How come people all across the internet are getting irrationally mad if you say you don't think this game is good? Someone on X wished death on me because I said it was CINO (Castlevania in Name Only)
>>749744134The 4chanification of social media. People are bolder and angrier.
is the internet in the room with us right now?
There's no excuse for the music to be this fucking awful. It's like they only watched the TV show and went "yeah, that's where the bar is".Fuck!
>>749744345Yes
>>749744134Any game that lets me watch the French burn is good in my book.
>>749744134netflix shills
>>749744134The Castlevania subreddit is doing what every gaming subreddit does where 99% of the threads are praising it or getting mad at criticism and calling the community which overwhelming praises the game as toxic. They love chasing their windmills
>>749744631game is actually good thoughnice difficulty.
>duur so the leaks were real after all huh???yeah, no shit, the data obtained from the official demo was real, you fucking retards.
>>749744834music is better in the official release.
>>749744815it's mid at best, a hate letter to the fans if I ever saw one
>>749744815It's an ok metroidvania game its a shit Castlevania game
For some reason I thought this didn't come out until later today. Looks like all the 'pre-order' cosmetics are gone. Fuck that shit - I was thinking maybe buying a key now from GMG or Fanatical would have the pre-order stuff but not going to bother risking it especially if the game is just 'meh'. I can wait.
>western indie gamers get control of a popular IP they claim to adore>"the main character must be a girlboss dyke also shit on everything in the lore, characters, make the bad guys good and the good guys bad and shit on the Belmont name"why is everything like this? Why does modern Star Trek need to make the federation bad? Why does a Green Lantern show have to be about black oppression and how evil the Lanterns are?
>>749744134Because for some reason theres a huge correlation between being a magatard and hating this game
>>749745161Genuinely insane leap of logic. You'd make a killing on xitter monetization with that kind of attitude.
we must be better Belmonts...
>>749745154Why do you people keep making shit up?Rose is nothing like that.
>>749745295He's not wrong.
>>749745406She is like that
>>749745154Subversion is the hammer in the modern writer's tool bag, and they think every story is a nail.
>>749745154I wonder in closed door meetings for games like this if they explicitly say "ok when we design the character he cannot be a white male just so you know" that discussion has to happen
>>749744834There were some people heavily in denial in the previous threads.
>>749744134This does not look like a castlevania game.
Music is SO ASS, it's some fucking synth bullshit that doesn't fit at all
>Dead Cells Castlevania DLC had shit music and everyone agreed>this is exactly the same>NO, YOU CAN'T CRITICIZE IT CONTRARIAN
>>749745660but ass is good
>>749744134you have a point. people should wish you death for using X
>>749745154None of that shit happens.
>>749744134>Netflix artstyle>shit music>woke>shitty level design>soul estus generic healing>camera is too far away>girlboss protagonist that doesn't shut up>too much dialogue
>>749745475NTA but I'm curious. Give me some specific quotes from her
>>749745782all of it did
>>749745816NTA I didn't take any screenshots but she talks down almost every character she meets
>>749745816He won't because he has to actually invent scenarios in his head.That's why he's choosing to be vague and not post screenshots.
>>749745605Hmm. Spikes and pendulums in a Castlevania game? This is actually... really accurate to Castlevania lore?Maybe you should try playing one Chud.
>>749745605Metroidvanias have evolved thanks to Hollow Knight and Silksong. Move on.
>>749745681Somehow Dead Cells Castlevania music is better than this game
>>749745937Because nearly all the characters she meets are part of Dracula's army.
>>749745043You can always pirate it.
I already hate those green coffin rooms.
>>749745972I don't recall spike traps that you have to swing over in prior games. This is a prince of persia game with a castlevania skin.
>>749746069NTA but good so you admit she acts like a girlboss and are moving the goalposts
Do the creators know when she says "you are locked in here with me" she is quoting a far right chud comic book character?
>>749746130Holy larp.
>>749746231Why does she have to respect Dracula's bitches?She's a Belmont and her daddy raised her better.
If you want Castlevania just play Bloodstained, which is also good. I'm a whore for this genre so idgaf is BC doesn't play like Iga's games.
I have no idea how the French managed to code it to crash when encountering specific monitor. How is that even possible?
>>749746347NTA but the argument went from "she isn't a girlboss" to "she is so what" so I accept your concession
was this game vibe coded because it looks and sounds like it? Did the French go up to Claude and say "Computer make me a modern woke Castlevania game with terrible music and art"
>>749746046I would guess it's a different composer from the Dead Cells stuff since the Belmont curse guy is an Iranian guy who did the Rogue Prince of Persia OST
Rose is cursed to be a bitchy nigger anons. Even the leak said it a week ago. If you are mad she is being a girlboss, understand it's because she is being niggerfied by Dracula. If you are defending her attitude you are retarded because it's literally the point that she is acting niggerish
>>749746479I'll ask you again why does she have to be polite with Dracula's servants?
I predicted these guys would make the next Castlevania game after the Dead Cells DLC and thought they would be perfect for it but I was wrong. You can feel the hubris and arrogance coming from the devs when you play this slop like "we aren't going to make Castlevania we are going to make OUR game aka every other indie 2d game on the market". This isn't a love or hate letter but a suicide letter for the IP
>>749746657NTA but I accepted your concession so we are good
>regular rooms become Hollow Knight precision platforming across spikes while using your two pull up powersI fucking hate what happened to Metroidvania level design
So how do the bosses work without contact damage
>Set trap damage to 0>Respawn in front of boss doors: enabledYep, it's gaming time
>the Belmonts?Now canonically French >Dracula French >Castle "it's a creature of chaos" vaniaActually a mad French architect >The originator of the plan to kill Dracula?French>The DevsFrench
>>749746046the composer was more competent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFSM2bwPtsQ&list=PLombWqRALIZChc_n1cm1yt6mBS-J7OLi8&index=12https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX4sz6CUTZ4&list=PLombWqRALIZChc_n1cm1yt6mBS-J7OLi8&index=6for BC they got some other guy I think
>>749744134You might be leaving out all the other obnoxious faggot shit you said or did before hand
>>749746934Weren't the Belmont/Belmondo always French?
>>749745937kuudere/ojou-sama =/= girlboss, tourist
How are you supposed to dodge the Medusa attack where she lasers the entire screen? I can't tell if there is a trick to it or an item I am missing
>>749746740They will fix their reputation if they hand write a 1000 word apology to IGA and make him a director for castlevania again
please tell me the game adds a fast travel system later on? Please? Walking 5 minutes to the other side of the map to see if you missed something is not fun
>>749747039NTA but see previous post
>>749747039She is literally being cursed to turn into a bitch and that's her bitchiness surfacing. That's the entire main plot point.
>>749746838you also have parry, the game is piss easy. Some boss you can straight up just mashing your face against it
>>749745605It's NOT your grandpa's Demon Castle Dracula. It's THE first LE CASTLEVANIA. Hon, hon, hon.
>>749746934>The name Belmont is a locational surname of French origin, derived from the Old French elements "bel," meaning beautiful, and "mont," meaning mountain or hill
>nearly all the Japanese comments are shitting on the game which is funny>But they all shit on the wrong thing, calling the game "not Castlevania" but a "bullet hell"The game isn't anything like a bullet hell. I don't even know what they are on about
I've played plenty of worst games and I'm curious about the other arcanas. I'm going to finish this. I just played Bloodstained and Bloodstained 2 is next year, so I'm not hung up on it not being a clone of those games. Damned if you do, damned if you don't though.
>>749747342Bummer thanks for the answer
When I grew up in Long Island I lived near a racetrack called the Belmont Racetrack. I dressed up as Simon and took a picture in front of it.
yep, it flopped like it deserves
>>749747518Are you sure you are not reading the Vampire Survivors Castlevania DLC reviews?
>>749747636>17k playersI dont think so chud
she cute>>749747047look down at the level and what drops from above
BLASPHEMOUS 2 IS A BETTER CASTLEVANIA
>>749744134UNOPTIMIZED PIECE OF FUCKING SHIT!!!!The game itself isn't bad, pretty cool honestly especially when you get to the joan of arc fight. BUT FUCK OPTIMIZE THIS PIECE OF SHIT YOU RETARDED INDIE DEVS LIKE HOLY MOTHER FUCK FUCK
>>749746905DSP please
how have you NEETs already beaten the game?
>>749747680Nope. I was happy to see the Japanese shitting on Belmont Curse. Only to end up leaving in confusion. There is a lot to shit on it to with how westernised everything is and how it's a complete departure from old Castlevania
Whenever a cutscene happens, the game runs at like 20 fps or some shit even though I set it at 120fps. Happen to anyone else?
>>749747715The fucking choppiness is really blowing me
>>749747758Time to leave the thread before some neetnigger spoils the game.. DEATH TO NEETS
>>749747795I already read the leaks a week ago
https://youtu.be/l69l4AymPkQhttps://youtu.be/tHT_UvgjQFsI will let you guess which one is the rip off game
>>749746029>Metroidvanias have evolved thanks to Hollow Knight and Silksong>just place spikes on walls and a path to a shortcut at the end of the sectionFuck you
French people made the worst Castlevania in years.Spanish people made the best Metroid in years.Spain won.
>>749745406nta but from what i´ve seen so far(just entered the castle and had to listen to the fucking soundcloud bloody tears remix) 90% of her dialogue is just telling leon to shut up and that she knows what she´s doing, even after trevor´s death and finding out who leon is
>>749744134jeet shills are like that
>>749747764Which ones did it depart from? The linear platformers? The ones with branching paths? The Metroid transplants? The god of war clones? The fighting game? Or the action-rpg 3d games?
>>749747875grim
>mixed reviews>Filter by English>Mostly positiveOk which thirdy language did they mistranslate and got their whole serfdom to try and review bomb
>>749747927Spain got tard wrangled by Chadtendo, those same Spainiggers raped Castlevania too before they got to Metroid btw
>>749747936You are heading to the bad end bro. She is supposed to break her girlboss curse. The more girlboss she is, the closer to the bad ending
>>749747936Do you have any screenshots of her doing this? All I've seen is Leon ask a question about her and then she gives a straightforward expository answer.
>>749747758I don't know how people can beat the game that fast. The castle is huge, I'm 10 hours in and I've barely explored some of it
>MWAAAAAAHHHHHH THE FRENCH
>>749746905>Respawn in front of boss doors.Yep. It's the only 'cheat' I'll use in the collections. Walk backs are annoying.
love the lightning in herei like the game so far, not mega love it or hate it but i think it's good definitely aimed towards the netflix audience. Game is way way harder than stuff like SotN or AoS, it's why it has those sliders. The runbacks are long and you're actually relieved when you see a save point
>>749748098>definitely aimed towards the netflix audienceaaaaaand dropped
How come a 30 years old game has a better hit stop than this one? This is embarrassing, it doesn't feel like i'm even hitting these enemies.
>>749744134>>749745660>key art is japanese kino artist>ingame is flat western art
https://x.com/PrinceVampi/status/2110687865856266422This shit is unironically reason enough to shit on this game. I was willing to tolerate everything else because Castlevania but this shit is fucking unbelievable.They got access to the music library of CASTLEFUCKINGVANIA and they come up with this bullshit?
It's not very good and was looking forward to it,its basically super meat boy
Fan made romhack castlevanias are better than this hollow knight dark souls wannabe trash
>>749748098Tranny colors
I usually like Dark Souls games but I hate saving respawn everything in this just have everything respawn
>>749744134because consumer retards attach the success of slop with their ip on it to their own well being and part of their personalitythey are functionally broken people, barely even peoplethe music in this game is the most atrocious dogshit i have heard in any castlevania game in 40 years, it is embarrassing
>>749748162because westoid indies are retards and have no clue about good game design, why do you think they took out contact damage from a 2D action platformer?
>>749748136i'm saying that because it tells you things like this and has like 3 alucard portraits in the castle one after another that were made for netflix fans to go OH MY GOOOOOOOD ITS HIM MY HUSBAND
>>749747927The worst castlevania except for the ones made by spaniards Swing and a miss Juan
>>749744134Westoid garbage for normalfags niggers that only watched the shitty netflix woke fake anime.Castlevania is dead and we will never have kino againhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmd7w4GDobc&list=PLF50C615F36F7A5C2&index=30
>>749745406Having a femoid as your main character in 2026 is WOKE. Every main character should be a JACKED WHITE MAN with his COCK OUT.
>>749744134Everyone with a working brain could tell this was dogshit without playing it.Then we played the demo.It was dogshit.
I'd rather wait for Bloodstained 2
>>749748268fingers crossed for that 3d games + sotn collection
>>749748245Not touching Nigflix trash, faggot.
>>749748176>https://x.com/PrinceVampi/status/2110687865856266422Is the composer a tranny? I would be shocked if they weren't
>>749746934Haven't the Belmonts been officially french since Leon and Mathias took part in the first crusade?
>>749748176This is what people mistaking castlevania as some epic gothic adventure, the game is a fucking action shitpost where you are whipping all sort of mythical creature and horror movie icon
>>749748245Isn't that a portrait of Mathias?
>>749748176>twitter linkkys. Not giving you engagement.
>>749748238I hope this is the first game to ever patch its music
I enjoy OoE randomizers more than this french trash
>>749748365You think /pol/fags are educated?
Why didn't they just use the og composers??? They are still alive
>>749746124Based Miriam
>>749748365Yes? That post didn't deny it?
>>749748048no, but there are full game platytroughs on youtube already if you want to see all the "Focus, R" moments
How come when you duck at savepoints the screen shakes for a second?
>>749748395Fucking kek it is
>>749746269Man I need to marathon the series and rewatch AVGN’s Castlevania videos.
>>749748395i thought so too but they talked on how that man helped her mother and fatheractually checked the replay so they aren't specifically talking about the portrait
>>749748475So you're talking out of your ass; got it. I'm not watching someone else play a game.
I call this one indie metroidvania special
>>749746269God this section was dogshit stain on an otherwise alright game
>>749746479There’s nothing inherently girlboss about being bad to bad people. That’s what good people do.
i see reddit is leaking into here
>>749748556I mean this is fine if it's like one of those colosseum challenge rooms.
>>749748556I feel like the spikes and saws teleporting you back is lazy game design like if they just hurt you, you would get stuck where you are so rather than deal with that it sends you back
>>749748579She's a bitch to Leon too, even when he's nice to her.
>>749748547Reading comprehension would tell you she's not talking about the man in the portrait.
>>749747701Would you marry into the Belmont Family?
>>749746269This is literally a puzzle where you don't even need to move actively, just swing around on a single access point, a complete antithesis of modern spikeslop
>>749748713I'd go for the extended family.
>>749748348Nah it's an Iranian-American dude
I hate this game. Death to Israel
>>749748274Shut up you miserable pile of secrets!
>>749748274This but replace white with black because white timmies are dysgenic
>>749748547Damn she’s stunning! I’m stoned!
If Konami did not give a flying fuck what they did with the lore why don't you fucking make that final Julius game then cowards?
Why couldn't this game look and sound like SOTN? It doesn't have to play with it but why does Castlevania always have to look indie now?
>>749749039But they did hint at Julius with BC. Rose is the one who came up with the way to permanently kill Dracula
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcjkpCaUbn4Yup im thinking Bloodstained wooned
I looked it up and realized these devs didn't even make dead cells they just did content updates once the original studio moved on. If your wondering why is don't know this it's because I've never played dead cells. Kinda crazy how "they are the dead cell devs bro" thing is a half lie.
>>749744134>Someone on X wished death on meWoah that's crazy bro, that never happens
>every boss you defeated become quirk chungus talking cardremember when you kill enemy and they are fucking dead?
>>749749125>It takes a woman to defeat the ultimate evilCHUDS ON SUICIDE WATCH
>>749749250Perhaps Ender Lilies influence, where each boss joins you and grants you their ability.
Can we really blame Rose for the events of this game? I mean, if the people of Paris didn't leave spikes and buzzsaws everywhere, the bad guys wouldn't have moved in.
>>749749125Lol and a woman actually got retconned into creating the T Virus in resist evil what are they doing
It's good but it's not up to the standard of Igarashi lead titles or SOTN. Also is worse than dead cells
>>749749159It's a whole mini drama but unrelated to this game >Dead Cell devs made Dead Cell>The DLC guy made DLC>The DLC guy are too brazen >Dead Cell devs distance themselves >People accused the Devs of fearing a superior studio making better content in their own games >The team forcefully "parted" amicably >The problem team move on to Castlevania
I don't remember the enemies in previous metroidvanias being this aggressive.
>>749749125>Rose is the one who came up with the way to permanently kill Draculano, she just says that one day they will find a way to defeat Dracula for goodevery Belmont wants that
>>749749326Aria of Sorrow in fact already did this, and no, creaking skull does not talk to you
>>749749386so what are the original Dead Cells devs working on?
>>749749326That's Mega Man.
>>749749392It's a big they said they are going to fix. Some enemies have 360 tracking of the player and ignore any logical movements animation
>>749749326You really think these niggers ever played Ender Lilies?
>>749749416She is the one who came up with "The Belmonts will show humanity the dawn" because obviously Trevor didn't have the virtues
>>749747875Oh how wonderful. I love "passing the torch" games
>>749749151I can't believe this homoaction look more promising
>>749744134I hate almost all mainstream games, so who cares what people think? That said I'm gonna play cvbc tonight and decide for myself if it's good or not.
No one can resist Alucard..
>>749749423>and no, creaking skull does not talk to youShit game ngl
>>749746795>>749746479>>749746231>>749745937>>749745816I just wanted to let you know that I appreciated your dedication to spamming NTA. It made me chuckle. Thank you.
>>749749250larper
>>749749553Ender Lilies is decent but Ender Magnolia is among the best metroidvanias ever created
>>749749878Nothing word
>>749750046you're not nothing
>>749749769Alucard looks like a hobo here.
>Silver Pines was decent>playing Valor Mortis now and it actually has some metroidvania elementsNah i'm good. No reason to play this shit.
why are people so invested in other people liking this gamei tried the demo, thought it sucked, and didn't buy iti came to the thread to see what people though and it's people saying they do or don't like it with autists desperately trying to "debunk" the reasons people say they dislike itlmao
>>749750301Same on reddit every top thread is "HOW DARE PEOPLE NOT LIKE THIS GAME STOP BEING TOXIC"
>>749750246Why is the Valour Mortis protagonist English?Is that ever explained?
>>749744134Game needs; enemy densentiy, better traversal mechanics, better combat, remixed soundtrack. Later stages are fine. But i felt they gave too much leeway for the player. And the traversal is lame so no stylish ou faster ways to traverse the stages. Operation Galuga and every M2 take on castlevania formula felt better than that. Also was the game has none of dead cells itemization or randomness.
>>749750407I'm up to the salt mines and no, he's amnesiac too.
look I respect that the game doesn't hold your hand and tell you where to go but at the same time it is a pain in the ass spending 5 minutes getting to the other side of the map to see if I missed something
They fucked up my boy Leon so fuck them
>>749747110There is one but their placement has been total shit so far. A mid to late game upgrade that lets you travel to save rooms would be more than fucking welcome, that's for sure. Also, tip for any anons who found the treasure chest beneath the fountain in the Cemetery and have no idea how to unlock it: there's four specific enemy challenge rooms you have to clear, one of which is locked behind a traversal upgrade. If you look to the right of the fountain on the map, you'll see an area called Pillaged Tomb that has the indicator for which ability you'll need and you'll find one of the challenge rooms down around that area. The others are found in Ossuary of the Innocents, Mass Grave, and Ancient Sewers.
>>749750301>>749750374why do you retards want to be oppressed so badly? the majority hates it, are you even reading these posts?
I won't stand for this disrespect of my boy, Leon
>>749751059>oppressedkys tranny the top thread are ballwashing the game
>>749751059thank you for proving my point señor nigger, feel free to kill yourself any time my man
>>749745154>Why do leftists want to subvert tradition and side with your enemies?That’s how they operate in reality, of course they will reflect their actions in fiction too
is this game running like shit for everyone else or just me? i had to limit the FPS to get past the black screen glitch, so i assume theres a whole bunch of other issues too. like why does the game drop frames just to use use the elevators?
why do they refuse to make a good female MC againalso, dead cells is generic 2d slop.
>>749751115I will say one thing, in the interest of total fairness, Rose does defend Leon. The bigger question is why is St Louis portrayed as such a massive asshole?
One thing that bothered me in the demo was the lack of ability to label stuff on the map automatically. Most decent metroidvanias give you a way to see where there is something in an area you'll need to come back to - incomplete mapping, a door with a given color, an icon saying there' ssomething in the room etc.. but this doesn't really happen the same way in this one. It has some of those elements but then instead gives you a fuckload of little random icons you can drop on the map (many of which are too big to apply to just a particular area) and leave most things un labeled unless you do it manually with those stupid things . That's just more obnoxious fucktardy work.
>>749747701Why does she have Clutch Cargo mouth?
>>749751526*also, either do proper sprites like SOTN or dont make a castlevania game.
>>749744134I had tons of people in this board calling me a retard for expressing doubt that it'd be good after reveal. I honestly believe paid marketers and/or bots are on every social media platform/forum for this purpose. They try to create the illusion that there's goodwill for a product. A lie repeated consistently enough will gradually be accepted as a truth among certain portions of the population.
Is there any keyseller buying the Midnight Edition now that gives you the pre-order cosmetic coat thing? I'm always annoyed at the lack of content even if II don't use cosmetic overlays that usually don't vary the same way the default outfit does.
>>749749151>looks like castlevania albeit one of those with more magic>big titty succubus>good musicHuh, I haven't gotten around to playing the first bloodstained tho I backed it.Guess i'm buying this one too.
I refunded it. Back to play portrait of ruin.
>>749744134what's the /v/erdict?Is it better than our boi Nine Sols?
>>749751772I also felt the same way
>>749751871Lol
>>749744134>How come people all across the internet are getting irrationally mad if you say you don't think this game is good?That's funny, because literally the exact opposite is happening on /v/. The game is good, and if you say so, you get tons of (you)'s from absolutely SEETHING /v/tards with the dumbest fucking complaints you've ever seen in your life. Some dude in the last thread said the game was absolute shit because the camera was zoomed out too far, lmfao holy shit get a grip you stupid faggot wtf
I'm not having any fun. The visual style is way too busy and the music is just awful. Just beat Medusa but I might drop this game if it doesn't get better soon.
>>749751871Anything is better than parryslop
>>749751935Belmonts Curse is parryslop though
>>749751871HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>749751871>Is it better than our boi Nine Sols?The only thing comparable about these two games is the manner of traversal.
>>749751871>Is it better than the goat metroidvaniaNo, it's a decent 7 so far
Why do all metroidvanias from PoR onwards including the Bloodstained games have female MCs?
>>749752110It’s hot when they die
>>749751929>n...n....no u>I AM THE VICTIM NOT YOUfuck off
A real review from someone who actually plays video games and hates all of you equally and thinks most modern posters on this board are drones who don't play video games. I haven't made a single negative post about BC before this:This is a game that tried too hard to stand out among Castlevania games. A lot of clear work went into making snappy fluid animations for enemies and Rose, so the game looks great in motion from that side of the presentation and the solid contrast coloring absolute stands out in the backgrounds--is it polarizing? Absolutely. Is it "bad?" Absolutely not. There are artistic choices though that completely take away from these animations and fantastic backgroundsThe game wants to make a darker 2d entry into the series, but it comes off ass cartoonishly tryhard in the process--the music is absolutely forgettable, everything bad is red, everyone is an emotional wet sock when they talk, etc. People keep saying was netflix inspired, but I think this was actually the result of a failed art director and game director duo wanting to be seen as savants within the medium. This is even more evident in the decision to make most visual elements match thematically. I can't tell you how many times I got hit by shit I couldn't see because everything blends in together. It's self indulgent, amateur and completely destroys the high points in the environment and animation.1/?
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>>749752172I really wonder what kind of life you need to have to reach this level of mental illness. This entire thread is shitting on BC and you think you're the minority. How do you even function IRL
I'm only 3 hours in but I'm really enjoying it. I'm glad I'm not the only one with the chopiness though, a shame it runs so bad, that really is my only complaint so far.I like all the platforming and map transversal. Fights so far are a bit too easy
>>749752239I keep mistaking this for the Cars leg guitar
>>749752228Speaking of amateur, the design is almost anger-inducing if you've played several CV games already. This is because the game feels like several other games you already played. It tricks you early on with a whole menu of unlocks, but in action, you're getting drip-fed mechanics that turn it into every other parry/dodge defensive metroidvania that has come out since 2018 or so. Weapons functionally don't feel different from one another and most encounters play out the same. Castlevania was never a mechanically deep series, but Bloodstained feels much better to actually play because CV has never been a defensive gameplay series. Then there's the precision platforming. I loved that bloodstain took such care in making a LOGICAL evironment because apparently France went fucking nuts with spikes and saw wheels in 1499. They can be challenging, sure, but why is this such a focus for designing a Castlevania game vs making a large environment to explore? The developer priorities were way out of place.Even compared to games that it is closer to in execution like The Last Faith, combat can feel lacking because of the godawful way everything zooms out when there are more than two enemies on the screen. I complimented the animation earlier, but good luck fucking seeing it when the game vomits red and yellow at you. The combat seems to have only been really refined for boss encounters and enemies are extremely forgettable as a result making exploration a pain in the ass rather than an enjoyable experience begging for the player to take their time. Exploring feels like a chore in this because every room is a challenge section. I love challenge, but space it the fuck out2/3
>game releases>it's ok'ish>/vpol/ kvetches about woke Yeah, I wonder why 4chan is dying.
That scalie game on Steam is more Castlevania than actual Castlevania.
>>749752278go back to redit you pathetic pretend victim
>>749752425I won't argue over subjective stuff like character portraits or music, but they really need to apologize to Yamane or whatever, because I can't remember a single track and I've been playing all morning. Is it a bad game? No--it's competent for what it is, but the devs attaching Castlevania to this game that has more identity with something from the humble bundle roster is pure self-wank.Wait for a sale. That's it.
thanks the french
>>749752485But you are the one who's playing victim.
>>749752458Kys furry
>>749752458Fuck off with your furry shit.
>>749752425CV has a lot of movement and combat tech.
>>749752172...do you think you're a victim because you don't like a game that others do?
>>749752536>STOP OPPRESSING ME OPPRESSORkill yourself
>>749752458The fact that this is true shows how low bar has become
>>749752605Nope
>>749752590Yes, but not so much defensively which is my problem with BC.
>>749744134>why are paid shills shilling?a mystery
>>749748176actual dogshit that people keep defending, it's embarrassing. kys for posting an x link btw
>>749752172SEEEETHING lmfaooooo, Belmont's Curse got 'e BOILIN'
>>749744134You know, there is 3 whole centuries between Lament and Dracula's Curse, so why don't they make a game taking place there?
>>749753049>"help me.........I SAID HELP ME PEOPLE ARE BEING CRITICAL OF A VIDEO GAME ON THE INTERNET"
>>749752489thanks for the review lad
>>749752458i am going to buy this not because i believe it will be good but because i want to fuck a dragon
>>749751615Doesn't matter who defends what, the fact that a man whose only conviction is to defeat the night suddenly goes 'Oh Mathias-kun I am so old tasukete' is stupid and shameful
>>749748384How does that excuse the music?
Played 7 hours today, I don't know man I really like the game but the OST is the weakest part easily. I love how it doesn't hold your hand at all and save points aren't spammed. At least your exploration is saved when you die
its pretty fun so far, but not a fan of some of the enemy gauntlets i've run into. feels a bit hard to keep an eye out for multiple things in this game for me, dunno why, i usually dont have that problem. also fuck the archers and their sniper aim
>droning synth and trap beats in a Castlevania gameThe frenchies heard this music and thought HONHONHON ZIS IS PERFECT FOR OUR CASTLEVANIA GAME.
Can you beat Death in the first fight? If so is there a special cutscene when you do?
>>749750083but you are lol gottem
>>749753618OUI OUI WE ARE ZE GRENCH WE TOOK A GIANT OUIOUI ON THE GAME
>>749752458Still not playing it.
>>749749474I don't remember Mega Man's special weapons talking to him.
>>749753618They dont even go all out with the trap beats. Its ''lo-fi reverb'' garbage. Castlevania used to have ''neo-classical funk r&b''. Just some most foward thinking music.
>>749753618Seriously who made the Library OST........what the actual fuck happened there. This shit is JSR music
>try playing it>it suckswelp, good thing there are about a thousand other better metroidvania games out there
>>749753651I wonder what happens if you have prevent death in that fight
>>749752438It's an excellent game, people are mad for no reason. Personally, I can't wait for the next game. I hope it's made by a non Jap studio, they obviously made a way better game than Konami ever could. And they should unironically include more work to piss off the chuds, heh.
>>749753797Castlevania always had mish-mash of genres.
>>749753873>workwoke*
>>749750301paid shills do be like dat, in a few months they'll fuck and this shit will be forgotten like Lords of Shadows was
>>749753886The Library OST went way too far in one part. I really liked the Cemetery one though
>>749753651>>749753856I figured that no one on this board had played the game let alone had the skill to do so, I looked it up, and it turns out nothing happens, you just auto lose. No special dialog, no nothing. Pretty lame.
It's actually a pretty good game, but it's just not Castlevania.
>>749753763Ender Lillies ghosts don't talk to him outside of thr knight from the beginning.
>>749753183Trevor is the first person to kill Dracula.
>>749754228Did you even play the game to see how far back the last save point is and the fact that you need to alt f4 each try while barely dealing damage to him? Who the fuck is doing that day 1, people want to actually play the game
>>749744134>How come people all across the internet are getting irrationally mad if you say you don't think this game is good?Are they? i haven't heard a peep. Never forget the meds, bros.
>>749752458mogs Belmont's Curse that's for sure
>>749752458Between this cringe kino, and Bloodstained 2 coming soon the Igavania bros are eatin good
>>749752458IS THAT A HECKIN' JOJO REFERENCE?!! I'M BUYING TEN COPIES RN
>>749752458I wanted to try this but is there any way to get back Rita's original design or is she stuck as a scaly? same reason I avoided Hedon
>>749747987It completely deviates from the stablished pachinko formula the franchise is known for
>>749754364This guy didhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/DfX6v6__K2Q
>>749746740I mean its not like Dead Cells was even remotely a Castlevania adjacent game. Its on Konami for thinking they were fit for it.
Just beat Talos I'm having a blast so far, the ost if my biggest issue, it's so unremarkable.>>749754083The library track felt like a shitpost desu.
>>749754346So what? The Belmont were still infamous in his time for being Vampire Hunters weirdos.
>>749754948Game also fail as a ''Dead Cells clone''
>>749744134Don't like the game because conceptually its another "But actually after Dracula's Curse it turns out that the curse was not lifted" bullshit story. Same reason I hate Curse of Darkness so much. But the worst offending feature is that Leon Belmont is a loser who got possessed by Dracula's minions similar to Richter. I hate Symphony of the Night for doing that to Richter and I hate this game for doing it to Leon Belmont.Look I don't mind a hero who fails like Christopher Belmont's son, but that's the thing the concept of Castlevania Adventure is made with the idea that Christopher Belmont's son was a born failure. Its not grabbing a successful hero and retconning them into being failures. This is why Symphony and Belmont's Curse are trash and I don't care if its blasphemy to say it, Symphony is trash and it gave us one of the most obnoxious Gary Stus ever Alucard and because Iga is a bisexual cowboy faggot he then invented Soma who is short haired Alucard. I can't stand that son of a bitch I hope he dies soon.
>>749748365I think they were always just ambiguously European
>>749755043Dracula is more central to the series than the Belmonts are.
>>749747701BRO, THIS WAS ALMOST A DECENT FACE BUT WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT MOUTH
What kind of game modes are there? Do you unlock NG+, hard mode, boss rush, etc?
>>749755116Creaking Skull is cool
>>749754817Has Leon been alive this whole time? Where has he been the last 400ish years?
>>749750796Discovered another kind of fast travel as well. If you kneel down in front of a save point for a bit, you'll go to a Hall of Mirrors that lets you travel to any other save point within that zone. It looks like you might be able to get to other zones from it, but I'm gonna guess that's something that'll occur later on.
Forget 1999, where's my Juese Belmont game?
>open up steam>check negative reviews>all the top ones are in japanese>weird nips don't often leave negative reviews outside of chans and I rarely see japanese reviews either way I wonder what they're saying>"it's not a castlevania game", "i wanted castlevania not rogue prince of persia", "sad it's another dark souls-like">"It's completely different from Castlevania. If it weren't for Castlevania, who would accept your gameplay?">"FXXK KONAMI Also, art and music are very important. Castlevania not only has Koji Igarashi, but also Fumimi Kojima and Michiru Yamane. As for this work, I forgive you for not being able to appreciate it.">"It's neither an action city nor an RPG city—the controls feel sticky and not satisfying at. They can't even sell their nostalgia"lol they're pretty savage. all true though
>>749755485Forget Juese Belmont, where is my Castlevania game set in the future in a Cyberpunk setting?
>>749755543castlevania was always a western series why do those retards care now 20 years later?
>>749755012Yeah I sat there for 2 mins listening to it trying to like it but everytime it looped back to the intro I couldn't justify it. Complete miss
>>749744134games visuals look really unappealing to me and i bet its full of wokeshit once againmodern games never write likeable female characters or cool white male heroes anymore.
>>749754465NTA, but on r/Castlevania and r/Metroidvania they’re tearing anyone who criticizes the game to shreds.
>>749755543based japs
>>749755795why the fuck would i ever go to either of those places?
>>749755639holy larper alert
>>749755543Utterly based. They will be rewarded with Bloodstained 2.
>>749755389Dracula put him in the Paris sewers.
>>749749979NTA but I do think Magnolia is better than Lilies but I do think it took things a bit too far in adding QOL to the point that it made the game a bit too frictionless. Especially in exploration. It was basically impossible to not 100% the game cause of how insanely easy they made finding everything. They took the unintuitive map complaint from Lilies a bit too much to heart.
>>749755485Can't fiiiiiiiiiiiight dracuuuulawith aaaaaaaaa spatuuuula
>>749755707It's honestly neutral. Not a single mention of her gender so far and Joan didn't mention gender either. Everyone is also white as expected in 1499 France. Stop attaching culture war bullshit to everything. There's plenty more wrong with the game without being a drone with /pol/ brainmelt.
>>749755575Fighting Dracula in SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE.>The final boss battle final form is Dracula transforming the whole castle into a gigantic space battleship >but you get assisted by the Gradius ships and ride the Vic Viper equipped with a vampire killer option and shoot down the fucking castle.
>>749755819I’m not suggesting you should, I’m merely stating those are two prominent Castlevania communities where toxic positivity reigns.
>>749755116>"But actually after Dracula's Curse it turns out that the curse was not lifted" bullshit storyOther than this and reboots, what else is there for them to do? Dracula revives every century, and gets killed around 2000. That puts a hard limit in how many canon games you can have unless you get creative. Your alternatives after exhausting all that valid centuries are:>Actually it turns out Dracula revived multiple times in between the main fights that happen every 100 yearsThis makes the whole setting a joke where Belmonts are just ineffective and the world was apparently permanently under attack by Dracula for centuries without stop>RetellingsWe already have a bunch of retellings of the first game, this game would be even more hated by fans who would perceive it as new devs trying to replace a beloved game or some bullshit like that>Full rebootThey already tried, Lords of Shadow didn't work.There's no winning.
>>749748556Then there will be timed jump puzzles.
>>749756065Would play that in an instant
>>749756128I thought I recognized Sagat from the demo but didn't think more of it but the others are blowing my mind now
>>749744134What's the deal with medusa. I no cultural warrior but i disliked the ''youtube friendly'' bra. They arent doing that because woke. If they are truly woke the medusa would be a ally. No, its just corporate self-censorship. Tone down the rating
>>749756105>>749755116Actually, there's another option I just thought of>New villainsIf they're related to Dracula, it just makes the protagonists feel weaker than the main Belmonts as they couldn't deal with the actual main villain. If they're not related to Dracula, it just feels like a filler episode unless they knock it out of the park with a crazy good new villain.
>>749756105>Dracula revives every century, and gets killed around 2000.Except in Rondo to SotN to Ecclesia, where he has resurrected in the span of basically ten years, hot damn!
>>749755543>caring for the opinions of gooksthat;s kinda pathetic ngl
>>749755238But LoS and the Soma duology!
>>749756504Japanese IP, shit skin. weeb website for that matter, you retarded nigger.
>>749756504It's their series...
>>749756565No one cares about some shitty Spaniard spinoffs and Soma's games do directly deal with Dracula.
>turn on high readability mode in settings>game becomes more readablewhy was this not the default with just an option to adjust/disable outline thickness
>>749755543>japanese playing castlevaniaHollow Knight outsold the entire metroid franchise and almost the entire castlevania series. Nigga please they dont even play these type of games
>>749756604>>749756595but the japs literally don't care about castlevania, they never havethey tried to cater to them with soma but that failed too, the most industry plant MC castlevania has ever had
>>749756105>>749756474You're both retarded secondaries.
>>749756686Would you believe me if I told you I meant LoI?Also, I am pretty sure the final boss of Juste game is not Dracula, but something imitating him.
the demo seemed solid but the switch performance is pretty bad so sadly i'm skipping it
I can forgive a lot of things in a game if the main character is cute.Rose is so shit it's actually kind of offensive. Her character is so inconsistent, you get put into an arena and she's smug as shit but then everywhere else she's some trembling whiny little shit who's incredibly bipolar in her thinking. Why?
>>749756474I mentioned it>>749756767Ok, how do you make yet another Castlevania in the same main continuity without making the whole setting a joke and without retconning other games?
>>749756595>this much butthurtYou will never be japanese.>>749756604That's doesn't preclude them from having shit opinions.
>>749756784No because that's literally Dracula's origin story.
>>749756814do you even understand the lore or what's happening at all
>>749756831I pretty sure Castlevania's story is not meant to be serious or complex. In fact, people were baffled that BC had like four writers for it when Castlevania was always straightforward.
>>749744134The real Castlevania game doesn't come out until next year
>>749756831If your sticking point is "hurr wun hundurrd years" you lost a long time ago. That """rule""" has been broken more than its been adhered to.
whoever decided to put those boomerang pieces of shit in god damn nearly every room needs to kill themselves immediately
>>749756975Based IGA loyalist
If IGN gave it a 10, /v/ would praise it.>b-b-but IGN/v/ follows their word as gospel.
>people claim they want more "igavania">last one released was Order of Ecclesia>it's the least popular title of the series>even today it's the least played game>it's not even a bad gameWe have to admit that people got burned of the "old" formula at some point. We can't blame Konami for trying to change things, they already did in the past.
I'm still in the early game. The movement mechanics are very clunky. Do they get better eventually?
>>749757130OOE is awful. And we had a literal igavania with bloodstained
>>749756045lol but the male characters are still all losers while women are all powerful girlbosseswe never get any cool male heroes again nor any female characters that actually look and act feminine
>>749756975This feels so much more like an actual castlevania it's unreal.
>>749756975I'm so fucking ready, it looks so damn fun to play, literally the second coming of PoR (my favorite Castlevania game).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcjkpCaUbn4
I hate lament of innocence so this fucking game pisses me off on a personal level.
>Is a Belmont>Doesn't use Sub Weapons>Doesn't use a whip 99% of the timeRose is a fraud, a FRAUD!
>>749757130I played and beat OOE 100% and even got all medals and the Queen of HeartsNot my fucking problem. give me MORE IGAVANIA
I think I’ll wait for it to be $10-15.
>>749757334It's $0 right now.
>>749757130Their loss
It felt like dead cells rather than castlevaniaI hate that I refunded it.
>>749757385Haha good one!
>>749756224I fucking hate that room. Just got through it. Getting to both sides (particularly the spots where you need to quick swap between using Light mid jump, and especially the part on the right with that mechanic) was already a pain in the ass, but then having to do it again, only timed, makes it so much worse.
OoE is the only Castlevania I liked enough to finish.
>>749757385Why? Is it on GOG?
Just pirated it and tried playing some. Anyone who says this game is excellent or even good is just retarded. It's worse than guacamelee ffsHow THIS shit ever got to be a named castlevania title is beyond me. Konami is a clownshow at this point.
>>749744134>Someone on Xgo the fuck back and stay there
Having taken a few minutes to laugh over offsite reviews the official shill line is that Castlevania has to "evolve" which apparently means making it so bland and indistinguishable from modern metroidslop that you wouldn't be able to tell it's got Castlevania in it's title based on it's looks, sounds and enemy designs.And they're extremely assmad over the negative Steam reviews, apparently having bought and played the game for 6+ hours isn't basis to give it a bad review.
>>749756975>>749757321>looks like the most boring Castelvania clone you can create>horrible art direction>THAT'S OUR GAME GUYSLet's be real, if it was made by Konami people would shit on it.
>>749757705phew that image was really necessary, thank you for this amazing post dear pedophile friend could you please share some more images from your folder sir?
>>749757705>metroidslopI wish it were that, now everything is nothing but hollowslop, hollow knight was a mistake.
I don't care about spoilers did they actually kill Trevor. I'm dropping the game depending on the answer.
>>749757014>That """rule""" has been broken more than its been adhered to.I mentioned it:>Actually it turns out Dracula revived multiple times in between the main fights that happen every 100 years>This makes the whole setting a joke where Belmonts are just ineffective and the world was apparently permanently under attack by Dracula for centuries without stopThey can't just keep doing this shit forever.
>>749756975I was sold when they showed the dragon knight boss fight.
>>749757795I don't know how Igafags can glaze those graphics, it looks exactly like the first game 0 shadows ugly lightning weird AA on everyone.
>>749757705I'm almost three hours in and I can't wait to unload on the game.
>>749757795>>749757941>Muh graphicsMost Igafags have been playing SotN, which looks only barely better than an SNES game and in fact reuses sprites from those games, or playing ancient GBA/DS games. This is an improvement. More important than the fidelity, the art direction feels like Castlevania, unlike this new Castlevania which looks like Hades and Dead Cells.
Where did that 100 year rule exist? The second Castlevania had Simon ressurect Dracula to kick his ass again.
>>749757851Only in the bad ending.
>>749757795It has Iga working on it, AND Bloodstained already proved to be a fun franchise with the main game and the classicvania style ones, I can clearly tell the graphics have been improved from the original bloodstained they actually look good this time.All Bloodstained really lacks is a main villain like Dracula, but maybe this game will give us that kind of villain, a recurrent evil that needs to be eradicated every x amount of years.
>>749758145What? SotN looks amazing why are you retarded and trying to put down pixel games when you're a Castlevania "fan"?Main complaint about Bloodstained 1 was how ugly it is, it's still ugly. Second complaint was how easy it is, I'm sure this one is going to be even easier. That retard learned nothing and this time he has 0 excuses
>>749758145>SOTN>Barely better than a SNES gamewrong
>>749756975The Bloodstained games may be ugly to look at, but Iga delivered.>Remember those Castlevania games I produced? Yeah, this is just more of that.
>>749758154Castlevania 1 mentioned it in the manual that Dracula comes back every hundred years. While he can be brought back sooner, it usually requires more effort or at least that is what the games tend to make it out to be.
>>749757796Yes it was necessary my shartoid-colonized friend. Don't worry one day you'll become sentient enough to differentiate between actual underage stuff and a depiction of a woman that isn't that of a blownout american fent junkie.I'm surprised you redditors haven't stopped crying about risque and nipples to this day, we used to mock you for it back in 2011 and deliberately dumped stuff in hopes of getting you fired and making you feel unwelcome. I think one of the actual issues of modern 4chan is that we no longer have a filter against faggotry like yours. Used to be that people would kill faggot threads with dubsposting, dumping sfw lolicon shit, dumping nsfw drawfag OC off /tg/ etc.It worked wonders for keeping out faggots and the second it stopped was when every homo with a paid agenda felt comfortable posting here without the risk of getting fired.
>>749758248I hope it doesn't. Giving it a Bowser/Eggman/Wily equivalent is not necessary and allows more creativity and freedom to make something better next title.
>>749746231Stupid ass motherfucker
>>749758353More importantly, they actually FEEL like Castlevania games, motherfucker could slap the Castlevania title on bloodstained, and no one would disagree aside from the obvious lack of Dracula and Death.
>>749745605?
>>749758535NTA but you were wrong tranny
>>749758617this one was good because it was easythe BC one is bad because im 40 years old and my poor hands with low brain activity can't handle it
>>749758387So why is he complaining?>>749757893
>>749758305>>749758310>SotN looks amazingIt barely looks better than Dracula X on the SNES, which barely looks worse than Rondo. You can't even see Alucard's face on his sprite, Mega Man X4 on the same console could do this shit. And I'm not putting down anything, just saying no one is playing the series known for recycling sprites game after game for its graphics. If anything, the soundtrack is vastly more important.
>>749758617whats with the unrelated pic?
>>749758158Ok, thanks. Last question, is the good ending one where you have to go out of your way to get or would exploring normally pretty much guarantee it?
>>749758524this, it doesn't need a direct Dracula analogue, especially not with more retarded resurrection cycles that will eventually cause problems again
>>749752425>This is because the game feels like several other games you already played.This here is what brothers me the most about this game. It feels like Hollow Knight; It is as if someone played hollow Knight and said what If this was Castlevania?And the worst part is that in bosses you cant dare to break rythm. Castlevania bosses were never soulslike dodge-hit flow games, and so belmonts curseBosses can feel really frustating because of this odd yet more mainstream than ever choice. This, in parts, feel like artificial dificulty, you have no agency against the boss really, you just wait your turn to hit and repeat this predictable time-wasting procedure until the fight endsAnd the spikes and corridors and challenge rooms, this isnt Castlevania, again, this is Hollow Knight and I am sick of this formula. Just beat medusa and nothing has been enjoyable about this game so far
So how bad do you think that new AAA Castlevania gonna be now that they can't even get the 2D one right?
>>749758353>The Bloodstained games may be ugly to look atThe pixel art games look great for what they are.>>749758715Look at the original post I was replying to:>>749755116>Don't like the game because conceptually its another "But actually after Dracula's Curse it turns out that the curse was not lifted" bullshit story.My whole point is saying that the setting doesn't give them many other options.
>>749758617Retard, the point of the spike room in sotn is to act as an upgrade roadblock, you are meant to get the sonar, and then you can easily navigate using the bat form.It is not something you are meant to platform around or that is meant to challenge you, you are literally meant to figure out that you need a specific ability, even the fairy familiar tells you that.
>approaches you
Is all of this shitposting really because it's a different sort of metroidvania because it was different devs rather than being an Igavania? Well that and a woman protag.
>>749758868>The pixel art games look great for what they are.Honestly the Inti Creates subgames get across the appeal of the monster designs so much better than the main game does it's not even funny.
>>749758918god everything in this game looks so fucking generic
>>749758790I'm not sure what the conditions for the true ending are yet but I'll safely assume they're tied to exploration and quest completion.
>>749755246anyone?
>>749758932It's because it's bland slop and has no relation to Castlevania.Which would probably be ignored if it weren't for the blatant paid shilling that went on over it.
>>749758810>This like Hollow Knight>This like Dead CellsMy biggest issue is that Belmonts Curse is not better than a mediocre Metroidvania, it certainly can't beat the best games it has produced.If anyone is making Hollow Knight and not beating that game in how good it is, don't make it at all.
>>749758918i actually like how rose always gets right in their face and has to look up at the bosses
>>749758932>Is all of this shitposting really because it's a different sort of metroidvania because it was different devs rather than being an Igavania?It's not really shitposting when most of us played the demo and now playing the game and we're not liking it.
>>749758932Meanwhile people loved woman mc in Bloodstained and beg for her to come back for the 2nd game.Nobody likes lesbian dykes
>>749744134reached that faggot isaac. my thoughtspros>rose is hilarious and a completely retarded woman, idk if intentionally or not>graphics are nice, this style definitely fits castlevania better than 3D>i like areas and level design>i don't feel netflix influences>music isnt bad, sometimes it's good sometimes it's weirdcons>the combat just doesn't click for me. i would like to play this game methodically like i play castlevanias but no, every combat encounter is a gangbang, i think they want you to use the parry and be hyper aggressive, but i can't see shit with all the shitty flashing effects and thus it turns into mindless button mashing>no classic subweapons. i don't like medusa's gaze. i don't like joan fire spell. sypha's fireball does negative damage. i'm only using the cross literally. i just want shit to throw ffs. where the fuck is my axe and holy water>retconning lament of innocence is not good, at least tell me the circumstances, explain shit. why is the fallen cursed and how it happened if lament says no one met mathias until trevor. why was sypha cursed. why the fuck medusa is cursed too. how many curses there are? what was the point of hector's quest then?>saint joan sold her soul to the devil i get it's a videogame but i dont like this type of shit
>>749759065Is Rose actually a lesbian or did you see muscles and get wrathful
>>749758932One of the most beloved CV protags is a woman
didn't Trevor and Sypha have like five kids? Isn't that where the Morris family comes from?
>>749758932>Is all of this shitposting really because it's a different sort of metroidvania because it was different devs rather than being an Igavania?The shitposting is when I see shit like this >>749746269 or even >>749758617 when the retard try to equate it as the same as this >>749745605
>>749758868Oh, I see. But then again, you can make games with antagonists related to Dracula without being Dracula himself. It happened multiple times in fact.
>>749758918https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrrGc1krgPg
>>749759137My beloved autistic witch with a perpetually neutral expression.
>>749759094yeah im not a big religion guy but joan accepting the devils whispers right before dying was an ickher whole thing is how much faith she has..at least she's back to normal and her design is cool
>>749758932Are you being retarded on purpose?
>>749758728SOTN was a huge graphical showcase. Game throw lot's of sprites and effects on screen. All that with fast paced gameplay. Even the PS1 shit itself trying to render all that. Dracula X was a romhack com mismatched assets. Youre still wrong
>>749759094>>749759258Weird that it was made by the Fr*nch. You'd expect this shit from protestants.
>>749744134I got the scrolling cursor issue so can't even play it.You know, it seems like such a small thing. But this might be the straw the broke the camel's back for me. After 30 years of gaming basically full-time, I think I might be just done, this game has me contemplating quitting videogames for good.Everything is so shit these days. Every game is just a vague attempt to milk a franchise everything is so homogenized and safe, and I can't keep doing it, I recognize the dark patterns the cut corners, all the ways in which the developers fail from game to game and lately it's just about every game. And the more mediocre the game gets, the higher the praise and fanfare around it. It feels like fighting an uphill batter in the worst way and I'm tired of constant arguments over lackluster games and I'm tired of doing the same shit over and over again, having to feign enthusiasm for some recycled garbage just because everyone else has got a shit-eating grin on. It's exhausting. Gaming has become exhausting.
>>749759135I told modern audience that Rose will have to be fucked like a whore because someone has to carry a Belmonts child, they said she is not the one that will continue the bloodline.I am not the only one that noticed that she is designed like a lesbian.
>>749759293like i said she's right back to normal after the fight so i guess they put that in just to have an excuse for her to be in the game
>>749759354>that she is designed like a lesbian.What the fuck does this even mean, jesus christ you schizos
>>749758932or maybe it's because its generic as fuck and mid at best? ever think of that, faggot?
reached the first bad ending, honestly im not even sure if i want to continue
What went so right with Shanoa?
>>749759318Eh, POP LC was great, DD gaiden was great, ninja warriors again, river city girls, galuga, shinobi and etc...
>>749758851I hope it finally tanks the entire franchise. I'm sick of seeing Konami rape it time and time again.
>>749759094>>saint joan sold her soul to the devil i get it's a videogame but i dont like this type of shitI mean you're literally breaking Mother Mary statues for EXP, it's clear where their politics lie.
>>749759392he probably means short man hair, lean man body, man muscles, a permascowl and a constantly nasty and ascerbic personality that is constantly aggressive, like a man.
>>749759489Sexy back
>>749759489For me, it's Charlotte.
>>749759392Anon is a proud gooner.
Maybe Miriam wasn't so bad afterall
>>749757705I love modern discourse.>2 - 3 hours? Didn't play the game>60 hours? Why did you play the game if you hate it?>>749758469
>>749759489Great character design.
>And to you my daughter, the greatest gift I could give. Schizophrenia. Use these tarot cards well.What the fuck was her problem?
>This game isn't Castlevania because...>IT'S NOT EASY!The absolute state of SotNcucks
>>749759546But she has a gigantic braid of hair>lean man bodywhat the fuck
>>749748547Is that suppose to be fucking Medusa
>>749759489Making an amnesic kuudere brocon is always a recipe for success.
>>749759703SOTN has a great level design, music, movement and art. Belmont curse is better than mirror's fate. Il give that
>>749759489she was released 20 years ago so grifters didn't exist yet to hate on all female main characters
>>749759703But it is easy...
>>749759729Yeah, Medusa is a granny now
>>749759645Nobody ever hated Miriam. What are you on about?
Did they hire that one guy from Dark Souls 2 for the enemy design? Why does everything look like a generic mmo mob?
>>749759714>what the fuckoh, are you doing that thing where you pretend not to understand the simplest point in a really dramatic way?Yeah, that's not going to work. Sorry.
>>749759683absolute kek
>>749759792>she was released 20 years ago so grifters didn't exist yet to hate on all female main charactersBut people loved Miriam and the loli characters from Ender Lilies and Magnolia?
>>749759790>SOTN has a great level designMost of it is just boring corridors that you just fly over as a bat.
>>749759683kek
>>749748547that's mathias (dracula before becoming the dark lord). i think they made a mistake and this cutscene should have played in the next room, where the alucard portrait actually is.
>>749759729They made her some androgynous thing with no tits. Even a giant floating head would've been more dignified than that.
>>749749386What? You mean we're hating the wrong fucking people? This isn't even the Dead Cells people?
>>749757893They have been for decades.
>>749759996These are the jannies that updated the Dead Cells, then they got thrown out and they made worse copy cat Dead Cells that never as well received.
>Shills/shitposters are doing picrelatedlmao. Is this the best Konami has to offer to shill nu Castlevania for? It doesn't really help when /v/ historically had a niche but strong fanbase that loved the games but also were harsh with criticism when it was necessary.
>>749759980the tits are only noticeable when she is defeated, before you absorb her. they are small and round.
>>749759912As i said the MOVEMENT is great. Also the enemy placement make up for the lack of death pits.
>>749759792>pretending to not understand>legitimate examples ITT about why Rose sucks compared to others>'grifters'
>>749759425Then don’t. No rational person would condemn you for dropping a middling Hollow Knight clone.
>>749760072TLDR about that. with links
>>749749250In castlevania? Lmao. How many tines have you fought death?
>>749760147>legitimate examples>she doesn't have E sized tits/isn't 12
>>749754817That is genuinely so fucking lame
>>749756128That's kinda random but cool.
>>749749326>Ender Lilies influenceThat's mostly Ender Magnolia. I remember Ender Lilies you would get the cutscenes after defeating them but not conversations where they interact when you sit on the bench.
since we´ve already come to the conclussion that this game is dogshit, let´s talk about games that are proper castlevania spirtual sequels https://store.steampowered.com/app/3064230/Castle_of_Vania/
>>749756128Igavania got the actual inputs and gameplay mechanics. Callbacks mean shit
>>749758617Did you think you were fucking clever for this
Where the fuck do you get ground slam? Is it further inside Dracula's castle?
>>749760548safe horny as fuck kek
>>749760629Did you play the game? Answer the question [please
>>749759489DIE SHANOA
>>749759489>cool design>extremely cute>good fashion sense>for someone with no feelings she sure is very chill and patient as long as you are human>fun gameplay gimmick>is strong as hell but doesn't really brag about it>autistic in a funny way>will deliverately kill herself to kill dracula, she is a martyr>you see small facets of her that don't relate to her work as a hunter, like her going around taking photos, playing hide and seek with little kids, and drawing pictures, she doesn't need to do any of that so the only explanation is that she does it just for fun.
>>749760629They want lower ratings.
APOLOGIZE TO BLASPHEMOUS 2 NOW
>>749760548I'm like 1.5 hours in the Castle and still didn't get it. I bet it's from the first major boss though
Am I just getting old or are the parry windows extremely tight?
>>749760772I'M SORRY I didn't play you yet. On my backlog for a while.
>>749748098My experience too.
>>749760548after this scene she was almost killed by the fucking bridge lmao
>>749760445Chronicles of the Wolf is a good mix of Classic and Igavanias. Not extremely polished, but I was charmed.>>749760772Love that one. The story is lot looser and less impactful compared to the first game, but lots of improvements to the gameplay.
>>749760772Blasphemous 1 was so bad I never even finished it so I never tried Blasphemous 2.
>>749758617Now go through this room without the bat form and the armor breaking the spikes.
>>749760902there's nothing classicvania about chronicles of the worf. people say that all the time. infernax too. they're both metroidvanias
>>749759094>>i like areas and level design....Really? Why?
>>749760889our guy felt that and saved her
YIKESIs this how you celebrate 40 years of Castlevania? With a 60%?
>>749748564Dogshit? Really? I think the devs just wanted to justify the jump in hardware power with an inoffensive set piece. Sure, it's a slight waste of time, but I don't think this is terribly hard. You only need to stay grappled without having to dodge any oncoming enemies. Only when the room is halfway done rotating do you need to clear a swarm of Medusa Heads. Other than that, just whip and hold on to win.
>>749758145>Muh graphicsI said art direction
>>749759354>they said she is not the one that will continue the bloodline.But somebody has to, what kind of stupid shit is this?
>castlevania thread>ctrl + F>"Hollo-kikikikiki
>>749760889Yeah. that is pretty fucking stupid. She'd have died if not for Leon. And she still doubts that he is her ancestor.Now can you answer the question?
Holy hell, the Chinese and Japanese really, really hate this game.
>>749761129>No peeper in the window They didn't even play the game
>>749760548I got the fucking bad ending and still cannot find it so if you do end up finding it please tell me because I feel like I'm fucking stuck, every goddamn path seems closed.
>>749761006It’s kinda like Simon’s Quest in the first part with towns of NPCs between the areas. None of the Igavanias did that. If that’s not enough to remark upon, I understand.
average belmont´s curse level design be like
>>749760902I like Chronicles of the Wolf too. Started getting annoyed by the castle layout near the end of it but that was also when it was almost finished so no big deal.And yeah a mix is about right. Although even the Classicvania sections has some backtracking so it feels more like a particularly good take on CV2 or something like that.Still great game, and insane amounts of tracks. I think it has like 2 hours of it and 57 unique tracks?
It’s not a Castlevania game. The movement, art, and music are all wrong. It also has an ugly troon as then MC and bunch of “evil is really good” Jewish filth. It’s a no buy for me.
>>749761006Infernax is the most similar game to Simon's Quest I have ever played, the fuck are you on about
>>749761262Dead Cells developers should hire you
>>749761045of course the netflixvania fans completely ghosted the game's release. how many times i have been insulted and downvoted on reddit for stating the truth?
>>749761280lmao I wrote that and then saw the following posts.>>749761006>>749761259Yeah, i'd hesitate to call it Classic because the enemy layouts are good but not quite as tight and it's not all one running stage, but something like CV2 is about right with it's separate mansions and all. (though obviously not as mediocre as CV2's platforming)I really ought to try Lecarde Chronicles 1&2 apparently they're supposed to be good too.
>>749761045The cover art looks so great untill you play the actual game and see the character's portrait art.>>749761249What the fuck? Did you rush the game?
>>749761341simon quest is not a classicvania, but the metroidvania prototypethe classicvanias are rondo bloodlines chronicles cvi cviii adventure etc they are stage based
>>749761416nah there´s a room where all the bosses tell you not to go yet but you´re allowed to anyways, you can "end" the game after like half an hour into the castle
>>749761178>complain about modern Castlevania>Order of Ecclesia sold 40k copies total in JapanThese guys are full of shit
>>749761416it's a shame because she looks cute here
>>749761045Look at the top of his head.
>>749760683HOW DARE YOU
Guys...hold down in front of a save spot mirror. Thank me later
>>749760683>D-D-D-DIE, SHANOA
>>749761849if she doesnt pose like Charlotte I don't care
>>749761849Uh... what did it do? The screen just flashed blue.
>>749761849Don't get it, you find yourself in a closed room and nothing happens
>>749759980I mean I can tell its meant to be feminine but why is she a fucking like fish with dragons? Like, you can't really just subvert fucking Medusa into whatever you want, the snake thing is kinda essential.
>>749759683For 40 years I thought this guy was a dude.
>>749761996>>749762110Pretty sure you can teleport to other save locations from there
>>749761849THank you anon. At what point the game teach you this?>>749761996you need to hold it dummy>>749762110It's a fast travel
>>749762292I just held down to see the crouching animation, I tried doing it in front of a random chair to see if she sits on it but nope. Going to hold down/up on anything interesting from now on
>>749762292>you need to hold it dummyI DID HOLD IT YOU DOLTthe screen just got a glass effect, the screen flashed, and then Rose stood up againmaybe I'm not far enough in the game yet
>>749762292>It's a fast travel>>749762268I only have a closed door here
>>749761129Speaking objectively, the game takes way more inspiration from Hollow Knight than castlevania. I was calling everyone retarded shitposters who don't play games, but after playing it myself, it is Castlevania in name only
>>749748245They better not canonize Alucard being a faggot.
They couldn't even be assed to make upgraded weapons.Every weapon looks the same as the first of its type.
>>749759489She's hot but you won't see her like that for 99% of your playthrough, her sprite in game looks even less feminine than RoseDo you play games or only jerk off to fanarts?
>>749762452I think it's only includes the mirrors in a region, not the world. So you need to unlock more mirrors.
749762624blatant jeet botpost
>>749762575there's a gag in the castle where all the girls fawn over him
>>749762748We don't sign our posts here
>>749762383did you hold it for 5 seconds?
>>749762972I'm gonna walk my ass back to the last mirror just to show you that I did
The grappling is the gayest thing in the game because there are some areas where you can point it in the right direction and then it over/undershoots instead of just fucking grappling
>>749762578last one of each category has an extra effect
>>749763031I like that you can grapple enemies. But the stages are huge and has few enemies. Making the grappling shot kinda useless
>>749762821Even Carmilla, the ur example of lesbian Vampires?
>>749763031seriously? i find it really responsive and im ass at using analog sticks
>>749763158just the girls from your party
>>749763058>An extra effectBut the same default model?
>>749762972>>749763027Behold, my ability to hold a stick down.>>749763031It's got a weird thing to it where the swing will go to its full length if you tap the trigger, but if you hold the trigger it will only go as long as you hold it.
>>749763329still don't believe you sorry, we require irl footage of you holding it down and not letting go
>>749763329>anon so week he can't hold down for more than 4s
>>749761849I regret doing this I can't go back and now I'm getting my ass beat by shit that I've never even fought before
So what are your favorite weapons so far? I like the SnS and the lance.
>>749764010Sns for me too. I tried liking the whip but man..it's more of a zoning weapon now and not an all rounder
>>749744134Get woke go broke
>>749758790Exploring should be enough. The only tricky part is making sure to utilize a specific Arcana at a spot on the map. It's fairly obvious which one you should use and Rose's curse arm will react at the location. It'll take you to a new area where there's some stuff to do to make it so you can fight a boss. The only other boss I can remember being tricky to get to is The Builder. He's in the lower part of the Clock Tower, but getting to his part of the zone requires you to use the falling stone fists to smash a part of it, which necessitates using other stone fists to manipulate some beams/girders out of the way.
