This game is a mess now. The new characters are ok and could use some tweaks, but the dominance of just a few characters is like, whats the point. Just farm with the strongest character and be done with it.
The cost on all this too is ridiculous. 400 points should offer way more considering the original game’s price.
^ The game’s always been a mess. It’s garbage. Occasionally fun garbage.
I didn’t know either was out! Checking… you’re right. DLing them now. Fuck this shitty game and how it always sucks up my money.
She does not, but she doesn’t need it. Things don’t last long enough to be a threat, and she regenerates MP crazy fast like Shanoa and Charlotte.
Dr. B costs 0 points and has the power of all the DLC characters combined. Any by “DLC” I mean “universe’s.”
Soma’s still godlike, Richter and Maria are beasts, Julius is good but not as good as Richter, Yoko sucks for everything other than fighting some bosses (and her sprite needs a ton more animations).
Konami 
Square doesn’t know what to do, Capcom basically has their shit together, but Konami…
Jesus.
I don’t give a damn that this is a slap together money sink. It’s a fun slap together money sink. it’s like 2D PSO or something. 
I’m liking Richter, he’s got a lot of cool combos and can get around the stage really fast.
I meant it in the sense of Konami having something good, but fucking it up so royally.
**RICHTER BELMONT!!?!?!??
rushes to download it now.
Edit @Stabby I actually feel the opposite, I feel Konami has there act together while Capcom is fucking up game series.
Devil May Cry, Megaman, Resident Evil 4 not really being a Resident Evil type game, etc.**
In the sense of Konami handling its properties well? Lords of Shadow was clever on their part (outsourcing), but damn if they were the first to do it. Anything internal from them? Just look at how badly they fucked up with this.
is richter like the god-like saturn SOTN richter with super jump, backflip, slide, slide kick, airdash, and all the belmont subweapons - or the slightly less awesome portrait of ruin version? I imagine loli-maria is like rondo with her cute animal attacks.
I haven’t played it since the DLC hit, is Jonathan pretty much obsolete now?
Yeah. Richter and Julius are way better. I feel now would be a good time to let Jonathan use other weapons like Soma/Alucard.
On top of being better, Richter and Julius are also more fun. Richter has great Martial Arts move damage and movement, and Julius’s long-ass 8-way whip is ridiculously handy.
Also one of Richter’s boss kill quotes is “Die monster!”
I think it’s ridiculous that only Julius gets new animation frames. Yoko needs some bad, and Richter/Maria could stand to gain some themselves.
Dr. B’s animations dynamically redraw themselves.
Sadly he’s the PoR classic Richter. No badass pirate coat.
Oh, and Maria is in fact also like her PoR version, only Guardian Knuckle doesn’t heal (because for some retarded reason only Charlotte is allowed to have significant heals unless you have Soma with a Valmanway, and even then something has to live long enough for you to get health back).
And his other one is “You don’t belong in this world!!” Yeah, Richter is in fact awesome.
Actually, it’s arguable that Jonathan can still outdamage Julius due to lol Shuriken spam, and he’s more versatile. Julius does have Omnia Vanitas though, which is awesome. Now Richter? Yeah, he’s far and away better than the other two whip guys.
Richter also has a boss kill quote of “You don’t belong in this world!”
Maria is the cute animal attack version. She’s pretty good too. Soma’s still better than everybody, though.
Just for shits and giggles I plugged in my stick while playing Castlevania HD and set turbo to B and LB, then held down and those two buttons at the same time. It completely unloads a character’s MP bar in less than a second. Yoko becomes a tactical nuke with breasts.
Oh, and Richter’s spin kick + spiked boots = love. It does twice the damage of his whip. I killed Dracula by kicking him in the head.
Except Resident Evil 4 is a very good game and still feel really RE-ish. It’s Re5 that more or less abandons it’s roots.
A patch came out a few hours ago that adjusts items, MP cost, drop rates and improved the lobbies (you can now join games after a team is formed). Major things of note for each character:
Soma:
Alucard:
Shanoa:
Charlotte:
Yoko:
Maria:
Jonathan:
Richter:
Julius:
I haven’t played this game in months since I had to leave for college. I thought muramasa always did that much? It was my go to weapon for drac farming back then, where my unlucky ass still doesn’t have a valmanway.
I’m also surprised they made shanoa stay the same. Even though she is pretty good anyways you would expect them to at least do something (I personally would like something to kill final guards faster. Everyone has something to basically kill them in 1 second except her, which is rather ironic because in her ds game she basically murders everything really really fast).
Though about the charlotte heal nerf I always felt that it the healing build sometimes held people back from going all out. Though it’s fun if she is your battery when you have astral ring but if someone is doing it to survive, then that’s a problem. Since she is pretty great offensively.
I’ll probably try to get on this tomorrow to see what’s up.
I’ve come to the conclusion that Valmanway isn’t the problem.
It’s Berserker Mail.
Dr. B’s Berserker Mail is built-in and despite not having the same drawbacks as HoD’s, he still never gets hit.
So after playing 2 weeks I think Im almost up to snuff with shanoa to play with others. I got double pnuemas which was well worth the grind. anyone who wants to play add me.
Ooh, I like the Yoko and Maria buffs! Does anyone know if the other players still just see you as an Axeman if they don’t have the dlc characters?