The demo isn’t anything to write home about but they made the mistake in using the tutorial stage as the demo. Can’t grasp what a game has to offer from a tutorial. I’m still hyped for the game
No, it really isn’t. Dark Souls is not what Castlevania in 3D should be. It’s a good game and I love the series but the last thing that ever crossed my mind while playing it was Castlevania.
The only game that came close to “Castlevania in 3D” before LoS was the original DMC. The whole gothic castle setting and the main melee / ranged sub-weapon thing felt more Castlevania like than any of the 3D games in the series SotN prior to LoS. And, that’s actually more like “Symphony of the Night in 3D” than pure Castlevania. LoS is more like Simon’s Quest or Vampire Killer in 3D.
I should probably have not said dark souls. I havent played it. I am in the middle of demons souls.
Stages with progression. Survival hinging on learning the monster and not bullying your way through.
Limited character mobility, lacking jumps and movement options by default.
These are staples of what I like in cv1 or 3.
Theres a bunch of shit that makes it not CV but I could definately see a game based on the engine and philosophy.
I dont reaaly want double jumping and the button mashing combo stuff. LoS did a lot of good with its whip hook to traverse platforms. Mix that in with demon soul walk/dash and mobility is solved.
At the very least a jump should be limited. No trajectory changing, and no silly double jumping over people to escape a crowd.
Im a firm believer in limited mobility characters will improve the game with more interesting stages. Players cant be trusted with too powerful options.
The options you do get have to be very carefully controllec or you end up with sillyness. We need more metroid style power runs and less sotn shield dashing.
Running and rolling are enough mobility in the souls games.
It’s only button mashing if you choose to mash the buttons. LOS has a smart combat system if you take the time to learn it, just like the Souls games.
And in LoS, on harder difficulty modes you will not win by button mashing.
That’s like, every NES game side scroller ever. Cv1, 2, and 3 all had limited jumping but you could be mobile as shit when you needed to. The only thing Demon’s shares with Castlevania is stage like levels and having to take your time (to a degree, NES Castlevania had those timers…) and learn the patterns the game throws at you. That’s about it.
Opinions on Lords of Shadow 2 seem to be all over the place. Seeing a lot of hate and love going around for it. Only thing that’s universal is that the stealth segments suck and the game holds your hand too much (though there’s an option in the menu to turn off hints and QTEs). I lost it when the modern city of the game is called Castlevania. Seriously, a city called Castlevania.
Lol that’s terrible.
Whelp mines set to deliver later today so i’ll judge myself.
If i have to choose between Bravely Default and LoS2 it better grab me by the balls in the first hour or i’m going to finish Default first.
i’ll go at like 3 pm or so to see if I can snag a copy even though I didn’t preorder if not I’ll wait, or if im desperate enough i’ll just go digital.
So far loving LOS2. Run into a little bit of stealth so far, it’s eh, but the combat is really fucking good, really fast and fluid and fun. Really liking it.
I hope they go back to the symphony of the night style, but I doubt they will. I’ll be happy as long as they give the 3d a break for a while. Maybe try something new that pays homage to the roots. Lords of shadow 2 is getting pretty unanimously mediocre scores outside of fanboys on meta critic giving it obviously undeserved 10s.
Who cares, Metacritic is dumb, the number is the least important part of the review.
Got a lot more time into the game and still loving it. The combat so good. I also like the new skill system, it’s a tree instead of a list which nice. You also earn “Mastery” of moves the more you use them, and then once you have mastered the move you get to put the points from it into the weapons base stats. It looks like it powers up the weapons damage output but I haven’t filled the meter completely yet so I’m not totally sure.
Also ran into more stealth. Honestly the stealth isn’t that bad. It’s not good, but it’s not bad either. It’'s just there. It takes like 2 minutes to get past each segment, and is easy as fuck to do. It doesn’t bother me at all. It should probably be fights instead of sneaking but it’s so short it doesn’t really matter in the long run, I’m not bothered by it at all. The only way to get caught is by being impatient or something.
Why are there Terran Marines from Starcraft in this game? Why is the castle under attack by the Iron Giant? Why does this game hold your hand and treat you like an idiot? Why does it need to tell you to collect 5 more gems every time you pick one up?
Hi my name is Dracula. I’m a fucking weakling taking orders from someone else. Meet me in this random fucking factory.
Turn off the hints in the options menu if you don’t want hand holding.
Glad to know you ended up supporting my boy Cox after all.
I knew you’d join the team eventually bro.
Congratulations man, glad to have you aboard.
Where in my post did I say that I bought this game?
How will you spew endless hatred if you didn’t buy it?
Piracy, which makes it even worse because it means he hated a game so much that he had to play the sequel and hated it soooo much that he refused to buy it but still needed to play it. He hates them sooooo much he decided to not pay for their product, which he could have done just as well by not buying it and not playing it. But oh no, the hatred is so deep with this one.
Or, he is reading reviews, without experiencing it first hand. Which is wasting time, just so he can hate on it.
Or, he is watching Let’s Play on youtube, which is also a waste of time and even more so.
Or maybe he tried it at a friends or watched a friend play? Even if he did pirate it to try it, so what? He tried it, gave it a fair shot, and didn’t like it. His complaints are all valid. Fuck this game. I gave the demo an honest try and it was garbage. Climb, mash x, climb, mash x…
Rugal man seriously, enough with the dual accounts.
It’s just embarrassing now.