Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

much fun very wow. Excellent vania-esque game by the orig guy iirc

An honorable succesor to the old castleveina games

Good combat, exploration, only don't like that techniqes arent saved unless you do them

I didn't really wait for this game to come out. I was afraid - Mighty No.9 left such bad taste for me that I expected this game to fail. Gladly I was wrong. When trailer with release date came out, I gave myself to the urge and preordered it. After ~5 days, 3 of which weren't longer than 3-4 hours (I mean, I worked entire week) I finished the game. Or at least finished it to 99.6%. I'm not a completionist, but at least I did all quests and did everything that mattered. So in general, how good is this game? It's pretty much excellent... As long as you don't go for that 100% completion. Thing is - that normally gameplay is smooth and nice and reminds of oldschool Castlevania games such as Symphony of the Night, Aria of Sorrow and Down of Sorrow. My biggest complaint is the quest grind. In some quests you are required to get special ingridient for crafting. That's ok. That ingridient drops only from specific monsters in specific areas. That's also OK. What is NOT ok is the drop-rate. Some items drop with the chance of 1% or even lower. This means, that when you want to get the item, you have to go to room, kill the monster, check for drop. If it's not there, go away from the room and then back. Rince. Repeat. Until you get what you want. I swear that getting that piece of Flying Beef took me almost an hour of this samey procedure! And I topped my Luck stat with best Luck raising equipment I could find. And that's only one item for crafting. There's a ton of them. AND... Well, that's almost all negativity I have against the game. There's also questionable performance - sometimes it feels that framerate of the game drops while my PC's monitor doesn't show high load on either CPU, RAM, Videocard and disk. Also, there's a small bug with enemies sometimes not dropping items properly. And, that's it. Everything else in this game is nothing short of amazing, high quality Metroidvania game. If not for grind, I'd say, it's the best game in this genre... Probably.

What a game. Very addicting. A great homage to the original. Don't miss it.