Castlevania: Lords of Shadow

[Tehdagah]

GoW1 was a testosterone-fueled Greek Tragedy.

GoW2 and 3 were testosterone-fueled tragedies.

So?

GOW2 and 3 improved the gameplay, especially GOW3.

 

[Lhynn]

Inverted Castle was my least favourite thing about SotN (my first CV, I still love it).

It looked cheap and lazy. The idea must have looked good on paper, though.

you think designing a castle to be playable and fun while inverted is lazy design?
Its genious, must have taken a LOT of effort to pull off. Good map design is super hard, now reusing the same assets but inverted and it being still naturally playable is something else

 

[Hornawkawk]

Inverted Castle was my least favourite thing about SotN (my first CV, I still love it).

It looked cheap and lazy. The idea must have looked good on paper, though.

you think designing a castle to be playable and fun while inverted is lazy design?
Its genious, must have taken a LOT of effort to pull off. Good map design is super hard, now reusing the same assets but inverted and it being still naturally playable is something else

Nation of Fools (in Portrait of Ruin) and that other map using the same tileset (but harder) was very fun and brilliantly designed though.

 

[Coriolanus]

Inverted Castle was my least favourite thing about SotN (my first CV, I still love it).

It looked cheap and lazy. The idea must have looked good on paper, though.

you think designing a castle to be playable and fun while inverted is lazy design?
Its genious, must have taken a LOT of effort to pull off. Good map design is super hard, now reusing the same assets but inverted and it being still naturally playable is something else

I'm replaying SotN now, in the middle of my plan to beat all* CV games chronologically. Last time I played Symphony was 6 years ago, and damn it feels great getting lost again. Such a good game when you don't know what you're doing and even discovering new spells by trial and error (let's try a hadouken... yeah, take that mr. Boss dude! who's your daddy?!). I remember hating the inverted castle part back then, but I was also using guides and stuff - not this time (and I don't remember anything, really). Maybe I'll find it better this time.

*Well, almost... Fuck Haunted Castle and Adventure. I also kinda skipped Vampire Killer with its super-wonky whip hitbox, but I'll get back to it later. I inadvertently find myself replaying CV1/3 + romhacks over and over and though instead of moving forward with the series - they're just so damn good.

 

[Caim]

I want to go through SotN soon, but I'd be getting it for the PS3. The thing is, I read that if you do not get certain items you miss out on the inverted castle thing, how big of a risk is this for a first-time player?

 

[Coriolanus]

I want to go through SotN soon, but I'd be getting it for the PS3. The thing is, I read that if you do not get certain items you miss out on the inverted castle thing, how big of a risk is this for a first-time player?

It's OK to get the "bad ending" on the first try (it's a cool boss fight + cutscene), just get back to an earlier save or restart and go explore further.

Don't make the mistake I made and spoil yourself, it really ruins it.

 

[dnf]

Finished Lords of Shadow:

Pros:
+Excellent soundtrack
+Art direction uber alles
+Good combat
+Lots of boss fights
+Entertaining story
+Patrick Steward

Cons:
-Some annoying QTEs (particulary the second titan fight and the crow witch)
-Gabriel is emo grimdark (there is even a "I didn't ask for this" moment )
-Forced backtrack to pick up some weapon upgrades(a homage for one of the worsts features of a metroidvania)
-Devs like Portal and put two references of it in the game
-Lack of enemie variety between fights( You either fight a pack of goblins and a warpig or a pack of Lycans and a warg, there could be more mix between enemie encounters)

Good game overall, gonna try the dlc later.

 

[Bahamut]

-Gabriel is emo grimdark (there is even a "I didn't ask for this" moment )

Wait for DLC