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Bloodstained is Castlevania now. That's all there is to it.
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i don't think iga would want to work for konami again
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Jan 25, 2021 19:46
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I'd prefer they just keep independent and making more Bloodstained anyway
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Jan 25, 2021 19:49
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BexGu posted:Oh come now you now there is some one high up in Konami that is butthurt that Iga left to make his own Castlevania and had some moderate success with it. Our only hope is some makes a "gently caress you" Castlevania sort of like Capcom with Mega Man 11. I don't think anyone really wants a Konami-produced Castlevania in this day and age where Konami itself doesn't give a poo poo about its gaming IPs unless they can be used to squeeze out as much cash as possible from mobile gaming or pachislot. The soul of the Konami of years ago has all pretty much left for one reason or another.
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Jan 25, 2021 20:24
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Copyrights and IP should only be allowed to be held by real people. Konami isn't real, why does it get to own things it didn't even think of, because it can't lol
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Jan 25, 2021 20:28
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Can they sell or license out the FOX engine already.
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Jan 25, 2021 20:29
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ChaosArgate posted:I don't think anyone really wants a Konami-produced Castlevania in this day and age where Konami itself doesn't give a poo poo about its gaming IPs unless they can be used to squeeze out as much cash as possible from mobile gaming or pachislot. The soul of the Konami of years ago has all pretty much left for one reason or another. If Konami made a Mega Man 11 quality Castlevania, I'd gladly take it. Or even if they just farmed it out somewhere and we got something with the level of effort Super Bomberman R wound up getting put into it over time I'd be happy I'm just not hanging out for that possibility now that we have Bloodstained as a good replacement
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Jan 25, 2021 20:30
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License out Suikoden you fuckers.
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Jan 25, 2021 20:38
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sgbyou posted:License out Suikoden you fuckers. Get ready for the Suikoden dating sim.
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Jan 25, 2021 20:42
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Between Bloodstained, Blazing Chrome, Eiyuden Chronicle, etc., at this point Konami doesn't really need to make new games. However it would be great if they made their past titles more widely available. They've actually done a good bit here with the Castlevania and Contra collections and the SotN releases on PS4 and mobile. I'd like to see SotN on the Switch though, as well as a second Castlevania collection where they bring over the GBA and DS titles.
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Jan 25, 2021 21:24
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Bongo Bill posted:Bloodstained is Castlevania now. That's all there is to it.  Only thing it's missing is the actual branding/characters.
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Jan 26, 2021 01:26
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O485TqiyfqU
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Jan 29, 2021 21:05
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Lol that owns. Surprised it’s not DMC-ed yet.
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Jan 30, 2021 01:13
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Plays well, too. And if you like it, here's a spiritual sequel.
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Jan 30, 2021 01:20
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I just found out this crossover game for the NES called "Konami Wai Wai World" exists.quote:Playable characters As far as I'm concerned, that lovely 80's King Kong movie and The Goonies are now objectively canon to Castlevania lore. If your timeline of Castlevania doesn't account for the adventures of Mikey and Chunk and the gang, its wrong.
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Feb 11, 2021 14:48
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Wonder Labyrinth is on sale for 20% off but only for Freakazoid_ fucked around with this message at 13:21 on Mar 11, 2021 |
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Mar 11, 2021 13:17
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They've also said the price will go up once it hits full release (probably to a similar price point to Lunar Nights) so I'd grab it now if you're interested.
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Mar 11, 2021 15:12
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There aren't enough people in my life that understand my bad castlevania jokes https://twitter.com/HourComeAtLast/status/1370561936413233156?s=19
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Mar 13, 2021 04:12
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Team Ladybug's Record of Lodoss War game is fully released now. Now those are some chunky pixels
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Mar 27, 2021 14:19
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HolyKrap posted:Team Ladybug's Record of Lodoss War game is fully released now. Now those are some chunky pixels That looks amazing but I’ll wait for some Goon impressions and comparisons.
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Mar 27, 2021 14:24
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How much longer of a game is "fully released" compared to the blinkanditsover of the demo.
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Mar 27, 2021 14:26
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Nate RFB posted:How much longer of a game is "fully released" compared to the blinkanditsover of the demo. It's a Team Ladybug game so it's probably on the shorter side, but i thought the demo was them just adding stages as they developed them? When I first bought it I'm pretty sure it was only stage 1, this release says it's added stages 5 and 6.
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Mar 27, 2021 14:43
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Team Ladybug games are all very pretty, very solid, and 6-8 hours long.
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Mar 27, 2021 15:54
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Cartoon Man posted:That looks amazing but I’ll wait for some Goon impressions and comparisons. If it's anything like the other Team Ladybug games, it should be pretty good: Pharaoh Rebirth + https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256661321/movie480.webm?t=1457510101 Touhou Luna Nights https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256753317/movie480.webm?t=1560532061 Gensokyo Night Festival https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256797707/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1598233434 I wish they would bring the Konosuba, SMT, and Fate/stay games they made to Steam or anywhere, but seeing as how they were made as semi-promotional things I doubt it'll ever happen. FanaticalMilk fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Mar 27, 2021 |
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Mar 27, 2021 18:15
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FanaticalMilk posted:I wish they would bring the Konosuba, SMT, and Fate/stay games they made to Steam or anywhere, but seeing as how they were made as semi-promotional things I doubt it'll ever happen. The Konosuba game is really good. I'd love to see that get an official localization.
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Mar 27, 2021 18:32
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HolyKrap posted:It's a Team Ladybug game so it's probably on the shorter side, but i thought the demo was them just adding stages as they developed them? When I first bought it I'm pretty sure it was only stage 1, this release says it's added stages 5 and 6. Yeah it wasn't a demo it was early access.
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Mar 28, 2021 00:49
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I just beat Wonder Labyrinth. Never touched it in demo/ea because I wanted a "pure" experience. 6 hours in one sitting. Game play was really good. The fact that you're not glued to the ground when you swing a weapon along with the ability to attack angles is welcome for me because it means that all weapon types become more useful rather that a specific few. I used a wide variety of weapons vs like igavanias I stick to a few specific ones. The ikaruga style element switching was fun and added a fresh layer of complexity. Enemies hit hard and spells use lots of mp, but you can use this to heal and fill mp. It rewards good play, but also gives you a way to recover when you mess up, as long as you don't mess up several times in a row. I didn't find the bow to be super useful in combat except some specific circumstances. It actually is a great addition, but it's eclipsed by spells. There several bow puzzles, which were okay but I wouldn't miss them if they were gone. Spells seem a bit too strong. They can trivialize both regular enemies and bosses if you use them effectively and pay attention to weaknesses. MP is almost never a problem. The pause you do when casting also acts as a buffer to react to enemy attacks as well. The music was good and the areas were too, but neither of them blew me away or were very memorable. Not like Castlevania or blood stained (even cotm). The boss fights were really loving fun. Even though spells could make them easy, I really enjoyed all of them. Progression felt like it was tied to stage/level more than gear. And seemed to have xp walls so you don't really level easily until the next area. Everything gets hard again, and then you level a few times and it's easy, then going back to the previous area feels like a big drop in difficulty. Everything was very solid but the depth of an igavania is not there. No armor/accessories, side quests, stories, special moves, etc. Map is smaller. Just more shallow over all, but that's fine. Everything that is here is ver good, there's just less of it. Overall I feel like I got more than my money's worth ($10 on sale a few weeks ago.) I'd gladly pay double. More for a sequel. If you never saw lodoss you will be very confused. If you did see lodoss you will be confused in a different way. It doesn't really matter. Finally (ending spoiler)seems to have some after credits stinger that implies I could potentially get a better ending. will check it out tomorrow. Very fun game to spend a couple evenings with in the genre. itskage fucked around with this message at 09:18 on Mar 28, 2021 |
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Mar 28, 2021 09:15
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Thanks for the write up. I bought it during the same sale waiting for the full release. Happy it sounds great, I’ll get on it when the Monster Hunter Rise addiction slows down.
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Mar 28, 2021 09:31
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HolyKrap posted:Team Ladybug's Record of Lodoss War game is fully released now. Now those are some chunky pixels Hell yeah, Team Ladybug games are always so good, but tragically short.
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Mar 28, 2021 11:43
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Sounds like a decent $10 game. I’ll leave it in the ol wishlist though. I still have to start the two Ori games I picked up during the last sale and I heard those are amazing. (At the second one is supposed to be.)
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Mar 28, 2021 12:12
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itskage posted:I just beat Wonder Labyrinth. Never touched it in demo/ea because I wanted a "pure" experience. Bows I found quite useful because you can get some that do specific elemental damage instead of your equipped spirit. This lets you spam them against certain enemies and most bosses that are weak to elements you normally only get from spells without dealing with the cast animation or range limits on those. quote:If you never saw lodoss you will be very confused. If you did see lodoss you will be confused in a different way. It doesn't really matter. I've seen some conjecture about that but to me it seems like a simple tie-in to the forthcoming book this game serves as promotion for.
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Mar 28, 2021 13:01
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itskage posted:If you never saw lodoss you will be very confused. If you did see lodoss you will be confused in a different way. It doesn't really matter. I watched the Lodoss anime, and finished the excellent Dreamcast game back in the day, and I still couldn't tell you what the plot was actually about.
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Mar 28, 2021 13:34
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It is almost literally a DnD campaign, I don't see what the confusion is. A band of adventurers quest to save the land from an ancient evil.
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Mar 28, 2021 14:56
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Swilo posted:The sprite work that went into everything is absolutely gorgeous. Oh yeah I completely forgot to mention that. While the stages weren't the most interesting, the sprite work and animation was fantastic. Swilo posted:Bows I found quite useful because you can get some that do specific elemental damage instead of your equipped spirit. This lets you spam them against certain enemies and most bosses that are weak to elements you normally only get from spells without dealing with the cast animation or range limits on those. Yeah they're useful, it's just most of the time I'd just cast a spell instead. The game would be worst off without the and I do like them. The thing that completely breaks spells is that you can normally only cast a spell once then you have to wait for it to finish to cast again. But if you switch to another spell you can immediately cast it as well. So you can alternate spells and perpetually slow down the fight while blasting two weaknesses. Or say use invisibility, switch to something else and blast the boss while they attack your clone. It's kind of a boring way to play and feels like playing DnD shadow over mystara with unlimited credits.
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Gologle posted:It is almost literally a DnD campaign, I don't see what the confusion is. A band of adventurers quest to save the land from an ancient evil. Its actually literally a DnD campaign because wrote just took one the games he played with his friends and turned it in to novel that got super popular in Japan.
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Mar 28, 2021 19:28
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I played up to the first boss in Wonder Labyrinth and though it was solid, but held off because I wanted the full experience. Here's hoping this gets ported to the Switch too (just easier portability), their switch port of Luna Nights was really good. I watched the OVA and series of Lodoss but it seemed pretty hands off and was just "hey there's this character Deedlit knows," which is fine for me. Hell, it's been so long since I've seen Lodoss that I was straight merging the first party they cover (with Parn and Deedlit) and the new party and cast they eventually switched to focus on (I swore that berserker dude who never got the chance to do anything awesome was a part of Deedlit's crew).
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Mar 28, 2021 19:53
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FanaticalMilk posted:
Just so you know, while Gensokyo Night Festival here is still really good, it's not a Team Ladybug game, they're just both published by Playism.
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Mar 28, 2021 22:53
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mdct posted:Just so you know, while Gensokyo Night Festival here is still really good, it's not a Team Ladybug game, they're just both published by Playism. Oh my bad, it looks like the Gematsu articles I was looking at had it listed wrong.
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Mar 29, 2021 01:10
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Castlevania-adjacent news from Konami: they're resurrecting their old Famicom-era game Getsu Fuuma Den as a modern "roguevania", it'll be out on Steam Early Access next month and Switch next year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3iuulEeQl8 The developer is a Japanese studio called GuruGuru who's mostly just done contract work on anime games and so on, nothing particularly noteworthy. If you've never played Getsu Fuuma Den, it's an action-adventure game not too dissimilar to Castlevania, but more Japanese horror than western movie horror - the main character and stage were the final DLC for Harmony of Despair, and Zangetsu in Curse of the Moon is sort of a riff on that character as well.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Castlevania-adjacent news from Konami: they're resurrecting their old Famicom-era game Getsu Fuuma Den as a modern "roguevania", it'll be out on Steam Early Access next month and Switch next year: Well that's interesting, I loved the track in Harmony of Despair https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqr_HP4PTYY I wish they made more stages for HoD, but this looks alright I guess. Kinda hard to see, the video compression looks broken even at 1080
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