Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

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Posted on: June 25, 2021

gabrielrock19

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Games: 30 Reviews: 1

100 hours of pure fun

Yup, you're looking at that for completionists. Graphics: 90/100 [The blend of 2D+3D graphics is excellent for a metroidvania styled game. The characters facial expressions and body animations during cutscenes are stiff and could use a lot of improvement]. Gameplay: 100/100 [Very addictive and fun]. Story: 40/100 [The game lacks a proper narrative and has little character development. These four points represent the merit of the setting as a whole as well as the world's overall creativity, both of which were great.] Art: 95/100 [Bloodstained features stunning scenarios, several character customization options and excellent weapon and item designs. The lack of armor variety is disappointing, though.] Level design: 85/100 [Exploring the map feels great. However, levels could have been bigger and more varied]. Absence of technical issues: 90/100 [Bloodstained has a small memory leak if you play it for several hours straight and some barely noticeable performance issues when using some shard powers. No game-breaking glitches were encountered]. Soundtrack: 80/100 [Bloodstained has a great soundtrack, but a few repetitive and out of place tunes keep it from deserving musical excellency.] Overall score: 580/7 = (82/100). Definitely worth a full price purchase.

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Posted on: December 30, 2021

QuentumC

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Games: 447 Reviews: 4

Great metroidvania, great soundtrack

I really love the game, can't recommend it enough! Only little problem : The abilities that open new ways should have their own menu, or at least should be highlighted as it is a bit tedious to look for them in the list each time you need them. OK, there is the shortcut menu, but it needs to be updated everytime you change your main weapon. But this is a minor concern in the overall greatness of the game. Buy it, you won't regret it!

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Posted on: June 22, 2019

dwetuski

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Games: 381 Reviews: 4

Castlevania nostalgia, technical issues

From the character design, to the level design, to the story, Castlevania fans will notice many familiar features. Drawing inspiration from several of the second-generation Castlevania games, Bloodstained weaves them together and in some cases, outdoes them. Some of the not-so-great aspects of those games also carries over, as well; if you want to fully power-up a shard (think soul from Sorrow), be prepared to kill the same non-threatening demon dozens or even hundreds of times. As happy as I am to see this ported to PC and available on GOG, I'm somewhat disappointed with the implementation. If your machine is a few years old, you'll need to lower the graphics settings to get it to run smoothly, which would be fine, except that doing so also causes the menus and maps to expand beyond the borders of the screen, making them difficult to use. Also, by about 75% into my first playthrough, I had already experienced 2 occasions where the game just died for no apparent reason. Hopefully these issues will be resolved in an upcoming technical patch, but until then, save often. Overall, it's a fun game with some very cool moments, and is worth playing.

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Posted on: June 25, 2019

brendaneph

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Games: 88 Reviews: 1

Good game

It plays like a Nintendo DS Castlevania game. I like it. I like the other Bloodstained game. Buy this game if you like the Nintendo DS Castlevania games, or lile Symphony of the Night. This game is fun. You should play it.

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Posted on: August 21, 2019

Harrison11106

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Games: 127 Reviews: 2

The 'vania Konami no longer bothers with

As title, I remember SoTN from waaay back, for years I was hoping that Konami would do a proper continuation of that title. Apparently IGA approached them in regard to doing just that, the powers that be at modern day Konami said "no" so he left & we got this beauty. If 505Games does more of this kind og game in the future, they'll have a regular customer in me.

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