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Xxain on 28 February 2013
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Im not a big fan of Lords of Shadow at all. I have played many Castlevania's and Lords of Shadow is the only boring one. What you play Castlevania for could not be found and it felt more like GoW mixed with Lord of the Rings. I DLed this demo to give this series another shoot and I played it all the way through and I cant say I liked it. Couple of things right off the bat.

1. The combat is clunky. Moving between different moves like for example, Y, X, X to block then dodge roll is not as fluid as I hope. It makes getting away from a attacking enemy in the middle of a combo a pain. Jumping also feels pretty stiff especially the double jump. The second jump barely goes anywhere with very little air control.

2. Speaking of dodge roll there does not seem to be any invincibility frames while using it and if there is, it must be a very small window. I guess it is used to keep distance.

3. Something amusing is that there is fall damage. In the beginning of the demo is a boring platform section where you must to climb to the top to drop a chandelier through the ground. Now after many years of Castlevaia I just jumped back down ya know? Did not cross my mind that it would be a instant K.O. Make sure to reverse boring platform.

4. No noticeable soundtrack. If there is anything Castlevania always gets right is an awesome soundtrack. No matter how many times Vampire Killer or Bloody Tears makes its way in these games they never get old. Here? Nothing but atmosphere.

5. Finally press R to win is a no win. When you fight the bosses and you drain them of their ridiculous long life bar for a kinda by the books fights, make sure to back off while they glow white. Your suppose to press R to activate our very favorite QTE's to kill them. 2 things, if you continue to hit the boss while hes in QTE me phase he will snap out of it and get a quarter of his health back. Like I said above stopping the middle of a combo can be annoying so I had like 3 rounds with bridge boss. The QTE animation is boring! Nothing flashy at all! Jumps on the enemy to hit him with handle of whip.. why does that hurt more than anything I was already doing?


Its a demo, but off the demo I wouldn't mind skipping this. Anybody else play.