Bloodstained

I riked it. In a way I feel like Bloodstained is the better franchise

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  1. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Man. I need to go back a replay as the new characters. I never even finished my Zangetsu playthrough.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      Aurora's my favorite of the bunch, especially after getting the wings. Flying through levels and sequence breaking with abandon was fun.

  2. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Awful game. Kys zoomer.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      It recaptured some of the life that's been missing in the metroidvania genre. Good game just for that.

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        It‘s worse than the good castlevania games in every way

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          its mechanically superior to ANY castlevania game

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        The game is an ugly, sloppy, copy and paste job. The final boss is the same fricking one from aria of sorrow give me a break. This HACK got THREE MILLION dollars to shit this garbage out. Now that I that I think of it, I think this game is still broken on multiple platforms (in some capacity). What a disgrace.

        What's your favourite metroidvania?

        I don't pick favorites but it certainly isn't this piece of shit. I like every castlevania more than this. Even stitched together trash like Moonscars is better.

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          Ive played castlevania more than you and bloodstained is great. You dont even list its biggest problem, no BDC, because your actual knowledge and skill with castlevania is mediocre at best.
          Go be an edgy contrarian on games were people wont call you out

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            The games graphics are shit like a 10 year old mobile game, most of the music is forgettable. Bosses suck balls, and the hit boxes are strange AF. This game is the most janky metrovania game out there. It just doesn’t feel like it gels well together. Ok, maybe I’m a hit harsh, I did sort of enjoy it for about 10 hours, but seriously Blasphemous, HK and Dread are leaps and bounds above it.

            • 12 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Reddit knight
              >He's a tendie
              Kek no shit

            • 12 months ago
              Anonymous

              >graphics
              Look fine to me. Play more mid tier Japanese games (YS)
              >forgettable music
              And you List HK as a fricking counter example, wow
              >bosses suck
              Play nightmare new game, your ass will be smoked, just like in portrait / ecclesia
              >hit boxes
              A little iffy, you can get used to it
              > jank
              Not even close, play more games

              None of these problems are as big as removing BDC, now all you can do is lame land cancels

              • 12 months ago
                Anonymous

                >as removing BDC
                Nah BDC is still in it, the timing is just a lot more precise

              • 12 months ago
                Anonymous

                Not for movement, for attack

              • 12 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah. It's still in the game.

              • 12 months ago
                Anonymous

                You have to jump though you cant attack dash duck repeat like in DS vania and cvhd. Massive nerf to attack speed

              • 12 months ago
                Anonymous

                > you cant attack dash duck repeat like in DS vania
                yes you can. I did it all the time in my recent playthrough with whip cancels. He kept all of the movement tech from past vanias.

              • 12 months ago
                Anonymous

                Im being goddamn gaslit, the loading screens say you can only dash out of the attack once, i have mimiced the same BDC cancels i did in cvhd at various speeds. Its nerfed my dude, its the difference between arias and dawns backdash.

              • 12 months ago
                Anonymous

                >say you can only dash out of the attack once
                Yeah, that's a BDC
                >Its nerfed my dude, its the difference between arias and dawns backdash.
                Yes but you didn't say that. The BDCs in those game trivialised everything and is part of the reason why Aria and Dawn are often cited as the easiest games in the franchise

              • 12 months ago
                Anonymous

                Barely any casual players used it, look at random gameplay on youtube they only do standing slashes. Its overpowered sure but in the most rewarding way, your skill = your dps

            • 12 months ago
              Anonymous

              It was finished by a chink company so what do you expect?

            • 12 months ago
              Anonymous

              That makes sense. It was cobbled together by Vietnamese dirt farmers.

            • 12 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Hollow knight
              There it is. What a homosexual.

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            You're a moron. I've been playing CV since before you were born. I wasn't sitting here writing a review or criticism for some shitty kickstarter game. Get a clue and quit slurping wiener because
            >my favorite rockstar made it!

            • 12 months ago
              Anonymous

              Whats your highest combo in Lament?
              How fast can you vorpal dash?
              Whats your hardest challenge run you finished of SOTN? Mines alucart ironman
              Any speedrun times?

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      What's your favourite metroidvania?

  3. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Is there a mod that lets you play as the huge-titted nun? If not, I'm not interested. I already beat the game once

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      I think that's an upcoming DLC
      >The game is an ugly, sloppy, copy and paste job.
      You haven't played it
      >The final boss is the same fricking one from aria of sorrow give me a break
      Because they're all based on the same mythology

  4. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    tbf chunks of it were just sotn

  5. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's good but it got some issues. Yeah the graphics, more specifically the asset quality rollercoaster from swirly tower and blood moon in garden showing what 2.5D can do to stock asset rock in an underground cave so low poly you can slice yourself on it. SotN wasn't the balance masterpiece but it sucks that swords are so much better then most of other weapons and whips are really crappy. Some bosses are also rather dull.

    Otherwise it's a great game and is more or less SotN + aka what I was hoping for. Just wish next time Igga and his team know how the frick to work in unreal (I have no idea why they chose that fricking shit out of everything) and can improve and push on some things.

  6. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    I liked her fat boobs but the game was a bit shit.

  7. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Try a bit of it
    >I like it
    >Co-op's planned, wanna explore the game with my coop buddy
    >Break off and hold out for the co-op update

    >...

  8. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Inti Creates makes better Castlevania games.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      It was alright. I don't know if I go that far in calling it a better franchise, but I generally thought it was solid for the most part. I came in with my expectations in check, and it probably helped I got around to finally playing it in 2022, which I imagined by then, was patched a ton compared to launch. It wasn't the best Metroidvania I ever played, but it was alright, and I think the next one will be better in comparison, if and when IGA gets around to it, with the resources and experience he has from the first game. When he's finally done with all the Kickstarter goals for Ritual of the Night 1, letting him move onto the next game.

      I definitely much preferred all 3 of the Inti games in comparison to the main game (Curse 1, Curse 2, and Gal Guardians) in terms of my Castlevania likes admittedly. I do hope Inti continue on their end with more of them.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      >demon purge
      I read that as demon pussy at first

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      This game sucked ass honestly
      Like, it was barely okay but I couldn't be arsed to do a second playthrough when the first was already so mediocre.

      By far its most baffling issue is the FRICKING VOICEWORK that is SO FRICKING GRATING and you CAN'T TURN IT OFF. You can't even turn it down and it is just so fricking loud that when I adjust the volume so it's not as grating I can barely even hear the (mediocre) music anymore. Man what were they thinking.

  9. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    The most soulful non-CV-metroidvania to date.
    All Iga needs is to have good fricking artist and Bloodstained2 might be the best metroidvania ever

  10. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Reddit meddling with hotfixes actively ruined this game.
    Can't do crafting in an enjoyable way anymore, because all resources are too rare so you need endgame shards to boost luck, and Alkahest used to be cheap but they made it way more expensive than necessary. You are only truly free to max out and get the broken stuff at Den of Behemoths at the final areas of the game.
    Also can't use Rhava Bural / Velar anymore since they've been nerfed to shit too. Flame Cannon and Welcome Company shards have also been nerfed and had their upgrade mats messed with so no easy way to get strong anymore.
    For a game about mixing and matching equipment and skills to progress, the game simply went around closing all doors until it remained way too "balanced" for its own good. Even if you get everything on your path and know what to do, you'll still have to face almost the same hardships as newbies on their first time missing / skipping shit.
    Balancing belongs in multiplayer, not in single player. Frick that shit, stop screwwing around and let me have goddamn fun with the game, not play it on-rails according to the "approved right way of experiencing it"

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Reddit meddling with hotfixes actively ruined this game.
      Did they complain and get what they want or something? No mods that fix it?

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        During the KS campaign and post-launch support, the game had its official forums and reddit AMAs to receive feedback from backers and post-launch players. Mixed along with bugfixes, several requests were made specially from mongs who were diehard CV fans that blasted through everything so everything was easy for them, but instead they blamed on the game being too easy and with too many vulnerable spots for exploiting shit, so they started plugging all the holes for the sake of "balancing" it.
        This only got worse with time thanks to speedrunners finding out the last remaining tricks, most importantly Flame Cannon's powerleveling to help with early game. Also, since randomizer was taking too long to come out, the complaints piled on about being tired of beating it without anything new to do, it was too easy, everyone knew what to do already.
        And the devs, in a misguided attempt to please everyone, broke the SP balancing to turn it into a Game-as-a-service kind of deal. People cheered with more and mroe balancing alterations because it gave them an excuse to replay it again.
        Now everything has come out, the game is finally stabilized and all, but in turn, i'ts absolutely linear and in a state of reached consensus" where everyone can take their sweet ass time 30 hours to get everything. No more fun like you can do with Luck Mode, Death Skip and Crissaegrim in SotN. There is NG+ alright, but there''s no fun in already starting with God Mode.
        People say they loved those glitches and exploits in SotN to shake things up but killed it on Bloodstained.

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          and yes, there are mods to fix all of that, also for a highly requested feature that devs never delivered which was to make Bunnymorphosis a normal costume instead of forcing you to use combat shoes while wearing it.

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            >and yes, there are mods to fix all of that
            Anywhere to point me? Like is there a mod which turns it back to the original vision? I see stuff like drop rate increases and changing costs around.

            • 12 months ago
              Anonymous

              Yes, that's pretty much it.
              Sadly there's no way to individually rebalance each gear and skill that's been messed around, but just having better drop rates and reducing item costs will be enough to even things out. In fact, Alkahest's mod alone should give you enough edge to start outpacing monsters halfway in.

              • 12 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Alkahest mod
                this one. it's called Improved Crafting
                https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodstainedritualofthenight/mods/65

  11. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    how's the mobile port?

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      Great. my phone is from 2021 midrange and it runs at High 60fps, coughs on Ultra at around 45-50.
      Essentially the same as on console, barely any differences in aesthetics. Eats your battery good. Having a D-pad is a must, touchscreen is crap since there are several twitch reflex moves to pull off.
      Currently there is a game breaking bug on a room before Zangetsu 3, devs have responded saying they're on to it but no dates given.

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        I've got a note 10 + so I'm probably about equivalent to yours, I'll give it a go then, I've got an 8bitdo suite of controllers so I'll try with a few.

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah, my one is an M30, analogs could've helped more but I got used to just using the D-pad and it went surprisingly fine, even with directional shards and door switches.

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            >M30
            8bitdo pad I mean

  12. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    That game is so painfully fricking dull dude, it's such a drag

  13. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    I enjoyed it but my god does it take a while to get going on a 2nd play through.

  14. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    bloodstained had some fun abilities but it was a pretty mid metroidvania experience

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      Bloodstained is easily the best Castlevania indie clone. Even better than the unwarrantedly overrated Hollow Knight.

  15. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Is the Switch port of the game still fricked up? I remember at launch the graphics on Switch were really shit or something, and they said they were planning to patch it. Is it on par with the other versions yet?

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      Man why would you even buy a switch. It's a piece of shit

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        Personally I just use a switch when I just don't feel like using my PC and want to be somewhere else other than my bedroom.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      No, they delivered that big update that fixed the framerate and graphical downgrade at the twin headed dragon tower.
      It does, however, still suffer the usual performance differences compared to Xbox and PS, but that's on hardware as far as anyone is concerned on feedback.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yes, it is. They fixed the major launch issues but I still crash three or four times per run, which isn't excessive, but is still way more than should ever actually happen.

  16. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    This game hit me after the longest drought of meteoidvanias (hollow knight to gay looking for my taste) and I loved it, and then a bunch of other fun metroidvanias came out right after it. I even ground every spell (to max) and item, something I never do. Made 8 totally distinct playstyles for the wheel.

  17. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    A surprisingly good game for a Kickstarter grift.

  18. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    I like ROTN. I like the COTM's slightly more. But I can't let you go on this one.
    >i feel like bloodstained is the better franchise
    In what way, specifically? Explain yourself.

  19. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's alright. I wish the two alt costumes weren't tied to particular gear and the hub was a little tighter with more character interaction. The weaboo nip garden/dojo area felt really unfinished and barebones.

    But a good time.

  20. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    I love bloodless

  21. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    This game is all I wanted from the Castlevania series after the DS era: More of the same, but with cute girls.
    In an ideal world we would have gotten three of these for the 3DS and by now we'd have the 3rd entry for the Switch coming out.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      DS Castlevania is such a mixed bag. I end up half liking and half hating all three

  22. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    I got the humble metroidvania bundle sorta for this but mostly for rain world.
    Played this first because it seemed shorter and Miriam is cute and loved it.
    I'm hating rain world though, is it worth pushing through or should I just play hollow knight again and finally get 100 percent

  23. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    How's the pacing? I'm sick of slow vanias with sparce enemies, the ideal for me is non-stop action with occasional exploration and platforming breaks.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      >the ideal for me is non-stop action with occasional exploration and platforming breaks.
      Yeah that's Bloodstained. You do quite a bit of farming too so you're always fighting enemies.

      Use the code NIGHTMARE on your first character to unlock hard and nightmare modes, that makes combat really challenging and skill based.

  24. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's a bad game, mediocre in every aspect. You have awful taste in videogames.

  25. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Reminder that this shit game has not been completed (DLC content pending) even 4 fricking years after release and yet they have confirmed they have plans for a sequel. I spit on them for their israeliness and on you homosexuals for supporting such honourless developers.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      >israeliness is when you make 2 amazing Classicvania games as extra modes in your metroidvania, as well as an in built randomiser, boss rush and co-op and pvp multiplayer modes.
      It's one of the most feature rich games in the genre

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        The last time I checked
        >classic mode 2 wasn't out
        >coop and pvp multiplayer modules wasn't out
        Basically you have a randomizer mode and a classic mode. Boss rush sucks and I believe they plan to shell out the second classic mode as premium dlc. You are the model consumer for supporting such scummy practices.

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          >I believe they plan to shell out the second classic mode as premium dlc.
          Nope. They're lumping the classic mode and multiplayers together as the final content drop.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      Youre complaining that this game is still getting updates with lots of content and game modes

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        moron, all those modes were promises made in the kickstarter which they still haven't delivered despite the game being more 3 years old now. Also I think the backers still haven't received physical copies of the game that they paid for lol. That's how awful their management is.

        The part that matters was finished at launch. The bonus modes are all lame and only homosexuals care about them.

        >I don't mind if I get half the game for full price

        >I believe they plan to shell out the second classic mode as premium dlc.
        Nope. They're lumping the classic mode and multiplayers together as the final content drop.

        Let's see about that. I have their old road map and it says premium DLC classic mode 2.

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah, which is coming. So relax homosexual

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      The part that matters was finished at launch. The bonus modes are all lame and only homosexuals care about them.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      >israeliness
      All the DLC is free you fricking mongoloid.

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        And is time not valuable? They have delayed their deliverables for so long that who knows what they have diverted their resources to.

  26. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Can someone tell me if mods work with the new (?) update. I downloaded the game yesterday and I want to try the improved crafting mod. and the sexy monsters mod

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      Most of them are broken. 2-3 patches out of date

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        Ah. Unfortunate.
        Also, do you suggest japanese or english voices? I'm torn between the two..

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          I always prefer English voices because I speak English. Japanese is too squeaky and melodramatic. I think Miriam has a really good VA. The guy who voices Solid Snake is in the game too so that's cool.

  27. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's one of the best games in the genre.

  28. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Definitely some weak areas towards the end but it's a great collectathon

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      The only iffy area is the Den of Behemoths. It feels like they ran out of time.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      FRICK those stages. The absolute worst part of Blasphemous

  29. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Blasphemous is better

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      yeah, so much better then bloodstained that they had to do a cross over with it

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        It was barely even a crossover, all you do in Blasphemous is some annoying platforming levels and they don't even acknowledge Blasphemous in any way in Bloodstained, the Penitent One should've had his own DLC instead of a girl from some random indie game.

  30. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    The KING remains on his throne but Bloodstained was still far better than SotN.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      This has to bait. How can an individual with such bad taste even exist?

  31. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    I loved the weak jawed numales I could instantly tell were the backers in the paintings

  32. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Anyone have a more complete list of this? I saw one post here a month or 2 ago, having all metroid and castlevania games.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      I don't have a list, but I have a good recommendation. Touhou Luna Nights is a really good metroidvania

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      That is a fricking bad list

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      i pity the anon who would want to make that
      there are a billion metroidvanias now and most of them are probably just okay
      the essentials are already on that list, no new metroidvania with perhaps the exception of hollow knight, is even worth recommending as a must play

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      The only worthwhile metroidvania games are Metroid games, Castlevania games, and Bloodstained games.

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        And Deedlit

  33. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    the only metroidvania that was worse than one that came before it was dawn of sorrow, every other one was an improvement
    of course it's good

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      The record of lodoss ~ deedlit in wonder labyrinth and touhou luna knights are the only good recent metroidvanias. Hollow knight, bloodstained and blasphemous are honestly not worth your time.

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        Oops meant to reply

        Anyone have a more complete list of this? I saw one post here a month or 2 ago, having all metroid and castlevania games.

  34. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    At this point I wish they would just half-ass the stretch goals and finally move on to the sequel

  35. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    I had fun with this game, but it looked like ass for the most part. The kickstarted backer shit doesn't help at all. Like honestly this looks like complete shit

  36. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    I did enjoy the game, but the graphics just look like complete ass and all the kickstarter shit was so out of place.

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