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evilmiera
Dec 14, 2009

Status: Ravenously Rambunctious

Rigged Death Trap posted:

The worst thing
the absolute worst thing
in the handheld Castlevanias is choosing whether I want to dash or use a combat move, and make me go into the menu to switch.
Timespinner lets me have that cake and eat it.






Also game remains hella straightforward.
I was honestly expecting the emperor to be a bit (just a weensy bit) more nuanced from the beginning but 'You can't Keep her from me/I'll find you bitch" just threw any hope of that straight out the window. Not even nuanced in the 'he has a salient point' way, but in the 'WHAT IS A MAN' kind of way.

Yeah, he's built up as having these ideals that are possibly positive and Lachiem itself is seen as a pretty neat place up until the weirdness that went down when you start messing with time, but that line and how Lunais mom handles him makes me almost think he's a stand-in for a bad breakup or a strawman for a very particular point about toxic masculinity. Which is unfortunate, because with just a little more subtlety this could be made to be a very effective take on an overly clingy man willing to rewrite time to have his heir back.

Where I appreciate the lack of subtlety is when the game goes "gently caress nazis, you can't deal with them. In fact, go kill off Hitler if you can." That's where the game's writing style works.

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