Is this game better than Symphony of the Night?

Hard to say. What I can say is that IGA actually tried to deliver on what he promised, which is more than can be said for other KS-funded games.

To be honest I find them equal. They're both fantastic games. Depending on how they handle classic mode and the two other playable characters will make it better than sotn for me.

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Yes. You can't warp out, but the game saves the map completion once you win.

Where the heck do you get the accelerator shard?

I dunno. I'm only 10 hours in so far with about 40% of the map revealed.

I'm not expecting it to be better than SotN, the best Castlevania game and my 3rd favorite game ever, but I'm enjoying my time with it.

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Thank god getting the fangs didn't take long. Gotta murder the slot machine a couple hundred times now though, probably. God damn it.

Yes and you have to follow through.

I'm seriously. I never played any Castlevania because I don't like the gothic aesthetic and the controls are awkward and bad. I do love all other metroidvanias though, I put like 120 hours into Hollow Knight, so I gave Bloodstained a shot and it's pretty dang good, despite having those shitty Castlevania controls where you CAN'T ATTACK UPWARDS. Dumb bullshit and gay aesthetic, but the crafting is awesome so I give it a 7/10.

you probably didn't get the drill sword early on.
alot of people stumbled upon it early and it turns bosses in to a cakewalk. just backstep and then melt their healthbar while standing still.

Miriam cute! Cute!!

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I'm not that far into it, but I'm enjoying it a lot. So far, I'd say SOTN > AoS > Bloodstained.

Nah but it's pretty good anyway, has some janky bits here and there though.

Heeey, Senpai! You finish climbing the tower yet? No worries, keep trying!

You need it. You'll get the achievement for map completion the second you enter it.

Personally yes, i also hope Orlok Dracule becomes a playable character eventually.

Blunderstained Ritual fo the scam:

>ugly
>rehash
>HEY REMEMBER SYMPHONY (because we only have nostalgia bait)
>ugly
>only 10 hours long
>terrible animations
>terrible voices
>ugly
>terrible cover art
>FOURTY US DOLLARS!?
>5.5 MILLION DOLLAR DLC
>Day 1 10 dollar DLC.
>UGLY AS SIN

You have to race a ninja in the den of behemoths. You get it if you win, or even if you just get close enough.

tell me about Miriam, why does she wear the mask?

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All of these games are easy if you grind. Basically everyone saying the game is easy are abusing powerful magics that you have to grind for, or just getting really lucky.

Nice try, nigga.

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the photo id and the sudden jellyfish jank ability kinda suck but this game is great otherwise

They say Miriam can use that Gunvolt chain attack. Does anybody know how, or did that get dropped from the game.

Does the last area of the game feel really rushed to anyone else? Like REALLY rushed? Spoilers below.

An almost linear ice cavern? Seriously? This seems like something they were going to put somewhere else in the castle but they ran out of time and decided "fuck it, take that unfinished area and stick the last two bosses within one minute of one another"
Unrelated but the last boss was also extremely lame. A penis circle was not challenging.

I really do like everything about this game except for this.

Post your Miriams.

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there are some shards you can get that melt bosses. flying sword melts through large bosses and keeps enemies away, drill sword is pretty good, and that portrait one is what i used to get free dps

Whats the best familiar?

Whats the cutests familiar?

I wish the game had a cute bat

>don't like gothic aesthetic
>I put like 120 hours into Hollow Knight
nigga wat

The combat feels really good and is the best of any Igavania

besides that no

For the def and con.

mega.nz/#!ewMAXAKY!9FOuersPRZbRkYIDrDxTmmJvqxufcf5sN_7U6uWkz7M

SWITCHFAGS RISE UP

This is the GOG version of the game.

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Would it hurt if I peel off some of those crystal stains on her skin?

Hollow Knight isn't "goth" though, it's deviantart goth.

Fuck no

I don't know. Symphony of the Night was easy as fuck even if you didn't grind, especially because of how the experience gain system worked where you got 1.20^n times the base monster experience where n is how many levels higher they are than you coupled with the relatively low xp requirements for leveling up at the early levels. Here I've noticed the experience gain is completely flat.

You can tell they struggled with Unreal, and the game is held together with tape.

The sequel will have none of these problems.

Thanks.

Is the game meant to be easy? Easy to grind? You can find an enemy near a doorway and just pop in and out for their drops. All my materia is fully upgraded and I'm at like 60% map completion, is that supposed to happen?

What's the deal with the autistic train demon?

>Best Familiar
Buer
>Cutest Familiar
Buer

Fuck your Bat

Not even remotely close.
SotN> AoS > PoR > RotN > OoE > DoS

the only thing obtuse for me was the water jet stream shard and the fact that i killed gebel way too fast to unlock the final area
other than that, npc's give pretty obvious hints.

yeah that's how igavania are on normal

>Whats the best familiar?
DDDDDDDDDDDDDIEEEEEEEEEE
>Whats the cutests familiar?
RRRRRRRRRRRRRREAAAGHHHHHHHHHHH

I'm 10 hours / 60% in, just got to Inferno Cave and honestly I'm kinda getting bored. The gameplay is whatever, you just use a 16-bit weapon + True Arrow to kill everything in seconds.

Should I drop it? Honestly, don't really get the hype, it's the exact same game as the DS Castlevanias.

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>level 99
>not even fucking 100% map clear
>thinking your opinion is worth shit

>Buer
Elaborate.

user I really needed that laugh thank you bro

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You’re fine. These games have always had a few hard bosses. OoE had one so hard I was thinking I accidentally sequence broke and was in a place sooner than I should have been.

flip DoS and OoE and then we have an agreement

Train photo wasn't obvious, nor was the aegis plate (which I don't even think you get a hint for)

>PoR > RotN
I can't agree with that due to the recycled areas and the way the game in general is laid out.

If this turned into its own series I would be really happy.
Yep, the goal of normal is full power trip. Hard and nightmare is where you actually struggle.

reminder not to waste any (bodily) fluids your enemies leave behind

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We're gonna get 2 alternate characters with alt story so I think it's fine.

shit taste

What? Goth and Gothic aren't the same thing you drooling retard.

No, SOTN is still better. Inverted castle is way better than the last 40% or so of Bloodstained where the level design drops off to an absolute dogshit level. Lava level, sand level, nippon themed lab all feel extremely samey and rushed.
Thus said, i've generally loved the game too despite some downsides.

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Fuck me I spit my drink

10/10 shard would recommend you farm this stupid bird

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The crab right? NOTHING in that game was harder than the fucking crab.

>mfw need to grind the slot machine for a Imbrued Fang for the Blue Rose
>mfw think it will take a long fucking time
>mfw start the fight
>mfw he spins the roulette
>mfw his first roulette was a 777 which kills him, gave me fuck tons of money, his shard, AND the Fang.
It's a good day, boys.

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Happened to me too. So fucking hilarious.

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>Cumstained

What the fuck do you replace True Arrow with late game? With the book and Rank 9 it still does a lot of damage and costs only 30 MP meaning it's super spammable and effective even late game.

And what about Y button / red shards? Are there any non shit ones? Summon Bat is very good early game, but True Arrow quickly outclasses it.

Really fucking silly how you only use one shard throughout the whole game. Did they even balance it?

There are a lot better shards than those user. Lots of them vary on situation. Like Toxic Cloud is amazing against bosses since very few are immune to poison.

Water spray FUCKS
True Arrow is some baby shit.

wait what
I completely skipped Buer since its ugly and retarded

i'll be honest i got both of those completely by accident, but will admit those are really obtuse. had to scrape every non explored area to get aegis armor and got train pass completely by accident. for something so necessary like aegis armor, they made it pretty hard to find

Castlevania games have always been about not getting hit

Fuck you, Johannes.

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Hey, Johan is based. Don't fuck with him.

IT'S PATHETIC TO BE ALONE ON A FRIDAY NIGHT

Shard balance is absolutely FUCKED
The best red soul is by far the hellhound, it's a literal screenwide wipe for 500+ damage.
The best purple soul is by far the chain lighting.
There's tons of samey souls, none of them feel unique, some are just blatantly better than others.

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People calling the game easy as pie are full of shit, at least relatively speaking. I played OoC, AoS and SotN, this is probably the hardest of the bunch. No shit it's not on the level of playing a DMC on DMD, but you have to rate the difficulty in comparison to its siblings. I don't get why people would go into a metroidvania for the main purpose of experiencing a hardcore challenge, anyway. Most people will need (and have needed) multiple tries for a handful of bosses in this game on normal already, anything more and you are putting needless roadblocks in a genre all about exploring.

He did very well considering he had to work with second-rate devs and fucking inti at first.

>That fucking Goofy tier scream Bloodbringers make when you kill them
>Hit them with Head Flail and they take off like a home run

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its easier because its for pc and you can download a trainer

Do I get more fetish transformations later?

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You never replace true arrow because it never stops shitting damage. True arrow and the painting shard are absurdly overpowered for how easy they are to get and upgrade.
It's a little lion roller that follows you around like a cute motherfucker. You can knock it into enemies and it can block projectiles.

The main thing is it wont be screaming bloody murder or annoying squeaky voice lines ever TEN FUCKING SECONDS.

>SotN better than any non-GBA IGAVania
lmao

It's a pretty and stylish game for sure and it started the trend, but any one of the three DS games easily BTFO's it. SotN has no difficulty at all and no cool soul/glyph/shard collecting system, no crafting/upgrading, no quests, few weapon types etc etc.

He's based and gets to touch Miriam when he helps her with her crystals.

How do you make bunnymorph into a killing machine?

Best: Helmets

Cutest: HELMETS

I never really used True Arrow to begin with, but now that I'm lategame, I spam Tis Rozaiin to prey on those Holy weaknesses

I love all of the goofy enemy voices in this game, there is something already really endearing about them.

You get to become Shovel Knight but that's about it.

Have there been any really game breaking stuff found thus far that doesn't rely on being at the very end of the game, like Valmanway +1? I'm looking into doing a new playthrough soon and felt very underpowered in this game compared to the usual Igavanias next to OoE. Learning that later bosses had 4k-10k life and I'm only doing 30-60 per hit means I'm having to hit them like 100+ times to kill them, when there has to be a better way.

Already rose up since I realized I paid $60 to wait an extra week for a $40 game and $10 worth of DLC.

It was worth playing through the game with all the graphics and extra FPS, since I fear the Switch version is going to be a bit jank from how things went down.

>screenwipe
>best soul
this is how I know you are an absolute shitter

>upwards attack
either get a "greatsword" class weapon, or just equip a cheap utility directed spell like the arrows, there you go

based post.

The crab was a pretty huge spike, true, but I was thinking of the shadow boss. Really forced me to git gud

>Get sonic speed
>Run through walls and emenys with no fucks given
fuck this is the best skill

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>killing a big armorboi
UUUUURRRGGGHHHHOOOOOOAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

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I just started playing the game today and am doing my first run as a blind Nightmare run and so far it is in fact a nightmare. I feel like it may have been a mistake.

I die in 2-3 hits to everything and am currently at the Galleon boss. I don't know how to dodge the large spray attack that literally covers the entire ship.

Anyone know where the bookshelf on the train is? Did I lock myself out or am I missing something?

Enlighten us

This were done here. Have to give it -1 point for making me farm ability's that slow down my gameplay/progression but still fun. If they add more content farming ability's woudn't be as bad.

EEEEEEE-

......OOOOOOOOOoooooohhh

It made grinding Sword Fragments so much more bearable. Took fucking forever but I was giggling like an idiot every other minute.

god i wish i we got that rocker chick as a transformation. just give me more enemy transformations in general

Gothic as in the art style, not gothic as in the shitty teenager fashion trend. Cathedrals and gargoyles and flying buttresses, not eyeliner and The Cure. Learn some fucking culture, nigger.

SotN is easily better than DoS, which is a grinding simulator, and PoR, which is a less annoying grinding simulator. Crafting systems are generally shit, and the only reason Bloodstained isn't bad is because they upped the drop rates quite a bit

No, but it's still pretty good. Anyone who says it's better is desperately attempting to justify their backing tier.

>just got double jump
>now have to explore all the double jump-y areas
fffffffffug

>since I fear the Switch version is going to be a bit jank from how things went down.
Already been confirmed 30fps 720p docked and undocked.

Yeah it's a genre called "metroidvania" and that happens a lot, better get used to it.

I think the "big bosses" in Bloodstained were pretty weak, perhaps the weakest aspect of the game IMO. They didn't have a lot going on for them. Compare them to any of the big bosses in the DS Castlevania games and it's like night and day.

Big bosses in the DS Castlevania games have lots of unique moves and animations and will kick your ass
Big bosses in Bloodstained just sorta stand there and have no impact

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That's the best part of Igavanias user. Getting to see all those places you couldn't is exciting.

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>can only start first game on Normal
>being stuck on the first boss
wew lad

It's very similar to what I would have expected an HD Symphony of the Night remake to be like.

Speaking of which, what did you guys think of the Rondo of Blood remake? I thought it was okay but the framerate was pretty slow, and I thought the controls weren't as responsive as the original. The graphics were about what I'd expect on the PSP though.

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wlecome to metroidvanias senpai

Why are you playing this game if that's not the best moment you experience your entire playthrough?

>fight the vampire chick
>use 8 bit coin shield weapon and portrait shard
>crouch down and spam attacks right next to her
>block literally everything
I kinda like how exploitable the game is in a way, makes you think more creatively about how to approach a boss instead of banging your head against a wall over and over again

>way better than the DS Castlevania games by a country mile for sure.
Hey what's that supposed to mean?

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leave the adds alive to bodyblock it unless you mean the one you just jump over

>not going for medals on nightmare
there are so many souls that are much better for pure damage. screenwipes do nothing when you one or twoshot normal mobs

So has anyone started speed running it yet?

scheduling the surgery as we speak

Just name the souls motherfucker

If you put your name in as NIGHTMARE it unlocks Hard and Nightmare mode immediately.

Definitely better, at least in terms of pure gameplay. SoTN isn't the best metroidvania though.

where to get sonic speed

You can start a nightmare run immediately by naming the file NIGHTMARE. So far I'm getting cockblocked by this attack which literally covers the entire boat and seems undodgeable. Literally all attacks do more than half my health so I die if the boss does it twice.

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youtube.com/watch?v=zrdRY2enRUw
This guy is so cool.

He's right though, chain lightning is stupidly broken.

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Symphony of the Night has been my favorite individual game for 22 years. I got it when it came out and it honestly changed my life.

This game is the first since it came out that honestly feels like it surpasses it. It obviously falters in terms of art and music but from a gameplay perspective and the level of care put into small features, Easter eggs, etc. It's the first since then that's felt on par in some places and surpassed it in others.

The aspects where it's lesser aren't bad, just middling and would hopefully be improved in a sequel. I really, honestly think I'll be playing this game for years, or at least until a sequel. It get so damn much right and I'm stupidly happy with it.

Have you missed the "500+ damage" part, retard?

yep, that guy and the crab stick out in my memory. they're both fucking sweet and tough as nails.

i'd say about 70% of the bosses could just be melted without needing to worry about attacks, its really lame

race the ninja in theden of the behemoths area

My hormones haven't kicked in yet so I'm waiting to begin speedrunning.

You have to use the enemies it spawns to block the attack

Dracula X Chronicles is one of my favorite games. I was hyped as fuck for that shit from the day it was announced and now I do a full run through of it every year. The remake and the unlockable SotN.

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I hear you got to use the foes she summons as a shield.

Doesn't hellhound cost 200 mana? And it hits one (1) time for that damage?

>What I expected
SoTN 2.0
>What I got
Fashion fighters 2019 with a special guest appearance from screamy sword

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Time for another Night of EEEEEEE OOOOOOOOOH!

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You have to use the Seama to block the attack.

SLICE!

It will always signal that attack by summoning two adds. You'll have to hide behind the adds to block the attack.

>named bunny morph
>costume has no tail

what the fuck iga

What are the good weapon skills? The only ones I've found useful so far are the ones that let you avoid attacks with guard points or I-frames.

Have fun dude. The game over screen is so excruciatingly slow that I rather spam potions to kill a boss on the first try than bother redoing the fight in a more clean manner. Playing an essentially insta-death mode would probably trigger the shit out of me, the game is just not designed around such a mechanic.

Don't kill the little squids and use them as bodyshields.

This boss was made by IntiCreates before they got the boot, so you can tell it stinks of their trademark "fill the screen with undodgeable attacks" boss design.

Anyone far in know how many warp places there are?
Backtracking is such a chore in these games

I think I honestly never would have realized that. I never expected enemy projectiles to hit other enemies as they didn't have friendly fire a single instance before this.

Don't forget the VVVVRRREEEEEOOOOOUUUUMMM it does when sliding against the floor.

master carpenter is nice for damage and range

Bloodstained or Luna nights?

So... SotN 2.0?

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>everything goes to the crotch

did she become pregnant with triplets

I liked Chronicles' gameplay but really hated the graphics, I wouldn't be angry if it were a new title, but for me 3D absolutely butchered the old sprites.
I don't have the same problem with RoTN as it is not a remake.

Can someone explain the difference between soul grade and rank? I got 9 dullahan familiars and now it spawns 5 of them, but what does increasing the rank at Cuckboy Alchemist do?

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Really makes me miss real castlevania now, its not fair.

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Is Curse of the Moon worth playing?

Me neither. I saw this in a webm last night and was just as shocked as you.

So what counts for the infinite MP item? Do I have to have every shard on me or can I have had them before and then sold them? Do I also have to have all skill shards from getting all passive shards to rank 9?

Locks you in place during animation, absolute fucking garbage compared to chain lighting.
Next.

Learn English shitskin

Does she even have sex?

I'd go as far as saying 1.7 or 1.8. It depends on the other characters being released really.

Bloodstained is around 15 hours, Luna Nights is only about 5. I liked Luna Nights better though.

I count 10 warp spots on my map, at 60% completion. Also there's an item that warps you back home, and it's cheap to buy.

That's a good girl!

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That Bloodstained is a better game than all 3 overall. I like Dawn of Sorrow and OoE, but I'm mixed on PoR.

Miriam? Only with Gebel

Here's the thing, though and i'm just gonna let you in on a little secret here, remove the aesthetic, cool music, atmosphere and visual flare, and suddenly all igavanias have fuck all going with them.
The reason SotN managed to become such a cold hard staple of videogames despite lacking in level design, challenge, and depth in combat, is because it was, and still is, a genuinely beautiful game, that beauty was motivation enough for you to explore the huge map more and seeing what more mysticism lies beyond.
however going into weaker systems like the DS and GBA, the emphasis on aesthetics and scope had to be compromised in favour of padding out the game with reused assets and grinding disguised in the form of souls/glyphs and "quests", this by default makes all the subsequent games inferior to SotN. or are you seriously going to tell me the reason you play these games is for the deep, challenging and thought provoking gameplay.

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It literally says what it does.
In case of familiars, upgrading at Johannes increases the damage, as opposed to other shards, like for example Drilldo just becomes bigger from upgrading, but getting more shards actually increases its damage.

Rank: Increase listed auxiliary effect (more summons, faster attacks)
Grade: Increases main effect (almost always straight damage increase)

How do I get Crissaegrim or whatever it's called

Literal semen demon

>rock witch
Yes please.

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based swordCHAD

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Does anyone who's been collecting no-hit medals know if the final boss gives medals? For both phases?

Farm barbers.

Play on nightmare. You'll die 1-3 hits regardless of how much you grind.

you can jumpcancel the animation
>absolute fucking garbage compared to chain lighting
haven't really tried chain lighting. it's really that broken?

Grade is overall power and is increased by collecting more of that shard (up to 9). Rank increases and/or adds special effects after having it enhanced in the alchemy lab (again up to 9). At Rank 9, you can activate the shard effect without having to equip it.

Damn, it goes all to her pussy. What the fuck were they thinking

>basically plays the same as it with some Aria elements thrown in
>inferior character, enemy, boss, and area designs
>inferior animations
>inferior soundtrack and sound effects
Nope, still fun though

>haven't really tried chain lighting
why are you opening your mouth

Just killed vampire lady, found a celestial key. Where in the map does it open something? I'm wandering around like an autist please help.

Reminder they literally used the same twin dragon from CoTm

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What does the sword familiar look like when fully levelled up? Mines looking pretty cute now with a flower design

Because Richter mode was so fleshed out and Maria mode was definitely worth being saturn exclusive.

I'm retarded. What does these marks mean?

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It's a solid take on what could have been Iga's retelling of Castlevania 3, and only takes about an hour or so per run. It's good for about three solid runs if one works towards unlocking Ultimate Mode, with other variations for slightly different endings and personal challenges.

That last part is only true for passive shards.

>reused assets in a castlevania game
woooooooooooooooooooooooow

Thanks

these portraits are really fucking annoying to look at

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does boss rush give you anything? absolutely melted through course 1 and 2 and got the coins you trade in for weapons. does hard give you anything better?

I dunno mang, SOTN was pretty fashionable...

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apply brain to picture

I love castlevania games but for some reason just can't get into SOTN. I think on both of my attempts I ended up getting kinda lost around 5-10 hours in and just gave up.

It's good but not worth $40 good

It's a trail showing where you've been recently.

You'll run into it naturally.

i sat there for 5 minutes thinking something would happen. i've grown to hate the fuck because of it.

Is there anyway to offest the MP drain from transformation spells?

It's called homage, just like Bael fight is pretty much Chaos from AoS just in a moving circle instead of a square room.

there will be mods that replace them all with smug anime girls anyway

What is this girl's game called? I forget.

This game is fun

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I wish they had a legion type boss in bloodstained.

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>DS
>weaker than PSX
Dude just no, the DS was a much stronger system. I could understand if you meant 240p vs 192p. But on the flipside it had two screens and you could see the map or enemy info on the second screen all the time. Which was very convenient. In SotN you had to go to the librarian to see enemy info, that was fucking retarded.

IMO even DoS looks a lot better then SotN, just compare DoS's snowy village with anything from SotN and you know it looks better.

But then again, playing THESE games for graphics? Dude lmao.

If they stick to their announced plans, it'll easily surpass previous expectations due to them supposedly rebalancing the castle for the extra characters, as opposed to just letting them loose and feeling clunky at times as a result.

Why didn't think just confine them all to a designated location like Shovel Knight? I haven't played this yet but they seem to be fucking everywhere.

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Aquire smoothies

i love this, it reminds me of old cRPGs. you can tell these are just random people on the dev team

What's in those area? Think hard

>but the framerate was pretty slow
Were you playing it on real hardware? I played that on my PSP like 20 times and it never gave me a framerate issue. Least not that I noticed.

gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/158368-bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night/77802456

We're not having this discussion yet again in yet another thread, for fuck's sake.

Nightmare is designed for you to start it after pumping up your stats via food, shard Passives, etc. since it's a Level 1 only mode with the difficulty jacked up. Trying it from scratch is your own damn fault.

Bosses feel pretty linear.
No matter how many attacks they have, all the strategy so far (I just beat the blood vampire bitch) is getting behind them and mash attack/magic.

I think it's more so than that. I've read they're getting their own story too.

new playable characters when? heard zangetsus coming, but whens that coming?

Why does it even matter? They're drawn in the artstyle. Why do people have this weird vendetta against anything that reminds them a game was kickstarted?

So are there any weapons and shards that just straight up outclass everything else, that don't require basically completing the entire game?

Then by that standard SotN is surpassed by Chronicles, Bloodlines, & Rondo of Blood. Those games have beautiful pixel art AND challenge and replayability

Dusk of Vengeance

Yeah, it's on real hardware. It's more that I am more familiar with the original, which runs at 60FPS, while the remake runs at 30FPS which always made it feel like a bit like a sidegrade to me.

Hate to break it to you user, but that's 90% of all Igavania bosses.

Yes. One of the main reasons I enjoy Castlevania games as opposed to any other nonlinear 2D action platformer is because of the variety in equipment and spells that give you many different ways to approach any given situation, allowing for all kinds of replay value. Very few "Metroidvania" type games have this because of the amount of work it requires, most are more Metroid than they are Castlevania.

That's why OoE is legitimately my favorite nonlinear Castlevania. It combines that with a very fast pace that not even Bloodstained has and removes most of the grinding by making only a few glyphs drop from enemies

Night of Revenge.

That fight is totally different. Unless you mean Curse of the Moon which is all bosses used in this anyways (but the fight is still different). I was sad there was no third huge head.

food can give you permanent +MP/s

Well, he tried something different with Order of Ecclesia at least. But now he is back to the old habits

They don't match the art style at all

>Symphony at the Disco
sounds amazing

They get worse, they're in and around boss areas too, im hoping the sequal doesnt add that shit, went to a secret room and it was someone retarded cat pet, the room was made to look like a boss room

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TBA

this, it's an ok Metroidvania. It didn't flop but also it's not ground breaking.

AoS has a fantastically designed castle you turbo pleb.

I am so happy with the future potential this game offers. As far as I am concerned this is the first "mainline" Igavania with modding and DLC potential.

It tries to be and that means something. The next game IGA makes WILL be better than SotN though, at this rate.

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>tfw there's a room solely dedicated to some rich backer's dead cat
I know it's silly to be bothered by such things, but it all kinda adds up.

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>the oil painting of a cat is distracting me from my bunnygirl transformation

If you prefer old school side scrolling it's better than RotN

you are talking about the teps oceus? that shard doesn't do shit

the zombie dragons fight exactly like the twin dragons in bloodstained with the way they take turns attacking and flinging fire

That's more than I expected, thanks user

>Oh hey Miriam, I was just looking for Zangetsu have you seen him?
>Yeah we came here together
>That idiot, I told him not to come here!

Our heroine isn't too bright.

The PSP remake is only 30 fps vs. the original's 60. As a result the controls feel pretty sluggish and nowhere as snappy as in the original.

She was asleep for 10 years so she's still mentally a teenage girl.

Yeah. There's a shard called words of wisdom and every fruity drink you craft gives +1 mp/s permanently.

Pic? lol

This game would be perfect with sex

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Why does it bother you?

rank it up and it totally clears screens for you effortlessly. It's also very good against larger bosses because it will proc 3+ times in a single cast.

>he doesn't have the sex shard

If you aren't equally bothered by the bunny girl you're a horny hypocrite

Yes

He looks similar to the sword Miriam is holding in the game cover, but a bit more edgy

>the zombie dragons fight exactly like the twin dragons in bloodstained
You are a fucking retarded liar. First off, no, they have separate health bars in COTM, and when one dies the other eats him to recover hp. Secondly they are stationary. Thirdly their attacks are different, no tongue whips, no alternate bites, no clashing. What the literal fuck are you talking about? Go actually play COTM and Bloodstained.

That's not even close to true. They're fun as hell and are pure gameplay.

Dunno about the rest of those but yeah i think RoB > SotN, i was comparing Igavanias in the post i made.
Graphics =/= art direction, and yes, i do play these because they're visually appealing experiences.
And to be fair i don't think i made it clear that i think all the games look good in their own right, i just think that visually, SotN still manages to be a superior package as a whole.
One thing SotN does have over the rest of these that it's objectively the best at though is the Soundtrack.

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please respond

complain all you want but know that dis cracka be styllin on ya alll day

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>clears screens for you effortlessly. It's also very good against larger bosses because it will proc 3+ times in a single cast
that's exactly why it's a shit shard

It would have been neat if zone names appeared every time you entered a zone and not just the first.

why would anyone by bothered by a castlevania series staple?

You guys pick the stupidest shit to get mad about. I swear its gotta be a handful of people assblasted about the dog and cat shit and they have to let everyone know about it, and its the gayest fucking issue to have with this game.

Miriam is very sleepy.
Shh, do not wake. She has a date tomorrow.

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Poor cat.

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>misunderstanding the question
based retard

>This guy again
Everyone ignore this scrub. He's been using the exact same arguments for days. It's that Hollow Knight false flagger fag.

I don't remember any bunnygirls in SotN, or CotM, or even the early castlevania games.

It's in my top 3. I'll have to judge if I prefer the content more than I do the lack of style and musical porn that's in SotN t odecide between which comes second. Aria of sorrow still king for now.

Maybe? Haven't played yet, but here is the thing, as from Aria of Sorrow onwards, you can argue Syphony was surpassed in a lot of ways, either mechanics, quality of life and level design, even story for that matter, so Iga has surpassed Symphony multiple times, and I wouldn't be surprised if Bloodstain is, as a current game, is better too.

The thing is, Symphony is still the best, as package, music, bosses, stages, secrets and easter eggs, the overall artstyle, to not say the graphics, the games may play better since Symphony, and had build upon it's bases ever since, but none of them have been a complete package as Symphony was. They all were limited by their technology or budget, being GBA and DS games after all.

For years Iwanted an Igavania game to work on the tech needed to be a package as complete as Symphony again, and in theory Bloodstained should be that, but, without playing it yet, and even though I love everything I have seen of this game since release, I have the feeling it's not there yet, and I think that part of that is the effect of "This is Castlevania, but it's not", the direct comparison is it's selling point, but a the same time, it hurts it somehow.

Sleep tight, Miriam.

Oh look. It's a Jojo reference.

you're wrong, you literal child lmao look how assblasted you are, kinda sad but whatever lol

okay retard

WAKE UP NIGGER

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could've been another cool miniboss fight, instead it's some faggots dead furball

It's really immersion breaking. I want a cool cohesive experience, not a public Minecraft server where anything goes.

It would be a shame if someone were to.........

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>immersion breaking
dude what

>room has a title card
>looks way different from the environment outside
>Music boxes you can open an close
>Ghosts
There has to be some point to this stupid room, what could it be?

You're right, the bigger issue is the game actually sucks and the item placement was the worst in all of Igas games by far, its trash

where do i go after the twin dragon fight?

It manages to fix soton's biggest issue, which was the fact you can grind yourself to be overpowered even if you're only using fists. It's almost mandatory you exploit anything you possibly can, which might get tedious but allows the game to stay challenging. Its visuals and music aren't even comparable, but the combat mechanics are a lot more fleshed out. I'd say it's a better game, but Sotn still has things it did better.

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Damn nigger, you're lucky slavery is illegal.

Ah. That could be it. I'm definitely a ludite when it comes to frames. I can notice the difference between the two, and I prefer the higher, but I've never really cared when something was 30 or 60 fps beyond that. Legitimately, I can't understand people who greentext >30 frames?? DROPPED. I especially can't understand anyone that drops for less than 100 frames either. /blog

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See

>thinks clearing rooms on normal is good
stay mad

Who was Tomoko-Death anyways? I feel like that chick HAS to be a reference to someone.

You got an item that is used for photography.

What triggers this? I sat there watching the lake for a while wodnering if something would happen, never did.

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How long til we get a Shanoa mod?

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I googled it after discovering it and it's just some backer's dead pet, there's nothing else to it. You can activate the music boxes to play some tunes and a ghost appears if you sit down but that's it. No enemies, no items.

did that, where do I use it?

Just use Todd

>max resolution is 2560x1440
IT LOOKS SO FUCKING STRETCHED

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And what do you do with the photograph?

The best shards in the game are Void Ray and the light version of it The dps is fantastic, you can aim it in any direction, and the mp costs are basically nonexistent if you just keep tapping R2. Don't ever hold it, you can just tap to continuously deal the damage and regenerate between the enemy's i-frames.

But as far as damage goes Summon Hellhound is the best, 800+ damage nukes are fucking stupid good. Gebel's Glasses make spells have no cost. I bet all of the Boss Rush challenges in under a minute with Summon Hellhound + Gebel's Glasses

It would be extremely painful

...

maybe a month or so depending on how popular it is

That'd just be a dress.
I want the other girl's dress and shoulderbraid.

Past the shop, take a seat. Then go see O.D

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Shut the fuck up, you're not fooling anyone

>just want to make it to zippyboy with a decent amount of health
>this is the room that greets you outside of the save point
whose idea was this

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Wait longer

Better question is how long til people mod the COTM characters into castlevania

I only get it about half the time I ride the train personally

youtu.be/1bLQvEHryyA

That's the exact argument I make for why Bloodstained is the best Castlevania game overall. OoE has a gameplay system I like more, and SotN looks nicer, but Bloodstain, combining its huge amount of content and not coming up short in basically any area, I think is able to edge them out

How the FUCK do I get up there? This is the only unexplored area on my map besides places that require swimming, which is the only ability I appear to be missing. I even found Gebel and killed him. I'm at 60% map completion. What the FUCK.

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Is the switch version gimped?

i felt like a genius using divekicking into a slide during the race; was that required to win or did that just make it easier?

How do you get Gebel's glasses?

But I'm sure you remember the abundance of cute girl enemies in every game since Aria of Sorrow.

>Gothic castle and game
>Full of ugly portraits of ugly old people
>Yea Forums thinks this is somehow out of place
I thought this was a perfect solution to this, and I think Yea Forums wouldn't care so much if it didn't remind them that they were wrong about a kickstarter game.

Later:
"Up early today, I see." Fuck

where the FUCK do people get the freeze time spell?

How is this game for someone new to the genre? Yes, I missed out on many joys in life

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But once again, bunnygirls in a spooky castle totally don't break immersion amirite fellow perverts?

30fps

I have read "Bloodborne"

I think I would've liked the lasers if they did lower but continuous damage
just feels so weird you're blasting constantly but only get a hit every second
personally I used the flying daggers the whole game since the hits are staggered and seem to just keep everything stunned forever

1: do i need to buy an 8 bit coin weapon to unlock 16 bit weapons?
2: where do you get another rhava bural? traded one for that side quest, but feel like i fucked myself

If you're new to Metroidvanias I recommend playing one that is more Metroid and less Castlevania.

Based and igapilled

I killed that tramp Gerbel but it gave me the bad end. How do I get the good end? All the other directions are behind locked doors, far as I can see.

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fuck it, I can't reply properly. you win

what the shit are you doing

No?

You really should check out Bloodlines & Chronicles for Genesis & PSX. I think they're both really underrated.

you're missing a powerup that's located at the bottom of the map; you need to farm jellyfish to get a shard which allows you to move underwater

it's bullshit

first metroidvania for me
I had fun although it seemed like there was a lot of backtracking and grinding which I guess are part of the experience

16 bit weapons are just straight upgrades of 8 bit ones, same name, same everything but double the damage, you need an 8 bit weapon + a 16 bit coin to craft one, I recommend Eu's Sword

Secret boss at the very end of the game.

Play on ng nightmare. Won't be breezing so much anymore.

it feels like they put alot of effort into the gun system when it's ultimately pretty useless

Perfectly fine, you stupid nog.

HOT

You either get it for "100% acquired all shards," "100% discovered demons," "having beaten all bosses," or for defeating O.D. because I triggered all four of those at the same time and a treasure chest appears next to Johannes next time you see him.

They aren't. There are other paths. Keep exploring.

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You need an item that you can find in the twin dragon boss area

I just beat it, the ending was pretty bad, and I'm disappointed I didn't get to hear some terrible song ala SotN's "I am the wind".

Do I go with NG+ or play Hard Mode from scratch? Or just play Nightmare?

Are you pulling my dick, bro? The jellyfish drop the swimming soul?

lol i just back stepped it all the way, im guessing as long as you get the zappy thing right, you'll be good on time

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I agree, and that's a real big shame. I never once used guns.

Why does your game look like ass user? are you playing it on dogshit settings or something?

Not a glitch. It'll make sense much later in the game.

Go for Nightmare without NG+ if you want an actual challenge. Hard NG+ if you want to just 100% the game.

Why is the moon in front of the tower? What a fucking blunder.

>60% map
>hasn't gotten the Invert shard yet

Also you're allowed to kill Gebel extremely early in the game and you get a game over, it's not an ending. The game tells you to find a strange demon in a hot cave, that's the key to getting to higher places.

Lol that fucking guy.

no i am not
thankfully theres one you can farm in the bridge room right outside the teleporter
still, who the fuck would think to do that if it didn't drop on the first kill?

>t. never actualIy tried using guns

I did over 1K damage with crits using the strongest gun and bullets. Strongest gun has homing shots, btw

Yeah it's weird the moon moves independantly with the background igarashi is a hack.

He's not kidding.

Nice ruse Iga

I did the thing with just moving normally + superjump at the jump parts. it's doable.

That's cool, until you run out of ammo. I already hit for shitloads with regular god damn weapons and don't even need bullets.

What the fuck

how many times did you resize that image in paint, christ.

> Kickstarter

I don't know I'm waiting for Zangetsu so I don't play as chick characters.

Do you have all skill shards from ranking up all passives to rank 9?

I'm at 60% too without that shard.
>Hot cave
This means literally nothing.

Yeah what the fuck? It's like a fake moon or something. How cheap.

hey bro thanks for naming my band

Oh my FUCKING GOD I just went down there and got it in 2 seconds. FUCK THIS CASTLEVANIA BULL FUCKING SHIT DAWG. JUST FUCK IT.

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no legit, why is it so blurry?

Dominique will tell you to kill the jellyfish for the ability to swim.

no, I have at least one of every shard,

it's on my bucket list

Lads, what's your best lategame anti-boss setup? I've been pretty lazy running with the same shit all game because I didn't want to cheese anything, but like SoTN this game seems built around cheese.

the game looks better in this screencap than in an actual footage, what a fucking irony

How do I go underwater? I've been looking for the way to do so for a while now and I'm not sure what to do.

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Yeah, Dominique is supposed to give you a hint about it. Not sure if she actually does, because I got the soul while doing the quest for the mobs.

The game tells you. If you actually paid attention to the story and not play in Japanese while skimming through it, the game LITERALLY tells you to go find an enemy to get a shard to go underwater.

>backtracking
Yes.
>grinding
Only if you wish to 100% the game, otherwise no grinding is necessary.

Neither do I. Even just using the infinite rounds, I can still do over 100 damage per shot, and that's without any specialized gun equipment

this is pretty effective bait

"Miriam gibe book pls." - Alfredo Sauce, 1840s probably

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This was pretty obvious? Like there's a jellyfish swimming real close to the surface, why not farm it for a bit, ESPECIALLY since there's a quest for killing it 6 times. And lo and behold it dropped a swimming shard. But then again this game has pretty high drop rates and I always run with Luck 30+.

I swear you zoomers need a guide for fucking everything.

Unironically seething at this
I'd have never figured this out

Not lategame but I got the bunny transform and proceeded to beat every boss afterwards with the bunny transform.

Bunny power

I don't know if I really want to just blow through the game with Accelerator and Dullahan heads smacking into everything.

read the thread

>tfw I can make brown elf blondie miriam
I want to change the fucking costumes, you better put that in an update IGA

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Where the fuck do I go after beating Zangetsu at the oriental garden?
It feels like I've checked everywhere and beating Gerbil again only gives me a slighty different bad ending.
Am I just seriously blind and stupid?

I've beaten the first two bosses and am trying to find the double jump.. should I restart on Hard?

Never once mentioned shit. I'm past that point now and she won't give the next tip either. The games buggy as fuck.

Shadow clone jutsu + literally any weapon

Yeah, I kinda wish she would repeat the hints once in a while.

Maybe some are devs, but literally 20 of them are kickstarter backers.

I got that by accident and the thing that fucked me over was spike armor

Motherfucker, how was I supposed to know that without any hints?

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Keep playing.

And Yes you should.

Did you pay attention to what he told you or read the flavor text of your new item? It's a moon slicer, you'll get a cue in the Gebal fight to slice the moon just don't murder him too fast

You have tofight Gebel, but don't kill him. Just get his HP low enough to where the moon starts glowing red, and then slash the moon with the Zangetsuto

Pay attention to the red moon in the boss fight and use Zangetsu's sword

I hate shadow clone because you have to hold onto the button to use it.

>people complaining about the portraits which were specificly one of the big things for being a high tier backer of the kick-starter
People keep forgetting this isn't a Konami backed castlevania game even though it plays and feels like one because the guy who makes it made this game.

100 damage a shot? That's it? Like I get that the gun gives you a ranged attack but it also seems pretty slow and weak outside of the special ammos. Not to mention it seems totally unviable unless you're constantly crafting full inventories of bullets or wearing the hat that gives you infinite shots. Pretty much all conventional weapons will outdamage it, combining them with shards will only make them more powerful. Even 1k damage a shot doesn't seem that impressive when you can get more DPS out of melee weapons + shadow clones.

i don't have a problem w/ most of them, even though they are annoying soiboiz... the one that gets me is the guy dressed up like halloween dracula, it's fucking immersion breaking

Yeah. it's a better game on hard.

At least you get her as a spell where she blasts fireballs from her guitar

eat shit faggot
why the fuck would i assume that the attack the enemy is doing is necessary for movement when zero fucking spells have done that beforehand?

Oh.
I AM dumb. Thanks.

Tbqh, some of the paintings have different artstyles all together. One has the game's artstyle and the other is realistic. Do either one or the other

Oh i'm sorry, I didn't know you only wanted handicap accessible options.

I actually got the photograph after killing the Twin Dragons and went straight for the Bloodless because I didn't realize that I had to go talk to O.D. and the hints just broke after sequence breaking that shit.

Where am I meant to go after getting double jump, looked everywhere that I can reach but I can't find the next boss

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I wish Konami would remake SOTN and not just shit out re-releases

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trap immunity + dimension shift and speed belt did it for me

Over 100 is enough to deal with the vast majority of enemies in the game

>but it also seems pretty slow and weak outside of the special ammos
Hence the rapid fire technique

>wearing the hat that gives you infinite shots
I don't know what you're referring to, enlighten me
It's not like the bullet crafting materials are hard to come by anyway

MFW no rock witch gf

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What got me was draining the blood pool with the blood drain soul. I mean it's obvious now that I know it, but there was no indication to use that ability on the environment.

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Let me tell you a story all about how my castle got inversed upside down. It'll only take a minute so sit down and save, alright? I'll tell you all about this Bloodstained ritual of the night.

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>Willing to pay >25$ for a "remaster"
You sure about that user?

>Literally cannot move on until I fill out the archive info for the area
Please send help

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Did you do the quest to kill 8 of them? I'm convinced they give you their soul within 8 kills no matter what, so that people who skip text will still eventually figure it out if they just start doing quests.

>Hence the rapid fire technique
Which you can only use while standing still, on the ground, and now you're spending mp and bullets. Also pretty sure the hat is a quest reward.

My guess is the high level backers had a hand in picking the design for their own portrait. The games not perfect, but there are reasons at least.

I did it as a last resort when i was tired as fuck and my jaw hit the floor

Yeah. The massive pool of blood definitely wasn't a clear indicator.

>remaster
That's what I meant by re-release. Fuck that, I want a remake.

I thought it was pretty obvious.

looks and runs like a vita game on the switch. it's kinda offending.

Can someone actually confirm this?

Most Castlevania games are easy in general.

It's called the "Recycle Hat".

There's blood all over the place you dumb mongoloid, and the shard says "Absorb blood from nearby ENEMIES", nothing about using it on the environment. Quit defending your backer tier, it's pathetic.

look at rogue corps and how low budget it fucking looks. castlevania is fucking dead, user.

so i'm stuck with a keyboard for now.
what the fuck are the buttons/keys on the left supposed to be, i can't make them out and i want to make the minimap more transparent

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Okay, I'm trying to learn how to do the kicking combo to clear long distances and let me tell you. DOING A COMBO ON A SWITCH PRO CONTROLLER IS FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE. Its like it just doesn't register.

Yes. Not as good as AoS, PoR and OoE though.

nigger, it was the most obvious, especially when there's clearly an area underneath it

>giant pool of blood that stands out, just like the red moon room
>mini map points out that there is a path below
>if you walk, you'fall on a hole that you can't go through
>boss literally slurps all the semen in the vicinity

You're legally mentally handicap, bro. You should try to apply for some welfare.

You're not spending MP more than any other technique, and again, can't you still use it with infinite shots or cancel out of it like anything else? Your complaints seem silly

what exactly is the point of sitting on chairs and benches?

>Stuck
>While adjusting the minimap
Page up & Page down btw

this post reads like a twitter screencap

Page up, page down

>SOTN Remake/Remaster
>Boss rush mode
>NG+
>Difficulty settings
>Sega Saturn content
That's all I really want. Those features alone would be enough for me.

Is the Morte shard really rare since I haven't got it to drop yet? I've been grinding for a while now.

Miriam is cute

Except when you actually use the shard, you realize that you can't absorb blood directly from enemies and have to hit them with a sword to make them bleed onto the environment, which is what you absorb the blood from

Too be fair Iga made this with literal kickstarter money cause Konami wanted too be pachinko jews over making actual games. Considering this is the man who made those shit makes sense.

yes. I killed tons of them and still haven't gotten it's shard

I have a nightly ritual involving miriam if you know what I mean

How do people like this play videogames? Do you just never try stuff out for the fun of it? What are you afraid of? Is this just a generational thing and I'm old? It's not like this is fucking point-and-click adventure game logic or something.

Bc they're really shittily drawn

Morte doesn't have a shard

You can't make those out? ESL?

And where does it say I have to use the shard? Chain lightning fits in that spot, why would I switch? Just admit that it's artificial difficulty, mechanics just not explained to drag out play time.

They do not have a shard. They have a line __________ instead of the ????? Same as Zangetsu.

>let me tell you
>followed by Caps
why do they do this

I have beaten the game, but there is apparently a system of breaking down items into their components, how do I do that?

Elaborate

regular morte doesn't even have a shard
check your demons archive
anything that's just a dash doesn't have one

imagine not being able to sleep on your back in bed because you got a giant crystal protruding out of it :

The game looks so fucking bland
The stone is shining, wtf

what was the ritual in the title even referring to?

yeah but i have literally never seen these symbols before.

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You're not getting the infinite ammo hat before beating the final boss so it's pretty moot. In the same vein you're not getting infinite mana glasses either. They're both post-game items. Not to mention there are significantly more efficient mana-to-damage spells or even techniques. The critical strike with the whip comes to mind.

Characters are cringy af

>realize there's no endlag landing after attacking in the air
>assume it's an exploit
>realize it was actually intentional
im happy that this was actually thought out

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>And where does it say I have to use the shard?
I don't know, put two and two together maybe? The first thing I think of when getting a boss shard is where I could use it to progress, and there's no other fitting locations

>Chain lightning fits in that spot,
No it fucking doesn't, have you seriously actually played this game?

he'd better be the 3rd playable character. He was fun as hell in CotM

I never sleep on my back, gives me nightmares.

Welcome to Castlevania.

Worst part of the game. they're Yea Forums tier lame shit.

Too bad the chairs she can summon aren't cute.

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can you even see your butt in game?
you can't turn around

It's better than Portrait of Ruin for me so far.
And I rate PoR pretty high.

Do I have to come back later for that chest at the bottom? I've tried UN DEUX TROIS but I cannot jump high enough to reach the platform.

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They're just letters really scrunched together.

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lol "put two and two together" yeah use the random shard from a random boss in a random room to do something the description doesn't say it does, it's like elementary school math, my little brother figured it out in 2 seconds, and also you're a lying little faggot who should kill himself :)

I have played every game and i don't know bros..i thinkt his game is lacking a shitton of polish, maybe it will be better with the dlc? My biggest beef is that the village seems incredibly rushed and the castle design is kinda boring. I legit believe the 8bit game they released is infinitely better

you can cancel out of backsteps too.
so Shorthop hit> ground hit> backstep hit is a quick 3 hit combo if you wanna go full autism.
also you might wanna actually progress in the game a bit before going into these threads

there are ways but just save yourself the trouble and come back later

stop responding to it

Where the fuck is the Strawberry Crepe recipe?
I'm going fucking insane trying to find it.

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>sloppy lopping
What did he mean by this?

You can get it if you time it well with the ship's rocking but that's not the intended way.

I can only sleep on my back. Side-sleeping is too uncomfortable

user, you can equip infinite rounds when you pick up the very first gun in the game. Infinite rounds are weaker than using any bullets that you can run out of, but they allow a standard attack with a gun where you don't have to worry about using ammo

The 100 damage figure I quoted was referring to using the strongest gun with infinite rounds. Worrying about DPS outside of boss fights is generally autistic, but rapidfiring diamond rounds is probably going to kill most bosses very quickly.

What the fuck are you retarded? As soon as I got the shard I immediately went back to that room.

If you hold up and wear one of the glasses, you can get a decent look at Miriam's butt.

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the english voice acting is fucking terrible
i don't know nipspeak at all but at least the mc isn't raping my ears with a horrible english "accent"
>when your meleetism finally pays off in another game

How did you make it to the point in the game where you require the blood drinking spell, but somehow had no trouble when they wanted you to use a shard to light a cannon on the boat (the tutorial) to blow open a wall and progress?

I took the hint when whatsherface gave that speech about suching up tons of blood.

Sure you did buddy, you know we can all tell liars on Yea Forums at this point, except for you newfag

It's okay when Iga does it

If the black borders were removed, would you see the immediate next area seamlessly or are the areas like islands connected by doors that teleport you from one to the next? I'm curious how they design games like this.

I'm using the "Eye of Horus" accessory, it's what zooms out the camera like this

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>he missed out on vroom vroom sword

so the tentacle of this enemy
which hole is it going into

NEW BREAD!

You need to find the recipe.

>Eye of Horus
Use it on the final boss and see the ending.

Zangetsu lives!

i can never get the timing right for the >oooooohhhh

Read the journals in the bookshelves.

you can get a good look if you go into the teleporter, but it's all covered up
seriously play the game a bit before coming here though

Name a single re-release of a 2D game that has been done good. You know they literally can't make these 2D graphics anymore right? They'd have to update it to HD. That means re-drawing them in HD, which means they have to re-draw it all. But to make ti economical they have to simplify the graphics, making it much more cartoony. That can work for cartoony looking games, but not for the more realistic proportioned SotN.

Hilarious shit is that SFII was "remastered" in HD after years and millions of dollars, then no one cared and went right back to the

Earthworm Jim HD? No one cares. I can go on and on. you get the point.

The other option is 3D. Hey remember the Rondo 3D version? No one does. They didn't even include it in the Rondo-Symphony re-release.

>Using weapons that do good damage is autistic
Listen dude I get it, you like guns. That's cool I'm glad you're having fun with them. I just don't see their value as a ranged weapon when I already have spells that do that job, and then can also use a faster, more powerful melee weapon if I ever want to conserve mana. Enemies are never particularly far away to warrant needing to snipe them with range attacks to begin with. If there is a flying enemy that's tricky to pin down there are already extremely high damage low mana cost homing spells that aren't locked to my weapon/ammo equipped. They just seem under-developed and gimmicky.

All of them

This sad truth of things.

How do you summon multiple shadow clones? What's the highest DMG weapon and where to farm? I just want to straight up break the game now that i finished it.

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fuck. I saved over my file for NG+ too. I don't want to go through this again...

I finished the game already

Where do I get that eye?

Lmfao

The point is that these remakes/remastered versions are meant and framed as the definitive verion, yet time and time again I see people just straight up ignore them soon after they get released. MMX and MM1 PSP remakes? Never re-released by Capcom, and everyone ignores them.

The companies see these as just cash-grabs, so they farm them out to devs who do it for the cheap.

The only good remaster that I've seen is Wild Guns and Ninja whatever, since it's taking the old game, and original assets, and simply making it 16:9 and adding new elements. It's done by the original devs, so there's real soul and care. I hate how niche random games like Wild Guns get this loving re-master, while much more prominent games get lazy emulation re-releases (Super Metroid, Mega Man games, etc). Imagine Super Metroid in 16:9, with new gameplay modes and a new map?