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Ask Me Anything: Vampire Smile

My friends and I are writing for a small game site in our spare time (gameplaytoday.com). It's still unknown by the general internetting public, but it's steadily gaining in popularity. Thanks to that, I've just gotten an early code for Dishwasher: Vampire Smile for review. I'm very excited about it because I absolutely loved the original and it's the first game I've ever gotten early for any reason. So in celebration of this awesome circumstance I find myself in, I decided to make this blog post. I can't talk about the game yet, but ask me anything and I'll post answers to your questions to the best of my ability. On Monday. Because that's when the embargo's up.

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My friends and I are writing for a small game site in our spare time (gameplaytoday.com). It's still unknown by the general internetting public, but it's steadily gaining in popularity. Thanks to that, I've just gotten an early code for Dishwasher: Vampire Smile for review. I'm very excited about it because I absolutely loved the original and it's the first game I've ever gotten early for any reason. So in celebration of this awesome circumstance I find myself in, I decided to make this blog post. I can't talk about the game yet, but ask me anything and I'll post answers to your questions to the best of my ability. On Monday. Because that's when the embargo's up.

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How is the difficulty compared to the first game? I couldn't even finish the second level on normal in the first one. :(

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Well this really didn't work out the way I'd hoped. Oh well. 
 
@Tordah:
In terms of difficulty, the game still has normal, ninja, samurai, and now speed run which I haven't tried, but imagine gives you one life for the whole thing. However, there's also easy as well as "pretty princess" which unlocks when you die a certain number of times. It makes every enemy ridiculously weak, turns every environment pink with hearts floating all over the place, and hearts and rainbows come gushing out of enemies instead of blood and guts when they're killed.

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 @Shadow: Does it matter at all if you haven't played the first game (any callbacks I wouldn't get)? Is the story actually a major component of the game, i.e. do they ever explain what is actually going on? Also I think there is an option to play in 3D, did you get the chance to try that?

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@craigbo180: 
There are references to the first game, but nothing too important. The story is better than it was in the original, but the parts that make it interesting are things introduced in the sequel for the first time. All you really need to know from Dead Samurai is that mid-way through the last game, you kill a seemingly random boss that turns out to be your sister. That becomes extremely important.
 
There is a collectible in the game that you can activate to separate the red and blue spectrum (or however that stuff works). There's no advanced technology 3D stuff, but it would work with any of the old school red/blue 3D glasses.
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@Shadow: Cool thanks the quick look got me interested but I wasn't sure if I should have played the first one to even have a chance of understanding it because it looks sorta crazy with the alternating worlds.
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@Shadow: i played a shiton of the combo mode (cant remember the name). Is that still in there? It's the one with waves of enemies and the point is to get the best highscore
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Actually, there is a 3D TV mode that I never noticed before. I can't tell you much about it anyway though, since I don't have a 3D TV
 
@swamplord666:
Yep, Arcade and Dish Challenge are still in the game.

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Is there a worthwhile story?

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@Kyreo said:
" Is there a worthwhile story? "
It's vaguely interesting, but not really deep or anything (other than Yuki's hallucinations). It's mostly just an excuse to go and kill stuff.
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@Shadow said:
" @Kyreo said:
" Is there a worthwhile story? "
It's vaguely interesting, but not really deep or anything (other than Yuki's hallucinations). It's mostly just an excuse to go and kill stuff. "
Bummer.  I was hoping that there was some big reveal that she was killing hundreds of innocent people but hallucinating that they were attacking her or something.
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Is there big replay value in this game? Need something to hold me for a while. Is co-op fun? I go to college...thanks

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@Tordah said:
" How is the difficulty compared to the first game? I couldn't even finish the second level on normal in the first one. :( "
/butting in

I got a code from the dev today and played through the first few levels. I found the last one pretty punishing, but so far this one hasn't been bad at all. I'm enjoying it a lot more. I've only died about 5 times on Normal difficulty with the exception of one boss fight where I died like 7 or 8 times alone. The checkpointing is fine so no frustrations when death does occur. There are two difficulties below Normal as well.

As I said, I'm enjoying this one much more than the first. Definitely download the demo and try it out.
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@DrMadHatten said:
" Is there big replay value in this game? Need something to hold me for a while. Is co-op fun? I go to college...thanks "
Oops, didn't notice you there. There are 2 campaigns, each of which will last 5(ish) hours assuming you don't get stuck and there are arcade and dish challenge modes after that as well as a practice mode. The online is pretty damn fun too.  There's a shitload of value for $10