Castlevania: Lords of Shadow; It's out! Mind ye spoilers!

Capt Howdy

The Dude With Herpes wrote: »

And to answer your question

In the room with all 6 magic crests if you go to you right you'll see a place to grab on with your whip if you get close enough to the edge. Go up there and follow all the balance beams around.

Got it. Most annoying gem to get thus far.

Lucascraft

Man this game just continues to impress me with every level. It is so great. Just finished the tesla puzzle in Chapter 7. Such a rewarding experience to have finished it on my own. The boss of that area was fun too.

Gilder

Awww I was hoping to get a trophy from the chess puzzle. Oh well, at least I got some souls. The trial involving that board sounds horrible though. It would be completely up to luck at the very end because she'd be getting 3 turns to your 1. You'd just have to hope she keeps getting pieces no longer in play.

The Dude With Herpes

It's actually really easy.

The most important thing to remember is that no matter what else they can do, your opponent will always focus on zombies before anything else, ever.

Every chance you can get summon a zombie near-ish to their units and they will waste every turn they have to chasing it until its dead.

Gilder

Yeah I noticed that as well so I used it to my advantage. I guess if you could keep up one or two zombies and then she gets unlucky and rolls dead pieces it would be pretty easy.

UnbreakableVow

I wish I could get into this

I'm doing maybe a level a day and then stopping because I just can't get into it deeply

Still haven't beaten chapter two even

Lucascraft

Ahhhhggg. I accidentally beat a level before I was ready to.

Chapter 7 spoilers (and a warning)

In the Chromatic Observatory, I was working my way through the rooms. I was basically just being fairly methodical in how I was solving the puzzle. I did red first since it was at the top. Then I did Yellow (?) next. It was the second one down. Then, I did the third one down, which was blue. It opened the white door. I went through the platforming and I got to a door which needed a key, so I just assumed that white was the "correct path" and I needed to solve the other rooms to get the key, so I went purple next.

Unfortunately, purple leads to the boss. So heed this as a warning. Save purple for last, because there's no going back (unless you re-enter the stage from the start.

Akilae

Lucascraft wrote: »

Ahhhhggg. I accidentally beat a level before I was ready to.

Chapter 7 spoilers (and a warning)

In the Chromatic Observatory, I was working my way through the rooms. I was basically just being fairly methodical in how I was solving the puzzle. I did red first since it was at the top. Then I did Yellow (?) next. It was the second one down. Then, I did the third one down, which was blue. It opened the white door. I went through the platforming and I got to a door which needed a key, so I just assumed that white was the "correct path" and I needed to solve the other rooms to get the key, so I went purple next.

Unfortunately, purple leads to the boss. So heed this as a warning. Save purple for last, because there's no going back (unless you re-enter the stage from the start.

That happened to me. However, on my second run, I found out that area is one of the few where you can just blaze through almost without killing anything, so doing it again to get all the upgrades doesn't take as long as some of the other levels.

Professor Snugglesworth

A really early video of Super Castlevania IV.

Shows a few monsters that got cut, along with a much worse sounding soundtrack.

Steev

Part II of Gametrailers' Castlevania retrospective is up.

Orochi_Rockman

The Dude With Herpes wrote: »

It's actually really easy.

The most important thing to remember is that no matter what else they can do, your opponent will always focus on zombies before anything else, ever.

Every chance you can get summon a zombie near-ish to their units and they will waste every turn they have to chasing it until its dead.

Not always. I was doing the trial for this one and I had her down to 1 Necromancer which I had 2 summoned zombies, one on each side of her and my vampire and my werewolf in front of her diagonally. What does she do? Gets two necromancer turns in a row and two-shots my vampire causing me to lose my 4th piece and fail the trial.

Cantido

Dayum. Kotaku GETS IT. This needs to go in the next thread. Though I fear they tell people "If you're an IGA person, leave now, if your old school, grab this immediately."

I hated the old games (they don't make em liked they used to for a reason) and this is a must have for me. What good is 8 direction whipping when the skeleton throws a bone at me and it misses me, but not really because of hitbox dissonance?

Can I have a moment of silence for the absense of Sexy Witch costumes?

Krathoon

The series was getting a little too bishonen for it's own good. I am fine if they go this way for 3D and IGA for 2D, which seems like what is happening.

Orochi_Rockman

Derivative, derivative, derivative. That review bothers me. What a boring future videogames would have if for a game to be 'good' you weren't allowed to use anything that someone else had used before.

Nope, sorry Gabriel you can't scale that castle. Someone has already climbed up something before.
Nope, can't kill that Titan. Someone killed a big thing once.
A little light platforming? What are you a plumber? LOL. You can't jump.

And the one that pisses me off of the most is the God of War comparisons. I mean, did everyone forget about all of the other action adventure games that came before God of War when it released? I honestly just don't understand the God of War comparisons The weapon? A whip? Belmonts use whips, what were they supposed to do? The combat not being about long combos and juggles and cancels?

Klyka

When you kill monsters from a third person fixed-camera position while epic,orchestral music plays,it is a God of War clone.

Evil Multifarious

I really don't like the constant climbing you have to do. It's just there to artificially lengthen the game, and this game doesn't need it. It's not like the climbing is ever challenging - you always know where you have to go, and it's impossible to fail or miss 90% of the time. It feels like busy work. And it's so blatantly game-y with the obvious ledges and grapples in the middle of nowhere that it actually detracts from the atmosphere.

Boss fights are really what make this game great for me.

Orochi_Rockman

Klyka wrote: »

When you kill monsters from a third person fixed-camera position while epic,orchestral music plays,it is a God of War clone.

Heh. That makes Bayonetta a God of War clone.

Cantido

Orochi_Rockman wrote: »

Klyka wrote: »

When you kill monsters from a third person fixed-camera position while epic,orchestral music plays,it is a God of War clone.

Heh. That makes Bayonetta a God of War clone.

Only if a J-pop Fly Me To The Moon is orchestra :P

The opening sequence on the other hand...

Evil Multifarious wrote: »

I really don't like the constant climbing you have to do. It's just there to artificially lengthen the game, and this game doesn't need it. It's not like the climbing is ever challenging - you always know where you have to go, and it's impossible to fail or miss 90% of the time. It feels like busy work. And it's so blatantly game-y with the obvious ledges and grapples in the middle of nowhere that it actually detracts from the atmosphere.

Boss fights are really what make this game great for me.

That's more for the scenery porn. In the castle, I couldn't get enough of it.

Klyka

Orochi_Rockman wrote: »

Klyka wrote: »

When you kill monsters from a third person fixed-camera position while epic,orchestral music plays,it is a God of War clone.

Heh. That makes Bayonetta a God of War clone.

I can turn the camera in Bayonetta.

Orochi_Rockman

Klyka wrote: »

Orochi_Rockman wrote: »

Klyka wrote: »

When you kill monsters from a third person fixed-camera position while epic,orchestral music plays,it is a God of War clone.

Heh. That makes Bayonetta a God of War clone.

I can turn the camera in Bayonetta.

Oh that's right you can. I had forgotten. I must have never bothered to.

Evil Multifarious

Yeah that's a good point

if it weren't so gorgeous I would be a lot more bothered than I am

that goddamn castle was great

the dead lands is up and down though. It's a really excellent wasteland, but it's not as awe inspiring and magnificent as the castle.

Ragnar Dragonfyre

I really expected to beat this, this weekend. Being Canadian Thanksgiving, I had three days off... but of course I get sick Thursday night which turns into a full blown illness before the end of the work day on friday.

I just didn't have the energy to pick up a controller until Monday night. Blaahhh... Oh well, I completed a few chapters and put it down for the night just as I reached the vampire castle. Tonight should be epic epicness.

Walt

Ragnar Dragonfyre wrote: »

I really expected to beat this, this weekend. Being Canadian Thanksgiving, I had three days off... but of course I get sick Thursday night which turns into a full blown illness before the end of the work day on friday.

I just didn't have the energy to pick up a controller until Monday night. Blaahhh... Oh well, I completed a few chapters and put it down for the night just as I reached the vampire castle. Tonight should be epic epicness.

You don't even know. I played the Castle Hall level like 4 times before continuing on.

Lucascraft

Just finished watching the 2nd part of Game Trailers' retrospective. I pretty much want to play every game in this series now. Its unfortunate that a few aren't available, and a few others are available on systems I don't want to play them on.

As we discussed a few pages back, the older Nintendo games are on Wii virtual console, but I loath the Wii. I have one, but it isn't even hooked up. If, however, they were to allow me to put those games on my DSi, I would be all over that.

Walt

FYI you can download the untranslated version of Rondo of Blood on the Wii to experience the greatness, if you don't have a PSP with Dracula X Chronicles.

Orochi_Rockman

Lucascraft, I downloaded Castlevania I, III, and the import Rondo of Blood on my Wii and I have to say that I and III look absolutely amazing compared to trying to get them to work on my NES.

lionheart_m

I want to get CV3. Fuck CV1. I already wasted too many hours of my childhood wiping on Frankenstein and Death.

Jamesways

That retrospective is really cool. Great to finally learn all of the history. The last one I played was the IV.

I'm loving this new one though. It's a journey, the whole thing feels like a colossal epic quest to get there.

Cantido

Jamesways wrote: »

That retrospective is really cool. Great to finally learn all of the history. The last one I played was the IV.

I'm gonna have to grab games I haven't played on VC now. I haven't played II since I was little, and I only played the original recently.

We're gonna need a new thread soon.

Orochi_Rockman

Frankenstiens Monster is easy, it's that invincible flea man that's a bitch. I had to make it through that level without dying once to keep the Holy Water from the beginning and then kill the bone dragons with it to get the Triple upgrade. Then you spam the hell out of it on the Creature and pray.

Death is also awful. Especially when you manage to kill him but die trying to collect the orb from one of his leftover scythes flying around.

Chen

CV3 had some of the best music. Clockwork, Mad Forest, Riddle. I want to play the NES games just to listen to the music.

lionheart_m

Chen wrote: »

CV3 had some of the best music. Clockwork, Mad Forest, Riddle. I want to play the NES games just to listen to the music.

Atlantis is the best.

Chen

lionheart_m wrote: »

Chen wrote: »

CV3 had some of the best music. Clockwork, Mad Forest, Riddle. I want to play the NES games just to listen to the music.

Atlantis is the best.

You mean Aquarius? And, no, you are wrong.

lionheart_m

Oh right, Aquarius. And it is!

Wasn't it remixed recently in one of IGA's games?

Orochi_Rockman

They had it in ReBirth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_HheUuzcPA

Cantido

2009? What is that? I don't remember that in the Retrospective.

lionheart_m

Wii downloadable game.

Orochi_Rockman

It was also in Circle of the Moon it seems.

Macro9

Cantido wrote: »

2009? What is that? I don't remember that in the Retrospective.

It's a remake of Castlevania: The Adventure by the people that did Contra and Gradius ReBirth.

Capt Howdy

Orochi_Rockman wrote: »

Frankenstiens Monster is easy, it's that invincible flea man that's a bitch. I had to make it through that level without dying once to keep the Holy Water from the beginning and then kill the bone dragons with it to get the Triple upgrade. Then you spam the hell out of it on the Creature and pray.

Death is also awful. Especially when you manage to kill him but die trying to collect the orb from one of his leftover scythes flying around.

That shit happened to me in HoD. :x