spekkio
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Finished Castlevania - Dawn Of Sorrow
Good:
- Good old Metroidvania.
- Interesting and varied map design.
- Game is huge.
- Exploration feels just right: castle isn't totally open, yet some boss sequence breaking is possible.
- Simple crafting works fine, best equipment can't be found, you have to make it.
Ugly:
- Initially, the game is underwhelming (too much story, lame areas). Fortunately, it improves fast.
- Puzzles? In a 'Vania?
- A bit on the easy side.
- Huge monsters with HP so low, that they die after 2 hits. Lame.
- Fixed monster sets in rooms.
Bad:
- Glyphs drawing is 101% retardo bullshit. Use a hack to fix this.
- Soul drop is way too low IMO, which leads to boring souls farming. Can be circumvented with cheats.
- Spergish amount of pointless banter (Hammer's love life, etc). If I want to buy a potion, I don't want to scroll through 5 lines of lame bullshit first, thank you.
Still, solid , since I've tested four 3D 'Vanias (both PS2 games and both LoS games) and had to give up on all of them very fast, due to uninteresting gameplay / level design / everything.
So far, AFAIK the only working 3D Metroidvanias were Soul Reaver games and newshit Zeldas. But Konami simply cannot into modifying their own 'Vania formula into the 3rd dimension...
Good:
- Good old Metroidvania.
- Interesting and varied map design.
- Game is huge.
- Exploration feels just right: castle isn't totally open, yet some boss sequence breaking is possible.
- Simple crafting works fine, best equipment can't be found, you have to make it.
Ugly:
- Initially, the game is underwhelming (too much story, lame areas). Fortunately, it improves fast.
- Puzzles? In a 'Vania?
- A bit on the easy side.
- Huge monsters with HP so low, that they die after 2 hits. Lame.
- Fixed monster sets in rooms.
Bad:
- Glyphs drawing is 101% retardo bullshit. Use a hack to fix this.
- Soul drop is way too low IMO, which leads to boring souls farming. Can be circumvented with cheats.
- Spergish amount of pointless banter (Hammer's love life, etc). If I want to buy a potion, I don't want to scroll through 5 lines of lame bullshit first, thank you.
Still, solid , since I've tested four 3D 'Vanias (both PS2 games and both LoS games) and had to give up on all of them very fast, due to uninteresting gameplay / level design / everything.
So far, AFAIK the only working 3D Metroidvanias were Soul Reaver games and newshit Zeldas. But Konami simply cannot into modifying their own 'Vania formula into the 3rd dimension...
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