[Glam Grimfire]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=776423

i think this can pretty much just speak for itself,
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[Brooks]

I really enjoyed that translation

[Guillotine]

Can we just go back to comfort Igavanias? Pretty please?

[diplo]

From what I've seen of it, Lords of Shadow 2 is the Kingdom Hearts 2 of Mercury Steam's series. It's still boring as hell -- only, the ridiculousness is now set at a level where criticizing the thing is probably more fun than playing it, because the gameplay itself remains a slog. Trying to describe scenarios from the game is like writing too-dumb-to-ever-happen, in-jest speculations made prior to the LoS2's release. For example: the climactic moments see Dracula Belmont scaling a spacewhale from HELL, driven by Satan (who intends to use the spacewhale to destroy the earth by making it fire a Big Bang Attack from its mouth in the stratosphere), via conveniently secured pegs in the spacewhale's body. Dracula is assisted by Alucard, a.k.a. Vampire Trevor Belmont, a.k.a. Dracula's Own Son, who makes sure to let you know you're playing the game wrong every time you make a mistake climbing. The Downer Duo tug on giant chain-links wrapped about the spacewhale so hard that spacewhale explodes. As the figures fall, Satan possesses Alucard's body and awaits Dracula on a meat chunk of the spacewhale descending towards Earth, perhaps believing that Dracula will hesitate to hit his son. Dracula proceeds to hit Alusatan a billion times. Meat chunk hits the Earth, and then this amazingness happens.



Oh, yeah, another good part: Alucard hatches a plan to lure Satan out of Hell by plunging his Crissaegrim sword into Dracula's heart, for doing so will make Dracula only sleep, you see. But Dracula will also lose his memories! Dracula asks Alucard, "When will I remember?" and Alucard answers, "When I place my hand on your shoulder."

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[OffalAl]

:3
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[Schwere Viper]

Wow, so it's actually a Kid Dracula reboot.
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[boojiboy7]

Man, if only the original hadn't already been way too much of a slog, i would hate play this one to spare people from playing it too.

as it is, i will probably still hateplay it after a steam sale or something.

god the first one is so bad.

[Rud31]

I had a super fun time watching that ending movie.
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[Felix]

why is Dracula two and a half feet tall

this is great

[Laurel Soup]

I'm totally sold on this now.
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[Family Computer]

I watched a video review for this and there is totally a part where you take control of a mouse or something. GOTY.
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[Rud31]

I like being mice.

Rat King.
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[Laurel Soup]

I had no idea til that hg101 piece these new Castlevania games were made by the Severance dudes. That make this whole mess a double shame.
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[Dark Age Iron Savior]

all you vampire mice enthusiasts better have played boktai 2!!

released....just under a decade ago.

geez.

[Iacus]

[TXTSWORD]

Unrelated to LoS2 because I don't have any interest in these reboots, but I've never really played a Castlevania except maybe as a very youngn and I don't really remember. Where would I start/what should I play/should I play?

[kthorjensen]

Just Symphony of the Night. It's easily available on most modern platforms and is sort of the Platonic ideal of "Castlevania."
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[remote]

others will tell you castlevania 4, bloodlines, or rondo, and they wouldn't be wrong, but i'm going to say sotn too

it is still my favorite

harmony of dissonance is cool, too, and has a rad soundtrack

there's also this: http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1032/
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[Guillotine]

I am a fan of Ecclesia higher difficulty and vaguely godhandy fighting, but if you have to play one yeah SotN.

[Family Computer]

SOTN is just awesome, so play that. They don't make 'em like that any more.
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[diplo]

Wait, are we all really saying that SotN is the only worthwhile Castlevania?

[mauve]

i vote cv3 and scv4, personally. i mean i like sotn and all, but it ain't THAT great.

there's some pretty serious appeal to classicvania style gameplay too that isn't very well reflected these days
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[diplo]

Here's a post I made in 2009 that's more or less is representative of how I feel today.