Castlevania / Bloodstained

Fawst

We are meeting in the New World. An army of Igavania players and developers.

We will enter the stream with nothing. We will leave it with the future.

Enlong

Now, does he mean a water stream or like, an internet stream?

miscellaneousinsanity

Internet stream, presumably

He said something about Monday at 11

PLA

I am now also also Amon the Articulate. Fucking technology.

Cantido

PLA wrote: »

I am now also also Amon the Articulate. Fucking technology.

Amon from Shadow Hearts?
Amon Amarth?
Amon Tobin, the Unbeatable Beatsmith?

PLA

The Articulate.

H3Knuckles

Malphas the Macabre. I've been asked if I ever practiced Alchemy, and "I admire your consistency, but do you even know what you are doing?" I think I got the message about how lovely the moon is tonight once too.

Been voting Sword in hopes of getting a cool clan assignment*. My plan is to then switch to voting whip. Stylistically I prefer swords, but on the chance they might do something interesting with whip-based gameplay mechanics (ala Arin "Egoraptor" Hanson's suggestions in his Sequelitis review of Super Castlevania IV) I would like to see another whip-wielding vampire hunter.

Whoever is writing for this site deserves a pay-raise/promotion. Excellent hype and very good characterization of Castlevania's Dracula.

*ETA: got it; Rapier. Was hoping for Broadsword but mostly didn't want Katana

PLA

What good is choosing a weapon when I choose the hand that holds it?

H3Knuckles

It's remembering my name on additional votes. But after I switched to voting whip...

You were mustered out of your clan for your perfidy, traitor.

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Additional votes got me in the Cat O' Nine Tails clan.

I keep getting greeted by:

Did you think this would be simple? There are no easy answers.

and

It is impossible to tell who will win. What shall I do with the loser?

On choosing;

You seem certain of your choice, are you sure it was the right one?

Also;

You can't turn the tide alone.

Is that a challenge?

When clicking the parchment to get the social networking stuff in the lower window, he says

Are you really prepared to do this to your friends?

PLA

Maybe people are under a misconception. This is unlikely to be a vote on which weapon will be used in the game. Especially as vampire-Iga has already confirmed multiple weapons.

chiasaur11

miscellaneousinsanity wrote: »

Enlong wrote: »

I've also seen "A new, vital heart. Pulsing with the old blood."

fear the old blood

iga teaming up with miyazaki confirmed

No, no. It's a New Wolfenstein crossover.

BJ Blazkowicz will go back in time to fight Dracula.

TOGSolid

chiasaur11 wrote: »

miscellaneousinsanity wrote: »

Enlong wrote: »

I've also seen "A new, vital heart. Pulsing with the old blood."

fear the old blood

iga teaming up with miyazaki confirmed

No, no. It's a New Wolfenstein crossover.

BJ Blazkowicz will go back in time to fight Dracula.

I'm kind of ok with this.

Edit: I am Ipos the Idle of Clan Rapier on my desktop. I'm just gonna push that sword button until Igacula gets fed up with me. Wish I knew what timezone 11 was though.

H3Knuckles

Last post of the night and then I'll shut up for a bit;

I switched back to Sword out of curiosity, it gave me the same "traitor" message, then put me back in Clan Rapier, so as long as it remembers your name you'll probably always get the same clan(s) for your choice. I mean, it could just be a coincidence, but... hm... further experimentation may be required. *reopens window and starts clicking*

PLA

Why do I read Iga in Mido's SMTIV-voice?

Houn

Cantido wrote: »

PLA wrote: »

I am now also also Amon the Articulate. Fucking technology.

Amon from Shadow Hearts?
Amon Amarth?
Amon Tobin, the Unbeatable Beatsmith?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84lw4ouziF4

Fry

Sitri the Spontaneous. Of the Bullwhip clan.

The weapon which most inspires dread will prevail.

PLA

Familiars are cute. Skitter-skitter.

Capt Howdy

Orobas the Outlaw, of the Bullwhip Clan.

BlackDragon480

What do you do when you find yourself without a castle? You build another.

SteevL

And suddenly, 2 Player Productions drops a "Devs Play" Special that's 2 hours long, featuring Koji Igarashi talk about SotN while it's being played.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqheYYeA4k4

Cool to see Ben Judd in there; I hadn't heard anything about him since the Bionic Commando reboot.

I'm only 2 minutes into this thing, so I have no idea what's going to happen here, but I doubt it's any coincidence that it's gone up the same week as the Sword or Whip site.

Houn

I'm down with Monday 11. What time, and time zone?!

The Dude With Herpes

SteevL wrote: »

And suddenly, 2 Player Productions drops a "Devs Play" Special that's 2 hours long, featuring Koji Igarashi talk about SotN while it's being played.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqheYYeA4k4

Cool to see Ben Judd in there; I hadn't heard anything about him since the Bionic Commando reboot.

I'm only 2 minutes into this thing, so I have no idea what's going to happen here, but I doubt it's any coincidence that it's gone up the same week as the Sword or Whip site.

I'm only 15m in and this is just utterly fantastic.

If I had a single complaint, it's that anyone but Iga is talking. EDIT: they are asking great questions, so mostly kidding! The ass kissing at the top was a bit much though. :P

Stormwatcher

I'm Naberius the Nervous from clan Bullwhip

Stormwatcher

Also, this is interesting:

??? wrote:

We are meeting in the New World. An army of Igavania players and developers.

The Dude With Herpes

Hold on. Are the PSN/360 versions of SOTN 60 fps and I'm just not remembering? This seems substantially more smooth than I remember (watching the video in 60fps)

SteevL

The Dude With Herpes wrote: »

Hold on. Are the PSN/360 versions of SOTN 60 fps and I'm just not remembering? This seems substantially more smooth than I remember (watching the video in 60fps)

Not sure, but as far as I can tell, they're playing the original PS1 version in this playthrough. I don't think the PSN/360 versions have that ugly CGI intro with the castle.

Inx

I'd bet "meeting in the New World" means meeting in the United States. The Americas were referred to as the New World in the 16th Century, after all. Thematically, it works.

This could effect the timezone.

Houn

They tell me it’s been far too long. Time... feels different, in my condition.

Hadn't seen that one yet.

Houn

Oh man, this one didn't even fit in the dialog box!

???:
I have seen you make fools of powerful enemies. I have watched you warp through obstacles, exploit every advantage. I have watched you cheat. Good.

*edit* Grabbed a screen when it came up again:

PLA

Why do you enter my castle, Amon the Articulate? Is it simply fate that connects us?

SteevL

Houn wrote: »

Oh man, this one didn't even fit in the dialog box!

???:
I have seen you make fools of powerful enemies. I have watched you warp through obstacles, exploit every advantage. I have watched you cheat. Good.

*edit* Grabbed a screen when it came up again:

Heh, Iga told an anecdote in that Devs Play video about watching a speedrunner do some crazy stuff.

BlackDragon480

I just started getting:

The ritual is nearly complete.

Is that just the end of the day's voting?

Houn

Oh, they fixed that long one; it now displays as two messages back to back.

Deaderinred

i love everything going on in this thread.

Enlong

"I have watched you fall through walls by turning into a giant monster while in small corridors. I have watched you tag-team faster than sanity should allow. I have watched you jump-kick. Forever."

BlackDragon480

Enlong wrote: »

"I have watched you fall through walls by turning into a giant monster while in small corridors. I have watched you tag-team faster than sanity should allow. I have watched you jump-kick. Forever."

I literally just got this one as well.

I haven't felt the need to keep hitting a single button so much since Cookie Clicker first hit the web.

Kalnaur

I watched that whole thing. And honestly, I count it as 2 hours well spent.

Houn

I watched 20m or so. Got tired of reading Iga's subtitles, then having to listen to other guy's embellished translation.

SteevL

I'm about an hour into it. I paused it for a while to watch Vinnie at Giant Bomb coincidentally stream himself playing Castlevania II.

Lots of fun tidbits in the Dev Play, like how the menu screens we see in SotN were originally just placeholders and they wanted to give them a lot more flourish, but ran out of time.

Inx

He's made a comment about warping through obstacles and making fools of powerful enemies, and praised me for cheating.

It's a stretch, but what if that's going to be a game mechanic? Like, exploits as a feature?