It's been 2 weeks nigga

>>750242076
Damn, it didn't even survive 2 weeks.

>>750242153
Sad!

game so dead this thread can't even get off the ground KWAB

>>750241865
What's this trend of grabbing a famous IP and doing whatever the fuck you want with it, why not just create a new IP if you are not going to stay on line with it?

>>750243579
Brands have become the new medium.

Castlevania: Lesbian Rough Intercourse in the Blood Moon with Rose!

>>750241865
easily one of the best metroidvanias out there. it is definitely Castlevania in its own right, minus the weird music (I miss Michiru Yamane) and the Library theme is the worst of all in the game. Streets Of Paris being the best and Catacombs or Notre Dame being second is accurate. House Of Sacred Remains haunts Paris Streets. the game is flawed but it's fucking good! like I had to catch myself and acknowledge to myself that I was having fun and it is Castlevania. it is dark and Gothic in a very peculiar way. I just wish it was more serious like its music is. the library is my least favorite, regrettably, because I was expecting way more out of the setting and the music is atrocious (fuck all Zoomers and pandering to them and their trash). the game is still pretty good tho. I had fun

>>750248585
>easily one of the best metroidvanias out there
Name the last 10 metroidvanias you played not counting BC,

just reached the catacombs
so far im not feeling it, probably because i just finished well dweller last week and that one was a joy is to play compared to this

I 100% it and moved on. Currently playing HoD now. I made a mistake.

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It's just a joyless Dead cells game. They should have known better not to fuck up the lore of castlevania, but they couldn't help themselves.

>>750249865
Theres a definitive edition romhack that fixes HoD.it's actually a very good game.

>>750241865
why did they make such misrepresenting boxart for the game? it's not 1988 anymore.

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>>750252314
Holy shit! According to /v/ logic, Belmont's Curse has sold at least 8-10 million copies!

>>750243579
konami asked a studio to make a castlevania game so the studio did.

>>750252616
>/v/ logic
Wut

>>750241865
>We know better than the original creators!
>Oh no!

>>750241865
it's pretty good. decent modern metroidvania. the writing is forgettable, the music is forgettable (sad for a castlevania game), and enemy variety is lacking. the boss fights are pretty good, the fighting in general feels decent and i like the variety of subweapons. the exploration is pretty nice, the game doesn't railroad you too much.
it was worth the price of asking for me. 20 hours to get the true ending and all the unlockables.

>>750252663
>ask dead cell studio to make castlevania game
>they make dead cells game instead
Would this work with other studios?
A pokemon type monster collector would be cool given the extensive roster of monsters in these games.

>>750252756
Don't you know? All-time peaks are the exact number the game sold.

>>750243579
on line with what?

>>750252314
>the lore of castlevania
nobody cares about CV lore

>>750252885
sure, why not. i would definitely not want game freak to do it because they can barely make a pokemon game to begin with.

>>750252790
my favourite part was when the devs wanted a girlboss only child so much that they destroyed the entire belmont family, and made it literally impossible for another one to ever be born

That was pretty funny, because now they're game is non-canon shit nobody cares about. They remade legends by mistake

>>750252894
>All-time peaks are the exact number the game sold.
then it sold 21,745 copies?

>>750253078
>made it literally impossible for another one to ever be born
why not?

>>750253142
Because she's the only Belmont alive. When a woman marries, she marries INTO another family, and it's set in like 1500. It's why people have always wanted boys to "continue the family line".

>>750241865
I haven't even finished it yet. I'm playing like 4 other spooky games nigga give me at least another week or two. So far it's been really fun though.

>>750253206
her dad is alive

>>750253206
oh you're that retard

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>>750241865
>I am forgotten
So, what is there to do in the game after reaching 100%?

>>750253238
Trevor having children with someone who ISN'T Sypha would be even worse. They're like the series' most well known couple.
Besides, Sypha is where the Belmonts get their magic from.
>>750253278
What? that retard who knows how marriage works?

>>750248871
I can't

>>750253316
No, the retard who thinks it's impossible to make exceptions especially when you have a powerful name.

>people suddenly care about castlevania lore now
lol
ok retards

>>750253462
it's just tourists pretending to care about cv

>>750253412
>it's impossible to make exceptions especially when you have a powerful name.
It never happened though. Even for kings and queens. The fuck would it happen for Rose Belmont?

You're being silly to cover the devs arrogant mistakes.

>>750253303
There are some mods? The SOTN overhaul is ass, but it changes some stuff, and there's a new game + mod that is quite fun

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>>750253569
they always have. It's why the Lords of Shadow reboot didn't have any legs at all, and why the netflix garbage didn't have any legs at all.

The fanbase rejects them, so when the fair-weather fans piss off, they are forgotten. Much like belmont's curse, actually.

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>>750253697
That's an amazing dog. Very well trained.

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>>750252983
Huh, I never thought until now that a first person blobber dungeon crawler exploring Castlevania as some sort of summoner / warlock who can enslave all these monster and use them for combat similar to Shin Megami Tensei would be kinda cool.

>>750253650
stop larping, it's cringe

>>750253120
Basically more than ever CV game before it except LoS apparently.

>>750253957
why do you think Castlevania games never sold more than 21,745 copies?

>>750252918
castlevania

>>750252314
it could have 1 player or 1 billion players and it would still be the same game. And that game is aggressively mid. Fun movement and the combat is different, but they fucked the lore again, and the music, voice acting, characters and storyline are so irritating that it becomes a chore to slog through

>>750254162
which is what? in line with what part of castlevania?

>>750241865
It feels like Hollow Knight to me lmao

>>750254318
Hollow Knight devs weren't retarded enough to make the path of pain last 6 hours

>>750254231
>it becomes a chore to slog through
This, I feel like I'm forcing myself to like it every time I launch it, but I just can't. It doesn't feel like a Castlevania game at all.

>>750254342
Don't feel too bad, anon. I cut my losses half way through the castle (or what I assume is half way through). It became clear that I was suffering through it just because it has castlevania on the box, and there are much more worthy games out there.

>>750241865
I decided to pause my playthrough and go back to silksong.

>>750254318
Because indie devs perfected the metroidvania formula and realized stat level up mechanics were grindy and boring

>>750254391
I'm not a quitter! I will finish it! But yeah...

>>750254318
It feels like they tried to copy Hollow Knight and Ori without understanding what made those work.

kek so many filtered retards at least you guys are admitting it

>>750254464
Well, good luck! My metroidvania list is just way, way too long for me to bother not enjoying myself, and I want to check out some of these AI recomps of CV games I am hearing about

>>750254485
This is the opposite of "filtered". Filtering is meant to leave the bad elements outside so the good ones get in. This is more like a scam. You get promised "this is castlevania, you know it! come play it!" but then you go play it and it's anything but. It cannot live to the expectations it sets because it's inherently a dishonest product... which sadly you can't really know before you actually play it, but a lot of people are jumping it without trying the demo (to be fair, I was one of those people, because I wanted to support a new release).

We Castlevaniafags have been suffering from years. To have to play through this ordeal of game is just masochistic at this point.

>>750253359
Figured as much.

>>750254713
This is is precisely. And it's not even unique to castlevania, either. Just look how Konami treats the Silent Hill fanbase. And there end up being so many similarities between the SH and the CV fans that it's not a mere coincidence

>>750241865
They found a lot of tech on the game. but i feel with feedback the game will grow to be like SOR4 i mean SOR4 had a better foundation but the game can be better

>>750254713
ohh the poor baby do you need some milk

>>750254887
Yes, strawberry please. Some cookies too.

>>750254713
>We Castlevaniafags
how do you do fellow kids

>>750254912
sorry I only have chocolate and raisins

>>750241865
>>2026, I am forgotten...
There has been daily threads. Including a multiple simultaneous threads right before this one.
And even concurrent alongside this thread, is another Castlevania thread that can't shut up about Belmont's Curse.
>forgotten
we're just lying huh?

>>750254913
>fellow kids
Are you mentally challenged? I'm 39 and most Castlevania fans are my age or older. It's a boomer game. Are you one of those retards that only found out about this franchise through Netflix?

>>750254947
>that can't shut up about Belmont's Curse.
anon, I..

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>>750254990
anon, I...

>>750254989
I'm 46, and I never would have imagined, when I first played PoR, that I would be playing it like once a year for the next 20-odd years.

Weird, innit

>>750254231
>Fun movement and the combat is different
Indeed which is why and how it's a great game.
>but they fucked the lore again, and the music, voice acting, characters and storyline are so irritating that it becomes a chore to slog through
I played with Japanese voice acting, but the Japanese voice acting is good at least. If the English is shit and you played with the English voices then that's a mistake on your part.
But they didn't fuck up the lore. Not in any way that hurt the game.
>but brauner shouldn't exist until a few hundred years later!
And this makes the game worse how? It allowed the game to have a painted world. If anything Brauner should just unironically become a mainstay like the other vampires that were conceptualized in the 1800s like Carmilla, Orlok/Nosferatu, and Dracula himself.
And if you tell me that Leon was disrespected by the game, then you're just lying. He is easily one of the most revered and respected characters of the game.

>>750255218
By your rationale, adding the BMW 5 series with optional heated seating would be just fine because they're such cool cars and they should always have had them.

You just can't understand a castlevania fan's logic, which is perfectly fine, but makes this continued conversation a little redundant.

Which you prove by front-loading your reply with naming a bunch of obvious problems, then talking about how they're good actually.

I get it, you don't care. Why should you. But I do. And it seems like the vast majority of fans do.

>>750254989
Stop acting as if Castlevania has been some super consistent unchanging series until now.
>hurr this isn't castlevania
yeah just like symphony wasn't and then it was

>>750255294
You're not a fan, you pretending to be one.

>>750255358
So why would we keep talking? You aren't going to accept anything I say and consider me a liar. Why bother talking to me?

>>750255298
Nice backpedalling, not to mention the disingenuous premise. If you have nothing to argue about just say that.

>>750254231
>the game is fun to play but the 0.1% of it that is the story is not very good. 1/10.

>>750255416
You're the one arguing how this isn't castlevania even tho the series hasn't been consistent in what it is.

>>750255294
>By your rationale, adding the BMW 5 series with optional heated seating would be just fine because they're such cool cars and they should always have had them.
For one. No. That's not really equivalent at all. Vampires have always been thematically coherent and a focus of the franchise. Brauner lines up with that stuff perfectly, which is why Victor Brauner was adapted and made into a vampire for Portrait of Ruin to begin with.
It is not the equivalent to adding modern cars to the games.
That said. If some game focused some on time travel / time merging stuff to have more modern/future stuff mixed in with the old stuff, that could, potentially at least, be cool too. But even then some ordinary car might still be a tougher sell than some kind of weapon or whatever.

But no. Adding Brauner to a game set a few hundred years earlier. Is not the same as adding BMWs to the game all over the place.
You know that the other vampires of the franchise also make more sense in their established time periods right? And yet Castlevania just adds them to the games hundreds of years sooner. Because it cool. Adds to the gameplay. And doesn't actually ruin things.

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>>750255550
I'm saying your premise is disingenuous because Castlevania has always had a relatively consistent and cohesive elements. You're just lying, and/or retarded.
>>750255667
Top kek.

>>750255580
>tying yourself in knots to justify a character showing up 500 years too early for no reason other than "we wanted paintings and we skimmed the wiki"

>>750255667
Dawn of Sorrow is set in 2036. We're really dealing with superfans here, I see.

mirror world theme on repeat

>>750255719
>relatively consistent and cohesive elements.
How was Symphony consistent with the previous liner stage based games? It added some much new shit, you'd probably lose your mind if it came out today.

Castlevania has always been different. There's classicvania, igavania, and 3dvania. The DNA has changed so much between them it's hard to say there is one definitive Castlevania. So yes I'd say BC is definitely Castlevania.

>>750253569
>the goyim devs of this goyslop have worse lore knowledge than who shills insult as larpers
lol

>>750255874
>How was Symphony consistent with the previous liner stage based games?
anon, it literally starts with the final boss of Rondo...how much more consistent do you get than a DIRECT CONTINUATION

What filtered you?

>>750255874
So, you're saying a change in map and stage direction, while keeping everything else consistent, is somehow a complete and utter breach? Are you actually stupid or just pretending?

>>750255968
Right, and all the different weapons, armors, spells, special abilities, backtracking, stats,... non of which were present in the previous games.
Comparing that difference, Belmont's cures is very much in line with igavanias.

>>750256112
but BC has far less in it than the IGAvanias.
So it's a step down in every way?

>>750256470
And? You can argue that it's not as good but you can't argue that it's not a Castlevania.

>>750256585
>you can't argue that it's not a Castlevania
Order of Shadows is a Castlevania, too. Congratulations.

>>750256585
I could draw a stick figure of Alucard playing baseball and write castlevania on it. It would be castlevania, but nobody would give a fuck. Much like Belmont's Curse. What people are saying when they say "it's not Castlevania" is that it doesn't meet their standards. As a dead cells game it's fine. As a Castlevania game, it doesn't pass muster. It's not good enough.

They're being nice, but they're saying the game is shitty.

>>750256645
What's your argument here? That's it's a shit game?

>>750256704
Dead Cells is a roguelite, why are you comparing it?

>>750256713
My argument is that there are LOTS of castlevania games, and a lot of them are bad, and ignored by fans, who have a very exacting standard after being given bad games for many years. So BC probably sits somewhere between Order of Shadows and that mobile phone one with Elvis Belmont or whatever. Congratulations.

>>750256753
>why are you comparing it?
You're seriously asking this question?

>>750256112
You're doing the equivalent of comparing and apple to a lemon and saying "look, it's green but you have to peel it, and it's citric, and....", and then comparing the same lemon to a cheap sour candy.
>Belmont's cures is very much in line with igavanias.
It's Curse, and no ti isn't. It doesn't have the style, the aesthetics, the feel, the pace, nor the design philosophy. This game is as close to Symphony of the Night as Momodora is. Even something like Blasphemous would be closer. Or, you know, compare it to what it actually is, a Dead Cells clone.
>>750256585
>you can't argue that it's not a Castlevania
We can, at least in spirit. Obviously it's a Castlevania because it's literally in the name, but so is Castlevania Judgment, and nobody with an iota of intellect would say "you can't argue that it's not a Castlevania" to it.

>>750254713
>because I wanted to support a new release).
maybe by next time you will know to never support anything made by westoids

>>750256828
you're a westoid, shut up

>>750256828
Don't worry, I just refunded it.
>>750256854
Western =/= westoid.

>>750256807
>so is Castlevania Judgment, and nobody with an iota of intellect would say "you can't argue that it's not a Castlevania" to it.
I personally really like Castlevania Judgment. Would I go into ANY castlevania fanspace and start sperging about how it's true castlevania and a fresh new take and whatever? Fuck no, It'd be a stupid thing to do. Because it's just another redheaded stepchild of the franchise.

>>750256854
being a westoid goyim is a state of mind tho, one i do not have

>when creaking skull is a more popular character with fans than Rose Belmont

>>750255738
>>tying yourself in knots to justify a character showing up 500 years too early for no reason other than "we wanted paintings
That's a perfectly good reason though. Completely unironically.

>>750257228
You could come up with a reason that would make me fall to my knees and weep for the embrace of a loving God, but it wouldn't change the fact that the devs skimmed the wiki, wanted a "painting guy" and levered in Brauner, then said "uhh...he has a family of indentical vampire clones for 600 years lol"

Maybe BC would have been better if you wrote it

I'm hoping they get a different studio for the next.

>>750254554
post the list

>>750257312
another funny thing is that the succubus that shows up to larp as alucard's mom in SOTN dies here and her soul gets vaporized to purge dracula's curse
which means she can't show up for SOTN
womp womp

>>750257559
goddamn, I don't keep a list cut

Gestalt: Steam and Cinder
The newest Ender Lilies
Salt and Sanctuary replay
Toziyha alchemist night (or whatever her name is)
Frontier hunter Ezra
The siege and the sandfox
Vigil longest night
The last faith
chasm replay
and some romhacks that I heard are good. Remnants of Darkness, sactity of elegy..or elegy of sanctity and eternity of sorrow

some of those are more..2d souls, though.

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THIS is Castlevania.

Game is great I have no idea what the haters are smoking.

>>750257620
That whole "purging their souls forever" shit at the end is a common thing among shitty writers and established lore. It's like they have laid claims to these toys and have put them all back in THEIR toybox at the end, so nobody else can have them.

It's childish, and people hate it, but they keep doing it, because they're retards.

>>750257714
yaboi doesn't care about Dracula, or Belmonts or Morrises. He just wants to MIX