Whomever has played Infernax, give me your impressions compared to legacy/classic Castlevania entries.
I've played through Infernax multiple times to see a bunch of the different endings. The game is amazing, but very punishing. Draws a lot of inspiration from Castlevania II with quests and stuff. Lots of inside jokes to that series as well.
The game is strict but fair. There are two modes: Casual and Hardcore. The biggest difference is Hardcore mode has you lose everything since your last save. Casual is a lot more forgiving.
Of course, since it's a love letter to older Castlevania games, there's a lot of instant death spikes and pits. If that sort of thing frustrates you, I'd give it a pass.
As I said before, I beat the game multiple times since there are different endings based on your decisions. You can go try to follow a good or bad path and your character will change in appearance and weapon usage. Or you can ignore that stuff and go right down the middle. There's a lot of dark humor as well and it's very violent, so keep that in mind. Your first playthrough will run about 4-6 hours, with each run much shorter than that. Heck, there's one ending that only takes 5 minutes to get.
There's lots of Easter Eggs from older NES games and in-game cheat codes that can really change the way you play. I won't spoil them here though.
10/10, my game of the year last year.
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I don't have anything to add about Infernax beyond what's already been said. I liked it a lot!
Why waste 7 hours learning about the greatest Castlevania games of all time, when you can spend 40 minutes seeing the in and outs of the recently released Tiger game.com SotN prototype?
Apparently about half the castle is there... including its inversion, including the final boss. Its crazy seeing how much has been done for this questionable system. The prototype is findable online and easily slots into an emulator, but you can watch Derek compress about 8 hours of frustrating controls down to 30 minutes of observations.
I was skimming the game awards, and stopped when I saw those characters and heard that iconic music ... then was immediately let down because it was Dead Cells and roguelikes are trash.
I liked Dead Cells! But I also think you could use the same engine to make a linear game and it’d be better. Its core is a really fast Prince of Persia.
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Castlevania Rondo (which has Symphony as well) on sale again for Ps4. Last time I will bring this up, just thought the sale pricing has hit a good point for this game.
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Not the biggest fan of the look, but I played it for a little bit and it's OK.
You get the DL from the video itself? None of the comments are actually talking about playing it, which I'd like to see before I open the mysterious EXE file myself.
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Not the biggest fan of the look, but I played it for a little bit and it's OK.
You get the DL from the video itself? None of the comments are actually talking about playing it, which I'd like to see before I open the mysterious EXE file myself.
Yeah, it's a 500+ MB executable that doesn't even extract to anything. Hopefully there wasn't any malware in there! I gave it a scan with malwarebytes, but that probably doesn't guarantee anything. There are a few comments about people playing in the video if you sort by latest. Here's a video of a Spanish-speaking streamer playing it:
Not the biggest fan of the look, but I played it for a little bit and it's OK.
You get the DL from the video itself? None of the comments are actually talking about playing it, which I'd like to see before I open the mysterious EXE file myself.
Yeah, it's a 500+ MB executable that doesn't even extract to anything. Hopefully there wasn't any malware in there! I gave it a scan with malwarebytes, but that probably doesn't guarantee anything.
Not the biggest fan of the look, but I played it for a little bit and it's OK.
You get the DL from the video itself? None of the comments are actually talking about playing it, which I'd like to see before I open the mysterious EXE file myself.
Yeah, it's a 500+ MB executable that doesn't even extract to anything. Hopefully there wasn't any malware in there! I gave it a scan with malwarebytes, but that probably doesn't guarantee anything.
There's a free demo on Steam for Grim Guardians: Demon Purge right now. Despite all the SotN nods and fancier graphics, this is more of a Classicvania with some branching paths in-level in the style of Curse of the Moon (and I'm assuming some areas you need abilities to reach later.) I don't see the kind of advanced tag team stuff that Portrait of Ruin made famous, its only slightly above Curse of the Moon level. There is an actual 2 player co-op mode though but I haven't tried.
One character being a machine gun that needs to reload feels kind of odd for Castlevania. Not completely sold but its worth a try for something different. Oh and the story/voice is pretty insufferable (although not pervy so far) but you can skip it and even then its not that much. You might pull down the voice volume though just because the girls are going to yelp for literally every single button press. Still the "production value" is surpisingly high in some ways, like its nice to see demons literally sliced in half when you are using the melee sister, animations are suitibly goey, sound effects have explosive impact, and the music has a haunted harpsichord feel.
Alright after the second level (and end of demo) I can say that Grim Guardians is just plain good Castlevania. While its somewhat constrained and challenging like a classicvania, it moves more like an igavania and is forgiving enough with the ability to revive your partner, and usually letting you fall to a lower level instead of a life-stealing pit. Even though there's a bit of a silly cartoon twist, it still has the proper gothic feel, and is just plain fun. It is Inti Creates (Curse of the Moon) so I guess there should've been no reason to doubt in spite of the gal-gun connection. Not sure we have any price yet but I will definitely be picking this up at some point (supposed to launch in two weeks?)
Anyway they released a video showing off more gameplay if you're not going to download the demo. (Actually shows off some later stuff well past the demo anyway.)
Oh, that does look more interesting with some of those later tools - the demo ends right as you get the first additions (grenades and the paper crane platforms), so I didn't really get to try them out much.
NWR has a video review of the Switch version of Grim Guardians, basically its good, 8/10. Main ding is that you will have to revisit most of the old areas for the full ending, but there are alternate paths accessible with your new abilities and the bosses get some upgrades to make that more bearable. And while it leans heavy on curse of the moon, it sounds like this game is quite a bit easier with the out of being able to revive your partner to conserve lives. Good for people that got frustrated with CotM/2, but if you instead want more challenge, you'll have to beat the game first to unlock hard.
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Played the first stage of Grim Guardians, Casual difficulty.
Feels like you and the enemies both have high damage output; Maya can shred near everything, but neither playable character can take many hits either. Shinobu's range is great but there's a bit of lag in cancelling out of her shooting state that prevents you from jumping away from danger immediately, so you really don't want her in close range at all.
There's leveling, loot, Castlevania-esque combat (some weapons even have executable special moves), an upgrade-crafting sorta thing. Lots of different weapons, and you can build your character for combat or magic. Looks great and awesome music too. I recommend it for a casual Metroidvania experience.
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I've played through Infernax multiple times to see a bunch of the different endings. The game is amazing, but very punishing. Draws a lot of inspiration from Castlevania II with quests and stuff. Lots of inside jokes to that series as well.
The game is strict but fair. There are two modes: Casual and Hardcore. The biggest difference is Hardcore mode has you lose everything since your last save. Casual is a lot more forgiving.
Of course, since it's a love letter to older Castlevania games, there's a lot of instant death spikes and pits. If that sort of thing frustrates you, I'd give it a pass.
As I said before, I beat the game multiple times since there are different endings based on your decisions. You can go try to follow a good or bad path and your character will change in appearance and weapon usage. Or you can ignore that stuff and go right down the middle. There's a lot of dark humor as well and it's very violent, so keep that in mind. Your first playthrough will run about 4-6 hours, with each run much shorter than that. Heck, there's one ending that only takes 5 minutes to get.
There's lots of Easter Eggs from older NES games and in-game cheat codes that can really change the way you play. I won't spoil them here though.
10/10, my game of the year last year.
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Apparently about half the castle is there... including its inversion, including the final boss. Its crazy seeing how much has been done for this questionable system. The prototype is findable online and easily slots into an emulator, but you can watch Derek compress about 8 hours of frustrating controls down to 30 minutes of observations.
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Also, why the fuck is Castlevania's music so incredible?
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Not the biggest fan of the look, but I played it for a little bit and it's OK.
You get the DL from the video itself? None of the comments are actually talking about playing it, which I'd like to see before I open the mysterious EXE file myself.
Yeah, it's a 500+ MB executable that doesn't even extract to anything. Hopefully there wasn't any malware in there! I gave it a scan with malwarebytes, but that probably doesn't guarantee anything. There are a few comments about people playing in the video if you sort by latest. Here's a video of a Spanish-speaking streamer playing it:
You can also upload it to https://www.virustotal.com to see results from multiple anti-virus vendors.
5 of those anti-virus vendors claim it has Bad Stuff in it, but they seem to be mostly Russian/Chinese companies for whatever that is worth.
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That Taiwanese 'Empire of Ghosts' one looks good. And I still want to play Castlevania Pachinko.
One character being a machine gun that needs to reload feels kind of odd for Castlevania. Not completely sold but its worth a try for something different. Oh and the story/voice is pretty insufferable (although not pervy so far) but you can skip it and even then its not that much. You might pull down the voice volume though just because the girls are going to yelp for literally every single button press. Still the "production value" is surpisingly high in some ways, like its nice to see demons literally sliced in half when you are using the melee sister, animations are suitibly goey, sound effects have explosive impact, and the music has a haunted harpsichord feel.
Anyway they released a video showing off more gameplay if you're not going to download the demo. (Actually shows off some later stuff well past the demo anyway.)
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Feels like you and the enemies both have high damage output; Maya can shred near everything, but neither playable character can take many hits either. Shinobu's range is great but there's a bit of lag in cancelling out of her shooting state that prevents you from jumping away from danger immediately, so you really don't want her in close range at all.
But it's not as funny and thus it is bad.
Better dialogue, inferior delivery.
I mean, it's just an AI.
There's leveling, loot, Castlevania-esque combat (some weapons even have executable special moves), an upgrade-crafting sorta thing. Lots of different weapons, and you can build your character for combat or magic. Looks great and awesome music too. I recommend it for a casual Metroidvania experience.
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edit: Just looked at a review thread for it. Definitely a roguelike. Gross.
Gross that they didn't remake the genre of their entire game for a DLC pack? Uh, no.
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