just started notre dame, its a pretty fun game
Whatever chud you've been seething about it for weeks
I was struggling a bit until it clicked that the game wants me to constantly hook to enemies and stun them, its a smooth sailing after that
working over time
I dont get the hate for library ost
>>750299086Too much wub wub.
Why is Isaac fucking impossible?
>>750299819What? Dude, by the time you reach Isaac you should be able to just mash attack and win any fight.
We don't want your kind
>24k more copies of Belmont’s Curse sold in Japan this week Uh, flopsissies? Our narrative?
Sad part about the game is the later powers and weapons being so fun but by then there's not much where you can use it.
>>750300694What kind? People that actually play games?
>>750299819just use the Alucard sword to cross him up whenever he attacks, he can't do shit about it
>>750298595>never managed to even make Bloodstained numbersOH NO PAID KONAMI SHILLSQUICKASK FOR A COMPARISON TO A 20 YEAR OLD DS GAMEQUICK
>>750300758*yawn*
>You didn't beat the game
Why is the camera so zoomed out?
>>750301616Shame no one will buy Bloodstained Poo because they’re marketing it exclusively to fujos
>>750302000>marketing it exclusively to fujosYeah nothing appeals to fujoshi like a storyline about a man and a woman getting engaged.
I want to use the Cross because it's always been my favorite sub-weapon but holy shit the delay in throwing it makes it so ass to use compared to literally any other Arcana. Half the time I try to throw it and run in another direction and I end up throwing the fucking thing directly into the wall behind me.
>>750299086It sounds like Dracula is tapdancing behind the shelves
>>750302000>because they’re marketing it exclusively to fujosExcellent. Lads on tour. No women shitting up my demon hunting.
>>750298595waiting for (or thinking about making) a mod to change the way you get health a little. Feels stupid to be on low health and just know that dying is the only reliable way to gain health back.
whoever said its fun when you get to the castle was 100% correct, those first 3 bosses feel like a tutorial game just becomes x2 harder soon as you beat them
>>750302889>harder=more funnerI'm actually sick of hard 2D games now.
>>750302889I found the difficulty dropped significantly with each new area.
>>750303728It's got the RPG problem where the game is only difficult at the beginning when you don't have a bunch of options for how to approach things. I think it's kind of ironic that despite being a different more action-focused kind of game than the Igavanias it still runs into the age old issue of Dracula being less of a final test of skill and more "face tank and spam your most overpowered bullshit until someone dies".
>>750298595It's alright, not the best Castlevania by a longshot, but i'm glad they're making Castlevanias again.My biggest complaints are that there are too many spike trap challenge rooms, and not enough save points and teleport rooms
>>750304342>clear the Mirror boss>map revealed>can't use an of the mirrors to teleport around the dungeon
>>750301846I liked Carmilla's spell more personally. Only downside is that it doesn't work on Dracula ie. the only boss that's any challenge.
>>750303728Isn't that Igavanias in general? You tend to break the game once you get the good souls/relics. The only difficulty comes from bullshit platforming that takes it cues from the classicvanias like infinite medusa heads and spikes.
>>750304342I think the mirror system wouldn't be so bad if>it wasn't disabled until you do Death 1>you weren't slow as fuck with no real way of speeding up without loads of ifs (no sprint? no Black Panther? come on)>it wasn't locked down until you finish a lategame side quest>>750304490You kinda can since the mirrors still work the way they do in the dungeon (teleport you back to the beginning of each "area") but yeah that is some horseshit and when I realized I had to walk all the way to the opposite side of the map to get Waltuh's gauntlets I just felt dead inside.The whole thing is fucking weird, why does the HoM have its own floor for the warp room but none of them work? What's with the random broken mirror on the bottom floor across from Dracula's tower, is it cut content?
>>750299086niggercoded ghetto rap shit
>>750298595This game is fucking queer as fuck.And it only has 15 enemies total. LMFAO. It ain't Castlevania. It's generic westoid trash.
>>750300946same case of 9 years of shadow, the last angel armor is so fucking cool but there's nothing else to do at that point other than to face the last boss.....
>>750304647That's my point. What is that anon even on about? 2x harder. Come on.
>>750298784Too bad grappling towards enemies makes the whip borderline useless, the series' most iconic weapon type.
>>750298595Amazing how they thought it would be a good idea to make a Castlevania game with shitty music
>>750301846I failed to meet the requirements for the 3rd power up of this one, you have to beat the enemy on a specifc way of something
>>750301846Looks so indie its almost disgusting
>>750301918Because this isn't Game Boy, gramps, people have huge screens now.
>>750304171>>750304647Lament of Inoccence was right in making the progression item based only but at the same time there was no reason to kill enemies unless you needed or wanted a rare drop.
Item based only progression is a metroid, not a metroidvania
>>750298595It's over
fun boss
>>750298595Uninstalled it and went back to silver pines
>>750307214wait a minute...
Which metroidvania are you guys playing next?
I think its mostly alright, but I really do find traversal gets a bit tedious after a while. fast travel system has too many extra steps involved, save rooms are too scarce, and movement isn't quite as snappy as I would have liked for there to be this many platforming sections.
>>750307214tigg ole bitties on that tranny.
>>750307214i might put some mods on seen sotn ost mod and some others that im interested in im 48% into the game though it might fuck my save up
>>750305082It’s getting more generic enemies and a bunch of optional bosses in an upcoming patch
>>750308274Yeah, that's about my thoughts. It's not a bad game really, but considering the genre movement and traversal is a hell of a thing to fumble. That and the way they did weapon progression.
>>750308274The only thing I'd change about it is let mirrors just teleport you instantly. No reason to go through a loading screen to HoM, check the map then head to the corresponding mirror to the area you want to go to, then sit through another loading screen. That change would fix everything.I'm playing CotM right now and there is a lot of running even with save rooms.
>>750307214Why are indians like this?
ngl i'm having a blast frfr
>movie Dracula who most resembles SOTN’s is Blacula’s Dracula>Blacula’s Dracula even cries bloody tears Is Blacula canon in the Castlevania universe?
I'm expected to use Arcane Whip a lot in this game, huh?
>>750301846Honestly i really liked the spell upgrade system
>>750300946I really wish this game had a NG+ where all enemies are balanced around a max level player with everything unlocked
>>750302152The thing i don't like about the cross in this game is how if you throw it and turn around, the cross gets thrown to the side you are now facing instead of the one you were facing when you threw it
>>750307415I found a lot of the bosses really fun man. I think the only one i didn't like was Medusa because she was pretty repetitive
>>750310532A related nitpick for me is that while the spear throw is prepping and for a half second after it's ready you can change direction, but after that you can't. Why.>>750310597>>750310502I think the least they could do is have some kind of boss rush. Crazy that's somehow not available.
So what boss is the biggest pain in the ass?
>>750310759For me it's Isaac (still haven't beaten him) i swear i can't tell what the fuck is going on when he summons 3 clones
As a independent white transwoman we love this game but my white hetro dad said this is wokeshit :(
>>750298595Critical drinker, synthetic man and andy pants said this is a DEIwokeslop
>>750310848Have any of those people beside maybe Synthetic Goy even played a castlevania game before?
>>750310848Critical Drinker likes DUNC. It just means Konami didn't pay him enough.
>>750310848Why should anyone care about what some youtubers have to say?
Game was a shit ton of fun. I don't get the pushback
>>750311572Because it's alright at best so people need to exaggerate its flaws to drown out the mindless praise from the people who don't actually give a shit about video games calling it great
>>750298595>just started notre dame, its a pretty fun gameIt's GOTY.
>>750302991>I'm actually sick of hard 2D games now.Cool, go play your Switch then.
I like how Rose is the canonical inventor of item crash now and he finished Dracula with it
I died to Dracula 5 or so times, and then beat him again first time after beating him once, the whip does a shitload of damage. He's honestly piss easy, except for the grab attack that can come out of nowhere and take away all your health.Overall the game was mid, not bad, worth the money, but doesn't scratch the igavania itch. Movement it's not as tight as it should be, relics are awful and definitely show that the devs are roguelite devs, "fast" travel system is obnoxious, music is mid and the artstyle is definitely mimicking the "anime", those are my complaints.
>>750312496I like how Rose has big tiddies that she can barely bind.
Also, legendary fists + relic that increases front defense + relic that heals rose if she hits an enemy that hit her + relic that heals her if she hits enemies but you can't use heals anymore, breaks most of the game. Literally just spam attack and try to parry, only take care so you don't get hit in the back.
>>750310786Do this >>750313046
>>750312937Movement is probably the only thing I'll give this game credit for (and puzzles I guess). Going back to Aria of Sorrow after Belmont's Curse just feels so jank lol. I hope Bloodstained 2 has BC style movement, but I have the feeling it'll just be like it's prequel.>>750313046My loadout was>Relic that increases defense by 60% if you are hit within 4 seconds>Relic that increases defense by 100% from the front>Relic that increases defense by up to 50% if your MP is drainedI just hotswapped to the 100% hp heal potions relic if I needed to use them and face tanked everything. I wonder if this would've worked on a hard mode.
>>750313353My main problem with the movement, is the whip that is so important to everything, but doesn't go where you want it to, like 30 to 40% of time.
>>750312937>relics are awful and definitely show that the devs are roguelite devsI agree that a lot of them are weirdly conditional, so you end up using 6 or 7 out of 50 or so. I'm overall not a fan of this post-HK badge/relic/etc. item design, I miss the gearslop of SoN-OOC Igavanias.
If Evil Empire develops the next game do you think they’ll go with a different composer? The big complaint I see popping up in every review, even the positive ones, is that the music sucks ass.
Relics being hotswappable is kind of ass since their effectiveness is basically limited to how tedious you think it is to swap them constantly. Some of them should have just been passives.
>>750314043Id rather they never touch this IP again
>>750299086me neither. that is shit is bumpin my niggah
>>750305061you're just a pussy
my favorite track is the library theme. that shit bumpin my nigga
>>750312123this! the game is flawed but it's going to be a classic in time
>>750310848a bunch of faggots with opinions and you care, why?
>>750314895lol as opposed to the bunch of faggots here?
>>750315101>thinks I pay attention to faggots on /v/
i will once again state.no one is talking about how fucking BUGGY this game is.16 hour playtime:>4 hard crashes>5 enemy rooms not opening after defeating them, have to reload>3 boss encounters where i was punted outside of the map and had to reloadits genuinely the buggiest game i've endured over the last few years.also the game is to long and the hall of mirrors and trials of virtue are padding bullshit
>>750315203I didn't have any of these problems.
>>750315203This sounds like a personal problem. Have you tried unplugging it and plugging it back in?
>>750315239it probably varies depending on the platform you play it on.>>750315247no but i came very close to taking my cartridge out my switch and stamping on it after it crashed just after i defated king arthur.
>>750315203I'm like 90% through the game and have yet to encounter a bug.
>>750298595>notre dameBecause of these awful jump puzzles, I uninstalled the game.
Post your preferred weapon type.
>>750316218my penis LMAO
>>750313594I think the whip works fine in a vaccuum. But when you need precision like in a Celeste spike segment or there's enemies around the auto targeting just breaks.
>>750316136I went from spear to rapiers because hook into air attack was a small aoe with rapiers but then went back to spear when they gave me a one with good numbers
I just want... Charlotte pits...
>>750315203Some Anon earlier had similar problems with softlocks and it turned out it was because he had mods so try disabling them all.
>>750315203Play on a pc, not on a tablet for toddlers.
this carmilla fight was piss easy, what the hell
>>750315203ngl ive seen zero bugs im impressed by how good it is, only issue on PC is the 30fps cutscenes and i seen a mod on nexus mods for it so ill get that in due time amongst others like cosmetics
Got spoiled on how to get to the legendary gauntlets but honestly I would have never figured it out. That portrait was barely visible through the mirror for me. I have my brightness set to minimum. I think the name would have stuck out to me but I didn't notice. I even scanned the map at one point looking for room names that might give a clue and didn't register Level Deviled and Devil Leveled.
>>750311572i like the game not the artstyle and 2.5D, i essentially want sotn 2 but its never going to happen
>>750302471I've been thinking about adding a rally style system like boodborne. I keep think about how it seems designed to have it but doesn't. It wouldn't even be that hard.
>>750298902And the anti-shills? They're not shitting on the game 24/7. Absolutely not.
>>750318652>anti-shillsOnly shills say dumb shit like this.
>>750318652.. Being an anti shill is a good thing though, surely?
>>750311572Its woke and lame and gay
It would have been a great game if the storyline weren't ass and it didn't stop to rape the lore of the series every five minutes.
>>750318725You'd have to be retarded to think that paid anti-shills aren't an industry standard by this point.
>>750318025I saw the mirror on the opposite end but didn't make the connection that I had to kneel in front of it. Probably because I was bruteforcing half the level and thought it would just take me back to the beginning. Still a pretty clever trick though.
>>750318876>and it didn't stop to rape the lore of the series every five minutesIt doesn't do this though. >b-b-but brauner First off. Bruaner's inconsistency is hardly "rape". But even if it was, none of it could add up to "every five minutes". Hyperbole or not. The game is actually. Not insulting to the lore at all.
Homer Belmont
>>750319416At this point you would be hard pressed to find plot points that don't fuck over the CV lore.The only exception may possibly be joan because she was never in CV before but even then it wouldn't surprise me if people found inconsistencies.
