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https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2022/01/konami-is-celebrating-castlevanias-35th-with-an-nft-auction
Even better, you don't even really "get" anything
The old adage still applies: Fuck Konami
PSN/Steam/NNID: SyphonBlue | BNet: SyphonBlue#1126
I understand companies trying anything for a profit, and NFTs seem like a low effort way to make some money. The thing I don't understand, is why people buy them. Don't people know that anything digital A) Cannot truly be owned,
You might "own" the "rights" to the NFT Magic Helmet of Doom, Blockchain code 37Bj03wuTT83903r, but as soon as the game servers for that game go down, your "ownership" ceases to be.
Why are consumers allowing themselves to be scammed?
Try to create a pachinko Castlevania and see where that gets you.
Took this day I'm not sure it's not just a bunch of people tossing money in the hopes of striking it rich later at best, money laundering at worst, and not much in-between.
There is absolutely no evidence that anybody is actually buying these things.
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True, a number of transactions are people selling NFTs to themselves, but there is some people buying. Not many, though.
I think the prevailing theory is that the small but very loud NFT market is due to people having a ton of cryptocurrency they can't easily cash out, and so they want to spend them on something. Plus if they're into crypto, they're likely to believe the hype.
To get back on topic, the various NFT attempts by video game companies have been loudly booed so far, so I wouldn't expect it to be a long-term thing.
It's 100% one of those "get rich quick scheme" things. People are dumb and think if they buy these things they will somehow be worth a billion dollars later and they can sell their jpeg to get rich. Meanwhile literally anyone can right click save the thing and also "own" the image. It's beyond stupid but it's just another scam people are falling for.
Companies are getting into this because it's profitable and they know people are dumb (also they want to seem trendy with the latest fad). This is basically exploitative microtransactions without the stigma that word carries (at least for people who don't already know it's a scam). It lets them up-charge for virtual garbage because "oh it's rare and you own it now!!" The only potential advantage this stuff might have is the trading thing, but I mean, Team Fortress has been doing this NFT-free with hats for decades now...
As for the fan game, yes it looks pretty good. I agree the character sprites look really weird though - especially the girl. I'm not quite sure why the other sprites look so good but they left the main ones to kinda look like poop :P
My Backloggery
In the original Dracula's Curse, switching characters was a long animation, with a considerable amount of game pausing to do it. And even in Dawn of Sorrow, there was a bit of time taken as the characters swapped out. This fangame seems to have taken Curse's approach, with the character swapping in immediately with a pretty recognizable flash effect.
Which, yeah fair enough; for how snappy it is, Bloodstained is in my opinion the best version of that mechanic in the series, with the possible exception of Portrait of Rui-JOHNATHAN! CHARLOTTE!
There's a lot of history we've forgotten or chosen to ignore. I absolutely believe that only a bunch of 80s NY Boomers would remember NYE 1985 or whatever year it was.
Like I get the arguments for the video evidence and stuff, because news crews would have filmed things, but if ghosts stopped after that and the people who founded the place vanished into thin air never to be referenced again, then society is gonna forget about it.
Hell it kinda seemed like the Ghostbusters had forgotten about it. They were pretty content having moved on.
Well, to be fair to the classic-style games, Rondo of Blood was kinda where the story started to become more prominent. Its final confrontation with Dracula was where Symphony got that "what is a man" speech from, and it included stuff like alternate endings for Richter's story.
But the transition from Rondo to Symphony was truly where the story started to kick off in earnest.
I suppose also they might want to homage Dracula's Curse in particular, because of the team-up nature of the 1999 battle. We know that Julius, the church, the descendants of Belnades, and Alucard all stormed the castle together. Kinda like a massive version of Curse's team-ups.
also, the Sigorny Weaver cameo was perfectly timed.
(and we don't need to talk about the previous GB movie any further, it was just an observation)
I liked the 2016 movie and thought it was a good option to continue the series.
But the moment the OG Ghostbusters show up, it just feels so shoehorned in. The flow of the movie, the energy, everything felt off. Beyond the obvious questions like "Where did they get their gear if Egon took it all?", it felt like they weren't even in the same movie. I really disliked it. If they had shown up and shown a level of gravitas that the scene and other characters were displaying, maybe that would have worked? I get that the OG Ghostbusters were cutups, but when they had to get serious in the original movie, they got serious.
And I very much disliked how much they used Ghost Egon here. If they had just shown his hand helping Phoebe steady her stream, with her looking up and off camera to him, I think it would have been perfect. Or at the very least, don't have him stand there mutely while all the characters say goodbye to Harold Ramis.
All in all, I liked it? Most of the movie I found to be genuinely fun, just enough reverent to the original material without going overboard, and the acting was solid (except for Finn Wolfhard's character, who was just kind of there?). But again, the ending almost ruined it for me.
Also, completely random but JK Simmons played Shandor and Olivia Wilde played Gozer. Neat!
There is heavy speculation on GBfans that Janine was supposed to be bringing the GB to Summerville. She steals the ESP shock device and brings it to Peter, we see a shot with Peter and Dana with Janine holding the device, the shot with Winston was repurposed as a stinger at the end of the movie and she was cut out of the final battle.
A bunch of deleted scenes pop up in the 'Summoning the Spirit' special. You can see Janine sitting on the porch during the final battle. There is also a deleted scene where she steals the coin she looks at in Winstons office.
In short, it seems likely the ending was supposed to make a whole lot more sense, and at least the Winston stinger was supposed to be in the movie and the Dana Peter Stimger had a scene building up to it in the movie itself.
Here is most of the info:
Summoning the Spirit special feature
-0:55: Bts of mid credit tag, Dana at front door with Janine.
-1:07: Bts of final battle, Annie talking to Jason.
-1:30: Bts of mid credit tag, Dana, Peter, and Janine in room seen in tag
-1:50: Bts of final battle, Janine on porch of Farmhouse
One Poster says the following:
So I believe Janine found the electro-shocker, maybe when she talked to Callie at the Farmhouse, and delivered it Dana as a gift then left and Dana tried it out on Peter in the mid credit tag.
Wonder why they cut Janine out of the finale. Would have been nice for Janine and Ghost Egon to have a moment, too.
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There's a post by one of the people working on the game over at The Castlevania Dungeon and it does sound like a genuine product. It also sounds like this team had been working on another fan project called Umbra of Sorrow for years, but opted to shift gears because Seal of the Eclipse doesn't require as many resources. Both games cover the same time period in the Castlevania timeline. I get the impression that Umbra of Sorrow was intended to be more of a Metroidvania, while Seal of the Eclipse is heavily inspired by Curse of the Moon.
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Like not only can I own a 30 second clip of some guy playing simon’s quest, but there’s even a disclaimer specifically indicating that no real, actual intellectual property rights are conveyed with the sale.
That's current Konami for you. Not only scammy but also lazy and incompetent.
Also, for some reason, I was expecting this to be part of the NTFs.
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Paul Rudd referencing Beethoven the dog talking about Cujo was extremely funny
Both of them have a Login at the top that should match however you link your account to link the webpage to your in-game account.
https://2ndanniv.arknights.global/dossolesholiday
This one you just scroll down to the interviews (two as of now) and pick an option for them to get free stuff.
https://2ndanniv.arknights.global/preparation
This one you can come back to daily to open the bags and get points, which you can spend on buying stuff further down the page. And if we get enough daily logins on there, everyone gets free stuff based on the progress bar.
Even having been driven back once, Gozer is running the same script, except Egon had figured out how to disrupt it - capture and hold one of the heralds needed to complete the summoning and hold crossed streams against the portal. Part of the ritual is that mortals are insects but Gozer will treat with a local god before going about her intended business.
Time has not been good to them.
At the end, Callie finally embraces the name Spengler. But what were they going by before that?
According to the wiki it's the only last name given for any of them, and while the kids father leaving is mentioned a divorce is not, so presumably it was always Spengler.