it’s some “unhandled error.” it’s supposed to happen mostly near the final boss, and Konami is supposed to be working on a patch
-Way too many cut scenes…
-Too much narration
-Level designs could be better
-Terrible pacing
How do you reach all of these conclusions having played through only two chapters?
God forbid you actually wait until you finish the game before complaining.
Gonna pick this up at K-mart with Vanquish for $30 =)
Too many cut scenes and narration? The only narations that come to mind are from when the Level is loading up, and there aren’t a lot of cutscenes, heck the amount of time you play is more than the amount of time given to cut scenes.
Got 110% the other day and having watched the ending again…
[spoiler=]Did anyone else notice Baba Yaga(?) standing behind Zobek when he was talking to Dracul in the street?[/spoiler]
thats a fuckin shitty bug. wasted about almost about 20 hrs of my life T_T
I thought the game could’ve used more cut scenes. Gabriel practically becomes a mute during certain parts of the game.
The game’s a re-imagining of CV so secondary characters could’ve been fleshed out more and the history of it’s universe given additional detail instead of having most of the back story be told to you through the scrolls you find.
Anyways I finally beat the game whilst backing up my save regularly although I didn’t encounter the unhandled error.
Verdict is… pretty damn good considering if you sat through the credits you’ll notice MS had maybe around 50 people work on LoS. Compare this to the huge teams for games like GOW and Uncharted, and how its budget I doubt came anywhere near the budgets of the aforementioned (I don’t think Konami even bothered to market this game much if at all). So for a studio that has never made a game in the action-adventure genre before and to accomplish what they were able to do is impressive.
As for a sequel, which apparently is already in the works there are plenty of design elements they could improve on. I’m not going to bother listing everything since what I’d write would be no different than the suggestions of a majority of players and it’d probably just come off as a wish list. The shaky cam effect definitely needs to go however.
whoa, I didn’t. did you notice
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slogra in the rubble in the cathedral before death zobek starts his ascent?
was it hot baba yaga after she drank her blue flower tea?
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] Yeah I noticed the slogra I was trying to tell my gf what it was but I couldn’t remember the name of it lol. Nah it’s old Baba, she’s stood just to the right of Zobek when they’re in the street, I tihnk it’s just after Dracul screams then vanishes. I’m pretty sure it’s Baba anyways if not then it’s just some old bitch lol. [media=youtube
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Just finished chapter three. That city sinking into the water was amazingly beautiful.
I gotta say, now that I’m getting upgrades beyond just being able to carry more daggers, this actually feels like castlevania. It shouldn’t have taken this long though.
Just finished the game. Goddamn. Well worth the ride.
[spoiler=]what was so left field about it? the modern times or gabriel being dracula? if you were reading the scrolls and listening to the narration they clearly alluded to him turning to the darkness. not only that but zobek calls him the prince of darkness at least 2 times from what i remember or maybe once and then it is mentioned in a scroll. so the entire time i was waiting for him to turn into dracula.[/spoiler]
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Few posts back I said i meant the setting.
Is it worth grinding at all? I have every advance attack and most of the relic ones from regular play. I’m on chapter five and just got the stake. Those ghoul holes are nice but take some time so I’m wondering if it’s worth the grind. Were you guys able to buy everything without grinding?
Naw I still had a handfull of moves to buy still when I finished the game.
Everything you need yeah. There is one 25k Relic power (got it without grinding) that is needed. Other than that the big items are some of the ways to drag people into the air, upgraded heavy combos, and upgraded guiloteen (spelling I know, I’m lazy). A lot of the shit just isn’t needed, but can be used for various fun combos if you want.
Missed that so thanks whoever for the link to the youtube video.
Yeeeeah. Like it shouldn’t have but at the same time it was such a nice build up that once you get to the second third of the game it just feels right.
I forgot who complained about not being in the Castle right off the bat but this isn’t the only Castlevania game that has you start in levels before the actual Castle. A bunch of them follow that formula.
Anyway that ending was so effing great.
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I like that Mercury Steam is doing something that none of the Castlevanias have ever done and is address the difference between Satan and Dracula. Like in all the Castlevanias Dracula gets treated like he is Satan but he’s not and the games never talk about the real Satan. So I was pretty geeked to fight fallen angel Satan. And now, after that crazy ass epilogue, Dracula/Gabriel and Death/Zobek got beef with the Devil?
Awwww sheeeeeit. It’s about to get hype.
I assume that somewhere before the modern age Gabriel will knock someone up to keep the Belmont clan going. Maybe he’s first son will be Simon or maybe Mercury Steam will get jiggy with it and bust out Sonia. Whatever they do it should make for an exciting sequel!
(just drop the titan fights, give us some better camera angles, and like all the Igarashi directed/produced Castlevanias, give us an alternate character to play as after we beat it)
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I hope that the next game has one big interconnected Castle as well as a few outside areas. The one in this game didn’t feel connected beyond the game telling us that it was.
I had the unhandled error on PS3 yesterday. Luckily it didn’t corrupt my save file.
I finally got frustrated with the game yesterday. I was in the castle, in the slim hallway where you fight three skeletons at once. THat was the first time the camera and all the effects really worked against me. Frustrating as fuck.
Good news guys, the patch for the save file problem is now online-
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