This game good

Game breaking bugs requiring you to start a new game are not good

what the fuck do the retro coins do? Why do they cost so much?

Let you create and upgrade special weapons you can make at the Alchemist.

Where would Bloodstained fit in?

Hollow Knight >>>Aria of Sorrow>Dust>Dawn of Sorrow>SotN>Ori>Valdis Story

This was an ok game but other than Snake, I really didn't give a shit about these characters. Give IGA Castlevania again

Will the Switch Version be good?

It’ll run at or below 30fps, so no

uh

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>game already runs poorly on PC

It's gonna be terrible on Switch.

hollow knight is garbage tho

>Hollow Knight anywhere near the top
>SotN near the bottom
Zoomers are cancer.

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I don't think I've cared about characters in any Castlevania game. The only Metroidvania that I liked the characters was Hollow Knight because you meet the same ones multiple times while they just go about their own agendas.

I don't give a fuck about what you think about any other game on this list, the fact that you put Hollow Knight all the way at the top tells me you have donkey shit taste

I'm 29 and Metroidvanias are my favorite genre along with CRPGs. SotN is a good game, I just like some other Metroidvanias more.

Dullahan Miriam is cute!

Sorry weeb casuals, I don't think anime portraits makes a game better. SotN is also easy as fuck.

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anime website

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>implying games in the genre generally aren't piss easy across the board
la mulana is like the exception to the rule, you're not impressing anyone with your shit taste

dumb pleb

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what does curse do?

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>people on reddit are saying they beat the game at level 30
>I grinded to level 20 the moment I saw the first Dullahammer 10 minutes into the game

Do I have autism?

maybe

i started on nightmare and made it all the way to the garden of silence before i noticed i wasn't leveling up sometimes it be like that

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>Metroidvanias are my favorite genre
>Super Metroid is never mentioned
Pathetic

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YEEE

OOOOOOOOOOOOOH

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are you retarded
nigga look at your health bar

>reeee ur tastes are generic enough! Nintendo games always 9.5/10!!!

i've never been cursed, but i have a weapon that curses enemies.
I have no idea what it does

yike

Have they sent out physical backer copies yet?

this guy got so flustered by that shit taste he could only get off a yike lmaooo

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Do tiddies bounce? This is important.

As usual, not a single person actually answers my question, instead they all sperg out because I don't share the exact same taste as them.

>how dare you only think sotn is an 8/10 when i think its 9/10!!! fucking retart fucker!!! REEEEEEEE ur top 5 games NEED to be the same as this list I saw on IGN or ur not a REAL gamer!!!!

Just calm down people, yes, most video games are fun. Most Metroidvanias are very fun, it's why I've played nearly all of them, those are just the ones I had the most fun with.

cope

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shut up nigger

Don't blame them, a bunch of shitposters have tried to rile people up for the past days by posting hollow knight and saying this games failed and it's shit. People are on edge because of this

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dumb reddit spacing newfag

Got mine, apparently the backer box won't be out for a bit, but so far I got the physical game with black/reflective cardboard slip, and an additional code for a friend.

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Castlevania games were never good.

Neither was megaman.

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weak, not even worth replying to

let's get this show back on the road

is moco oil plant cum is that how you get tan miriam tho

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Is there some kind of bat transformation in this? Or at least something to replace it, like a crow or some shit?

note i don't want tan miriam i just don't want to fuck up and get tan miriam by accident because i'm not a fag

Just have him validate his copy.

So is Hollow Knight tho

You change her skin color at the same place you change her hair style

Maxed out laser is pretty big

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neat ty user

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gameplay is good and there's a ton of stuff in it
everything else is pure cringe:
the story, the characters, the dialogue, the graphics, the presentation. it's all ASS
they should have gone pixelart for the artstyle and used a NES era style narrative with this where you just tell players "you're Ms. Bloodstained, now go kill the bad guys with your bullshit crystal powers", then never have a character speak or appear for the rest of the game
every time an overdesigned anime faggot comes on screen and starts spewing bland, soulless dialogue at me in that jarring shitty font, I die a little bit inside

i kinda feel you about the aesthetics but 2bh the story is typical castlevania fare idk why you'd expect anything different

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>lel weebs
>Not a Twitch baby casual or a LoL faggot.
In what universe?

Ori is best, dweeb

pfft

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>Check out metacritic
>74%

wtf

>Realize it's that garbage NES ripoff with the same title

Boy, was that a stupid idea. People are going to get the wrong idea.

Please respond.

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La Mulana 1 > La Mulana 2 > Super Metroid > Order > SOTN > Portrait > Dawn > Ori > Hollow Knight DLC > Circle > Aria > Hollow Knight > Harmony

>Realize it's that garbage NES ripoff with the same title
is this bait

it's a spinoff and good dumbass

But is it better than Hollow Knight?

Why does Yea Forums hate Hollow Knight? Nice, explorable world, great visuals, some pretty fun bosses (some shitty ones too), and i find the game provides good rewards for side content.

Gay indie shit

why Ori so low ;_;

just your run-of-the-mill Yea Forums contrarianism at work, user

fanbase is obnoxious as fuck, it's nothing special and it looks like some asshole slapped it together in flash also it's constantly shilled by plebeian zoomers

Just started, ended up fighting David Hayter at level 5 which was cool. It reminded me a bit of Richter in Portrait of Ruin, you can't afford to get hit much at all.

My pet peeve with all indie games is how they blatantly rip off other games without reason.

Hollow Knight is just Dark Souls mixed with Super Metroid. Why? Because Dark Souls and Super Metroid are both popular games. Never mind that Super Metroid rewarded exploration by increasing your capacity which was ALWAYS useful while HK just gives you badges that are generally worthless, and Dark Souls used its atmosphere to highlight climactic points in the game while HK just feels bleak and dull.

That's not low. The lowest on that list is still like a 7/10.

I'd sandwich Environmental Station Alpha between Super Metroid and Order, and also swap SOTN and Portrait.

how the fuck do I get to this benjamin dude in the japanese caves

it got popular, thats it

people come here to shitpost, there are no real opinions here.

so you guys don't like shadow complex tho

i thought it was pretty okay might fuck with it again after rotn maybe idk

As person who 100% all metroidvanias I can honestly recommend this game.

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NOOOOOOOOOOAAARRGGGHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I SPENT 3 MINUTES PUTTING THIS IMAGE TOGETHER AND IT WAS FOR NAUGHT BECAUSE BOTH BLOODSTAINED GAMES ARE GOOD
WWWWRRRRRRRYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH

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The release order is important here. SOTN was such a bombshell that I remember reading articles on how 2D gaming would never be superceded by 3D gaming while games like SOTN existed.

Meanwhile Portrait was like the 5th rehash in a row, and that's when the fatigue set in that would eventually lead to order's poor sales and the death of the franchise.

Let's be real; the only reason Portrait is good is thanks to Lv. 1 Hard Mode. And the music by that new composer.

is the fairy actually a good familiar or do people use it because cute

We are just in an age where a lot of ideas have an incredible amount of commonalities. The thing that makes HK stick out to me is that despite the commonalities it has with games like Super Metroid or Dark Souls, it still has it's own identity. it's not on the same level as Super Metroid or SotN but it is an incredibly fun experience.

It does have its own identity, which is why it's a pet peeve. Another one is that I hate games that waste my fucking time and HK sure has a lot of long corridors you have to go through multiple times before getting that super dash. Plus I never found it to be particularly difficult, which is usually the saving grace for games like these.

>ranking Hollow Spikes highly
Pleb

I felt that POR was generally a really solid game. Varied environments, had the option of playing through as a whip user without needing a gimmicky extra mode, pretty good variety of difficulty choices like you said, tons of extras and unlockables, there's nothing bad about it at all. SOTN on the other hand is much shorter and you become gamebreakingly OP within less than half of the runtime. It's a great power trip, the music's amazing and obviously the spritework is unmatched, but I'd argue it's the weakest gameplay of all the igavania style games.

Guacamelee >>>>>>>>>>>>> everything else

Possibly, but you don't have to use the most OP shit if you want a challenge. My favorite are the people who spam magic on the first few bosses. Like, you're not supposed to know the button combination for those that early, and they were made unusual specifically so people wouldn't discover them ahead of time.

Guacamelee is a solid game but not so good that I'd place it above everything else

t. user with opinions

Doesn't deal enormous damage, but she can use fairy medicine to heal you or dispell all afflictions.

I'm not talking about abusing the shield rod or spells. Even for a new player, you need to actively nerf yourself by restricting yourself to certain weapon types/builds in order to have a balanced game. A completely new player who just upgrades their gear as they go to anything with the highest numbers will still run circles around anything in the main game's progression. The GBA/DS games all felt more balanced in this respect. You can break them, you can make them harder if desired, but a standard first playthrough usually has a much better difficulty curve. I've watched several people play through SOTN for the first time and it's a common complaint. They get hype over unlocking a ton of strong options, and then a few hours later realise they haven't been challenged since the very start. I think it's better to rate the games on the quality of the games themselves, not the situation at launch.

Not necessarily. Nowadays every fucking game has some RPG progression system, but in those days having to menu in an action game was both unusual and pace-breaking. The people I knew who played SOTN were still using like the Gladius in the rainbow cemetary and very few even got to the inverted castle.

One guy in particular I'll never forget said SOTN was his favorite game, and we talked about it for a while until he revealed that the final boss was Richter. It's his favorite game and he didn't even know there was a second half to it because he never figured out the clock room trick.

You need to judge games as games user, not the small window when they originally released. SOTN has been outclassed by every other igavania. Based on your argument almost every first entry would rate first in any series purely for being the original.

By that logic, creativity is meaningless and rehashes are superior to the original.

Not at all, but an iterative sequel that provides better gameplay and a ton of improvements is still a superior product. Creativity deserves credit but at the end of the day the better game should come out on top.

>sotn
>outclassed by portrait or dawn
yeah nah i'd grant you something like order or aria maybe but there are a lot more factors that go into people rating sotn as high as they do that aren't difficulty or release window or even gameplay

symphony has a much better soundtrack and aesthetic than any other igavania for example

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missing .6% of the map. I dont fucking know where.
Bestiary is also missing 5 demons.
Fucking kill me

post your big tiddy waifus

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Does She have sex at all?

this game ugly

who the FUCK is the artist that does these amazing drawings

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Where the fuck is my Steam code

I'm still disappointed this game is good. I've been shitting on this for years and I was eagerly anticipating another MN9 situation. The devastation it would have caused would be have been delicious. This ruined my month. I had it all planned out and everything. Now I have all these left over memes I'll never be able to post again.

You're thinking of Night of Revenge, this is Ritual of the Night.

They're both Metroidvanias featuring similarly adorned sexy witch girls killing monsters, but NoR has all the sex stuff and RotN is just a good game without the sex, confusing I know.

>should have gone pixelart
Then you would complain about it being pixel shit

>amazing drawings
>that pinky toe

Stip trying to shill yourself

yes

Hollow Knight is trash, pretty style and that's it

I hated the backtracking and enemy/level design.

dog

>pretty style
That's actually the one thing about Hollow Knight I couldn't stand. The game is great, easily one of the best Metroidvanias out there, but it looks like the shit you see on an emo girl's deviantart page by way of Newgrounds games like Alien Hominid. Absolutely hideous and cancer for the eyes and people say Bloodstained is ugly.

I just got my PS4 code. How do I download the patch?

You must have a weird taste, I have NEVER heard anyone before shit on Hollow Knight's artstyle. I think it's style is easily the best part of the game, even thought I dropped it 10 hours in.

Post progress

Why do Hollow Knight fags infest these threads? I don't care about HK but it's getting obnoxious.

Why the fuck can't people enjoy more than one game

muh tribalism

I got a few gripes with the game so far. Haven't beaten it mind you but so far the bosses are kinda lacklustre and the music isn't very memorable. Then there's the backer portraits that need to be modded out and all the candles/braziers being purple gets old.

Otherwise I'm digging it.

I prefer the nostalgia pandering artstyle of the other one, is this game better?

Why are there so many shills in this thread
The devs aren't even bothering to hide it any more

I wish there were two weapon slots so you could attack as fast as in OoE.

may castlekino be dare i say it back at the menu?

>but NoR has all the sex stuff
For now. We already have naked Miriam mod, it's only a matter of time before we got more exciting stuff.Hopefully.

What is it like to not be able to like anything?

>2 cents have been deposited into your account

I like how you think that calling out blatant shills trying to advertise on Yea Forums as "not liking anything". Really shows who you're working for

I swear the only people that ever even think about these stupid scores is Yea Forums anyway. I remember when I was 8 and I thought they were bullshit even then.
No one has ever looked at any marioshit and genuinely thought it was a 10/10 game or even close.

No I'm being serious any time I see someone being positive about anything here they get called a shill why are you such a doomer is someone liking somthing such a foreign concept to you?

It was just one guy asking something and people shat on HK so HKfags came to defend their opinion.

>not on linux
I pirate

Many Mario games are objectively 10/10 though.
You are fucking retarded if you actually believe Iga can afford shills.

He's a contrarian teenager that unironically thinks "the man" is trying to reach into his wallet.

The only thing you're serious about is how you're seriously trying to deflect the issue by saying that the people calling you out are doomers or somehow don't like things
It's a retardedly basic tactic and I'm sorry if you actually thing this logical fallacy has any ground

Is this gonna be the norm from now on?

>the order in which you visit new areas is completely linear
Lame. Is Hollow Knight the only Metroidvania that doesn't do this?

nah

hollow knight queers are always shitting up other threads long before launch, they're obnoxious as hell

Norm of what ? If somebody shit on something the fans will come to defend, that's just how it is.

I mean HK guys just mentioning it in every thread even uprovoked.

It's just kinda sad I dont see how these people live

I like how there's so many SotN throwbacks such as LVing the familiars and even being able to equip the sword once it hits LV99.

You must be new here. Every thread about popular or new games are like this.

Why Miriam so ugly compared to Shanoa? She's so overdesigned.

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Some guy made a shitty bait and people fell for it, that's all.

They're usually cucks who want to feel independent or "woke". Fucking hipsters.

>LVing the familiars and even being able to equip the sword once it hits LV99.
Wat?
I can equip the sword as long as the sword familiar is not in use.

Do you know a good place to level him?

stop playing on a toaster

Better than the shills are
>You just don't like anything
>I don't see how these people live
>Th-they're just cucks
Keep crying, though, it's delicious and I'm having a grand laugh here. Imagine how shills honestly believe that they can just slap up a thread saying THIS GAME GOOD and not be called out for their shit. Sad crybabies and all

So let me get this straight. A bunch of people not liking what you like are corporate shills? Take off your tinfoil hat you faggot.

oh shit my bad user. Familiars do transform and evolve every 25 levels though.

I'm not part of this thread, and I have no interest in this game and I don't even know the context of what's happening, but I just read this post randomly and I'm here to tell you that you're really gay and even worse, boring.

>runs poorly on PC
How the fuck? If I uncap the framerate with maxed out settings I get like 500 fps. What the fuck is wrong with your PC?

trying too hard lad

you're only fooling newfags which is good i guess

tried it. seems nice if you like side scroller games but there is no full controller support

Zoom zoom. Mario has always been an icon of quality. Like if you played a game with Mario, you knew it was the best that the (at the time) greatest dev could possibly do. NSMB killed this streak but it kept going until at least Galaxy 2.

people with generic BT controllers how did you get em to work with the game? Game wont recognize my inputs

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We have many posters that praise it as the greatest metroidvania ever made, this is the reason people say they hate it even if they think its alright or good, they vehemently disagree with that sentiment that its the best and want to make it clear that there are metroidvania fans out there who don't think that.

I just downloaded the game, how do I get Patch 1.02? It's not appearing for me.

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>Hollow Knight
>Ori
>literally Metroid games with 0 RPG mechanics

Anyone here know how easy it is to mod UE4? I'd like to replace Miriam's screams when she collects a new shard with loud nigra noises.

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I want DOMinique to rape me!

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The game is good.
BUT HOW THE FUCK DO I FIX THAT AWFUL AUDIO LAG and STUTTER?

is it 30 bucks good? how long is it?

As long as the other igavanias maybe a tiny bit longer

>permanent stat boosts
>fully upgraded passive shards become permanent buffs
>beating OD lets you borrow every single one of his books
>this motherfucking weapon

where wee you when soma wasnt the most broken castlevania protagonist anymore

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I think it probably has to do with the vsync or framesmoothing options.

When I started up the game it was going at around 500fps and I was getting all sorts of screen-tearing so I enabled vsync and immediately started seeing stuttering and hickups which shouldn't happen when I had ~440fps overhead without vsync enabled so I turned on framesmoothing in the option menu and that only seemed to make it worse so I disabled both and just limited FPS via RTSS and it's worked flawlessly ever since.

My first run was 11 hours. So in Metroidvania terms it's half a Hallow Knight and twice a Samus Returns.

just play nightmare mode then little babby

im not complaining, i love being OP
grinded all night to get every shard and fully upgrade all the passive ones

Nightmare is a fucking Nightmare to start off with though. That ship suddenly becomes the most difficult part of the game.

I have a onboard sound card.
Any idea on which is the best/latest audio driver?
Realtek?

HKfags on suicide watch

Also the problem seems to always begin when breaking a lamp.

Probably the fag who tried to use a Genesis controller with the game.

Where do I go after I get the ability to invert gravity?

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I doubt it has anything to actually do with your sound.

That's why Iga's games are always trash
He rolls the dice on stat numbers and make items without a given fuck if it's going to break the game or not
It was basically impossible to die in SotN if you knew what you were doing

fuck off, you suck

What shard?

I highly doubt people will go through the trouble of implementing monster rape/impreg scenes so we've still got to wait for NoR to be finished.

no user

you are the trash

to be fair, you have to get out of your way to grind for the right mats to get this weapon
and breaking games is fun anyways so this isnt an issue

You say it like it's a bad thing. I love having the option to be overpowered and look like a total goofball if I want, but if I want to stick to basic weapons and wear normal looking gear the whole game I can do that too.

more like super mediocre

Decent length. Probably longer than any of the gba titles. Has good replayability too, the game feels great on pc. It makes me honestly want to try speedrunning for the first time.

It's basically impossible to die in any game if you know what you're doing.

I'm really quite upset poisoning yourself doesn't affect the bloodless fight.
Otherwise it's bloody brilliant.

PS4 or Switch?

I'm curious, but I've always been wary of overt hype

Does anyone have any thoughts on this game that aren't just "game is good, buy game"?

Game is good, pirate game

It's quite literally bootleg Castlevania, what more can we say
If a game is an exact clone of another 20yo game there's just not a lot to discuss

tl;dr if you like igavanias you will like this if you don't you won't simple as

That's not true at all
In this game and SotN you just need to know the spawn for a handful of items to plow through the entire game with no worries
You can only fuck up on purpose

It's kind of fun, but I don't understand what they were thinking with some of the enemy designs.

In SotN's case it was almost impossible to be not completely overpowered by the end unless you deliberately gimped yourself.
Hell, even playing unarmed was broken due to the game registering two hits with each punch.

Do critical rings stack?

The fairy is mai waifu.

It's completely true. Do you need examples or something? What you described also works in every souls game.

i have no experience with prior castlevania games whatsoever
this was very cute and surprising
but im probably missing some reference here

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It's not lol

>muh balance
dilate

There is a cressangrim in this game too?

Where the fuck do you get black pepper anyway? Tons of dishes use it (and ingredients that it helps make) but it hasn't dropped for me, and it seems like a very "common" ingredient so I doubt it drops from some rare enemy.

Does it work in DMC?
Does it work in Sekiro?
Does it work in CoD?
Does it work Dragon Quest?
It only works in games where you can rush the map and the dumbfuck designer can't balance items

There's not much else to say.
Only real minus points are the only passable graphics (that at least are varied, though), some really horrendous animations and Normal difficulty being too easy.

yes, a certain enemy drops the unupgraded version of it, you need 4 copies of that, one drop from an optional boss, and one other material that i forgot to craft the weapon in the webm
if you have both the crit chance and crit damage rings as well as str augment and sword expertise its quite possibly the most broken thing in the game

It's too small for it's dev time... WTF were they doing; sucking Igarashi's cock the whole time?

Not only do the tiddies bounce, but you can transform into a bunnygirl on command and summon a cute fairy girl familiar that sits on your shoulder whenever you sit in a chair or use a save point.

>muh balance
kys nigger, balance in single player games makes no sense and its fun as fuck to be op
shitters like you are why dark souls 3 sucked

Seems like a fair amount of work. Whats it called?

Not really as far as I can tell
You can interact with chairs in the Castlevanias and sometimes you get an easter eggish thing
Like the confession booth in SotN if you wanna look that up

I backed a high tier. Not enough to be one of those faggots on the paintings, but I dropped some money on this shit. I actually went full cope mode because I expected it to suck shit based on what they showed off prior to launch, but the gameplay's fucking solid. The graphics are hit and miss and it could use more polish in a lot of areas, but god damn is the gameplay solid. I'm on the fence about whether or not it's the best Castlevania I've played actually, and I didn't even expect it to be a contender, but Igarashi seems to have taken the elements that worked best from the prior games and combined them all, on top of adding new shit, and it works really well. I won't say it's not disappointing that the game as a whole still lacks much polish after several years and over five million bucks, but I am thankful that the team at least focused on getting the part that matters most, the fucking gameplay, solid.

I was thinking about buying the game, but
>13 DLCs to be released in the future
I think I will wait until the game is complete.

Shut the fuck up, casual

Any techniques I should master ASAP? That stuff carries over to other weapons of the same class is neat.

the unupgraded version is called rhava bular, the upgraded version is called rhava velar
should have added, the recipe can only be acquired after you get the invert shard

>tfw too much of a shitter to get medals

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zoomers will hate this post but its true
HK boss battles are god tier
HK exploration is a shit tier slog
deal with it nerds

you're such a little damagelet bitch holy shit
i bet you like gimping yourself like a little cuck nigger
have fun dealing no damage bitch, ill be over there one shotting everything ;)

>HK boss battles are god tier
But the combat in HK is shit tier which automatically makes boss fights mid tier at best

>infinite jumps
>mach speed with one button
>can stop/slow down time as long as she has MP

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When do the boss fights get good? I just fought the bug waifu that seems to be the main character of the sequel and I have yet to fight a boss I thought was remotely interesting.

HK boss battles don't hold a candle to Rabi Ribi boss battles.

the game feels imbalanced
at first, it has a nice, medium difficulty
but a couple hours into the game you are completely overpowered and rape everything in your path

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I wish Bayonetta would repeat her tips. I accidentally skipped past her text talking about jumping higher and zangetsu and now I have no clue.

just play on hard or nightmare if you hate doing damage so much, retard

this

most of these fags wouldn't even make it to the castle

so its a castlevania game? sick good to know

If you beat a boss without getting hit?

I assume that's what you mean like in the other games, but I haven't done it yet so I don't know. I COULD do it for sure but only after learning their patterns, and I'm not interested in save scumming enough to fight them over and over until I've perfected that. I'll also never be good enough at videya to first try that shit, nor would I ever want to be.

Same problem
Ship is hard then the more you go in the more it turns into a cakewalk
>make a harder mode
>just give all enemies 3x attack boost and 3x health and call it a day

most games are hard at the start then get progressively easier especially games with rpg elements
you're one stupid nigger

>what is progression
holy fuck son you're dumb as hell

She's telling you that the Double Jump shard is in the library.

Cope harder dickriders
This game is completely broken literally mash X to win

Bad RPGs or RPGs for children get easier as you go. Good RPGs get more difficult as you go by giving you more tools and options but also requiring you to use those many options in complex ways in order to succeed.

>most games are hard at the start then get progressively easier
Most shit games you mean

the platforming is hard which is cool but there is to much and platforming is not always fun.

>t. normal mode casual

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So...

Is morrowind shit Yea Forums?

>literally Metroid games with 0 RPG mechanics
As it should be.

Morrowind has a lot more to it than this game
And yes, the combat in Morrowind is shit and you're a complete faggot if you disagree

Where the hell do I get EX-Potions? I figured I'd have found the recipe to craft them by now with 80% map completion.

>generic bullet hell shit
>good
Fuckin' cringe.

>literally on the second boss

I already have the double jump though. Is there an even better jump?

>mfw this thread
Why are Metroidvania fags such vapid cunts? Get a fucking grip.

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Is rabi ribi on the switch?

>post yfw when satisfied
>post yfw you don't tryhard over a metroidvania
why are you retards pretending difficulty is a thing in this genre in the first place? who are you trying to kid here

you dudes are clowns

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I don't know a single RPG that gets much harder as it progresses. Also this game is pretty challenging.

Yes, overrated by dumb fucking millennials with no taste.

Should I start on Nightmare if I want a challenge, or is Hard good as well?

She also points out destructible walls as well

Depends. If you're good at shit like 2D fighting games and not getting hit, probably just hard. If you're good at the above and Castlevania games as well specifically, then nightmare I guess. If you aren't good at anything try normal and just play through (at least some of) the tutorial and decide if that was too easy or hard? The core of this game is not getting fucking hit. Even on normal unless you grind like a fag, one hit from a tougher monster for your level will shitcan your health.

>Even on normal unless you grind like a fag, one hit from a tougher monster for your level will shitcan your health.
Hard it is then.

hollow kniggers are insufferable
nah you've got shit taste and are probably a zoomer

they don't, and once you reach a certain point they begin to feel recycled.

Is there a sword as good as Rhava Bural or is this the best?

Is there something I can do in here or is this room just a backer plug?

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Finally beat the game. English voice acting is a fucking joke compared to Japanese. Whoever thought of making the spike armor in the twin towers as a main objective with no hints whatsoever needs to get shot. I hated using the shield painting shard because of the pledgers faces in them but it was useful. There were a lot of shitty bugs and glitches but overall it's pretty good. I guess the Mighty Number 9 curse is over and we actually had a good game by a famous jap.

Curse of the Moon was way better tbqh

So what exactly does a Mastered Technique do differently? Seems about the same.

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Why do I have a save file already? Is it from the demo?
Why can't I get past the loading screen without crashing?

IGAs always had dumb fun stuff like this in his games.

sotn is a boomer game for boomers like me IMO. Was it fucking awesome at the time? Absolutely. Did it age well? Fuck no. I can still enjoy it as much as I did in the 90s because I have that nostalgia factor, but I understand why a young buck wouldn't necessarily get the same enjoyment out of it. Nobody likes getting old but we're all getting old and one day we'll be those AARP cripples telling young people why SOTN was the pinnacle of gaming, much like the current AARP videya crowd will talk your ear off about why Atari was the pinnacle of gaming. For better or worse, context matters, and just like we don't have context for why arcades were fucking awesome because we had different newer shit thrust on us, that 12 year old playing fortnite is never going to have the same, if any appreciation for games from the 90s.

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SWITCHFAGS RISE UP

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Techniques are limited to a handful of weapons. You can only discover and initially use them with those weapons.
Only you have mastered it, the Technique can be used with any weapon of the same type.

Most of them let you use it on all weapons of that class once you master it. However some like the stretching rod one only work on that specific weapon as far as I know.

Read the sticky on steam forum

>dumping a random download with no context

Nah nigga. Not today.

It's pretty much the Monster Hunter fanbase syndrome all over again.

Great games, but plagued by fans who keeps on setting it as the apex point of the genre it resides in. While half of that shit is obviously just falseflagging to get people to egg on said game there are those who genuinely believes that their game is indeed perfection incarnate and god forbids anyone else tries something similar in the same genre. And as the game/series gets popular the falseflagging incites Poe's law and invites newcomers that will parrot said opinions.

Ultimately it's just retarded shit-flinging that benefits no one when one could be simply enjoying both games at once.

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Anyone know a good way to make money early on?

You just answered why

It's the latest GOG version from a few threads ago.

Got myself an 8-bit coin. What are some good weapons to waste it on? I'm primarily interested in boots and guns but some of that shit seems weaker than what I can craft.

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This I cheesed it by loading up on potions and just running through the spikes. And the squid mandatory for swimming is stupid. I don't know about something so easy as >beat boss get next item to progress around map for all things. But I don't know how the fuck you were supposed to know about the armor at the tower

I got like a bone thrower and bar shards every 2 times I step outside the shelter. Easy 600 gold but I doubt it's efficient enough.

Did you even touch any of the demos, you brainlet?

Why do you need money early on? Maybe I'm retarded but I didn't see anything worth buying... You'll get fairly good equipment for your level quickly without spending a dime, and it's better to craft shit anyway based on what I've seen. If you really suck and need a lot of potions it's not too brutal to grind crafting material for that.

Still workin on it. At least they are still active about it.

You can upgrade them with a 16-bit coin and then a 32-bit coin

I played the first demo (I think they called it the alpha) but not the second because I was busy at the time and just kind of forgot about it. I wasn't too impressed with that. How the fuck am I a brainlet because I didn't like what I saw compared to you? Even in the final release, I thought everything before the castle kind of sucked imo (When I got to the village and heard no music I was worried that the game was in that poor of a state rather than them trying to set dramatic tension, and only realized that's what they were trying to do after the fact), and was ready to be disappointed. Then I got to the castle and wasn't disappointed between then and where I am in the game now.

>Ship is hard

I didn't have any problems with the ship. Especially after finding the gun. I had to heal against the sea abomination, but it wasn't too bad.

Zangetsu gave me the business though.

>like to gimp himself
What a pussy ass bitch

Is there a new game plus

>Can rekka with kicks

I'm impressed already.

>Zangetsu
He's got a braindead easy pattern to master, took me two tries on nightmare, ship is way harder since she has a much more complex pattern and you've got to use those adds as shield but those shields can randomly hit you while you're hiding behind them, much more difficult. Zangetsu is easier to read and you've only got one line of attack to think about. I have no idea how you had any trouble with him.

Where do you get apples?

I honestly was mostly disappointed with the bosses
They had lots of potential but everything between zangetsu and blodless is a fucking joke
Also fuck the no train pass hint and the random ass swim power hint

irony?

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>Soma
Some autist did a comprehensive list years ago on which CV protagonist could potentially deal the most damage.
It was Hector mostly because of his familiars, and Shanoa in second place due to the stupid weakness system in OoE.

anyone know where to get ectoplasm

Thanks

that's what you get for breaking the release date, fucker. should've waited like the rest. you wanted to play before it was ready, so suffer the consequences.

Dont worry user I loved Hollow Knight too.

>Metroid game with 0 RPG mechanics
...so a Metroid game?

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You're talking about the ship boss? Like I said, I just had to heal. With Zangetsu I was clumsy. I'm generally pretty clumsy, my main issue is that I get too close to enemies and end up suffering damage from them.

i do this too user don't feel shit on

>circle is used in any single menu to go back
>map is the only one where circle puts a marker down
>>>>>>>>no legend whatsoever so i spent a good 5 minutes trying to realize what the icons meant

that's some stupid fucking design

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Doing cleanup for the last percent of map completion is eating at my soul. At this point I've managed to bring it down to .3% but hell thats still like 5-6 secret rooms to find. I've just been running around with accelerator humping walls til I find one that breaks, someone please tell me theres a better method. Also what in the world is demon# 44, it's the last one I need to complete the demon guide

Dumb casuals. You are cancer.

There is at least 2 breakable floors and 2 ceilings to break. Use fairy + ring that sees breakable walls.

The fairy points them out, also there is a shard that lights them up.

yeah, most of them were shit. the other bosses such as bael was cool visually and zangetsu's theme comes up when using the sword during the gremori fight was kino

it's sorta disappointing but there's gonna be more dlcs coming so at least they should make a decent boss at least.

Cool. Already using the fairy, any idea what the ring and shard are called specifically? Honestly doing cleanup has me a little amazed at all the collectibles/power ups I've missed, I even just found that theres an offscreen HP/MP up just above the castle drawbridge

>get to train section
>meet weeb man
>Miriam I can't board this train because....
>INSTANTLY GRAPPLES ONTO TRAIN AND TAKES YOU WITH HIM
>BTW YOUR TIMED NOW BECAUSE REASONS
>ALSO THERE'S A NUMBER IN THE TOP RIGHT CORNER COUNTING UP TO 400
>NO TIME TO EXPLAIN, TRAIN BOSS INSIDE THE TRAIN

wtf just happened? Did no one play test this section and think "hey there's a few things here that aint being answered". It was the equivalent of taken three lines of coke and sprinting down a busy street.

>tfw I did the exact same thing
Not gamebreaking, but there's other inconsistencies that bug me
>get books
>go to barber
>YOU HAVE UNLOCKED NEW HAIRSTYLES
>go to alchemist
>nothing
>not even an icon in the menu to denote which recipes were recently added

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That was so fucking funny when I saw that. They could've mentioned she can open the fucking sealed door with her magic but instead showed us probably the worst cutscene in the game.

Yeah that part was odd, but I just sort of let Zangetsu run roughshod on the area.

its shit

Ya that part had me all kinds of fucked up, what even was the number counting up to 400? By the time you reached the train boss and got to the end the number was only at like 170 or something like that.

I can't remember the name of the shard but I'm sure if you Google some keywords you'll find the name.

I think you could just take out all the save points except for the one near the beginning. They seem redundant when you've got teleporters which are more reasonably placed to begin with. It'd also give you more of a reason to head back to base and check in on all the NPCs if that's where the only save point was located.

but the real quesiton in one of his last trialer iga read all the critisicm and said loud "I WILL PROVE THEM WRONG" did he succed?

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Ghost at the beginning of the game.
I think Dominique also sell them.

>beat gebel
>game over

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Redpill me on this game, what other content will come later? Not sure if I want to pay the full price right now.

The game still looks mediocre-to-terrible most of the time, but it plays as great as I hoped so whatever.

You weren't wearing the Silver Glasses? The fuck user?

First IGA game?
You're supposed to think "well that wasn't a very satisfying ending" and go back and look for something you missed.

I hope the game does well enough that there can be a sequel and it actually look great.

It had the number 1 spot on Steam's top global sellers list, and everyone is speaking positively about it. I think a sequel after the DLCs or at least a spin off game like CotM has a pretty good chance of happening

Just started playing and from the dialogue the game makes it seem like having as many shards as possible is bad. Do I need to use them as little as I can or toss them all out to get a better ending or does it not matter?

Aaaaaaand 100% map thanks to the user who posted his earlier so I could spend an hour trying to find the rooms I missed

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who is miriam girlfriend?

>$30 on cdkeys
finally, I'll get it this weekend

Me

I see some completionists itt:

What are some whips with actual whip skills? All I have is the QCF one that makes a gust of wind. I'm decently far in the game but no whip I find ever has a skill

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What is patch 1.05

>Holds up well today?
>Fuck no
If you're going to suck cock at least make sure it's legal, freak

Just play user. Do what you think its right.

>Dust better than Dawn of Sorrow
Fuck off
>Hollow knight powergap
Fuck off

deez nuts

shard is from seekers. Little eyeballs in desert.

DIE SHANOA

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If you fully upgrade the detective's eye shard it turns into a skill shard so its always active no matter what, plus it auto collects items in quite a large range which is nifty.

Those are free DLC's retard, probably gonna be game updates.

Man you fucks go for some guy's easy as fuck bait
no

In Portrait of Ruin the game said that Jonathan wielding the Vampire Killer would take a toll on him but it did absolutely nothing.

>single file that's over the download limit

Why do faggots keep doing this?

>valdis story below dust
That game may have a garbage artstyle but it beats the shit out of dust.

How long did it take you to beat the game?

is mouse and keyboard controls good?

This.

>halfway through game
>feels really easy besides blood bitch
>debating swapping to hard but dont want to start over

Hardbros, is it worth it

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GaMe HaS nO pUbLiShEr
gAmE bAd

How do you upgrade that sword?

Don’t lie, fag. It’s way harder than any castlevania that falls under a metroidvania.

you also need the legendary weapons recipe, found in the big room before gebel, you'll need invert to access it

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Instead finish on normal and go to nightmare

Liking how the boat sways?

Exactly. Probably some stuff like Boss Rush, new game modes or whatever. I prefer having the whole package at once, instead of relaunching the game every few months and relearning stuff because some new content dropped.

Where does rhava bural drop?

from the demons of the same kind as the one that cuts your hair, i dont remember their name but they're found in the chapel area

Edward scissorhands enemies

>But im probably missing some reference here

You can do a very similar thing in Symphony of the Night, the breakout game for the guy responsible behind this game. If you go to a specific room and sit down in a chair, your fairy familiar will start singing a song if she's leveled up enough.

Are you stupid?

Da fuck, Im running everything ultra at 1440p and hitting like 300 fps

Holy shit Yea Forums this game is... FUN

I know theres an infinite mp item but is there an infinite bullet item but for all types of bullets? I wanna do an Albus run next

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>tfw i have the most overpowered skill which lets me to reverse gravity
>tfw i don't know where the fuck to go now

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I can't get over how ugly this game is and the amount of posts that are overrating the copy pasted gameplay

>can't activate accelerator while in bunnygirl form
This is the most disappointing part of the game so far

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Go back to your bug game then, retard.

Go to the train and take a seat.

So to do weapon techniques you need to hit two of the buttons plus attack?

I did alot of grinding and afk with game running. If you don't do either of those things then you will prolly beat the game in 12-16 hours on first play through. Though they will release two other chars eventually so that will be fun.

>Miriam gave Zangetsu her shitty lip syncing from the old backer demos

Not him, but Hollow Knight is superior in every way to Bloodstained.

Ori isn't a metroidvania you imbecile.

Official ranking is this:

Hollow Knight >>>>>>> Guacamelee! > Steamworld Dig 2 > Guacamelee 2 > any and every old garbage for boomers

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Yep, apparently a lot of people had that question when I looked it up on google. I honestly died more times trying to murder it than I did against OD

ugliest indie game of the year

Looking forward to seeing thots irl with miriam tattoos

i was promised no jumpscares....

Is that Candlejack?

HK is lame and boring

There is no way you can believe that HK's combat is better.

It's motion + attack commands like in a fighting game, hell most of the commands are basic ones like quarter circle forward or forward back forward. I think one of the rapiers even has just mash attack

>Ori isn't a metroidvania

Neither is any other game you named if we go by your arbitrary definition.

What have you guys mostly been running? I've only touched feet weapons and one really fast sword off the scissors guys.
Just jumping on 5-10 times in a row with 30-35 damage per hit is so satisfying I can't imagine killing any other way.
I need to do another run where I try guns or slow weapons.

does it count breakable walls too or just rooms

does she have nip tats?

some trivia about the twin drakes boss, the one on the left (with horn on its nose, huge fins on sides of head) is male, the one on the right (horns on the back of head, no fins) is female according to the assets.

They most definitely are. Ori is a platformer, the backtracking is never encouraged or focused on, it's an afterthought and a technicality only braindead retards who are incapable of deep thinking would consider a metroidvania

If you're ranking by gameplay Hollow Knight is closer to the bottom and Ori is closer to the top.
Ori is one of the best speedgames out there, and every time someone calls it shit it just exposes them as a complete casual.
Hollow Knight attracts plebs because its incredibly slow by comparison.
This post deserved the roasting it got.

SotN is an adventure, Alucard starts being powerful as fuck, he just gets his armor removed for the game

>pirated
>controlled doesn't work
>died twice to same boss
>uninstalled

The only challenge to Hollow Knight is the final DLC. Everything else is piss easy. Shitters like you were what made people think Dark Souls was hard.

The only thing that Ori lacks is boss fights. It is metroidvania by every other metric.

Are hollow fags the hxh fags of Yea Forums

Hollow Knight is a good game.
However the praise it gets is incredibly noxious and wrong in pretty much every regard.

morning star > steam greatsword > bandit blade

If you unplug your usb controller, the game will flip out and crash.

unironically yes

i think 2,5d would've worked better if they made more areas like the tower
it's sad they didn't really ended up using the gimmick much

Guns are pretty good, did my first run with them and was surprised how quick some enemies were getting deleted. Your hat and scarf slot are kinda locked onto certain items but once you get both slots filled you won't need to pop out actual ammunition until bosses and even then you won't need more than the first three basic damage bullets until the end game. By the end of the game I was popping ~85-90 per shot with basic shit bullets and popping bosses with 350+ damage bullets when I needed to, and this was using the 16-bit coin gun without using the gunslinger hat that more than doubles gun damage in exchange for using double the bullets. I still have to figure out which enemy or chest drops the gun I need to forge the ultimate gun but theres nothing in the game anymore I can't outgun

Where the fuck do I go after beating the skeleton boss in the fire area.

It's okay. But it's definitely being overhyped by nostalgiafags. In an effort to appeal to the nostalgiafags, it also has some dated mechanics. At least it's priced appropriately.

All these plebs whining about this ranking, but fact is HK is the only Metroidvania that's had lasting discussion within the last 10 years.

>castlevania game
>no skeletons
>no zombies
how is this allowed?

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>banned in china
because they want the money

Shanoa was design to be a cold maiden beauty and Miriam look like she had no soul but only big titties

Zero Mission>>Super Metroid>>Aria of Sorrow>>Dawn of Sorrow>>Valdis Story>>Order of Ecclesia>> SotN>>Portrait of Ruin>>Circle ofthe Moon>>Hollow Knight>Dust>Ori

>no xp in nightmare
Does this mean your familiars don't gain levels either?

it's shit

That's just a Yea Forums meme. I think the real reason why they replaced skeletons/zombies with mortes is to distance themselves from the CV brand.

I dare you.
Even forgetting
Who raised you.
You.... Stupid Discliple

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just rooms

Circle of the Moon > Aria of Sorrow > Dawn of Sorrow > Order of Ecceslia > Portrait of Ruin > Symphony of the Night > Harmony of Dissonance > Valdis Story > Guacamelee > Salt and Sanctuary > Various other shit metoidvanias that don't fit here > Homo Knight

And i still wondering, are good fairys really part of Dracula's monster employment list for Alucard to have one as a familiar?

I get Alucard is a good guy, but it doesnt make sense to me for some reason, guess its just the autism kicking in.

Started on NIGHTMARE and wow, I didn't count on it kicking my ass this hard. I feel like a bitch but I'm gonna restart on Hard I think.

Time Spinner was a good metroivania and have lot of graphique inspiration on Aria of sorrow.

Also the 2 Sorrows are better than CotM

Everyone wants a cute fairy companion, no matter how evil you are.

So Nightmare is probably for a second run or a NewGame + I swear.

Any of you gents mind giving me a steam key?

Holy shitMiriam boss does fakeout attacks

For the people stuck after the game over screen:

Double jump have multiple areas in the library you can use it at. And the cathedral there is a special spot to use it and kill the blood lady so you can use her ability in the lake of blood where the water bars you from going down.
Once you jump down in the blood well keep killing the fish-like enemies to get ability toswim underwater.
Then you get to the bottom right secret desert area to get waterwalking.
With that ability you can look for the ability tochange gravity and turns yourself upside down. You get it in a volcano like area at the bottom left.
Once you have it go back to the second tower of twin dragons, you can get an armor that makes you immune to spikes and such. You use that one to get to the top left area of the castle. Now after you fight the Snake a second time, you get his sword. Use that sword on the moon during Gebel's fight when it turns red.

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Does the amount of shards actually affect the ending?

Yes.
I think it's the final quest from the grandma who ask for food.

ok serious question, where the FUCK do you get fairy dust

>36€
>12h of content

you niggers cant be serious

From the fairies?

TimeSpinner was fantastic as a "ain't broke, don't fix it" Castlevania game. Beat that game in one sitting, playing it on a complete whim. Had everything I wanted in a Castlevania.

Dialogue is what killed it for most people. It had a fucking awful campfire scene near the end where they just talk about fucking each other for 5 minutes. It was really bad and all that shit ruin a simple time-travel story.

From the totally not fairies

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what's that green aura

36 hours user. 3 characters.

>armor just icon, name and effect
>no physical appearance
>unique just default outfit with different color
motherfuckers already made the game in 3D. no wonder some complaint about poll outfits

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Secret wall reveal. Its a shard

OoC > Aria of Sorrow > Dawn of Sorrow > SotN > Timespinners > Portrait of Ruin > Harmony > Circle of the Moon

Maybe I need to reply Circle of the Moon, but thought it was underwhelming when it came out and don't see why people loved the fuck out of it.

Also, don't care for other shit like Hollow Knight, Ori, Valdis Story or any of those others. They all get the exploration of areas down, if not better, but half the fun is getting new equipment/souls too, which I feel Castlevania still does best.

I want to get this, should I start the game on nightmare? (with nightmare code)

Or hard? I am an avid fan of metroidvania and I thought order of ecclesia on hardest was the best way to experience it (albeit maybe a tad too difficult as a first time player)

I don't want to replay it over and over on higher difficulties but I also don't want a 10 hour game on nightmare or something (100%)

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Not every monster and magical creature are going to join up with Dracula since he's a genocidal fuck so some are going to steer to good boys like Alucard. Gives the world more depth.

Is the pure Miriam costume in the game already?

Nobody knows what costumes are in.

>oh no people don't like my opinion how could this happen to me

zoomers are fucking insufferable

I'm fucking loving it

>loving this game
>so busy with other stuff that i can't rush through it
>keep wanting to go into threads
>keep running into spoilers

Feelsbadman.gif

Nah, just do a normal playthru, then go for nightmare mode

HArd at most, it’s hard enough and In nightmare you don’t even level up.
I usually enjoy games being more difficult but you can tell they didn’t design this one with extra difficulties in mind. Bosses gain extra mechanics and the first boss becomes a retarded rng fest on hard/night

I'm not really far into bloodstained, but normal difficulty is easier compared to hollow knight.

got inverse, what's next?

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Man the save point is pretty far into the lava level. If it weren't for all these flying faggots.

OH FUCK I DIDN'T EVEN THINK OF THAT

No.

Must have felt like a brainlet.

The not leveling thing in Nightmare makes me think it's a challenge mode, so Hard mode seems like it's what I'm looking for for the first run.
Thanks for the responds, looking forward to diving in.

Miriam is our mommy

I would if it let me select anything other than normal mode

Where's the spike armor?

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What the hell do you have to do for the bloodstained achievement? I thought it would be straightforward like draining the blood fountain but that ain't it

There is an alt-outfit that you can get after having Invert Shard

backer plug, dont waste time

likely drain lots of blood with the skill

It is a good game, but god damn the music is just serviceable and the art style is in most places really fucking bland.
I hope this sets up the framework for a more robust/refined squeal.

>Press any key to start
>press like 4 different keys
>turns out any key works but it just has a 10 second delay before actually realizing you pressed a key

If i buy this game am I automatically a Tranny or do i get the HRT pills later

Well shit, that means I have to change my weapon then. For some reason they made it so Guns don't leave blood pools to absorb afterwards but swords and I'd assume the other bladed weapons do.

They should have gone 2D if they knew they couldnt pull 3D off.

Fuckin' $5.5m budget. I have no idea where they actually put the money, cuz it sure wasn't the graphics or music or voice acting (except Hayter) or gameplay (because most of it is carbon copied from earlier Castlevanias).

lol you're right. The game animates like trash. Someone pocketed a lot of that money. Good vidya animation doesn't even cost that much on that level. Some indie devs do better.

>Do I fit in yet?

does the PC version have the evil Save-destroying update?

Steam doesnt allow to cancel updates and i dont want to restar my game, doesnt help that the game doesnt have any way to indicate the actual version number.

i have the steam version, am at endgame and never had an issue/gamebreaking bug

The real problem is that they were working with Inti Creates. They're the ones who fucked up the development and set it back by 1-2 years. After they got fired they hired Wayforward to fix+finish up the game
Inti Creates has a history of being a trainwreck behind the scenes even if they release some decent small games every now and then. No idea why Iga went with them (lowest bid?). Wayforward far and away a much more competent dev house.

yeah I have a mouse. $40 mouse.

Twin Dragon Tower, need invert to get it

is the abyssal guardian supposed to give you a shard? he just died and i got his monster log

it's just a gatekeeper boss for the next area

thats good to hear, maybe the game wasnt updated yet.

supposedly, the 1.02 update in consoles somehow when you load an existing game, automatically opens chests with story critical items before you reach them and doesnt allow you to collect the items, fucking up your progress.

>Map reveal at 99,80%
FUUUUUUUCK!!!

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i got 26 hours in it so far, gonna 100% this bitch

No.

Oh shit that's neat, didn't know that

So Nightmare mode is just Lv. 1 Hard Mode, right? I think I'll be a little bitch and just go for Hard Mode on my first playthrough.

i honestly regret starting on normal
game's way too easy till late game when you need to level to kill the last few story bosses

You should be. Stupid. This is like the first time where you can unlock hard mode without beating the game first and it's such a great idea it's a wonder other games don't do this.

How in the actual fuck do I get that last spot under the save room, I feel like I've tried everything around that tower.

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Its fucking $50CAD there is no way I can justify spending that on castlemania

keep exploring and come back later

>Zangetsu 1
I picked a hellva game to play while hungover

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Did you ever play the original SotN? Shit is like 10 hours.

>watch gameplay video
>some guy walking in and out of the area killing the same monster for five mins

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How in the hell does booby Nun lady get so far in the castle when she's not a fighter? She almost died from a fucking Bone Morte. Then i see her in this lab wtf?

Is it not something I can get to with invert and super jump?

Here's your third character

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i mean, you can see from the map you could reach it with invert from the bottom of the tower

Scas

>Want this on my Switch.
>Don't $40 want it.

Help.

leveling is a mistake
it's the same issue with dark souls, shitters that think the game is "too hard" will just overlevel and try to kill a boss before they get killed

In case you're unaware, mastering weapon techniques unlocks them for all weapons of that type, so you can have multiple moves per weapon.

That's exactly how I plan to play. Do we know if anything is fully missable on a single playthrough, like Mudmen from SotN?

play something else assmonger

>when she's not a fighter?

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Well fug, I've just been jumping all over starting from the top of the tower and didn't think to check the bottom first.

No, the issue affected saves made before the update. Since Steam launched with the update in place, it wasn't affected. Question misspoke when he said the update was coming later.

I have 2 questions:

1) Pixie is currently my strongest familiar, but I really like using the sword from the flying sword enemy. Should I use the sword familiar instead to raise it's attack power?

2) Could you guys recommend me a one handed sword that is worth investing?

found the plebs, nothing beats farming the same exact enemy over and over for their shard/soul
got 100% shards yesterday after farming the 8bit overlord for hours, felt really good

She was about to get killed by a bone morte. Even Nerdy boy can probably kill it

geez bro i sure wonder why

Why does Nectar say it grants immortality? I tried to use it to by pass this spike hallway in the church area and I still died.

Oh thank lord, i still canot believe how is it possible to make a bug where you werent allowed to get story critical items just by loading a save.

seriously, how is that even logically possible?

All it takes to kill a bone morte is one person with a ton of shards in them like Miriam.

or maybe ANYONE with a sword or proper weaponry at hand, probably Dominique was too busy protecting the gorilla-arm loli to fight properly

Is there a way to use shortuts to JUST switch weapons? I don't like having to update all my shortcuts whenever I get new armor/shards.

because the flavour text is based on ancient greek mythology dumb burger

i hate that child so much
her english va is so unbelievable dogshit

Who here is playing this with a controller? Also are all ports of the game 60 fps?

To be honest, Yooka-Laylee and Mighty No. 9 arent as bad as people make them out to be. YL is like a solid 7, and MN9 is like a 6. Bloodstained is a solid 9 tho, good fuckin game.