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Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon |OT| Dracula's Circle
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What system? It's like a 33 MB download anyway, if you have to reinstall.
Thanks for the extended impressions. I had an eye on this as I really like the classic Castlevania games, but after noticing in some gameplays of the first levels that 'emptiness' you mention and not a really good use of enemies I lost some of the interest I had.
Even with that maybe I'll give it a try later, I'm in the mood for this type of games and the price is too low for consider it a waste of money in the case it wouldn't be that good.
Yeah, he could have taken over for Alucard's CV3 self as the guy with the slow firing spread shot since Alucard himself kind of took over Grant's role as the close range stabby guy. He also looks like a guy who would carry knives and a grappling hook as subweapons.
PC. And yeah I guess it's no big deal, but it'll but me not knowing how to actually fix it if it's reoccurring.
Good job you Lot :) (Yamane, Ippo Yamada, Aoi Takeda, Takumi Sato, Hiroaki Sano, Ryo Kawakami, Ryo Yoshinaga)
You know what's odd, I had the same issue witb Steam yestersay, but it impacted Nidhog. On there, turning off vsync fixed it, but then I get screen tearing. I've never had that issue with Nidhogg until last night. Not an option on this game, but odd that we were struck with the same issue.
It was 3 hours for me. I'd say there's a pretty big incentive to at least replay once, and twice if your first run was not an alone ride... at least for me.
The multipath does not really change scenery , so it's not there to help keep things fresh but still it creates variation.
My first run took me about 2.5 hours taking my time. There's different endings too, so a fair amount of replay value.
The average playtime for the first run seems to average to around 2 hours give or take a bit (it took me 90 mins personally), and there's a bunch of different endings and a few extra modes.
I've been playing this slowly as Solo Zangetsu and the game got pretty fun starting from stage 2. I like the new abilities you get and how further stages are clearly designed around it.
Screens feel kinda empty though, like it lacks a lot more enemies or something, but the challenge has been decent.
Screens feel kinda empty though, like it lacks a lot more enemies or something, but the challenge has been decent.
Difficulties?
I'll probably wait for a sale since I just got Xenoblade 2
If I get any game this week it's going to be Yoku's Island Express, pending reviews.
Only an easier difficulty, but the game is challenging, and in order to get all achievements you do have to play through the game without any recruited allies or powerups.
Hmm. Too bad I don't care about achievements.
Well, seems like a good pick up when things are slow. I actually have a pretty full wishlist atm.
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You can play the game in different ways to make it harder or easier. You can unlock harder modes depending on how you play the normal mode. You can make it pretty hard if you want to, by not recruiting the other characters. Recruiting all the characters makes the game pretty easy when compared to the NES Castlevanias.
Hmmm.
I don't like when I have to gimp myself by choosing to skip something to experience a harder difficulty.
But seems ok.
It's completely intended to skip or kill the allies, that's how the different endings are achieved.
Trying not to read all your impressions as to not spoil the fun too much for me. This wait for my console code is excruciating!
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I didn't really like him in my first run either. I mostly used Gebel and Miriam. He gets really powerful when he kills the other people, though. He gets a crescent air slash, a double jump, and a short dash that helps you jump farther.
Just beat it in an hour or two. Pretty good. Excited to check out the other modes and stuff. Really hyped me up for proper Bloodstained with how perfect this one was. Bit on the easy and "you remember, from castlevania!!" side, but still fucking excellent. Didn't even realize this was a thing until today.
EDIT: The infinite 1up spawn in the final level kind of bummed me out. I only died with everyone twice, but you could have kept going forever. If you're gonna make it retro difficult, make it retro difficult.
EDIT: The infinite 1up spawn in the final level kind of bummed me out. I only died with everyone twice, but you could have kept going forever. If you're gonna make it retro difficult, make it retro difficult.
I've now literally asked about this and to which extent it further disrupts backer codes using every channel available to me, and in all cases I'm consistently met by either silence or ignorance. How does no one know anything about this?
I grabbed this for Vita last night, and played for close to three hours. It's a total blast! It delivers that good old-fashioned Castlevania vibe, with very tight character control. I'm sure that I'll be playing and replaying this one for a while.
I've found that the hopping toads not actually being fleamen makes them feel a lot less annoying. I guess I'm conditioned to get frustrated just at the sight of fleamen.
YUP haha."Oh, a ship stage? Reminds me of something, hmm..."
"Oh, a portrait mini bo-"
Can anybody confirm if returning to title saves my cleared stages? It only mentions powerups, and I'd assume that includes the stages too, but wanna make double sure before playing something else.
I'm loving how both the level design and amount of challenge gets better with each new stage. I've been doing pretty okay so far, but the first castle stage is fairly tough.
Boss battles are so good by the way, even though some remind me more of Mega Man X and Zero than Castlevania lol. One was pretty much Storm Eagle/Skyver.
I'm loving how both the level design and amount of challenge gets better with each new stage. I've been doing pretty okay so far, but the first castle stage is fairly tough.
Boss battles are so good by the way, even though some remind me more of Mega Man X and Zero than Castlevania lol. One was pretty much Storm Eagle/Skyver.
The Solo Zangetsu run is absolutely retro-difficult. I'd call it straight up brutal. You do get upgrades for killing your allies, but man does that not make up for the gigantic jump in difficulty. Starting from Stage 2 you have to take some alternate paths, and those paths will absolutely shit on you.
Just barely finished the 2nd stage just now, had to continue like 3 times after losing my lives over and over.
nightmare mode final boss is wrecking me. I'm sorry, sir. Your game wasn't easy. Please stop.
You'll need to
murdering each of the 3 allies you encounter as Zangetsu
Beat Nightmare which was fun.
Zangetsu-only is brutal, you're actually in danger of running out of lives at times. Even with the soul arts, you still feel not that much more powerful, and they cruely put almost all of the upgrades just out of reach even if you chain stuff like the dash and double jump. I think the Armor Up near the end is the only one you can get?
I can't imagine doing a Zangetsu-only without the extra abilities.
Zangetsu-only is brutal, you're actually in danger of running out of lives at times. Even with the soul arts, you still feel not that much more powerful, and they cruely put almost all of the upgrades just out of reach even if you chain stuff like the dash and double jump. I think the Armor Up near the end is the only one you can get?
I can't imagine doing a Zangetsu-only without the extra abilities.
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I'm on stage 6 of a murdering Zangetsu run and I have 2, a vase and a fist. I guess that's magic and attack power.
I'm also doing a Zangetsu with no extra powers run and I just got to stage 4. That's definitely the most NES Castlevania-like way to play. You really have to pay attention to what subweapon you have for what you need to do.
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I'm only on Stage 5, so I must have missed at least one, but every other one I saw I was seemingly unable to reach because it required going through a hole or was too high/far to jump to.
The fist is Stage 6 IIRC, but I thought you needed a slide or bat to get in there. Hmm.
Maybe you can double jump from below onto some to pass through.