anybody wanna trade my ps4 version for like, a switch version or the money for it?
Iām in love with this game. Starting at the title screen already the music is gorgeous. Continues to be throughout. Also love the sound design. The creaking of the ship in the beginning already put me in adventuring mode. I love how lamps, candelabras and the like (also some enemies!) shatter. Itās got a real heft to it and just the right amount of particles fly off. All movement feels responsive and so so right. It didnāt look like it in the videos! But it does in-game.
I love that you get fucking kung-fu boots as weapons. From the start I just wanted to kick things all game long. Then I tried out the other weapons and so many feel equally great. I love the whipās delayed action. It feels really great and itās got a unique range, reaching down forward and a little bit behind. It made certain enemies that always got hits in on me trivial. And thatās great, that you actually have different tools for different tasks.
I like all the characters and itās nice that dialog breaks up the game every now and then. Itās never too much so far. Itās so easy to make that annoying, just look at the later mega mans or mighty number 9 (actually, donāt look at that one.)
The environments look cool, the graphics in general look cool (controversial opinion I know but thatās my opinion)ā¦ The game knows how to keep you hooked but Igarashi always knew how to do that. It does it through gamefeel, exploration and challenge. Thatās probably what I like the least about it, that itās a bit too challenging for people like me who donāt play games to develop skills anymoreā¦ Well, I play fighting games but thatās the big exception.
But I wouldnāt call it āhardā per se. I didnāt need more than three or so attempts for anything so far.
I love how much you can customize Miriamās look when you get to that certain character in the game. They paid a lot of attention to detail even though the game came off as sloppy in most of the pre-release footage.
I think thatās my take away for why I like the game, the details. The many little things that make this good. Like how I can make the mini map ridiculously large (maxi map?) so I donāt have to open the map screen all the time/get lost all the time.
So far: thumbs up. Feels as good if not better than Aria of Sorrow to me
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yeah i thought the last few iga joints stank but this is good
is the 8 bit area an optional post/endgame thing? takes aaaages to kill most mooks for me right now
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Iām thinking it is. The Halls of Termination, in general, have a real, uh, Draculaās Castle Keep vibe to it that makes me wary of crossing the boss door in it, unless I wanna get the bad ending.
That area is no joke, though. I eventually tried to juke my way past all the enemies before dying once again and writing it off until later.
Iām lv 30 and got the bad end but am now looking for Mariaās specs / Shaft Equivalent
Itās optional, not really postgame but you might wanna be stronger. I kinda just ran through it to get to the boss since everything took so many hits.
The real kicker is those optional bosses? You have to grind them if you want their shard to drop. Kind of a bummer.
I beat it. 99.50% map completion. ARGH. the hall of behemoths was a pretty dumb idea lol, it just really didnāt flow right and just made trying to fill in the map more annoying than it needed to be. i had my fingers crossed for an Inverted Castle 200% type deal since just about everything else in SOTN was referenced or recreated but I guess the āInvertā manuever covered it. too bad! the last boss was neat and cool looking and a little more interesting than most of the draculas past. i like that gromel? grovel? i forget, the demon woman, yoinking the Death scythes. was hoping for a vocal ballad end credits theme but thatās alright! i didnāt unlock Zangetsu which was surprising, i dunno if thatās going to be added later or if i missed something somewhere.
tldr iām so glad this turned out to be a great game!
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playable zangetsu is going to be free dlc
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How many buttons does this game need?
thatās a weird question but I guess all of them except the stick clicks. If I understand your question right
I mean most of what youāre doing is use A to jump, X to attack, Y to use a super, RT and RB to use two more supers/shard powers. LB to backdash. LT is unlocked at some point and lets you quickswap loadouts. Back button for the map. Start button for menu stuff and B button for canceling out of stuff. Why you asking?
I mean what is the minimum amount of buttons my controller would need to have to be able to play this
Would (the equivalent of) a SNES controller work?
I think you could do it with one of those 8bitdo or whattheyrecalled. You need at least one analog stick because you need to be able to aim Miriamās powers. If the 8bitdo has only two shoulder buttons instead of four then Iād say thatās no problem because you can leave off the quickswap button and the backdash, I think. Donāt know if the backdash gains some additional use but so far itās been cool but non-essential
Yeah, you could get by with one of those $25 wired 8Bitdo controllers. The game does use the analogs and the shoulders.
Oh shit, have any of yāall sat in the seat about halfway down the train?
Itāsā¦well! Give it a shot and, uh, wait.
Thanks, I guess
It doesnāt work the first time you take the train so donāt stress about it when you get to it. Rather, take the train back and do it then
wwo that second boss sucked. why did he have so much damn health???
Whatās the second boss again? If itās who I think it is then story reasons I guess.
Iāve been mildly overpowered for a while nowā¦ I didnāt do any extra leveling so I guess this is just how itās supposed to be?
Lost a lot of progress anyway because of the traps in the reflector ray area. āMy last save was where?!?ā kind of progress. Sigh, I guess itās enough for todayā¦
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so if you were worried that bloodstained was not going to have a bunch of absurd glitches like every other igavania, rest assured that there is an incredibly hilarious way to get out of bounds.
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if you use the spinning sword shard, pretty much every boss becomes incredibly easy. well, every boss iāve fought so far
Same, I actually dropped off using it a while in. That you can augment it cheaply to like +7, too.
thereās a nice variety of Extremely Broken Shit it rules
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