Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

So I´ve waited this long, for a decent Castlevania clone. Why decent? Well first, because the graphics are sometimes so overloaded, that you cannot distinguish between the back- and foreground. Beyond that, the graphics are really good. Second, the music is good, but nothing special. Third, and this is one of the biggest point of criticism, is that many characters of the game are just copied and a little modified characters from other games: Zangetsu -> Dante from Devil may Cry; Librarian -> Alucard from Castlevania and so on. Oh and the fourth thing goes to the balancing: nerfing the good shards instead of buffing the crap shards, so that players are forced to use them, is, to say it politely, just lazy. If you can´t balance, than let someone do it who can. The good things in Bloodstained are the really good story, perfect controls, the graphics (to some extend, which I described earlier), the difficulty (many difficulties available), the crafting system (much better than in Symphony of the Night) and many more. Conclusion: You get a decent game which has it´s pros and cons. My opinion is, to wait for the next updates (just to be sure, that the balancing is not getting worse) and then grab it with a discount.

AMAZING WORK!! this game got me totally, its perfect after my job time, it has everything, RPG + Igavania, and the graphics are a piece of art!

This might be my favourite "Castlevania" game ever and among my top 3 Metroidvanias. I went in not knowing any controversy around it, with promised DLCs, characters and such, so I just focused on the gameplay. And it is amazing. I don't know man, I just love me some grind in my 'vanias. I love it when every enemy you slay means something - a little bit of exp, some money or even an item. And Bloodstained gives you a lot of reason to grind. And most importantly it is fun and not tedious. Previously I played Chasm and god damn that game was Castlevania done wrong, especially in comparison. I love metroidvanias, but rarely beat them twice. This game? Immediately went to New Game + and ran through it again. And again. All this grind pays off, you can build yourself like a monster and destroy everybody. It is nowhere perfect, of course not. Hundred of items, with like 10-20 being any good. Either too difficult or too easy. First area suck and can scare off people, like myself a year ago. But give it a chance and it will grow on you. TL;DR - It's superfun, buy it.

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I'm not kidding. This might be the best Castlevania game ever.