Castlevania Thread - Vampires, Whips, and Horror's Greatest Hits Now In One Gaming Franchise

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BootlegPopeye said:
Between this and IGA's side series we've had about 3 games of this in a row. That's what I was referring to. Maybe someday we'll have a normal Belmont male again (Julius would be a popular choice), if this entry doesn't kill the series for another 15+ years first.

Woke crap aside, on a 27 inch monitor the main player is freaking tiny and it isn't clear sometimes whether or not you even hit anything. There is just a lack of hit feedback/detection.
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see that sounds bad, hit detection is pretty fucking important especially if the PC is tiny.
and yea everyone has wanted the Julius game for the 20 years we've been teased with it, but Konami are retards owned by the Yakuza, they can't even really make games anymore and that's why we are getting games like this.
 
Why is Rose so bitchy towards Trevor, of course he's gonna be worried about you, he's your dad! Could have just said "Don't worry father, I'll be fine" but she goes "FUCK OFF DAD I CAN TAKE CARE OF MYSELF DAD I AM STRONG WOMAN DAD!!!"
And she's just as bitchy with Leon. Something about the way her voice actor says things makes her come out as extra annoying.
And what do I think of the gameplay? Unbelievably generic, boring music, nothing like Castlevania, somehow too easy and too hard at the same time, oddly floaty and nothing feels impactful (not even Harmony Of Dissonance is this floaty).
 
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Brain Power said:
oddly floaty and nothing feels impactful (not even Harmony Of Dissonance is this floaty).
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Yeah that's what I was getting at, I was confused whether or not I actually hit things. Castlevanias were always so good about feedback before.

I should mention - I'd love a proper Castlevania again. I was one of the die hards who bought all the portables in the 00s. But this is just a bad cash-in on the same level as a Google Play store game.
 
>Complaining about strong women in Castlevania is odd
Well you see, women in older Castlevanias were still pretty and feminine in addition to strong. Meanwhile Rose is bitchy, has tumblrface, and her in-game model is really manfaced lmao
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It's odd because her untextured model has an actually pretty decent face, they just gave it shitty texturing.
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Also RIP Trevor I guess
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Somehow, Sypha returned.
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Apparently it's a fake Sypha, probably a boss or a distraction, but still, lol
 
BootlegPopeye said:
Played the demo from the new game, it's fucking trash. Basically we have Netflix-ification of the lore, straight out of the gate it's full of anti-Catholic 'corrupt Church' talk so I can see the direction this thing is going in. No holy objects like crosses or Holy Water, its some gay tarot shit. Your sprite is absolutely tiny and the music sounded more like ambient noises.

The main player is yet another buff girlboss character. Voice acting sucks, like a bad 1980s cartoon.

I had my doubts a reboot would go well, and well, they were justified, because this is just mobile slop junk. I hope it bombs.
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Yeah this sounds bad, anyone who called it after Joan of Arc showed up looking like that is probably going to look like a prophet.

And then there's brown Carmilla with only the one sprite as an excuse.
 
She looks fine. Also who gives a shit. There's a ton of stories of women stepping up in troubled times, including in this series, including Sypha, her mother (who was androgynous in game). There's already a gooner 'Castlevania' game in Bloodstained if you need it for some reason.

Being anti-church though, that's truly retarded. Although... if they did a thing where this particular group are corrupted and had lost the protection of God but the corruption is removed in the story (and that's why crosses/bibles work again in later games) it might be something.
 
>muh gooner cuz idfk i wasn't even talking about t&a i just mentioned bad texturing making her face look worse than it actually is
Aaand argument lost. Go project your shit somewhere else.
 
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What the fuck is this piece of shit.


Imagine getting mogged in music by a pachinko of all things lmao
It even has romanian lyrics! Far from perfect, but at least they tried.
 
Yea that's one of the worst Bloody tears tracks ever, its so fucking muted, the only good part is the reverb and some of the choir, everything else is bottom tier dogshit.

ya know I really tried to hope this one would be good.
 
...I kind of liked the demo.
  • My overall thoughts is that I liked the demo but it is not Castlevania(is definitely castlevania inspired, but it's not Castlevania as autistic as this sounds) which leaves somewhat of a sour taste because damn, I do really want a true and honest Castlevania and God knows where Bloodstained 2 is.
  • Rose's athleticism and movement really clicked with me. No problems here. Once I unlocked the secret cestus the combat made a lot more sense too.
  • I very very very much liked the background art. The burning cathedral near the end with the overcast blood moon looked gorgeous. The save rooms looked great.
  • I very much disliked the character design. Rose felt a bit overdesigned as far as belmonts go with the cursed arm looking weird. Trevor looked straight(heh) out of someone's bara art. The Fallen looks too much like a mess. They clash hard versus how the random skeletons and monsters look in the game.
  • This gothic choir/organ beats style of music is very much my jam. Again this isn't castlevania because it lacks a lot of the energy a Castlevania track would have, especially an opening Castlevania stage and I find it lacking in that regard. But I do like the track itself. I haven't listened the Bloody Tears remix linked earlier here but I can tell this is probably another OST I'm buying.
  • I didn't feel much regarding the dialog, I don't know what people are saying with respect to Rose feeling like a girlboss and being a bitch towards trevor(Trevor said he'll leave Rose on her own to leave the business, Rose responded "you still have so much to teach me" and it's pretty much how any child would react to their parents bringing up the topic of them eventually leaving their children) but I suspect this may be a Gunvolt situation where the subtitles/dialog change depending on the audio language(I will not play a Castlevania game in English if Robert Belgrade isn't in the cast list, especially one with a female main character because even though I haven't played it in English I know it's the generic tough anime woman voice I find very disagreeable)
  • The boss was fine, a bit tanky for how little variability his moveset has, I didn't need a ghost hint telling me I can hit projectiles out of mid air because that was the very first thing I would have done. As I mentioned I don't like how overdesigned he feels and even if I wasn't spoiled of his identity thanks to this thread it's very obvious from the name and his dialog that he in some way or another ties into the Belmonts or big D.
  • I can't tell if the slide/backdash is so smooth when it comes to dodging enemy attacks or if they come with iframes. If the former then I really like the game, if the latter than I'm soured.
  • The menu animations got a bit overbearing, it's pretty and everything but damn just fuck off the ghost just told me about the lever behind barrels I don't need a popup telling me about a new hint for The fallen and another popup message telling me what the ghost just told me a while ago.

Between this(25 bux is expensive though, I'll probably play it next year once it's on sale), the upcoming Bloodstained The Scarlet Engagement, Transylvania Adventures of Simon Quest and whatever Migami is working on I'm very much content as to where Castlevania inspired games are, and like I mentioned I do not consider this a 'true' castlevania game.
I do wish something would try to ape the classicvania style though. I want sick beats, I want commitment heavy movement and attacks, I want classic horror monsters, damn.
 
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>TL;DR of the story is revenge le bad, look how Leon ended up for chasing Mathias, curse is a shitty ripoff of Silent Hill 3's cult god, both feeding on main character wanting revenge and growing stronger after the same event (except Trevor has a rubber death unlike Harry)
I'm so fucking tired boss...
You know, I am no longer mad that they keep forgetting about Grant. Dude avoided not a bullet, not one nuke, but TWO Tsar Bomba-sized nukes.

I'm more annoyed about Brauner though, they just couldn't leave the character who didn't give a shit about Dracula and just resurrected him to seal him and take his powers for himself alone huh?
 
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