Huh...wonder where all the "it's a real castlevania!" threads went?Disappeared as soon as it came out..Really makes you think.
I'm enjoying it
It's a Dead Cells reskin
>>749723323Good.
>>749723296Are you, dare I say it, having a blast?
>>749723256Its as much as a Castlevania as Simon's Quest, SOTN and Judgement.
I'm having a blast, they really caught lightning in a bottle.
>>749723417Yeah. Wish I had bought it on pc instead of switch though, didn't realize there was no switch 2 version.
>>749723497You forgot return to form
I'm REALLY enjoying it so far, but I'm stuck on the anal penetration stage. I am trying to stimulate Alucard's prostate to go for the strokeless orgasm achievement, but the combo is really difficult to pull off, and I end up getting laughed at by a group of African vampire women. help!
so were the story leaks true
I fucking hate indie games and their shitty aesthetics and design choices.
>>749723798how is this indie in any shape or form
Awful music so far
>>749723880Just fucking look at it.
I think people just went to sleep, and besides, the game is seemingly still not pirated yet because no one fucking cares enough to pirate it.
>>749723692Well obviously. Joan of Arc is the superior girlboss and you get the good ending by curbstomping Leon Belmont's legacy who has been cucked into a monster and is now the enemy.Konami HATES IGA with a burning passion. Not hard to see why. That man IS castlevania, so much so that he made like 4 of them in the last few years without even trying, and Konami is stuck copying dead cells' homework.
>>749723256Almost like people went to sleep or are playing it or somethingI would play it but I'm drunk as fuck right now Will order pizza and play it all day tomorrow
>>749723256>>749723450>>749723497>>749723661People are unironically believing this is one of the top 3 castlevanias ever
>>749723963come on now.
>>749724061Little tip for the modern world. If someone tells you they "unironically believe something", and they aren't a close friend or family member, they are salesmen or people duped by salesmen.Nobody unironically believes anything any more.
>no high jump>no flight >no bestiary>no drop from mobsWhat were they thinking?
>>749724061>PeopleThose are golems, not people.
>>749724064Not real until I see it in IGGG
>>749724148>What were they thinking?"The queer gaijin who watch netflix will buy anything"
This game is way too hard lmao, boomers are going to get filtered hard
>>749724064>runeDid these faggots finally learn how to set up paths, so you don't loose your save state?
>based on netflix showthats all i needed to ignore it
>>749724304The original Castlevania is harder than any fucking metroidvania in existence.
>>749723901indie isn't an artstyle it's a development model wherein the game is created independently from major studio or publisher involvementbellend's curse was funded and co-developed by konami so by definition it doesn't quality as indie
how the fuck did they manage to make it look worse than bloodstained?
>>749724061these are the same people that think the latest release of any series is the best, it's just recency bias retards
>>749724382I have been told that original Castlevania fans are huge fans of the showis this true?
>>749724438why bother trying when you know it will sell by brand name recognition alone
slop designed to end a series they are no longer competent enough to make
>>749724426It's got the Hollow Shite map screen and the "souls-like" mechanics. It's indie shit.
>>749724531Are you stupid on purpose or does it come naturally to you?
Played it for 2 hours, game is hard and Cemetery's music is sick.Joans theme was going alright then it started having some fucking rap beats, thought Cemetery was going to be the same but it wasn't thankfully.
This doesnt feel like a castlevania at all..
>>749724061Just remember that to many normalfags, this is the first CV they play (entirely thanks to Netflix).
>>749724631why does it look like runescape?
>>749724304the fact that the game is physically unpleasant to play was a way bigger factor in my refund than any amount of difficulty. Who thought that mashing R2 and directional analogue inputs constantly during combat was going to be fun?
Iga won
>play the new Castlevania game >waiting for the music>it's all nigger hip hop shitWhy? Why they do this? I'm black and I hate it.
>>749723256>"it's a real castlevania!" threads? For the past 2 weeks I have only seen threads about this game stating the exact opposite
What was the castle doing near Paris?
>>749724715It's for Leon chads that liked his game, sorry you got filtered. You can play the dragon scalie game though
>>749724781Never bet against koji
I am nigger enjoying this nigger game but nigger the music nigger is shit nigger
>>749725002Iga is still offering the OG metroidvania formula and sensibilities as opposed to Konami's "let the westerners do it by copying what's popular in their nick of the woods" approach
Puzzles that involve switching walls are just absolute cancer.
I've played worse, this is at least above II, Vampire's Kiss, Mirror of Fate and Vanilla Castlevania 64 (so far).
>>749725374High bar to clear
>>749724872This isn't canon so don't worry about it
This just seems okay so far?I don't understand whynit got such high ratings when it feels like just a basic bitch modern MV.
>>749724531known indie game genre souls likes
>>749725321>Got to disagree, Castlevania is NOT Iga. Castlevania is a product of many sources from Bram's novel Dracula, Shelley's Frankenstein including the famous first movie, etc.The source was Universal's Monster Mash movies, i can assure you no dev read a single page of the novels.
>>749725458Indie developers are extremely uncreative, I know.
>>749725446Fanboys feeling like they need to rate it high to not be seen as non-product-consuming chuds
>>749725497unlike AAA companies.
>>749725524Nobody said that.
>>749725553yeah man nothing is implied when indies are selectively brought up like that.you sound exactly as smart as someone who believes that a game published by konami is indie.
>>749725628Bout tree fiddy
>>749725002>Konami is now making gamesI guess, if having none of the talent left at your disposal and outwhoring your IPs to western leftist subversive scum counts
>>749725628I think 1 million minimum would be great
>>749723256So is the platforming and combat any good?I can turn off the sound and skip the cutscenes.
>>749725717Why would you skip the cutscenes?
>>749725628>no way it sells better than [most popular metroidvania of all time]No shit
>>749725628Konami's last western outsourced game flopped, still no sales milestone announcement. So maybe they should temper their expectations this time.
>all these deleted posts made by the same guykek
>>749725808Townfall?
>>749725920Yeah
it looks gay, I like the old castlevania art style better so I won't be buying this crap. I don't like gay crap
>>749723256it's over. we won't be getting a new castlevania for another 20 years.
No! Blast havers! Come back!
>>749726246We weren't getting any Castlevania in the first place, Konami is shit and gave it to some devs to make a lesbian dyke game.People will just memory hole it like the most 3D ones and that will be the end of it.
>>749726246Good. I was going to say let the series die with dignity, but it's way too late for that.
>>749726347Blast havers and return to formists and ''well Castlevania always changes, i don't understand anything that people are saying'' told me that they will be too busy playing, but instead they are still locking in more hours in steam forums defending the game.
>>749726246We're getting one next year.
Should have made CotM2
>>749726246the negative reviews are because the game doesn't even work, I think it requires setting your refresh rate to 60hz on first open and leaving vsync enabled or else the game won't open. lowest effort port they didn't even test
>>749726442works on my machine
>>749726440I hate CotM and even I would rather have a sequel then the pile of shit we got
>>749726442They leaked their entire game 50 times before release, and Steam soundtrack doesn't even provide MP3 or FLAC files but its own music player. There is going to be way more reviews incoming with this incompetencePositive reviews are the 1 hour playtime glazers.Its not going to end that well
>>749723256I'm having a blast!It's a return to form, the form that is a lightning in a bottle.
>>749724872sightseeing
>>749723256Hollowenous slop
>>749726442>the negative reviews are because the game doesn't even worki assume that it's ok if demo worked normally... right?
>>749726442Console chads win again baby!
>>749726246you retards who want to keep zombie franchises going at any cost are the worst.
>>749724476I thought the first one was decent, outside of a few things. But everything i heard about the 2nd one was just awful, never even watched it
>>749724476yeah especially those who have never played the games.
>>749726726They knew they fucked up and promised a patch. Don't know why the French allowed it to happen though
>died 3 times to enemies being put at the ledge cockblocking me with attacksyeah its castlevania
>>749727148where's his friend
>>749723896This is the ultimate proof it's NOT a Castlevania game
>>749725734Unless they are "so bad it's good" i don't see a reason to bother.
>>749723798Back to your AAA slop nigger
>all the deleted posts
Konomi should be embarrassed for this awful shit. Guess I should go play PoR and OoE since I haven't gotten to them yet.
Just played 2 hours, I can already tell this is better than Bloodstained and Metroid Dread.
>>749727574>Konami embarrased for anythingYou don't know them at all, do you?
>snsKINO
Its making vee furious so it must be kino
>>749727782That legit looks like AI
After playing for 4 hours straight and browsing this hell hole since 2009 i have finally swallowed the pill that this board is just full of jaded porn addicts who think its hip to be square. The games fast, its hard, its castlevania in almost every way except hammer monsters. Old vee would of loved this. This place isnt for me anymore. I come here less and less, the time between visits has gotten so long i now average 2 months. Im finally free You culture war doom niggers wanted the board? Have it. You'll never be happy. You WILL die young from a stress induced heart attack. Enjoy.
cuties
>>749727846All right here’s your (You) redditor, you earned it
The game is actually quite challenging. I can bet journalist set the difficulty slider to the minimum to get through it.
How do you counter the medusa's lasers?
>>749728064pay more attention to the stage..
Does the save from the demo transfer to the game or do I have to redo the same section?
>>749728036Journalists turned on godmode.
>>749728106It saves your progress
>>749728106It transfers>>749728036100%, I genuinely couldn't do that gank fight where you need bats to reach it on Paris streets. Just kept losing health from random bullshit and gave up after 20 mins
>>749724875/ourguy/ approved
where are my save states......
>want muh pixel castlevania with nothing new added following the DS titles>nobody plays themExplain this, /v/
>Denouncing anger and revenge as the main theme is realI'm sad
>>749727846but enough about dead cells
>>749728460>Explain this, /v/OLD = GOODNEW = BAD
>>749728460>retroon ACKhievements What's next, the ACKloggd stats?
>>749724061tbf, the last castlevania 2d game was fucking order of eccelsia nearly 20 years ago. you can be born and gone to fucking college in that time. konami is just that bad to its castlevania ip.
My top 3 Castlevanias are OoE, AoS, and RoB. From the demo I'm expecting to like this about as much as CotM.
Anyone knows how that "hit 5 enemies with the cross" labour works? I tried it a lot in the demo with that bat infested corrider and I'm sure it killed more than 5 bats with 1 cross a handful of tries but nothing... was it locked on the demo?
>>749727217This is the timeline where they brokeup :( Hence why this game is non-canon.
>>749728738nothing coming out of konami now is "canon". they are full publisher now and all their ips are outsourced to whatever the fuck dev groups thatll bite.
Why did they turn Dracula into the E33 guy?
>>749724061name your top 3
Japanese VA is pretty good.
I already played all the old Castlevania and Bloodstained. What games would you recommend for>Classicvania >Igavania Because this clearly ain't it
>>749728831Castlevania DS and GBA romhacks
>>749726347I have to go to wagie station, i was playing an hour ago
will pirate it later today, but i can´t say i liked the demo. a whipless belmont was already a huge red flag
>Japanese are the ones review bombing the game I thought Japan don't have Steam. What are they even mad about lmao
>>749728831Record of Lodoss War-Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth
>>749728831Lecarde Chronicles 2
>>749728910Too short imo>>749728864When I said all, I mean all. I started playing back when /v/ was handing out the mega link with all the games and side materials. Even WaiWai World. The only hack I like is the Persephone AoS one
>>749728727I got it to trigger a few rooms into the fifth area. There's a bunch of zombies to the right of an axe armor, one throw of the cross after bunching them up will do the trick. A room or two later there's another room with infinitely spawning bats that you can abuse to easily do one of Medusa's tasks.
>>749728831Toziuha Night: Order of the AlchemistsGestalt: Steam and Cinder (I think)but the best of them?ChasmInfernaxAstalon
>>749728873You will find it later.
>>749728996Some of them are maybe newer than that. Did you play the castlevania 1 metroidvania remake? Rebitten or whatever it was called?
belmont´s curse if it was good but unironically
Characters talk too much. A good castlevania game should have less than thirty lines of dialogue.
>>749729003thank you anon, have a fantastic day
>0 savepoints for ~20 minsfucking based game
>only 30 unique enemiesHOW??????
>>749729072Qrd on this gay shit?
>>749729126They have to have her talk nonstop so people can see it passes the bechdel test which proves they arent a problematic game studio
Yeahh, it's gaming time!!
>>749729331metroidvania where the bosses are your bros, you make love to them but you say #nohomo afterwards in order to be safe
>>749729072>gayshit>but only beefcakes, no fat guysDamn, not my kinda gayshit.
>>749729353when you activate the "Prevent Death" does that makes you skip that boss fight?
>>749729353This feature genuinely infuriates me. All I can think about is some onionredditor having a blast with the sliders slammed to either side.
>just got SnSSo far so good
>>749729072>no pale and consumptive yet dominant goth boyscome on now
>>749729416I don't know, i just downloaded it.>>749729438I agree. Really gives the impression that the devs don't know how it's meant to be experienced.
>game doesn't hold your hand>lot of hidden passage>plateforming>ennemies are pretty fastSo many will be filtered
love how she spins it after the third attack
>>749724631Rap beats seem to be a boss-exclusive thing the rest of the music is just ambient
>>749729367Tell me about the gameplay, I can tell it’s a porn game
>>749729626I've never said this before, but this game looks as though it was generated solely by AI.
>>749729353The ideal balance is to cut incoming damage in half and double the experience gained.
>>749729685sotn with bayonetta witch time
child abuse
>>749723256That's how marketing campaigns work.
>>749726246Its over, Bloodstained won
>>749729375Based
Rose has nice thighs, shame they're only ever visible on her Sonia skin.
>>749729260It's like the goddamn Pinnacle trek from Dawn of Sorrow.
Otome dating sim when
>>749730595Julius seems to be the only Belmont that hasn't passed on his genes.
>>749730641they're just going to create a secret baby
>>749730641Julius has a secret sister who was busy fighting space alien and an apprentice from the church who wields the Alchemical whip and is also secretly Death's favourite human
>>749730595Do any Gothic horror Otome games exist?I would assume they must, since it seems like a very obvious genre to pull from but it's a genre i know basically nothing about
I opened the stream of a fat gay redditor playing this, and he was raging that "SOTN fans" didnt love the demo and dont think it's an incredible evolution of the franchise and a masterpiece (all words he used). This is what I mean when I say gaming is too much for some people. This fag should be doodling with crayons or something, he doesnt actually play video games. He looks up the most ez mode, meta-faggot way to beat a game then posts about it on social media and desperately needs to find other people to agree with him about how much fun he had and how it was the most amazing experience he ever had.It's sad that he's not doing something he enjoys but is intensely devoted to convincing himself that he is.
>Ruin their Switch and Steam launch with technical issues >Focus development on Xbox and PS5Ah yes, the infamous number 1 Metroidvania platform, the Xbox. What is this business strategy called?
>>749724438>Bloodstained>Good looking
>>749731201What's even the issue, game ran perfectly both demo and the full release
>>749731197>I opened the stream of a fat gay redditoryour opinion is already invalid no matter whether it's correct or not... you watch others play videogames and then dare to blame them that they don't play videogames
>>749731267Graphics turn everything into chunks on the Switch 2 because game was designed for Switch 1. On PC, game crashes for a certain kind of monitor. Amateurs hours basically
Time gated cancer jump puzzles. FUCK THIS SHIT!
>>749731371What are you defending here? Some casual streamer that loves anything and everything? Alright, sorry if I offended you. Do you also think Belmont's Curse is a masterpiece? Hopefully somehow these words on the screen dont ruin the high you are experiencing right now.
>>749723256https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXLJLEY1izw
>>749731564I'm not defending anyone you idiot. It's the pot calling the kettle black situation where you the guy who watches streamers blames someone else that "he doesnt actually play video games".You are both faggots that infest the hobby and are to blame for the status it currently is
>>749731197>I opened the stream of a fat gay redditor playing thiswhy?
>>749731594look how they massacred my boy
I had more fun playing Dead Cells than any Castlevania game made in the last 17 years excluding the 3 Bloodstained games. 17 YEARS since the last real Castlevania game, and more like 25 if you aren't that keen on Igavania handheld crap.
>>749724037So everything you're complaining about is second hand knowledge. Got it.My gripe is that it feels slower and the mobility isn't nearly as fun as Bloodstained or the other igavanias after CotM. The music so far has been super underwhelming, but the combat is pretty well-executed. I don't think this game is goty by any stretch, but these hyperbolic statements from people who didn't even play the game are 10x worse than any shill post and is always someone else's opinion are outright lies
Why the fuck does she has a body of a man?
>>749731808you are autistic
>>749731643Modern gaming is so dogshit the only mild form of entertainment one can extract from them is watching a streamer parasite chimp out.
>>749724148That they weren't trying to copy IGA. Castlevania existed before SotN. It's blatantly obvious that they didn't want to copy Igarashi's homework when bloodstained is still an active IPWhy is /v/ so retarded?
>>749724382It's not based on the show at all.
>>749731858>So everything you're complaining about is second hand knowledgeI actually think it's far better not to play the game because I already know it's just another Konami cashgrab using the old IPs that they don't have the ability to make any longer, featuring boring and derivative subversions of the things people like slapped together by a dev team that doesn't give a fuck about castlevania and gets paid either way.Better to not put your hand in a big pile of shit in the first place than root around inside it for the diamonds that aren't going to be there.They've done this for YEARS. if you don't get it by now, you're retarded.
I'm not even done with the first area and i already consider turning the music off. This shit physically hurts.
>>749731643You're like an old grandpa /pol/ poster raging that the white race is being destroyed. Projecting onto my post that I'm destroying gaming by watching 4 mins of streamed gameplay. I dont watch ANY streams regularly and have never subscribed or donated. Goto bed grandpa and put on some of that history channel you like.
Is he right?
>>749723519I liked playing Castlevanias on handhelds back thenBut this isn't the same
>>749732137>long, precise platformingthe fuck, the only game that has that as a focus is Aeterna Noctisand it's better than Hollow Knight
>>749731959In that case then I'll just wait for bloodstained 2
>>749723256The precision platforming sections feel out of place for the series, IMO.
>>749732137He is, especially about the other games. Normie faggots look for brand names, but anyone with any sense can probably list about 20 metroidvanias that feel more like castlevania games than this. Castlevania fans have been utterly spoiled over the last decade, if i'm honest. It's only people who need to see a logo that think there hasn't been one in decades.
>>749731959>they weren't trying to copy IGA>they're just copying modern indie Metroidvanias that are all downstream from Igavanias
>>749732137Told you guys this was indie dogshit.
>>749731959>That they weren't trying to copy IGAThey should've
>>749732137nigga refreshing negative steam reviews so he sees someone that hates it to copy his opinions since he hasn't played a castlevania game in 20 years
Wow the music of this game fucking SUCKS
I'd rather play romhacks of SotN than this
>insie scenelmao
>>749732335No need to refresh, there's plenty of them.
>>749728460I dont know what this is but it looks gay
>>749732410back from resetting your IP?
>>749732294I haven't played an indie metroidvania that plays like BC. That's not a compliment either moreso than it is an objective observation. It feels floaty and sluggish in the first few hours. I genuinely think Evil Empire wanted to make a Castlevania game, but wanted to mix classic elements, iga elements, and elements from their own games which OTHER games copied (can you blame the makers of Dead Cells making the game feel like Dead Cells? That game came out in 2018 and plenty of games aped that game because it was very popular)
>>749732410If people couldn't tell this game was going to suck from the ugly as all fuck bitch protagonist, blatant nostalgia bait logo and clusterfuck art composition on the banner, then that's sad.
>>749723256I’m having a blast with it, it’s the first real Castlevania since Castlevania IV. It’s nice to see all the damage Iga did to the series being undone.
I am a massive Castlevania fan and think this is the best game since SOTN.
>>749732137He had me until he started glazing The Last Faith. It has the exact same problems BC does
>>749728820Rondo of BloodAria of SorrowOrder of Ecclesia
>>749732498It feels A LOT like PoP Lost Crown (which isn't indie obviously but shares the same DNA)
What do we think of Rose?
I like Dead Cells but this game sucks.
>>749732137I feel like people exaggerate Hollow Knight's precise platforming. Theres only like a couple full sections overall with that design, none of which are required for the base ending, with path of pain not even required for any ending or completion at all.
>>749732534You forgot to say it was a return to form and they're going back to their roots.
Femanon here. I got filtered by the game's difficulty...I couldn't even beat the first boss. Is there an option to play it on easy mode?
>>749732305He recommends 3 other indie games in the same review.
>>749731959>Castlevania existed before SotN.You know SotN was just building off of the ideas from Simon's Quest, right? The second Castlevania game?
>>749732672Yes. The game can be made as easy or hard as you’d like.
>>749732587Yeah, it really feels as though they managed to encapsulate a large environmental natural static discharge within a glass container
Camera is way too fucking zoomed out a lot of time. Feels like I'm controlling an ant.
>>749726246good. let these series fucking die, they don't deserve to have their corpse raped like this there's been literally zero decent modern releases for any of these old series
>>749732691Yeah, I loved grinding gear in CV2. Jesus Christ, you don't have to respond to everything that bothers you.
>>749732659He is completely right about the scarcity of checkpoints and the walkbacks, it's literally the reason I got fed up with Hollow Knight.The ENDER games do it right, frequent checkpoints with fast travel, that's how it's done.
>>749732691We knew for 20 years that for SOTN Iga copied Super Metroid and then lied about it. You are either retarded or a zoomer, idk which is worse.
>>749728831>ClassicvaniaGal Guardians (the first one)Koumajou Remilia>Igavania Team Ladybug's games
>>749732897>unironically recommending barely 2 hour games
>>749732990castlevania's barely an hour long
>>749732691Ah yes, CV2: Samus' Quest (localized as Super Metroid outside of most mental asylums) brought us SotN
>>749732990Retard
>>749732824I think hollow knight's checkpoints scarcity works for hollow knight, thanks to how its healing resource works. I do agree that it sucks in games that just do Souls style Estus Flasks, though, which Belmont's Curse is certainly guilty of.
>>749733025the original ones are made so that you die from the most retarded bullshit and accumulate playtimethese new 1 hour games don't follow that same design they're all braindead easyit's like you've never played this series
>>749733082>>749733048
>>749733048You only like this genre superficially. I'm glad no one caters to your tastes. Cinematic, babby-tier games.
Fuck this game, I'll just continue playing good castlevania games instead that actually feed like castlevania and not whatever hollow souls bullshit this is
>>749732137>I have to... get le good... AT LE GAME?
>>749733120>>749733114
>>749733198did you say the same when SOTN was released?
>>749733275He probably didn't because SOTN was good.
Am I hallucinating or does this swinging cage have a different frame rate from the rest?
>>749733240I've seen several posts that just sound like people got filtered by challenge sections. Someone said the game got confused and hits him while dodging because the i-frames were buggy and inconsistent (you mean attacks can track if you dodge too early?). People want zero friction in these games and unironically call others casuals and normies.
This is reminding me of the reaction when COTM came out.
>>749732990At least with classsicvania, why would this even be a problem?
>hollow knight combat arena 20 minutes in>after a completely untelegraphed "secret" you can only reveal by whipping a random wall
>>749733390Why is it always autitic wall humping with this genre...
You can always tell when a castlevania game is shit because maggots crawl out of the woodwork to complain about SOTN. Every single time.
>>749733364It's not. Every classic can be beaten under 1 hour if you are good. 2-3 if you are bad and die a lot. He is just a zoomoid pretending to have played the originals.
IGA won
>>749733429half the fun in castlevania is whipping all the walls
>>749733337It is and its framerate isn't even a multiple of the general renderer so it's super noticeable. The game in general has very weird problems with frame pacing.
>>749733514>>749733429>what is peeping eye
>>749733356people hated COTM? really?
>>749733435Why are you typing this like a new Castlevania game comes out every few years?
>>749733390>after a completely untelegraphed "secret" you can only reveal by whipping a random wallas should be
Return to form... lightning in a bottle... b-blast...
>>749733548I mean people still hate it now
>>749733514No, it's boring
ChatGPT, design me a new Castlevania game for the modern audience(tm)
I'll wait for a sale. Got plenty of other 'vanias to play
>>749733548Yes
it's not a roguelite and that makes it better than 90% of the 2D action games we get now
>>749733572It's one thing if it was revealed by attacking the ceilingBut no, you have to WHIP the ceiling with your traversal power
I can't wait for the next Castlevania to be released so I can claim that Belmont's Curse was actually good
>>749733548CotM isn't a great game, it feels more like an overly ambitious GameBoy game than a proper GBA game, very few bosses and most of them are bullshit, extremely large but boring castle areas, card RNG
>>749733761is card rng worse than souls rng? was HOD actually the best of the 3?
Just to let you know, the company I work for has sent out a briefing telling people to subtly indicate similarities in BC with older titles to foster cohesion, and to push that as hard as they can, using subversive means if they have to. Look out for threads which complain about having to use a whip, precise platforming, hidden secrets or hard bosses, etc.I think they realise they have a stinker on their hands and they're pushing hard
>>749733845yes schizo god we will follow your orders, literally everyone that says anything remotely positive is a complete shill boteven i ameveryone is
>>749733845Sorry /v/ isn't the twitter posting hivemind that you thought it was. Hate that for you, champ.
>>749733564Nothing I said indicated that. But I have seen it happen at least 6 times now. 8 if you count the shitty netflix show for black people.>>749733758did that work for Judgement? or Mirror of fate HD? Lord of shadow 2? Lords of shadow? I don't see anyone talking about how great grimoire of souls is.
Belmont's Curse is a true Castlevania successor! You ask why?>Whip as weapon>Precise platforming>hidden secrets>Hard bosses>Belmont MC10/10 return to form! I'm having a blast! It truly captured the Castlevania lightning into a bottle!
>>749733940>>749733970Tip for the future? Don't reply so quickly next time, and don't reply as a block. Stagger them. You should have learned that on day one.
I can't take niggers who say it's bad because it's not a literal 9th SotN clone seriously
>>749728831Volgarr the Viking is a lot like a classicvania.
>>749734078Fuck off IGA won
>>749733390The hidden walls literally have cracks when you walk up to them, you lying pole smoker.
>>749733337>>749733539Yeah I just checked. Looks like every moving object have their own frame rate. I don't know why they'd do this, it makes it look pretty jarring.
Literally the only hit reaction i've seen thus far is launching enemies with the cestus uppercut, otherwise there's literally ZERO of them. Even the weakest, puniest zombie can tank through your attacks, and you cannot cancel them into evasive actions either
>>749734076>posts 60 seconds apart Sorry /v/ isn't the twitter posting hivemind that you thought it was. Hate that for you, champ.
>mixed reviews on SteamWhat went wrong?
>>749733980Lords of Shadow has a 90 metacritic review and was ghe best selling CV though.
>>749734142No, not all of them. This is a secret wall for example. You have already missed a bunch.
>>749734217It wasn't the 7th igavania in a row
>>749734168That's how the combat is designed you retard so you can't just walk up press X 3 times and be done with every enemy. You need to look at the enemy model and press the dodge button when you see them attack
>>749734221Yeah, that's gay.
>>749734221Where is this?
>>749734290>That's how the combat is designedThen it's designed like shit. Any newfaggot developer can make enemies uninterruptible tanks.
>>749734220yeah bro, everyone's always talking about Lords of Shadow.
>>749734347..and any newfaggot developer can make enemies interruptible sponges. What are you even crying about? Game too hard for little baby? You can tune down the damage you take and increase your pots kid
>>749734347It just sounds like you don't want any form of challenge in combat. One thing I can compliment this game on is that it expects you to use every button
>>749733670>elegy of sanctitythanks
Why am I having more fun playing an aria of sorrow randomizer than this game?
>>749734416>..and any newfaggot developer can make enemies interruptible sponges.Adding interruption states already involves more work than just making bullet sponges. You know, something this series could do 30 years ago.
Game is fine, not really worth that much $ but I bet if it was called "Rose's adventure in Paris" I'd have better reception...
>>749734401No one ever talks about anything but SotN and maybe PoR so I'm not sure what your point is.
>>749734518Because Aria of Sorrow is a piss easy game.
>>749733980That anon acts like there's a Zelda / Sonic cycle to this series, when there really isn't. The series is likely older than them since the majority of the games you listed were forgettable as fuck, and this is going on that pile for sure.>>749734078It's bad because it's Castlevania only in name. Plenty of indie games and even Iga himself have made better tributes by this point, and once people get further in and realize how shit the story is, then the shitflinging will really begin.
>>749734605How can you even type this with a straight face
>>749734617>the same talking points stillshills not sending their best huh
>>749734650>It's bad because it's Castlevania only in nameAlrighty, I'll biteWhat defines Castlevania specifically? It has to be an inviolate principle that all past games adhere to.
Thoughts on Chronicles of the Wolf?
Why the fucking puny skeletons have infinite poise?
>>749734671What, already out of arguments, shill?
>>749734614People talk about Aria all the time. People talk about Ecclesia all the time. People talk about Curse of Darkness more than they talk about Lords of Shadow. It's quite obvious you aren't part of the fanbase and are one of those castlevania fans who are excited to play one for the first time.
>>749734714These were already said shillkun>>749724148
>>749734456>It just sounds like you don't want any form of challenge in combatMy favorite metroidvania list includes Nine Sols, and even that game had visible hitstun on enemies.
>>749734769Where's high jump, flight and bestiary in Castlevania 64?
>>749726246>new castlevaniaI'd be fine with a m2 RoB + SotN
>>749723497It's a tour de force. A stunning achievement for sophomore developer Motion Twin
>>749734518Because you have good tastes.
Does it have the retarded damage scaling like dead cell? I fucking hate that shit for some reason.
>>749734714Honestly? Belmont shuffle. Rose moves too fast and fluid and doesn't "feel" like a Castlevania protagonist in comparison.Don't get me wrong, the game plays great and all, but it just doesn't have the charm and feel of a Castlevania product. The music doesn't help, either, since they really just need to suck up their pride and hire Yamane again as a freelancer, since some of the music I've heard so far is straight up 1990s midi-tier and doesn't hit at all like her work would have with its distinct gothic / European inspired chords.
>>749734717before today, I would have said it was perfectly competent. After today I would say it is a million times better than this garbage AI slop.
>>749734769Those things weren't in Rondo of Blood
>>749734217apparently it doesn't run for a lot of people, there really needs to be a review category for "game doesn't work" along with good/bad because it's annoying trying to look through reviews about the actual game only to see many that are just "I can't get past a black screen" or whatever, like I give a shit if it won't run on your steam deck
Reviewers are saying this is Castlevania at its besthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAhlxrLnAo
>>749734714>What defines Castlevania specifically?Unforgettable musicInteresting backtrackinginnovative (though not necessairly hard) bossesclassic good vs evil storyline
>>749734898>240x160did you play on smartwatch?
>>749734915Bro Dawn of Sorrow, PoR, and OoE? And Miriam is snappy as hell in Bloodstained as well. What a weird statement.
>>749735042Lost me at >innovative bosses
>>749723256Beating dark arisen first
>>749734714>What defines Castlevania specificallyNever was a big classicvania fan, but for igavanias:Heavily de-emphasized platforming. Bigger focus on the pure exploration aspect instead, including frequent underwater traversal or even flying.A huge focus on RPG aspects, with lots of unique gear that has its own gimmicks, sometimes hidden and ridiculously overpowered ones.Very creative traversal upgrade design in general. SOTN still has some of the coolest traversal upgrades in the entire genre.Low HP enemies that are mostly easy to kill, but with all sorts of memorable and weird designs. Setpiece bosses, sometimes taking entire rooms in size.Melodic, chill, beautiful music. Next to no pure "atmospheric" tracks.
>>749735139>blinded, shackled, goat-headed demon bigger than the arena itselfdo you see those in a lot of games?
>find a ghost>HAVE to sit through an uninterruptible 20 second menu animation detailing a new tarot card and the goalOh fuck off
>>749734151giwtwm
>>749735057>>749734898>>749734518>/v/ would rather play this shit than a good game just because it's new
What's even the purpose of making something like this a non-permanent upgrade, something you have to swap? You just end up with more mandatory menuingGod i have hollow knight charms.
>>749735062I still remember them being slower in animation than how Rose is basically bolting and able to parkour almost up ledges and all. The gameplay in Castlevania up until SoTN had heft to it.
>>749723256The combat is fucking awful i‘ll be honest. Mixing castlevanias hit and dash/jump combat with dead cells enemies that instantly attack just doesn‘t work. I‘m at the medusa boss and i might drop it here. I really hope moadra is good cause i need my metroidvania fix
>>749735396>>749735057Can you fucking shills just fuck off of my board already?
>>749735445You already had to swap passive upgrades in castlevania games
>JOAN D'ARC BAD>KING ARTHUR BAD>BELMONT BAD>DRACULA GOODWhy are they like this?
>>749735554your schizophrenia is acting up again
>>749735535Only a relatively small chunk of them, mostly with minor gameplay effects. Something like this would be a permanent upgrade in older entries.
im gonna play simon's quest, is the original translation really that bad?
>>749728820Rondo of Blood Dracula XSymphony of the NightThe perfect trilogy
>>749735604Could you at least tell me how much does the gig pay per hour? Any good?
>>749734714>What defines Castlevania specifically?I think a common ground that both classicvania and igavanias had was that both liked to have monsters be the main threat, with platforming typically not the focus at all. Even when you take into account that classicvanias liked having bottomless pits here and there with a fixed arc on jumps requiring you to be more deliberate about its use, you often fell off a platform because an enemy bumped you off more so than because of any actual challenging platforming design.
>>749735656i guess soulless remakes are only good if they're old
All the Castlevania games were basic bitch garbage until SotN so who fucking cares lol
>(((Nettflixvania))Hard fucking pass)
>>749735453I only played the demo but it’s like “dodge, then attack” combat. The Igavanias were more like “attack, then dodge”.
>>749733337>developed in Unityoh that could explain all the amateurish technical shit.
>>749735396>why don't you just play the same game from 50 years ago for the 200th time?
>>749735895I just hate that enemies attack so fast that you can‘t react. You have to play by their patterns because all your inputs are uncancelable which is so boring
>"I'm not trapped in here with you; you're trapped in here with me!I personally enjoy the game, but god dammit.
>>749724476I know people who are not perpetually online chuds but just regular dudes who actually raged so hard at the thing that they now openly hate everything to do with it.
>>749735554I can't get over the fact they made Leon evil and working for Dracula in this by retconning the ending of Lament of Innocence, despite teasing a 3D collecting with it coming out in the near future. Between that and the curse making Rose a girlboss asshole to everyone, it makes me wonder just how little they all care about the established lore going forward now.
>>749723256I'm playing it nigga
>>749736115How do you get used to the whip? That shit is so clunky during combat. I don‘t understand how the dead cells devs couldn‘t make a game with snappy controls
>>749734754>People talk about Aria all the time. People talk about Ecclesia all the time.To shit on them. Even in the other CV thread on /v/ there is no mention of OoE outside of someone calling it shit lmao
>>749736323You account for its input lag basically
>>749736351>/v/ shits on aria
>>749723256I suppose because the people saying that are currently playing the game, unlike /v/.
>>749736351What?
>>749736445Aria gets called out for its horrible grind and locking traversal behind enemy drops as well as being to easy in general because of how you're expected to play it. You haven't been around that long.
>>749723256Game has no sauce. It's feel worse than Dead Cells in everyway, also doesnt play like a igavania. Better playing Dead Cells or the Dominus Collection
Furries win again.
I liked the demo but I already have my hands full with Ace Combat 8 and already planning to buy an Argie horror game tomorrow and Anomalith at the end of October.Maybe during the December sale.
>>749736551>worse than Dead Cells in everywayat least it's an actual game and not randomly generated roguelite bullshit
how do I get past this part?
>>749723256I think it's hilarious how all /v/tards were complaining about irrelevant shit and stuff they didn't understand about the demo and then the game turned out to be a masterpiece. It shows they have no intuition for games.
>>749736545No, I would say that Aria is in the top 3 castlevania games that /v/ likes. Then again, I have only been using the site for 22 years, so I will certainly defer to the headcanon you made up to champion a forgettable AI generated game that came out six hours ago.
>>749736618Eh, even as a ''roguelite'' Dead Cells features better level design and gameplay mechanics. This one has none of that
>>749736678
>>749736732You're 40 years old, please grow up and leave this website.
i played all of them once but i liked dawn more than aria (i played it with a hack that removes the touchscreen shit though)
I think its mostly fine, but the camera isn't perfect, and the platforming sections feel like they belong in another series.
>>749736816>You're 40 years oldhow old is Castlevania?
>>749736816Maybe you shills are the ones who should leave?
>>749736732Nah, Rondo, PoR and SCIV get constantly brought up as the best in the series. Along with SotN. If you only go into AoS threads then of course you wouldn't see any dissent. Newfag.
>>749736920I don't think Castlevania spends its free time arguing online 24/7.>>749736962You are 40 years old crying about boogeymen just like you did 30,20,10 years ago, do you realize this?
>>749737031>I don't think Castlevania spends its free time arguing online 24/7.I'd imagine it wouldn't, because it's not a person.>ust like you did 30,20,10 years ago, do you realize this?So i'm consistent?Is this some new tactic, to argue with someone, then complain that they're arguing? It's kind of weak.
>>749736732PoR, Rondo, and SotN are definitely the top 3 shilled games on /v/. Aria isn't hated, but rarely gets talked about from what I see. OoE definitely gets dogpiled every time its brought up lol
>>749736920
>>749737169>OoE definitely gets dogpiled every time its brought up lolWhat?Why?Shanoa is hot
>>749737204It wasn't a real Igavania. Also high difficulty so filtered skillets like Belmont's curse.
>>749737204the whole game is a straight line
>>749736993>/v/ shits on aria of sorrow>but let me mention the aria of sorrow threads on /v/ in which there is nothing but constant praisewhat did he mean by this?
I feel Konami had more input than we tought.
>>749737547So just like CV 1-4?
AoS would've been shat on so hard if it released today. Painfully short, braindead easy, completely linear with 0 secrets, everything that would make an igavania bad but it released in 2003 so it's good because I was younger back then or something
>>749732608That's the same impression I'm getting as I play the game. It's like Lost Crown if Sargon was around 50% slower and had the durability of a wet piece of paper. There's an earlyish, optional puzzle shortly after you beat Joan that really hammered home that Lost Crown feeling.
>>749737635I'd probably prefer to play a pachinko machine than this
i just refunded it, it's not really a bad game, it just feels amateurishly made on a shoe string budget, i have both castlevania collections and bloodstained if i want to scratch that itch and would have a much better time playing those
>>749737682>It's like Lost Crown if Sargon was around 50% slower and had the durability of a wet piece of paperAnd also had no real combos or creative powers he could combine with his base moveset.
>>749737768This. Honestly, there are 100 or so better metroidvanias that I would have more fun replaying than this joyless garbage.
>>749736585That MC design evokes the same feeling of disgust I have for that killmonger cut nigga from the lost crown.
>>749737659no, more like rondo but much worse
>>749723519oooh, it's on switch? I'll have to pirate it then
>>749737686Konami probably asked to make the game more like Hades (artstyle), movement (POP) and somewhere in the middle castlevania. Unlike most indie reimagines. BC has none of the studio style or gameplay mechanics
The music is putrid shit.
Another western outsource, another flopKonami will never learn
>>749738134The best double dragon game was made by a western studio
>>749738074I think the best way to describe music is "exhausting".
>>749737678Still would have been better than belmonts curse just by virtue of not being a clunky piece of shit
>>749724061Goyim are not people anon
>>749737682Lost crown is much better than this in every regard. If they‘re trying to ape that game then they did a very bad job
hard game = clunky
>>749737768I‘d say it‘s bad. The combat is horrible and the platforming feels scripted due to the way the whip functions. It does nothing well
>dude spikes EVERYWHERE for no reasonhollowshit ruined metroidvanias
>>749737934Prince of persia plays nothing like this stiff garbage. I don‘t know why people keep making that connection
>>749723692Some stuff is exaggerated, but 99% right.
>>749738134At least some of the outsourced games like ninja gaiden ragebound and shinobi were fun. This isn‘t even a good indie game
>>749738518>Lost crownBut its just the controls that felt like POP. But not as good
>>749737889You haven't played cv1-4.
>>749738336Igavania games were obnoxiously clunky. He only started getting better with bloodstained.
>>749738489Lol that doesn't look like castlevania
>>749738489>One of the most famous Castlevania stages is the spike room. >''Muh modern indie games''Casual
The first boss is just like the first boss of Dead Cells, a big guy who does a deliberate 3 hit move and takes 5 minutes to kill. Is the whole game like Dead Cells?
>>749738694Lost crown lets you cancel every single input (except for the parry) at any point during the animation and chain it into another. Belmonts curse is the exact opposite. One game has low very low commitment inputs and the other very high
Why does the general art direction look so cheap and uninspired?
>>749723497>>749723560Would you consider this a love letter to the Castlevania franchise?
>>749738974The rest is worse. Medusa is one of the worst bosses i‘ve seen in the genre
Ngl after playing this i feel like i was too harsh on silksong
>>749738974unlike dead cells you cant kill him in 10 seconds
>>749739146ya Silksong is just a 7/10 with the later half being like an 8 or 9 out of 10where this game was rushed out and copied wholesale from other indie games.
>>749739146Ive played a ton of MVs after Silksong and I am baffled at how fucking retarded most of these devs areReally makes me look back fondly on that punishing aussienegro fiesta
WHERE THE FUCK IS THE ENEMY VARIETY?????
>>749734339Looks like the area a few screens to the left of The Fallen's room. It's also one screen to the right of the save point closest to that boss room. You'll also be able to access the room that "secret" gets you to from the Prison Tower section by taking a path that leads down towards the Sewer Reservoir. If I'm remembering the treasure chest that's there correctly, it's where you get the Cestus.
Oh I get it, these are falseflagging hollowniggers stirring the pot.
>no ability to cancel out of inputs at all>cannot stagger enemies whatsoever, at best you can lift them with a cestus whip attack>enemies can attack at any moment but because of the flashing vomit of effects you can barely see their attacks half the time>some attack animations have humongous windup>the game is still piss easy because magic melts everything and sliding behind enemy back before attacking them works on every enemy type i've encountered thus farImpressive how they made a game that's around SOTN in terms of difficulty despite being nowhere nearly as fun to play. Doubly impressive how they copied every single bad thing about shitstong (combat rooms, platforming spike spam, runbacks) with far worse controls.
>>749739242Makes me all the more sad that the lost crown flopped while slop like this will probably do well>>749739325The game sucks, i‘m sorry
>>749739324It didn't even register to me as a secret. It felt like part of a tutorial. There are a few legitimately invisible walls though.
>>749724061a game is good because it's fun, not because it's similar to its previous entries. you literally want to consume product but this product isnt the same as the previous ones in the franchise >>749738339thats you though
the game is fine if unpolishedI've just played a bit and it has crashed on me more than a couple of timesdodge is too powerful and movement could be faster
>>749739353The longsword staggers and it's not designed like SotN at all>>749732498
>>749739353>>enemies can attack at any moment but because of the flashing vomit of effects you can barely see their attacks half the timeThe moment there‘s more than 2 enemies on the screen i completely give up on avoiding damage and just try to rush them because i genuinely can‘t see anything through all the effects. I‘m surprised none of the playtesters pointed out the visual diarrhea during the challenge rooms especially
BCs only mistake is that it's too hard. You're dying in 3 hits if you aren't careful so people say that it's clunky because a game can't possibly be hard and for them to be bad at it
>>749739353>cancelyou can but is bullshit like ''3f'' window>staggerThats the most castlevania thing about the game. Only few enemies could be staggered on classic/igavania type games>priorityAlso in every castlevania>difficultyIgavania games are also really easy
>>749738961>>One of the most famous Castlevania stages is the spike room.That room wasn't just a random precision platforming challenge.
Ill be honest, if this wasnt called Castlevania Id have treated it as a completely forgettable middle of the road MV5 hours in so far and nothing about this game stands out or screams to me
>>749734714Contact damage
Now the usual suspects will champion this game for years, possible up to a decade to come. The Last Jedi of Castlemania and vania.
>>749739575>Thats the most castlevania thing about the game. Only few enemies could be staggered on classic/igavania type gamesIn igavanias enemies generally had far lower HP pools, and many of them did react on getting hit by stumbling backwards or getting pushed out of your way. Lying faggot.
>>749739638Gamespot gave it a 10/10 so you are obviously wrong. It is the best game in the franchise.
>>749739796-the parry is useless-traversal is anything but fast-they all do the same shit-whatever-those are completely useless and most of the time when you‘re getting clues you‘ve already done whatever they‘re for
>>749739325If anything BC is spiritually Hollow Knight's descendant
>>749739796Interesting that even the shill reviews basically all agree that the story is pretty shit and Rose is a bad character
>>749739146Silksong's main "flaw" is how fucking huge it is for a castlemania
>>749739796Tarot system is fucking obnoxious, the game constantly interrupts you with these card animations
>>749739796Is it better than Mixtape tho? That was also was scored 10/10
>>749739718You haven't played those games in a long time then. Only a few enemies reacted to hits. Stop glazinghttps://youtu.be/yDhergroQE8?is=USf5ET4_4zdKebBQ
>>749739973During cutscenes and tutorials?
>>749734125>>749732897>>749728945Thank anons. I will put them on my backlog
Belmont's Curse reminds me so much of Metroid Prime 4. They looked at everything that made the games before them great, but they clearly didn't have the talent or competency to make anything like it, so we end up with some cheap and derivative game with only the most superficial similarities and nothing more.
>>749739987Literally the first 40 seconds showcase flea men having light hitstun from attacks.
>>749739965Yea if they cut act 3 completely and removed side quests entirely it‘d be a great game
>>749727846>its castlevania in almost every way except hammer monstersSo literally skipping some of the best parts of Castlevania.
>>749740121Not a single one of those interrupted an attack or forced a change in enemy behavior. You're either trolling or retarded.
>>749727846it's just a bad game, fatty
>>749727846>its castlevania in almost every wayRule 1 of bait. Don't make it too obvious. You failed.
>>749727846These LLM's still need some work to properly replicate 4chan style posting. I give you a B for effort though.
>>749732137>Chronicles of the Wolf mentionedBased.I believe him.
I really wonder what konami saw to reject the pitch from the blasphemous devs and go with this instead. The third sin is way better than this
Do you think precision platforming is fundamentally troon-coded? Look at Celeste for example.
>>749731959Yeah, but now its a copy of stuff like Blasphemous.I have nothing against trying something new, but this is kind of a shame since Castlevanias should be trend setters.
>>749739325Hollowshit ruined metroidvanias forever, if anything they would be defending this game instead
This is why you don't let the french make video games.
>>749740484It's fundamentally autism coded and most trannies are autistic
>>749732137>Salt and Sanctuary>Castlevania likeI almost agreed with him.
>>749739015Netflix
>>749740484I just think everything has its place and Castlevania is a wrong fucking franchise for precision platforming. It was never the focus of the series.
>>749740484Hang /pol/fags
>>749740670But it's true since it's 2D Dark Souls and Dark Souls is a 3D metroidvania
>>749740713Bruh
>>749732410KEK shills yesterday were spamming the "reviews" from dead publications no one gives a fuck about anymore. How will they spin this one?
I think I'll go back to blasphemous 2.
>>749740759Nothing about that is precision platforming, it's just a mess but there aren't impossible jumps in that game. You just need to jump over pits and spikes
>>749724037>curbstomping Leon Belmont's legacy who has been cucked into a monster and is now the enemy.oh no how terrify->it's castlevania III so the belmonts get neg diffed and go into hiding for a long time or whatever, this is a 40 year old plotline that literally got reused 4 times in a rowthey should ruin 1999 instead to get the braindead fanatics screeching.
>>749738961what spike room? I don't remember any spike room in Classics and don't remember it being ''famous''. What are you talking about?
>>749723256>i-frame based design in everything>so much visual vomit you can't see shit when there's more than two enemies on the screen>no direct contact damage with enemies unless they're in an attack state>art style that evokes cheap mobile games rather than Castlevania>hands down without question the worst soundtrack in the whole series>no classic sub weapons when you're playing as a Belmont>Celeste, Super Meat Boy, every indie platformer ever tier platforming>long stretches of hallways when it's not the formerI think this series should've stayed dead after Lords of Shadow. Konami bled all of their talent out and they're just a publishing house more than an actual game developer now. There is no one in this industry who actually understands Castlevania on a fundamental level, and since there have been 100s of Metroidvanias in the interum Konami left Castlevania to rot it feels very outclassed by everything else that's come out since.
>>749723296The new blasthavin
>>749740759???Have you even played this game? It's not a precision platforming sequence, 95% of the challenge comes from spawning enemies.
Back to waiting for Remnants of Darkness
>>749740908>they should ruin 1999This thread is for fans, go away
>>749740917He's probably talking about the spike hallway in SotN. Which isn't even a platforming challenge.
>what if we added a whip attack that slowly lunges you to an enemy in a game where enemies are constantly spamming attacks
>>749740713It's pretty bizarre to make it such a large focus of the game for sure.Personally I enjoyed how Blasphemous 2 incorporated precision platforming into the game. It was mostly relegated to a set of challenges for one of the DLC's so it was a nice change of pace. I don't even care about that sort of thing and I enjoyed those.
>>749739796Who gives a fuck about gamespot in 2026???? LOOOOL
>reskinned dead cells>shitting on 30 years of established character lorewhat exactly was their plan?
>>749741046yes I already mentioned you being a fanatic. I'm not going anywhere until I 100% the game, bucko.
>>749741081Blasphemous devs would be a fantastic choice for a CV dev.
>>749741059isn't that like a 3 second gap you skip with a bird summon? it's nothing.
>>749732190>But this isn't the sameYeah. It is. Cope and seethe.
>>749740481>We missed out on a spanish dubGoddamn
Any cute girls in the game?
>game set in paris>they don't speak french?
>>749740917>>749741059These are the people screaming NOT MUH CASTLEVANIA. They aren't even familiar with the series that they're defending
>>749741258Is that what precision platforming looks like to you?
>>749741181No, you wear the armor where you're immune to spikes to go there. IIRC you could still go for that room if you use the bat form echo sounds
>>749741258Wheres the platforming challenge in that one?
>>749741136>you're a braindead fanatic if you don't want them to ruin your favourite series>I'm not going anywhere until I 100% the game, bucko.Who cares
>>749733670>Got plenty of fan-made trash to playEmbarrassing.
Why did Super Castlevania had 8-way whipping, but not 8-way sub weaponing?
>>749741308Read the entire comment thread, genius.
>>749733845So this turned out to be true. Huh
>>749741380The only one embarrassing here is you shill>fan made trashyep you just proved that you're a shill that hates fans
>>749741258Do you understand the concept of precision platforming, motherfucker? It's not just having some spikes on a ceiling.
>>749741258>10 seconds segment with no platforminghttps://youtu.be/jOPZCjzo8uU?t=153Are you trolling me?
>>749735508SEETHING
>>749741435>he says while shilling OTHER deriviative garbage
>>749741481>>749741473This started with >>749738489 and>>749738961You two are braindead, illiterate, or both. Kind of funny that you want to argue semantics with another anon while demonstrating you can't read at the same time.You 2 are legitimately braindead.
>>749741395nta, but its pretty obvious the original post about spikes was complaining about a precision platforming section.
>>749741630>SPIKES everywhere>posts an example where spikes are in fact not everywhereSo you double down on being wrong and retarded?
>>749741495Those are free unlike your shit marketer kunnot sending their best are you?
>>749741630>This started with a precision platforming sequenceYes?So why did you post something that has nothing to do with it?
>>749741258>>749741481>Shills are so desperate they're using the castlevania 4 example where you use the whip and stay static for 10-15 seconds.I'm glad I checked out this thread and seeing the shit excuses people make for this french kusoge
>>749741780>>749741709I'll reiterate: you two are legitimately braindead.
>>749741814I accept your concession.
>page 10>autosagefinal thought:Fuck the francaises
>>749741864It wasn't an argument. I don't play semantics with retards on /v/. No more (you)'s for you
>''''''FAMOUS SPIKE STAGE'''''>nobody ever talks about it because its a forgivable, short, nothing burger room where you hang for 5 seconds and move on
gonna be fun seeing literally NO more threads on this shit game
>>749741995It just shows up whenever someone talks about CV4, but other than that it's not well-known at all.Shitting on the old games in order to shit on a new game is interesting tech. Igafags are something else.
>>749742034>layoffs at evil empire>reviews at 70%>future content cancelledI WILL get to experience this in a month, god willing.
this is more like a published game they slapped their IP on
WHORE
>>749741995Hey, it was a cool segment. It's also not a platforming segment, but more of a tiny puzzle. Comparing it to tranny celeste platforming rooms is retarded.
Precision platforming is traditionally something rooted in trial and error gameplay.The designer thinks of a lot of cheap shots and the player who doesn't know any better smashes his head against it until he memorizes all the stupid shit the designer came up with believing he accomplished anything of note.(Souls series boss design is also largely like this but that is not relevant right now.)I am not scrolling up but that one Anon tried to make a comparison with Dracula's Curse? That is a game rooted in Arcade-style design which is quite literally the opposite. If you lose you are better just restarting because you lose momentum.(Both the momentum of your gameplay and for Castlevania your powered up sub-weapon which is a huge loss)It's about keeping consistent pace for the 40 or so minute that a full game run takes. Precision platforming games like Celeste or Super Meat Boy are about quick checkpoints and just smashing your head against the wall until you get lucky.
Just reached Catacombs. It's good lads.
Memorization is a skill. Cope.
>>749742474Same. The 4 weapon types I've found are very different. I wonder how different the other weapons in each category are. Seems like one unique active ability each.
>>749723256>Games is too easy>anon complain>get slightly difficult>they also complaini dont get it there a lot to criticize but people here just grasping at straws. You can just download and play the game yourself
>>749742335True, a precision platformer is more something like this
>>749723256funny people complaining about ''precision platforming'' where classicvania is a textbook exemple of that.
>>749742474Agreed--I just hate that parry is your strongest defensive option early on and that enemies blend into the background in several areas. Other than that, it's an ok spin-off
>>749742474same except is mid, it´s like a weird fusion between blasphemous 2 and guacamelee except not as good as either of those. so far the best feeling weapon to use is the spear, the shield and 2 swords are ass.
>>749742674They didn't play them
>>749742262Anon, that's all Retrovania Protags (except John and Richter)
>>749742075He wasn't even really shitting on CV4. It is a pretty unremarkable room that is nothing like the spike room shown in BC
>Defeat Dracula>I AM ROSE BELMONT AND I WILL HUNT THE NIGHT>You may have defeated my body but my curse will live on, thus bringing me back(paraphrasing here).>The cards activate>Voices in my head say I need to do something>Have control again while Drac rises to the sky>He creates a giant fuck off red explosionOk so the leaks where true, need to do something to stop him and his curse.
I bought it and refunded it (is it true steam still takes a cut?). Shit plays more like dead cells than any castlevania.
>Belmont game>Doesn't even have sub weaponsB.R.U.H
maybe if this does poorly enough they'll port of Harmony of Despair to current shits>I was fully intending to buy this but it appears to be p bad
>>749742674>>749742751What? Classicvania is not based on precision platforming challenges. The platforming is actually pretty basic. The real challenge comes from avoiding enemies and their attacks.
>>749742935No, Steam collects the money for a month, then sends it to the devs less the the Steam cut. Refunds come out of that pre-cut money Steam is holding, not from the devs directly
>>749743029There's no sub weapons because Rose is a dom :)
We must be better Belmont's...
