THE BORE

General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Trent Dole on May 05, 2015, 11:24:43 PM

Title: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on May 05, 2015, 11:24:43 PM
www.swordorwhip.com
IGAVANIA LIVES
HYPE HYPE HYPE
:hyper :hyper :hyper :hyper :hyper :hyper
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Rufus on May 05, 2015, 11:46:02 PM
:leon
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: toku on May 06, 2015, 12:52:03 AM
Sword
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Rufus on May 06, 2015, 12:57:44 AM
What!? :bolo
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Tasty on May 06, 2015, 01:25:43 AM
Whip for life :noah
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Kara on May 06, 2015, 03:28:34 AM
Go play SotN sword nerds.
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: thisismyusername on May 06, 2015, 06:44:06 AM
Sword. I want my dual-wielding PEW PEW PEW Alacurd back.
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Positive Touch on May 06, 2015, 07:23:14 AM
WHIP DAMMIT CHOOSE WHIP
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Joe Molotov on May 06, 2015, 11:06:53 AM
Swhip
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on May 06, 2015, 11:15:51 AM
You can't fall on your whip.
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Steve Contra on May 06, 2015, 12:43:41 PM
:bow Paimon the Poignant :bow2

Clan Iron Flail :lawd
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Kara on May 06, 2015, 02:25:49 PM
You can't fall on your whip.

Plus you can use it later in the bedroom. :phil
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: CatsCatsCats on May 06, 2015, 02:58:19 PM
Whip
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Human Snorenado on May 06, 2015, 03:47:36 PM
All bout dat whip son
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Mr. Gundam on May 06, 2015, 03:49:30 PM
Whord
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Tasty on May 06, 2015, 04:11:24 PM
Go play SotN sword nerds.

Castlevania 1 is probably my fave NES game. :lawd
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Tasty on May 06, 2015, 04:11:54 PM
Whip.

:mynicca
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: brob on May 06, 2015, 04:17:51 PM
Igarashi is prolly the worst designer out of the castlevania crew tho

:thumbsdown
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Positive Touch on May 06, 2015, 05:57:39 PM
Go play SotN sword nerds.

Castlevania 1 is probably my fave NES game. :lawd

but have you played cv3??


Igarashi is prolly the worst designer out of the castlevania crew tho

:thumbsdown

:foxx the series has had loads of directors that are much much worse and never came close to putting out a great game. igas career was uneven but he put out more quality games than anyone else who touched the series.

plus he fixed the timeline
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: CatsCatsCats on May 06, 2015, 06:26:02 PM
I've voted for whip 3 times today
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: CatsCatsCats on May 06, 2015, 06:28:01 PM
*4


(http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd58/bizarrosgr/F1E29E50-C185-44AD-B4F3-ED3E6FC6A928.png)
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: brob on May 06, 2015, 06:34:00 PM
igas career was uneven but he put out more quality games than anyone else who touched the series.

Ehh, Hagihara gets main props for SOTN and I was never too big on the IGAvania follow ups, which are varying degrees of middling (excluding OoE, which is relatively good and nice). IGA going solo to do a castlevania-like is pretty much like Inafune's Mighty No9, which is bad and not nice.
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: CatsCatsCats on May 06, 2015, 06:34:39 PM
Oh I kept going and now I'm in the iron flail clan. Marchosias the Mingy
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: CatsCatsCats on May 06, 2015, 06:38:54 PM
Sounds like sword might be winning, he told me I can't turn the tide alone


Guys I'll keep doing this all day, I'm AS as fuck
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Positive Touch on May 06, 2015, 08:07:27 PM
I'm with you all the way bro
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on May 06, 2015, 08:09:25 PM
I've been voting whip off and on for the last two days. I need that whip.
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: CatsCatsCats on May 06, 2015, 08:36:52 PM
Just told me that my clan has a narrow lead. Whip it, whip it good
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Yeti on May 06, 2015, 08:53:08 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIEVqFB4WUo
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Positive Touch on May 06, 2015, 10:00:20 PM
not gonna lie: I keep going back to this site bc the sound of the scrolling text is so damn nostalgic
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Tasty on May 06, 2015, 10:10:08 PM
Go play SotN sword nerds.

Castlevania 1 is probably my fave NES game. :lawd

but have you played cv3??

Nope. I need to play CV2 as well. Probably gonna do the "fan-fixed" version of that one.
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: naff on May 06, 2015, 10:10:32 PM
eh, i can't vote. disconnected.... reconnecting  ???
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: brob on May 06, 2015, 10:21:00 PM
I need to play CV2 as well. Probably gonna do the "fan-fixed" version of that one.

u don't need to play 2, 3 is the best NES Castlevania.
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on May 06, 2015, 10:38:12 PM
If you must play CV2, do yourself a favour and play Simon's Redaction.
http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Games/Hacking/Hacks/SimonsRedaction.html
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: thisismyusername on May 06, 2015, 10:40:24 PM
It's not like an Igavania can't have both in it. Didn't Dawn of Sorrow or... OoE have a whip in addition to swords to use?
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Positive Touch on May 06, 2015, 11:08:04 PM
I'd figure cv2 has aged like hot shit in the sun. meanwhile cv3 plays like the first one, but with multiple characters, branching levels, and even better music. you can even pay the Japanese version now with the super awesome sound quality!
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: CatsCatsCats on May 06, 2015, 11:12:31 PM
http://swordorwhip.com/?c=4Ujq3DXuVkN27HD4yh8gfPR6BQE7kByxVeZh
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: CatsCatsCats on May 06, 2015, 11:21:53 PM
Oh and check out your demon name for extra AS fun

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_demons_in_the_Ars_Goetia
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Rufus on May 06, 2015, 11:48:54 PM
http://swordorwhip.com/?c=4Ujq3DXuVkN27HD4yh8gfPR6BQE7kByxVeZh
Flail bros.

Quote
Naberius appears as a three-headed dog or a raven. He has a raucous voice but presents himself as eloquent and amiable. He teaches the art of gracious living. He is depicted as a crow or a black crane.
Fab. 8)
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Trent Dole on May 07, 2015, 01:01:50 AM
http://swordorwhip.com/?c=4Ujq3DXuVkN27HD4yh8gfPR6BQE7kByxVeZh
I picked sword after joining and got thrown the fuck out. :rofl
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Human Snorenado on May 07, 2015, 02:03:08 PM
http://swordorwhip.com/?c=4Ujq3DXuVkN27HD4yh8gfPR6BQE7kByxVeZh
I picked sword after joining and got thrown the fuck out. :rofl

:bolo
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: CatsCatsCats on May 07, 2015, 06:24:55 PM
http://swordorwhip.com/?c=4Ujq3DXuVkN27HD4yh8gfPR6BQE7kByxVeZh

We're in a stale mate with some sword fegs, tap that whip
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: The Legend of Sunblade on May 07, 2015, 06:47:10 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/qU4iltg.png)

 :win
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: CatsCatsCats on May 07, 2015, 08:12:43 PM
Mine is still saying fighting Katana to a stalemate  :-\
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Yeti on May 07, 2015, 09:10:45 PM
I just got a message that I can watch something  Monday, the 11th.  :omg
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Kara on May 07, 2015, 09:23:39 PM
Iga is calling me Ipos the Ill. :-\
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: thisismyusername on May 08, 2015, 01:49:58 AM
I just got a message that I can watch something  Monday, the 11th.  :omg

Same. Gotta be the reveal date.
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: chronovore on May 08, 2015, 02:51:42 AM
Sceneman reappears in. 5, 4, 3...
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Trent Dole on May 08, 2015, 02:53:36 AM
Aw shit, if this has multiplayer...  :o :o :o
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Trent Dole on May 08, 2015, 01:00:57 PM
Step into the castle, if you dare! Double Fine's senior gameplay programmer Anna Kipnis is joined by legendary designer Koji Igarashi for a playthrough of the cult classic "Castlevania: Symphony of the Night". :o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqheYYeA4k4
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Supermanisdead on May 08, 2015, 01:08:43 PM
if u put the konami code in, he says "what makes you think that will work here"  :lol
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Human Snorenado on May 08, 2015, 01:13:27 PM
"From now on, I will call you Paimon the Puzzled. You may call me sir."

:lol
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: bork on May 08, 2015, 01:16:30 PM
"From how on, I will call you Haagenti the Hot. You may call me sir."

Got in the broadsword clan.

Changed vote to whip.

"You've been mustered out of your clan for your perfidy. Traitor."

 :lol
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Rufus on May 08, 2015, 02:48:56 PM
Step into the castle, if you dare! Double Fine's senior gameplay programmer Anna Kipnis is joined by legendary designer Koji Igarashi for a playthrough of the cult classic "Castlevania: Symphony of the Night". :o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqheYYeA4k4
Before I click, how awkward is this?
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: bork on May 08, 2015, 02:54:14 PM
Watched a little, before they started playing.  I don't know why, but the translator guy sipping a glass of wine cracked me up.  Iga says some stuff I didn't know about, like how SOTN's composer had her sister sing the music on the file select screen.
:ohhh
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: chronovore on May 09, 2015, 01:57:09 AM
Judd's an agent, former head of Capcom's overseas dev effort, not generally a translator.
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: The Legend of Sunblade on May 09, 2015, 02:20:46 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/aHBGOJc.png)

 :hyper :hyper
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on May 09, 2015, 03:16:55 AM
Kinda Funny Games :yuck :yuck :yuck
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Tasty on May 11, 2015, 01:11:19 PM
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iga/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night

:rejoice
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Great Rumbler on May 11, 2015, 01:13:22 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWrD0QMZc_s
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: archie4208 on May 11, 2015, 01:14:50 PM
$28 for a copy of the game?  Would have jumped on for $15 in a heartbeat.

Steam sale it is.
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Tasty on May 11, 2015, 01:15:23 PM
(https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/003/768/810/d5750fd10571d742e1a60e5f4a3dc0ff_original.jpg?v=1431344606&w=700&h=&fit=max&auto=format&q=92&s=e4ab995d36504f2515212987625fd3bb)

Hayter :larry
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: The Legend of Sunblade on May 11, 2015, 01:19:54 PM
Music by Michiru Yamane. :rejoice

Developed by Inti Creates. :lawd
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Tasty on May 11, 2015, 01:20:11 PM
Quote
IGA decided to go with 2.5D for this project for both financial and artistic reasons. All decisions in game development involve trade-offs, and for Bloodstained a 2.5D world built on Unreal Engine 4 was the right choice to balance development time, graphical fidelity, budget, and scope.

2.5D tho :-\

After Might No 9 I'm not sure I have enough faith in 2.5D Kickstarters anymore...
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on May 11, 2015, 01:30:42 PM
:lawd :lawd :lawd :lawd :lawd :lawd
:mouf :mouf :mouf :mouf
:sabu :sabu :sabu :sabu
:obama :obama :obama :obama
:phil :phil :phil :phil
:heyman :heyman :heyman :heyman
:aweshum :aweshum :aweshum :aweshum
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Great Rumbler on May 11, 2015, 01:34:00 PM
They specifically mention Guilty Gear, which looks like this:

(http://i.imgur.com/mdni4GL.jpg)
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on May 11, 2015, 01:34:51 PM
BACK THAT SHIT, HOMIE.

125 bones pledged.
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Trent Dole on May 11, 2015, 01:42:22 PM
When I started reading the ks page they were at 39k, now it's 121. $28 is kind of high for just the game but still, more uh I guess we're supposed to call it Igavania now.
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Great Rumbler on May 11, 2015, 01:43:40 PM
25% funded in about half an hour.
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on May 11, 2015, 01:49:15 PM
 :tauntaun
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Human Snorenado on May 11, 2015, 01:53:37 PM
$28? gtfo with that, steam sale it is
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on May 11, 2015, 01:54:24 PM
 :punch :punch :punch FUND THAT SHIT BITCHES :punch :punch :punch
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Trent Dole on May 11, 2015, 01:55:46 PM
Stream happening soon
http://www.twitch.tv/kindafunnygames
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Joe Molotov on May 11, 2015, 02:00:59 PM
lawl, Iga's just trolling Konami with that David Hayter tier

spoiler (click to show/hide)
It would be funny if it didn't hit $850k.
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Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Human Snorenado on May 11, 2015, 02:02:50 PM
:punch :punch :punch FUND THAT SHIT BITCHES :punch :punch :punch

No need to, it's obviously gonna get funded, probably later today.

:yeshrug
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on May 11, 2015, 02:34:07 PM
:punch :punch :punch FUND THAT SHIT BITCHES :punch :punch :punch

No need to, it's obviously gonna get funded, probably later today.

:yeshrug

PLEDGE MOTHER FOCKER

:bolo

I wish I had the money for some of that cool shit.

LAUNCH A KICKSTARTER ASKING FOR MONEY TO FUND THIS KICKSTARTER

:umad
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Human Snorenado on May 11, 2015, 02:54:03 PM
I've pledged to like 3 kickstarters, and I'm not about to fuxx with this one.
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Positive Touch on May 11, 2015, 03:00:42 PM
Music by Michiru Yamane. :rejoice

Developed by Inti Creates. :lawd

well hell yeah I'll buy this fucking game
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on May 11, 2015, 03:03:03 PM
I've pledged to like 3 kickstarters, and I'm not about to fuxx with this one.

:ufup
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Human Snorenado on May 11, 2015, 04:37:52 PM
Seriously, why should I if I'm not an IGAvania nut? Explain to me, oh borked one, why. I don't need to be part of the cool kid's club, I'm perfectly fine getting it 6-12 months later for dirt cheap. Thanks for subsidizing it for me you rubes, I guess.
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: The Legend of Sunblade on May 11, 2015, 04:41:51 PM
Funded already.  :american

(http://i.imgur.com/twny16x.png)
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: thisismyusername on May 11, 2015, 04:50:56 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/ADf2Qsu.jpg)

No, but really. Reason for living: Justified. :rejoice

They specifically mention Guilty Gear, which looks like this:

Which is on Unreal Engine 3(or 4?). If Unreal Engine 4 can look that good...
Title: Re: SWORD OR WHIP
Post by: Bebpo on May 11, 2015, 04:55:46 PM
They specifically mention Guilty Gear, which looks like this:

(http://i.imgur.com/mdni4GL.jpg)

If you think a budget game is gonna look anything like that, I've got a bridge to sell you :P


I'm sure it'll look fine and UE4 is a good engine.  What's more important is that it plays well, which hopefully it does.
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on May 11, 2015, 04:58:02 PM
Seriously, why should I if I'm not an IGAvania nut? Explain to me, oh borked one, why. I don't need to be part of the cool kid's club, I'm perfectly fine getting it 6-12 months later for dirt cheap. Thanks for subsidizing it for me you rubes, I guess.

You owe me for that thing that one time with that guy in that place.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
I dunno
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Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: The Legend of Sunblade on May 11, 2015, 04:59:06 PM
I don't think its that low budget a game. The pitch video said that they have partners that'll provide funding, but they wanted to see what the community reaction would be first, hence the kickstarter.

Funding (and likely blowing through a couple of stretch goals) in a day is probably enough of a reaction.

Edit: Yup, only 10% of the game is backer-funded. The rest is done by publishers. https://twitter.com/personasama/status/597875118052745218
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Kara on May 11, 2015, 05:38:49 PM
Funded already.  :american

(http://i.imgur.com/twny16x.png)

Does she come with the car game. :phil
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Positive Touch on May 11, 2015, 06:23:51 PM
was just playing portrait of ruin the other day and realized it's been ten years since it came out. ten fuckin years. so ready for this comeback.
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Yulwei on May 11, 2015, 06:49:45 PM
Am I the only one surprised at the speed of this KS?

I honestly thought this would have problem meeting its goal. Those Castlevania games always seemed pretty damn niche to me. Pretty cool nevertheless.
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Bebpo on May 11, 2015, 06:59:51 PM
Am I the only one surprised at the speed of this KS?

I honestly thought this would have problem meeting its goal. Those Castlevania games always seemed pretty damn niche to me. Pretty cool nevertheless.

Pretty sure the GBA games sold about 100k+ each.  It definitely has its fans and they are passionate.
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Positive Touch on May 11, 2015, 07:01:41 PM
and I'd say the huge revival of the nonlinear sidescroller in the u.s. prolly helped it out too
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Great Rumbler on May 11, 2015, 07:29:30 PM
A 3D collect-a-thon platformer from some former Rare guys pulled down about 1.2 million in its first day, so...
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: The Legend of Sunblade on May 11, 2015, 07:52:04 PM
Probably breaking every stretch goal tonight. :lol

Wonder if they'll leave it at that or add more. I'll take all the superfluous extra modes I can get.
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Human Snorenado on May 11, 2015, 07:57:53 PM
Fucking video game kickstarter nerds, I swear  ::)

What's a dead franchise with lapsed rights that we can buy for cheap and do a kickstarter for, guys?
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Joe Molotov on May 11, 2015, 08:07:59 PM
Fucking video game kickstarter nerds, I swear  ::)

What's a dead franchise with lapsed rights that we can buy for cheap and do a kickstarter for, guys?

Custer's Revenge 2, with anime art commissioned from pixiv.
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: The Legend of Sunblade on May 11, 2015, 09:42:27 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/96rt1kL.png)

 :mouf
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Tasty on May 11, 2015, 09:47:09 PM
Apparently Wii U is in the basement.

Like always.  :gloomy
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: thisismyusername on May 12, 2015, 12:26:10 AM
Apparently Wii U is in the basement.

Where it belongs. :trash

I have no doubt in my mind that if Konami allowed him, Iga would've made Metroidvania's on the consoles (read: non-Nintendo handheld) beyond that multiplayer PSN/XBLA title.
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Trent Dole on May 12, 2015, 12:52:16 AM
Apparently Wii U is in the basement.

Like always.  :gloomy
The amount of money this thing's raked in so far reaching the basement via pledges isn't unlikely. If you really want it to happen that badly you know what to do.


I have no doubt in my mind that if Konami allowed him, Iga would've made Metroidvania's on the consoles (read: non-Nintendo handheld) beyond that multiplayer PSN/XBLA title.
That shit was my most played 360 title by a lot. :hyper
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: thisismyusername on May 12, 2015, 01:02:29 AM
I bought it during the PSN Golden Week sale. I need to actually get around to plugging in the PS3 and playing it.
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: The Legend of Sunblade on May 12, 2015, 01:17:44 AM
Harmony of Despair during its heyday was a blast. Broken Somas everywhere that could glitch through everything with his souls all while spamming Muramasa and Claimh Solais +1, Shanoas grinding spells for all eternity cause fuck spell levels but beastly once they actually got anywhere, Alucards acting like they were as good as Soma with Valmanway +1, all the Belmonts pretending they were any good.  :rejoice

It was pretty much a pseudo MMO with all the grind that went on. Also, the PS3 version never got the final patch that actually fixed Maria, so its possible to buy a DLC character that's 100% useless.  :lol

 :bow Konami  :bow2
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: thisismyusername on May 12, 2015, 01:21:38 AM
Also, the PS3 version never got the final patch that actually fixed Maria, so its possible to buy a DLC character that's 100% useless.  :lol

Well, I wasn't going to buy Maria anyway. I just want to go through it due to it being a console Metroidvania. But if it's grind-city, I dunno...  :-\
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: The Legend of Sunblade on May 12, 2015, 01:25:16 AM
Its grind-city only if you have the masochistic compulsion to get every single thing in the game/try to clear Hard mode/do DLC stages. Otherwise, it's stll a fun romp, though very obviously designed to be played with multiple people at once. It's pretty neat seeing how they ripped all the different character's mechanics straight out of their respective games, like Soma having a different soul for every single enemy, Shanoa absorbing spells that enemies cast and using her floaty anti-gravity rings, etc.

There's only like six maps/chapters in the base game, with like one or two extra maps that used to be DLC in the 360 version, two difficulties to each.

Edit: Bloodstained broke another stretch goal and is on course for hitting local co-op. Ain't stopping this train.
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Kara on May 12, 2015, 02:22:57 AM
brb adopting a dog

(http://i.imgur.com/109nDSo.jpg)
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Joe Molotov on May 12, 2015, 03:25:42 AM
Final Boss:

(http://i.imgur.com/0p3VVAM.gif)
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: thisismyusername on May 12, 2015, 06:38:33 AM
It's getting local co-op. Hopefully that doesn't ruin the game.  :-\ And they're gonna need some more stretch goals. Maybe Andy's :trash console will get a port.
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Hopefulyl not. :shh
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Post by: Cerveza mas fina on May 12, 2015, 08:51:34 AM
This looks really bad, aren't there enough good metroidvania games already?

Typical animuuuguuu design with short skirt lead

oh look her feet are pointing inwards such innocence

 :uguu :uguu :uguu :uguu :uguu :uguu :uguu

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5331/17514400511_89c375ae16_b.jpg)
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Post by: The Legend of Sunblade on May 12, 2015, 08:55:16 AM
I kind of assumed the game already had online co-op, before that stretch goal got added. This was in the video itself after all.

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Edit: Yeesh, being on mobile ruins your sense of size for images.
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Post by: Cerveza mas fina on May 12, 2015, 08:57:18 AM
Oh look its the nerdy shy introvert alchemist guy that is gonna blush when the 16 yeard old girl looks at him

 :aweshum
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Post by: Great Rumbler on May 12, 2015, 09:09:00 AM
I kind of assumed the game already had online co-op, before that stretch goal got added. This was in the video itself after all.

(http://i.imgur.com/xkb1bHj.jpg)

The stretch goal is for local co-op.
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: demi on May 12, 2015, 10:11:27 AM
This looks really bad, aren't there enough good metroidvania games already?

Not really.
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Post by: thisismyusername on May 12, 2015, 11:48:34 AM
I still want the battle of 1999.  :-\
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Post by: Trent Dole on May 12, 2015, 12:36:48 PM
thisismyusername since that's a CV thing and IGA can't directly do a CV thing that's never going to happen. :gloomy
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Post by: The Legend of Sunblade on May 12, 2015, 12:47:24 PM
The Battle of 199X.  :shh
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Post by: thisismyusername on May 12, 2015, 06:45:27 PM
Alright, I'll kickstart this game, sure.

While I wait, what's the best Gameboy Advance / ds / 3ds Castlevania... looking for action rpg ala Symphony of the Night, mainly.  Amazon has em all pretty cheap when I checked earlier.

All of them post Aria of Sorrow. The one... GBA one before that is pretty weak, IMO. But the rest are all rock solid. Aria and Dawn of Sorrow will be a little grindy with the soul drop rate, but you don't really need to grind souls to beat the game. Same with Portrait and Order.
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Post by: Positive Touch on May 12, 2015, 07:27:30 PM
aria and dawn are both amazing and you should play those
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Post by: Himu on May 12, 2015, 07:38:32 PM
Alright, I'll kickstart this game, sure.

While I wait, what's the best Gameboy Advance / ds / 3ds Castlevania... looking for action rpg ala Symphony of the Night, mainly.  Amazon has em all pretty cheap when I checked earlier.

Play Circle of the Moon, it's a fantastic tribute to CV and one of the better Metroidvania's.

Skip Harmony of Dissonance.

Play Aria of Sorrow. It's second best to SOTN.

Skip Dawn, it's not as good as Aria and a broken, easy mess. It sucks balls aside from Julius mode.

Play Portrait of Ruin, it fucking owns.

Skip Order of Ecclesia, it is mediocrity incarnate despite good ideas.
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Post by: Positive Touch on May 12, 2015, 07:49:56 PM
gonna have to disagree strongly with that circle of the moon rec himutopia. combat and bosses were good enough, but level design was warmed ass. just really boring, with no reason for it to be interconnected bc there weren't even that many link points, and there were very few puzzles.
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Post by: Steve Contra on May 12, 2015, 07:51:24 PM
Portrait of Ruin because
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Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: chronovore on May 13, 2015, 02:22:16 AM
I’m interested in an actual IGAvania, but I’m not willing to fund more Kickstarters out of the blue, I’d rather just buy the game. KS isn’t an investment, it’s purchasing something that /might/ ship.
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Post by: bork on May 13, 2015, 10:18:43 AM
Alright, I'll kickstart this game, sure.

While I wait, what's the best Gameboy Advance / ds / 3ds Castlevania... looking for action rpg ala Symphony of the Night, mainly.  Amazon has em all pretty cheap when I checked earlier.

Aria Of Sorrow is the best GBA 'Vania.  It was the last one released and is a sequel, of sorts, to Symphony Of The Night, taking place in the year 2016 IIRC.  Also has a fun plot twist.  You can pretty much skip Harmony Of Dissonance.  Circle Of The Moon has the best music out of the three GBA games, but doesn't look as good visually and the level design is just OK.  It pretty much screams "launch title game," which it was.

Dawn Of Sorrow on DS is a direct sequel to Aria Of Sorrow where you play as the same main character.  There's also a cool bonus mode where you play as three other characters, including SOTN Alucard, in a nod to Castlevania III.  Portrait Of Ruin's gimmick is that you play as two characters at once.  Its setting is during WW2 and it's actually a follow-up to the Genesis Castlevania Bloodlines.  It's not bad and worth playing if you want more 'Vania.  There's also bonus characters to play as (most of these games have extra characters) including Richter and Maria from Dracula X!  Finally, Order Of Ecclesia was the last 'Vania released from IGA.  I didn't get as far in this one and need to go back.  It's still a Metroidvania but has multiple smaller areas.  You play as a female who uses magic instead of weapons, but the magic functions exactly like weapons would.

Would highly recommend Aria Of Sorrow on GBA.  It's the second best Igavania after SOTN, IMO, and would surpass it if given put on the same visual/audio level as the PSX game.

Skip the other Castlevanias that came after these titles.  Mercury Stream  :yuck
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Post by: bork on May 13, 2015, 10:42:55 AM
Aria seems to sell for crazy-high prices these days.  Play it emulated or on Wii U VC if you have one. 
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Post by: demi on May 13, 2015, 03:05:30 PM
Alright, I'll kickstart this game, sure.

While I wait, what's the best Gameboy Advance / ds / 3ds Castlevania... looking for action rpg ala Symphony of the Night, mainly.  Amazon has em all pretty cheap when I checked earlier.

Aria + Dawn

I say play em all tho. Gobble that shit up like it was your midlife crisis.
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Post by: Positive Touch on May 13, 2015, 03:12:44 PM
none of them are bad games except harmony of dissonance. that game is pure ass and would be the worst castlevania if those old game boy games didn't exist.
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: CatsCatsCats on May 13, 2015, 03:46:03 PM
But who won, sword or whip?
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: HyperZoneWasAwesome on May 13, 2015, 04:23:15 PM
as sure as I am that this will be mechanically sound, I never figured I'd miss A. Kojima's art for this kind of game as much as I do here.

I'm sure it'll be fine in the long run, but I'm really missing it so far.
Apparently Wii U is in the basement.

Like always.  :gloomy
this thing comes out in 2017, are we even sure the Wii U will be a thing by then? It could come to the whatever Ninty platform is out by then, but nobody is banking on a long Wii U lifespan.
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Post by: Kara on May 13, 2015, 06:21:54 PM
But who won, sword or whip?

The Kickstarter made mention of a sword-whip.
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: thisismyusername on May 13, 2015, 09:19:54 PM
Its grind-city only if you have the masochistic compulsion to get every single thing in the game/try to clear Hard mode/do DLC stages. Otherwise, it's stll a fun romp, though very obviously designed to be played with multiple people at once. It's pretty neat seeing how they ripped all the different character's mechanics straight out of their respective games, like Soma having a different soul for every single enemy, Shanoa absorbing spells that enemies cast and using her floaty anti-gravity rings, etc.

There's only like six maps/chapters in the base game, with like one or two extra maps that used to be DLC in the 360 version, two difficulties to each.

Edit: Bloodstained broke another stretch goal and is on course for hitting local co-op. Ain't stopping this train.

I dunno. PS3 gave me the seventh chapter. Already unlocked the other six before it thanks to online players totally blowing through the map in five minutes while I'm a beginner Soma.  :lol :-\
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Post by: Tasty on May 13, 2015, 11:07:47 PM
as sure as I am that this will be mechanically sound, I never figured I'd miss A. Kojima's art for this kind of game as much as I do here.

I'm sure it'll be fine in the long run, but I'm really missing it so far.
Apparently Wii U is in the basement.

Like always.  :gloomy
this thing comes out in 2017, are we even sure the Wii U will be a thing by then? It could come to the whatever Ninty platform is out by then, but nobody is banking on a long Wii U lifespan.

2017 is probably when their next system will hit, yeah, going by SNES → N64 → GC → Wii all being 5 years apart. (NES → SNES and Wii → Wii U are the only gaps to break the trend at 6 years, apparently.)

Maybe they'll release it for their next system then? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Post by: Freyj on May 13, 2015, 11:20:26 PM
I've never beaten Ecclesia after like 4 or so attempts at it. Just lose interest, which is really weird for me and these games. I've completed Harmony like 5 or 6 times now (it's like a lesson on how not to design video games, but I still enjoy it).
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Post by: Mr. Nobody on May 14, 2015, 12:00:27 AM
Music by Michiru Yamane?

Now I'm definitely on board
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Post by: Mr. Nobody on May 14, 2015, 12:05:00 AM
No Vita version?  :comeon

"lolvita"

Suck a dick, I want it
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Post by: thisismyusername on May 14, 2015, 12:38:54 AM
No 3DS or Wii U version either.

:trash consoles.

:rejoice Master Consoles/PC race.

(Seriously though: "lolvita" :p)
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Post by: The Legend of Sunblade on May 14, 2015, 12:47:55 AM
He mentioned in the FAQ that he had to choose between making the best and biggest game he could and making it available for every platform, so he picked the former.

Basically, wait for the stretch goals for extra platforms.
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Post by: Tasty on May 14, 2015, 12:58:43 AM
To be fair seeing how Mighty No 9 turned out I don't blame him.

That said, the graphics better end up being balls-out awesome. :ufup
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Post by: Trent Dole on May 14, 2015, 01:37:11 AM
Even if they're not same day I'd imagine they'll try to dump this onto everything they possibly can in order to make as much off it as possible. Shit's a business. 8)
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Post by: Himu on May 15, 2015, 01:43:18 AM
The character designs are absolutely terrible.
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: The Sceneman on May 15, 2015, 10:22:20 AM
Harmony of Despair during its heyday was a blast. Broken Somas everywhere that could glitch through everything with his souls all while spamming Muramasa and Claimh Solais +1, Shanoas grinding spells for all eternity cause fuck spell levels but beastly once they actually got anywhere, Alucards acting like they were as good as Soma with Valmanway +1, all the Belmonts pretending they were any good.  :rejoice

It was pretty much a pseudo MMO with all the grind that went on. Also, the PS3 version never got the final patch that actually fixed Maria, so its possible to buy a DLC character that's 100% useless.  :lol

 :bow Konami  :bow2

Realest post in this thread. HoD when they were doing weekly content and the community was jizzing over drops was one of the best gaming experiences ever.

SotN is still my #1 game of all time
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Post by: bork on May 15, 2015, 12:52:40 PM
$2 million funded!

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7706/17687681935_ecb46ec8ec_o.jpg)
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Post by: Trent Dole on May 15, 2015, 01:03:30 PM
I wonder what this will top out at, and how many stretch goals they'll come up with. :o
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Post by: bork on May 15, 2015, 01:24:43 PM
I wonder what this will top out at, and how many stretch goals they'll come up with. :o
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Post by: iconoclast on May 15, 2015, 10:35:59 PM
I want dat classic mode
This. I might actually back this now that they added a stretch goal for classic mode.
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Himu on May 15, 2015, 11:52:15 PM
What is classic mode?
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Post by: thisismyusername on May 15, 2015, 11:59:53 PM
What is classic mode?

Basically turning the game into a six room pre-SotN Castlevania.
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Post by: tiesto on May 16, 2015, 12:03:45 AM
Just pledged for the physical release... I figure, after beating all 6 of the Metroidvanias and playing most of the classic ones I owe Iga this one. If game is half as good as Rondo I'll be thrilled.
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Post by: Tasty on May 16, 2015, 11:33:42 AM
What is classic mode?

Basically turning the game into a six room pre-SotN Castlevania.

:ohhh
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Post by: Trent Dole on May 19, 2015, 10:58:22 PM
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/05/19/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night-pc-backers-will-get-access-to-a-beta/
PC backers who throw IGA $60 or more get beta access :leon
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Post by: Tasty on May 30, 2015, 09:28:40 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CGS4yd_UkAAzr5O.jpg:large)

We did it brehs. :jawalrus
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Post by: Freyj on May 30, 2015, 11:51:44 PM
Time Attack or something like it?

In any event, I hope all of these things were originally within scope and even if they were, that the stretch goals stop / slow down soon.
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Post by: thisismyusername on May 31, 2015, 12:34:48 AM
It's already lost $10K hitting the Nintendo goal. Wonder how the portable goal would lose.
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Post by: Tasty on May 31, 2015, 01:43:41 AM
It's already lost $10K hitting the Nintendo goal. Wonder how the portable goal would lose.

Probably not as much because the Vita is a "cool" system and the Wii U isn't. ::)

Stay losing, Xbots and Playthings :umad
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Post by: cool breeze on May 31, 2015, 11:35:42 AM
a new game shipping in 2017 for either wii u or vita   :wtf

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Post by: Positive Touch on May 31, 2015, 12:30:53 PM
It's already lost $10K hitting the Nintendo goal. Wonder how the portable goal would lose.

hold up, you mean people pulled their money bc they aimed for a Wii u port?
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Post by: Trent Dole on May 31, 2015, 01:55:36 PM
Ugh, anyone who's on the 'side' of any console is a fucking loser.
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Post by: bork on May 31, 2015, 06:58:41 PM
Ugh, anyone who's on the 'side' of any console is a fucking loser.

(http://i.imgur.com/oP9NB1J.png)
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Post by: Tasty on June 02, 2015, 01:11:20 PM
v_v
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Post by: chronovore on June 04, 2015, 04:42:21 AM
:lol

Like Sony wouldn't swoop in and deliver $250K for a Vita port, if that's all it takes. It's gotta already be in their budget, since the KS is just PR money, innit?
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on June 04, 2015, 08:13:14 AM
Sony?  Support the Vita? 

:rofl

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Post by: The Legend of Sunblade on June 04, 2015, 10:35:57 AM
Yoshida himself backed the kickstater super early, cause he does that for interesting KSses really often. That's about all the "Sony" support I'd expect.
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: qq more on June 06, 2015, 09:03:41 AM
Harmony of Despair during its heyday was a blast. Broken Somas everywhere that could glitch through everything with his souls all while spamming Muramasa and Claimh Solais +1, Shanoas grinding spells for all eternity cause fuck spell levels but beastly once they actually got anywhere, Alucards acting like they were as good as Soma with Valmanway +1, all the Belmonts pretending they were any good.  :rejoice

It was pretty much a pseudo MMO with all the grind that went on. Also, the PS3 version never got the final patch that actually fixed Maria, so its possible to buy a DLC character that's 100% useless.  :lol

 :bow Konami  :bow2
That game was certainly a blast, I would love to have another game like it someday.

Sadly it was the only non-Classic Castlevania game I've ever played. I'm looking into fixing that lately though, I have been thinking of getting SOTN. That's on the PS1 classics right? I'd love to play that on my PSP.

The character designs are absolutely terrible.
Yeah, honestly not a fan of them either. Still looking forward to the game though.
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Post by: Positive Touch on June 06, 2015, 10:25:28 AM
yes JESUS yes absolutely play sotn NOW

there's lots of other good igavanias, but you need to play sotn like right the hell now
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Post by: Freyj on June 06, 2015, 12:39:39 PM
There's a lot of nostalgia in this statement, but SOTN was a

(http://i.imgur.com/XMtBYP6.jpg)

kind of game for me. It was a perfect mix (at the time) of two of my top five.
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Post by: The Legend of Sunblade on June 12, 2015, 03:54:20 PM
7 hours left!

Finally got around to backing this at $100. I'm ready for everything about this game.
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on June 12, 2015, 04:13:44 PM
They're at over $5 million with Paypal funds added in!   :o

I wonder what the people at Konami think about this?   :lol
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Post by: Tasty on June 13, 2015, 01:42:05 AM
They're at over $5 million with Paypal funds added in!   :o

I wonder what the people at Konami think about this?   :lol

(http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/huge-tiny-.gif)
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Joe Molotov on June 13, 2015, 01:49:47 AM
They're at over $5 million with Paypal funds added in!   :o

I wonder what the people at Konami think about this?   :lol

They're probably just wondering why they still even exist, like everyone else.
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Shaka Khan on June 13, 2015, 02:00:10 AM
This was my first backed IGAvania :yeshrug
Paid $28 for the digital copy :yeshrug
And this is coming from someone thought the design of all his DS games was trash :yeshrug
OoE, especially, is pure Ga'bage :yeshrug
This has the potential of looking really ugly :yeshrug
I don't know where I'm going with this :yeshrug
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Trent Dole on June 13, 2015, 02:44:21 AM
Quote
Successfully raised $5,545,992 USD with 64,867 backers
:rock :rock :rock
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Post by: bork on June 14, 2015, 12:00:15 PM
:phil
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Himu on June 14, 2015, 12:02:05 PM
This was my first backed IGAvania :yeshrug
Paid $28 for the digital copy :yeshrug
And this is coming from someone thought the design of all his DS games was trash :yeshrug
OoE, especially, is pure Ga'bage :yeshrug
This has the potential of looking really ugly :yeshrug
I don't know where I'm going with this :yeshrug

When it really comes down to it, only Aria of Sorrow and SotN are really worth playing, but I'm a sucker and willing to give infinite chances based off of SOTN alone.
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: toku on June 14, 2015, 02:34:58 PM
Harmony of Dissonance was alright but yea, Aria and SOTN definitely peak IGAvania
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Post by: Shaka Khan on June 14, 2015, 02:38:24 PM
I'm hoping the better schedule, higher budget(?), the fact they're going with polygon (cheaper/efficient), and how he seemingly has more creative freedom will enable him to put up his best work yet.

If he squanders this, I don't think he'll ever recover. At least for my he won't.
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Huff on June 14, 2015, 06:46:53 PM
Forgot to back this since I've been traveling the past couple days. Glad it reached all the goals. Can't actually remember which ones I've played/beaten, but might restart Sotn when I have an extra minute
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Trent Dole on June 20, 2016, 11:31:45 PM
Lookin' good, unlike a certain OTHER project :teehee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb7t5lG3oCA
Title: Re: Sword Or Whip = Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bluemax on June 22, 2016, 11:57:49 PM
http://i.imgur.com/MWABbaP.jpg

O.o
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Trent Dole on June 23, 2016, 12:44:40 AM
Demo keys are out there for those who pledged $60 or more, check yr inbox/spam folders. :hyper :hyper :hyper
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on June 23, 2016, 12:45:06 AM
E3 Demo keys have started going out to Kickstarter backers.

Just played through it and was pretty satisfied-- it's classic Igavania with a good atmosphere and very CV-style music.  Controls and game play will feel right at home as well.  The boss you fight has ridiculously-oversized gigantic boobs.  That was the only thing that seemed totally out of place.

:itagaki
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: qq more on June 23, 2016, 01:49:41 AM
Reallllyy wish I backed this instead. Good to hear it's coming along well so far though! Will definitely buy it when it releases.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Beezy on June 23, 2016, 02:42:24 AM
I never filled out the survey. Must be why I didn't get this yet.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Trent Dole on June 23, 2016, 10:48:55 AM
Yeah, codes were sent to people who filled out the survey prior to 6/13. Go do it now and maybe you can still get one?
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: HyperZoneWasAwesome on June 23, 2016, 11:51:00 PM
played through the E3 demo, really took my time doing it (29 minute clear time).

So far, its good. Its still clearly very early on, but the fundamentals are all there and all solid so far. The graphics ain't top-of-the-line awesome, but entirely adequate, the music is pretty ace tho. I have no reason to think that this whole thing won't turn out just fine, hell, just releasing the demo at such a large scale (over 40K people get to pick it apart) shows that they're pretty confident about their progress and where they're be able to build from what they have now.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 24, 2016, 12:02:47 AM
So, pretty much the exact opposite of Mighty No. 9.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Human Snorenado on June 24, 2016, 12:33:09 AM
Game sure is fucking pretty.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Trent Dole on June 08, 2017, 10:41:15 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m20wmdMC6ck
Looks bretty gud. :leon
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Positive Touch on June 08, 2017, 10:48:22 PM
ok what is up with the face thing
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Joe Molotov on June 08, 2017, 11:05:08 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/Qtue3RU.png?2)
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bluemax on June 08, 2017, 11:53:09 PM
ok what is up with the face thing

Doesn't wanna get harassed maybe? I interviewed for a job at a studio recently that has a bunch of Early Access games and people told me about how they get messages from Redditors who say things like "maybe if you hadn't been scuba diving in place Y you could've fixed these bugs!" with links to their vacation photos.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Positive Touch on June 08, 2017, 11:56:18 PM
ah makes sense. and that's damn sad if that's why he did it. he's working hard to make a fucking video game of all things; shouldn't have to hide his identity for that.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on June 09, 2017, 10:16:18 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWhSBZam8CI

That vampire boss fight
:lawd
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: archie4208 on June 09, 2017, 10:32:18 AM
Buy Hollow Knight while you guys are waiting on this.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
It'll probably wind up being the better game.  :teehee
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Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on June 09, 2017, 11:12:42 AM
Buy Hollow Knight while you guys are waiting on this.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
It'll probably wind up being the better game.  :teehee
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Have it, can't play it- doesn't seem to recognize Xbox controllers.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: TakingBackSunday on June 09, 2017, 11:37:58 AM
that looks like shit
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on June 09, 2017, 12:00:37 PM
Looks pretty cool to me.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Positive Touch on June 09, 2017, 12:10:47 PM
graphics look like the cv on psp but the gameplay looks great
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Rufus on June 09, 2017, 12:29:56 PM
Production or gameplay-wise?
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on June 09, 2017, 12:39:30 PM
If you mean gameplay-wise, it looks about the speed I remember SoTN running at.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Rufus on June 09, 2017, 12:49:14 PM
Can't recycle sprites this time, so... :doge
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Trent Dole on June 09, 2017, 01:19:58 PM
Can't recycle sprites this time, so... :doge
They're blatantly recycling the bell tower though! :teehee
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: toku on June 09, 2017, 03:00:56 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWhSBZam8CI

That vampire boss fight
:lawd

wow, new waifu

BLOODO STEAAAAAAAL~
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bluemax on June 09, 2017, 10:30:05 PM
That trailer just looks so rough. Not so much the gameplay but the game just looks, off. I dunno if it is missing lighting or what, but something seems wrong.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 09, 2017, 11:15:32 PM
That trailer just looks so rough. Not so much the gameplay but the game just looks, off. I dunno if it is missing lighting or what, but something seems wrong.

It's probably still at least a year away, so I wouldn't be surprised if the graphics aren't finalized yet.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Freyj on June 10, 2017, 09:41:54 AM
I'm not sure if there's actually less...stuff, but the levels generally look empty when compared to past games. I think it's definitely something to do with the lighting or graphics.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Tasty on June 10, 2017, 02:15:26 PM
How is it that Japanese developers lose a lot of speed when going into 2.5D for their revivals?

I was just thinking the same thing.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: thisismyusername on June 10, 2017, 03:53:24 PM
Can't recycle sprites this time, so... :doge

Yep. 2.5D is screwing with them, I guess 2D would be more expensive.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: toku on November 01, 2017, 07:54:54 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co-h7zOA8yY

looks like igavania but the 3d makes it..."feel" slower?
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Rufus on November 01, 2017, 08:34:59 PM
For the fall speed, I'd have to see a direct comparison, but it does seem floaty. For anything else it's probably just the smoother animation making it appear slow.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 01, 2017, 09:11:26 PM
(http://www.lookscloudy.com/wp-content/uploads/8ball-Outlook-not-so-good-240x120.jpg)
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Positive Touch on November 01, 2017, 09:46:23 PM
yeah it looks like sotn to me, with maybe a split second of extra time at the height of the jump
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on November 02, 2017, 09:11:58 AM
I don't understand why everyone says it looks slow. Looks like the typical igavania speed.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Rufus on November 02, 2017, 11:01:27 AM
They could go the Guilty Gear Xrd route and remove some animation frames to make it look snappy like a sprite would.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on November 02, 2017, 01:17:54 PM
It's fine.  The demo from a while back played well.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: toku on December 25, 2017, 06:47:33 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM-GclaRzKs
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: toku on March 22, 2018, 06:25:34 PM
https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2018/03/21/koji-igarashi-on-bloodstained-and-why-aura-battler-dunbine-is-the-best-anime-ever-made/#7d1002c91d18

Quote
“One day, even though I know it would not sell, I want to create a game that is made for myself, to myself. For that purpose, I hope to make Bloodstained a base and spread on from there.”

:tocry
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Svejk on March 22, 2018, 07:34:03 PM
So a wine drinking simulator where you play as Dracula capturing various waifus?
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Trent Dole on March 23, 2018, 12:19:13 AM
Tokimeki Dracura :uguu
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bluemax on March 23, 2018, 03:11:04 AM
It looks better, but it still looks like an XBLA game from last gen.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 26, 2018, 10:06:27 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/1w6FqyM.jpg)
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: HardcoreRetro on March 26, 2018, 11:43:25 AM
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d6/a2/7b/d6a27b0d3c0789f29de528d514541ab6.gif)
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 26, 2018, 04:29:22 PM
Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned is the best Marvel movie.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Svejk on March 28, 2018, 07:13:49 PM
 Next beta demo coming in June!  :)
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Trent Dole on March 28, 2018, 09:07:13 PM
Release date is supposedly being announced then as well, which makes sense since June is E3 time.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Svejk on April 01, 2018, 01:41:11 PM
Quote
Players will have the option to mine cryptocurrency while playing Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night!

At launch, supported currencies will include Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Zcash, with additional currencies possibly being added at a later date. Players will also have the freedom of linking the currency wallet of their choice to the game’s mining function.

The team has been working on this feature for quite some time, and as you can imagine, the challenges have been numerous and daunting, but thanks to a lot of dedication and technical skill it’s become a reality.

At the moment, due to the resources required by modern GPUs for cyptocurrency mining, this feature will only be enabled for copies of Bloodstained on PC that meet certain system requirements, (system requirements TBD as we are still optimizing) but we are also working hard to make this feature a reality for our fans on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch* and Xbox One.

(https://media.tenor.com/images/1fd94ba0f52c33c939cfe350a242f90c/tenor.gif)
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: paprikastaude on April 01, 2018, 01:42:46 PM
Quote
Players will have the option to mine cryptocurrency while playing Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night!

At launch, supported currencies will include Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Zcash, with additional currencies possibly being added at a later date. Players will also have the freedom of linking the currency wallet of their choice to the game’s mining function.

The team has been working on this feature for quite some time, and as you can imagine, the challenges have been numerous and daunting, but thanks to a lot of dedication and technical skill it’s become a reality.

At the moment, due to the resources required by modern GPUs for cyptocurrency mining, this feature will only be enabled for copies of Bloodstained on PC that meet certain system requirements, (system requirements TBD as we are still optimizing) but we are also working hard to make this feature a reality for our fans on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch* and Xbox One.

(https://media.tenor.com/images/1fd94ba0f52c33c939cfe350a242f90c/tenor.gif)

april fools?
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Freyj on April 01, 2018, 02:55:05 PM
Coulda just done an April Fools with this fucking game ever getting a release date.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Trent Dole on April 03, 2018, 01:36:13 AM
Coulda just done an April Fools with this fucking game ever getting a release date.
laffo, they announced that they're announcing a release date in June. :-*
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on April 06, 2018, 02:47:05 PM
Game looks like garbo and anyone who supported this or is following this is a damn fool that Mr. T pities.

Buy Hollow Knight instead.

 :whatisthis :rage

:sheik
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Svejk on April 06, 2018, 05:16:27 PM
It's got David Hayter, breh... David Hayter.   :rkelly

Hollow Knight is damn good, but it doesn't reach the majestic caliber of SOTN.
spoiler (click to show/hide)
Neither will Bloodstained most likely  :doge
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Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: paprikastaude on April 06, 2018, 06:16:39 PM
They needed to sacrifice David Hayter and whatever else necessary for Ayami Kojima to improve this project by 500%.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: paprikastaude on May 12, 2018, 02:04:43 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlDq0FQS15o

 :o
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: HardcoreRetro on May 12, 2018, 04:27:20 AM
Both a Castlevania 3 reimagining and a Symphony of the Night one? This Kickstarter is looking pretty good.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Freyj on May 12, 2018, 11:23:31 AM
I’m a little more excited about this than the actual Kickstarter game and I don’t even remember that stretch goal.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: tiesto on May 13, 2018, 11:05:42 AM
The retro game looks awesome! Been waiting for a new game with the classic CV progression for a long while. I also like the Ninja Gaiden-esque fire wheel.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on May 23, 2018, 02:04:55 PM
I'm impatient and went ahead and purchased Curse Of The Moon off the Switch J-eShop (it runs in full English).

Just played through the first level- Inticreates has done it again!  The game feels very much like a classic NES-era Castlevania game and there are parts from the first stage that give off heavy CV1 vibes in terms of level design.  Visually it looks just like an 8-bit 'Vania, but with a lot of parallax scrolling and some larger enemy sprites here and there, plus no technical issues like flickering.  Sound is also similar, right down to the digitized-style grunts from your character when he gets hit.

I noticed what appeared to be a few places I couldn't get to with the character you start off as.  Like Castlevania III, you'll get other characters to join you and then you can switch between them at any time to use their abilities.  When I cleared the first level, I got Miriam, who plays like a Belmont (whip!) but can also slide.  There were some places on level one where it definitely looked like you could slide through, so I assume there's a way to go back and replay levels and hopefully this means some hidden areas or even stages pop up, because the game looks pretty short (like around five levels?).  Am OK with that since it's ten bucks though.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: paprikastaude on May 23, 2018, 02:33:44 PM
Doesn't seem to be on (EU) PSN yet. When I played Dracula X Chronicles for the first time last year, my opinion on Classicvania changed much for the better, so I'll grab this too.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Tasty on May 23, 2018, 03:11:21 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlDq0FQS15o

 :o

I am far more excited for this than the actual game.

Metroidvania :nope

Linear NES/SNES Castlevania :ohyeah
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Trent Dole on May 23, 2018, 03:33:41 PM
I'm getting a code for it tomorrow I guess since I'm a KS sucker backer. :-[
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Svejk on May 23, 2018, 09:42:49 PM
Just got the email that certain console keys have been delayed.  :-\  (I did PS4.)  They're at least offering temporary Steam keys until then, so that's pretty cool of them.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on May 23, 2018, 10:45:34 PM
Some more impressions:

-The game is longer than five levels!  Was glad to see another stage pop up after five.  Dunno how many levels there are supposed to be.  One level is an 8-bit version of the ship from the Ritual Of The Night demo!

-Levels have branching paths.  Unsure if there's different bosses but it doesn't seem like based on the map previews between stages.

-The difficulty starts ramping up after the first stage and starts getting progressively-harder, mainly because of platforming sections where you have enemies flying at you (just like the medusa heads in 'Vania)

-You can switch between veteran and casual play modes after you get a game over or when starting the game.  Veteran is old-school 'Vania, with a limited number of lives and you also get knocked back when hit, which makes platforming sections challenging.  Casual gives you unlimited lives and you don't get knocked back, but as far as I can tell, that's it (?).  You don't get penalized for using casual mode so I decided to switch to that for the rest of my initial playthrough, mainly because of some frustrating jumping sections.

-Characters: The main sword-guy is good for close-range combat.  Miriam is good for farther range combat and jumps a bit higher.  The Alucard rip-off is good for turning into a bat and flying, plus his normal attacks go at an upward arc which can really help (and also hurt- he can't hit some ground enemies).  The old man is...old.  His attack is slow and shitty.  He's basically good for his Ninja Gaiden-style firewheel and that's about it.  I used him to kill a certain boss where this power really helps and that was about it.

-When one character dies, that's it until the rest are dead.  This can kind of suck if you need someone to get to an extra area or alternate path, or if you get stuck with only the old guy left. 
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Cryo on May 23, 2018, 11:13:37 PM
oh fuck i forgot this was releasing tomorrow :gladbron
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: paprikastaude on May 24, 2018, 07:41:36 AM
https://blog.eu.playstation.com/2018/05/21/5-big-new-releases-to-look-out-for-on-playstation-store-this-week/
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon (Not in Austria, Middle East, Belugium, Luxembourg, Scandinavia, Poland, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine)

apparently this game isn't releasing in any neutral European states  :mindblown what is this, I don't want to buy the game on fucking Steam or 3DS.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Bebpo on May 24, 2018, 11:31:44 PM
How does this compare to the B-tier Igavanias on gba/ds/3ds?
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Trent Dole on May 25, 2018, 02:49:55 AM
It's much more linear and not all that Metroid-y at all. There's branching paths within stages but that seems like it really. There's also some new game + modes that let you take paths you couldn't in your first playthrough and multiple endings, etc, but this is way more CV III/Super IV than SotN. That said I'm having a good time with it. :-*
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on May 25, 2018, 07:51:20 AM
How does this compare to the B-tier Igavanias on gba/ds/3ds?

Curse Of The Moon isn't an Igavania game.  It's a traditional 8-Bit style Castlevania III clone (right down to having four playable characters) from Inticreates.  Ritual Of The Night is the upcoming Igavania.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on May 25, 2018, 06:02:51 PM
My main issue with the game is some of the level design but overall I think it's a solid classicvania.

Btw, how do you kill allies for a solo run?

EDIT: Nevermind, realized you can attack them instead of talking to them for that.

:ohhh

Wonder if that changes anything up?
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Freyj on May 25, 2018, 06:32:56 PM
This is very good.

What’s not good is I had to use some spare nintenbucks to buy it because they still don’t have codes.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: tiesto on May 26, 2018, 12:10:21 PM
So Curse of the Moon downloads for consoles aren't ready yet? Don't really want to have to install Steam on this new computer :(
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Tasty on May 26, 2018, 02:13:56 PM
So Curse of the Moon downloads for consoles aren't ready yet? Don't really want to have to install Steam on this new computer :(

I saw it in the Switch eShop just now.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Freyj on May 26, 2018, 02:21:49 PM
It’s been on the eshops since the 24th but they still don’t have the codes ready and haven’t updated since the 23rd.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Freyj on May 27, 2018, 10:21:16 AM
Beat Normal. I’d say it’s an appropriate length (8 stages) for this sort of thing especially considering how subsequent playthroughs can branch off. I started a Nightmare game and stopped almost immediately after going the “clearly only Alucard can go here” route right at the beginning of the first level. Little step up in difficulty.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Cryo on May 28, 2018, 12:25:23 AM
This is really competently made and not nearly as amateurish as I thought it might play like from the trailer. Up to stage 5 thus far, and the level design's a bit more linear overall than the OG platformers, but there are some cleverly designed portions within these stages to introduce you to mechanics for the characters and their skills. I also appreciate the ability to jump onto stairs and attack in the opposite direction while keeping the classic jump momentum. Haven't yet decided if it apes CV3 too much for its own good, but I'm enjoying the game very much.

The visuals and widescreen portrayal give very strong Shovel Knight vibes, especially in the boss designs. I'm gonna chalk it down to less pixelly, more cartoonish boss designs and tiles.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Tasty on May 28, 2018, 01:40:28 AM
Should I buy this?
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Freyj on May 28, 2018, 12:56:54 PM
Hell yeah. It is pretty much a cleaned up CV3.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Cryo on May 28, 2018, 03:03:29 PM
Yes, it's a great buy at $10 IMO.

Can you actually die to a boss's death throes, or is it just there for kicks? Most of them have been really hard to avoid but I haven't died yet lol
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Tasty on May 28, 2018, 03:38:58 PM
Ugh need to beat Xeodrifter first.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Tasty on May 28, 2018, 06:42:46 PM
Beat Xeodrifter. Purchasing now.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on May 29, 2018, 11:32:47 AM
So wait. What's the 2.5D stuff? I was utterly uninterested in that. This, this I want. But is that 2.5D stuff the same game with different graphics and it's coming later or what?
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Coax on May 29, 2018, 11:36:38 AM
Wish this was on GOG but the throwback seems legit.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Tasty on May 29, 2018, 01:22:55 PM
So wait. What's the 2.5D stuff? I was utterly uninterested in that. This, this I want. But is that 2.5D stuff the same game with different graphics and it's coming later or what?

Two separate games. The 2D game just released was a stretch goal and is more like a little retro appetizer*. The main focus of development is the 2.5D one.

Think of it like Mighty Gunvolt vs. Azure Striker Gunvolt.

*I'm much more interested in the appetizer as well. :P
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on May 29, 2018, 02:47:47 PM

Think of it like Mighty Gunvolt vs. Azure Striker Gunvolt.


More like Mighty Gunvolt vs. Mighty No. 9, but yeah.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Tasty on May 29, 2018, 04:02:22 PM

Think of it like Mighty Gunvolt vs. Azure Striker Gunvolt.


More like Mighty Gunvolt vs. Mighty No. 9, but yeah.

:dead :lol
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Cryo on May 29, 2018, 04:05:00 PM

Think of it like Mighty Gunvolt vs. Azure Striker Gunvolt.


More like Mighty Gunvolt vs. Mighty No. 9, but yeah.
:fbm
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on May 29, 2018, 09:47:34 PM
 :lol

That probably doesn't come off the right way.  I mean the visuals, not one game being good and the other being shitty.  :P
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on June 01, 2018, 03:13:19 PM
So I broke down and bough this, because of course I did. It's...OK.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on June 03, 2018, 10:48:05 PM
Finished it tonight.  Really fun CV3 throwback and it's cool that there's a bit more available after a play-through.  I checked and there's apparently six endings you can get, plus various rooms to discover on levels that you might not come across on the first time through.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: paprikastaude on June 06, 2018, 04:45:50 PM
This game is good. Fast stair walking  :rejoice
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Bebpo on June 06, 2018, 09:47:24 PM
I picked this up and played through the first two stages last night. Seems pretty solid, bosses seem ridiculously easy compared to some of the level design. I'm not a big fan of Castlevania pre Metroidvania, I've played Dracula X and a couple others and they were ok. Seems like the whip girl is great and the starting guy sucks and the magic dude is just good for certain situations where you need invincible fire wheel?

Do you get to go back to the earlier stages with all your team or is that only after you beat the game?
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Tasty on June 06, 2018, 09:58:22 PM
Quote
I'm not a big fan of Castlevania pre Metroidvania

:bolo
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Bebpo on June 06, 2018, 10:17:19 PM
Always preferred Megaman, less bullshit medusa heads knocking you back into pits (which I keep dying from in Bloodstained as well, fuck that shit).
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on June 06, 2018, 10:39:06 PM
Always preferred Megaman, less bullshit medusa heads knocking you back into pits (which I keep dying from in Bloodstained as well, fuck that shit).

Switch the difficulty to casual.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Tasty on June 07, 2018, 12:37:01 AM
I bought Mutant Mudds Collection a while back and I'm waiting til I beat it before starting on Bloodstained. (I beat the original game tonight. :whew)

Let me tell you, even on the hardest setting, I doubt Bloodstained can compare difficulty-wise to some of the levels in MM Deluxe and Super Challenge. It makes me look back fondly at my Castlevania 1 playthrough. :lol

Looking forward to having a nice break after I beat Super Challenge, and Bloodstained should be just the thing. :aah
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Trent Dole on June 07, 2018, 01:59:09 AM
Quote
I'm not a big fan of Castlevania pre Metroidvania

:bolo
Not even CV IV? But you can battle across a bridge and through a room!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fa4qSyDAHw
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on June 08, 2018, 12:27:37 AM
Ok
Ive never played a Castlevania really but recently I enjoyed games like Stesmworld Dig and Axiom Verge

From reading here its more like Shovel Knight? (Which I also loved)

Is this for me?

(Hate this type of post myself..)
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Tasty on June 08, 2018, 12:52:49 AM
Ok
Ive never played a Castlevania really but recently I enjoyed games like Stesmworld Dig and Axiom Verge

From reading here its more like Shovel Knight? (Which I also loved)

Is this for me?

(Hate this type of post myself..)

Ya it should be up your alley.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: paprikastaude on June 08, 2018, 03:04:17 AM
Ok
Ive never played a Castlevania really but recently I enjoyed games like Stesmworld Dig and Axiom Verge

From reading here its more like Shovel Knight? (Which I also loved)

Is this for me?

(Hate this type of post myself..)

play Castlevania (4, Rondo of Blood, Symphony of the Night).
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Tasty on June 08, 2018, 09:26:57 AM
Ok
Ive never played a Castlevania really but recently I enjoyed games like Stesmworld Dig and Axiom Verge

From reading here its more like Shovel Knight? (Which I also loved)

Is this for me?

(Hate this type of post myself..)

play Castlevania (4, Rondo of Blood, Symphony of the Night).

Also the first and third ones from NES.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Yeah 4 is kind of a remake but I still like the original too
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Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on June 08, 2018, 09:30:55 AM
Just go play the best- Dracula X on PC-Engine, Symphony Of The Night on PS1, then Aria Of Sorrow on GBA.  :obama
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on June 08, 2018, 02:37:14 PM
Let me travel back in time to get my gba brb

Btw bought this, is veteran the way to play? Will i get lives back after a stage?
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on June 08, 2018, 04:12:12 PM
Let me travel back in time to get my gba brb

If only there was a way to play older game systems on your PC or other devices.  Like..."emulating" them, if you will. :thinking

Btw bought this, is veteran the way to play? Will i get lives back after a stage?

Veteran = Old-school Castlevania style.  You get knocked back when hit, which can make jumps or platforming sections with enemies difficult.  Limited number of lives. 

Casual = You don't get knocked back when hit and have unlimited lives.

Other than that, the difficulty is the same AFAIK. 
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Tasty on June 08, 2018, 06:03:34 PM
Ugh I can't fuck with limited lives (that boot you back to the main menu*.) Castlevania 1 didn't have limited lives so it was totally beatable.

*If that is indeed the case here.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: AdmiralViscen on June 08, 2018, 08:27:28 PM
This game is great


You don't lose a life until all your characters die, checkpoints are generous, if you get a game over yous tay on the same stage and can change difficulties


I don't think I ever had less than like 4-6 lives
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Tasty on June 08, 2018, 08:31:30 PM
Oh good. I just hate that "back to main menu" shit. Part of the reason I've beaten Castlevania and Kid Icarus but not Super Mario Bros. USA.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: tiesto on June 09, 2018, 10:55:55 AM
Let me travel back in time to get my gba brb

If only there was a way to play older game systems on your PC or other devices.  Like..."emulating" them, if you will. :thinking

Btw bought this, is veteran the way to play? Will i get lives back after a stage?

Veteran = Old-school Castlevania style.  You get knocked back when hit, which can make jumps or platforming sections with enemies difficult.  Limited number of lives. 

Casual = You don't get knocked back when hit and have unlimited lives.

Other than that, the difficulty is the same AFAIK.

My girlfriend played Casual last nite and it seems like health drops from enemies more often and you take less damage (like 1 bar instead of 2).
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: paprikastaude on June 09, 2018, 11:35:18 AM
Health... by enemy drops?  :jeanluc
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on June 09, 2018, 05:48:45 PM
Let me travel back in time to get my gba brb

If only there was a way to play older game systems on your PC or other devices.  Like..."emulating" them, if you will. :thinking

Btw bought this, is veteran the way to play? Will i get lives back after a stage?

Veteran = Old-school Castlevania style.  You get knocked back when hit, which can make jumps or platforming sections with enemies difficult.  Limited number of lives. 

Casual = You don't get knocked back when hit and have unlimited lives.

Other than that, the difficulty is the same AFAIK.

My girlfriend played Casual last nite and it seems like health drops from enemies more often and you take less damage (like 1 bar instead of 2).

Checking around, looks like that's the case.  Works for me...I'm on veteran on my second play through anyway.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Cryo on June 10, 2018, 04:23:23 PM
Zangetsu solo mode is more interesting than I expected, mostly because
spoiler (click to show/hide)
killing your allies instead of recruiting them nets you special upgrades
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also is the challenge i desired, but not the challenge i was ready for  :shaq2

edit2: up to stage 5 and holy shit this can be extremely difficult at times, but it never feels truly unfair because it's always your fault. this is truly the NES castlevania experience I wanted from this game in terms of difficulty and character control.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Svejk on June 26, 2018, 09:15:30 AM
Isn't an extended demo dropping this Thursday?   :hyper
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on June 26, 2018, 09:42:16 AM
Isn't an extended demo dropping this Thursday?   :hyper

Yup, supposed to be.
:phil
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Svejk on June 28, 2018, 09:08:28 AM
So is the demo simply called Bloodstained E3 Beta Backer Demo?  I have a code for it, but I can't tell if it's the new one or the one from last year. LOL  There's no date or anything.  Haven't gotten an email yet or anything either.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on June 28, 2018, 09:43:06 AM
E3 2018 demo keys are going out now.  It's called "Beta Backer Demo" on Steam.

So is the demo simply called Bloodstained E3 Beta Backer Demo?  I have a code for it, but I can't tell if it's the new one or the one from last year. LOL  There's no date or anything.  Haven't gotten an email yet or anything either.

Yup, that should be it.  I just redeemed mine.  However, I also got an email update from Kickstarter and the Survey page had a "click to reveal" box for the code.  It shouldn't already be revealed.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Svejk on June 28, 2018, 10:16:44 AM
E3 2018 demo keys are going out now.  It's called "Beta Backer Demo" on Steam.

Yup, that should be it.  I just redeemed mine.  However, I also got an email update from Kickstarter and the Survey page had a "click to reveal" box for the code.  It shouldn't already be revealed.
(https://i.makeagif.com/media/12-19-2015/Tht66x.gif)
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Svejk on July 05, 2018, 02:43:19 PM
Finally tried the beta.  It's certainly more polished than before and that Igavania style is really starting to shine.  Even though I voted against the cel-shaded style, it looks good.

I have a gripe though...  the cutscenes are ... ugly.  I know the lip syncing will get worked on and whatnot, but I really feel they should've stuck with Ayami Kojima stills instead.  I mean, they brought her on board, so use her work in game!
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Svejk on November 29, 2018, 02:15:08 PM
Quote
For this month's update, we have an incredible support who will be joining the Bloodstained team. Can you guess who? It's WayForward!

That's right, WayForward, the makers of Shantae! As you may already know, they are top-tier when it comes to side-scrolling action games. There is even a staff member who previously worked on one of my projects, which is incredibly encouraging.

In consideration of their past achievements, WayForward will be helping the development team realize my vision for this game. Maybe I am even more excited than everyone else - with their help Bloodstained will become an even better game.
:gladbron :obama :phil :hulk :ohyeah

...I hope it's more for refining rather than damage control....  Guess this will be delayed further for reasons too..
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on November 29, 2018, 02:22:17 PM
Wayforward helping is a good thing.  Let 'em take their time with this so we can get a super-good 'vania.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: paprikastaude on November 29, 2018, 02:25:33 PM
Contra 4 was good. Shantae is pretty meh overall though. Never played their Alien and Mummy Metroidvanias.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Svejk on November 29, 2018, 02:27:33 PM
Wayforward helping is a good thing.  Let 'em take their time with this so we can get a super-good 'vania.
I sure hope so.  I have full faith in WayForward.  But yeah, let Iga take whatever time is necessary.  This game is the glimmer of hope for ClassicVania goodness.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on November 29, 2018, 02:38:10 PM
Shantae is pretty meh overall though

 :cornette :mike :foodcourt :nope :cac :what :iface
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Cryo on November 29, 2018, 03:55:50 PM
Wayforward hasn’t had an actual announced project since last year, so I wonder if they’ve been assisting in the background for a while now?
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: thetylerrob on November 29, 2018, 05:37:49 PM
(https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/ttv-boxart/Double%20Dragon%20Neon.jpg)
 :ufup
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: toku on November 29, 2018, 06:03:14 PM
Hopefully this means they'll speed up the "look/feel" of the game. I understand why they went 2.5d but it just looks so much slower compared to sprites.

How tf is this thing gonna be successful though idk. Seems like a lot of extra work for what shoulda been a great small project  :doge
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Nintex on November 29, 2018, 06:21:54 PM
Did Microsoft buy up the studio or something. Who's funding this.

Or is this one of those: "Lol here's our 5 minute broken demo, you go fix!" kickstarters?
The 8-bit game was pretty good no?
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Sho Nuff on November 30, 2018, 12:03:19 AM
Wayforward hasn’t had an actual announced project since last year, so I wonder if they’ve been assisting in the background for a while now?

I would certainly hope so, you don't suddenly bring a design team on 3 years into a project unless you don't feel like shipping
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Cryo on February 01, 2019, 09:22:31 PM
(https://i.redd.it/gabra6l3dvd21.png)
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Trent Dole on February 01, 2019, 10:01:59 PM
:drudge (https://i.imgur.com/R5DYl8h.gif) :drudge
https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1091345103308840960
:drudge (https://i.imgur.com/R5DYl8h.gif) :drudge
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: paprikastaude on February 01, 2019, 11:53:27 PM
(https://i.redd.it/gabra6l3dvd21.png)

can't even tell which looks "better".
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bluemax on February 02, 2019, 01:54:24 AM
Wayforward hasn’t had an actual announced project since last year, so I wonder if they’ve been assisting in the background for a while now?

They probably just didn't have any money. I have a former coworker who has suffered through the abusive relationship of being a Wayforward employee and being employed by them every other year.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Trent Dole on February 02, 2019, 06:34:50 PM
(https://i.redd.it/gabra6l3dvd21.png)

can't even tell which looks "better".
Well you see, the newer one has a default fire effect thingee in it, so it's clearly better!
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: The Sceneman on February 03, 2019, 12:06:53 AM
Yeah, perhaps the other Bloodstained game is free this month on Xbox to promote interest for an imminent release of the main game?
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: thisismyusername on February 03, 2019, 12:34:52 AM
(https://i.redd.it/gabra6l3dvd21.png)

Backer's demo looks better, IMO.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Svejk on February 03, 2019, 04:22:46 PM
The Backer Demo version reminds me of Dracula for Sega CD.   :doge
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Svejk on February 13, 2019, 06:17:52 PM
Summer of 2019 launch window!!!

https://youtu.be/UAeAJDX9DZ8

 :lawd :tauntaun :mouf :phil
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Trent Dole on February 13, 2019, 06:25:26 PM
So.. October then. :teehee
That's a fuck of a thing to put at the very end of the trailer. :o
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: paprikastaude on February 13, 2019, 06:40:59 PM
The shitty graphics are really distracting, but the level design itself looks cool.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: The Sceneman on February 13, 2019, 07:41:31 PM
why my peepee hard
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on February 13, 2019, 10:26:28 PM
WILL IT ACTUALLY END UP RELEASING THIS YEAR

FINGERS CROSSED

NOT EXPECTING IT

:stahp
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Trent Dole on February 14, 2019, 03:27:45 AM
Getting around to watching the N direct and uh, this game is apparently on some Klonoa 2.5D type shit in addition to the inversion stuff seen in the other standalone trailer. IGA has kept some secrets and I am hype as fuck to finally play this whenever it happens. :hyper
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Svejk on February 14, 2019, 08:16:30 AM

NOT EXPECTING IT

:stahp
...For Switch this year.
 :dice
 ;)
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on February 14, 2019, 11:37:27 AM
I'm gonna play it on PC
:umad
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Svejk on February 14, 2019, 11:57:46 AM
I'm gonna play it on PC
:umad
Even though I have a physical PS4 one locked in, I would much rather play a digital version.  Not being too demanding of a game, I'm on the fence about whether getting the PS4 one or the PC version.  the beta ran great on teh laptopz.  Will the PC version have mods eventually?  that could be the selling point.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on February 14, 2019, 12:12:33 PM
I'm gonna play it on PC
:umad
Even though I have a physical PS4 one locked in, I would much rather play a digital version.  Not being too demanding of a game, I'm on the fence about whether getting the PS4 one or the PC version.  the beta ran great on teh laptopz.  Will the PC version have mods eventually?  that could be the selling point.

Dunno but AFAIK, early access and the quickest release is supposed to be on PC, unless something has changed.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: Trent Dole on February 14, 2019, 08:26:52 PM
All the demos have been on PC, main SKU confirmed. :smug
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Post by: bork on March 07, 2019, 04:07:16 PM
https://twitter.com/LimitedRunGames/status/1103686832347365377
:phil
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on March 07, 2019, 09:46:58 PM
Look at this fancy ass CE
https://twitter.com/LimitedRunGames/status/1103690563843485696
I'm totes gonna get a Switch and maybe a PS4 eventually. :thinking
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: paprikastaude on March 08, 2019, 04:56:30 AM
I thought the main game was gonna come out next week.  >:(
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on March 08, 2019, 07:45:34 AM
Hah, that's "summer".
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on March 08, 2019, 08:04:31 AM
Summer 2019 2029, can't wait! :hyper
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Occam on March 15, 2019, 12:09:56 PM
Look at this fancy ass CE
https://twitter.com/LimitedRunGames/status/1103690563843485696
I'm totes gonna get a Switch and maybe a PS4 eventually. :thinking

The first batch went on sale earlier today and all limited "classic edition" copies (Vita/PS4/Switch) and the regular Vita version (of which they made 2,000) sold out in minutes. There's a second batch later today, at 6pm ET (~6 hours from now).

www.limitedrungames.com
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on March 15, 2019, 12:33:10 PM
      batch

 :beavis
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on March 15, 2019, 01:55:41 PM
Look at this fancy ass CE
https://twitter.com/LimitedRunGames/status/1103690563843485696
I'm totes gonna get a Switch and maybe a PS4 eventually. :thinking

The first batch went on sale earlier today and all limited "classic edition" copies (Vita/PS4/Switch) and the regular Vita version (of which they made 2,000) sold out in minutes. There's a second batch later today, at 6pm ET (~6 hours from now).

www.limitedrungames.com

This is normal for LRG.  Would estimate the CEs were gone 2-3 minutes after they went up.  Actually took longer than expected.

Snagged regular PS4 and Vita copies and a Switch CE.  Might get a regular Switch version too.  Switch and PS4 regular versions will be open pre-orders until 3/26, so no rush on those.

:expert
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Occam on March 15, 2019, 06:03:23 PM
And the Vita version is gone, took <2 minutes. Wonder why they didn't make some more.

The limited editions took ~3 minutes to sell out.

Got everything.

Edit: I think this is going to become one of LRG's more valuable releases, people are paying twice the price or more on ebay already.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on March 15, 2019, 06:43:46 PM
Yeah I just slept in instead of trying to order this. :-[ Vita edition has very few copies made cause Sony has very few blank cards left and are rationing them out. :doge
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on March 16, 2019, 09:32:22 AM

Edit: I think this is going to become one of LRG's more valuable releases, people are paying twice the price or more on ebay already.

Nah, I'm sure they had way more copies of this produced than some other releases.

Don't know what LRG's most valuable release is or if anything from them is even really that up there- I have a game from Strictly Limited Games (Gryphon Knight Epic) that lists for $250+.  Haven't seen anything like that from an LRG release.

Yeah I just slept in instead of trying to order this. :-[ Vita edition has very few copies made cause Sony has very few blank cards left and are rationing them out. :doge

You can still get regular versions for PS4 and Switch- those are open pre-orders.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on March 16, 2019, 09:34:42 AM
Hmm, maybe I'll normal Switch then. :thinking
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Cryo on March 17, 2019, 04:59:15 PM
I don’t really like the box art of the standard edition :(
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on March 29, 2019, 06:41:07 PM
Final hours to preorder the physical limited run of Curse if you want it.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on April 26, 2019, 08:32:54 AM
Ritual Of The Night is 720P (dynamic when docked) 30 FPS on Switch.  Planning on playing this on PC regardless, but if the other versions are all 60 FPS...ouch.  No confirmation yet on how PS4/Xbone run.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on April 26, 2019, 08:54:33 AM
Not only that, the Switch showcase at PAX had the systems overheating and dropping the framerates even further.   :doge
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: paprikastaude on April 26, 2019, 02:29:08 PM
Found out that the main game is getting a physical release too. I guess then it can't hurt too much to give it a try (and sell it, if it's as questionable as it looked during some parts of the development).
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Tasty on April 26, 2019, 02:59:12 PM
Shoulda used sprites  :awesome
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Tasty on May 02, 2019, 09:17:40 AM
https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status/1123937208648515585

Looks like the Switch version is getting the time and care it deserves... wait, a week?
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on May 02, 2019, 09:22:54 AM
 :bow :bow IGA  :bow2 :bow2
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: paprikastaude on May 02, 2019, 09:27:31 AM
looks okay graphically now except for the biggest sin: making rooms for kickstarter faces :nope :nope
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on May 02, 2019, 09:38:44 AM
looks okay graphically now except for the biggest sin: making rooms for (non-stylized) kickstarter faces :nope :nope
Those are horrible.  Not that it's not a great idea, but holy shit folks... You're about to be immortalized in an Iga game....  Fucking own it and put some effort into it, not just make a nerd smirk or a piss poor attempt of The people's eye in a modern dress jacket.   :punch 

GET OFF MY GAME..
spoiler (click to show/hide)
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/z7X2_V60YK8/hqdefault.jpg)
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Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on May 02, 2019, 10:13:06 AM

Quote
Release date is live! Bloodstained launches on PlayStation 4 June 18, 2019.
(http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/2013/06/I-dont-believe-you.gif)
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: MMaRsu on May 02, 2019, 01:36:45 PM
So did they polish the graphics to lvl 3?
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on May 02, 2019, 05:32:34 PM

Quote
Release date is live! Bloodstained launches on PlayStation 4 June 18, 2019.
(http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/2013/06/I-dont-believe-you.gif)
:lol
Looks like the Switch version is getting the time and care it deserves... wait, a week?
They can always patch it more later. :yeshrug
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: MMaRsu on May 02, 2019, 06:21:14 PM
Wow this polished it to lvl 10 actually  :doge
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on May 30, 2019, 02:21:19 PM
Kept you waiting, huh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irMPqha2YtQ

SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!!

Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on May 30, 2019, 02:22:46 PM
 :tauntaun
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on May 30, 2019, 03:04:31 PM
A Castle?!
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on May 30, 2019, 03:07:45 PM
And a third playable character is to be revealed shortly too!    :tauntaun
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 01, 2019, 07:47:56 PM
And a third playable character is to be revealed shortly too!    :tauntaun
Some people think it might end up being the fellow in your avatar.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: toku on June 01, 2019, 08:05:43 PM
I really hope this is good. While I would enver claim to be a castlevania expert or anything I've enjoyed quite a number of the games and It's a property/franchise I think a bout a lot. It's presentation/aesthetic for most of it's life has been a big influence on me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYkWMVAEwkQ
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Beezy on June 01, 2019, 08:35:57 PM
Thought my backer reward was still on the Xbox One, but it looks like I had changed it to the Switch before the deadline. Thank god. I need to be able to play this on the go.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 10, 2019, 05:03:25 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/qdRaUDp.jpg)
Quote from: Official rep duder on discord
hey everyone, we're aware of street date being broken
just FYI if you play before official launch date, you're going to be missing out on a LOT of stuff
ther's a very big day zero patch
that fixes a lot of stuff and implements a lot of other things that aren't in the build that's on disc with retailers
last I checked it was like 4-5 gb worth
considering the total game is somewhere around 20gb, I would recommend NOT playing the game if you get it from a place that broke street date
it's one store so far that we're aware of
day zero patch is day before launch
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 10, 2019, 05:09:49 PM
Well, sheeyit

If there's no difference in box sleeve between the backer edition and standard street release, .... that'd suck.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 10, 2019, 05:16:17 PM
Backers get a fat holo foil slip case
(https://i.imgur.com/kaKjb97.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/0fP7BXA.jpg)
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Yeti on June 10, 2019, 11:41:10 PM
That’s neat, kinda wishing I had backed this now
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 11, 2019, 08:29:34 AM
So technically, I can just play the game, finish it, then sell it, but keep that Backer slip cover... then when I decide to sell it, I buy copy of the game again on the low?   :doge  I know unopened is the way to go though.

Man I'm so cheap and hate physical games now.  :doge :doge
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 11, 2019, 06:30:57 PM
Getting packed up and shipped out right now! :hyper :hyper :hyper
(https://i.imgur.com/LymnNra.jpg)
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 11, 2019, 06:32:29 PM
Getting packed up and shipped out right now! :hyper :hyper :hyper
(https://i.imgur.com/LymnNra.jpg)
(https://media.tenor.com/images/59d07de52c96124ff9fecb2d190983e2/tenor.gif)
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Chooky on June 11, 2019, 09:41:25 PM
the first traditional castlevania since order of ecclesia 11 years ago. so ready
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 11, 2019, 10:39:59 PM
Got my email that my copy is packed (in Tucson) and about to ship with a tracking number too!

(https://media.giphy.com/media/Fg224DvKF2Bmo/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 11, 2019, 10:49:49 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/R5DYl8h.gif)(https://i.imgur.com/R5DYl8h.gif)(https://i.imgur.com/R5DYl8h.gif)
(https://i.imgur.com/R5DYl8h.gif)(https://i.imgur.com/R5DYl8h.gif)(https://i.imgur.com/R5DYl8h.gif)
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Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Occam on June 13, 2019, 03:42:29 AM
Backers get a fat holo foil slip case
(https://i.imgur.com/kaKjb97.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/0fP7BXA.jpg)

I know they said we'd get a slip case in the kickstarter*, but just the regular retail game in a special slip case is a bit weak, I was hoping for the cover to be distinguishable, too. There certainly were enough backers to warrant an actual special edition.

*"SPECIAL BACKER EDITION PHYSICAL COPY - A physical copy of the game for XBOX ONE, PS4, or STEAM (PC/Mac/Linux) featuring special backer-exclusive content and slipcase"

So the "SPECIAL BACKER EDITION PHYSICAL COPY" is really just a regular non-backer edition and the exclusive content won't be on the disc but instead we'll get a DLC code on a slip of paper outside of the case? That sucks.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 13, 2019, 04:44:23 AM
Also the backer exclusive content is going to be available for everyone to purchase for $9.99. :doge There was a vote on it and most backers were cool with this, somebody on their team said it's a way of trying to dodge piracy since if it's not for sale at all people will just find ways to get it illicitly. Whatever, the game exists and I get to play it, hooray.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Occam on June 13, 2019, 04:59:12 AM
I have no problem with others getting to play the content (it doesn't diminish my enjoyment), but that means it's not backer EXCLUSIVE. It's hilarious to claim this is to prevent piracy; it's about maximizing profits. And the special edition isn't special. They really cheaped out.

WTF. Retail price is $40. You can buy the backer non-exclusive content for $10.
So as a thank you for financing the game we paid $10 more ($60, plus shipping) and get a cardboard slipcase.

EDIT:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iga/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night/comments
Lots of pissed backers. Yeah, this is BS.
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FAQ #13

Why is the disc $60?

The Kickstarter Edition of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night won't be sold at retail. It comes in an exclusive slipcase and it's preloaded with backer-exclusive content—the Swordwhip, the only weapon powerful enough to unite Teams Sword and Whip, and a super-secret boss who you'll have to foil to earn it.
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Will there be a physical release of the game after it comes out?

There will indeed be a physical release of the game in the future. However, the Kickstarter-exclusive box set is a celebration for fans willing to support IGA in his time of need, so the retail version of the game will not contain any of the Kickstarter-exclusive bonus content.[which is true, and neither does the backer version, haha]

Many commenters saying they won't back another kickstarter after being duped like this.
I think IGA just screwed himself out of the chance of getting anywhere near as much funding for a potential sequel.
And all just to save a couple of bucks by not creating an exclusive physical edition with the additional content included on the physical medium as promised and to make a few extra bucks by making the exclusive content non-exclusive.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Occam on June 13, 2019, 07:15:02 AM
Someone emailed Fangamer about the slipcase.
Reply from Fangamer:

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"The Slipcase in question is a four-sided hard stock paper, lined with

holographic designs that is placed on the outside of the physical game.

Thanks!"

So it's indeed a paper sleeve they are calling the "Slipcase" to get around the fact that it's not a slipcase.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Occam on June 13, 2019, 07:40:38 AM
Also the backer exclusive content is going to be available for everyone to purchase for $9.99. :doge There was a vote on it and most backers were cool with this, somebody on their team said it's a way of trying to dodge piracy since if it's not for sale at all people will just find ways to get it illicitly. Whatever, the game exists and I get to play it, hooray.

About that, from the comments section:

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Also the huge lie of the survey "overwhelming majority approves" yes, 16.8% picked the path you took (making it available to anyone, just in the form of DLC), from a PUBLIC survey that was replied by under 27k persons (which is LESS than half of the total backers) where you have NO RELIABLE WAY to tell how many of them are backers, (but 78.9 told you on the survey they are, which brings the number of "possible" backers down to just 1/3 of the total backers). So you justify a decision you made and say it has "overwhelming support by the majority" when the most you could argue is that around 1 /3 of backers replied to that survey! So you are pretty darn good into telling yourself lies, but hey, don't expect everyone here to be apologists.

I didn't get the link to that survey, so I never replied to it either, by the way.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Chooky on June 13, 2019, 07:46:20 AM
kcikstarter really brings out the whiny toddlers, huh
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Occam on June 13, 2019, 08:05:20 AM
Nah, the criticisms are absolutely justified. The people who paid $60 for a special physical backer edition are getting screwed.
Unlike promised, there is no exclusive content, unlike promised the additional content isn't on the disc, which, unlike promised isn't a special backer edition (it's a regular retail copy), and the "slipcase" is really just a paper sleeve.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: kingv on June 13, 2019, 08:09:05 AM
So the special edition isn’t worth the money... like every special edition ever made?
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 13, 2019, 08:19:41 AM
Aren't the OG backers listed in the credits at some point?  Maybe that's what they mean by content.  :doge  I dunno.  But yeah, I was expecting a different insert, not an external slip... which is the only part I'm gonna actually keep maybe. lol
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Cryo on June 13, 2019, 08:52:55 AM
What are slipcase supposed to be made out of  ???
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 13, 2019, 09:23:06 AM
Looks like cardboard with a metallic sheen on it.   

The past 4 years, I've heavily changed my lifestyle to the more minimalist way...  A part of me is slightly regretting getting a physical copy now, because to be honest...  I could give 2 shits for the physical stuff.  I just want to play the game!  I did the digital copy only backer of Shenmue 3, and you know what, I'm totally content with that.    Life's funny.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 13, 2019, 10:44:58 AM
Looks like cardboard with a metallic sheen on it.   

The past 4 years, I've heavily changed my lifestyle to the more minimalist way...  A part of me is slightly regretting getting a physical copy now, because to be honest...  I could give 2 shits for the physical stuff.  I just want to play the game!  I did the digital copy only backer of Shenmue 3, and you know what, I'm totally content with that.    Life's funny.

Sell it!  Probably will be easy enough to do because of that paper slipcase.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: MMaRsu on June 13, 2019, 10:54:47 AM
kcikstarter really brings out the whiny toddlers, huh

Yeah like yourself obviously

Having a valid complaint = being a whiny toddler.  :larry
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: MMaRsu on June 13, 2019, 10:55:37 AM
Looks like cardboard with a metallic sheen on it.   

The past 4 years, I've heavily changed my lifestyle to the more minimalist way...  A part of me is slightly regretting getting a physical copy now, because to be honest...  I could give 2 shits for the physical stuff.  I just want to play the game!  I did the digital copy only backer of Shenmue 3, and you know what, I'm totally content with that.    Life's funny.
sell me that thing bro!
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 13, 2019, 10:58:07 AM
Sure, whenever I'm done with it.  I only play on the weekends, so it may take some time for me to beat it first.  :doge
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 13, 2019, 11:00:30 AM
Sure, whenever I'm done with it.  I only play on the weekends, so it may take some time for me to beat it first.  :doge

You didn't get a digital code?  I thought the physical backer tier came with a code too?  ???
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 13, 2019, 11:51:46 AM
Apparently it comes with a tier higher than the $60 one.  :yeshrug
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: MMaRsu on June 13, 2019, 11:57:54 AM
Are you on PS4 Svejk?  :)
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 13, 2019, 12:03:59 PM
Are you on PS4 Svejk?  :)
Yessiree
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 13, 2019, 02:15:23 PM
Apparently it comes with a tier higher than the $60 one.  :yeshrug

Yeah.  Uh...can't figure out why you backed this for the physical edition, then.  :lol :dizzy
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 13, 2019, 02:41:51 PM
I have no problem with others getting to play the content (it doesn't diminish my enjoyment), but that means it's not backer EXCLUSIVE. It's hilarious to claim this is to prevent piracy; it's about maximizing profits. And the special edition isn't special. They really cheaped out.

WTF. Retail price is $40. You can buy the backer non-exclusive content for $10.
So as a thank you for financing the game we paid $10 more ($60, plus shipping) and get a cardboard slipcase.
We got Curse of the Moon for "free" and that is selling for $10, tada, $60! :doge Also as a PC backer I get to wait until after they've released all the DLC to get a physical version cause they want to put it all on the disc, they can't do this with the consoles due to certification stuffs. They're going to give us codes for now. Still less of a debacle than Shenmue III or say, Star Citizen. :lol
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Occam on June 13, 2019, 02:58:26 PM
Nice how you can get a steelbook at Best Buy for $40, while $60 backers get a paper sleeve.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 13, 2019, 03:08:59 PM
Nice how you can get a steelbook at Best Buy for $40, while $60 backers get a paper sleeve.
Oh don't worry they're going to get a quantity of the steelbooks to SELL to the backers if they want them! :lol
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Chooky on June 13, 2019, 04:51:37 PM
kcikstarter really brings out the whiny toddlers, huh

Yeah like yourself obviously


wow mmarsu with the sick fucking burn incredible

so we have people mad that everyone can get some dlc instead of having it forever be a trophy for backers, and we have people mad that the slipcover is made of paper (??)

awesome complaints i love gamers great people all around
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: HardcoreRetro on June 13, 2019, 05:02:14 PM
Gamers?

More like complainers!

Got em!
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Cryo on June 13, 2019, 05:06:25 PM
shame on anyone who backed this for exclusive trinkets over saving IGA from being a dungeon janitor at Konami.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Nintex on June 13, 2019, 05:22:04 PM
IGA can just go ahead and take the Microsoft moneyhat for the sequel anyway.
At least he made a game you dolts.

Inafune fucked Capcom for a generation took everyone's money (including Microsoft's) and then fucked off into the sun.  :lol
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: The Sceneman on June 13, 2019, 09:25:29 PM
Any impressions out there yet?
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: toku on June 13, 2019, 09:33:35 PM
IGA can just go ahead and take the Microsoft moneyhat for the sequel anyway.
At least he made a game you dolts.

Inafune fucked Capcom for a generation took everyone's money (including Microsoft's) and then fucked off into the sun.  :lol

Honestly think IGA would be a solid fit with steady MS money.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Occam on June 13, 2019, 09:58:18 PM
Steady money until his next project is cancelled like Scalebound? Thanks but no thanks.
Reminder that Xbox is as dead as a door nail in the land of the rising sun. During an average week, LESS than 100 Xbones are sold there.
If anything he should make a deal with Sony, much better track record and a realistic chance to sell more than five copies in Japan.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: toku on June 13, 2019, 10:23:24 PM
xbox pass will save them

spoiler (click to show/hide)
:doge
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Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 14, 2019, 12:28:37 AM
Any impressions out there yet?

Haven't really looked.  Whether this is true or not, the dev "warned" that the people who got early copies should hold off since there's going to be a huge day one patch for it.

Steady money until his next project is cancelled like Scalebound? Thanks but no thanks.
Reminder that Xbox is as dead as a door nail in the land of the rising sun. During an average week, LESS than 100 Xbones are sold there.
If anything he should make a deal with Sony, much better track record and a realistic chance to sell more than five copies in Japan.

Why, so his Playstation game can sell 5,000 copies over there?  Japan is all about mobile and portable gaming.  If he worked with MS, we'd get his games on Xbox/PC/Streaming.  Works for me!
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 14, 2019, 08:12:47 AM
Whether they get follow-ups or not, I'm just glad this, and Shenmue III, are a real thing and I get to play them both while I'm still alive.
  :rejoice :rejoice :rejoice :rejoice
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: MMaRsu on June 14, 2019, 11:44:19 AM
kcikstarter really brings out the whiny toddlers, huh

Yeah like yourself obviously


wow mmarsu with the sick fucking burn incredible

so we have people mad that everyone can get some dlc instead of having it forever be a trophy for backers, and we have people mad that the slipcover is made of paper (??)

awesome complaints i love gamers great people all around

Dude if you are gonna throw out the annoying " uhhghh I hate whiny gamers whehhhh" while you are the one fucking whining then just fuck off ok? Clown ass fucker.

Just because you don't agree with what one may find annoying, what is wrong with letting them complain if they feel like it? How is it impacting you at all?

Yeah it doesn't impact you at all, so instead of crying about whiny gamers, just shut the fuck up
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Chooky on June 14, 2019, 09:19:27 PM
bro no offense but all your posts are complete shit
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 14, 2019, 09:31:13 PM
kcikstarter really brings out the whiny toddlers, huh

Yeah like yourself obviously


wow mmarsu with the sick fucking burn incredible

so we have people mad that everyone can get some dlc instead of having it forever be a trophy for backers, and we have people mad that the slipcover is made of paper (??)

awesome complaints i love gamers great people all around

Dude if you are gonna throw out the annoying " uhhghh I hate whiny gamers whehhhh" while you are the one fucking whining then just fuck off ok? Clown ass fucker.

Just because you don't agree with what one may find annoying, what is wrong with letting them complain if they feel like it? How is it impacting you at all?

Yeah it doesn't impact you at all, so instead of crying about whiny gamers, just shut the fuck up
bro no offense but all your posts are complete shit
(https://i.imgur.com/0bIfw6W.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/7NMskqd.jpg)
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 14, 2019, 09:33:02 PM
:dead
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 14, 2019, 09:52:24 PM
Shemue and Bloodstained threads getting shitted up..  :fbm

Mine shipped! Shows to arrive Monday.  :hyper
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 14, 2019, 09:56:52 PM
Mine shipped! Shows to arrive Monday.  :hyper

Damn, so jelly.  :lol  Haven't gotten anything from them yet.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 14, 2019, 10:00:03 PM
I signed up with USPS to send me an email for every single change in shipment status.

To pour salt on the wound though, I'm not going to be able to get to it till probably next Friday.  :-[
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 14, 2019, 10:01:57 PM
I signed up with USPS to send me an email for every single change in shipment status.

To pour salt on the wound though, I'm not going to be able to get to it till probably next Friday.  :-[

Probably better that way- day one patch will be ready.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Occam on June 15, 2019, 02:00:58 AM
Got a shipping confirmation, too.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Nintex on June 15, 2019, 06:42:14 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YsNZZISUGk

These guys talk way too much but skip to 10 minutes in and this game looks sooooo good  :lawd
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Occam on June 15, 2019, 08:18:01 AM
No thanks. I waited for four years, not gonna spoil it for myself now.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Tasty on June 15, 2019, 08:42:33 AM
I can't believe it's been four years. :o
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 15, 2019, 09:33:29 AM
Looks great!  Wayforward really helped to improve things. 
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 17, 2019, 11:12:48 AM
GIVE ME MY STEAM CODE, KICKSTARTER/FANGAMER!!
:rage
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 17, 2019, 02:59:01 PM
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On twitter, Fangamer told me that Steam keys will be provided on launch day through the backer management page at their site.

PC physical copies will ship after the free DLCs are launched later this year.
:thinking
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 17, 2019, 03:03:39 PM
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Throughout the day for codes.
Codes are SUPPOSED to be all sent along today, people who are getting their physical PS4 and XBONE discs are finding they do NOT come with the slipcase because that is being sent via a separate mailer because doing that somehow enables them to get everything shipped internationally faster? A bit of a debacle here for launch time.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 17, 2019, 03:15:43 PM
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Throughout the day for codes.
Codes are SUPPOSED to be all sent along today, people who are getting their physical PS4 and XBONE discs are finding they do NOT come with the slipcase because that is being sent via a separate mailer because doing that somehow enables them to get everything shipped internationally faster? A bit of a debacle here for launch time.

Seeing that they sent the games from different warehouses than where the backer stuff came from.  But then there's people on KS saying they got the paper slipcases and others saying they didn't.  It seems like a mess.   :lol
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Freyj on June 17, 2019, 04:21:42 PM
Gonna sell my Switch physical KS version in favor of just buying digital on steam so if anyone wants a shitty cardboard sleeve version of the same thing you can get for $40 at Best Buy for $60 HMU.

Also lol at code snafus again. My Curse of the Moon code was weeks late so I just ended up buying on another platform. GLHF
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: MMaRsu on June 17, 2019, 04:53:30 PM
Honestly it's not often a Kickstarter game and backer rewards etc arent fucked I believe
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 17, 2019, 04:58:09 PM
It's here, brehs!!! :hyper

spoiler (click to show/hide)
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Surprised it came in a custom shipping box too.   lol  Got the slip case and ehrthang!  Can't believe it's actually been done!  My first kickstarter I've ever supported, so this is kinda new to me.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: MMaRsu on June 17, 2019, 05:25:38 PM
Wow grats bro!! Have fun man and let us SOTN fans know how it is compared to that? :D
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 17, 2019, 05:40:29 PM
That special shipping box is dope as fuck. :pimp
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Here are the scheduled launch times for Bloodstained.

June 18th, 2019

PS4 Europe - 12:01am PDT
Xbox One - 12:01am PDT
Steam - 8:00am PDT
GOG  - 8:00am PDT
PS4 Asia (excluding Japan) - 8:00am PDT

Backer codes are going out today as quickly as the platforms deliver them.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on June 17, 2019, 05:51:10 PM
How bad is the switch version compared to steam?

Portable is nice, but if gfx take a big hit will play this on PC.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 17, 2019, 06:02:02 PM
Undocked: 720p (fixed) / 30 fps

Docked: 720p (dynamic) / 30 fps with additional effects / visuals, etc.

 :doge
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Akala on June 17, 2019, 06:35:18 PM
I can't stop looking at the sloppy-ass boob tat.  :lol
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Rahxephon91 on June 17, 2019, 07:10:11 PM
Never played a Castlevannia game, but have this pre-ordered. Interested in trying it out.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on June 17, 2019, 07:37:53 PM
Never played a Castlevannia game, but have this pre-ordered. Interested in trying it out.

You’ve never played a CV game? :o
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 17, 2019, 08:49:54 PM
Never played a Castlevannia game

:crazy :lucas

Go play Symphony Of The Night, man!  ASAP! :hyper
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: The Sceneman on June 17, 2019, 09:01:37 PM
Never played a Castlevannia game, but have this pre-ordered. Interested in trying it out.

:dizzy

play. SotN. Now. Best. game. ever.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 17, 2019, 09:20:41 PM
Didn't get an email, but just checked my backer survey and got my Steam code!  :hyper

And then after redeeming it...no preload. 
:stahp
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 17, 2019, 09:22:19 PM
My code is there tooo :hyper :hyper :hyper
:maf @ no preload
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 17, 2019, 09:23:50 PM
Dunno how big the game size is and if it will download on the crappy-ish guest wifi connection at work...but I'm probably going to bring my laptop to the office tomorrow and give it a try.  :lol
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Cryo on June 17, 2019, 09:38:44 PM
Someone on ree said their xbox download was 7.7gb, if it helps. I'm also in team sit here and wait for the preload, but isn't the big day 1 patch not coming out on PC for another 13.5 hours anyway?
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 17, 2019, 09:39:44 PM
Patch was supposed to be 'day zero' and be about 4-5gb big.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Cryo on June 17, 2019, 09:42:02 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/AYKatqS.jpg)

 :whatisthis
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 17, 2019, 09:51:12 PM
Someone on ree said their xbox download was 7.7gb, if it helps. I'm also in team sit here and wait for the preload, but isn't the big day 1 patch not coming out on PC for another 13.5 hours anyway?

Hoping PC has the patch already included.  Wouldn't make sense any other way.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 17, 2019, 09:53:04 PM
My Steam library now has three listings for this game:

Bloodstained:  Ritual of the Night
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night - Beta Backer Demo

I like that they used two spaces to differentiate the final release from the first beta.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Tasty on June 17, 2019, 09:59:23 PM
Never played a Castlevannia game

:crazy :lucas

Go play Symphony Of The Night, man!  ASAP! :hyper

No, start with the original. It gud. :heart
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 17, 2019, 10:00:59 PM
The PS4 one already downloaded a 1.01 version patch.  Not sure if it was that large one or not.  The info didn't show the patch size, only stated that it fixed a multitude of bugs and performance issues.  Gotta friend already 3 trophies deep, so it must've been the bigger patch I assume.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 17, 2019, 10:12:16 PM
Quote
Here is the UPDATED launch schedule for Bloodstained.

June 18th, 2019

PS4 Europe - 12:01am PDT
Xbox One - 12:01am PDT
Steam - 6:00am PDT
GOG  - 6:00am PDT
PS4 - North America - 8am-10am PDT
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: mormapope on June 17, 2019, 10:25:28 PM
I've got it preloaded and the patch auto downloaded on my end. Playing on the Xbone.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Rahxephon91 on June 17, 2019, 10:40:22 PM
Never played a Castlevannia game, but have this pre-ordered. Interested in trying it out.

You’ve never played a CV game? :o
Just Lords of Shadow 1 which yeah..:

I’m not generally into side scrollers, often in account of being terrible at them. But I’m interested in trying this one. If I like it maybe I’ll dabble with more.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: mormapope on June 18, 2019, 12:49:44 AM
Holding up on the d-pad or left analog stick makes Miriam strike a very sexy pose! :-[

This feels like a mega beefy and incredibly well done SOTN sequel gameplay wise. In the first 20 minutes/4% map completion, I've gotten like six main weapons, ranged weapons with limited ammunition was introduced, spells, different armor/accessories immediately as well. Combat has a good omph to it. Soundtrack is catchy. Not too much time wasted for introducing gameplay mechanics.

Im very picky when it comes to this genre. SOTN being my favorite. I'd highly recommend this for any SOTN/Igavania fan.

Playing with the English dub, voice acting is great as well.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 18, 2019, 12:51:31 AM
Unlocks for Steam in about 8 hours, I'm not sure if I want to try and sleep some or not. :hyper
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: The Sceneman on June 18, 2019, 01:12:41 AM
Holding up on the d-pad or left analog stick makes Miriam strike a very sexy pose! :-[

This feels like a mega beefy and incredibly well done SOTN sequel gameplay wise. In the first 20 minutes/4% map completion, I've gotten like six main weapons, ranged weapons with limited ammunition was introduced, spells, different armor/accessories immediately as well. Combat has a good omph to it. Soundtrack is catchy. Not too much time wasted for introducing gameplay mechanics.

Im very picky when it comes to this genre. SOTN being my favorite. I'd highly recommend this for any SOTN/Igavania fan.

Playing with the English dub, voice acting is great as well.

awww yeah. Better buy this on the Bone asap.

Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Occam on June 18, 2019, 02:23:18 AM
My physical PS4 copy hasn't actually shipped yet according to USPS (4 days ago Fangamer said it had left their warehouse, lol), and I haven't received any download code, either (I backed a higher tier). How difficult could it have been to at least send out those emails on time?
What a shitshow.

Had I known in advance how this would turn out, I wouldn't have backed it at all and just bought a copy at launch. Would have been cheaper and I'd have it by now.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: MMaRsu on June 18, 2019, 04:34:18 AM
Damn cant wait.. Sotn one of my fav games ever
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 18, 2019, 07:47:38 AM
In the first 20 minutes/4% map completion, I've gotten like six main weapons, ranged weapons with limited ammunition was introduced, spells, different armor/accessories immediately as well.
See, this is how it's done.  Hollow Knight, although good in it's own way (?), You can play 5 hours, only to get 4% map completion, have the same 1 weapon and 1 look, and have like 2, maybe 3 abilities unlocked.   :zzz

Not shitting on HK, it's just not an Igavania (and certainly not better)... then again, nothing is.

IGA/SOTN IS BACK!
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: MMaRsu on June 18, 2019, 08:21:23 AM
When does this unlock?

Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Tasty on June 18, 2019, 08:55:56 AM
The reception to this after a well-documented rocky period early in development has been very uplifting.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 18, 2019, 09:18:08 AM
Up on Steam.

Downloading now
:phil
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 18, 2019, 09:18:48 AM
The reception to this after a well-documented rocky period early in development has been very uplifting.

I think most people trusted BOSS IGA to deliver in the end.  Remains to be seen how this plays on Switch, however.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Occam on June 18, 2019, 09:48:58 AM
Have fun, everybody!
My physical copy is still in "pre-shipment" according to USPS, and I also haven't received a download code (not listed on Fangamer's backer management website, either).
Looking at the comments section of the kickstarter, it sounds like tons of backers haven't received anything yet.
Fangamer sucks, there is no excuse for not at least having the codes available on or before launch day.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 18, 2019, 10:03:11 AM
Got a separate code the IGA's Backpack DLC, too.

Have fun, everybody!
My physical copy is still in "pre-shipment" according to USPS, and I also haven't received a download code (not listed on Fangamer's backer management website, either).
Looking at the comments section of the kickstarter, it sounds like tons of backers haven't received anything yet.
Fangamer sucks, there is no excuse for not at least having the codes available on or before launch day.

What platform is your digital code? 
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: mormapope on June 18, 2019, 10:09:51 AM
In the first 20 minutes/4% map completion, I've gotten like six main weapons, ranged weapons with limited ammunition was introduced, spells, different armor/accessories immediately as well.
See, this is how it's done.  Hollow Knight, although good in it's own way (?), You can play 5 hours, only to get 4% map completion, have the same 1 weapon and 1 look, and have like 2, maybe 3 abilities unlocked.   :zzz

Not shitting on HK, it's just not an Igavania (and certainly not better)... then again, nothing is.

IGA/SOTN IS BACK!

In general too, there's tons of content. Ended up spending 2 hours playing last night, and got to 11 percent map completion. There's a in game encyclopedia, and Ive barely made a dent with collecting everything.

This is GOTY material for sure.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Occam on June 18, 2019, 10:15:17 AM
Got a separate code the IGA's Backpack DLC, too.

Have fun, everybody!
My physical copy is still in "pre-shipment" according to USPS, and I also haven't received a download code (not listed on Fangamer's backer management website, either).
Looking at the comments section of the kickstarter, it sounds like tons of backers haven't received anything yet.
Fangamer sucks, there is no excuse for not at least having the codes available on or before launch day.

What platform is your digital code?
PS4 (US).
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 18, 2019, 10:25:49 AM
Maybe that's it- I can see them sending out codes for the consoles throughout the day.  Is it even available for purchase yet on PSN?
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Occam on June 18, 2019, 10:39:06 AM
Yes, it's been available for several hours.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: MMaRsu on June 18, 2019, 11:25:46 AM
Damn some shit like that would make you want to double dip.. but I can understand you are not made of money

I cant even afford this shit right now sadly :( will buy asap
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 18, 2019, 11:34:44 AM
Damn some shit like that would make you want to double dip.. but I can understand you are not made of money

I cant even afford this shit right now sadly :( will buy asap

The messed up thing is that he did double-dip- the KS backer options provided both digital and physical copies depending on the tier. 
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 18, 2019, 11:37:42 AM
Some REEEEEjects are saying they're completing the story and getting about 98% completion running about 20 hours.  That's plenty long for me.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: MMaRsu on June 18, 2019, 12:22:43 PM
already?
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Coax on June 18, 2019, 12:29:38 PM
Shovel Knight playable character. Ayyy.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: MMaRsu on June 18, 2019, 01:02:13 PM
Fuxx it i buy it
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 18, 2019, 01:05:05 PM
Yes, it's been available for several hours.
GoG and PS4 were the last sets of codes they were working on over the night. Oh hey backers will get the soundtrack, forgot about that. OST codes will be available after the Switch launch.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Occam on June 18, 2019, 01:15:40 PM
What do you mean "were working on"? They still haven't sent out the US PS4 codes.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 18, 2019, 01:21:38 PM
What do you mean "were working on"? They still haven't sent out the US PS4 codes.
Wow that sucks.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: MMaRsu on June 18, 2019, 01:26:59 PM
Im sure this wasnt posted yet but its glorious (* only watched the part with iga because no spoilers for me dawg *)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi7Wzl3YHjU
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 18, 2019, 01:31:55 PM
Ok... I had to stop at 1:17... FUUUUUUU!!   I had no idea of the character customization and that extra shit?!?!  Fuck this week and it's longness!   :punch
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 18, 2019, 01:42:42 PM
https://twitter.com/SwordOrWhip/status/1141027233198465024
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Occam on June 18, 2019, 01:43:03 PM
Awesome. :(

Big thanks to 505 (publisher) for not requesting the codes in a timely fashion.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Freyj on June 18, 2019, 02:23:35 PM
They did the same shit with Curse of the Moon lol.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 18, 2019, 02:40:40 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI2eVrwa_YE
Jim really likes it.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Occam on June 18, 2019, 03:57:41 PM
Adding insult to injury:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Nelstar15/status/1141000464948842497


So they do have PS4 codes- for amateur advertisers.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Nintex on June 18, 2019, 04:04:51 PM
This looks so good holy shit. Iga actually delilvered.

Not releasing here physical until the 21st though
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: kingv on June 18, 2019, 07:05:40 PM
Really want this on switch for an upcoming trip, but sort of worried about a dog shit port. They’re saying 720P/30FPS which seems sort of bad.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Tasty on June 18, 2019, 08:09:01 PM
Why would a modern sidescroller ever allow sub-60fps?

For that matter why isn't this 2D sprites
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: toku on June 18, 2019, 08:09:44 PM
Why would a modern sidescroller ever allow sub-60fps?

For that matter why isn't this 2D sprites

$$$
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 18, 2019, 08:24:33 PM
Really want this on switch for an upcoming trip, but sort of worried about a dog shit port. They’re saying 720P/30FPS which seems sort of bad.

Yeah, this really makes me wonder what happened-

This game scales down really well- the Steam page even says it will run on "potato PCs," lol.  Without undervolting, it runs pretty decently on my GPD WIN 2- with a sub-720P resolution it's got to be 40-50 FPS.  Can probably get it go close to 60, so it makes me wonder what's up with the Switch port.  They should have offered a lower res/higher framerate option or something, although if it ends up a solid 30, it probably won't matter too much.  Let's wait and see how it plays when it releases.  That said, am definitely playing this on PC over consoles.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Tasty on June 18, 2019, 08:48:01 PM
Whatever port shop they got is likely bottom of the barrel. #LazyDevs
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on June 18, 2019, 08:59:24 PM
For that matter why isn't this 2D sprites

Eh, it's 2019, I think we're well past the acceptance that 3d appeals more than 2d in sales,
also it's been like 20 years of 2.5d and there's been enough examples that 2.5d is a pretty fine replacement for 2d. Just look at Guilty Gear Xrd.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Tasty on June 18, 2019, 09:01:06 PM
If you're a sidescrolling platformer and not hitting 60fps in 2019, I'm gonna ask some questions.

Mostly: what the fuck were they thinking.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on June 18, 2019, 09:03:39 PM
If you're a sidescrolling platformer and not hitting 60fps in 2019, I'm gonna ask some questions.

Mostly: what the fuck were they thinking.

This is true though.

Getting this on PC because of the 30fps.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Steve Youngblood on June 18, 2019, 09:12:10 PM
If you're a sidescrolling platformer and not hitting 60fps in 2019, I'm gonna ask some questions.

Mostly: what the fuck were they thinking.

People didn’t complain loudly enough about those MercurySteam 3DS games like Samus Returns or the shitty Castlevania game.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: thisismyusername on June 18, 2019, 09:15:10 PM
>Buying indy games
>Buying kickstarter indy games at that
>On Shitch

:girlaff Your own fault, buckaroos. PC forever in indie shit. :rejoice
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: TVC15 on June 18, 2019, 10:30:52 PM
This is the tits.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Akala on June 18, 2019, 11:34:01 PM
This is the tits.

Badly tattooed at that.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: kingv on June 19, 2019, 12:28:52 AM
If you're a sidescrolling platformer and not hitting 60fps in 2019, I'm gonna ask some questions.

Mostly: what the fuck were they thinking.

This is true though.

Getting this on PC because of the 30fps.

It’s not like the switch cant handle it. This is made on unity isn’t it? Unity games always run like trash.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: TVC15 on June 19, 2019, 01:17:57 AM
Unreal.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on June 19, 2019, 02:24:40 AM
Played some of this. Pretty cool. I'd forgotten Igavania's had the absorb enemy ability thing. Definitely separates it from all the other Metroidvanias in the last bunch of years. The gotta catch 'em all feel is strong. Also forgot about the different weapons (I haven't re-played SoTN since the PS1 classic came out on PS3, so it's been a while).

Music is a total pleasure. Missed that style Yamane.

Only thing I'm not 100% on is the character movement, I guess if I went back to SotN the physics are probably pretty close to this, but compared to stuff like Hollow Knight or Guacamelee the controls feel a lot slower/floatier than I'm used to in metroidvania's these days.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on June 19, 2019, 04:00:55 AM
The art direction in this game is really on point. Lot of nice looking areas already.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 19, 2019, 07:49:25 AM
PS4 version is currently borked.

https://twitter.com/GameSack/status/1141196388664872965
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Rufus on June 19, 2019, 08:46:31 AM
Target half-a-dozen platforms on a shoestring budget? Shit happens.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: kingv on June 19, 2019, 10:03:58 AM
Unreal.

Maybe it will get fixed. I really gotta see impressions next week I think. If the frame rate is steady it will probably be passable.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: TVC15 on June 19, 2019, 11:49:08 AM
It’s buggy. In three hours, I managed to make an item in my inventory disappear and twice I haven’t been able to pick up an enemy drop. This is with the patch. On pS4 Pro.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Himu on June 19, 2019, 12:17:19 PM
what is curse of the moon? i thought bloodstained was out because people are talking about it but apparently there was curse of the moon last year? Is ROTN dlc?
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Rufus on June 19, 2019, 12:20:54 PM
NES-style appetizer. Been out for a while.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/838310/Bloodstained_Curse_of_the_Moon/
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: TVC15 on June 19, 2019, 12:28:20 PM
You’ll love ROTN, Cindi. It’s like a fist in the ass and a cock in the mouth.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Himu on June 19, 2019, 12:30:11 PM
NES-style appetizer. Been out for a while.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/838310/Bloodstained_Curse_of_the_Moon/

Appetizer? That's the main damn course. There are only two Igavania's worth their shit, maybe three - Symphony and Aria. I vastly prefer classic Castlevania so I didn't know this was a thing, and holy fuck I might have to get this eventually.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: TVC15 on June 19, 2019, 12:34:16 PM
I only love SOTN. The others were fun but ultimately forgettable and samey.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 19, 2019, 12:34:30 PM
It's good.  It has branching paths, huge bosses and multiple characters to switch on the fly. 
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: TVC15 on June 19, 2019, 12:35:04 PM
And they were on very shitty hardware.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Himu on June 19, 2019, 12:36:48 PM
It's good.  It has branching paths, huge bosses and multiple characters to switch on the fly.

:gladbron
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: HardcoreRetro on June 19, 2019, 12:38:55 PM
It's basically a Castlevania 3 fan-game.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Himu on June 19, 2019, 12:39:50 PM
CV III is the best Vania :gladbron
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: MMaRsu on June 19, 2019, 12:46:03 PM
NES-style appetizer. Been out for a while.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/838310/Bloodstained_Curse_of_the_Moon/
There are only two Igavania's worth their shit, maybe three - Symphony and Aria.

(https://media.giphy.com/media/hSse6ikaFYehW/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Tasty on June 19, 2019, 12:53:52 PM
Curse of the Moon is *fantastic*. If it were longer it'd be way more my type of shit than Shovel Knight, etc.

Linear 2D 'Vania :rejoice

Castlevania III :: Curse of the Moon
Symphony of the Night :: Ritual of the Night
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Tasty on June 19, 2019, 12:55:22 PM
Wouldn't surprise me if I end up liking Curse more than Ritual at the end of the day, lol.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Himu on June 19, 2019, 12:58:46 PM
I don't hate easy games. As long as the games are good I'll have fun :rejoice
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: TVC15 on June 19, 2019, 01:00:22 PM
Early in ROTN, I’d say normal is about SOTN difficulty, with bosses that (so far) are a bit tougher (they were all first time cakewalks in SOTN).
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: TVC15 on June 19, 2019, 01:01:34 PM
The shards system also seems like it could lead to the fun kind of game breaking/min maxing. We’ll see.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Himu on June 19, 2019, 01:01:52 PM
How does Bloodstained promise to be refreshing? Metroidvania has exploded in recent in years and the formula was wearing thin with CV by the time Portrait and Ecclesia dropped.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: TVC15 on June 19, 2019, 01:08:48 PM
I don’t think refreshing is a selling point on this game, but if it helps, at least you won’t be dealing with the same enemies with the same attack patterns using sprites from the SNES and PS1 again. Changing the movement pattern of Castlevania bats = Igavania innovation.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: paprikastaude on June 19, 2019, 01:23:45 PM
no street dates broken and tomorrow is public holiday. :fbm
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: MMaRsu on June 19, 2019, 01:24:45 PM
It is heartwarming seeing this on torrents

(https://i.ibb.co/s2MCKLt/igavania-torrent.png)
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on June 19, 2019, 01:32:49 PM
lol, this game is going to sell incredibly well. I don't think there's any worry about that. Everyone on my steam friend's list was playing this yesterday.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Himu on June 19, 2019, 01:34:15 PM
"Iga needs all the help he can get making these kinds of games again."

*five years later*

"Is anyone else sick of Bloodstained franchise? This is the sixth one in six years and the graphics haven't improved a bit. Is this wearing thin for anyone else?"
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 19, 2019, 01:43:59 PM
Seeing how this one took four+ I kind of doubt they'd be able to shit them out that fast even with asset recycling. :doge
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Tasty on June 19, 2019, 02:01:24 PM
"Iga needs all the help he can get making these kinds of games again."

*five years later*

"Is anyone else sick of Bloodstained franchise? This is the sixth one in six years and the graphics haven't improved a bit. Is this wearing thin for anyone else?"

Human thinking changes in response to different contexts?! :o
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 19, 2019, 02:02:38 PM
It is heartwarming seeing this on torrents

(https://i.ibb.co/s2MCKLt/igavania-torrent.png)

So you downloaded it?  :doge
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Himu on June 19, 2019, 02:07:38 PM
"Iga needs all the help he can get making these kinds of games again."

*five years later*

"Is anyone else sick of Bloodstained franchise? This is the sixth one in six years and the graphics haven't improved a bit. Is this wearing thin for anyone else?"

Human thinking changes in response to different contexts?! :o

:o
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: MMaRsu on June 19, 2019, 02:19:41 PM
It is heartwarming seeing this on torrents

(https://i.ibb.co/s2MCKLt/igavania-torrent.png)

So you downloaded it?  :doge

Well yea before I bought it, to see if it would even work on my system which even though my pc is powerful enough some games don't support a certain subset of cpu instructions so that may screw me.

Strangely enough the Steam version was compatible with the pirate version save file wise? Oh well I just started over to get any ( havent looked at them ) achievements.
Was thinking of buying the DLC as well but 10 bucks .. eehs

Steam profile as proof of purchase :P https://steamcommunity.com/id/MMaRsu
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: toku on June 19, 2019, 03:11:42 PM
All the GBA Iga games are worth it but Aria's the best with Circle close behind it. The DS games are weird but I know they have fans.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Tasty on June 19, 2019, 03:15:54 PM
"Iga needs all the help he can get making these kinds of games again."

*five years later*

"Is anyone else sick of Bloodstained franchise? This is the sixth one in six years and the graphics haven't improved a bit. Is this wearing thin for anyone else?"

Human thinking changes in response to different contexts?! :o

:o

:P
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: MMaRsu on June 19, 2019, 03:16:19 PM
Yeah Circle is awesome. It was actually my first Metroidvania game ever as I didn't even play SOTN till it came out on the 360. Probably never knew it even existed back in the PS1 days. Never played a demo of it, and I played so many demo's haha. I probably would have loved it then too.

So weird then how I never bothered to buy the other two GBA games. I will probably have to rectify that mistake pretty soon.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Tasty on June 19, 2019, 03:16:52 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5KOhJqNofs

2015 :rejoice

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And some 👻 spoopy 👻 background on the shoot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZkVWcvVmNI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGOQBMR41_w
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Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Tasty on June 19, 2019, 03:17:50 PM
All the GBA Iga games are worth it but Aria's the best with Circle close behind it. The DS games are weird but I know they have fans.

What's the main differences between the DS and GBA games? Because at the time the impression I got was the DS games were the new hotness, especially Ecclesia.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Steve Youngblood on June 19, 2019, 03:46:08 PM
All the GBA Iga games are worth it but Aria's the best with Circle close behind it. The DS games are weird but I know they have fans.

What's the main differences between the DS and GBA games? Because at the time the impression I got was the DS games were the new hotness, especially Ecclesia.

Dawn of Sorrow is a pretty good follow-up to Aria that suffers from bad anime art and touch screen gimmicks. Ecclesia is good and makes some strides towards making a Castlevania game that's not piss easy again. It's a bit different though and not everyone loves that. A significant chunk of the game takes place in completely segmented off sub-levels that are often way more linear than the open castle design you're used to exploring. For that matter, just getting to Dracula's Castle at all involves an annoying fetch quest of saving all the villagers.

Portrait of Ruin I barely remember outside of it being the one where you switched between two characters on the fly, right? I liked it at the time, but it left no lasting impression clearly.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Himu on June 19, 2019, 03:54:05 PM
Circle of the Moon - the best and most well rounded Igavania not named Aria or Symphony

Harmony of Disspnance - poop

Aria of Sorrow - finally a successor to SotN. Has the most interesting plot in a Castlevania game. Contender for favorite Metroidvania and overlooked because of its big brother Symphony.

Dawn of Sorrow - I made a custom weapon in this and used it 3/4 the entire game. Horrible QA. Boring follow up to Aria besides Julius mode which rocks.

Portrait of Ruin - uses interesting JONATHON!!!! CHARLOTTE!!!!! gimmick, has more classic Castlevania-isms to it than previous games but is ultimately forgettable.

Order of Ecclesia - fun at first but gets boring quick. Never finished was done with Igavania and hoping he was kicked from Castlevania after it. He was.



 
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Himu on June 19, 2019, 04:28:41 PM
Order’s main character design is one of the best of all time. Agreed.
 
Bloodstained main character looks rad too.

Did they ever manage to get Kojima involved in Bloodstained?
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: MMaRsu on June 19, 2019, 04:31:35 PM
How is Harmony of Despair? I see that is available for the 360 but I never played it, its bc too
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Himu on June 19, 2019, 04:32:55 PM
How is Harmony of Despair? I see that is available for the 360 but I never played it, its bc too

It has its fans. It’s basically multiplayer Igavania. Sceneman is big on it. He’s the guy to go to about that.

I checked out on Igavania after of Order so I never bothered to play it beyond the demo.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Sho Nuff on June 19, 2019, 04:35:07 PM
Harmony of Despair is some weird shit. The gimmick is that you can hit a button and show THE ENTIRE FUCKING CASTLE AT ONCE on a 1080p display which I was like fuuuuuuuck that's awesome. I think it's best played in Coop? It's a weird game for sure.

Playing Portrait of Ruin right now and having a great time. It's the only one of the DS games I hadn't played.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: toku on June 19, 2019, 04:50:58 PM

Aria of Sorrow - finally a successor to SotN. Has the most interesting plot in a Castlevania game. Contender for favorite Metroidvania and overlooked because of its big brother Symphony.


I think Iga agrees with you (us) too. Didn't he say in an interview or something that if he could go back to castlevania and do 100% what he wanted he'd go back to this modern timeline and do another fight against dracula again properly or something like that. The main impression being he wanted to do another contemporary set CV.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Beezy on June 19, 2019, 04:59:07 PM
How is Harmony of Despair? I see that is available for the 360 but I never played it, its bc too

It has its fans. It’s basically multiplayer Igavania. Sceneman is big on it. He’s the guy to go to about that.

I checked out on Igavania after of Order so I never bothered to play it beyond the demo.
It was amazing if you had at least one other person to play with. I can't imagine playing it alone.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Occam on June 19, 2019, 05:21:01 PM
Just got my digital code. The pain is over.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: MMaRsu on June 19, 2019, 05:21:33 PM
Damn ok so no buy then :(

Anyway just met Todd in Bloodstained! Wow!
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on June 19, 2019, 05:26:35 PM
I liked all the igavanias /shrug

Except the weird one with touch controls.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Chooky on June 19, 2019, 05:43:19 PM
Did they ever manage to get Kojima involved in Bloodstained?

(https://i.ibb.co/HXFtZkz/443657dc44e4f7af72963f864be26a38-original.jpg) (https://ibb.co/ZNLB9k8)
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Chooky on June 19, 2019, 05:45:27 PM

Aria of Sorrow - finally a successor to SotN. Has the most interesting plot in a Castlevania game. Contender for favorite Metroidvania and overlooked because of its big brother Symphony.


I think Iga agrees with you (us) too. Didn't he say in an interview or something that if he could go back to castlevania and do 100% what he wanted he'd go back to this modern timeline and do another fight against dracula again properly or something like that. The main impression being he wanted to do another contemporary set CV.

he said recently he had ideas for two more CV games, with one of them being the backstory to Aria. no hint as to the other one.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Occam on June 19, 2019, 05:45:53 PM
Installed. Here we go!
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on June 19, 2019, 05:46:16 PM
Did Kojima not design the characters? I just assumed she did since they look very usual CV post-SoTN.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Himu on June 19, 2019, 05:49:59 PM
I liked all the igavanias /shrug

Except the weird one with touch controls.

Dawn.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Himu on June 19, 2019, 05:51:09 PM
Did they ever manage to get Kojima involved in Bloodstained?

(https://i.ibb.co/HXFtZkz/443657dc44e4f7af72963f864be26a38-original.jpg) (https://ibb.co/ZNLB9k8)

Dear God :uguu

Did Kojima not design the characters? I just assumed she did since they look very usual CV post-SoTN.

As of the original KS, Kojima was not involved
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Nintex on June 19, 2019, 05:57:07 PM
I remember something about "The battle of 1999" being part of the Igavania hype back in the day.

For the Igavania's the sales dried up but so did the marketing and advertising.
Konami pushed other games (most notably Metal Gear Solid) much more than Castlevania which sort of became this sideshow on handhelds.

Handhelds also have sort of the same lifecycle where early in their lifespans the teens/adults would be the key audience and this sort of game would do well.
However, by year 4 or 5 the library would mostly focus on kids with smaller (cheaper) models.

It didn't help that Iga's series burned out just before downloadable indie games on console became popular and handheld gaming was expected to be replaced by smartphones.

Anyhow, did my part and placed my order today.  8)
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: MMaRsu on June 19, 2019, 06:03:43 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/C7K4fdS/lelijke-hoed.png)
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ugly hat
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: MMaRsu on June 19, 2019, 06:04:37 PM
Did they ever manage to get Kojima involved in Bloodstained?

(https://i.ibb.co/HXFtZkz/443657dc44e4f7af72963f864be26a38-original.jpg) (https://ibb.co/ZNLB9k8)

Chooky you cooky guy is there a higher quality link out there somewhere for us pitiful creatures
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 19, 2019, 06:30:22 PM
Got a shipping notification for the Kickstarter Switch version.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 19, 2019, 06:34:26 PM
Circle of the Moon - the best and most well rounded Igavania not named Aria or Symphony

Harmony of Disspnance - poop

Aria of Sorrow - finally a successor to SotN. Has the most interesting plot in a Castlevania game. Contender for favorite Metroidvania and overlooked because of its big brother Symphony.

Dawn of Sorrow - I made a custom weapon in this and used it 3/4 the entire game. Horrible QA. Boring follow up to Aria besides Julius mode which rocks.

Portrait of Ruin - uses interesting JONATHON!!!! CHARLOTTE!!!!! gimmick, has more classic Castlevania-isms to it than previous games but is ultimately forgettable.

Order of Ecclesia - fun at first but gets boring quick. Never finished was done with Igavania and hoping he was kicked from Castlevania after it. He was.

For me it's also SOTN and Aria >>>>>>>>>>> Everything else.  I also never finished Ecclesia and still would like to go back and try it again sometime.  I never even got to the castle, lol.   I think the two PS2/Xbox-era CV games also count here, but I just couldn't get into them.  2D Igavania is the best Igavania.  I beat Harmony and got to the last bosses in Circle and the first two DS games, but never did beat them.  Circle at least needs another play-through sometime.  Dawn Of Sorrow was still good, but was a let down compared to Aria. 

If they ever gave Aria a SOTN-quality soundtrack, it would beat it for sure.  I put SOTN on top because it's the overall best all-around package, but Aria's game play is better and the setting/plot are more interesting, too.  Too bad we never got that Julius 1999 game.

Speaking of which...there's a nod to the latter in Bloodstained.  You'll get it if you have the DLC.  :)
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 19, 2019, 06:40:23 PM
Lament of Innocence was actually decently, tolerable.  Arguably the best 3D CV.  The controls were fast and responsive, music was beautiful, and I liked that it was the Belmont origin story.  It certainly had its flaws transferring to 3d, but it could've turned out way worse... but wanted to give it a shout out.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Occam on June 19, 2019, 06:46:50 PM
Fun game, glad I helped fund it. But I'll try to stay far away from 505 Games from now on, and I hope so will IGA.
Unfortunately the way this kickstarter was handled and how they didn't deliver what was promised to the backers soured lots of people, meaning any future kickstarters won't rake in anywhere near as much as this one did.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Himu on June 19, 2019, 06:55:56 PM
The 3d vania games diminish Iga’s vania legacy even further tbh
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Chooky on June 19, 2019, 07:08:48 PM
Lament of Innocence was actually decently, tolerable.  Arguably the best 3D CV.  The controls were fast and responsive, music was beautiful, and I liked that it was the Belmont origin story.  It certainly had its flaws transferring to 3d, but it could've turned out way worse... but wanted to give it a shout out.

agreed. game was budget as hell and the level design was trash, but it was still a fun game with very solid and fun combat. i still go back to it every once in a while.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: toku on June 19, 2019, 07:31:56 PM
Can't comment on 3d CV games because I thought they all sucked until Lords of Shadow and even that wasn't perfect while shamelessly ripping off God of War (but with way more platforming and running around in circles ofc). First one is a solid 7, maybe an 8 if I put on my rose tinted glasses. Second is legitimately awful and worth the scorn it gets but I just choose to ignore it. I wouldn't put any of the PS2 games past a 4 or 5. Some great art and designs, good scores too but they looked and felt goofy as hell. Iga should have really spent more time figure out 3D spaces or just stuck to 2d.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACPhBIgaKEs


spoiler (click to show/hide)
Devil May Cry 1 still the best 3d Castlevania we've ever had. Bless up
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Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Himu on June 19, 2019, 08:36:10 PM
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Devil May Cry 1 still the best 3d Castlevania we've ever had. Bless up

So true.

I never understood why they didn't take the fundamentals of RE and apply it CV. It's an obvious combination.

If Rygar ps2 can be good why couldn't they make a good 3d CV? I never got it. I still don't.

I mean look at this shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAro6pyerZE
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 19, 2019, 11:37:16 PM
I got a shield!  Seemed kinda lame, but then I tried it and you can use it to parry enemy attacks holy fuck!  :o

Then I fought Solid Snake Zantetsu!  HOLY FUCK!  :o :o

:bow 'STAINED! :bow2
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 20, 2019, 12:18:12 AM
I got a shield!  Seemed kinda lame, but then I tried it and you can use it to parry enemy attacks holy fuck!  :o

Then I fought Solid Snake Zantetsu!  HOLY FUCK!  :o :o

:bow 'STAINED! :bow2
That's about the same spot I got up to. Lemme know if you figure out where to get the
spoiler (click to show/hide)
giant hand shard
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Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on June 20, 2019, 12:19:44 AM
You can parry right from the start with the Katana with F,F+X. I know this because I'm a weeb and any game that offers a Katana build I always go for that. It's doing good so far. The arc of the swing starts a little lower so you can hit grounded enemies like plants that you can't hit with a sword and otherwise it's just generally a sword with a parry and that.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 20, 2019, 12:43:52 AM
You can parry right from the start with the Katana with F,F+X. I know this because I'm a weeb and any game that offers a Katana build I always go for that. It's doing good so far. The arc of the swing starts a little lower so you can hit grounded enemies like plants that you can't hit with a sword and otherwise it's just generally a sword with a parry and that.

Nice!  The shield doesn't need any inputs though and feels a bit faster than the katana.  I do miss that arc however.  I started with the Gamesack sword, messed with the boots (rekkas!) and then switched to the katana before getting that shield.  Lots of crazy weapons pop up for sale with an 8-bit coin.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on June 20, 2019, 12:50:11 AM
You can parry right from the start with the Katana with F,F+X. I know this because I'm a weeb and any game that offers a Katana build I always go for that. It's doing good so far. The arc of the swing starts a little lower so you can hit grounded enemies like plants that you can't hit with a sword and otherwise it's just generally a sword with a parry and that.

Nice!  The shield doesn't need any inputs though and feels a bit faster than the katana.  I do miss that arc however.  I started with the Gamesack sword, messed with the boots (rekkas!) and then switched to the katana before getting that shield.  Lots of crazy weapons pop up for sale with an 8-bit coin.

 :o

I got the 8-bit coin but haven't been back to the shop. Wasn't sure what it was used for...
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: paprikastaude on June 20, 2019, 03:34:22 AM
Dawn of Sorrow is a pretty good follow-up to Aria that suffers from bad anime art and touch screen gimmicks.

When I replayed DoS recently on that big 3DS touch screen, the touch screen spells were actually fun to pull off with my hands and no stylus. And apart from the animu art, it's still one of the GoaTs :rejoice
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: HardcoreRetro on June 20, 2019, 05:42:49 AM
Is there a porn parody called Cumstained: Ritual of the Night yet?
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: MMaRsu on June 20, 2019, 07:07:31 AM
(https://imgshare.io/images/2019/06/20/Screenshot_20190620-130047_MTP-application.jpg)

My new lock screen after 2 years of P5 background
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 20, 2019, 07:18:19 AM
If you got affected by the 1.02 patch on PS4, you have to restart the game- and they're saying the same will happen on Xbox and Switch when they receive the same patch.  Why are they not holding these updates back on those platforms until they FIX THE PROBLEM?  :dizzy

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We have been investigating a PS4/Xbox One issue that is blocking player progress in the game. We apologize for this bug and thank you for your patience while we investigate.
The issue occurs when a new game is started before downloading the 1.02 update. After the update, treasure chests will appear in the incorrect open/closed state.
 
Without the items from these chests, progress is blocked.
 
Players affected by this bug will be required to restart the game with a new save in order to properly progress.
 
We investigated a number of options to address this issue and each fix requires a new game to be started. Despite our efforts to provide a fix that preserves pre-1.02 progress, this is the best solution to avoid future issues. 
 
Xbox One players will also be affected by this when the 1.02 patch is delivered next week. Switch players who have a physical copy should download the 1.02 patch before playing.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 20, 2019, 07:19:19 AM
Is there a porn parody called Cumstained: Ritual of the Night yet?

"Bloodstained" makes me think of that South Park Chipotle episode.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 20, 2019, 07:53:26 AM
If you got affected by the 1.02 patch on PS4, you have to restart the game- and they're saying the same will happen on Xbox and Switch when they receive the same patch.  Why are they not holding these updates back on those platforms until they FIX THE PROBLEM?  :dizzy

Quote
We have been investigating a PS4/Xbox One issue that is blocking player progress in the game. We apologize for this bug and thank you for your patience while we investigate.
The issue occurs when a new game is started before downloading the 1.02 update. After the update, treasure chests will appear in the incorrect open/closed state.
 
Without the items from these chests, progress is blocked.
 
Players affected by this bug will be required to restart the game with a new save in order to properly progress.
 
We investigated a number of options to address this issue and each fix requires a new game to be started. Despite our efforts to provide a fix that preserves pre-1.02 progress, this is the best solution to avoid future issues. 
 
Xbox One players will also be affected by this when the 1.02 patch is delivered next week. Switch players who have a physical copy should download the 1.02 patch before playing.
About how far in the the game is this glitch?  Guess it's a good thing I haven't been able to plat it yet.  :doge
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 20, 2019, 08:08:42 AM
It seems like it can happen at any time.  It shouldn't be an issue for you since you haven't started playing it yet. 

But this is a game-breaking bug and needs to be addressed ASAP.  I don't like "you should just start over" as their current workaround.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: demi on June 20, 2019, 10:09:59 AM
thanks for beta testing PLEBS LUL

will wait for the fixed version when it appears on GWG / PS+
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: MMaRsu on June 20, 2019, 10:37:25 AM
Or just play on pc

 :yeshrug
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 20, 2019, 12:30:41 PM
Here's a bunch of codes you can enter as your name when starting new games to start with bonus weapons/helmets, do big head mode, and unlock hard/nightmare difficulty:

https://www.yekbot.com/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night-cheat-codes/

Or just play on pc

 :yeshrug

:respect
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: MMaRsu on June 20, 2019, 12:47:06 PM
Cheats  :rejoice
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: The Sceneman on June 20, 2019, 10:41:49 PM
How is Harmony of Despair? I see that is available for the 360 but I never played it, its bc too

It has its fans. It’s basically multiplayer Igavania. Sceneman is big on it. He’s the guy to go to about that.


Its a weird game but pretty good if you're into IGAvania. Trent Dole and myself played it a bunch in its heyday - it was very good when you could always get a full lobby.

It's basically a multiplayer level rush game - with lots of grinding for rare loot drops. Not really sure what its similar to, maybe raids in WoW? You basically fight the same bosses over and over for their rare drops, and your goal is maxing out your character by using spells, sub-weapons, racking up kills etc.

Probably not worth playing without the community but it was sweet at the time - especially how DLC was dropping regularly. The dlc did cost a lot too but damn it was worth it
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 20, 2019, 10:42:54 PM
HoD still had people playing on weekends for AGES. I'd go play something else and then hop on HoD again and people would still be there. If I still had gold I'd hop on once in awhile. ...You think once IGA had made a few of these there'll be a BS version? There's already 3 playable people planned for this game.
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And you can get Shovel Knight armor as well apparently
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Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bluemax on June 21, 2019, 01:03:48 AM
Why would a modern sidescroller ever allow sub-60fps?

For that matter why isn't this 2D sprites

The Japanese dev team working on this apparently had a tooooon of problems with UE4. It used to literally overheat Switches is what I heard.

If you're a sidescrolling platformer and not hitting 60fps in 2019, I'm gonna ask some questions.

Mostly: what the fuck were they thinking.

This is true though.

Getting this on PC because of the 30fps.

It’s not like the switch cant handle it. This is made on unity isn’t it? Unity games always run like trash.

This is blatantly false, and I say that as someone who would never ship another console game on Unity if at all possible.

If you got affected by the 1.02 patch on PS4, you have to restart the game- and they're saying the same will happen on Xbox and Switch when they receive the same patch.  Why are they not holding these updates back on those platforms until they FIX THE PROBLEM?  :dizzy

Quote
We have been investigating a PS4/Xbox One issue that is blocking player progress in the game. We apologize for this bug and thank you for your patience while we investigate.
The issue occurs when a new game is started before downloading the 1.02 update. After the update, treasure chests will appear in the incorrect open/closed state.
 
Without the items from these chests, progress is blocked.
 
Players affected by this bug will be required to restart the game with a new save in order to properly progress.
 
We investigated a number of options to address this issue and each fix requires a new game to be started. Despite our efforts to provide a fix that preserves pre-1.02 progress, this is the best solution to avoid future issues. 
 
Xbox One players will also be affected by this when the 1.02 patch is delivered next week. Switch players who have a physical copy should download the 1.02 patch before playing.

Once your patch gets past a certain point int he pipeline there's no going back :/ And you can't roll back.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Occam on June 21, 2019, 08:15:36 AM
The only advantage I got from not receiving the game at launch: When I downloaded it on PS4 on the 19th, the 1.02 patch was already included.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 21, 2019, 08:25:25 AM
Finally get to start this fucker tonight.  ::)
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: The Sceneman on June 21, 2019, 10:16:38 AM
bluemax running shit

Listen to bluemax or sit back down  :ufup

Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Freyj on June 21, 2019, 11:16:31 AM
nearly done but game definitely suffers from the same bizarre progression / backtracking issues that igavanias always had so true to the source material there, it’s as bad as harmony in some cases and I’m still scratching my head to figure out if there was a different way to progress at one point than to grind a specific demon’s shard drop and I don’t think there was
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: kingv on June 21, 2019, 12:04:31 PM
Why would a modern sidescroller ever allow sub-60fps?

For that matter why isn't this 2D sprites

The Japanese dev team working on this apparently had a tooooon of problems with UE4. It used to literally overheat Switches is what I heard.

If you're a sidescrolling platformer and not hitting 60fps in 2019, I'm gonna ask some questions.

Mostly: what the fuck were they thinking.

This is true though.

Getting this on PC because of the 30fps.

It’s not like the switch cant handle it. This is made on unity isn’t it? Unity games always run like trash.

This is blatantly false, and I say that as someone who would never ship another console game on Unity if at all possible.

If you got affected by the 1.02 patch on PS4, you have to restart the game- and they're saying the same will happen on Xbox and Switch when they receive the same patch.  Why are they not holding these updates back on those platforms until they FIX THE PROBLEM?  :dizzy

Quote
We have been investigating a PS4/Xbox One issue that is blocking player progress in the game. We apologize for this bug and thank you for your patience while we investigate.
The issue occurs when a new game is started before downloading the 1.02 update. After the update, treasure chests will appear in the incorrect open/closed state.
 
Without the items from these chests, progress is blocked.
 
Players affected by this bug will be required to restart the game with a new save in order to properly progress.
 
We investigated a number of options to address this issue and each fix requires a new game to be started. Despite our efforts to provide a fix that preserves pre-1.02 progress, this is the best solution to avoid future issues. 
 
Xbox One players will also be affected by this when the 1.02 patch is delivered next week. Switch players who have a physical copy should download the 1.02 patch before playing.

Once your patch gets past a certain point int he pipeline there's no going back :/ And you can't roll back.

I just remember there being a bunch of Switch unity games that ran like dog shit or were delayed because they had trouble getting the engine to work properly on the switch.

Yooka-Laylee, overcooked, that teleporting game that was kind of like hotline Miami, night chasers are the ones that immediately come to mind.

Also Remember this being a common complaint on several ps4 unity games like broforce.

Most of those are pretty old though, so I guess it’s been fixed.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on June 21, 2019, 12:05:01 PM
Wait, progression is blocked behind RNG shard grinding and not mandatory boss power-ups? Why would you do that. That seems strangely bad design out of place.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Freyj on June 21, 2019, 12:27:59 PM
Wait, progression is blocked behind RNG shard grinding and not mandatory boss power-ups? Why would you do that. That seems strangely bad design out of place.

I mean it took 3 minutes in the room before you needed it but like I said I’m still not 100% sure it was necessary but the progression is so odd at times regardless. It’s very igavania.

edit: I looked up a few guides and that does seem to be the intended route. Sometimes the store NPC will give you hints on how to proceed and she probably mentions it but man it’s kinda dumb.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 21, 2019, 02:54:02 PM
I got past where I was stuck, just went through one door I hadn't before and had access too. 'Wait I just hadn't gone here already?' :lol Opened up a bunch more to wander around. I only stopped cause it was late/early and needed to try to sleep.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Occam on June 21, 2019, 03:54:04 PM
By the way, you can use the Bloodbringer familiar and the Bloodbringer sword at the same time if you assign the Bloodbringer sword to a shortcut, then activate the familar, then select the shortcut.
I discovered this when playing around with Bloodbringer today. I'm pretty sure this is a glitch and you aren't supposed to have the sword and familiar active at the same time because it's really powerful (the stronger the familiar gets, the more damage the sword does); when you try to equip the sword the usual way using the inventory you can only do it if the familiar is inactive.

I am currently at level 25, 25% in and I can kill any enemy with 1-2 hits. My sword familiar is at level 21 and does 53 damage per hit while the sword does 43. The Critical Ring makes it even better. And because I keep using the familiar it continues to level up.
The strongest weapons I could buy at the moment do ~30 damage. I'd say that makes this combo overpowered.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Nintex on June 22, 2019, 09:00:19 AM
Played this for one hour.

This is SOTN 2

 :gladbron :lawd :whew :rejoice :uguu
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 22, 2019, 12:04:41 PM
Yeah this game is fantastic.  Only problem is, is that I need more time to play it.  :doge .  Loved hearing Hayter again.  The shield shard is crazy powerful and makes it way more a breeze traversing.  I'm some ways past the Giant Hand part, iirc.  It was like 3am, so I can't remember exactly. Lol
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: paprikastaude on June 22, 2019, 12:17:44 PM
Have only encountered one bug in 5 hours on PS4 unpatched :idont The rumble wouldn't stop at one point, other than that, nothing so far.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Freyj on June 22, 2019, 01:39:04 PM
PC has been super smooth other than drops sometimes getting stuck in walls
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on June 22, 2019, 01:51:51 PM
This Zangetsu fight at the beginning is fucking bullshit. Feels like the type of combat that works when you have a roll/dodge or block button. I still get hit with the step back and whenever I try to jump over and behind him he jumps up and slashes me. Can't even get past phase 1 wtf.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on June 22, 2019, 01:58:54 PM
And I beat him on my next try :|
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 22, 2019, 04:02:19 PM
To totally nit pick some, the music, although still great so far, hasn't been as jammin' as SotN.  I think it may just need to grow on me some...  So far from what I've heard, it's close to the level of Curse of Darkness... which wasn't her best.

Still.... wouldn't want anyone else to do the score..
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Freyj on June 22, 2019, 05:36:56 PM
There are some bullshit boss fights that the SOTN movement doesn’t really accommodate but just remember you can always take a few potions into them and power through.

Finished the true ending (and the others) and now looking at going for 100% but jesus some of these achievements are going to be a grind, especially the item completion one.

edit: and yeah the music is just okay to me, nothing to the level of SOTN, Aria, etc.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on June 22, 2019, 06:33:53 PM
Around 30% now after double jump, it’s weird how the bosses after Zangetsu have been a joke. Strange balance. Also I got that bunny suit transform and it uses so little MP and does like 1.5x-2x damage my normal attacks I just use it regularly and kill everything in like 2 hits.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: paprikastaude on June 22, 2019, 06:37:27 PM
lmao everything about swimming in this game. thank god it's only like 3 minutes.

most bosses were cool so far.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on June 23, 2019, 12:12:53 AM
I think I’m stuck at that part mentioned on the last page where you need a normal enemy drop to advance?

I just finished the bone dragon tower boss (which was kinda bs, but just used some potions and facetanked it) and right now I’ve explored all the areas and I either need:

-some kind of dart that will reflect off mirrors and go through mid-air thin passageways?
-ability to swim underwater
-or bat flying ability

I think I’ve explored everywhere ~37% and the only roadblocks are rooms where I need one of those three abilities.

Any help?

*edit* - looked it up. Seems a lot of people get stuck at this point because you need to take the photograph from the bone dragon boss to the librarian to get the train pass. Librarian guy never said anything about a photograph to me? I only talked to him once and borrowed a book and he just said remember to bring it back and that was it -_-
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on June 23, 2019, 03:18:07 AM
Yeah, when I talked to him again it triggered the photograph/train conversation. They should make that conversation happen in the initial dialogue with him.

Anyhow, what's the connection story-wise between this and the 8-bit Bloodstained Curse of the Moon? Are they both the same game but with different graphics/map layouts/gameplay? I remember the ship and train parts in that one. Also same 4 main characters. Are they completely unrelated just different takes on the concept or is there an actual connection between the two story-wise?
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 23, 2019, 03:39:08 AM
Curse was initially planned to be a prequel but ended up being an AU/side story thing instead.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 23, 2019, 04:17:53 AM
Got to the Iga 8-bit nightmare... Shit's kinda brutal.  Had to stop there for the night. (4am atm  :doge). 
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Nintex on June 23, 2019, 08:02:42 AM
Zangetsu was hard to defeat. Here's a way to win without 'git gud' if you happen to get stuck there.
spoiler (click to show/hide)
- Level a bit (easily done with some backtracking) until you are level 9 or 10 or so
- Backtrack a bit behind the safehouse. You'll find a farmer, hand him the Rice Seed
- Do the sidequests of the lady in the staircase near the Alchemist and the Shop. (She asks you to kill a certain demon type, after you've done it about 4 more of such quests show up. They are easy to find in the castle, for one of them return to the shit)
- One of these will net you 3 full healing items + Max HP boost and some other helpful items (hold on to these for now)
- After you get the healing item return to the farmer. He'll have your rice ready.
- Go to the Alchemist and craft the Rice Balls (2 of them)
- Eat one Rice Ball for an easy Max HP boost
- Take the other Riceball to the shop. At the end there's an old lady asking you for food
- Give her the Rice Ball, she'll give you the Thorned Whip

The Thorned Whip is the most effective weapon because it outranges Zangetsu's sword. Try to get behind him or stay in front of him.
If found that running from one edge to the other works best. Do note that Zangetsu has a dagger to throw as well but that only does minor damage.
Learn the jump attack cancel. This is pretty easy. Do an attack right before you land from a jump and once you land you can do another attack.
Do note that recovering from a Whip slash takes a bit long so only do one hit at a time if you fail the jump attack.

The fight has two stages. If you're low on Ether I would recommend to hold on to your magic until the second stage.
The second stage of the fight is the toughest, he'll have a flaming sword and more HP. Repeat the above steps in terms of fighting strategy but keep a bigger distance, especially from his jump attacks
which end with an explosion. Use your healing items wisely and Zangetsu is pacified. 8)

If you're more of an aggresive type you can also buy the 'Estee' in the shop, which is a stronger rapier. The rapier has the advantage of landing 3 hits before Zangetsu can do one hit.
However, this is only recommend if you've mastered the backstep.

As far as Shards go, I found the demon hound summon and shockwave very effective and the higher grade True Arrow. Mostly because the animations are quick.
Something like the Fire Canon takes too long to travel and the Tentacle thing is rather slow.
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Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on June 23, 2019, 10:41:04 AM
Oh, that's where you get Rice. I still haven't been able to finish that old lady's food quest because I have a ton of food ingredients but never found rice and I have the rice seed. Will look for the farmer.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Freyj on June 23, 2019, 11:39:38 AM
At 41/45 achievements and that’s where I’ll stay. The changes to dismantling in 1.0.2 (Alkahest is 800g rather than 50g and the cost to dismantle used to be 2 Alkahest for every item) make item completion and the 500K gold achievements an enormous grind.

Also lack two Demon’s souls that are late game scenario spawns that each take about 3 minutes or so to get to and have a 4% chance to drop for whatever inane reason. No thanks.

I’ll never understand why the need to make that drastic of balancing changes to a single player game but whatever onto Judgment.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Nintex on June 23, 2019, 12:44:14 PM
Oh, that's where you get Rice. I still haven't been able to finish that old lady's food quest because I have a ton of food ingredients but never found rice and I have the rice seed. Will look for the farmer.
I'm a fan of the I suppose 'jankiness' of some of these quests. Stuff that's in the game, that's not even hinted at and you have to discover for yourself.
spoiler (click to show/hide)
If you don't go back behind the safehouse you'll never find the villagers there and I suppose you an finish the game without doing so.

I'm also seeing some chairs you can sit on that do 'nothing' yet, my bet is that with the right item or shard equipped that holds secrets

All we need next is an inverted castle DLC  :lawd
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Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 23, 2019, 12:57:03 PM
Oh, that's where you get Rice. I still haven't been able to finish that old lady's food quest because I have a ton of food ingredients but never found rice and I have the rice seed. Will look for the farmer.
I'm a fan of the I suppose 'jankiness' of some of these quests. Stuff that's in the game, that's not even hinted at and you have to discover for yourself.
spoiler (click to show/hide)
If you don't go back behind the safehouse you'll never find the villagers there and I suppose you an finish the game without doing so.

I'm also seeing some chairs you can sit on that do 'nothing' yet, my bet is that with the right item or shard equipped that holds secrets

All we need next is an inverted castle DLC  :lawd
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Based on one of the prior trailers, there's supposedly an "invert" shard and/or ability...
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Nintex on June 23, 2019, 01:06:43 PM
Oh, that's where you get Rice. I still haven't been able to finish that old lady's food quest because I have a ton of food ingredients but never found rice and I have the rice seed. Will look for the farmer.
I'm a fan of the I suppose 'jankiness' of some of these quests. Stuff that's in the game, that's not even hinted at and you have to discover for yourself.
spoiler (click to show/hide)
If you don't go back behind the safehouse you'll never find the villagers there and I suppose you an finish the game without doing so.

I'm also seeing some chairs you can sit on that do 'nothing' yet, my bet is that with the right item or shard equipped that holds secrets

All we need next is an inverted castle DLC  :lawd
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Based on one of the prior trailers, there's supposedly an "invert" shard and/or ability...

oooh

I like the music too btw. Is it SOTN level, too early to tell. But it is certainly great Castlevania music.  8)
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: paprikastaude on June 23, 2019, 01:13:41 PM
new ability in the lava stage  :gladbron
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 23, 2019, 01:34:01 PM
My Miriam currently looks like SF's Cammy.  :-*
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on June 23, 2019, 05:00:48 PM
Oh, there isn’t an upside down castle for 200%? I sorta expected there would be since this is very SoTN nostalgia plus Iga saying it’s his biggest game yet.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 23, 2019, 10:30:44 PM
The inverted castle is still there...
spoiler (click to show/hide)
Miriam gets an 'invert' skill at some point that lets you flip the castle over. :ohhh
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Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 23, 2019, 11:45:23 PM
Bebpo, the parry ability some swords have takes meter to use- the shield doesn't require it so you can nuts.  It's my go-to weapon and I have been able to wreck so many enemies with it so far.

Didn't have a chance to play for a few days and put in like four hours tonight with 26% map completion.  Spent a lot of time in the lower areas doing some farming and got the shovel knight EX armor and his shovel weapon, plus his summon ability.  The armor makes you strong, have good defense, and you can do the same attacks as the enemy version of him (without it taking meter), but that's it- you cannot do anything else so it feels like more of a novelty to me. 

Also went and farmed to get a faery familiar, did the piano thing, and she helps out every now and then I guess.  Got the bunny suit transformation immediately when killing that enemy.  Died and went back...got it again immediately.  Is it an important transformation or something?   ???

Zangetsu was hard to defeat. Here's a way to win without 'git gud' if you happen to get stuck there.
spoiler (click to show/hide)
- Level a bit (easily done with some backtracking) until you are level 9 or 10 or so
- Backtrack a bit behind the safehouse. You'll find a farmer, hand him the Rice Seed
- Do the sidequests of the lady in the staircase near the Alchemist and the Shop. (She asks you to kill a certain demon type, after you've done it about 4 more of such quests show up. They are easy to find in the castle, for one of them return to the shit)
- One of these will net you 3 full healing items + Max HP boost and some other helpful items (hold on to these for now)
- After you get the healing item return to the farmer. He'll have your rice ready.
- Go to the Alchemist and craft the Rice Balls (2 of them)
- Eat one Rice Ball for an easy Max HP boost
- Take the other Riceball to the shop. At the end there's an old lady asking you for food
- Give her the Rice Ball, she'll give you the Thorned Whip

The Thorned Whip is the most effective weapon because it outranges Zangetsu's sword. Try to get behind him or stay in front of him.
If found that running from one edge to the other works best. Do note that Zangetsu has a dagger to throw as well but that only does minor damage.
Learn the jump attack cancel. This is pretty easy. Do an attack right before you land from a jump and once you land you can do another attack.
Do note that recovering from a Whip slash takes a bit long so only do one hit at a time if you fail the jump attack.

The fight has two stages. If you're low on Ether I would recommend to hold on to your magic until the second stage.
The second stage of the fight is the toughest, he'll have a flaming sword and more HP. Repeat the above steps in terms of fighting strategy but keep a bigger distance, especially from his jump attacks
which end with an explosion. Use your healing items wisely and Zangetsu is pacified. 8)

If you're more of an aggresive type you can also buy the 'Estee' in the shop, which is a stronger rapier. The rapier has the advantage of landing 3 hits before Zangetsu can do one hit.
However, this is only recommend if you've mastered the backstep.

As far as Shards go, I found the demon hound summon and shockwave very effective and the higher grade True Arrow. Mostly because the animations are quick.
Something like the Fire Canon takes too long to travel and the Tentacle thing is rather slow.
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...Or just get the first 8-bit coin in the beginning of the game, buy :bow THE SHIELD :bow2, level up to at least 10, and parry his ass into oblivion.  He barely touched me. SHIELD
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 24, 2019, 07:45:27 AM
About at 45% map completion.  Got another busy ass week of work incoming.  Won't be able to play again till friday.  :goty2 :beli :noah :goty :foxx :rkelly 

I love the little unnecessary(?) touches like the glasses that can either zoom out, or into the screen.   Yeah, after the Zangetsu fight, every boss since has been a spam central cake walk so far.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Nintex on June 24, 2019, 05:10:43 PM
Worthwhile backtracking :lawd

Also some sweet tunes in the
spoiler (click to show/hide)
Tower of Twin Dragons
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Another nice touch
spoiler (click to show/hide)
Callabo... whatever, those Fairy things can discover breakable walls. YES, this game has hidden unmarked unbreakable walls  :rejoice
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What I love most about this game is that I have to figure shit out myself. Some characters give you small hints, but those are so minor they aren't much help.
All the attention to detail is crazy. It seems like the type of game that only after 2 years people find a hidden boss because they equipped the right item when they sat down on a chair.

Returning to your home base doesn't feel like a chore because there's always a new weapon or something else for sale when you return.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 24, 2019, 09:57:27 PM
The portrait shield is really good at finding hidden walls too.  You just activate it and run near walls, jump towards a cieling, or just walk across it and it hits them. 

Not sure where to go next.  Got the..
spoiler (click to show/hide)
Reflector beam shard and traversed through that narrow opening... Found Gebel... And killed him... Got the bad ending... Oops.  :doge. And holy shit... Iga' 8-bit Nightmare boss?... Need to git gud!  Old school hard shit. Will try it again later.
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Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Nintex on June 25, 2019, 05:58:13 PM
I'm completely stuck but this is easily the GOTY so far.

It is just sooo good. The music is relaxing and brings you in the zone  :rimshot
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on June 25, 2019, 06:06:34 PM
I've actually lost a lot of interest and not playing it much. It's solid but idk, I feel like the genre has advanced since the last Igavania and this just makes me want to play Hollow Knight 2.

I think my main issues around halfway are:

-After Zangetsu, every boss is a pushover that you can pretty much just face tank attack spam while dodging a few attacks here and there because you do so much damage. In retrospect, Zangetsu was the best boss because you actually needed to learn his attacks and how to avoid them. Games like Hollow Knight have excellent boss fights because you have to learn their patterns over multiple attempts.

-Normal enemies stop being a threat around post-Zangetsu as well because you do so much damage + familiar + magics, the area traversal is kind of boring. Compare that to HK where normal enemies can always kill you between save spots and you're always on edge; it's totally different. I mean pretty much nothing beats my bunny suit for the last bunch of hours. Just run up and 2-3 fast quicks and they're dead.

-Areas aren't super interesting and diverse with music and enemy types. A lot of it feels same-y.

-Abilities are interesting but you never need to use most and a ton are just "summon the enemy". Kinda boring.

-Quests are pretty dumb so far.

Game is ok, but I'm just getting bored at this point.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 25, 2019, 08:24:21 PM
I had a glimmer of the same feeling, but I was wrong in all aspects.  Iga's 8-bit Nightmare.. find it and try to fight THAT boss.  Enemies do get much more tough and the levels do get more dynamic too.  Shit is so good.
 This game has squeakie shoes, brehs... *pour some for my homey Wimp Lo

I wish I had the same feeling for HK, but it was way too slow of a burn for me... Played 4 hours and only explored, unlocked 2 abilities and had the same 1 weapon the whole time..  :doge
Maybe someday..
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: paprikastaude on June 25, 2019, 08:30:19 PM
felt it was ok in the beginning, but then it just kept getting better :yeshrug
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 25, 2019, 11:07:52 PM
Tried the Switch version.  It's not as bad as I've read some say it is...


...But I wouldn't play it on there over the versions, either.  :lol  You can immediately feel the downgrade to 30 FPS and the lower resolution is kinda rough.  That said, the game still looks pretty good on there and the framerate is consistent enough that the game play is still smooth.  If I didn't have any other platforms, I'd be fine playing it on here, but you're definitely going to want to get this on PS4, Xbone, or PC over this version.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on June 26, 2019, 01:03:30 AM
Ok maybe I'm just really hyped... but I think this might be Iga's best Vania ever?
spoiler (click to show/hide)
Holy FUCK invert is so cool. This is a thousand times cooler than inverted castle.
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Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on June 26, 2019, 01:04:48 AM
Does anyone else play almost exclusively in Lili transform? Shits so OP
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on June 26, 2019, 01:17:02 AM
Does anyone else play almost exclusively in Lili transform? Shits so OP

Yeah, it needs to drain MP so much faster.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on June 26, 2019, 01:41:06 AM
Does anyone else play almost exclusively in Lili transform? Shits so OP

Yeah, it needs to drain MP so much faster.

Yeah. After just a few meals that give permanent mana regen you can basically stay as Lili forever. Her bullet kicks are insane DPS.

That being said, I'm totally ok with this game letting me get crazy OP and breaking it to pieces. I find that enjoyable and I know there are harder difficulties and other characters to play later.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 26, 2019, 02:56:30 AM
https://twitter.com/dinominal/status/1143647835008720896
Clearly PC is the best platform to play this on. :lol
https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodstainedritualofthenight/mods/7
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Occam on June 26, 2019, 03:23:41 PM
Update 1.03 has just been released on PS4. Not downloading it yet, don't want to risk losing the glitch allowing the simultaneous equipping of Bloodbringer familiar and sword.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: tiesto on June 27, 2019, 06:22:45 AM
I backed the game and received my Switch version in the mail... not sure whether or not I should just sell that and go for PS4 at this point.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Occam on June 27, 2019, 06:37:07 AM
I backed the game and received my Switch version in the mail... not sure whether or not I should just sell that and go for PS4 at this point.

30fps for a game like this is unacceptable, imo.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 27, 2019, 08:32:03 AM
I backed the game and received my Switch version in the mail... not sure whether or not I should just sell that and go for PS4 at this point.

30fps for a game like this is unacceptable, imo.

Completely disagree.  But some of the bugs the Switch version reportedly has are unacceptable.  That's what they're saying they're working on fixing.

Tiesto, if you want to play this game now, definitely get it on another platform- no telling how long it will take them to get stuff fixed on Switch and if they really will come through on it, for that matter.
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Post by: Himu on June 27, 2019, 03:16:09 PM
Does this have a physical version
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Human Snorenado on June 27, 2019, 05:26:43 PM
Does this have a physical version

Yup, both PS4 and Switch.

I was looking at getting the PS4 version earlier today, but it's on sale on Steam for 10% off? I dunno, I kinda wanna sit my ass on the couch to play this and not at my desk, even though I do have a 32" 4k monitor at my desk.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 27, 2019, 05:46:27 PM
Does this have a physical version
Yeah, on everything. Well not on PC yet maybe since they're waiting until all the promised stretch DLC is out and then they're going to press up discs with all of that on them for PC backers. :pimp
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on June 28, 2019, 02:29:17 AM
Played some more of this and got the bad ending and then beat the umbrella loli. Umbrella gal had so.much.hp, damn. Kinda felt like a grind.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on June 28, 2019, 03:26:32 AM
Damn, Gebel was annoying lol
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on June 28, 2019, 03:33:45 AM
so these last two bosses (blood loli & gebel) have reminded me why I'm not all that big on the combat here compared to other metroidvanias. I feel like the bosses don't have any tells to read to dodge their moves because they just come out instantly if you're attacking them. Like Gebel's ice throw, it's instant and if you're slashing him and he decides to do it you always take at least the first hit before you can react and jump away. Blood girl has the smaller blood stream attack that instantly comes out in the direction you are and hits you.

Is the "proper" way to fight bosses in Bloodstained to just sit back and bait them into attacks, dodge it and then get a few slashes in -> repeat? Because the way I fight where I stick on them and try to dodge their stuff doesn't work that well because these boss moves come out instantly as opposed to like Hollow Knight or Devil May Cry or most action games where there is a sound or animation for a half second to tell you an attack is coming.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 28, 2019, 08:58:07 AM
I just upgraded the hell out of the ghost summon (the flying books that surround you) and keep them out while using :bow THE SHIELD :bow2 to get no-MP parries.  It's Tank Miriam- just get right up and strike away and dey dead.

Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 28, 2019, 09:01:08 AM
Didn't realize that you can use the kung-fu shoes to essentially fly through the air and get to some hard-to-reach places!

Am at about 50% map completion now.  Got the bad ending vs. Gebel- I love how the "true battle" is such a callback to SOTN's Dracula boss fight, lol. 

Found the 8-Bit Nightmare level-- that's the only part of the game so far with actual hard-to-kill enemies, at least at my current levels.
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Post by: Svejk on June 28, 2019, 11:55:16 AM
So what's the deal with crafting/upgrading being limited to Affinity (?) Points??  How do you build those points?  I have so many things I can craft/cook, but those points are preventing me from doing any more.

Edit:  Ok, yeah, Alkahest is what it's called.  You can farm them from the floating portrait enemies, or even Dominique sells them too. 
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on June 28, 2019, 05:28:57 PM
Haven't tried shield yet because I haven't needed it, but will check it out at some point. So many 8-bit coin weapons but only have 1 of those and their expensive to buy so holding on to it.

Didn't realize that you can use the kung-fu shoes to essentially fly through the air and get to some hard-to-reach places!

Am at about 50% map completion now.  Got the bad ending vs. Gebel- I love how the "true battle" is such a callback to SOTN's Dracula boss fight, lol. 

Found the 8-Bit Nightmare level-- that's the only part of the game so far with actual hard-to-kill enemies, at least at my current levels.

I'm at 65% and haven't found the 8-bit area yet...

Just beat Hidden Desert.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Human Snorenado on June 29, 2019, 10:15:28 AM
Welp, I was in Walmart for fruit fly traps and almond flour this morning and they had one Switch copy left for $32.84 before tax, so I bit.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 29, 2019, 11:35:46 AM
At about 65% complete.  I can't believe it took me so long to realize you could just jump down that well.  :duh

I'm still highly surprised and glad that you can customize your character, however I'm so spoiled by other games that I wish there was more variety of outfits and outfit colors.  The blue outer wear doesn't even look blue.  :doge
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on June 30, 2019, 12:25:20 AM
Hahaha holy shit. Forget Lili transform. Chisel barrage DPS is so broken.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 30, 2019, 01:00:29 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-T7840X4AEpGA8.jpg)
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 30, 2019, 01:29:54 PM
Got the True Haggler trophy last night... Is the trophy thumbnail hiding something?    :what

(http://trophy01.np.community.playstation.net/trophy/np/NPWR16812_00_004BD1599952DAFEF0DA16F74B4BABB9EE11F9AA60/6F9DD12E4D4039D1E8866D27B97D7EDA925EED46.PNG)

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Miriam coming to Smash confirmed.
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Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Nintex on June 30, 2019, 05:49:15 PM
Digital Foundry did the whole analysis thing
- Xbox One S 900p, not very stable
- PS4 1080p, a bit more stable
- PS4 Pro 1080p, most stable
- Xbox One X 4k native, best resolution but a bit less stable than PS4 Pro
(if you prefer image quality go with X, if you prefer stability PS4 Pro but both are great)

- Occasional crashes in all versions, one late boss also tanks the performance
- Xbox One X uses 'fake' HDR tone mapping, might be an issue on some TV sets
- PS4 Pro does not have this issue and does not enable HDR at all
- Otherwise smooth overall
- Probably one of the best looking 2.5D UE4 games yet and that certainly wasn't expected after the backer demo

Switch
- 720p docked / 576p portable
- Fixed 30fps (and it holds that target well)
- Not as bad as expected as far as visuals go
- UE4 game, so downgrades (especially the water stages in the first area of the game, which started the speculation that the Switch looked very bad) but not much different from the likes of DOOM and/or Wolfenstein

The bad:
- Longer load times (especially when you have to perform cross room jump, this can be an issue
- Stability (more crashes)
- Some flickering particle textures, overall lower texture quality along with lower resolution and agressive AA makes it look a bit washed out (AA could probably be removed, might increase shimmer but allows for a 'sharper' image)
- Input lag (140ms) this is the big one, which along with 30fps makes the game feel more sluggish than it actually runs

Patches are coming, so the input lag and such will probably be improved which would make the game better. Unclear at this point if visuals can be improved at all. UE4 is quite demanding, even for 2.5D games.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: tiesto on June 30, 2019, 11:55:23 PM
Just beat the twin dragon boss, had to actually consult a guide as to where to go next. Great game so far, at parts beautiful, but I feel like the input for attacking isn't as responsive as SOTN or the GBA/DS Metroidvanias.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on July 01, 2019, 12:29:07 AM
Lol 140 ms input lag lol

Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: BIONIC on July 01, 2019, 02:02:54 AM
Been playing on Switch handheld and didn’t have any real issues so far :idont

The game has weird slowdown after closing a book, and there is inconsistent loading times at times when going between rooms. Games is perfectly playable and fun though. Beat Zangetsu third try  :pimp

Also played until the after the ship boss on PS4 Pro, it obviously performs and looks better, but not to the point I feel missing out by playing it on Switch. I prefer playing Metroidvanias cozied up in bed  :-*
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: MMaRsu on July 01, 2019, 03:55:08 AM
Im only at the clocktower where i have to fight the two dog heads
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on July 01, 2019, 08:10:25 AM
Here' my current Miriam...   I REALLY wish there were more outfits to choose from.  Bloodstained 2, Iga!... Make it happen!

(https://i.imgur.com/pmG2wpN.jpg)
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: BIONIC on July 02, 2019, 02:13:47 AM
I’m really glad I kickstarted this game.

Giving me that SOTN feels :lawd
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: MMaRsu on July 02, 2019, 08:36:10 AM
I need this game :cry

Its not that expensive plus should run on your pc man
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on July 02, 2019, 10:32:06 PM
Secret enemy:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDgYoKAvIm4
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Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: tiesto on July 02, 2019, 11:32:07 PM
Just beat the train and now onto the upper parts of the library. A bit tough with some of the more tricky platforming I faced in the game so far...
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on July 03, 2019, 12:29:34 AM
Mods are popping up on PC now.

O.D. Alucard
(https://staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/mods/2874/images/16/16-1561803887-10899307.png)
Nicholas Cage portraits
(https://staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/mods/2874/images/13/13-1561659845-868126255.jpeg)
Kramer portraits
(https://staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/mods/2874/images/7/7-1561496239-346158818.jpeg)
Miriam pantsu~ changed to bikini and tattoo removal
(https://i.imgur.com/kAX41hX.jpg)

NSFW-ish
Spoiler:
(https://i.imgur.com/wl6K4Jd.jpg)
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Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on July 03, 2019, 03:01:40 AM
There's an official discord for moddery if that's your thing https://discord.gg/b9XBH4f
I'm keeping the game 'pure' until I've fully cleared it once and then I'll turn all the portraits into Kramer and what not.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Nintex on July 03, 2019, 05:50:49 PM
Managed to make some more progress.
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It took me some time to figure out how to progress by getting on the train and the Speed Demon battle was pretty great.
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Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: NekoFever on July 04, 2019, 05:08:23 AM
Managed to make some more progress.
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It took me some time to figure out how to progress by getting on the train and the Speed Demon battle was pretty great.
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I did the same part last night.

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Got the silver nitrate, had my photo taken, and then had to resort to a walkthrough to find out that you had to visit OD to get the ID card – was there any hint there that I missed? Seemed really random, like the only way I'd have worked that out would have been to get frustrated and explore room by room until I triggered something. I can only assume that I wasn't paying attention when it was hinted at in dialogue.
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Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Nintex on July 04, 2019, 01:39:49 PM
If I recall correctly

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- Dominique says you need the silver bromide to take a picture if you sit on the chair in her shop
- In the library Gebel escapes
- If you return to Dominique; Miriam asks if and how she can get through such narrow spaces, Dominique says something about an alchemist in a secret lab that had invented a method
- When you defeat the Two Headed dragon you get the Silver bromide so you can take your picture
- If you continue towards the train station and return to the Librarian after lending your first book, Miriam will ask about the train. He mentions photo ID and photography.
- You have your picture taken with the Silver Bromide
- Return to O.D. with the picture and he will create a Photo ID for you, that allows you to enter the train

I pieced it together without a guide in the end. The hardest part for me was that it took me a while to figure out that the area with the gate was supposed to be a train station.
Plus, that O.D. had to create the ID from the picture. I went back to him to get a new book after unsuccesfully trying to enter the water area and he just randomly brought it up.
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There's hints but they aren't very obvious. I ran a few laps around the castle leveling up and discovering secret rooms before I figured out how to continue. That was also well worth it.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: NekoFever on July 05, 2019, 09:01:16 AM
Ha, that would have been me a few years ago, but I don't seem to have the patience anymore, particularly when I'm blindly looking for a way to advance the main story.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 05, 2019, 10:26:45 AM
Big patch supposedly coming for Switch on July 15

https://wccftech.com/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night-major-update/
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: tiesto on July 05, 2019, 10:33:26 AM
Having trouble with the vampire chick in the bloody bathtub. I whittle her down, she heals back all her health, and then by that time I die. I think I need to grind potions or food or something and just plow through.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on July 05, 2019, 11:24:51 AM
Yeah, that seems to usually be a sure fire way to get past a tough boss.  Strawberry cakes provide good HP plus temp stat boosts for not too much gold.  Or just grind levels too. 

I'm at about 96% map completion.  Had to look up a guide on a certain part...  Not sure how/when I would've figured out how to do this... 
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Slicing the Red Moon in that one corridor in the old garden area (?) to get to the next area.  Almost some cryptic Simon's Quest shit there.  :doge
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Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on July 05, 2019, 05:09:33 PM
Having trouble with the vampire chick in the bloody bathtub. I whittle her down, she heals back all her health, and then by that time I die. I think I need to grind potions or food or something and just plow through.
She just heals herself once, so consider her as having about twice her actual initial hp if you're using the item that lets you see that. I go into all the boss fights as loaded with potions as I can - it's $200 cheaper to make a Hi Potion than buy one since they're made of 4 regular which go for $200 each. I'd always just keep smashing the light right at the start of the alchemist's room in the village then exiting quickly to gather up the funds for that stuff if I'm lacking - there's other faster ways to get money but I never got around to setting them up.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on July 06, 2019, 04:45:37 AM
Beat the game/story with 100% map completion.  Very happy with this game and the way it turned out.  Iga truly showed that he's a veteran in the industry and still has what it takes to make this 30+ year old genre fun and exciting.  Glad I backed this.  Loved every second of it.  Thank you, Iga. :tocry
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Now please make a sequel.
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Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: paprikastaude on July 06, 2019, 06:38:34 AM
I think this sold a lot to hardcore gamers, so there should be more. I mean, we already have two games.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on July 06, 2019, 01:00:48 PM
My new favorite directional shard is the Heretical Grinder.  Ranked it up to 7 and it is ruthless!  Was doing about 7-8 hits per second doing 40 damage per hit.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Nintex on July 06, 2019, 05:27:47 PM
My new favorite directional shard is the Heretical Grinder.  Ranked it up to 7 and it is ruthless!  Was doing about 7-8 hits per second doing 40 damage per hit.
Thanks for the tip killed the boss I was stuck on with this very powerful weapon.

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It was the blood lady in tub. She was quite challenging. What came next was classic IGA. One or two boss monsters and then with a little skill you easily find Gebels' hide-out.
You kill him, nothing has changed. GAME OVER
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Based IGA  :lawd

Has anyone figured out if there's more to..
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Celeste's room?, a room with music boxes and the picture of a cat. Sit on the chair and a ghost appears. It feels like there could be some sort of cryptic puzzle there or it could just be a reference to something  :thinking
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Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on July 06, 2019, 06:15:15 PM
I never did, if there is something about that room.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on July 06, 2019, 11:14:18 PM
There's nothing to that room other than it being there. Don't know if it was an intentional troll or not.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on July 07, 2019, 12:47:28 AM
Played another 10% or so, got the upside down move, around 75% now, not sure where to go. The one place I thought I could now reach in like the entrance room of the castle is a passageway of spikes so I obviously need to fly to get past that. I went around cleaning up a bit and got the carpenters key though not sure which door uses it. Any tips of where to go next? Still never ran into Iga's 8-bit Nightmare area.

Still not really in love with this as a huge fan of Igavania. It's solid, but idk I guess half the time it feels tiresome and the boss fights all kinda suck? I've been beating them all without relying on potions so actually trying to play right and they're just not that fun compared to other 2d action games/metroidvanias. The exploration is still the best part although the map feels a little small and lately progression is like trying find that one small bit here and there to get me access to a new area instead of like always moving forward exploring new areas. Having just played Hollow Knight & Guacamelee 2 this year, this feels a lot worse than both of those for metroidvania imo. Maybe it'll get better with the other characters, but I actually think I like the 8-bit Curse of the Moon better as a game overall. Curse is a bit short and a bit too easy, but otherwise it's excellent at what it's doing. Ritual of the Night feels like an 8/10 good, but nothing real special or unique about it to me so far. Just feels like a SoTN clone I'd expect from a non-Iga studio to make trying to make their own SoTN.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on July 07, 2019, 01:47:10 AM
Played another 10% or so, got the upside down move, around 75% now, not sure where to go. The one place I thought I could now reach in like the entrance room of the castle is a passageway of spikes so I obviously need to fly to get past that. I went around cleaning up a bit and got the carpenters key though not sure which door uses it. Any tips of where to go next? Still never ran into Iga's 8-bit Nightmare area.

I'm at about the same percent completed and got the item needed before I called it quits for the night-  You need the aegis armor to get through spikes without taking damage.   
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It can be found in the tower area where the twin dragons were.  In that area, take the elevator down to the very bottom and go right, then when you exit the elevator area, invert and fall up- you'll see a small area with some spikes and a treasure chest containing the armor.
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Still not really in love with this as a huge fan of Igavania.

Been enjoying it quite a bit myself.
:idont
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on July 07, 2019, 02:18:48 AM
Yeah I looked up that armor thing. Kinda random, game has some odd progression chokepoints.

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Still not really in love with this as a huge fan of Igavania.

Been enjoying it quite a bit myself.
:idont

Sure, the game definitely fits what a lot of people wanted going by impressions. But a lot of people also don't think Hollow Knight is the best Metroidvania ever made and :idont to that, so everyone has different tastes.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on July 07, 2019, 02:30:52 AM
And hey, it's not like I don't think the game is good. It's a good game that's worth the time and $$ and is way the fuck better than clock tower guy's Nightcry or from what I hear Inafune's Might No. 9. It's definitely up with the handful of kickstarters that actually delivered a solid good game in the style people wanted from it. If Iga makes another one I'll be there day 1 for the next as well.

But 2019's been a great year for games already and this probably won't make my top 10. But that's fine, as long as games are good and I don't feel I wasted time playing them, then I'm glad I played them.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on July 07, 2019, 03:54:19 AM
I got the map to 99.5% and am not really sure where else I need to be at. Tried to fight IGA and didn't quite pull it off. Started a New Game + but left it on Normal and I melted everything. Think this gets put aside for now and we'll come back once some of the stretch goal stuff hits.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on July 07, 2019, 01:37:43 PM
And hey, it's not like I don't think the game is good. It's a good game that's worth the time and $$ and is way the fuck better than clock tower guy's Nightcry or from what I hear Inafune's Might No. 9. It's definitely up with the handful of kickstarters that actually delivered a solid good game in the style people wanted from it. If Iga makes another one I'll be there day 1 for the next as well.

But 2019's been a great year for games already and this probably won't make my top 10. But that's fine, as long as games are good and I don't feel I wasted time playing them, then I'm glad I played them.
Having played Monster Boy this year too, I totally hear ya.  MB was freakin' stellar, and tbh, would rank it even higher than BS.  But both having actually come out and not fumble in their promise, I'm just so glad that these are still being developed with a lot of heart and effort.  Damn it feels good to be a gamer. Lol
 :rejoice
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on July 07, 2019, 01:44:03 PM
Yeah I still need to play Monster Boy.


So uh, I beat Zangetsu a billion forms and get the sword and I assumed since it's not a power up giving me access to new areas that I just needed to go fight Gebel now with this sword equipped and the true boss fight would happen after. But nope, just gave me bad ending. What do I do next?

Also I tried fighting the Master Carpenter and ughhhhh, I already am not a fan of the boss fighting combat in the game and in a tiny cramped room with his demon making fire pillars all over that is a pain in the ass. Guessing guys like that are just optional super bosses and since I don't like bosses here I'll just skip them.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on July 07, 2019, 02:03:25 PM
Yeah I still need to play Monster Boy.


So uh, I beat Zangetsu a billion forms and get the sword and I assumed since it's not a power up giving me access to new areas that I just needed to go fight Gebel now with this sword equipped and the true boss fight would happen after. But nope, just gave me bad ending. What do I do next?
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Fight Gebel again with Zangetsu sword, but when the blood moon is glowing red, attack it with the sword.
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Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on July 07, 2019, 05:36:13 PM
Also I tried fighting the Master Carpenter and ughhhhh, I already am not a fan of the boss fighting combat in the game and in a tiny cramped room with his demon making fire pillars all over that is a pain in the ass. Guessing guys like that are just optional super bosses and since I don't like bosses here I'll just skip them.

They are optional.  Here's what you do to make them super fucking easy to beat-

:phil GET THE RHAVA VELAR SWORD :phil

This thing is effectively the "Strider sword" and lets you move while attacking.  It doesn't do the most damage out there, but it DOES attack super-fast and rapidly without stopping, so this more than makes up for it.  I beat the carpenter boss with ease and suddenly any of the difficult areas or enemies were nothing.  I smoked the boss in the 8-bit nightmare so fast with this thing.   :lol

You will need to do some grinding to get this sword- look it up to see what components are needed.  The one item that is rare for it is an item that the slot machine boss in the millionaire room drops.  Make sure to equip items to increase luck to help get it.  I had to beat him three times for it to drop.  The good thing about  this fight is that it's right near a save room and you can leave the room if you think he's going to beat you and you don't want to waste food or health potions. 
 
Am now at the last boss fight.  All that's left after that are the O.D. and Iga fights, but the latter is...uh...lol might not bother.

Yeah I still need to play Monster Boy.


So uh, I beat Zangetsu a billion forms and get the sword and I assumed since it's not a power up giving me access to new areas that I just needed to go fight Gebel now with this sword equipped and the true boss fight would happen after. But nope, just gave me bad ending. What do I do next?
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Fight Gebel again with Zangetsu sword, but when the blood moon is glowing red, attack it with the sword.
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Then after this,
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go to the garden area and there's a hallway with a blood moon.  Cut this with the same sword and it's new area time.
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Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on July 07, 2019, 07:07:58 PM
Just cleared it!  Ended up using a sword I didn't know was in the game (and one of the strongest) to beat it- you can't get this sword until after the second to last boss fight, since you need dimension shift to reach it-

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It's the Valkyrie Sword!  To get it, you have to go back to the dragon towers area and go down to the bottom of the elevator shaft and to the left, IIRC, then go down through the rooms with gears/spikes until you hit a bottom room area that has a stone "bridge."  You can shift under here and open an invisible chest that will give you the sword.  Recommend googling to see where.
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Beat this at 7:00 PM on 7/7.
:neo
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on July 07, 2019, 07:09:48 PM
But I don't have 100%!  Still missing 0.8%.  :dizzy
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: shosta on July 07, 2019, 08:15:16 PM
this game seems like a hit with this forum. I should play it if I like metroidvania?
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on July 07, 2019, 08:59:03 PM
this game seems like a hit with this forum. I should play it if I like metroidvania?
Uh, yeah. It's one of those games made by one of the main dudes responsible for defining the genre.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on July 07, 2019, 09:17:27 PM
Beat Bael, had like 97% map completion without mopping up any secrets really. Kinda surprised, was expecting like 80%. Never even found Iga's Nightmare area?

Had no idea what was going on during the Bael fight in terms of hitboxes so just focused on beating the first phase without using any items and then standing on the right side doing nothing but slashing and item spam. :idont hey it worked.

So are there actually other playable characters to unlock? I guess there are other endings? Not sure how much more I'm interested in playing. Accelerator shard from outracing the ninja in the giant area helped make the game a lot better. I did like that most of the Curse of the Moon boss fights are in this one. Kinda cool to see them again. I pretty much stuck with the normal weapons I found, whatever was the highest damage. I had some sword in the last 2 areas that was about 8-10 damage more than the Zangetsu so I just used that + shadow clone with my slashes while having poltergiest book shield on and silver knight. Worked for most stuff.

*edit* just looked it up. Oh, there aren't any other endings and the other playable characters aren't included and finished and will be dlc :| Didn't realize the game didn't ship complete. Guess I'm done until the DLCs all come out and there's some more stuff to do. Definitely interested in going through this with a Richter like character.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on July 07, 2019, 09:41:24 PM
Map is now 100% complete.  It took another two hours to get those last few tiny pieces of the map filled in.  Naturally, the 0.1% I was missing that took most of the time to find was in the very beginning, right in the ship area!
:neogaf :dead

Tried the O.D. fight and lost pretty quick.  Also died on that weird extra train enemy.   :lol   Might go back and get them defeated along with Iga at some point, but am done for now.  Let's see how the DLC turns out.

Game owned up and down.  Very satisfying.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on July 07, 2019, 10:22:44 PM
Inverting (or using the time freeze?) is the way to cheese the secret train enemy.
just looked it up. Oh, there aren't any other endings and the other playable characters aren't included and finished and will be dlc :| Didn't realize the game didn't ship complete. Guess I'm done until the DLCs all come out and there's some more stuff to do. Definitely interested in going through this with a Richter like character.
There's three "endings" to be gotten in the current version of the game
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Kill Gebel before you get the Zangetstuto for bad end 1 which has a short dialgoue and then a game over, Kill him after doing so to get the same dialogue plus a little more and a game over yet again, defeat Bael for the true ending.
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And yeah, they have 13 of the stretch goals to get done after they've optimized the various versions and squashed enough of their bugs that people stop bitching. I say this game may be fully actually finished next year and that's being optimistic. :-[
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Nintex on July 13, 2019, 03:09:42 PM
About 75% map completion now

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Inverting the castle feels so good  :heart
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Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: demi on July 15, 2019, 09:47:30 AM
Started Curse of the Moon since it was GWG. Inti Creates does a great job with these retro-makes. Sucks having to play it like 6 times to get all the achievements but each playthrough isn't long thankfully.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Nintex on July 15, 2019, 06:14:48 PM
Completed the game.

Having played most of the handheld Castlevania's I think that this is the best IGAvania since SOTN.
There's some bugs and indie jank but those are minor issues relative to what's so good about this game.

Looking at the credits it's a miracle this came out so good. About a dozen or so different small studios worked on it. The logistics must've been a nightmare.  :lol
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on July 15, 2019, 07:36:49 PM
Hey yo, it's survey time!
https://forms.gle/ZbCmaQN9PokKn7cHA
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Hello everyone! We're starting to plan some extra DLC content in addition to the 13 FREE DLCs that are currently on the way or in some cases already in game now.
Although the vast majority of the extra stuff we want to make is free, we also have to make some money to be able to do that lol. More moneyz = more tasty free DLC. :)

To that end, we're thinking of selling outfit / accessory packs, and we'd like to know what everyone would most like to see in the game!
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on July 28, 2019, 03:12:57 AM
https://youtu.be/CLe3jL5Tdvc
Since there's now a trailer for the second playable character I guess that's happening fairly soon, no announced exact date yet.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: paprikastaude on July 28, 2019, 07:18:06 AM
hamming it up at the end :lawd  :delicious
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: BIONIC on July 28, 2019, 07:55:38 AM
That trailer is 2 months old, friend.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on July 28, 2019, 10:49:50 AM
That trailer is 2 months old, friend.
Oh shit, it is. :lol Showed up on my YT page and I thought other wise. :doge
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 29, 2019, 12:25:20 AM
So about that Switch patch...
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: toku on September 20, 2019, 06:25:39 PM
Everything about this game feels like it's straight out of 1998. I'm enjoying it.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: The Sceneman on September 20, 2019, 09:29:31 PM
Got it installed on le Xbone :hyper Gamepass :bow

Cant wait to play some tonight :hump

(https://i.makeagif.com/media/7-20-2017/LlvrnV.gif)
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: The Sceneman on September 21, 2019, 10:45:20 PM
This game is so good
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: The Sceneman on September 22, 2019, 02:26:34 AM
Here' my current Miriam...   I REALLY wish there were more outfits to choose from.  Bloodstained 2, Iga!... Make it happen!

(https://i.imgur.com/pmG2wpN.jpg)

It sounds like theres a bunch of DLC in the pipeline incl. cosmetics. I will buy it all
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Occam on September 22, 2019, 03:28:15 AM
You should be ashamed for not buying it.

Game is great, music is weaksauce. No memorable tracks.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: The Sceneman on September 22, 2019, 03:34:04 AM
You should be ashamed for not buying it.

Game is great, music is weaksauce. No memorable tracks.

yeah :( I'll see if I can support IGA by buying the DLC and the Switch version
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Occam on September 22, 2019, 03:45:36 AM
Has the Switch version been fixed? I never even unsealed my copy after reading what a mess it was. (Game breaking bugs, 30fps, 720p docked, while it runs at 60fps/4k on PS4 Pro, which is where I played it.)
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on September 22, 2019, 03:53:13 AM
Has the Switch version been fixed? I never even unsealed my copy after reading what a mess it was. (Game breaking bugs, 30fps, 720p docked, while it runs at 60fps/4k on PS4 Pro, which is where I played it.)
Still not yet, update end of the coming week so maybe they'll have an actual eta on it then.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: The Sceneman on September 22, 2019, 09:26:34 PM
You should be ashamed for not buying it.

Game is great, music is weaksauce. No memorable tracks.

IDK this one is p good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPtF0yAQ1KY
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on September 23, 2019, 08:34:56 AM
It's got some good tracks, but they needed time to grow on you more so than the instant hits like SOTN (still the best).
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on September 23, 2019, 08:36:12 AM
Music like what's in SoTN comes along once in a lifetime.  I wouldn't expect anything 'Vania-related to ever be as good as it was.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on September 27, 2019, 05:39:18 PM
SotN was the first non SE OST I imported. :rejoice

This month's update is here and it's just 'we're still working on everything, also most backer awards are gonna ship out SOON'. :doge
https://bloodstained.forums.net/thread/4463/update-zangetsu-switch-backer-rewards
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on September 28, 2019, 07:38:26 AM
They asked to re-confirm addresses again.  That's something, I guess.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Cryo on September 28, 2019, 03:17:44 PM
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Finally, PC physical copies will also be coming later, once all the stretch goal content has been launched and is ready to include on-disc.
:'(
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Thirty-Ought-Six on October 01, 2019, 02:08:28 AM
Game is great, music is weaksauce. No memorable tracks.


Did you find both of these? (spoilers)

spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZpmLawrTlc

I like the green box, starts at 5:10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiiVufYCS9w
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Just got 100% map completion and I love this game. It's hard to explain why but it does feel closer to SotN than any other Castlevania. Maybe because castle exploration is the top priority again. You can spend a ton of time collecting, upgrading, and cooking, or you try to beat all the bosses without getting hit (I think when making the game they tested them all that way), but the real focus of the game is the exploring, and anything else you decide to do, or not to do, is your choice.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on October 01, 2019, 02:24:07 AM
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Finally, PC physical copies will also be coming later, once all the stretch goal content has been launched and is ready to include on-disc.
:'(
Next year for us PC backers, maybe.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on October 01, 2019, 10:15:46 AM
Game is great, music is weaksauce. No memorable tracks.


Did you find both of these? (spoilers)

spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZpmLawrTlc

I like the green box, starts at 5:10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiiVufYCS9w
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Just got 100% map completion and I love this game. It's hard to explain why but it does feel closer to SotN than any other Castlevania. Maybe because castle exploration is the top priority again. You can spend a ton of time collecting, upgrading, and cooking, or you try to beat all the bosses without getting hit (I think when making the game they tested them all that way), but the real focus of the game is the exploring, and anything else you decide to do, or not to do, is your choice.

I think I'd put it firmly in the number three slot- SoTN still da bess mayne, followed by Aria Of Sorrow, and then this.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: toku on October 05, 2019, 01:09:20 AM
The cooking/quest farming is killing me. I'm at like 98.67% done just optional bosses and like the big fight left.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on October 05, 2019, 01:43:41 AM
Got a bonus slipcase with a poster (map?), pins/keychains, and a soundtrack.  Don't even remember paying to hit that tier on KS, lol.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on October 05, 2019, 10:24:46 AM
They might be giving people extra shit to make up for things be delayed so long, or maybe you just shelled out more than you recall doing.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: The Sceneman on October 09, 2019, 01:59:24 AM
finally had a good session and went kinda deep into this - this is a damn fine Castlevania game. I've been enjoying experimenting with the various weapons and powers. The summon bat shard is totally op though, been blasting through with that and the shovel weapon. I often switch to the Rapier because its cooler and makes the game more challenging - I probably should have started on Hard if that was an option? I was super drunk when I started my save file so I can't remember lol
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Fifstar on October 11, 2019, 05:32:39 PM
Just cheesed the twin dragon (fell through the bottom during one of their attacks and could just kill them from behind) and was kinda stumped what to do after that.

Just looked it up and

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How as I supposed to know, that I had to show the vampire a picture of myself? I picked up before that the machinery access had something to do with a vampire. But that specific npc just looks like he gives you stat upgrades with the books? He doesn't say anything about that machine, does he?
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Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: paprikastaude on October 11, 2019, 05:46:28 PM
Just cheesed the twin dragon (fell through the bottom during one of their attacks and could just kill them from behind) and was kinda stumped what to do after that.

Just looked it up and

spoiler (click to show/hide)
How as I supposed to know, that I had to show the vampire a picture of myself? I picked up before that the machinery access had something to do with a vampire. But that specific npc just looks like he gives you stat upgrades with the books? He doesn't say anything about that machine, does he?
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nah, this is one of a few weird Zelda 1-esque cryptic progression requirements.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on October 11, 2019, 06:19:31 PM
Just cheesed the twin dragon (fell through the bottom during one of their attacks and could just kill them from behind) and was kinda stumped what to do after that.

Just looked it up and

spoiler (click to show/hide)
How as I supposed to know, that I had to show the vampire a picture of myself? I picked up before that the machinery access had something to do with a vampire. But that specific npc just looks like he gives you stat upgrades with the books? He doesn't say anything about that machine, does he?
[close]

Yeah, I got stuck same part. It's dumb.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: tiesto on October 12, 2019, 11:02:45 AM
Just cheesed the twin dragon (fell through the bottom during one of their attacks and could just kill them from behind) and was kinda stumped what to do after that.

Just looked it up and

spoiler (click to show/hide)
How as I supposed to know, that I had to show the vampire a picture of myself? I picked up before that the machinery access had something to do with a vampire. But that specific npc just looks like he gives you stat upgrades with the books? He doesn't say anything about that machine, does he?
[close]

nah, this is one of a few weird Zelda 1-esque cryptic progression requirements.

Glad to see I'm not the only one who felt there were some cryptic elements. Also I totally forgot about
spoiler (click to show/hide)
draining the blood fountain
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.

I'm still playing this, CS2, Goose Game and Zelda distracted me for a bit but I'm gonna get back soon. I just beat the underground desert area and that was a rough one - way too many enemies that poison or send you flying, and a lot of cheap hits.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on October 12, 2019, 11:19:21 AM
IIRC there is a hint or two dropped about what to do in regards to the photo ID thing.  I don't remember getting stuck on that.

The blood fountain thing definitely wasn't a problem- figured there was a way to get into it and marked it for later, got the draining ability, and went back there.

The hardest area for me in the game was the Asian-themed section.  There were one or two rooms filled with too many enemies that just swarm you.  Still nothing too difficult, though.  It's a pretty easy game overall for the most part, bonus boss fights aside- definitely depends on what weapons/equipment you have.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: toku on October 12, 2019, 12:58:27 PM
Yeah the most difficult part of the game outside of the optional bosses for me so far have been those last like 2-3 zones. Towards the game they basically just fill screens with annoying enemies. Gauntlets built to do just wittle at your hp screen by screen if you aren't playing super cautiously or aren't overpowered/overgeared. Fuck every enemy that can just dip in and out of the screen.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on October 12, 2019, 04:16:03 PM
Yeah, but then you get the right weapon and suddenly it doesn't matter.  :P
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on October 12, 2019, 04:42:06 PM
Get Heretical Grinder to lvl 7 and shred your way through anything with ease.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: The Sceneman on October 17, 2019, 06:56:44 PM
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bloodstained/comments/di9af5/can_we_plz_nerf_summon_chair_even_shardbinder/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

:dead
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: The Sceneman on October 29, 2019, 08:02:21 PM
Made it to the fire level and got totally boned by the baddies. Guess I gotta find some fire resistant gear or something.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: tiesto on October 29, 2019, 08:56:02 PM
Up to the boss of the Japanese garden area. Almost beat him (now that I got the Gauge Goggles I can finally judge how many HP they have remaining), will try again later.

My biggest complaint is the game's bosses are such HP sinks. As well as the normal issues I have around crafting systems in games... it really deflates the excitement when, instead of getting a cool treasure, you get a recipe book.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: The Sceneman on October 30, 2019, 12:08:52 AM
I agree the boss design is pretty spotty. The hit detection going both ways can feel jank AF (looking at you, Bloodless) - and it's likely all due to a bloated massive 3d engine managing stuff that was done better in the 90s with a fraction of the computational overhead. I get that assembling all the assets and stuff was probably easier using Unreal, but yeah. It's still a good game but the technical issues put such a dampener on it.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on October 30, 2019, 08:26:02 AM
Up to the boss of the Japanese garden area. Almost beat him (now that I got the Gauge Goggles I can finally judge how many HP they have remaining), will try again later.

Do you mean the Master Carpenter in a small room?  If so, he's not the boss of the area and is an optional fight- worth taking him out to get his shard although you'll likely have to fight him more than once to get it.  Come back and fight him later on after you level up and get some better equipment if necessary. 

If you mean the real area boss, you'll get a good weapon for defeating him!  :)

My biggest complaint is the game's bosses are such HP sinks.

Just get yourself a good weapon and won't matter anymore. :pimp
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Joe Molotov on October 30, 2019, 10:22:46 AM
They still gonna fix the Switch version or nah?
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on October 30, 2019, 11:34:09 AM
Yeah, still being worked on. Monthly update is probably happening tomorrow. I think the eta for the Switch patch is/was end of November, Zangetsu ought to be happening around then too. :doge
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: chronovore on October 31, 2019, 02:24:01 AM
I agree the boss design is pretty spotty. The hit detection going both ways can feel jank AF (looking at you, Bloodless) - and it's likely all due to a bloated massive 3d engine managing stuff that was done better in the 90s with a fraction of the computational overhead. I get that assembling all the assets and stuff was probably easier using Unreal, but yeah. It's still a good game but the technical issues put such a dampener on it.

This is kind of true, but also largely false. It's down to having a programmer who knows what they're doing. Making a 2D game can be down to how the engine is engaged in making it happen, and if it's not working, that's down to code. There is definitely enough computing power to deal with hit detection.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on October 31, 2019, 04:55:23 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpweNG4rWIM

Love the release date troll in the video.   :lol

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The Nintendo Switch Improvement update is live! We know it took a while to get this update to you and we are very appreciative of your patience.

There are four areas of improvement in version 1.03: Input Lag, Visual Quality, Crashes and Load Times.

First off, input lag has been eliminated throughout the game. You will find the controls more responsive, making the game easier to navigate and enemies easier to fight. There are still a few areas that need optimizing that will be included in update 1.04.

Visual quality has been improved so things look more clear and have more detail.

Overall stability has been improved throughout the game. We have addressed several specific situations that have been causing crashes, most notably when reading books from a bookcase.

Loading times have been reduced significantly, by up to 70% but there are still areas we'd like to improve. We will keep working to improve this on a room-by-room basis.

Even more improvements are coming in update 1.04, so keep an eye on the news for that announcement!
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on November 01, 2019, 08:51:46 PM
We're all still waiting on Zangetsu. Xbox is still waiting on the IGA's Backpack DLC. Japanese backers are still waiting on their copies of the game. :doge Zangy is probably not too far off since Switch is mostly fixed now I think they're mainly just squashing bugs before sending him out.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Tasty on November 05, 2019, 01:59:20 PM
Will buy when 1.04 is released.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on November 06, 2019, 09:53:59 AM
Gamestop is dumping this, for both PS4 and Switch, for $17 new.  Physical only- digital is still $39.99.

Might be today only.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on November 06, 2019, 09:57:20 AM
Oh shit. Maybe I should grab one to put back in my backer sleeve.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: tiesto on November 06, 2019, 10:29:55 AM
Level 70, 99.8% map percentage, up to the save point before the final boss. Hopefully this is easy... ready to be done with it!
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: kingv on November 06, 2019, 10:38:43 AM
Is the switch still really that bad?

I have gamepass but wild rather play this one in bed.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on November 06, 2019, 10:42:41 AM
Is the switch still really that bad?

I have gamepass but wild rather play this one in bed.
Apparently it's way better but still has some problems. There's another patch for a few straggling issues that were a little more difficult to deal with incoming.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: kingv on November 06, 2019, 11:22:14 AM
Cool. I’m up for that for $17.

Will be a good one to take with me to visit family over the holidays.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on November 30, 2019, 12:05:40 PM
https://medium.com/@dangenwarning/dangen-entertainment-warning-f1e8b5a1104a
Yeah so IGA's agent dude guy Ben Judd apparently kind of sucks and his company doesn't pay devs their royalties? :doge
Oh, and this month's update was delayed a week cause of the holidaze.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: demi on November 30, 2019, 12:23:51 PM
So I guess now wouldn't be a good time to say that I just 1000'd the game (Ritual of the Night) and thought it was pretty good?
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: demi on November 30, 2019, 02:08:37 PM
Level 70, 99.8% map percentage, up to the save point before the final boss. Hopefully this is easy... ready to be done with it!

Also deadass how did you hit Level 70? I did everything in the game and only hit ~55 and everything was stupid easy to kill by that point lol
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: tiesto on December 01, 2019, 12:23:47 PM
Level 70, 99.8% map percentage, up to the save point before the final boss. Hopefully this is easy... ready to be done with it!

Also deadass how did you hit Level 70? I did everything in the game and only hit ~55 and everything was stupid easy to kill by that point lol

There's a room near the bottom right savepoint in the Den of Behemoths with a dragon sitting there, equipped 2 of the accessories that give you extra EXP and go in, beat the shit out of the dragon, and repeated for an hour or two.

Anyways yeah I beat this with 100% map completion a few weeks ago, yay me.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on March 02, 2020, 04:54:37 PM
https://bloodstained.forums.net/thread/4920
Rogue Like mode cancelled, replaced with Randomizer, still no ETA on Zangetsu. :yeshrug
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: The Sceneman on March 02, 2020, 06:57:45 PM
Eh I'm not fussed, I just need to finish grinding out the item list and delete the game lol. Really can't be bothered though, need to find a good farming guide
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Beezy on March 02, 2020, 09:51:44 PM
Beat this yesterday on the Switch. Level 43, 99.4% map completion, and I beat all the secret bosses except the 8-Bit Dungeon boss and O.D. I'm satisfied for now. Got too many other games to play.

Also, I'm really happy that Iga can continue to make these games without Konami.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: paprikastaude on March 03, 2020, 02:33:25 AM
After Shovel Knight I'm not interested in some indie game getting whored out forever anyway. Hope they move on to a new title asap.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on March 03, 2020, 08:02:58 AM
I wish they'd forget the extra content and throw it into a sequel instead.  I would like Miriam's customization to be 100x more detailed and fleshed out.   :tophat
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on March 03, 2020, 11:24:30 AM
I wonder what the hold up with Zantetsu is, anyway.  Really doubt it's a different story or areas for him.  :thinking
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on May 04, 2020, 05:23:14 PM
https://playbloodstained.com/1125/
Zangetsu and Randomizer launch on the 7th for PC/PS4/Xbone, late May/early June for switch. :hyper
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on May 04, 2020, 06:33:44 PM
Can't use crafts, or items, do side quests, or anything...  :-\
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on May 04, 2020, 10:12:33 PM
Can't use crafts, or items, do side quests, or anything...  :-\

Follows how the SoTN (and later games) extra characters worked.  So just straight action.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: The Sceneman on May 04, 2020, 10:45:05 PM
I still need to grind out the item list for the last achievement in this :( Hopefully Zangetsu is a good reason to jump back on
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on May 09, 2020, 05:19:18 PM
Installed the game and the new patch, no Zangetsu. Apparently it’s glitched that a lot of people have to beat the final boss again to trigger Zengetsu unlock.

Not sure I want to be assed to beat the final boss again considering I haven’t touched this is a year and my skills for it are gone.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on May 09, 2020, 05:44:36 PM
I uh don't have a save at the end so I need to new game plus my way through the entire thing again first. :doge
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on May 09, 2020, 07:35:36 PM
Beat the final boss again and unlocked him, but don't really get the point of his mode. His moveset is odd (his main useful standard attack slash is on R2) he's overpowered for like 1/2 the sections and one hit kills everything and then underpowered for the endgame sections. Also starting with all the upgrades and with all the paths unlocked in the castle, not sure where you're even supposed to be going? Just a straight gun to where you fought the true final boss? Seems like it'd be a 1-2 hour run at most.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on May 09, 2020, 08:12:59 PM
You have to kill every other boss before the last one is opened up but yeah he can basically go everywhere immediately.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bluemax on May 17, 2020, 09:30:09 PM
Do you ever get another jump power up beyond double jump? I found some chests in the lag fest tower area that apparently I can get if I bounce off the lanterns, but given my shitty reflexes and the bad framerate/input lag in this section I'm struggling to get them.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: The Sceneman on May 17, 2020, 09:58:50 PM
Yeah you get an RB power to zip straight up - similar to Soma's Hippogriff ability in his games. I'd wait until you get that before mopping up all the chests
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bluemax on May 18, 2020, 09:53:36 PM
Yeah you get an RB power to zip straight up - similar to Soma's Hippogriff ability in his games. I'd wait until you get that before mopping up all the chests

Cool thanks. I'll not worry about them and press forward with the game.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on May 23, 2020, 12:24:49 PM
Zangetsu and Randomizer modes are up for Switch now too.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 11, 2020, 08:01:07 AM
Quote
Total sales for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night has surpassed one million units, publisher 505 Games and developer ArtPlay announced.

A development roadmap highlighting the game’s lineup of free updates was also shared, which will start with the release of “Boss Revenge Mode” and “Chroma Wheel” for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC versions on June 23, and for the Switch version in July.

Here is the full roadmap:

June 23 (July for Switch)

Boss Revenge Mode – Players can thank the Kickstarter community for this new free gameplay mode in Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night—a direct result of community support in helping the game surpass its final $5.5 million stretch funding goal. In this mode, accessible by entering the transition room in-game, players will face off against four in-game bosses fast and furiously to get the best clear time.

Chroma Wheel – The salon is back in business with more options than ever in color palette for character customization, including hair, clothing, and skin. Players can return to Todd the Barber, Bloodstained’s demonic scissor-wielding hair stylist, and switch up their look with a true color selector and eliminating pre-set options previously available.

Q3 2020

Chaos Mode and VS. Mode
Special Crossover Content and Classic Mode

Q4 2020

Special Crossover Content and ? ? ? ? Playable Character
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlMe9PssWV4
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: paprikastaude on June 23, 2020, 11:31:35 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ynesdjzxix0

:leon
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: demi on June 23, 2020, 11:56:05 AM
I mean, I guess
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Positive Touch on June 23, 2020, 12:02:22 PM
skeeeeeeeeeeet
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Tasty on June 23, 2020, 03:02:31 PM
:rejoice Linearvania :klob
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: thisismyusername on June 23, 2020, 07:39:30 PM
I mean, that's cool and the gang but I want SotNBloodstained 2. :doge
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: paprikastaude on June 23, 2020, 07:42:37 PM
New characters in this, so they already planning for other "mainline" games too, surely.  :nothot

tbf, I wish they'd just drop DLC for RotN and get their all their resources straight to more new games. I don't need the main game whored out, I won't touch any of the extra stuff, probably even if I was planning a replay.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on June 24, 2020, 12:09:20 AM
I mean, that's cool and the gang but I want SotNBloodstained 2. :doge

Maybe we'll get that in like five years- hopefully that's enough time to finally release all the updates for Ritual Of The Night.
:engel
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: thisismyusername on June 24, 2020, 12:22:47 AM
I just want the battle of 1999 fanfictionized. :goty2
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 24, 2020, 12:34:58 PM
New characters in this, so they already planning for other "mainline" games too, surely.  :nothot

tbf, I wish they'd just drop DLC for RotN and get their all their resources straight to more new games. I don't need the main game whored out, I won't touch any of the extra stuff, probably even if I was planning a replay.
Oh KS backers would literally nuke their offices in rage if they flat out bailed on doing everything, I think most of it is set to be done by the end of the year.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: paprikastaude on June 24, 2020, 12:39:29 PM
Didn't they ruin the game enough with their fucking faces? :goty2 Fuck em.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Tasty on June 26, 2020, 11:17:39 PM
https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1276714423776731137
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: paprikastaude on June 27, 2020, 12:01:12 AM
Damn, out in 2 weeks?  :o
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 27, 2020, 09:54:04 AM
What the fuck :o :o :o
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 27, 2020, 11:25:07 AM
Should still be free to KS backers for forcing us to stare at backer mugs in the RotN.  :hmph
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 29, 2020, 12:46:29 PM
Aw co-op is local only, boo. I wanted to demon slay with bros again, haven't since the 360 days. CVHD is BC on X1 though...
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: paprikastaude on June 29, 2020, 03:43:15 PM
Aw co-op is local only, boo. I wanted to demon slay with bros again, haven't since the 360 days. CVHD is BC on X1 though...

Steam Link?
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on July 03, 2020, 04:02:11 PM
https://playbloodstained.com/boss-revenge-and-chroma-wheel/ out now on most things, switch and gamepass versions incoming.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: The Sceneman on July 05, 2020, 05:04:35 PM
so I finally decided to finish off the 100% items/shards, and was up to like 98% completion, but this update has added some shit to item lists and no one online seems to know how to get them yet  :goldberg

Serves me right!
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: The Sceneman on July 06, 2020, 03:49:52 AM
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bloodstained/comments/hl7xqj/any_developers_here_that_can_confirm_or_infirm/

better keep refreshing the reddit haha
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on July 09, 2020, 11:27:11 AM
CoM2 is out in Japan- gonna see if I can check out during my lunch break in a few minutes.  :hyper
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on July 09, 2020, 01:44:25 PM
Liking the new characters.  Dominique has better reach, jumps higher, and can bounce off enemies/lanterns with her spear, McDuck/Shovel Knight style.  Robert uses a gun and shoots full screen.  He can crawl and also wall cling- you can use the latter to wall jump in some spaces.  Zangetsu is...there.  Yup, it's Zangetsu.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on July 09, 2020, 03:38:17 PM
Hachi (doggo in a mech) can hover, ground pound, and can also walk on ice without slipping.  Good new crew.  I know the older characters are there too- keep finding spaces that I think only Miriam can access.  Also found a room with a sword, but you can't do anything.
 :thinking
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on July 09, 2020, 08:46:15 PM
Hachi can also walk on (break) spikes- he made the level that follows once you get him a cakewalk.  I just punched the boss to death without getting hit, lol.

Got the sword after beating the level- now Zantetsu can do more and seems good.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: paprikastaude on July 10, 2020, 09:27:15 PM
5 bucks more expensive than the og  :-\ If I'm waiting for a sale, I don't know if I should wait straight for physical. But then who knows when that comes.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on July 11, 2020, 07:02:17 AM
Completed the first episode last night (eight stages)- the final boss wasn't too bad, but I lost Dominique (jumped off a ledge by mistake, lol) and it was tough without her reach.

The ending I got then focused on Dominique leaving the group and episode two unlocked- wondering if it's a coincidence or if you get endings based on who is alive in your party when you clear that stage. Might replay that final episode one level again to check.

For whatever reason, chapter two isn't selectable in your first save profile and you have to make a new one.  I started it and it was the first stage again, but with a harder version of the boss fight.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on July 11, 2020, 11:51:00 AM
How to unlock other episodes.  Has some spoilers I guess...?  Worth looking at so you can avoid having to replay the second episode twice.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bloodstained/comments/hp76a1/heavy_spoiler_alert_rundown_to_unlock_all_modes/
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Cryo on July 11, 2020, 07:04:52 PM
how the f do you deal with the brown alchemist robots on characters other than Dominique???

game's great but frustrating, they really upped the platforming difficulty so far. I think I'm on stage 8 of chapter 1?
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on July 11, 2020, 10:35:58 PM
Cleared episode 2- the first stage boss was the hardest one, lol.  It wasn't really too much harder- there's just some bosses where you really have to learn their attack patterns and it will take longer to clear, but then still some you can just brute force your way through and go invincible with Hachi, then punch them to death. 

You get a different stage eight boss with two forms- I handled the first part with Zantetsu, then switched Hachi, went invincible, and punched the shit out of him to clear it.

I avoided the "sword room" on stage four (assuming going in there gets you a powered up Zantetsu?) and unlocked the EX episode when beat episode 2- this is where you get the original three characters from CoM1 joining you instead and you can use Gebel's bat form to FINALLY get to areas you couldn't before.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
No Dominique AND NO HACHI?!
 :existential
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how the f do you deal with the brown alchemist robots on characters other than Dominique???

game's great but frustrating, they really upped the platforming difficulty so far. I think I'm on stage 8 of chapter 1?

HACHI

It's definitely harder than the first, but not punishingly-so.  Some of the jumping areas can really suck though.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on July 12, 2020, 12:30:29 AM
You don't even have to clear the EX episode to unlock the Final episode- just go back to Episode 2 and load up your save, then go to stage select and play level four.  Go into the sword room and get the sword (which does NOT power up Zangetsu- it makes him lose his three-hit combo and air crescent slash, lol), then go back to stage select and replay the last level.  You'll get a different ending and unlock the Final episode!

Dunno if I'm going to bother with finishing the EX episode now, since the Final episode has you replaying everything again but with everyone.  It starts with a stage select and it appears that you may be alone with different characters on each level?  There's also at least one new stage that should show up, based on the story.

Edit: Looks like it was just the first stage that was Zantetsu alone.  Hopefully you get more characters as you go.  Fighting that episode 2-style dragon boss with just him was easy enough at this point, but took so long, lol.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on July 12, 2020, 12:32:40 AM
So, the fastest way to unlock the modes is:

1. Play through episode 1 - Unlocks episode 2
2. Play through episode 2, but do not enter the sword room on stage 4 - Unlocks EX episode
3. Play through episode 2 again and go directly to stage 4, enter the sword room and get the sword, then go directly to stage 8 and clear it - Unlocks the final episode
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Cryo on July 12, 2020, 01:36:04 AM
I guess one factor as to how brutal it feels is when you lose the character a segment was clearly designed for, along with much less frequent checkpoints. I like that Zangetsu is no longer outclassed relative to his comrades, unlike in the first game where Miriam and Gebel were my go to characters.

Had to get up and take a break after stage 8, the sections with the axe enemies are too much for me to deal with tonight.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on July 12, 2020, 03:54:58 PM
Getting to the end of the final episode turns the game into

spoiler (click to show/hide)
BLOODSTAINED....IN SPAAAAAACE!

First you play through a horizontal SHMUP level in your mecha/ship, then you get a new stage on the moon.
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Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on July 12, 2020, 09:25:15 PM
Cleared the final episode and it unlocked selectable versions of Zangetsu for new games- Ultimate Z can dash, double jump, has the three hit combo and air slash, and can charge up his sword.  He's pretty awesome- restarted EX mode with him and killed that first boss with him solo.

You can also do the last level of the final chapter solo with him and you get a special ending.  Dunno if I'm gonna try that.  I think I'm done for now.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on July 12, 2020, 10:54:28 PM
Getting to the end of the final episode turns the game into

spoiler (click to show/hide)
BLOODSTAINED....IN SPAAAAAACE!

First you play through a horizontal SHMUP level in your mecha/ship, then you get a new stage on the moon.
[close]
lmao wtf, I think I need this sooner rather than later.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Cryo on July 13, 2020, 02:07:34 AM
co-op is actually quite fun, mostly because characters can stand on top of each other  :lol  Makes for some really fun platforming and setups for monsters and bosses.

Sounds like I’ll finish up the final episode first, then play EX with ultimate zangetsu. I’m really having a blast with this game despite the frustrating moments. Bless the dev team for understanding what makes classicvanias fun.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on July 13, 2020, 10:31:09 AM
Does only one player need to go through a door/opening to get to the next screen?  If so, you could use being able to stand on top of each other to get into areas you normally wouldn't be able to access without certain character abilities.
:thinking
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Cryo on July 13, 2020, 10:57:08 AM
Does only one player need to go through a door/opening to get to the next screen?  If so, you could use being able to stand on top of each other to get into areas you normally wouldn't be able to access without certain character abilities.
:thinking
Yes. Can’t wait to see some 2P speedruns honestly.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Cryo on July 13, 2020, 04:02:31 PM
can somebody in touch with Wrath tell me what he thinks? I’m waiting to finish the last episode to decide whether I like this more than the first, but can’t decide whether I prefer the full team focus of this game to the solo and team based design of the first - my Zangetsu only playthrough felt amazing.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Cryo on July 17, 2020, 04:02:55 PM
Finished the
spoiler (click to show/hide)
final chapter, and now that I’ve got ultimate zangetsu I’m gonna do chapter EX. I was floored once I tried heading to the moon and realized that, as CotM 1 was a tribute to CV3, this entire game was a tribute to Wai Wai World on the NES, a game I really liked but never finished as a kid because of how punishing the final level was.

I think this game is everything I would have wanted from a sequel I never expected would arrive so soon. There were some really challenging moments that felt borderline unfair in terms of the skill needed to time dodges, along with the feeling that getting back to a boss with full life and my whole team was more based on luck with spawns rather than getting better with practice, which seems to be the one sentiment a lot of people can agree on.  I think it says a lot about how good of a game this is that I’m still excited to dive back into it despite many nights where I had to step away from the TV due to frustration.

Someone on a discord I’m a member of already finished a solo Dominique run  :doge
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Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Cryo on July 19, 2020, 02:06:46 PM
Sorry for the quadruple post but my friend is on stage 7 of his Robert solo playthrough  :whatisthis
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on July 30, 2020, 07:21:57 AM
Quote
Inti Creates has released the version 1.3.0 update for Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2.

The version 1.3.0 update includes the following:

        “Legend” style added – Enemies respawn from off-screen and one character dying counts as all characters dying in this extremely difficult style. Not recommended for first-time players.
        Display bug fixed.
        Various minor bugs fixed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwiXDTW8KxY
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: thisismyusername on August 13, 2020, 09:24:37 AM
This clocktower boss fight. :beli

Either I'm not supposed to be here yet, or they give you such small amounts of damage that it's really dumb to be facing a trapped-in-the-middle fight so "early" in the game.

At least I beat it with that spinning blade directional shard, but still. :goty2
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: thisismyusername on August 15, 2020, 11:47:22 PM
>Exploring the map
>Stuck on where to go next
>Look it up
>You have to go back to the library to get the thing because the game never explains it.
:beli

Also,
>Game has Zandatsu or whatever his name his explain next area
>You can't check conversations later, you only get this information once
>Somehow have to stumble there yourself if you forget
Thanks, IGA. :doge
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: thisismyusername on August 21, 2020, 07:17:36 PM
This motherfucker (https://bloodstainedritualofthenight.wiki.fextralife.com/Valefar). :beli

I thought the Blood Vampire was bad. Woof at this one. Apparently they patched him to be 9,999HP instead of whatever your amount was before he does the unavoidable attack. :lol :lol :lol :lol :doge
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on August 21, 2020, 09:08:10 PM
This motherfucker (https://bloodstainedritualofthenight.wiki.fextralife.com/Valefar). :beli

I thought the Blood Vampire was bad. Woof at this one. Apparently they patched him to be 9,999HP instead of whatever your amount was before he does the unavoidable attack. :lol :lol :lol :lol :doge
He was always easy though, just invert and slash away.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: thisismyusername on August 21, 2020, 09:14:31 PM
This motherfucker (https://bloodstainedritualofthenight.wiki.fextralife.com/Valefar). :beli

I thought the Blood Vampire was bad. Woof at this one. Apparently they patched him to be 9,999HP instead of whatever your amount was before he does the unavoidable attack. :lol :lol :lol :lol :doge
He was always easy though, just invert and slash away.

Apparently you can direction shield his gold-heal attack. Or just jump on his head.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: thisismyusername on August 23, 2020, 12:13:48 AM
In any case, got 98% of the map completed so far. But these key rooms... Bosses in them in a tiny area. :doge The carptenter is giving me fits as they'll summon these huge monsters like 3 if you're not careful/fast while throwing projectiles at you.

I... might need to farm materials to boost all my shards. :doge
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on August 23, 2020, 12:26:40 AM
In any case, got 98% of the map completed so far. But these key rooms... Bosses in them in a tiny area. :doge The carptenter is giving me fits as they'll summon these huge monsters like 3 if you're not careful/fast while throwing projectiles at you.

I... might need to farm materials to boost all my shards. :doge

Can't remember the names, but there's certain weapons that will destroy the carpenter with relative ease when you're leveled high enough.  (Might be the Oracle Blade?)

There's also this strategy:
spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv2lU91XJ7A
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But I don't remember doing anything more than just spamming him with the right weapon and taking him out.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on August 23, 2020, 12:29:05 AM
The Heretical Grinder shard will also take him out in seconds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlMequH2-AE
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: thisismyusername on August 23, 2020, 02:05:30 AM
The Heretical Grinder shard will also take him out in seconds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlMequH2-AE

Mine's rank 9 and only does like 60 damage? :doge
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: BIONIC on August 23, 2020, 02:51:36 AM
Pretty sure they nerfed some shards with the patches. Think that’s one of them.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: thisismyusername on August 23, 2020, 10:59:11 AM
Pretty sure they nerfed some shards with the patches. Think that’s one of them.

Yeah. 19 ATK nerfed to 14.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: thisismyusername on August 23, 2020, 01:45:53 PM
Apparently the hidden items in walls doesn't account for the 100%. So I'm basically going around the map to reach 99.00%+ for nothing. :beli

At least I get HP/MP ups from this, but geez, this is really tedious. I forget if the eyeball that gives the hidden area shard is earlier than it was for me, but it was buried so deep into the underground that it is like "why bother?"
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: thisismyusername on August 23, 2020, 07:35:13 PM
The secret boss fight. :whew

He doesn't mess around. :lol :lol :lol :(
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on August 23, 2020, 09:15:17 PM
Apparently the hidden items in walls doesn't account for the 100%. So I'm basically going around the map to reach 99.00%+ for nothing. :beli

At least I get HP/MP ups from this, but geez, this is really tedious. I forget if the eyeball that gives the hidden area shard is earlier than it was for me, but it was buried so deep into the underground that it is like "why bother?"

This happened to me, too!  :lol  Took a few hours to find what I missed. 

Looking back through the thread, it was the Rhava Velar sword that I used to kill the Carpenter easily.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG7IiIBwuA4

Strider sword!
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: thisismyusername on August 23, 2020, 10:49:06 PM
I didn't use that method. I basically farmed up shards for this method:

Secret boss spoilers for anyone that cares about that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnfYWG6emp0
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Basically got hit because it seems like there is little/no hit-stun in the game. But that method works even on the final boss (only had to heal up with potions one time and regain MP for spamming it).

Though it requires a lot of materials farming, which isn't TOO bad with a luck build, but is really annoying.

Game's good, but like Dawn of Sorrow and Aria of Sorrow, the RNG loot-drops really kill a lot of the "fun" for me. I dunno if the drops are better/worse than A/DoS but they feel just as low as there which isn't good IMO.

I guess I'll get the linear ones on Steam sale in the fall, even though Linervania was never my preference of the series.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on October 26, 2020, 08:09:54 AM
https://www.gematsu.com/2020/10/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night-coming-to-ios-android-soon
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on November 03, 2020, 02:19:44 AM
https://twitter.com/SwordOrWhip/status/1323321689032204289
:ohhh
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on November 10, 2020, 12:11:30 PM
https://twitter.com/SwordOrWhip/status/1326210282402746373
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on January 08, 2021, 10:22:16 PM
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/01/kingdom_two_crowns_update_coming_to_bloodstained_ritual_of_the_night

https://mobile.twitter.com/RawFury/status/1347233303884156929
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on January 08, 2021, 11:00:45 PM
Classic Mode on the 14th as well.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on February 10, 2021, 09:22:54 PM
https://twitter.com/SwordOrWhip/status/1359165439700586497
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on March 04, 2021, 02:45:04 PM
https://www.gematsu.com/2021/03/mighty-fight-federation-adds-miriam-from-bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night-this-spring

https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1367520285138825217
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on March 04, 2021, 03:01:24 PM
I swear at this point there's more Bloodstained crossover content than Bloodstained game.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 04, 2021, 03:22:26 PM
Bloodstained is leaving Game Pass, so I downloaded it and played it for a few hours yesterday. it's p. good
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on March 04, 2021, 07:15:34 PM
Bloodstained is leaving Game Pass, so I downloaded it and played it for a few hours yesterday. it's p. good

Ya, definitely worth playing through before it leaves.

Not the best Metroidvania by a longshot, but a solid one.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on March 05, 2021, 01:19:37 PM
It's more SotN from one of the main guys that made SotN and was pitched as that from day one of the Kickstarter. If you go in expecting that you'll have a good time. If you're expecting something else I'm not really sure what made you do so. :yeshrug
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: bork on March 05, 2021, 02:11:31 PM
Curse Of The Moon 1, 2, and Ritual Of The Night all together are :lawd
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on March 05, 2021, 02:48:16 PM
Curse of the Moon is great.

I think Bloodstained has some issues, but CotM nails everything its going for.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on March 05, 2021, 03:43:52 PM
Wish he'd drop all this side content and get on with the sequel.  :doge
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Tasty on March 05, 2021, 05:10:05 PM
CotM :lawd

Need to pick up CotM2 :drool
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on June 04, 2021, 02:40:36 PM
https://twitter.com/SwordOrWhip/status/1400661665142636544

 :rejoice :rejoice :rejoice :rejoice
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Trent Dole on June 04, 2021, 04:29:47 PM
I'll go back to this once they have all the planned backer stuff out there, it's been slow lately but there's a plague going on so that's understandable.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: paprikastaude on June 04, 2021, 04:32:39 PM
Not really interested in DLC :engel But I guess they have Kickstarter duties...
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: BIONIC on June 04, 2021, 04:40:44 PM
I kickstarted the game for like 100 bucks and I’d rather they just work on the sequel instead of whatever shit they’re adding that no one is gonna play anyways  :lol
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Bebpo on June 04, 2021, 05:08:46 PM
Yeah, I keep seeing this happen with kickstarters where the game is done for years but they're still working on the DLC add-ons they promised in stretch goals.
Title: Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night And Curse Of The Moon!
Post by: Svejk on March 30, 2022, 10:13:35 AM
https://youtu.be/WY8jxCURwI4

 :mysterio