubt it. Lots (1) and done posts. Either way I'm probably going to return it. Controls are a bit stiff and it's annoying to want to kick something only to kick the air above it because of what I want to say is input lag but know isn't.

>>16636688

Do you mean, like, frogs? Or trying to divekick?

>>16636696

Divekicks, but in general trying to use the various "boot" weapons wiff. Something with an arc will hit regardless, but those boots make the controls really noticable. If I were to describe it, it'd be "Chunky".

Just incase anyone here is reporting back to HQ, I would like to play this game, but that price tag is fucking exessive when I can get Hollow Knight for a third of the price. Do something about that, and you've got a customer.

>>16636704

Yes, the faster weapons have narrower hitboxes, that's the central tradeoff. The slower weapons have head-to-toe hitboxes, with the exception being the Crissagrim ripoff. The skills are meant to bridge this gap and that's why you're supposed to master them (You get Chun Li rapid kicks, and axe kick, and the triple kick on almost all the boots if you take the time to do this).

Lasting appeal: zero. Shitstained might as well be completely forgotten in another week.

>>16636620

Didn't Ross say it was a broken ass game with a few nice elements? I don't know, I've never played it myself.

>>16636716

>buying games

Shills say the darnest things sometimes

>>16636754

Don't really like pirating new games. I find the process annoying. I'm too autistic for the social aspect of torrenting.

>>16636668

>>16636753

>is it actually good?

No, but at the time it looked like a spin off for Legacy of Kain.

>>16636773

I can afford it. I'm just a miser.

>>16636766

You are bad at this 0\10

>>16636766

>social aspect of torrenting.

Are you legitimately fucking retarded? Go kill yourself.

>>16636773

I'm probably going to return it, pirate it, then pick it back up when its on sale.

>>16636778

I'm actually not a shill, but you've made your mind up, and I have no way to prove either way.

>>16636780

I'm legitimately autistic.

>>16636794

I know they can see me, and I know they're judging me.

>>16636797

This a canadian maple syrup recipe exchange wall, not a chatroom.

>>16636828

They brought it up.

Can we piratefags get the patch?

>>16636923

>Is there any point to mastering the usable input skills? Does it give any bonus to using the skills or other stats?

usable on all weapons of that type.

>>16636923

Techniques by default can only be used by select weapons, mastering the techniques allows you to use them on that family of weapons.

>>16636941

Keep in mind that some skills are still weapon-specific. The three-segment staff you can find in the boat has an extending ability (double tap forward attack) that only it has.

>>16635044

Did you not even read what I wrote? I saw a boss door, went and saved, then went for the boss door. On the way to the boss, which fucking anyone would assume is a boss that once beaten you progress the game and aren't handed a bullshit game over, I picked up a couple items drops I wanted. Fully confident I could beat the boss because almost every boss I've beaten is a joke, I continued to the boss, trounced it, then was given a bullshit game over then had to load my save before I got those item drops. Where is my logical fault in any of that? How is that not horseshit?

>>16621917

True, but BOTW is still not a zelda game and mediocre at best.

>>16632758

>playing the day 1 game without patching it

nice shitpost, konami

>>16637947

Got smash and I’ll probably get Cadence of Hyrule when it’s a bit cheaper. At this point I’m thinking I might just get a physical copy of Hollow Knight. Pirated that one a while ago and liked it enough that I wanted to own it.

It sucks they had to release Bloodstained in such a miserable state. There’s not really a point in owning a copy on the switch when the base game on the cart is so broken.

>>16637938

Nigger the only enemies between the save point and Gebel are two fairies. Even if you got stupid lucky and they both dropped their crystals that's not a major loss.

>>16634723

doesn't help that aside from buer and chair, they're all a variation on

-summon in an arc

-summon in a line

Not much variation in the directionals either, and it irks me that half of the progression shards you get are directional (and one active) instead of just toggle skills. Or that you have to craft high jump after you get invert with absolutely no indication if you're not checking back at the alchemist frequently.

>>16638009

Those fairies can drop ribbons if he doesn't already have one it's the best luck headgear in the game.

>>16638009

One dropped an upgrade material I need and the other dropped a cute butterfly ribbon. It's less what I lost and more the principle of the thing. Either I'm crazy and all you faggots think this is fine or I'm being gaslighted hard.

Either way the game is fun I just hope there isn't more stupid shit like that ahead of me. Gonna play more after checking out the new shitman2 map.

>>16634723

I'm halfway certain it is for reasons of cost/time saving. The other half of spells are an enemy attack.

>>16638030

The issue with that particular case is that while the game has been hinting that killing that particular boss is a bad idea, the only indicators that he is where he is are the area name and the lead up to him. I ended up doing the same thing, but I was stuck and couldn't figure out where else to go at the time.

>>16638030

To be fair, a lot of this is self-inflicted retardation. You got drops you wanted and went to what you knew was a boss room and didn't think to go back and save first? You walked up the Dracula Staircase and didn't have an idea of what would boss would be in there? You didn't listen to the characters telling you over and over something was wrong with Gebel as a hint to look for other avenues of progression? How many castlevanias from sotn on have you played?

>>16638066

I have never beaten a Castlevania game. If this is my penance for being a newfag to the series then I guess it's my own damn fault. If I knew what you referred to as a Dracula staircase then I guess I'd have known what's up. I guess it's similar to seeing a dragon bridge in a Souls game. But I don't really recall any other characters speaking to Gebel's innocence other than Miriam. Zangetsu has just been gruff and edgy, the nun has been acting sketchy and the alchemist has been 'muh alfred'. I even figured that that wasn't the real Gebel fight as it was so easy, but I figured after I won I'd get a 'YOU DIDN'T WIN' and Gebel would teleport out.

>>16638029

Good point I forgot that.

>>16638126

No, that's all fair. There's little indication that would happen. The devs know this isn't something to do lightly since they put a save point right next to his chambers.

It's just not much of a modern "subversion of expectations" since, as other anon said, this has been in other Castlevania games. I haven't played many, but Portrait of Ruin had this as well. I'd argue that similar failure states has been used often enough in vidya for it to be a niche trope.

However I don't consider it a worse design flaw than what made you run into his chamber without caution: The bosses are way too easy. Let's say you did realize you were walking right up to Gebel after fighting tooth and nail just to get that deep into the castle. You'd turn your ass right around and go save after getting that cute ribbon.

I'd also argue a worse design flaw is the castle design is pretty shit. Some parts make sense, but the rest is like squishing a bunch of different pieces of play-doh together. All the areas just bleed into one another forming a hideous mass. The excuse is "lol it's a castle from hell risen from the remains of the alchemy lab, of course its layout makes no sense!" Which I think is a poor excuse on the game's part. I think it's the same case as Dark Souls 2 where they had a bunch of areas with no idea how to fit them together cohesively. So it's not surprising to miss context clues that you're going to fight Gebel since the only real clue is the staircase, where you are on the map (that's probably half full), and the gold trimmings everywhere. Which isn't much to me considering how early you actually reach this part of the castle.

So, even with a Dracula staircase I wasn't planning on fighting Gebel right there. However I also wasn't terribly surprised. I was more annoyed when I did finally "beat" him, left his boss chamber, and quickly darted back in because I forgot to hump the walls only to get my shit kicked in by an optional boss. So I had to go refight him, which was mildly inconvenient.

>>16636787

You're no autist, just a shill poor at his job. Go sell your shit game on reddit.

>>16632758

I just now noticed that your MP regenerates faster when you're sitting down.

So has anyone changed their hairstyle 666 times to see if anything happens yet?

>>16638840

He'd have t have 37 hair styles in 18 colors to be even feasible.

>>16639065

maybe repetaing hair styles still count

also just the skin and eyes color, i believe it works as well

>>16638840

>game is so short and unappealing to replay that shills are making up shit mysteries to prolong its shelf life

Hey I've heard you can suck Dracula's dick if you beat the entire game without getting hit ever

>>16639195

It's like a bite-sized sotn which considering the options, those being soulless AAA or under/crowd funded indies, is welcome. Not welcome enough for me to pay for it, but fun nonetheless. Relax anon.

>>16628268

sauce?

Blurstained Ritual of the Switch port

>>16636314

>>16636353

>>16636474

>>16636495

There was a tier in the Kickstarter about designing a room and one about designing a boss, the room tier was bought by 4 people, the boss one by 3 (Jackpot, Revenant and Carpenter probaly).

My guess is Celeste room got no boss because they were short on one backer but its a wild guess.

Man, boots are fucking broken. So few of the bosses have any way to deal with you just goomba-stomping them endlessly. It wouldn't surprise me if that gets abused to hell and back for anyone wanting to do a no damage run.

>>16639606

Magic is even more broken. I've no damaged many bosses by simply shotgunning them with magic and killing them in like 4 seconds. The one that makes an explosion like I'm Yoshikage Kira or the multi-arrows or the holy laser… all broken.

Not-crissaegrim is even worse, but that was obviously by design. I mean, if you went through the hoops to craft it, it means you really want to steamroll through the rest of the game.

>>16639615

>that makes an explosion like I'm Yoshikage Kira

ah, so im not the only one that screams "killer queen" when using that shard

>>16637400

>heaven sword

Holy shit, I've played through SOTN 3 times to completion and I never found that weapo. Is it only a rare drop or something? It looks cool as hell.

>>16636641

Get Dragon Fang Z: Rose and the Dungeon of Time.

>>16639606

>>16639615

Until I completed the best Great Sword weapon there was very little any boss could do about getting Heretical Grinder shoved down their throat. Best part is the constant damage frames actually slow them down too. Like when Edgy Snake goes to apply pine resin to his sword, if I get to him when it starts, I can almost double how long the animation takes. Or at least that's what it feels like.

>>16640188

Heretical grinder is just too good, specially considering you get it early on in the game.

The acid is also pretty good.

Jesus fuck I beat the optional boss. Aside from IGA threw me around like a dog toy until I learned patterns, I got the weapon reward and jesus fucking shitting christ, if this weapon is anything like the whips in castlevania are 'supposed' to work then no fucking wonder D's the Belmont family bitch-boy.

>>16621371

>that's all people should want out of it

People owe nothing to you.

>>16621816

>This reads like a shill thread

Anyone can see it is. Just can't be more obvious than this.

>>16622445

>It is just a 3D/HD Aria of Sorrow.

You're giving it too much credit, not to mention that Aria of Sorrow was better despite being on a weak hardware that is GBA which makes Bloodstained look even worse in comparison.

>>16624491

>It seems like people are trying extremely hard to hate on this game

It seems like you are paranoid. The game has legit flaws and by no means is perfect or a masterpiece, at least not compared to older Castlevania games. It is good, but not more than that, there is still a room for improvement.

>>16624729

>Metroid doesn´t have stats and different weapons. The difference seems small, but it does make a huge change in gameplay.

It's pretty much almost the same situation as with "Doom clone" term that was used to describe every FPS despite the fact that those FPS games were very different from Doom while those games still shared some basic common things with each other.

>>16624863

>but the core gameplay mechanics remain the same

You can say the exact same thing about FPS games. Doom and Duke Nukem 3D also share core FPS gameplay, doesn't mean Duke is a clone of Doom.

>>16636641

>can’t keep consistent 30 fps and often drops to 15

That's because the devs know jackshit about how to develop games on UE4. They should have used sprites since in that case they wouldn't have to put a lot of efforts into optimization of the game and it seems like they barely put any. If the game was developed by a competent dev it would run completely fine even on Switch or other toasters, the graphics looks really nothing special and there are better old looking games that works well even on crappy laptops. Besides it looks like it's a norm for games to run like shit on consoles, looks like no talented programmer wants to work in this shitty industry.

>>16636766

>I'm too autistic

It's called being retarded or just stupid, not autistic. You're exactly that, a stupid retard.

>>16640400

>(1)

>>16640415

>(11)

Did I hurt your feefees or something? Kill yourself.

Well i went through the troubles of beating the game in nightmare difficulty and got nothing for it, not even a useless achievement.

>>16640575

If you enter "NIGHTMARE" as your name you unlock all difficulties.

And it's not that the challenge wasn't a part of it, it's the biggest reason for it but still a reward at the end of it no matter how small or useless always feels good

>>16640622

>>16640575

Make sure you put it all in caps, it won't work otherwise.

NIGHTMARE – Unlock Hard/Nightmare modes from the begining.

BIGHEAD – Activates Big Head Mode

Akuma – Dominus – Weapon

8MEGAPOWER – Game Sack Strip – Weapon

DUNGEONITE – Dungeonite Sword – Weapon

JEPSON – Clockwork Blade – Weapon

ALPHAOMEGASIN – Darkness Descends – Weapon

STEPHENPLAYS – Sicilian Slicer – Weapon

SPONGYVINE – Vine Sword – Weapon

TheSpeedGamers – Final Hour – Weapon

EGGFARM – Guardian Egg Helm – Head

INTHEBATHROOM – Dumpling Helmet – Head

chuggaaconroy – Space Helmet – Head

Jarvis Meower – Mega64 Helmet – Head

AWESOMEVIDEOGAMES – Big Moustache – Accessory

BULLFIGHTER – The Baz Mask – Accessory

swimmingbird – Plague Doctor Face – Accessory

TEAMFAT – A Kinda Funny Mask – Accessory

Egoraptor – Hey I’m A Grump – Accessory

Grumps – I’m Not So Grump – Accessory

>1.00 is crippled so you cannot 100% it out of the box.

>Enemies don't drop the items you need to level up your shards.

>Enemies are programmed not to drop the items you need for ultimate weapons.

>1,01/1.02 nerf strategies.

>Fucked up the treasure chests, which glitches out games.

>Nerfed guns hard.

>Nerfed dismantling so you can't get items.

>Nerfed Alchemic Bounty so you can't use it to double your items anymore.

>Nerfed Luck hard.

>1.03 makes you even weaker.

>Nerfs luck even harder.

>Nerfed guns even harder because of the 999 ATK capability of Diamond Bullets.

>Music is barely audible

>Because the game is 3D , not 2D, straight line weapons and abilities don't work properly.

>All of these movement /adventuring abilities become useless / only have one fucking use before you never use it again.

>Frame rate drops out the ass.

>AHAHA I'M TOTALLY ONE OF YOU GUYS -tier memes.

The cucks declaring this their GOTY are backers with buyer's remorse.

>>16640808

How about the fact its coming out that having a Physical cart on switch might be making the issues that version has doubly worse. They were so bad at coding a game that the CART version runs worse the the version stored on an SD card. The CART should not be running worse then the Digital version. This just screams they did not know how to code a game for switch.

It doubly fucks backers of the switch version and those that like having physical media.

>>16640820

>>16640808

Is this the new worst game of 2019? Literally Mighty No 9 2.0

>>16640575

>>16640578

>>16640622

>>16640790

Go shill your shitty game elsewhere redditors. This is our new most hated game of 2019.

>>16640808

Sonicvania 06

>>16640837

How am i shilling it?

>>16640842

See >>16640808

This is MN9 except many times worse

>>16640842

don't reply, dumbass

>>16640808

>wastes time trying to fit in an anonymous imageboard instead of pirating the game

>feels smug about it

Let me guess, you just came here after your favorite e-celeb mentioned the THQ AMA?

>>16640808

>Enemies don't drop the items you need to level up your shards.

They do.

>Enemies are programmed not to drop the items you need for ultimate weapons.

It's called RNG, faggot.

>Game is already beyond easy with broken strategies

<WHY IS THIS GAME SO EASY OMG!

>Patched to not be EVEN MORE easy

<WHY ARE YOU PATCHING THE STRATEGIES OMG

>Music is barely audible

<What is audio options?

>Because the game is 3D , not 2D, straight line weapons and abilities don't work properly.

Honestly, only in the not clocktower.

>All of these movement /adventuring abilities become useless / only have one fucking use before you never use it again.

Like all games before? This is quantity over quality,

Stop jumping IPs.

>>16640868

>Prove him wrong

The whole thread and the previous thread already proves him wrong. There's no excuse for a broken 1.00, but the game have since been patched and you can pirate the game with the patch. So far I have had no issues.

>>16640868

Stop ID hopping you /vg/ autist.

>>16640955

Nigger youve been doing the exact same shit for months with every new game released, id hopping, using the same words and the same absolutely autistic arguments that show that you haven played any of the games you keep shitting about, all because you want people to stop posting here and move to your board, fuck off with you autism.

>>16640874

If you played the game, on 1.00 you could not complete all the ultimate weapons, nor complete the enemy list. Completely locking you out of the 100%.

The Rotating area bullshit actually effects more than the clock tower. Hellhound , one of the most powerful attack summons in the game gets fucked hilariously if the camera moves just slightly. For example, The hidden desert, The camera moves there and you end up unable to shoot, use hellhound, 8-bit ghost and you can't teleport in some sections because of the camera.

The current gun nerf is stupid. The Scattershot bullets already did multiple hits and if you used the Victory Gun, you could kill anything in a couple of shots. Now that they nerfed firearms, scattershot, which was already weak is now even weaker.

>>16640856

Fellow Backer confirmed. How much did you pay? I put up 10 dollars myself and I'm dissapointed with how it turned out.

>>16640836

No. If the pattern of bullshit holds true, I believe the worst games of this year won't get released until after the steam summer sale ends.

It's a shame the starting music for the Galleon is full classical, it kind of misses the tone.

Regardless and of it's low production values, I can't believe I'm actually enjoying it.

>>16628268

Where you find this?

>>16640178

To be played by shills is not videogames

>>16642550

Nigger, everyone you're calling a shill is telling you to PIRATE the fucking game. What kind of a shill tells you to pirate?

>>16642624

>>16642616

Ladies and gentlemen we have another Mighty No 9 on our hands

>>16642661

No we dont you id hopping mongoloid, this is your DmC2 spergouts all over again.

>>16642624

>>16642616

The devs of the game were mercenary code monkeys that had only made mobile games before hand. None of this is surprising.

>>16623779

What if the cancelled 3D Castlevania that Iga was trying to make before LOS was 1999?

>>16643190

It is actually really possible, but that would have been shit. People would expect the 1999 to be a metroidvania, at the very least, starring Julious.

Although, now that I think about it, it could be cool to have a castlevania musou, but having it in 1999 would limit the amount of characters in, namely other Belmonts. As long as they don't pull another thing like Judgement.

Fuck off metafags

>>16643261

Maybe he was wrong in the begining, but you already justified his ban.

>>16643262

Carpenter door should be on the Japanese themed area.

>>16643274

>>16643276

Then I guess I still have some exploring to do because I have no idea what you're talking about.

Unless you're talking about the rightmost area with the 6 taiwanese clones in one room

>>16643289

yeah, I don't know how to get past the spiked hallway after the iron maiden. Can't reflect, spike armor don't do jack, no way in hell am I going to be able to reverse gravity a million times and inch my way towards the left side.

>>16643297

You need the invert shard.

>>16643297

You need to go to where you fought the double dragons and use invert. Once you get to the top, you'll find a chest and within that chest it'll block spike damage.

>>16643286

Oriental research lab, anon.

>>16640400

The guy at the gamestop I went to was pretty adamant about the game having a stable 30fps on switch and got pretty grumpy when I mentioned all the people who have mentioned frame drops, so who knows, maybe it is being blown out of proportion. Guess it’ll take somebody who has actually played it on switch to chime in. In the mean time I just rolled over my 5 bucks to Umihara Kawase.

I know I'm slow as fuck (that non-NEET life), but holy shit I love the outfit customization in this game. If only her dress changed. I've got boots, a red beret and single braid hairstyle; I'm basically Cammy White in Castlevania now.

>>16643344

That was one of the things that let me down, they showed customization in the release trailer so I expect more, also Miriam fucking wear shorts under her dress.

>>16643344

I wish they'd let me move her tattoos. I know it's story based, but the character model looks much better without the breast tattoo.

>>16643383

>Prepare for endless spam in a few days. Remember the moment you brought it upon yourself

Eat a dick Huey

>>16643375

They are, but why? What's wrong with showing some panties.

>>16643397

[CURRENT YEAR].

Also, they are fags into spats, ask Touhou fags.

>>16643375

I agree, this game uses too much RNG

>>16643289

Iron maiden did nothing wrong

>>16643442

>which ended nuking a big part of the thread

alright I'll bite, which thread?

This one?

The one where you bitched and moaned about this being the new MN9 for no reason other than a slightly buggy 1.0 release? I haven0t run into any of the problems you had listed nor have I heard anybody else mention them.

The only problem I ever had was with the slopes. Sliding off a slope into the water locks you there and you can't jump.

But the bigger problem here is you. Even if Cake kike fucked up, you shat up far more than his diabetic ass ever could.

>>16643357

Those arent shorts, they are victorian bloomers, they are fancy pantsu.

>>16643451

Do not feed the DmC2 autist.

>>16643508

>everyone I don't like is Mark

>muh DmC 2

>>16643517

A bunch of faggots have been trying to get people to hate DMCV ever since the first trailer, claiming it's "totally DmC 2" based solely on graphics.

>>16643521

DmC2 autist is one guy, and there's the guy who claims the game is trash purely because Nero is slightly simpler to play than Dante

>>16643526

Nero has always been a massive second banana to Dante though. At least he’s got the buster arms now but in 4 it could be a real slog to play as him.

>>16643521

It's one extremely dedicated autist that uses multiple proxies to pretend to be several people. I remember engaging in an argument with him about something unrelated and he threw up a bunch of posts pretending to be many different people and derail the discussion. He's not only autistic, he's also a huge pussy.

>>16643552

When you have 99% of the map completed, go see O.D he will have a new book called "Conquest" or something like that, grab it and go to the ice area (last level). Thank me later.

>>16643521

>>16643526

He also shows up in resident evil threads (to shit on the remake of 2) and megaman threads (to shit on MM11), basically he wants to derail any thread about good modern games that anons like.

>>16644202

>Good

>Modern

Pick one and only one

>>16643552

revenant is really easy, carpenter is a bit more of a cunt but also very doable

>>16644444

checked

>Playing on Wine and all is well

>Enter the Dian Cecht Cathedral for the first time

>Entering any adjacent room except back the way I came crashes 100% guaranteed

Help. I really don't want to boot into windows just to continue.

>>16644505

Hey Nerofag

>>16643552

I think the idea was that katanas never get any magic damage, so you always have to overcome a single resistance type. While every other weapon type has multiple damage types, or ways to get it. I am not sure what type of damage the storm move does.

I think another part of why is because the katana moveset is going to be used for Zangetsu. So it has more techniques than the others, and generally better ones.

>>16621383

>Watching heroes of the past getting corrupted still hurts anon

It's a metaphor for cy+5

>>16646679

People like playing dressup with MCs.

>>16642616

Holy shit. This is worse than I could have imagined.

fuck elementals

>>16622222

>criminally unchecked quints

i like the game, so far i find it just a tinny little bit better than SOTN

the reason is becos this game seems to have more movement avilities than SOTN

Alucard could turn into a Wolf but there is only 1 place in the whole castle where that skill is necesary to traverse a hallway

he can turn into a Bat as well, but it's only usefull for cheesing plataforming and reaching the final boss

the Bat can use ecolocation, but it's only used one time

Mist form is just a means to pass though specific road blocks and also becomes another way to cheese the game, especially after the Poison Mist upgrade

same with the rocket jump, i can think of only 1 or 2 places where it's necesary and both of them are optional

ROTN seems to have polished the exploration mechanics i still have to finish the game but so far it looks better than SOTN as far as exploration goes

my only other problem is the music, it's not that it's bad, it's pretty good actually, but while in SOTN the drums and electric guitar where front and center with orchestral instrument suporting from the background, in ROTN the electric guitar and drums take a back seat and let clasical instruments on the front line and it doesn't sound as good

>>16650175

here's how the clock tower or twin dragons tower in this case where you plataform on moving gears while avoiding not-medusa-heads stage sound like in ROTN

both are fast paced goth power metal but ROTN definetly lacks metal

sage for double posting

>>16650334

You forgot one:

>literally the unlockables from the PSP game

This game gave me a fetish for demonic bunny girls.

Anyone else get random freezes on PC? I've had a few happen as soon as my attack lands on a monster/boss; completely random as well, it's forced me to logout of windows since it's near impossible to navigate task manager blindly. Otherwise it's been great so far other than being somewhat buggy (like sliding into water locks your controls so you can't jump out).

>>16650175

The enemy recolors are a bit too obvious and lazy, which bothers me because people have been doing that better for decades now. There are plenty of ways to break the game, and I think most of them require a bit more work than SotN.

>>16652715

Yeah I had freezing issues but they stopped (mostly) when I switched to the second save slot or any other than the one you're using.

Overall I liked the game and I'd say it's about on par with Iga's older titles. SOTN is still the best for me, just for the music and consistent environmental design that all comes together to give it an excellent Gothic atmosphere. I replay it every year and I'm always impressed by the background details when I stop and check them out. ROTN starts out with some nice areas and then it gets lazy with cave areas and obvious reused levels. The Den of Behemoths is literally just the garden area but twice as big with larger versions of beginning game enemies, and the final area is just a lame ice cave. For one of the most successful kikestarters of all time you would expect more.

>>16654200

I'm not sure if the ending areas are worse than the inverted castle. They definitely don't last as long, and the ice area has a nice backdrop of the all the demons frozen. However, the giant versions of the early enemies are just boring to fight.

IMHO RotN felt a bit underwhelming after CotM, might be a trifle but I feel the later has much more personality - the music is catchier, the bosses have much more interesting attack patterns, it feels more consistent in terms of visuals (admittedly thanks to the self-imposed limitations) and there's no backer bullshit shitting it.

I wish the rest of RotN was of the same quality as Miriam's model.

>>16654935

those tiddies aren ice.

Daily reminder to install this to remove the gaping soyboys.

https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodstainedritualofthenight/mods/10

>>16621610

>TFW everytime you see the Question you're reminded that Steve Ditko died alone and no one even cared

>>16655423

I have one so I downloaded it and reupped onto Vola.

https://volafile.org/r/vg

>>16655554

Goddamnit

>>16655554

There was a mention of this, followed by a webm. You are not the first to post it.

>>16655668

Yeah, you can fight Gebel as well

>>16655668

And David "The Snake" Hayter is playing the edgelord samurai demon hunter.

>>16655415

It is fine, but not as much for a penultimate stage with that kind of build up. If it were a bonus stage, I wouldn't have minded.

>>16655668

It still bothers me that OD and Miriam take for granted that vampires can't die permanently, yet Bloodless never makes an appearance again. Even a little thing like her sulking in her room would have made that a bit less ridiculous.

>>16652850

>>16650175

It's not hard to improve on SOTN seeing how literally all games after SOTN improved SOTN formula. The only thing SOTN have on itself is having more items and looking prettier, but that's because of the hardware. SOTN is far from polished.

>>16654928

This is the only portrait I wouldn't replace.

>8ch is shitting the bed again

>>16655885

>This is the only portrait I wouldn't replace.

The mod posted in this thread. >>16654954 and

>>16655443 does not replace that portrait.

>>16621013

I like this game but the music is terrible.