You know I was just wondering if Evil Empire was going to bring on Yoann Laulan for the OST. He did a pretty great job with Dead Cells and his remixes for the cross over DLC were pretty good imo
From memory, they were all pretty poorly received at the time. Lots of comments that Castlevania was struggling in making the jump to 3d. Over time the only people who stick with it are going to be the ones who enjoy it, so they'll generally be who you continue to hear from, even if that's a small pool of people. Reviews decades late will skew positive because only people extremely interested already will check it out and they're likely to give it more grace than is due because of it's age.
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I have a rather big love/hate with the LoS trilogy. Absolutely adored the first one and when I started playing it is when I was also first dating the Future Mrs. Gabbiani who ended up getting into it as well because she loved Castlevania. So yeah that one has some fond memories for me.
Lords of Shadow 2 is alot more fun when you treat it as the Castlevania Zoo. I mean you get to fight Satan on top of the corpse of Leviathan while falling through the stratosphere.
the problem is you already whooped Lucifer's ass in the first game, and now you are exponentially more powerful, and he loses even easier than the first game, the fact his smug ass just lets'er'rip and attacks you on sight despite standing zero fucking chance is baffling and brings into question the entire plot of the franchise.
Yeah it's kinda shit, but it didn't offend me. Just kinda felt like a big glorious mess. I can't really put it into words real well, the passion and love from the developers just felt genuine and playful.
yea its a mess but they did their own thing and it was a neat idea, they just completely lost the plot in the last half of the last game in a big way, after all he's done him just being like "let's go home Trevor" and that's that is hilarous, motherfucker you are the Lord of Darkness and just killed Lucifer, you've killed hundreds of thousands of people and Sinned against God, you can't just go play ball with your kid.
Dead Cells was in the Humble Bundle so I played it and have an opinion on it now.
half of these points can be tossed at order of Ecclesia, so I'm still waiting to see just how bad it really is by comparison, Castlevania isn't known for its dialogue, plot or in the metroidvania's, its combat, its reliant on a variety of other factors to be fun, but people have very very rose tinted glasses about aspects of the franchise when they start comparing to new games.
I'm talking about the "strong women" (complaining about that in this fucking franchise is odd) the Church Is Bad, no Belmont family line sub-weapons.. ect.