Okay basically i'm just pissed off right now, I've been listening all these popular gaming podcasts and people are complaining about Castlevania! So i really wanna know what they expect from this game? We have seen these videos, trailers and such all over the years from this game and they have given good impression about what to expect, aye? And now when the game has been released people are mainly complaining about it that it is not regular Castlevania, OH REALLY, You guys have seen the videos of this game like past 2 years and you are still complaiing about it's not regular Castlevania, Sheeesh, get over it!!! And i'm aware of that it was not first titled Castlevania but Lords of Shadow, so what? You still have those regular Castlevania games on your portable devices, play those if you don't like this! I know, that i'm here to defend this game but i know that there are problems too in this game, but they are so miniscule that they won't bother you, i promise! And people say that this is like 20+ hour game, false statement, it took me about 10 hours, and backtracking is needless, i didn't backtrack even once. But so, i would like to tell you, dear readers of this rant of mine, about those problems, well problems that i had playing this game:
--Problems--
1. Camera: Camera through the game was not bad, but in certain places yeah, it sucked, cause you can't manipulate the camera at all and it doesn't give you the best possible solution in some situations and when that happens you are going to fall to the pitt, but it's not bad thing you just lose little health and return to that position where you did the deadly jump.
2. Clipping: There was one instant where i was playing and clipped thru wall and i was not able to come back to the place where the clipping happened so i died, this is really little thing. it happened once.
3. Technical Bug(or something): So the battle before Gravedigger when he sends those minions after you, when you kill them, there supposed to open this gate to the battle the Gravedigger, that gate didn't open, so i have to return to checkpoint and fight those minions again. Not a big deal!
4. Edge leaping: There was not always a clear indicator where to jump in these wall hanging sections and you sometimes just fall to your dead, in my case 2 - 5 times this happened.
--The Good Things--
1. Character design: I'm really big fan of fantasy creatures and such cause i like to draw them myself sometimes. So this game has really big catalogue of really gorgeus monsters, animals and creatures, i was almost everytime jaw dropped them there was new cool boss battle.
2. Enviroment: This is Mercurysteams own inhouse game engine and it is soooo pretty. Notably that place where you meet Pan and do the pendulum puzzle, that place is candy for your eyes. And the snow frosted Castle is marvelous.
3. Combat: Okay this one is tough, cause combat in this game is nothing revolutionary or completely new but it is really fun and addictive, so you have light magic, when you activate that you got health from every hit that you land to an enemy. Also you got Shadow magic, from that you have boosted damage dealing to enemies. Then there is this Focus meter that you fill with different combos and evading moves and such, when the meter is filled you got and magic orb from every hit that you land on an enemy and you can choose which magic slot you are going to fill up. And you unlock few more things along in this game when you are progressing.
4. Cinematics: I friggin' loved those cinematics, story telling in those scenes we're absolute gold, i think that there were no needless takes in those or that they we'rent too long or too short, perfect.
5. Boss Fights: They were awesome, i think that i don't need to say no more.
I maybe have forgot lots of stuff, but i really wanted to tell all of you people how good this game is. I personally love this game. It's maybe not a "Castlevania" game in the way most people think, but it's still good. Don't go to store like you are getting Symphony of the night experience, but in a way that this is something new to the Castlvenia formula. And remember this is console 3D Castlevania, we've had many bad 3rd person Castlevanias and this is something beyond those. I have never ever wrote a blog this long, so i hope i gave you a reason tho buy this game or even get you interested. Sorry for the typos, if there were any, propably were. My native language is not English. I'm from Finland and i love this game as i love GiantBomb, have a nice day people.
ps. The last cinematic after the credit roll, there's something to wonder about! It is so cool!
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