Ecclesia was really the best game at the worst time. (Major portable Castlevania fatigue, all the other ones being competent but a tad uninspired)
My advice when Bloodstained comes out and disappoints is to just go back and rediscover Ecclesia instead
ecclesia is great
What are you talking bout Bloodstained is already out and a fantastic 8bit throwback game worthy of repeat playings.
someone mentioned CV64
we now have to talk at length about the nitro
best song in all of CV
edit: oh it didnāt post for some reason. Like I didnāt even put it there.
I love the nitro thing in retrospect. Most memorable part of the game.
It is bad though
This and the GBA one where Draculaās castle is inside the moon are the only post-3 Castlevania game I liked. Assuming Ecclesia is the one with the rad lady with a back tattoo.
Fusion is rad, I love games that do the Nemesis thing.
Thatās Aria of Sorrow, the one Iām playing.
Low-key my favorite thing about Aria of Sorrow is that you can get a tiny little handgun and just dump on skeletons (since thatās about all itās good for).
Dawn of Sorrow felt like a weird follow-up. Not a big fan of the, uh, giant kidās room/clown house area.
(Portrait of Ruin had a legitimate clown house zone and was probably its worst level, but I had a blast with that game anyway)
Marina will tell you the best portable CV is a ROM hack of Aria of Sorrow where the guns do real damage and Iāve never tried it but thatās stuck with me.
Dawn of Sorrow is my favorite Castlevania but that farming is inexcusable so 
aria is great, but it does encourage you to farm like every enemy for stuff, which is something that should never be said about a castlevania game
Artifact update: The price of a full card collection is now $80 on the Steam market. I spent $250 for mine. I hope I made some cynics very happy.
Valve please add free 1v1 draft to enjoy with my normal friends who donāt spend hundreds on card games please thanks
Dunno, I 100%ed Aria and it was kind of an interesting routing and efficiency problem. And have you seen the Aria 100% TAS? Itās really compelling: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/361630244?t=43h28m36s
The main problem is that the drop rate on some souls is way too low, and I do remember a moment of questioning what the hell I was doing with my life on my 300th kill of some huge demon in Chaotic Realm yes
Artifact update on my part: I finally ended up selling my Axe for 5$ a few weeks ago. I had put it for sale for 15$ on the second day after launch, as I described in another post. There was a 14-day waiting period because I didnāt have Steam Authenticator (and I donāt want to set up one because I think SMS OTP is good enough for my low-value account and it seems like it would be a pain in the ass in the future). By then Axe was worth like 10$ so my listing was a weird outlier nobody would ever be dumb enough to buy. I put in another listing for 10$, but there was another 14-day waiting period.
The price kept collapsing, and itās not so much that this money is material to me, but the listing being pending out there and the idea of Axe shopping himself around never getting sold with a single tear falling out of his eye was somehow bothering me. I needed closure. So I put a bunch of listings dropping my asking price until I reached the threshold where there was no waiting period, which was about 5$. Some guy in Asia got a great deal buying Axe below market rate, although probably itās a fair value today
(Addendum: Some cynics probably are happy, but Iām not. I like CCGs and I wouldāve liked to see the genre revived with some competition in the space. As it is, Heathstone is played out and declining, and none of the upstarts are doing that well except Shadowverse purely because itās anime as far as I can tell. The three-board thing did sound at face value like it couldnāt possibly succeed but I trusted Valve and Richard Garfield enough to give it a chance. I find it strange and unfortunate that these folks with a good track record failed so utterly.)
I had some free time today so I played through Tiny Echo. It is aā¦ letās say minimalistic point and click adventure game in the Amanita Design mold. The main reason to play it for the 60-90 minutes it takes is to walk around the neat environments which are stylistically rather different than what Amanita would offer, to me it kinda felt like an old European animated short I never saw.
For those who care about story and such, you basically play as a delivery person and thatās all I say about it.
Anyways, it is inessential but a pleasant way to spend an hour or so.
I learned today that if you pay tribute to Jeff Bezos you can get free games through Twitch Prime. Thereās a bunch of Devolver stuff up right now, so I just installed and started Pikuniku, which seems like a real simple and charming puzzle platformer.
Your little dude interacts with stuff by kicking it, which I approve of. I heard somewhere that the story has something to do with capitalism.
I had this light feeling of confidence stepping into Resident Evil 2 New! like sure itās a remake, whatever the differences Iāll Matilda some headshots then bob and weave with the old skillset.
Itās fun to be super wrong and die a couple times, probably good I didnāt go Hardcore mode from the start. Itās not exactly easy and theā¦Licker appearance is probably a lot more terrifying than before. I was just distracted in the ambiance of, well. If you play youāll see.
Anyways the S.T.A.R.S office just had me nostalgia trip into a 21 year stumble.
I finished the Penny Arcade OTRSPOD Episode 4. It wasā¦perfectly okay. It had jokes, but even if it had a Grandia-lite battle system my method for dealing with everything worked well for the secret bosses and the last boss died before I even approached danger. But I could have played on a higher difficulty and had LESS FUN.
Odallus seems fine??? The Messenger had a better verb set.
And amazingly Biohazard:RE2 Demo worked great on my laptop. Whichā¦okay I am constantly baffled by what runs good and what doesnāt on this thing. 60fps FzeroGX sure, PS360 console ports great! PUBG and CSGO gotta put everything at low and pray.
having replayed SotN recently, i really feel like that one is my favorite. i enjoyed the GBA ones, but they really felt stale to me in comparison. iām just sort of a sucker for production value, i suppose; the overall feel of SotN feels a lot more cohesive to me than any of the games that came after it.
i thought iād really like Ecclesia, but i remember getting stuck at a crab boss early in the game and refused to grind, so i put it away. i should probably give it another go.
