Castlevania: Lords of Shadow thread

OK, clock tower is my first legitimate gripe about this game. it looks like you should be able to jump onto anything. but you arbitrarily can’t.

can’t see where I’m supposed to go right at the freaking beginning of the stage.

lol i know what part your talking about.

I’m in chapter 5 and this thing is running in the teens. Ugh. How can small interior areas run so much worse than giant outdoor ones…

Just beat the game. Going to play it on paladin difficulty and unlock some more shit. Anyone know where all these secrets are?

edit: oh nice, new costume shit

I didn’t mean for the “bosses have dumb hitboxes” and “they have too many unblockables” to go together. So far I like the balance on bosses, and I think they have a good amount of unblockables versus normals. But seeing in slow motion things that kill me, the hitboxes are stupid-- I’ve died quite a few times because I got hit by attacks that at that point looked like vague arm movements, or by animations that are no where near my character.

What I had meant to say was that normal enemies have too many unblockables. I don’t care if they made using the parry or blocking options tougher, but it is irritating when I can’t use them at all because a mob of vampire/ghost/skeletons start spamming swipes or dashes that can’t be blocked.

Yea, I just dodge. I really only block/Sync block against larger enemies and bosses because it’s easier to read their movements. When I’m fighting hordes of enemies i’m just dodging.

On a side note. Holy fuck, shit hurts in paladin mode, even falling. Although, I’ve unlocked all the powers and I’m OP as hell so it’s not all bad.

edit: Grab invincibility is useful

wasnt really interrested because of the bad reviews.might actually get it though.

Game got bad reviews? Where?

I can’t wait to get my hands on it & get started!:wgrin:

Just finished it after getting a save corrupted 3/4ths of the way through.

My thoughts:

Didn’t really feel Castlevania-ish at the start, but little things here and there started to make it seem a bit more so.
Fuck wargs.
Any small enemy dies easily to grab. It’s insanely good.
Fuck skeleton warriors.
Direct heavy combo, dodging and synchronized blocking are basically all you need for medium/big enemies.
Fuck chupacabras.

Overall, it was definitely a good game. It didn’t seem too much like a Castlevania game, but given that most of the recent games (~13 years) were “Metroidvania” and this one felt like a cross between Godofwarvania and Shadowofthecolossusvania, I think it sets up any sequels quite nicely. It was supposed to be a reboot and something always has to set up the rest of the story.

Honestly, I’d like to see Mercury Steam do a Metroidvania in 3D, with the whole equipment system (multiple weapon types, armor, accessories) and everything. They’ve shown they’ve got the skills, and it would be interesting to see.

figured out what my problem is (not the game’s). I just can’t find the shiny thing on-screen or figure out where to go next.

guess this is a complaint about the game, but if I was able to move the camera around, I wouldn’t have this problem.

all that being said, my dumb ass is stuck again. titan’s graveyard, there are two runes that need keys and there’s a bunch of annoying poison bog around.

So uh…I got to the final boss and got the “unhandled error” when he was 3/4 of the way dead. Which means say goodbye to my save file.

…Should have gotten the 360 version. Going to Youtube the ending.

Hmm you’re just going to have to keep an eye out for them; try to go into areas that seem blocked off or are offscreen (in Pan’s stage for example, in the area where you must go up after the entrance, there is an area on the right with a Green relic)

Try to beat the stages in Paladin mode first before or while trying to complete trials and getting items you needed Double Jump or are the stake to access.

You should back-up your save. It takes a few seconds and you can just move it to a flash drive.

Especially back-up your save before the final boss fight. Many people seem to have the Unhandled Error on the final boss fight.

Hmm, in that case I’ll go back up the save soon. I hadn’t encountered the glitch, but it’s best to be safe.

Any tips to completing the Crow Witch Trial?

Just completed it, 'tis epic and most probably my favourite game in this enre.

BUT!

how the fuck do you beat the ice titan in 1:30mins?

What is this “unhandled error” and is there a fix incoming?

I’m writing a letter to Dr. B asking him to use his omnipotence to put Nate Grey and Rei from BoF3 in MvC3.

Run up to it and summon the dark crystal ;3 After that climb up and the runes will be destroyed with one hit. Apply the same to the later fights

ahhh right thanks alot :).