Having problems registering on Coin Return? Please email support@coin-return.org, and include your PA username and PIN.
[Castlevania & Bloodstained] sitting in a tree, S-L-A-Y-I-N-G
Henroid
Mexican kicked from Immigration ThreadCentrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
Mexican kicked from Immigration ThreadCentrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
Konami killed Castlevania as far as new games goes, but Iga has taken matters into his own hands. Soon a new series will be upon us, Bloodstained, continuing the Metroidvania vampire slaying goodness we all loved. Below is their latest trailer, which responded to a lot of the comments (bad faith or otherwise) people had to make about the playable beta version of the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A640g5gDBJAMichiru Yamane is even on board to do the music. So expect me to nerd out about that when the game is out and we have the whole thing available. Here's just one track for now (it sounds VERY Castlevania aaaaaaaaaa).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EUaVEA8FcgOh also, while I said Konami killed Castlevania having any new games coming out, they're packaging things up in bundles and releasing them as Anniversary Collections. The first is out today and contains:
Castlevania
Castlevania II Simon's Quest
Castlevania III Dracula's Curse
Super Castlevania IV
Castlevania The Adventure
Castlevania II Belmont's Revenge
Castlevania Bloodlines
Kid Dracula (never released in English before)
Chairman Meow on
+2
Posts
I hope, at some point, they do that Cat episode they story-boarded on the DVDs.
This link has a bunch of behind the scenes videos:
The season is already in the can and will come out in the fall on Dave. Discuss.
So yay on the creative team not missing a beat when the Warren Ellis thing happened.
It's out.
It was my first metroidvania and blew me away. It lead to a mini-mania of buying up old games intermixed with a fairly solid run of new DS releases. Good times, it seemed like an endless banquet. This was back when the only way to play SotN was to pay truly silly money on EBay but that I did (and then sold it on afterwards to recoup the cost).
It hews remarkably close to the same thematic spaces the first series explored (but not in any way that relies much on nostalgia at all), the French/Haitian Revolution as an alt-history backdrop is very goofy but not just throwaway set dressing. Used to excellent effect in the show's theses and explains the extra writers they hired specifically for the cultural reach
Unity decided to slam their dick in a waffle iron and announce a change to their monetization structure where past a certain threshold you have to pay them per install
Warframe/Steam: NFyt
Which they're now frantically backpedaling on, but the damage has been done - literally everyone hates Unity now.
I really like it a lot, though "technical artistry" is maybe a bit far? Unless we're not talking about the look which it definitely has but is pretty marred by the awful framerate, particularly during fights.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
Just in terms of the composition, the direction and choreography, I think it's just balls to the wall great
There's far fewer scenes in this season compared to the previous ones where I noticed a lack of in-betweening at all, tbh. It really only bothered me in the last episode but otherwise it's still incredible where it counts
Honestly, it probably won't actually affect Silksong development in the slightest. There's no real chance of Team Cherry switching engines this far along, and even if Unity sticks with their new fees TC will likely be successful enough to make plenty of bank on it anyway.
I think I bought my copy of SotN on eBay circa 2004 for £30 - just looked at the prices today and holy moly.
My Backloggery
Is rondo of blood available on steam or switch yet?
Nope! Requiem containing Rondo/Symphony is PS4 only.
Sony had a hand in funding the Dracula Chronicles X remake that included these two originals. Supposedly Requiem is just a PSP emulator running those two games. So Konami would need to do some actual work to get them on other systems. Like I don't think M.2 has a playstation emulator handy at the moment.
That said I doubt more modern ports would do much to the OG's price, it rarely affects other games this old. And I believe its available on the PCE mini.
It's definitely worth watching, and the visuals are as gorgeous as ever, I'm just disappointed it's not incredible like S1/2 were.
Yeah, it feels a lot more character driven, and the stories of Annette and Maria are far more interesting than Richter's. (Though the new character they added in 5/6 adds a lot to his story.)
I know they won't after how S4 ended, but
I dunno, I didn't have an especially well-formed opinion of Trevor, Sypha or Alucard until like, partway through Season 2 when the group dynamic truly solidified. I think Maria and Richter's voice performances are a little bog-standard at times, but I'm willing to bet Season 2 will have some real fucking banger moments
Maria actually had one of my favorite performances, especially during the later episodes.
It's Annette and her bestie that were a bit off at times, and I can't remember a single bad performance in S1. (Which also had a different director, I believe)
Yeah I'm sure this is in no way going to come to bite you in the fucking ass later on. Just kill the fucking kid!
I'm not being entirely serious here. But it's a hell of a way to introduce our big bad. Everything that happens to this guy from now on, I'm just going to go back to that moment and say "Well maybe you should have killed him then when you had the chance, you colossal tool!".
Well I don't want to spoil anything but I think you may be pleasantly surprised.
We've definitely seen that vampires are fully capable of being not evil, it definitely seems to be more of a cultural thing in that the shitty ones have been taught to be particularly evil or have been totally corrupted by power. Why couldn't there be a group of vampires that are generally halfway decent when the rest seem evil? Even some Night Creatures seem capable of exhibiting intelligence and basic humanity and they're supposed to be literal hellbound souls and demons and whatnot.
Full series
Makes me wonder if he was turned by a conquistador or if the Americas have their own vampire clans. Sort of voting for the former, given his age of 250 would make sense. But then what sort of weird supernaturals are native there? Papa Legba/Ogun descended from Africa, after all.
Out of scope for "Castlevania," probably, but it'd be cool to have an American setting for a bit.
Did I miss something or did they explain how a Eastern European Vampire turned into an ancient Egyptian Goddess? At least I think that was what was going on. I also question why an apparently impervious goddess needs very killable night creatures.
Also, and this is a random connection, but I think Angel Season 4 did this same plotline. Someone killed people associated with Ra and blocked out the sun.
To go with New World stuff
And the Americas have a whole mountain of unique paranormals, stretching from the ancestral skin-walker to a modern classic like lizard people right out conspiracy theories. Not to mention that bears and wolves and buffalo still exist in the Americas so there's great inspiration there for animal-themed mysticism that largely wouldn't be shared with Europe outside of going to the far eastern and northern reaches of the continent.
1. They did an enormously better job with the pacing with this first season than in the first show, it's hardly even comparable. A couple items sort of rushed but otherwise a wonderful mix of action, worldbuilding, darkness, and bravery.
2. Holy shit that third-act surprise was fucking awesome and they are absolutely killing it with these action scenes.
3. Olrox you sexy sexy beast. That's it. That's the whole third point. I'm straight as an arrow but he is a goddamned sexual tyrannosaurus and it is fucking awesome.
Overall, this is proving a very very worthy successor to the original series. The visual design is exquisite and I'm loving how the show is tilting between extremes of incoherent dedication and bravery and psychotically insane total evil.