jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
I need to stop reading this thread before I end up impulse buying this
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Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night |OT| What is a Kickstarter?!?! A Miserable Pile of Delays!
BUY IT!!!I need to stop reading this thread before I end up impulse buying this
I spent a stupid amount of money on KS to help make this game happen. I think it turned out pretty damn good, and hope many people enjoy it. I've noticed a lot of interest in these types of games since the Bloodstained KS, and I like to think the excitement surrounding it helped the metroidvania renaissance to happen.
People who say it's "ugly", wow I guess I see videogames differently. I mean, yeah it's not using all the latest greatest visual tricks and treats, but it looks like a videogame (if that makes sense?) and I really like that. It's very reminiscent of how I remember SOTN looking and feeling, which is EXACTLY what I personally hoped for, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Also, I'm playing it on "cinematic" settings on a good IPS UW display and it looks amazing, so meh.
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Tarin02543
Member
Thanks for your support, thanks to you I get to play this game.
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
Well i have been trying to grind Blood Grinder Knight for about an hour for max boosted shards. These are my drops.
345 killed
14 x Scale Armor
6 x Spiral Swords
21 x Steel
9 x Shards
According to the in game menu drop rates are
4% Scale Armor
2% Spiral Swords
5% Steel
4% Shards
345 killed
14 x Scale Armor
6 x Spiral Swords
21 x Steel
9 x Shards
According to the in game menu drop rates are
4% Scale Armor
2% Spiral Swords
5% Steel
4% Shards
Shouta
Member
Shoe weapons are really good in this game. Despite the short range, the attack is really fast and it makes your movement options like the headstomp, divekick and slide do more damage. There aren't many options though, as far as I can tell though. I had to upgrade my backer weapon to the 2nd tier, which costs a fair bit of gold, for something good.
On the other hand, thanks to the slippery effect I decided on, the divekicks will slide you forward thanks to the momentum. It's pretty wild especially from high up.
On the other hand, thanks to the slippery effect I decided on, the divekicks will slide you forward thanks to the momentum. It's pretty wild especially from high up.
Revolutionary
Member
There's also an enemy modeled after him in the game already!
Glad I'm not the only one falling for the grind. Must have killed 300 Lili's to max out Bunnymorphosis lol
UltimateUnknown
Member
Reading this thread is excrutiating as the physical PS4 version releases in the EU on Friday. Honestly van't wait.
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
Games like this are made for grinding and 200%
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
What a horrible night to have aEnded up playing until nearly dawn last night.
Ivory Blood
Member
Yeah, this game is addictive. You just want to keep playing and playing.
HotPocket69
Banned
Had the same issue with it keeping me up way later than usual. The pacing and exploration -> reward system is so goddamn good. Time basically melts playing this one.
Yabusamaro
Neo Member
Day off playing this bad boy. Kickstarted it from the beginning. Having low expectations.
A bit rough in some areas:
- With the whip you need to use the tip, otherwise you will miss small targets.
- On Xbox one X is 4k60p most of the time. On some areas will dip down because of too much detail. I wish you could choose to use a lower or dynamic resolution.
For the rest the game is amazing!
- Lot of options and stuff: Weapons, shards, special moves, different magic.
- Loving the art and music. Graphically it manages to surprise some times: Circling tower, boss designs/ideas..
- The pace! This can break or save the game. Happily it delivers. Igavania style for sure!
Overall if you love previous Igavanias, you will love this for sure. The roughness disappears quite soon and you will get dragged in really deep. Loving the pace between combat, exploration and backtracking.
I understand the criticism over stiffness of combat. If you are used to Igavanias you will completely miss this, but a newcomer might have a hard time. Maybe having some combos while standing, easy to learn weapons or quick combat tutorial would help.
Okey, I was having a small break. Back to the game!
A bit rough in some areas:
- With the whip you need to use the tip, otherwise you will miss small targets.
- On Xbox one X is 4k60p most of the time. On some areas will dip down because of too much detail. I wish you could choose to use a lower or dynamic resolution.
For the rest the game is amazing!
- Lot of options and stuff: Weapons, shards, special moves, different magic.
- Loving the art and music. Graphically it manages to surprise some times: Circling tower, boss designs/ideas..
- The pace! This can break or save the game. Happily it delivers. Igavania style for sure!
Overall if you love previous Igavanias, you will love this for sure. The roughness disappears quite soon and you will get dragged in really deep. Loving the pace between combat, exploration and backtracking.
I understand the criticism over stiffness of combat. If you are used to Igavanias you will completely miss this, but a newcomer might have a hard time. Maybe having some combos while standing, easy to learn weapons or quick combat tutorial would help.
Okey, I was having a small break. Back to the game!
WindomURL
Member
Ha, #metoo. Was up till 4 or so. Had to be awake three hours later...Ended up playing until nearly dawn last night.
Tarin02543
Member
4 hours in, I've seen 16% of the map.
Belmonte
Member
I'm in the beginning yet but man... how I miss this genre! I think most of the indies I played are not metroidvanias, they are metroid-likes. I miss how many equipments, itens and abilities a true Metroidvania has and this one has in spades! I'm glad IGA created Miriam based on Soma, the Aria/Dawn of Sorrow protagonist since, IMO, he is the most fun MC of the metroidvanias. Copying enemies abilities never gets old!
Like many, I prefer the Castlevania art, in all its 2D glory, specially SOTN, which has a more somber tone, but I'm satisfied with Bloodstained. They improved a lot.
A very promising start!
Like many, I prefer the Castlevania art, in all its 2D glory, specially SOTN, which has a more somber tone, but I'm satisfied with Bloodstained. They improved a lot.
A very promising start!
ClanOfNone
Member
lmao, I was wondering why drops were respawning like that. It does get you pretty op, enemies seems to do no damage cause your hp pool gets so large.
MiguelItUp
Member
I had hoped Bloodstained would be solid, hell, even just decent. But I was never completely sure about it, I was hesitant. Well, It's more than decent, it's great! PLEASE do yourself a favor and buy this. I also think it's awesome as it feels like a slap in the face of Konami, haha.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Been at work all day and honestly have not stopped thinking about this game - where I'm going to explore next, which enemy crystals I want to level up, what type of weapon I should specialize in, etc.
I know the mark of a great game when it can suck me in like this and consume my thoughts.
I know the mark of a great game when it can suck me in like this and consume my thoughts.
Pejo
Member
Did any of you guys on Steam notice considerably worse performance today? All 6 hours I played last night, I had one "Fatal error" crash to desktop. Today, the game totally freezes on me every 10-15 minutes and I can't even manually kill the process. I end up having to reboot my PC each time. It's really frustrating. I'm currently in the process of redownloading the game files, but did an update go out between last night and today or something?
rubhen925
Member
So this is honestly the best 54 bucks I spent on PS4 haha. Man loving the game. I've beaten about 7 bosses in 6 hours of gameplay. I'm mostly running around hitting every wall to find secrets.
I fought the villain you meet at the start, and beat him, and the game just went to a game over and gave me a trophy. I guess i'm missing something.
So far, i've been using the greatswords. Using Gram now, will be upgrading soon. There is a section in the castle where you get to a portrait that makes the world 8 bit and you have to fight through. That is a tough section as the boss is a killer haha. I'll have to go back after getting stronger.
I got to a strange room with a bunch of interactable. Called
. I'm not sure if I'm missing anything as I can't seem to do anything here.
Also the chairs, does sitting on them do anything. Only one chair has done something and that is the chair beside the piano which plays a beautiful composition.
But yea, I'll head back into it later tonight
Cheers
P.S. - Definitely so far in my top 5 this year for games
I fought the villain you meet at the start, and beat him, and the game just went to a game over and gave me a trophy. I guess i'm missing something.
So far, i've been using the greatswords. Using Gram now, will be upgrading soon. There is a section in the castle where you get to a portrait that makes the world 8 bit and you have to fight through. That is a tough section as the boss is a killer haha. I'll have to go back after getting stronger.
I got to a strange room with a bunch of interactable. Called
Celeste's Room
Also the chairs, does sitting on them do anything. Only one chair has done something and that is the chair beside the piano which plays a beautiful composition.
But yea, I'll head back into it later tonight
Cheers
P.S. - Definitely so far in my top 5 this year for games
Pejo
Member
I'm still waiting for the Bloodstained version of this one:
I know the one at the underground waterfall does as well. Also try playing the piano with a fairy familiar
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Dirk Benedict
Member
Played this game for 16 hours straight. I'm in love.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
The Switch version runs at 720p. The demo they had at PAX had some input latency issues but I don't think we have confirmation as to whether or not those issues are still present in the final build.
Labolas
Member
Oh ok. I think I just play it on the switch just for convenience
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It's like SotN. There's looots more left to beat the game for real.
HotPocket69
Banned
Alright I’m in the Towers of the Twin Dragons section and I have no idea how to push forward. I know I need the double jump and it’s around this area but I’m clueless as to what to do to proceed. There’s this blueish glowing gear I can’t jump on to progress to the next part.
David Hayter mentions in a note (you'll get these periodically at the item shop, listen carefully) that the double jump guy is in the library. Search Livre Ex Machina, there are some parts that look impassable but aren't.
HotPocket69
Banned
Ok so how do I get on top of this gear?
The library is above that
Are you not reading the journal entries in the bookcases? The one right on that screen tells you what to do (stand at it and hit up). There's a lot of important info in those.
At any rate, it's like the very beginning of the game. Point your magic hand at the device (right stick) and it'll start moving.
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HotPocket69
Banned
Nevermind I’m an idiot. Didn’t know you could “push” the gear to get on top of it
HotPocket69
Banned
And the last journal entry that I read crashed my game, so no more journal entries for me lol
iconmaster
Banned
Unfortunate.
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TheDuskwalker
Member
Well this was cute.
#Phonepunk#
Banned
LOVELOVELOVE this game
finally beat Zangetsu. you can kind of cheese him standing right in front and jumping over him then hitting him 3 times & repeat.
im now fighting some paintings with backer portraits on them (and old idea but really well done!)
haven't seen any bugs yet, playing on Steam.
finally beat Zangetsu. you can kind of cheese him standing right in front and jumping over him then hitting him 3 times & repeat.
im now fighting some paintings with backer portraits on them (and old idea but really well done!)
haven't seen any bugs yet, playing on Steam.
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Brazen
Member
So anybody close to finishing or beat it yet? Curious on the overall impressions and around how long it is. A lot of side content? Consensus, of what I've been reading, seems to be this one is the best of the igavanias yet?
edit- bah just saw OT was posted a few post up... Duh missed it.
edit- bah just saw OT was posted a few post up... Duh missed it.
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#Phonepunk#
Banned
its really really good. OOE X DOS.
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#Phonepunk#
Banned
what system? i backed Switch physical and am still waiting. that won't drop til next week.
The Snake
Member
!!!IMPORTANT!!!
As I previously mentioned, the update caused a bug in treasure chests for me. It has been confirmed that affects a certain chest required to complete the game.
If you started the game before the 1.02 patch and did not pick up the item after the Twin Dragon fight before the update, your progress is blocked.
I'm only 5 hours in so it's not a huge deal but I'm still pretty bummed about it.
As I previously mentioned, the update caused a bug in treasure chests for me. It has been confirmed that affects a certain chest required to complete the game.
If you started the game before the 1.02 patch and did not pick up the item after the Twin Dragon fight before the update, your progress is blocked.
I'm only 5 hours in so it's not a huge deal but I'm still pretty bummed about it.
So anybody close to finishing or beat it yet? Curious on the overall impressions and around how long it is. A lot of side content? Consensus, of what I've been reading, seems to be this one is the best of the igavanias yet?
Yeah, it's definitely one of the best Igavanias. There's so much variety to the abilities, everything has upgrade paths, tons of crafting options, and the drop rate is juuust right. I'm getting pretty far in now and it's becoming a lot more challenging than most of the other Igavanias, too. I've died three times so far, to later game bosses.
I'm 15 hours in now, 92% map completion, 15 bosses down.
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