It’s got to be better than Mighty No. 9, right? To be fair, Koji Igarashi’s anticipated Castlevania-inspired spiritual successor Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night may have been conceived during the ill-fated Kickstarter boom, but it’s looking like it’s going to deliver on what fans expected. While we’re not overly keen on the 2.5D artstyle, there are some cool moments in this trailer – particularly when it temporarily switches to full 3D visuals.
With a map twice the size of legendary PSone title Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, various modes, and a plethora of gameplay systems layered on top of the traditional side-scrolling gameplay, we reckon this could turn out to be one of the more successful crowd funded success stories. Maybe?
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Not my thing, these newer games or the originals, but I was impressed with how good this looked. If this is representative of the final game it might actually be successful.
It definitely has to be better than Mighty No. 9... gotta be. I am looking forward to this.
No Vita version though. So bite me.
I love me some Castlevania, so hopefully this game is as good as the classics in the series.
Never really been into Castlevania type games but this looks gorgeous. The visuals themselves have me intrigued
I’m soooo disappointed by the art style. I was hoping for some lush pixels and instead the models just don’t look detailed.
Glad to finally be getting this after funding it years ago on PS4.
I love Castlevania games and the art style maybe because I'm not an old timer that grew up in the 8bit times, so I always prefer anything that is not 8 or 16 Bit art style games
@GKO900 I'm one of those old timers but I really like the look of this. I find that modern takes on 8 or 16 bit styles are rarely done well, those that do look great such as Shovel Knight, Sonic Mania and last year's Bloodstained but many don't do it for me and I like modern takes such as this and Megaman 11. I suppose what I'm saying is that it more depends on how well they execute their art style rather than which they choose
the character art style is terrible enough to make me not buy it. They are typical jrpg characters, not dark enough and not what characters in Castlevania games remotely look like.
The scrolling around section remind me of pandemonium on PlayStation 1 or Kalpana I'll buy this though
@Pamela good thing this isn't a Castlevania game then isn't it
@FullbringIchigo you’re right it isn’t.
This is looking better and better every time we see it. Cautiously optimistic.
@Pamela you know i'm not sure if what your saying is that is isn't a castlevania game or that it's so bad it shouldn't be called one
but it sounds like you may have misunderstood this is done in the style of a castlevanina game but it isn't part of that series, it actually ISN'T a castlevania game, it's not done by Konami and doesn't carry the title so it doesn't matter what the characters look like because it just isn't part of that series at all
saying this isn't what a castlevanina game should look like is like playing Final Fantasy and saying "This isn't what a Zelda game should look like" they are 2 COMPLETELY different series
@FullbringIchigo I mean..you are right but....who knows what the heck square will do to final fantasy next 😅
@Rob_230 apparently they want to do a full on Fantasy one, no cars & no tech at all
"With a map twice the size of SOTN", is this phrase including the inverted castle or just the normal one?
Cant wait to get this delivered supported them on kickstarter.
Not happy with the 2.5D you are not a real castlevania fan. The 2D games where the highlights of the series.
Really looking forward to this.
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