La Mulana laughed, danced, then raped my mind and body to death with obtuse secrets and inverted logic. I've never been so filtered, and I'll never be the same.
redditor first castelvania gamebarely playable shit, mogged by almost every other game in the genre
>>730649990Youre a bong. Im keen to try this after Tunic. Is the second one good?
>>730652923Both the first and second game are great. Second game is just a little more forgiving with less super obtuse puzzles/riddles which isn't exactly a bad thing considering how bullshit some of the more egregious stuff in LM1 is.
>>730652923>>730655036I should add, make sure you're taking notes on everything you come across, either writing them down verbatim or otherwise. I personally used this MUD mapper myself, allowing me to map out the ruins, write notes in every cell, and then color code the cells based on whether I believed I had done everything in that cell, or if I needed to return to that cell later (whether by means of mechanism I couldn't yet activate or a hint for a puzzle I hadn't yet solved).https://github.com/Neop/mudmap2So long as you take good notes and read the manual, you should be able to complete it.
No games come close. Simply peak. Hell temple is where men are made.
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>>730649134The original MSX style game was worse.
>>730652923It's a great game if you like puzzles, don't feel bad if you need to use a guide for some puzzles. There's a video from a guy beating the game without any hints or guides and it took him 260 hours. As expected, the fucking pot was the main culprit. My main complaint about the game is how it has a built-in text saving feature but it's limited space so you need to write everything down anyway.
I never started playing the game seriously because people always say, "write everything down", but I don't see anything worth writing down. What do they mean? Should I write down what the characters say? Should I draw the things I see?
>>730658340>260 hoursSounds about right, it took me 6 months of fucking around on and offThe midgame where you have access to almost everything is insane
>>730661428There are only a couple of characters you can just talk to in the first game, and while they're important for things on occasion they're not the focus. People primarily mean the TABLETS, the things you scan and read with the Hand Scanner. In the first area, pretty much every tablet pertains to something you do in the room you find it. After that, when you read a tablet, read it AGAIN and then try to apply what it says in the room you're in if there might be a puzzle. If you can't solve anything right away, that's when you WRITE IT DOWN because in all likelihood it's important for something in either the near future or far future. There's an app in the game that lets you save this text for future reference but it only lets you hold like 10 or 20 before you have to start deleting things so it's better to write what they say down.As for drawing stuff, you don't have to take the things you just plainly see out and about as seriously as the tablets. There are a few puzzles where they are important so you shouldn't just ignore them, and you can use the Hand Scanner on background objects as well like statues or skeletons or anything and it'll give you some more information, but if it's really important then 9 times out of 10 a tablet will also have a drawing of the thing it's talking about in its dialogue box. You should save those with the app so you don't have to draw them.
>>730661428The ruins are huge, if you keep track of the location of everything you come across it helps a lot.Clue tablets, unsolved puzzles, interesting rooms, NPCs, shops and their contents, etc.You can deal with the 3-4 first areas without notes but once the game opens up you will forget the exact wording of a clue and where it was written
