Unironically 10/10 game comes out from one of the most acclaimed game directors ever, that not only matches...

Hollow Knight murdered the genre so badly, no one will catch up for at least another decade or two. Let that sink in

Did they fix Boss Rushing killing your food bonuses? I want to play it but not if it fucks up my char's stats

This. Every metroidvania nowadays will be inevitably compared to Hollow Knight and unfortunately nothing can surpass it. It's just way too good.

you can't give it a 10 when it looks so ugly. ps2 character models, terrible looking effects, lighting issues galore, shitty looking enemies

it has a bajillion things for miriam to equip and to wield and to interact with but nothing aside from miriam got anywhere near as much attention

>Shards being random drops from any enemy means killing every single enemy becomes exciting, because you have no idea if some awesome shard will drop from it.
t. never played aria

>didn't take away Miriam's boob crystal like they bitched about during the kickstarter.
whats the story here?

Shilling a mediocre game.
Yikes

Yo did you never play Aria dude? I agree that RoTN is fucking 10/10 and a step up from SoTN but a lot it borrows from Aria of Sorrow and DoS. Play those as well because the shard system is basically Soma Cruz's soul system renamed.

Cause everybody is waiting for the Switch version.

>Hollow Knight murdered the genre so badly, no one will catch up for at least another decade or two. Let that sink in
It's a little depressing that the best castlevania game has that shitty CalArts style. Looks like some shit that got rejected by Steven Universe

really fucking hope he keeps making em

No depth to it at all. During the Kickstarter some journos were mad at her cleavage and crystal tattoo. The fact that they didn't even bring it up now that the game is out shows how little they really cared about it.

i understand she is being impaled by new enemy "shards" but geez laweez does miriam's VA just lay into the scream. it sounds like someone actually stabbed her irl

>I mean, how many games could there be that fall into this category?

How about Order of Ecclesia, which was 10+ years earlier?

That's called acting, children!

Man I almost seriously responded to this bait. That was close.

>"i never finished ecclesia, i should do that now"
>boot up game
>remember i couldn't beat Eligor
fuck

The issue is that a scream that intense would be better suited to her death scream, the enemy shards pop up way too often to have to hear miriam shriek in horrific pain this often

I died after about 30 minutes on the galleon and now I have to start back from the very beginning

dropped

Is it even that bad? I barely noticed. Are you playing in english or what

I mean, that's the point isn't it? Also look how fucking big they are.

Why the fuck didn't you save you retard

What will the Lament of Innocence version of Bloodstained's story be like?

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>Gremory ran away
>left the room, lets go back to check the corpse
>Iga shows up and fucks me sideways
That was a nice, silly surprise but now Im lost. Where the heck this bitch ran away

Those niggers from that shitty porn game are trying with their epic "Miriams girlfriend xD xD"

>What will the Lament of Innocence version of Bloodstained's story be like?
Johannes kills himself to give Miriam a magic crystal whip

You saw the Red Moon before. Think about it.

you're right, i guess i'm just not a fan of the whole idea of her literally being horrifically impaled and screaming in pain every time i get a new ability. it makes me feel bad for her like in a way where i don't want to get more abilities cuz it sounds really unpleasant for miriam lmao

GIANT HANDS

oh the witch tiddy game? i can't even figure out how to leave the first room of the demo i downloaded

IGN and their onions friends still seething cause IGA didn’t give them early review copies. One of them at Gamespot was streaming it and was constantly bitching. Even the comments asked him if he was butthurt because of this.

THIS WAS AN ORDER

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Did they not listen to the reasoning? 1.03 was needed. All the people getting progress locked due to playing it early attest to this.

I remember the room but I cant find it anymore. I remember it was early in the game but that is all I got

Except it's at Top 3 in Steam and literally every boomer youtuber/social whatever is talking about the game

Good thing you can turn the shard aquisition animations off then, isn't it?

In a silent garden.

The only 10/10 thing about this game is Miriam's body.

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Doesn't she say it feels like claws scraping against her bones or something?
It's supposed to be a very unpleasant experience

>get the portrait forcefield spell
>game becomes a joke

>ARISE MY SELF AND MY SHADOW
>ARISE MY SELF AND MY SHADOW
>ARISE MY SELF AND MY SHADOW
>ARISE MY SELF AND MY SHADOW
>ARISE MY SELF AND MY SHADOW
>ARISE MY SELF AND MY SHADOW

>10/10
not with those graphics

hello yes please share source of mod

Die shardbinder you don't belong in this world!

I don't understand why people cream themselves over Welcome Company when any multiple projectile spell is ridiculously more powerful.
True Arrow breaks the game in half and when you get bored of it the rest isn't that much worse.
Throw Spear
Dagger Toss
Shuriken
Bats
Literally anything with multiple projectiles.

It's more like no game has matched up to Symphony of the Night in 2 decades, until this game came out.

Also I've never played Hollow Knight and never will, mostly because any game that has a fanbase that constantly goes into another game's thread where everyone is discussing their own game happily and posts "our game is better" ad nauseum likely doesn't actually have a better game. Also Hollow Knight looks gay as fuck and I've never once felt like playing it.

Ecclessia was a lot of fun.

My girlfriend was watching me play and was like "My god, she basically has a fucking orgasm every time that glass thing hits her"

I just remember most of this week trying to find reviews of the game, and there are barely any out there.

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It's being tested, got to be patient.

Explain how Hollow Knight is better looking, son.

all of them are shit compared to heretic grinder

youtube.com/watch?v=DFCxQ9_9ooo

REEEEEEEE

>bats

MVP right here

looks and plays great, I just wish the UI/fonts looked better. it just looks so shitty at 4k.

Hollow Knight has nothing to do with how ugly Bloodstained looks, console war faggot

Gebel and Zangetsu better come back. We also better get playable Alucard/OD.

too bad you took way too much damage
could just be you're awful at the game though

Yeah, it's sad that so many have bad taste and can't recognize that Hollow Knight's map is fucking awful and kills the game.

>works as a shield against annoying flying enemies
>works as passive damage as you go into melee
It's only downside is that the bigass paintings tend to block your view of boss animations, especially the human-sized ones.

Tbh I think Hollow Knight is METROIDvania, but Bloodstained is metroidVANIA

Based Iga

>bats
My nigga, Im running a Soma loadout and bats are fucking great. Only problem is they are not that fast but is a great plus for big demons

i literally ran into the room and had no idea there was even a boss fight and just spammed heretic and still won

didn't even bother to learn the attack pattern

Damn, poor Miriam,also is she 18 or 28? did the coma za warudo her or not?

Why do that when you could use the painting shield and shotgun things with flame cannon?

How are so many of you just scrolling past this. Holy shit

>Boss door
>Didn't know there was a boss fight

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Dilate.

>Why use multiple projectile spells when you can instead use a multiple projectile spell!
Great post.
In case you fail at reading comprehension again, flame cannon is a multiple projectile spell.

>Using melee weapons or spells

Imagine being that person

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>"My god, she basically has a fucking orgasm every time that glass thing hits her"
there is some scary implications with that quote bro

some people just want to play video games
there are millions of porn sites and even porn boards on this site
if I wanted porn i could just go there

maybe one day you'll come up with a better deflection

Mental 18 in a 28 body.

What I meant was you can use the paintings and flame cannon together. Why not both sorta thing.

No crystals - it's shit

le easy mode face

Gebel's most likely going to come back as a spirit like Albus did.

Give birth.

I just made it to the true final boss and I'd say it's an 8/10. It's a really good game, though I'd say its too short and the bosses suck. Although the Inverted Castle in SoTN was hit and miss, it added tons more fun bosses. Bloodstained doesn't really have that many, and a lot of the secret bosses just seem like slightly buffed regular enemies.

In comparison I'd give Hollow Knight a 9/10. Issues with HK are that the charm system kind of sucks and the Knight only has one weapon, but the bosses are way better than any IGAvania and the core combat is more interesting despite lacking all the gimmicks in Miriam/Soma/Alucard's toolbox. I do love the variety in IGAvanias, don't get me wrong, but they never have the time to balance everything and that honestly leads to a half-hearted approach to combat overall.

Overall Bloodstained is a pretty solid entry into the genre, I'd put it at the same level as Axiom Verge and just below ESA.

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God this game is fucking disgracefully ugly. Could they not hire some competent artists with all that kikestarter money?

Not that user, but I was under the impression that she and Gebel were kids in the prologue flashback thing, making her a kid in a smoking hot adult's body.

So far Zangetsu was the only one to give me trouble and it was only until I learned how to backstep.

>playable Alucard/OD.
Eh, I don't know. I mean, he's literally just Alucard with ZA WARUDO. They better keep proper Alucard for that demon castle war game.

>knock bloodstained for little variety
>hk and its one and done combat isn't a detraction
obvious reddit shill

This game has at least a soul. That’s why it’s getting good reviews. The only critics it got so far are : muh it’s ugly. Because really, there’s nothing else to say. The same reviewers will tell you that HK is beautiful. While really, it looks like a flash game.

>10/10
see

I just watched the youtube video for the dev and the comparison is poop vs new

If it wasn't 36 bucks ide pick it up for the hell of the devs actually giving what appears to be a shit.

Eye of Horus on last boss. Do it.

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Why do so many say this? I mean yes I would rather have sprites but I don't think it looks like shit either. Not amazing but it looks like an old evil castle full of shit. Outside of some polish and the stupid color of all the lights, I thought it looked ok.

Castle war game?

I feel sorry for people who actually think this.

why did you post fanart?
and weird looking fanart at that

castlevania.fandom.com/wiki/Demon_Castle_War

they made multiple references to it in bloodstained

Doesn't work. You need to hack the game to ultra-widescreen to see it.

Because they actually know that the game is good. Gotta find something subjective to say.

It's just wishful thinking at this point. Iga said if Konami wanted to make another proper Castlevania, he'd be up for it.

My issue is with the bosses, not strictly variety, which are obviously far more engaging and demand more strategy in Hollow Knight. Bloodstained on the other hand is just a DPS race. Not sure how you even got to that conclusion.

>combat combat combat
It's a god damned action platformer series.

it really does look ugly. I like the game but you have to be delusional to think otherwise.

Maybe you have shit in your eyes or a bad machine.

>25 hours in
>100% of the map
>only now found out if you hold up Miriam does a ZR
Not even a Jojofag but that's pretty cool

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I knew she was fine under that dress, but good lord

>action
Yeah

>10/10
frame issues, random crashes, horrible bosses, terrible load times, crissaegrim is obtained after 2nd boss.
then it just has its jank and clunk

>one literally only one weapon
>flash artstyle while a good one is one note and boring after a while
>the awful as fuck map system
>one of the slowest boring beginnings of any metroidvania I've ever played
>music, a staple of the genre, is boring and not memorable in any way
the only thing the game does well is design fights around the minimal combat abilities which is a lot easier to do since you're so limited. but it also means there's not a lot of ways to actually do the fight. you never need to use your creativity in the game

Not OP but I’d say 8/10 at worst. Some of the visuals are wonky and it’s very buggy, but outside of that it’s every but the true spiritual sequel to CV I needed.

Explain please.

delusional it is then

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I'm at the first boss. How do I dodge the water jet when the boss is on the right side? I can't jump over it and I can't dodge it. what am I missing? it takes out like half my health

They’re pretty easy, sure, but I don’t think they’re bad.

You're right about everything, but that's notnthe real crissaegrim, it's a neutered version. You get the real one near the end of the game and you need a slightly rare drop to make it.

I like the game a lot, it has some things that need to be ironed out with patches. It's a 7/10.

the only game in existence that is 10/10 is Ape Escape 3.

Maybe, just maybe, it is because the game is not as great as only you seem to think it is.
It is a very poor castlevania clone and it is waifu bait weebshit.

>frame issues, random crashes, horrible bosses, terrible load times
console niggers btfo

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Why'd they change it?

Zangetsu is just standing still in far corner during the end sequence if you have Ultra Wide fix, that might just be a placeholder model or DLC might add new endings.

SOTN was a sleeper hit too, they just didn't put any money in marketing and instead just made the best game they can, it's not a 10\10 goyay but it's a decent game for those who like the genre.

Solid 6/10.

>turn down the brightness to the lowest
>game looks fucking great
Now lets wait until the fix the textures because the gameplay is spot on

What is a ZR?

Horrible bosses and load times are on the PC version too.

Nice shilling.

HK shills have thoroughly ensured I will never play their game by never, ever shutting the fuck up about it

you're gonna be waiting a while, then

>load times are on the PC version too.
Nope, not on my rig.
I never saw a loading past the initial boot which is 2 seconds at most.

Hide behind the squid enemies.

This. The 1.02 patch fucked a lot of things up for all players.

Same. We’ve had two excellent games now, he can’t just stop here

Dumb zoomer

>and load times are on the PC version too.
What toaster are you even playing this on? I have some shitty ass SSD that came with my notebook and the there's no loading whatsoever.

>people wanted beautiful 2d art, either handdrawn or pixelart
>get disgusting 3d graphics that would look bad on the PS2
JUST FUCK MY GRAPHICS UP SENPAI

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I bet someone will drop a mod soon or later. I mean with good shades the game looks pretty ok

I'm really liking it, what other igavanias should I play, I only played SotN

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I think they mentioned that Miriam's body was frozen in time.

Graphics are a 3/10, how does the rest hold up?

>installing games on your SSD

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It looks very good. Are you blind?

try Aria of Sorrow (GBA) and Order of Eclessia (DS)

Both have ganeplay elements that are present in Bloodstained

IGA isn't an acclaimed director. He's decent.

Great games he worked on but did not direct:
SoTN

Good games he did direct:
AoS
OoE

Okay games he did direct :
DoS
PoR
LoI

Absolute garbage games that he did direct:
The fighter
HoD
CoD
Nanobreaker

He's really hit or miss, mostly miss, and couldn't make a 3D vania to save his life. Thankfully Bloodstained turned out to be as good as AoS.

>how does the rest hold up?
Gameplay is spot on, the soundtrack is pure Castlevania Kino, the weapon and collection is varied as it gets.

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>guns are OP
So?

Aria and Dawn of Sorrow if you want a better version of RotN. Portrait of Ruin if you want the closest thing to a straight SotN sequel (mechanically). Order of Ecclesia if you want your dick kicked up through your mouth.

>Igavanias
>10/10
It's good but stop being a sperg.

Chill bro, they could have combat depth if IGA wanted to.

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>finally figure out there's a bug after the latest patch causing the chest with the silver bromide in it after Valak is slain to be opened already
>only figure this out after hours of combing the castle thinking I'm a brainlet
>can't bring myself to start over again

Wtf is this shit

What the other replies said, and the fact it has been posted in every thread every day

I don't want "depth"
playing around with the toolset they give you rather than forced into some mechanic heavy mess is not what I want

I don't install games onto my SSD, they're not that important for me in the scope of my software library. They go on one of my regular 2TB HDDs.

Where to go after clearing Oriental Sorcery lab?

What is better/more fun, spears or kicking?

>getting almost 600 attack with the best greatsword on top of Optimizer, Greatsword Expertise, and the Prowess Tome to increase attack speed
Whoopsie I broke it

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Are those techniques? I literally never used a single technique, are they useful?

7 or 8/10 at best
the bosses are waaaaaay too fucking easy, explo and power collection is good, weapon variety and techniques are cool, graphics aren't good but they aren't offensively bad like stills of the game make them look
I was also let down by the music, it's not necessarily bad but none of it really stands out. good video game music makes you remember it and none of the tracks did that for me

holy shit that works. thanks

What even determines how many books you can take out? My main file which has read basically every bookshelf up to Oriental Sorcery Lab can take out two, but my shardless run which has only JUST beaten the blood vampire bitch can take out three.

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Go face Gebel, equip Zangetsuto and slice the moon once it gets red.

>600 attack
You think that's a lot? Also greatswords suck ass.

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I like the greatswords running slash. It does more damage and makes you go faster the longer you run. It was especially fun for Alfred.

>playing around with the toolset they give you... ...is not what I want

Funny because we have had threads about this supposedly "forgotten" game 24/7

>not having a dedicated 1TB SSD for games only

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That's really shitty, you could download cheat engine and add the item manually; but I remember hearing it's all chests, not just that one. I would probably quit too tbqh.

His understanding of English is probably bad.

It's almost as if they said you shouldn't play the game early because you'll be missing the day 1 patch.

Jesus, I just stumbled upon the final boss (the real one) and had to quit before pawning it because I have not crafted any of the end game weapons since the materials needed are from the last stages.
Smart level design, IGA

Valefor (the giant poker chip boss) was running just fine until 1.02, and now the game stutters to a near-total standstill when he brings out the chips. That's not an improvement.

I think it's just time or rooms traveled since you've last visited OD, if you visit him more often you can probably work up to 3 quicker.

the last boss is a joke, just stop time.

So what is a lot of attack, then? I haven't bothered with all the food buffs. I know the Crissaegram knockoff and guns are more broken but for my first run through the game it became absolutely retarded. With maximum shadow clones and the running slash especially. And fuck you GS is always fun in every one of these games.

Useful in this game is subjective, there is always a more overpowered but less fun way to kill things. I chose to use techniques just as often as I used shards because they're fun, and backdash/jump/land canceling were satisfying to pull off in boss fights, so they were useful in that sense.

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The big red door didn't give it away?

I've visted him more often on my main file and even have access to the +15 LCK book. I have double the rooms explored as well. Might just keep going back and see what happens.

UN
DEUX
TROIS

No, its not like it was hard. Its simply that I want to go for the optional bosses before it. There was no warning it was the last boss since the ice stage is so dumb and uninspired. There was no gravitas before reaching its room

I'm having hard time thinking of a Castlevania with worse bosses.

Maaaaybe HoD

Is this awful to play without a controller?

I'm just not good at remembering commands.

I had the same feeling, I figured the second last boss would die and then you'd go to another zone for the final boss, but nope just skipped right to it. Seems phoned in/rushed.

You know what would really piss him off?

If you cut off your nose and took a picture, just to spite him!

How you think they bad though?

At the least I think Vepar and the dragons are great. Zangetsu pretty good. Blood bitch is memorable if nothing else.

No one complaining about the female protagonist goes against game journo's narrative, so they're hoping this game goes under the radar despite having a massive following.

At least they should have a NPC saying the typical "This is the big moment, are you sure you are ready for it?" to warn you at least. But nope, rushed indeed

Yeah m8 not gonna play something that inspires a feeling of disgust whenever I think about it, one way or the other.

>metroidvania
>10/10
lol what a brainlet genre

>Almost no media coverage whatsoever, doesn't even have a metacritic rating because there are so few critical reviews published.
Did they gave review codes to the ""gaming journalists""?

>There was no warning it was the last boss since the ice stage is so dumb and uninspired
It's the last portion of the game you can even access, and prior to that the characters says it's time to finish their fight; not liking the fact it is some ice place or unispired shit is besides the point, the game does show you that it is the last stage/portion.

>Loot gets stuck in wall all of the time
Sweet, 10/10 game here.

I’ve straight up seen people complaining about the female protag though. If that was their angle, wouldn’t be hard to find examples.

imagine being such a bitch that you skip a good game because of its fanbase
just imagine.

Maybe because it looks like absolute dogshit,
I cant believe how bad the art direction is.

The last boss on a Castlevania should be in the castle. Its common sense

>no crystal tattoos
Its shit

>At least they should have a NPC saying the typical "This is the big moment, are you sure you are ready for it?"
Symphony of the Night didn't have that, only Aria of Sorrow and onwards that had more blatant warnings that the Final Fight was coming.

You collect it anyway after 10 seconds or upon leaving the room

Not him but Bloodless and Millionaire Bane are the only bosses I had to try multiple times. Everything else was a DPS race with no strategy actually required. I haven't fought OD yet though. Also the dragon fight was visually interesting but only for like 30 seconds.

If you can still touch the bag, when you exit the room it will collect. Watch for the tooltip on the bottom left next time it happens.

With gswords, you officially stop being a damagelet at 800.

God you people are insufferable. Imagine getting booty blasted because someone doesn’t want to play your game.

Second one is definitely bullshit, I've had plenty of items not come to me after leaving the room. I'll try waiting around, I suppose.

>Bosses are 0/10
Playing on Hard. So far Zangetsu, Gebel, Bloodless and the two fast fucks have been pretty fun. No bugs, no exploitable shit and no twitchy fuckery that results in constant contact damage. Just learn the tells and dodge. Double jump and downward rush really change the game since you can pogo on foes or quickly close ground for more safe mobility.

Problem with the Bloodstained is that the RPG elements still make everything cheesable no matter how difficult the bosses' movesets are on paper. If you have even the slightest bit of foresight you can just gear up on potions / special ammunition and proceed to wreck any boss without much effort. That's not even getting into level ups or gear upgrade mechanics. The balance is totally fucked, meaning that once you understand the basics, difficulty is only achieved through self-imposed challenge. Thank god the game at least has a cheat code that unlocks harder difficulties from the get-go, I can't even imagine how easy it'd be on normal.

People like to shitpost between this and Hollow Knight, but what the latter really did better was removing the numeric min-max shit and item hoarding. While you do get more powerful as you explore the game, there's never anything that lets you walk over bosses which means their difficulty is usually static and you're actually forced to learn their patterns no matter what type of charm build you're rolling. Not having ridiculous numeric bonuses is also the reason why Curse of the Moon didn't have the same balance issues either.

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Not 10/10 but 8-9/10. If you liked the older Igavanias, you'll love this one.

This is not Castlevania despite drinking from the same cup, also the lore is about demons and shit, taking heavily from Ars Goetia and Dante's Inferno, the last place being an iceland does correlate to the 9th Circle of Hell.

Agreed
Crystals look like shit one the real model though, dunno why they decided to make them look painted-on

I'm guessing that means kicking?

I hope you realize there are people on this board that dedicate their time specifically to make you hate a game by being intentionally obnoxious about it. Most recently DMC5 and Sekiro. It's fags like you that keep them around.

you mean like Bloodstainedfags every time someone mentions how ugly it looks?

It was pretty obvious something was up as you entered the secret location in SoTN though, it was ominous as fuck. The ice zone was really lame in Bloodstained.

me butt blasted? I just find it amazing how some of you can be completely out of touch with reality, thats why you f5 this shitty board all day long

eat shit

You must have a better setup than me then, no way I could out DPS the bosses. I’m going full STR so maybe my def is shit.

is there a guide anywhere of all items? , thats the last cheevo i need the item completion and i have everything crafted but i dont know where are some hidden walls , is there a guide or something about the items?

It probably doesn't help that I'm only level 52. Still though, for normal mode it's been killing most of everything end game in 1-2 hits and melted O.D. and the other final bosses.

Bit late to the thread, but there's a reason its not getting coverage. All I will say of the matter is that I overheard 'we could starve it by not acknowledging it during the crucial launch period' and the phrase 'problematically Japanese' several times.

You can come up with your own conclusions on that but just know the radio silence isn't organic.

How do I beat Seema?

They’re there, there’s no notification but they get added to your inventory

I don't believe a single word you just wrote

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Whoops look like I made them mad lol
Blow me

No

>dunno why they decided to make them look painted-on
The one on her back is fully textured as an actual crystal though, dunno why it wasn't made for the whole body, the real villain has her whole body textured.

This kind of shit really makes me want to kys myself

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that's ok, because a platform like Yea Forums generates more traffic than IGN does

ZR means ZAWA RUDO

Yeah thats a good point about RPG mechanics actually interfering with the bosses and making the combat just a brainless DPS race. There is a level 1 mode though which is closer to Hollow Knight, though I imagine the price for that is that the big library of spells becomes useless.

>Attack vampire with the Sanjiegun spear
>Realise it looks like I am giving her a deep dicking

>Many animations emphasize her ass, and leaning pantie shots.

I am surprised by the size of her tits and ass. Somebody mod panties in this girl fucks sake.

Still I think Shanoa was a better design.

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Why? It's no one's fault but your own that you decided to take a completely anonymous post with no sources at face value.

Don’t tell me you believe that shit

Games journalists being allergic to Japan is nothing new. Shit like Xplay and IGN have a time honored tradition of it.

It looks like shit, if your game looks like shit no one gives a shit beside nerds

The absolute love BRs have for SOTN and metroidvania make me think that my ancestors establishing that colony was not a big huge mistake.

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>>Hollow Knight murdered the genre so badly, no one will catch up for at least another decade or two. Let that sink in
Do you mean the mechanics got old and another game of the genre is a simple rip-off? Because it sounds like that.

Because even if that particular post is bullshit it reminds me that that kind of thing is really happening, like how FF7 Remake is going to have tons of content completely changed or flat out removed by the "ethics department"

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Does it matter how much damage you take as long as you beat the boss? The save point is right outside the door.

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Hue here, it was due rampart PSX piracy back in the days, literally every BR with a PSX had Symphony of the Night in hand.

Hollow Knight is Wings of Vi for people who think they want difficulty but couldn't actually handle it.

Beautiful game on all front.

Hollow Knight is a 10/10. This is maybe 7 or 8

Is this one goood? I read somewhere that this one and Oniken have control issues taht make the games unplayable... Is that true? Both look really good.

>not maxing out gold for money is power boosts

lmao

red remembrance?

never played castlevania , how does dead cells compare to this?

>anons false flagging with HK

Every BR loves DMC too, and every single DMC skill video on youtube has BRs in the comments accusing them of hacking(when they aren't)
Is there a similar explanation here?

Imagine dead cells, but if it wasn't really gay and bad.

Literally never. If it has happened it was before widespread use of the internet.

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That's fine, after all this is an indian basket weaving board and I'm certainly just a random user and not privy to certain channels of conversation related to video game bloggi- er, journalism that have previously been implicated and caught red handed colluding before

True, but not deciding to cover a japanese game for being too japanese and thus being alienating to normies is a bit different from choosing not to cover the spiritual successor to one of the most acclaimed Castlevania games of the whole series, a game that has long since been embraced by normies seeking to boost their gamer cred, seems that unless you had an ulterior motive that it would be a bit daft to not report on it for those sweet sweet ad impressions and clicks while the iron's hot, no?

>PSX

I thought it was because of regular PS one. Funny that both metroidvania and Sega were big in both.

Still PC is a lot bigger here because of cheaper pentiums the 90s.

Its great user, a shame it was so obscure. Its sleek as hell.

maybe by not looking like visual diarrhea? Bloodstained is disgusting in every single way, the environments are poorly lit, composed and overly detailed, it looks like a random collection of gothic unity assets slapped together with no direction or sense of mood. textures look like nasty plastic, enemy design is dogshit, character design is low tier waifu garbage, animations are stiff, colours are garish and incoherent across the board.

It should be taught to art school kids as an example of exactly what not to do, fuck.

Well yeah you can go higher but getting gold cap is way too long. The Silver Ring boost is better anyway.

They're pretty different, the ones being discussed in this thread are all about RPG mechanics and stats. Weapons have 1-3 moves at most, the vast majority only having 1.

Should I buy Symphony of the Night on PS4? I mean they didn't fuck up anything right?

which items is the golden thing above miriams head?

you have issues

you could, but why would you?
why not play it on literally anything else instead of paying for a re-re-release?

It's over, the zoomers won.

It has the boring non-meme voices iirc

I am playing off my old ass hard drive
>Initial load takes a few seconds
>Only time I ever see an area transition load is if I zip zoom between areas at Sonic speed using the maxed out speed soul
>Even then it is literally two seconds
>Played 25 hours with no crashes at cinematic 144 fps at 1080p on a 970

Seriously what kind of Russian bootleg toasters are some of you playing on?

You do know that you can turn that off in the menu, right?

anyone know the armor between Mantua and Lamellar Armor? Also im missing Hair V and the bookcase with "Alchemist note 8"

And the fucked-up PSP controls.

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Lol, git gut

The channeled kamehamebeam is fucked since its more efficient when you tap it instead of holding the button.

Trivializes the difficulty tho.

>For all the players
Not for PC players. Because it launched with 1.02 and never had the game breaking bug which happens when you have a pre-1.02 save.

>>Only time I ever see an area transition load is if I zip zoom between areas at Sonic speed using the maxed out speed soul
>>Even then it is literally two seconds
That's already pretty awful.

The wild and crazy things one could do with giant hands

But does it have secret tranny pride rooms?

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PS2 continued the trend of piracy around here making easier for people to recommend a certain game, Brazil in general was attached to anything Capcom made in the nineties and early 2000's, Resident Evil in particular was huge, Devil May Cry 1 was in high demmand at any place with people selling burnt disc copies due the more immediate Resident Evil origins DMC1 had, Devil May Cry 3 was a revolution itself.

>first negro girl then tranny flag
glad i didn't spend any money for this shit game

You stupid disciple

Zero. No trannies or gays are mentioned at all. Not even hinted.

Naw. Farming items from enemies, enemy I've never killed before drops something. I leave room, get shit, still ???? on their status page. What you're saying isn't really all that correct.

Cheers might get it on switch since my desktop shat itself

>N-no, it’s still hideous! It has to be! It’s the ugliest thing in history! FLOP, DAMN YOU, FLOP!

Interesting. Thanks for the H(ue)istory lesson.

This isn't real, is it?

>I thought it was because of regular PS one
No BR called it PSone or "Playstation Um" in portuguese, we just called Playstation but accepted that abreviation was PSX due the magazines marking the Playstation segments as PSX.

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Larp somewhere else

As MUCH as i want to buy this, i WILL NOT BUY it until i hear about a patch that fixes the games issues.

I been reading these threads since its release and i keep reading about the game having issues in the bookshelves/library and the game disconnects and you lose your prgress.

That is unacceptable for me till its fixed.

Can anyone who has the game give me an update on if these issues have been fixed?

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Is that supposed to be some tranny flag?

Works on my machine

No problem, you're welcome.

It's real, here's a mod
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1764912274&searchtext=remove flag
Fun too read comments

What is the point of all the fucking chairs everywhere?

I haven't tried the game but from the visuals alone it can not be a perfect 10/10

memes

If you look closely, you can see that it's only her body stocking that's textured, not herself.

A number of bugs where fixed in the patch but I don’t have an exhaustive list

To trick you into a chair mimic

Why would I want the game to flop? I like Iga and his games

Its a castle full of monsters, can't expect them to stand all the time.

I have to admit, I got got

Trangeder Rights Movement, yeah they need a flag other than the usual Rainbow that was supposed to be all of them LGBTQWRFSDSGGSG people.

I also saw that, every "bad" review has to mention HK, why is this a thing

I'm playing the game on hard mode but everything is so hard to kill. Every monster takes at least 6 hits to kill. Is there some trick I'm missing to give myself a bit of a damage boost?

I just want a Miriam gf.

Do the optional bosses locked behind the keyed rooms have any shards or notable drops?

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>How are so many of you just scrolling past this. Holy shit
Yeah, crazy, it's almost like we're not 12 years old.

gimme dat big dick boi i wanna suck the kidney stones right outta dat sack lemme lick and suck and lick and fuck

they didn't

I haven't had any big issues like that on the PC version. But I've seen a lot of broken gameplay footage from the console versions because they launched with v1.01. PC came with 1.02 which apparently fixed a lot of things.

HKfags are insufferable, at least the ones that aren't obvious falseflaggers

Literally every sub group has their own flag, been that way for years and years m8

>Horrible bosses
Ok, explain what is so horrible about them, i saw anons being ok with them, and I personally think they are also good

Their shards are just okay, but they drop materials needed to make the best weapons.

They do have shards and drops.

>Unironically 10/10 game
Does anyone actually believe this? It's an excellent game but hardly a 10/10, it's more of a 8.

One drops an item required to get the real crissaegrim

Do you even know what a horrible looking game is like?
Just a warning, don't open If you think Bloodstained looks "horrible"

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>Shards being random drops from any enemy means killing every single enemy becomes exciting, because you have no idea if some awesome shard will drop from it.
This is ripped directly from A/DoS

They do? I only saw the Rainbow on TV whenever the news felt the need to cover what these people are doing, and I only got know the tanny flag existed due this A Hat in Time thing and trannies trying to make stages with the flag on it for Smash; I can't keep up with this shit

>just okay
*perma stunlocks you with 10,000 daggers per second for 100+ damage each*

>Beat all super bosses, grinded up almost every passive to max.
>Still missing 4 rooms on the map
I had fun but I think I’ve done all I’ve wanted to.

Or maybe this is like, your opinion, man

>that one chair in the waterfall room that takes you all the way up
That chair was a fucking bro

>other games look worse
>this means a bad-looking game doesn't look bad

Well hopefully we get a patch soon that fixes these issues so i can hurry up and give Iga my money.

They worked on this game for like 6 years so its kind of unacceptable for such obvious issues/bugs

What the fuck. Guess I remove a hat in time from my wishlist and buy the Iga backpack DLC instead to support those who made Bloodstained.
I can always pirate it if I really want to play it.

They never promised 2d graphics you idiot

Weird, interesting. Here it was just Playstation I think.

>get the fairy companion
>immediately find the piano chair

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Yeah there’s variations for everything. I dunno them all, the trans and ace ones are the ones I see the most. Maybe bi sometimes. They’ve been around at least since like ten years ago. I don’t really know though, I’m not a homo historian.

Not as much bro as the chair in the train. Can't believe they had such a lewd picture of Miriam if you waited long enough.

Hat in Time also refused to remove JonTron when SJWs kicked up a fuss about it and he is currently still in the game. So I wouldn't worry about it, Gears for Breakfast doesn't care either way they just wanna make sales.

Miriam is cute! CUTE!

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I just wish game had more costume variety. Strange they didn't spend some time for it.

Funnily enough I just finished my demon compendium and got those drops first try.

Just because it's not a movie game that doesn't mean it isn't 10/10 for some people, the whole point of a game is to have fun playing it, If people are having this much fun with it, then I say it deserves to be treated like a 10/10

stuff like Miriam tracking jump attack, the umbrella lady just standing still trying to hit you when you duck, gebel collapsing to jump over him, the double headed dog fight, the dragon that's basically a standard enemy.

Is this game any good?

They said we're getting more.

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>"Cute, yes, but those shards growing on her body are simply garish. If you truly care about her, you should give them to me instead."

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Just assholes looking to start some shit

I'd say it's more of a 8/10 or 9/10. It's a little rough around the edges in some spots and I wish there was a better way of switching between shards, but overall it's a lot of fun

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Yes

To be fair that dragon actually is just a reoccurring enemy.

It will collect anyway idiot

Good MOOOOOORNING, Yea Forums!

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>female protagonist
>2D shit
If it doesn't have orc rape i'm not interested in the snakepoo you are selling.

Seems like overrated garbage to me already.
It tries to be a castlevania but isn't. Female protagonist for the cucks and weeb faggots.
Graphics are in a weird place, they wanna be beautiful but it's just horrible to look at.

I don't know man, I'd rather just play a good castlevania again.

Solid 8, worth a pirate or on sale down the road with all DLC

does something happen at the end, if you don't give her any shards at all?

Sorry lady. You remind me too much of Mathias Cronqvist.

I want to fuck NUN

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Agree. Its clearly a solid 8 turning 9.

The length is meh. I hope it sells, we might get more and bigger.

Unironically 10/10

A bit of dialogue gets altered, but there's otherwise no change.

How do I get a girlfriend like Miriam?

>Looking at what the 'imbued' drops create

Well shit this looks expensive. How many of them are worthwhile?

>this is the body of a woman ten years comatose
Questionable...

Let me fuck you first and then I'll give you the shards.

Black character and trans flag will be part of the next DLC.

There should be DLC endings that account for you not selling Dominique a single shard, in my playthrough I just never sold her a single shard yet story assumes I have been continuously dropping shards at her lap.

This but obviously ironically (more like 7.5, 8)

Attack caps at 999, lame. Also I fucking hate using techniques on a keyboard.

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It's good enough to be honest. After I tried it plays well and the MC is okay. I dislike some aspects of her design but hey.

I never found those fanbases obnoxious.

DMC5 and Sekiro are unironically two of the greatest action games ever made. If you can watch a trailer for either of those games and not want to play them, you're a faggot. You don't like video games. I don't like you. I will never have any kind of mental or spiritual resonance with you. It doesn't matter how obnoxious the fanbase for those games becomes, I will always like them because from the first trailers I saw of those games, I knew I wanted to play them. And when I did play them, they were some of the best action games I ever touched. If fanbases of those games invade other people's threads, I've literally never been aware of it at all.

Hollow Knight never looked fun. It looks boring. I don't like the artstyle. I don't want to play it. And yet I've seen countless people on this board constantly go into Bloodstained threads or any Metroidvania thread for that matter and constantly post about how it's better than any other game in the genre. I never wanted to play this game, and now I'm just 100% certain I'm never going to play it. Any game that attracts a fanbase of faggots is invariably a terrible game, no matter how much acclaim it gets. I thought that KH might be an alright series despite how terrible the fanbase is, I was wrong.

Shit fanbases almost always universally equate to shitty games, because shitty things attract shitty people. It's pretty simple when you actually think about it.

Let's be clear. You can shitpost about how terrible you think Bloodstained is or how bad it looks all you want. I'll never care. You'll never sway my thoughts about this game. I feel this is already the best Metroidvania of the game of the decade, there is no competition worth mentioning. I saw trailers of the game, I liked it.Then I actually played the game, and it's more than surpassed all my expectations. I've already got the PS4 version but I'm going to buy the Switch version as well.

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Wouldn't change anything. Most metroidvania fans are just poor normalfags at this point.

>Miriam tracking jump attack
Not sure what you mean.

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cope

>comparing heavily compressed in game shot to high res fan art.
You should have known people would immediately spot your bullshit.

I need more of this.

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Did they patch the game recently? I started a new game and it feels different. I swear some enemies moved, there are some balance changes, items aren't where they were previously etc.

I can't find a plunderer's ring anymore. And I had two the first time I played.

There's no way it's a 10/10, bosses are boring, there's still annoying bugs, quests are super trivial and basic why are they even in the game, not enough enemy variety.
It's 8/10 at best, get your head out of your ass.

Its so ugly we have to compare it to autism games that hang out with unity asset flips.

I actually want to play the game but I cant bring myself to look at it.

I expected just a skimpier outfit with a nice thong panties. Nude is just meh.

It was a magic coma though. She was probably unaging inside a crystal or something.

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I don't think this will work though, it is already getting alot of coverage on youtube and steam, even this place, in this day and age it is Impossible to not be known especially since the game seems to be pretty good and generaly liked by people, also If this is true, fuck gaming "journalists" with a spiky fucking dick

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Isn't that just a reused Lili idle animation

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cringe

Every time you point out that someone might not be interested in their game they do this

>But isn’t
It really is

Speak for yourself OP, I gave it a 9/10 on a Metacritic-applicable site. Why aren’t you actively stemming the flow of shit games “journalism”?

I am at 100% map and items, but I'm still missing 3 shortcuts and 3 silver knight shards. What's up with that?

It's really annoying to be quite honest

She's collecting shards herself. And those that don't bind to you bind to her instead

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Max those in New Game+.

8/10

How the fuck can you call this an 8, 9 or 10, I know you wanted it to be good desperately but calm the fuck down just because it's semi decent doesnt make it a great game worthy of such praise it still looks horrible, got bugs up the ass, bosses are shit but I guess "hurrr muh dick based female tiddies" and coping backers are to blind to see the glaring flaws

PS2 CASTLEVANIE WAS KINO AS FUCK. FIGHT ME

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New Game+, that's how the forces you to do it.

You need to go back to ResetEra. Please.

Ah ok, you want to play it like that then, tell me what this games looks like If Bloodstained is the "horrible" looking one

Imagine being this desperate to flash your credentials about an absolutely inane matter

cope.

Isn't that already Bloodstained?
Dominique basically merges with Bael. I wonder if she'll be the reoccuring big bad.

also horrible. Multiple games can look horrible, there's not a finite supply of awfulness in the world.

Not entirely sure but I am sure it'd be amazing.

This. I can't get past the graphics to play the game

Won't be surprised if it turns out Dom absorbed Bael's shard and ultimately becomes the series' full-blown Dracula expy.

>tfw bitter hollowniggers are faced with an actual game their little indieshit poorly mimiced
Hollow Knight has THE WORST level design of any exploration title.
>Hallway left
>Hallway right
>Three hallways on top of each other
>Bottomless pit into next hallway

>It doesn't matter how obnoxious the fanbase for those games becomes, I will always like them because from the first trailers I saw of those games, I knew I wanted to play them.
>I never wanted to play this game, and now I'm just 100% certain I'm never going to play it. Any game that attracts a fanbase of faggots is invariably a terrible game, no matter how much acclaim it gets.
>I'll never care.
lol

Why are Hollow Knight fans so mad though? I still like Hollow Knight and still plan to buy Silksong. Someone liking one series doesn't man they can't like the other.

Honestly, the only thing it’s really missing is a quick restart for boss fights. That’s one huge QoL from Order of Ecclesia that should’ve carried over.

Why did I even bother

it's likely just shitposters trying to stir up trouble

It's some assholes wanting to start some shit between fanbases

Or even just an option to fully skip boss intro cutscenes when it's not your first viewing.

Your enjoyment of the game forces you to think the game doesn't look bad when it quite clearly does, so you desperately look for any way to excuse how bad it looks.

>muh falseflag

>credentials

it's lamulanafags falseflagging

gee, i wonder what dastardly gentleman engineered the hollow cuck vs shitstained war

I enjoyed it but it's a far cry from Hollow Knight.

How do we fix magic?

Yea Forums is fucking easy, so it's not even hard to start dumb shit like that

>Unironically 10/10
Bloodstained is good, but it's NOT 10/10. More like a 7/10. Not meme 7/10, actual 7/10 (5/10 being ok, 7/10 is a good score).

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yeah, no one's ever falseflagged a console war between game fanbases, not like it's happened repeatedly with every action game for the past year or so

the people on this board are probably the same type to bitch about endless fps being produced. this game has been thousands of times by indie studios. it isnt new or fresh. im glad you are enjoying it but it isnt getting attention because it doesnt deserve any.its the same anime side scrolling action rpg thats been shit out a thousand times. botw is better hell even cod is better seeth you smelly twats and lick the hook clean.

Cool reply buddy, :)

Looks like a flash game made in late 2000s, it has to be free right? No way people is paying money for that

This. It's a good game, but there's clearly room for improvement. Hopefully, the DLC will bump it up to about an 8.

isnt OD is already Dracula

cope and copepilled

You can do that.

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did you play the game?

People wanted a "Castlevania" game, not some trash impersonators

It plays good, monsters are cool, shards are cool

Solid edition to the CV roster, still only second ugliest after HoD

INT builds are broken

OD is Alucard mixed with Dio Brando.

>got water jet movement with ease
>beat Alfred & got water walking
>blondie says something about a fire demon
Where do I go from here? Everywhere I think I can go requires flight or a super jump or has a small space for transformation/Dawn of Sorrow puppet abilities blocking my path.

Would prefer to have a hint rather than an outright answer if possilbe.

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Keep searching the caves and going underwater.

If you go for medals, I don't think the bosses are so bad. Although some of the hitboxes are wonky as shit. Blood lady seemed to have a hitbox three times as wide on some animations and her dodge.

I played this game for 4 hours straight right now and it's not bad, but something's missing. I had way more fun with SotN (I actually played it just a few years ago on the PSP as it was included with Dracula X Chronichles). The music is not very good despite being composed by the same woman who did SotN. I also don't really get how the 8 bit prequel ties into this game, or which of the endings is canon, since it seems to disregard the prequel completely. Definitely a 7/10 so far, but when it comes to recent Metroidvanias, Hollow Knight and Ori blow it the fuck out though, but it was to be expected from yet another nostalgia fueled, "spiritual successor" meme, kikestarted game by some washed out literally who from the nineties.

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>I also don't really get how the 8 bit prequel ties into this game, or which of the endings is canon, since it seems to disregard the prequel completely.
It's not canon at all.

Can we take some time to appreciate that Miriam is the cutest and you can dress her up as much as you want?

Also funfact: get every shard in the game and you get an accessory that makes magic have no cost. It makes you so absurdly powerful it's hilarious.

>10/10
My ass. Have you seen how fucking ugly this game is? It looks less appealing to the eye than fucking SotN.

> While you do get more powerful as you explore the game, there's never anything that lets you walk over bosses which means their difficulty is usually static and you're actually forced to learn their patterns no matter what type of charm build you're rolling.

bullshit. the build where you have a bunch of spiders attack the boss for you while you run around and also whenever your spiders hit the boss or you take damage you get MP enough to heal the damage you took (as because this game has no RPG elements most bosses do fixed 1 pip of damage) lets you faceroll the whole game until the very last boss and the optional super hard stuff that wasn't in the game on release (and which bloodstained is promised to get similar free updates)

Nah, the neverending flood of indie metroidvanias has been infuriating for me specifically because none of them scratched that itch, they all have cartoony graphics or don’t have the horror theme at all, or have a much more limited number of options and builds, etc. Some of them are great games but they weren’t this game.

How? Pressing start just skips the current dialogue bit, and the longer human boss intros have multiple dialogue bits with unskippable animations in between them.

>Hollow Knight and Ori
>neither of which have RPG elements
Yes I'm fucking seething so hard, I have developed a hatred for these games. Stop shilling them to people who want fucking SoTN style games.

This sums up the faggot fanbase of this faggot game. You know who the targets are when you look at the chars.

>Can pause and use a bunch of potions from the menu at any time
Defend this.

Not even memeing, I love Lament of Innocence because I can finish it in 2 to 3 hrs and the music is really good. Plus, hard mode is fun as fuck and challenging.
Curse of Darkness is good as well, but way too long to replay it constantly.

That's because you play as a big tiddy goth girl. If you played as a burka wearing middle eastern girl with no tits or ass you'd see all the press coverage.

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muh Igavania

Miriam kind of cute. You think she'd be into black guys?

They have a cap and stop healing very much pretty quickly, the better healing items are also dickfuck expensive.

Potions heal like 8% of my lifebar

Also this shit is baked in since 1997, catch up

When do bosses get difficult?

Wait, am I seeing this right? If you get every single shard you get an accessory that makes spells not cost any MP?

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>Also funfact: get every shard in the game and you get an accessory that makes magic have no cost. It makes you so absurdly powerful it's hilarious.

Just like in Aria of Sorrow and Dawn of Sorrow.

Get every soul and a ring will appear in the final area that gives unlimited MP

OD's a vampire, but Dom is literally pre-Drac Mathias except using shards instead of a Crimson Stone.

yes

When you play on hard or nightmare

Doesn't that kinda completely break the game since you can use za warudo infinitely?

I wouldn't say it's 10/10, it's more like a 8.5/10 with one or two aspects that almost make it dip all the way to 6/10. The game's visuals, while they definitely work, are EXTREMELY busy to the point of migraines in certain areas, and the sound design past the music can get grating. Aside from that there's a fuckton of random clipping issues everywhere.

My current build also makes the game nearly effortless by shitting chain lightning that does over 200+ damage to some enemies everywhere for free. Constantly. It's nuts. If there's one thing this game does it's make any strategy viable.

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Yes but it's legit useless because you get 10mp/s regen and passive mana cost reduction so you should never ever need infinite mana unless you wanna sustain manipulation shards for 50 hours or something.

>>Unironically 10/10 game comes out from one of the most acclaimed game directors ever
I expected nothing reading this and then I gazed on the weeb trash pic and was still let down. It always has to be weeb trash that is the best game ever.

yo but why is it so slow and boring compared to ecclesia
am i supposed to get excited by these boss fights ? jesus

>have to complete the game to play the game
cool

Exact same thing happened to me. IF it had been a hard boss fight I'd have been somewhat annoyed, but it was a trivial fight, so.

no, because by that point you've already beaten all the challenges

Only boss fight that seemed to be any bit interesting so far was Bloodless

Your brain being tricked into thinking something looks good because you enjoy it for other reasons is actually a perfectly valid reason for thinking something looks good, because that's just how the human brain works, that's exactly how people are able to marry ugly people, think they are beautiful, and propagate the species.

>you get 10mp/s regen
How? Food only?

The game was completely broken long before then

10/10 game for weebs

that doesn't make the ugly people less ugly

Yeah, after eating all the food you get +8/s only from it. I never run out of MP now even when I farm the same monster for 20 minutes casting 2 Spells costing 50 mp per second

You'll need the glasses if you want to farm all materials and 9 of each soul much more easily. Going in and out of a room and spamming summon hellhound will drain right past your MP regen in seconds.

op is exaggerating but the game is really good besides some inconsistencies in visuals. easy 8.5/10

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I blame people's unreasonable nostalgia for SotN. Sure it had the best design and atmosphere but the gameplay was not that great.
God imagine if we had an Ecclasia spiritual successor. Now those were some A tier boss fights.

It does to the person who doesn't think they are ugly, because that's how opinions work.
If you think consensus can be used as an objective measure then you must love the music being played on the radio, and I'm sure you don't.

>Map completion: 16.30%
Lol, you aren't enjoying it all that much are you. You'd rather post about it than play past the fucking 15% point.

Which difficulty are you playing on, user?

No, because unlike what you see in hollywood movies and commercials, white women are actually the group that is least likely to race mix.

The RPG elements in this one or even SotN are shallow as fuck and can be ignored entirely.

the last item i need, anyone know what/where it is?

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SOTN came out in 1997 and this game did nothing to improve upon the formula and intentionally kept stupid shit in like backdashing being faster than moving normally and air attacks being quicker.

Why should I give a fuck about a nostalgia cash grab that does nothing to improve upon its formula. Metroidvania style games have been done and exhausted to death and this game adds nothing new to the genre. The attention this game is getting is 100% nostalgia and launch hype.

Normal, I didn't know how to access the higher difficulties yet. I'm pretty sure that if I galaxy-brained even fucking harder, it'd still be trivial.

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It's probably a combination of shitposters and people on both camps genuinely being too thin-skinned, i.e. regular Yea Forums for better or worse. Compare any game to another similar game and people will be at each others' throats while completely swearing off the other game forever, not realizing that you can admit one game did certain things better while not delivering on other fronts, but enjoying both.

Personally I think Bloodstained better nails exploration rewards and that sort of stuff a la classic Castlevania since there's many unique items to acquire so nearly everything can potentially change how you play, whereas I think HK has it much worse since charms are mostly modifiers rather than stuff unlocking actual new moves. However balance, boss design and challenge wise Bloodstained ranges from merely alright to ass when you start factoring in any sort of thinking or preparation on the player's part, since so many items can easily break the game. On the other hand this may not be directly a negative if you happen to like games where you can turn stupidly powerful and absolutely mop the floor with supposed endgame foes.

I think lackluster graphics is also a valid complaint even if it's been argued to death, considering how much financial backing Bloodstained had compared to HK. Also, it still boggles my mind how a budget indie game with the fraction of this game's budget managed to implement backer content less obnoxiously than Bloodstained with its cheap, slightly touched up fan portraits that litter the entire fucking game. I really wish someone comes up with a replacement mod.

I spawm Teps Oseus and I never run out almost. Having the Maxed Shard that reduce Mana cost and give a chance to cancel costs completely makes it very easy.

MP regen

>intentionally kept stupid shit in like backdashing being faster than moving normally and air attacks being quicker
Those are feature and it was that way since a long time the same way cmbo in fighting game were originally bugs that became a feature.
Also I think SotN was the game that introduced those features or at least the one that popularized them which in both case make your original claim wrong.

>better way of switching between shards
What, is holding L2 and then moving the stick to another gear setup too much?

>Teleports behind you
This fucking game is so fun.

>liking videogames
literally S O Y dilate tranny

I see. I found magic in general kind of OP in normal. Just murdered everything with True Arrow. Will try hard or nightmare next.

Teps Oseus spam is my jam too. The spell's fucking broken and I love it.

What is the absolute fastest way to farm money?

I won't fight you, because you're right

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>>Almost no media coverage whatsoever,
why do you care? You get to play the game and your bros are playing the game. That's all that matters.

Wait until you get Jinrai technique with katanas.

Did they nerf some things in the newest patch?

You can unlock them right away by naming yourself NIGHTMARE, now fuck off

What claim did I make? I never said they were bugs. I knew they were features and I hate that they kept them. Who the fuck actually likes having to backdash just move across the map quicker? They could have just made movement speed quicker but they went out of their way to use outdated shit design to capture muh nostalgia. Same with air attacking, it completely fucks over weapon balance and it's an incredibly weak combat system for a game in 2019.