Castlevania: Belmont's Curse

Caliane

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It is a GREAT game but yes too short - it is one of the best metroidvanias as of late, I dare say better or on par with Bloodstained.

It would have been fine imo to just make her dealing with her emotional trauma and the long lived elf in love with human who dies trope (heck thats in LoTR) the memory eater demon thing was...eh...I guess fine, the ending and secret endings after you awaken where okay- but now knowing it was just a promo to some books...okay got it lol
I think one of the funny things is, Frieren copying lodoss war and Deedlit. like its not subtle. and the author is open about it.

the mimic joke at the end of that trailer...


 
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Siliconemelons

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Record of Lodoss war was one of my first anime's...

1) not knowing that the east loves to not present things chronologically would have helped...
2) not knowing what a "movie" vs "series" is in anime-speak, OVA...etc.
3) getting this from early internet "sources" vs buying a 200$ DVD set so...things may have been a little vague and out of order.

Now I actually enjoy some of the series vs OVA differences and adjustments - like Blue Gender the series vs The Warrior OVA/Movie and some of the things they did differently in the story telling etc.
 
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Siliconemelons

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Some interesting ideas, deadcells people say they had to move away from rougelike gameplay for this, so that is positive.

lead up concept is kinda cool, corrupted joan of arc is interesting and the fight seemed fairly good in a standard CV manner. Still a little bit much jumping and whip swinging around etc for my taste in platforming- but none the less...

Only like "ummm" is there is really NO og CV people on this... the konami guy is the guy that did co-labs and collections... so none of it "new"... guess at least we are getting a new one!
 

Siliconemelons

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Do not know why I just noticed, but they are using the combat cross style/visual from Lord of Shadows...


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