Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is great. Let's talk about it.

[Rob-Ot]

disolitude said:

Khuutra said:

And just for the record

If you say "This is Castlevania in name only" then I'm going to be forced to assume that you never played a Castlevania before Symphony of the Night

You have been warned.

First of all, Rondo of Blood is where the casltevania series started to turn from a straightforward action game, not Symphony.

Judging by your posts here and in the past, Ill take a stab and guess that he is not a Metroidvania fan at all and thats fine.

Its all fine to think that Super Castlevania IV is where the series peaked, but pretending that 15 years of castlevania gameplay evolution which came after it doesn't make up the castlevania universe as much if not more so than the first 5 years which is kind of wrong.

If you play all of the main castlevania games from 1986 to 2009, you can see the gameplay revolution and refinement in the series...until you get to this one, which throws everything that is current Castlevania away and takes cues from other popular current franchises.

So yeah, it isn't Castlevania and I've played al of them.

Id probably give it less slack for if they tried to come up with something completely new like Resident Evil 4 did...but sadly they didn't.

My thoughts are exactly the same.