It's one of the best 3D Castlevanias ever, also the music rocks
>>748864947Oh, I forgot there are only zoomers here.
>>748864947>one of the best 3D Castlevaniasvery low barit's an okay-ish game. runs out of steam and feels too long by the end
>>748864947I don't believe they handled the transition to 3d very well when it comes to level design, the game is filled with a lot of empty and generic rooms/areas where nothing interesting happens, the crafting and pet system were my favorite things about the game but it also left me wanting more, it feels like there could be a whole another game just focused on those two systems
Mismatch between area size and character speed makes the very act of traversal tedious.Very poorly balanced. You get either dumb difficulty spikes or complete boring lulls, nothing in between.Mandatory grinding for 100% map completion.
>>748864947It's not, it's the only 3D sandcastle people seem to like
Abandoned Castle bangs
>>748866727Lament has some diehard fans.
>>748865445Most zoomers likely barely even know this game exists.
Is it hated? I've only ever seen people saying they love it.
>>748867332I don't see them as often as the Curse guys though
>>748867332which is utterly baffling to me, the only thing that Lament has going for it are the ludokino theater performance cutscenes
Farming orbs with the shield is shhttt, game consist in rooms with nothing but enemies which is like every castlevania i know but this works for 2d not 3d.. Robbing boss materials like death is a deadly
>>748867583https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej9WmEVDZ9k
>>748864947I don't think it's hated, just slept on. It mogs Lament of Innocence gameplay wise and grinding familiars is fun. It's the closest we got to a 3D SotN even if the level design leaves something to be desired. The biggest problem is the dull story and lame characters, complete with shitty voice acting and homoerotic overtones. Lament's voice acting was bad in a fun way, Curse's is just two well known voice actors exchanging stock dialogue.
>>748864947its not hatedits just ignored as the massive "meh" it is
>>748867373zoomers don't know anything pre-PS4
Netflix ruined this series
>>748869049>Reverse image search>Fandom wiki>Rose Belmont>Inflicted with a curse that turned her right arm pinkish redFucking LMAOOnce again it's relevant that M2 made CV ReBirth on a $47 budget while IGA was blowing infinite money and goodwill on fucking Judgment.
>>748864947It's ok game but I hate how overhyped it is by casuals who don't like Castlevania. At the time it was a lazy cash grab and easy way out for Konami to make a quick buck. Lament of Innocence released first and everyone hated it cause the music was too "slow and boring"Meanwhile Curse of Darkness >Appealed to casuals for easy sales and to lure casuals who liked button mash DMC games>the music is stock run of the mill butt rock Rock Orchestra music while Lament of Innocence was actual carefully crafted orchestra music that fit each area well>Has gay anime villains and anime story to appeal to casualsIt's the same thing about how casuals overhype MGS3 all because they cried like faggots that Raiden was the MC in MGS2.
>>748864947Cause the levels sucked. Corridor after boring corridor. Everything else was good but not enough to distract from "oh great another gay hallway"
>>748864947The most memorable thing about CoD was the magazine ads where Isaac was all over the place with his dick damn near flopping out. CoD itself wasn't all that great and >best 3D Castlevania isn't a high bar even without the qualifier>one of3D Castlevania is best swept under the table and it's wild to me that people would want to argue about it. Bloodlines vs. RoB vs. SCV4 is a conversation, CoD vs. LoI or whatever is a cry for help.
Doesn't this have an improvement hack?
>>748867583The combat and progression is actually really good.
>>748869006Sad but true
>>748867332>>748867583>>748869287>>748871418Is lament any good?
>>748864947it was mid
When a bunch of stairs, a single switch or somerhing to jump over are absolute standouts in terms of room design then you know that you royally fucked up.
>>748865445nobody here talks about video games maybe try /vr/actually do yourself a favor and go to a different website entirely
>>748864947>>748866141>>748866592>>748867853>>748868046>>748869287>>748869363>>748869970>>748869984Herehttps://youtu.be/suQIkIQm8gg
>>748873589Oh, little zoomie got mad? :)
>>748873547lmao I forgot how bad the level design was
>>748874179I'm a 36 year old zoomer and yeah I'm fucking pissed
>>748864947my only beef is the x axis on the camera is ass backwards with no way to fix it
>>748874375Maybe it's just a good game. Ever think of that?
>>748864947Making your MC an Alucard look-alike is one thing, Juste and Soma are also partially guilty of this, but when I found out they also got a Ryotaro Okiayu sound-alike to voice Hector I found that shit pretty funny.
>>748864947Castlevania 64 was a fun game
>>748864947The OST is genuinely good, and the crafting and the devil forging mechanic is very coolsadly the level design is atrocious, especially later in the game with the castle being mostly empty and repetitiveand steal being so important for farming was dumb as fuck. Overall I still like the game, I have very fond memories of it.
>>748864947The level design is awful, the innocent devil system is braindead because it's effectively a sub-weapon button you can mash at any point because your AI partner takes care of all of the aiming for you, and the combo system is a downgrade from Lament of Innocence.
Lament > 64 > Curse
>>748873084/ourguy/ likes it a fuck ton.
>>748876236based DSP
>>748864947It is mostly by people who defend this faggot.
>>748869287This
>>748873084None of the 3d games are really good. They are "okay" or "interesting". You might like them a lot if you try some but they aren't good.
>>748864947>copy paste hallways and combat rooms over and overThat's why. The combat is marginally better than LoI and the characters are good but otherwise it sucks.
>>748869049Is that a man?
>>748869226Who is M2?
>>748881069It's certainly a miserable pile of secrets.
LoI remake soon, truth.
>>748881151Japanese studio that specializes in extremely competent emulation/ports/remakes of older titles.
>>748881151One of those dev houses that get by porting shit to various systems, without much or any real work to their own name.Alternatively: Maldin' Mike, the half-piked ex-dyke.
>>748871418lolnoit's just straight hallways and the combat is braindead mashing
>>748869049I have special arm fatigue
>>748864947This game is the very epitome of squandered potential. It could have easily been the best Castlevania game, surpassing SOTN, Ecclesia, and Aria.Such a shame.
>>748864947Curse of Darkness has the problem of boring empty hallways for half of the game. It's dreadful to even backtrack because it takes so fucking long and there's no equivalent to the black panther soul where you run fast.>"But anon, the enhanced Curse mod fixes all of that!"Yeah, and the fucking Italian autist put so many gameplay changes and random bullshit that it's completely different experience. If I can only use the speed shoes and nothing else changes that would be great, but that's not the case here.
>>748865605Lords of Shadow is the best 3d game if you delete the sneak missions.
>>748864947As others said it’s more of an issue in its maps.The weapon system and innocent devils were really fun, but you tire out easily in how much you have to walk unrewarded
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>>748882982Not touched the other LoS, but the first one is stiff, has some annoying earlier chapters (lots of tip-toeing bs and slow climbing), and it's too fucking long for the variety of combat it offers.
>>748882536But enough about CoD. LoI is sick asf when using cancels. Maybe you'll learn once you clear CRAZY.
I liked the demo.Having custom difficulty is cool.Too short though.
64 > LoI > LoD > CoD > LoS2 > LoS
>>748864947Is the reason Castlevania not popular because modern audiences don't care about Dracula? The last theatrical Dracula movie was a failure. And if you count it Nosferatu's last movie also didn't do stellar at the box office.
>>748869049Hmmm
>>748886484It's because they haven't released a decent game since the Nintendo DS was current.
>>748882690Viola and Nero's kid
>>748864947It's like Persona 3's Tartarus except as a shitty hack & slash, only nostalgic boomers and die-hard Castlevania fans will find it fun. The movement speed is so slow you're just spamming the flip. And there's tons of backtracking to boot.
>>748864947https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_TzYeIw5a0
>>748886243Boss wasn't even that hard if you knew what to do.
>>748886707the hardest boss in Castlevania is PSP Dracula X Chronicles Death
>>748886745the end boss in the batman game for psp/vita is similar but not as hard
>>748864947The main character of castlevania is the levelsCurse of Darkness castle is terrible, that’s why
Iga can't into level design for some reason.
>>748864947The music does fucking rock. Literally one of the best Castlevania scores and that's as high of a bar as you can have.
>>748886950mirror of fate tried backtracking a lot, emulating sotn without purpose.if you're going to do backtracking besides get X item so you can go to X place you have been before, there needs to to a hint of story and a reason to do it like save X because X, here's a map and item to get there.shrimple, also then you can have a moment along the way, that makes things respawn with monsters being harder, aka nightfall etc.
>>748864947Is it? I fucking love it. Hector is my dude. Love the devil forge, steal and crafting system. 100% it.Stealing from Ifrits is bullshit tho.
I don't think anyone hates CoD, it's just kinda there, it's an odd Symphony of the Night branch of Lament of Innocence that ultimately doesn't fix the issues of its predecessor.Personally I prefer Lament of Innocence because Leon feels better than Hector and the combat is a bit tighter even if it's not as varied or fast paced as Curse of Darkness, but all in all there's not really that big of a difference and it all boils down to whether you prefer Leon's gameplay to Hector's/Trevor's.>>748873084Eh, it's okay, the main draw of LoI is that it's THE origin story and the first game in the timeline.If you want a quick rundown+Interesting story and some nice characters, some kino cutscenes as well+Excellent music+Combat is surprisingly okay for its time and aged relatively well+Fairly short, doesn't overstay its welcome-Level design varies from mediocre to nonexistent-A lot of game mechanics are fairly underused-Some people don't like the final boss-Some PS2 jank in terms of camera-Doesn't really have a lot of replay value because it's basically a 3D classicvania with no grind for weapons and the likes
>>748864947Playing this game after Bloodstained was weird because I could see all the bones of systems and ideas that Iga would later realize in Bloodstained.
How can Dracula be a random french dudewhen did he meet Lisa and have Alucard even
>>748887729He actually from Sweden. Search up Swedish royal family.
>"FUCK YOU AND THE NIGHT"What did Leon mean by this?
>>748888791He meant it in a sexual way
>>748888826How do you fuck the night?
>>748864947The worst thing about CoD is the empty hallways emulating igavania rooms that don't translate because there's no platforming just enemies in a 3D space. But overall I think its brilliant and gets the feel of Castlevania right, love the devil forge system
>>748869226Judgment was awesome thoughpeak chuunikino
>>748889164Man, take me back
>>748864947I cant hate this game.It was the first game i bought for my PS2 back in the day. Something about it just scratches my brain in the right way.
>>748869049If this game was made a few years earlier she woudlve been black
>>748890126Isaac is also the CoD version
>>748882756>EasilyLolmao, not in this generation, everyone is fucking worthless and retarded.
>>748892824Anon, Curse of Darkness released 21 years ago.
>>748888897Its a Belmont thing, you wouldnt get it
>>748868046Lament of Innocence had similarly bog standard voice actors of their time
>>748889164I wish Judgment get a Wii U sequel.
We're definitely getting a 3D collection in the near future.
Can anyone explain why some people act like Bloodstained is the best thing since sliced bread?I remember when that shit came out, people did not like i that much.Is it the new=bad syndrome again?
>>748864947I LOVE THIS GAME SO MUCH BROS
>>748864947Playing this back in the day with no guide and discovering that second tower by accident fucking blew my mind
>>748896749Proooove it
>>748864947I love it but it's a bit repetitive
>>748887416>Eh, it's okay, the main draw of LoI is that it's THE origin story and the first game in the timelineNot much of a draw. The story in Castlevania is worth fuck-all.
>>748864947Hated? Its one of the only 3d castlevanias that get any amount of paise. Why are you retards like this?
>>748900709What do you mean? Belmont kills Dracula. Dracula resurrects. Belmont kills Dracula again. Dracula resurrects. Belmont kills Dracula again. Belmont resurrects Dracula. It's peak writing, you can see a wide variety of main villains like Dracula, Dracula, and my favorite, Dracula.
>>748900990No one is praising it itt tho
>>748864947It's not very good. You could argue it's overheated because of IP association, but on the other hand the only reason the PS2 games are remembered at all is because of IP association. They don't deserve to be remembered any more than Nano Breaker.I could name a dozen general action-adventure games from the late 90s to mid 2000s that are far more interesting than the PS2vanias, and so can anyone else that cares. That's the problem. There's nothing special about them aside from their soundtracks.
>>748901617So if it's not gushed on its "hated"? Are you retarded? 6-7 out of 10 games exist anon.
>>748869287Based Big Dave
>>748902131People praised lords of shadow more than this, and that game sucked balls
>>748902219LoS1 is unironically a much better game than Curse of Darkness.
>>748902219People that praised Lords of Shadow are the same type of retards that praise modern Resident Evil games and even the new Castlevania games. They aren't fucking fans, they are larping retards trying to ruin a franchise
>>748864947I like the game but I'm also not going to pretend the combat is very deep, or the exploration is very good. leveling up and evolving your familiars was pretty sweet though
>>748902297>>748869287This. The OST is so much fucking better cause like you said, it was made specifically for the game. Curse of Darkness sounds like leftover unused music they never used and decided to just drop it for the game. It's all run of the mill shit that sounds pleasing within the first 5 seconds compared to Lament of Innocence's OST that builds uphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sh08ym4GgMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoIoVLOrbxshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAhddruIeowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLyZeX1_DRA
>>748864947>3DThe best turd is still a turd.
>>748902925/thread
>>748903109Dark Souls is the best 3D Castlevania anyway
>>748905273I'm glad that you enjoy turds jeet anon
>>748896185It's a good modern day Aria/Dawn clone in an age of bad SOTN clones. Against all the other "metroidvania" jank, it actually stands out and is worth playing. Not exactly an upgrade over real Castlevania games but more like a sidegrade at the very least. Also Miriam is a qt and has a cool unique design.
>>748905474I'm not a jeet thoughbeit
>>748903074Still better than any modern "castle" "vania"
>>748907629>Castlevania racing game>everyone is just dash canceling instead of using the actual racing mechanics
>>748909080>Castlevania racing game>turn around and drive the whole race backwards for faster movement>halfway through the race start clipping through walls to skip to the next lap
>>748907629>racing game
>>748908350True, not arguing that, but back in the day Curse of Darkness was the "Lords of Shadow" of it's time if that makes any sense.
