brandonh83
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MadOdorMachine said:
It's just that, a reference. The game also references the Great Deku tree (in the scroll it's spelled "Dekuh") from Ocarina of Time.
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It's just that, a reference. The game also references the Great Deku tree (in the scroll it's spelled "Dekuh") from Ocarina of Time.
ScrabbleBanshee
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Ricker said:Holy crap at the Cornell(sp?) Boss fight...anyone who beats this guy on the highest difficulty should get 500 achievements or trophy points :lol ...
I think that fight was when it finally clicked for me about how they want me to play this game. I didn't find it that hard at all, in fact, I think I had less trouble with that than just fighting some of the bigger normal monsters early on in the game. If he's the hardest boss in the game, I'm kind of relieved to hear that.
brandonh83
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ScrabbleBanshee said:
I agree, this boss was practically okay look, if you want to stand a chance playing on harder difficulties, drop a nut and take it like a man. I didn't find it easy at all, but eventually I found a great rhythm and stuck to that and eventually did it.
That's when I truly became incredibly impressed with the combat system.
burgerdog said:
Nah, I do that too. The trick is to basically combine all of these tactics for ultimate supremacy.
brandonh83
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AcciDante said:
I think it's a glitch. What you have to do is actually LET GO of R2. No joke. Grab it with R2, and then release before turning.
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Vilix
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brandonh83 said:
And I thought the story plot was the only thing CLoS copied from OoT. Well, not copied. Got their inspiration from?
brandonh83
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Vilix said:
I didn't make any story connections between this and Ocarina, maybe it just went straight over my head or something.
the_prime_mover
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brandonh83 said:
This seems to be the correct answer. I just tried that and it works fine. It seem you just have to tap R2, if you hold it for even a moment it seems to reset.
This game is amazing. It may have some problems, but its an amazing effort for a small studio from Spain.
I was hating on the reboot concept before, but Gabriel is an awesome character and of course the art design is really nice. The gameplay is solid, and while it copies (or has homages) to other titles, the entire package really stands on it's own (and despite some amazing visuals, GOW3 fell flat on it's face).
Good job Mercurysteam! You gained a fan .
I was hating on the reboot concept before, but Gabriel is an awesome character and of course the art design is really nice. The gameplay is solid, and while it copies (or has homages) to other titles, the entire package really stands on it's own (and despite some amazing visuals, GOW3 fell flat on it's face).
Good job Mercurysteam! You gained a fan
.ScrabbleBanshee
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brandonh83 said:
That fight was when it finally occurred to me that just standing there and attempting to actually synchro block the attack pays dividends. Up until that point, I was always out of magic and rolling around the place like an idiot. I'm not sure how easy it would be to synchro block when you have a bunch of little minions after you all at the same time as a big boy though.
So, for this guy... dodge when it looks like he's going to glow strike or ram you, otherwise just sit there and wait for him to come to you and block when he strikes. You'll focus right away, stagger him and you can get a bunch of heavy direct blows in before he recovers. Suck up the orbs (I hate that they don't just come to you automatically, seriously holding down one of the stick buttons is awkward and they disappear so damn fast), switch to light magic and heal if you need to, rinse and repeat.
Skewering him with a bunch of shadow magic daggers right at the start doesn't hurt either.
Of course, I died the first time after the third form change because
the game gave me no indication that exploding the stupid statues was what I needed to do and that I couldn't damage him at all directly at that point therefore no way to heal. In fact, during the form change cutscene it gave me the impression that the firey statue things were going to come to life and I'd have half a dozen more monsters to deal with
I am seriously sick of all of the ground pound attacks in the game by now though. Seriously, the ground pound attacks range is ridiculous it should be limited to an area much closer to the pounder.
Just got to chapter 4! I was about to crap my pants at the chapter 3 boss fight after reading about it here(I'm on Knight as well), but I actually found it incredibly easy.
The trick is
I actually had more trouble on the ending part because
The trick is
just guarding. On the second form, you can counter EVERY move except for the obvious ones. Even his ground slam, you can counter his hands on the way down. I constantly had a full focus meter, and I never moved out of his face so he never did a shoulder charge. I would just parry him constantly, get a shitton of orbs on the screen, parry his next attack but absorb the orbs instead of attacking, then unleash hell on him.
I actually had more trouble on the ending part because
I was trying to smash the statues with the gauntlets, took me awhile before I realized you can just hit them.
TheKaeptain
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I'll try that later on. Can't play right now kid is here.the_prime_mover said:
TheKaeptain
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How?Papercuts said:
It sounds like I'm the only one who made it through this game with pretty much zero trouble with any of the puzzles or platforming. :lol
Necromancers are haaard if you have no holy water. It pretty much becomes a battle of attrition because I don't think I was ever able to figure out how to block even one of their attacks. Just keep attacking and dodging and wearing them down.
Tokubetsu said:
Necromancers are haaard if you have no holy water. It pretty much becomes a battle of attrition because I don't think I was ever able to figure out how to block even one of their attacks. Just keep attacking and dodging and wearing them down.
brandonh83
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Y2Kev said:
how far are you? I can't stress enough how everything literally gets better as you go. The environments and atmosphere keeps dialing up, the combat gets better, the bosses go from really cool to being the greatest boss fights ever (
Brauner, Mechanical Creation, Olrox, Carmilla-- I'm looking at you folks
I haven't beaten it yet so of course things could go downhill at any moment, but I'm two chapters away from the end and I don't see that happening.
SixStringPsycho
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So can anyone confirm if snake is playable or the kojima unlockable is? Ive read the snake thing is not true
Die Squirrel Die
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Papercuts said:
I just beat him, but I took the easy way out, just dodged alot, bided my time and didn't overly commit to any combos.
The opening area of chapter 4 is stunning, but alas I must go to bed now.
brandonh83
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Okay, I'll bite, I have no idea what to do here. Chapter 10.
but seriously, my god.
HOW IN THE GOD DAMN NAME OF FUCK DO YOU GET INTO THE CREMATORY OVEN I HAVE PISSED ON, RAPED, AND PERFORMED EXORCISM RITUALS ON THESE FUCKING GONGS AND NOTHING!!
NOTHING
but seriously, my god.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
At chapter 2-2 now. The
was pretty neat, although the shitty camera and all the snow made it confusing when you're supposed to
. I'm playing this on easy, and already the first boss is way harder than most bosses in God of War on normal :lol
ice titan
push R2 to latch onto his arm
It's refreshing to see the thread for this (and the comparison thread) at so many pages. I seem to see games with lengthy threads do pretty well sales wise, I hope that's the case here. Not expecting gigantic numbers, but I want it to be a clear success for Konami and Mercury Steam.
QisTopTier
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Obviously this game is setting up for stuff that is more castlevaniaish in the future, I MEAN fucking slogras corpse is in the damn ending. BTW gabriel isnt a damn belmont that's his adopted name, also the little girl vampire was never killed and the book itself said she had a bigger role to play, she obviously changed him =P
brandonh83
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Thanks guys, I tried that like a billion times so I feel less dumb, but I guess I'll have to... try better.
QisTopTier
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dont charge it just tapbrandonh83 said:
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Thing I am wonderingQisTopTier said:
What exactly do they do with the sequel? Do they do the stuff in between, when Dracula was still ruling and kicking ass(traditional Castlevania), or do they ignore that stuff and continue from the ending? And wtf, I thought Zobek was dead.
Either way, I just hope the game sells enough for a sequel to be greenlit.
Either way, I just hope the game sells enough for a sequel to be greenlit.
TheKaeptain
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I'll have to disagree. You'll understand more later on. You just started.theultimo said:
NeoUltima said:
Actually yeah, that got me for a bit. I don't think there was actually a precedent for that one. I mean it was obvious that daggers were necessary because there is a dagger refill bag right there, you just have to make the connection.
i basically figured it out by mashing buttons :lol
theultimo said:
God honestly they should have cut out the entire first chapter of the game. It's terrible compared to the rest of it and nothing like what comes later. There are only 3 SOTC-style titan battles in the entire 20 hour game and there is a lot more environmental navigation and platforming than GoW.
I'm a HUGE diehard fan of the series (castlevania 3 was the first videogame I ever played) and I was extremely pleased with how faithful this ended up being. I don't think people realize just how difficult it would be to properly translate CV's mixture of platforming and combat into 3D. It just doesn't work the same. It CAN'T work the same. CV isn't like Mario and it's mechanics aren't as immediately transferable.
This is far more of a Castlevania game than anything Iga did in 3D.
gunstarhero
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That's good to know!
Was just playing near the end of chapter 2 - where there are some good platforming moments ( without the annoying hints ) and THATS when it started feeling like a CV game to me. Glad to know we get more of that!
LabouredSubterfuge
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Juust wanted to chime in and say I'm very happy with my purchase
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