If there's one thing I never understood about this game, it's how everyone conveniently showed up in places you fought tooth and nail to get to like the castle wasn't rampant with demons, lol.
I was not expecting her to be the main villain of the game we all got tricked thinking Alfred was the bad guy but no it was her the whole time Alfred was good after all
It really is a tribute to Castlevania, since look at how Dominique and Mathias from Lament of Innocence are alike. Both were once firm believers of God only to turn against him due to their personal reasons and began to seek the powers of darkness as some sort of revenge. Both also used the main protagonists in order for their plan to succeed.
This last boss fight remind me many of good old Castlevania final boss fight, one of them is Dawn of Sorrow man I love that game and I love this game, thanks Igarashi and co for bring back what game developer should do than just make same generic game.
I'm thinking about how to reconcile Dominique's rejection of God for ignoring the suffering of his servants, while *also* shrugging off all the deaths she'd cause by conjuring Bael. My best guess so far is that she really only cared about the deaths of her parents during the incursion the alchemists caused (note that she would have been 15 or 16 at the time). Those alone may have started her vengefulness towards...well...the world in general? I hope that when/if we get a sequel, we learn more about Dominique's childhood, and her psyche.
I love how she ends up swearing to kill all the demons just like zangetsu in the beginning of curse of the moon.I hope they wont share the same fate tho
@@mas8705 Iga said on an interview that he doesn't consider himself an indie dev, and this game had the support of five studios, a bit of an overkill lol
@@gustavonomegrande Fair enough. It just feels so good how after so many kickstarters bellied up after launching, we got another winner with Bloodstained.
@@daehan8227 And the crown on the human head, I missed that too. That said, the idea of it being a vortex you fight in the middle of does lend to both the abstractness of the entity, as well as giving a good scale of the fact that you are fighting one of the most powerful infernal entities in all existence.
@@triplehate6759 it honestly felt like a throw back to Chaos (at least one of its form was a reference) the final boss of Aria of Sorrow. Trapped in a circular space and killing the boss.
@@daehan8227 The first thing I thought of when I saw that was Spiral Mantruda from Ultimate Ghosts N' Goblins; though this doesn't look nearly as brutal as THAT fight.
I'm having a major Shin Megami Tensei mind trip since many of the demons in this game I recognized from the Fallen and Tyrant races, tho the last time Bael was even seen was Devil Survivor, tho he had the Mesopotamian God Baal and the Sloth Demon Belphagor fused into his body, he did indeed had the Spider legs tho.
One odd thing: if you beat the game with the ultrawide fix, Zangetsu is actually in the town in the final cutscene, off to the side, just standing there.
When I finished it yesterday, I thought I heard someone walking as she and Johannes were leaving Arvantville. Nice to know. Perhaps they have something planned in the future. I beat Bael again with 100% map coverage and no change.
That's good. I stood there for awhile after the Gremory fight wondering where the hell was Zangetsu. Unless he was instantly vaporized or displaced in sub-space, his death should've had more impact.
The boss is based on the 3 headed demon from the lesser key of solumon(a book on summoning Demons), a lot of enemies are also, like Buer for example which was described as a wheel shaped Loin. Edit: Lion.
If he plays in higher resolution, you can see Zangetsu's shadow at the bottom right corner. If he plays in widescreen mode, you can literally see Zangetsu walks away after their conversation.
Well, in anime, unless the cool character got straight up killed with something like a blade through the chest, any others ambiguous way to died pretty much scream they are alive.
Anyone notice the very brief shadow of someone walking in from the right side, up to Johannes & Miriam during the last cutscene, back in Arvantville (and the sound of footsteps) BEFORE both of them start walking to the left? 14:41 and listen closely while looking at the bottom right side of the screen.
@@leonardofarias8843 Death has never been the final boss in any game. Even in the Lords of Shadow series finale he got stomped before he could complete his plan of dethroning Satan.
The only thing that i really dislike about Bael's fight, is that the game doesn't even hint you that in order to deplete his life-bar, you need to only hit the head where Dominique currently is. I SPENT NEAR TO 2 HOURS HITTING BAEL WITH NO RESULTS UNTIL I GOOGLED IT.
So I was completely right in not trusting Dominique from the first meeting in the backer demo. Or the church if that has any relevance because I haven't played the game yet and am getting switch version
MrHellGnome bit late for that now friend... my game crashed on my first examination of the first bookshelf just before the save point and I'm just waiting now so it's a bit more playable
Thank goodness this is up on RUclips... I experienced a bug where Bael's death noise just kept playing, like warbling static screaming over the entire final scenes until it got to the credits... It was awful & I just had to skip it all.
Stash Allemagne It was funny - up to a point. The thing is, I could hear my earphones starting to hate me so I had to just skip everything. The cherry on top was boss rush was bugged for me too. This game is a brilliant mess, haha.
this game is like aria of sorrows and symphony of the night in one Edit: i did this on another video but bloodstained order of sorrows or bloodstained: symphony of sorrows or bloodstained: symphony of ecclesia
I just prep a lot of stuffs like maxing out a lot of passive shards and clearing Susie's quest to get the infinite ammo hat, and then craft the red pistol with diamond bullets and boom, ez game ez life
IGAvania: ritual of the harmonically dissonant symphony for the bloodstained with sorrow by the curse of the despairing moon. featuring snake from the metal gear series. GOTY.
@@fissilewhistle Every once a while a sympathetic villain throws that out because they can. It isn't suprising especially when it comes to surprise anime betrayals.
Makes me wonder, did Dominique simply fall prey to a crisis of faith, or is she right about the church and God? I hope the sequel gives us something concrete to chew on.
Knew the second I saw her she was a villain, Japan loves to make people from the church the bad guy, plus she was too sexy to just be the good guy. Her reasoning is pretty lame too, sure you lost your faith in God, but to go in the complete opposite end of the spectrum and murder thousands to millions to obtain demonic power just shows you really were only pretending to be a good person in the first place and not worthy, tho I guess villains aren't always logical.
I feel like some wires got crossed when they were writing her motivation. She starts by saying she lost her faith in God because of all the senseless death at the hands of demons. Fair enough, but then mere seconds later when miriam says that dominique's actions will result in the deaths of more people, she says anyone who dies deserves it for being weak. The only explanation I can think of for that is that her losing her faith in god made her completely nihilistic and decided, "well, if nothing matters, then I'd might as well attain power and become a god." If that is the case, it's not expressed very well in her cutscene.
@@shnobby3547 I agree, it's just Japan's silliness at that point. They make great games and can make good stories, but I find that they really don't understand people of faith because any time they write those type of characters, their motivations are either illogical or completely contradict their actions. Like, fine you can write your evil church guy, but the way Japan writes it is pretty childish and lacking any true complexity 99% of the time.
@@CanterlotCrusader Let me be honest tho, Iga is the one who direct this story. And his castlevania franchise's plots alway seem simple and childish to me. So i dont expect much on the story part when it's come to Igarashi's games
The ending its like Demon Castle Wars wherein Yoko Belnades performed a rite to banish the remains of dracula and lock up the castle to solar eclipse The second one is Bael, looks like Titan Eren
I'm getting the switch version and the metal case on Tuesday. I bought the xbox1 version on launch to hold me ovwe until the switch release and i finally best it today. I hooe the switch version looks and plays well
They’re releasing him as Free DLC at some point in the near future Very happy because playing the extra character modes are some of my favourite experiences in the post-SOTN games
The wiki compares Dominique to Mathias Cronqvist from Castlevania, which I think is complete tosh Mathias turned bad because he was overcome by grief after losing his wife, Dominique just seems like every other power mad sociopath
I mean her family was killed in the demon horde brought about by the Alchemists guild. It's not a lover but it is still loss of family grief that drove her toward embracing destructive nihilism and the power of demons.
@@deathbykonami5487 With her powers she dominates them, not joins their ranks. Plus she came to the conclusion that if God would be responsible for protecting her and her family and she sees him, if she exists as he knows him, as just as evil or incompetent. Therefore she places her faith in demons since she knows they are very clear and present while the God this church worships is more elusive and silent. In her own words, "What if the lord we grovel and pray before is a lie, and our faith draws power from some other nameless, unspeakable thing? If so, I wash my hands of it. Because God can rot. I decided to seek a higher power. The power to slay gods." I mean Mathias' wife was killed by disease, so by that logic why didn't he become a doctor and try to cure the disease that took her away instead of harnessing the powers of darkness and killing his friend's fiance too?
@@PANICBLADE true enough I guess, it just seems that Dominique is just ripping off Mathias's motivations And at least Mathias succeeded since Dracula will always be around
@@deathbykonami5487 When the point is reached where people will argue both that it is bad because it is different and bad because it is the same, it makes no difference. Mathias's plot was a rehash of Dracula's motivation for Lisa anyway so Dracula has 2 backstories that have even more in common with each other than Dominique's to either of them. And Dracula is a public domain figure based off Vlad the Impaler, so it's not even Castlevania's exclusive character that they already have an unoriginal backstory for. This was already the case way before Bloodstained.
Yes. There is also a kill Gebel early and leave ending, and another one which seems to imply Dominique's plan for Miriam succeeding, but I didn't get a cutscene with that one.
I realize now i made this game worse for me because I literally over leveled and sought out every little thing before i even made it to the final boss.
GUYS Dominique doesnt spawn for me, i waystoned out of tbe Glacial Tombs , and when i came back to fight her i just enter the room and walk. jts empty... PLEASEEE HELPPPP
for some reason even with that weapon it took me several tries to kill Bael (dominique became easy however, i even no-hitted her during my successful attempt) and i didnt have much healing during that fight
So a magic part demon fighting the forces of the demonic world and gaining their powers, all while doing so to save her brother figure and the world from his corrupt nature and thirst for power....is Miriam just more boring female Dante? I’m cool with that, just wish...actually the game is kick ass I don’t need to wish for too much more.
As I expected, Bloodstained has classic Castlevania Difficulty, but I think Dominique was pretty cheap. I still have to get my HP higher as my HP is very low against her (1100 HP)
Had to watch it on here because each time I land the final blow in the Xbox One version my console shuts down. When I turn it back on, it says that it overheated. Anyone else having this happen?
I got too strong, level 60 with a lot of fully levelled skill shards. I thought the battle was too short, none of those middle fight quotes played lol The journey was great though
@@trevast93 I was level 41. Farmed maybe 3-4 shards (spear mastery, sword familiar, true arrow and one of the first spells from squids like a bouncing water ball, dont remember the name)
I destroyed her ass easily in the first try with the black ray shard in level 7 and the aceleration shard to scape her attacks fast. Peace of cake once you have long range attack that make 150 pv damage approximately by second. Did not use the sword at all.
same for me but I only jumped and used a maxed ice dropping spell(my 4th shard to do so) and she did not even manage to do anything, Bael just stopped circle the 1st time when they died from this(1st play through).
Growing up I learned a lot of science crap and I'm starting wonder about my religion(I'm Catholic) like yeah... What if there is No God Other religions have their own respective gods yet the one of the commandments is "you shall not have other gods besides me" Honestly I don't know anymore and I'm strating not to care bout these stuff I'm just going along with everything when it comes to religion
Hm? well God is ultimate being. can't becompared to human. doesn't need to eat, sleep, not fell tired watch and rule his creature. Because God is ultimate, God don't have mother, nor brother, nor son. God exist. prove? look at your hand who create it? atom? well.. who create atoms? who create electron? can you make atom? I mean make it from nothing, not fission or fussion things. Time what the what is time? who create "time" concept at the first place? It's God who exist before time and God will brings end to "Time". Who is my God you ask? Ultimate being beyond human imagination, ultimate being who cerate our realm, our reality, and every natural laws in it. The true and the only one deserve to called as God الله and yes, I'm Muslim.
@@diswardexia6105 so without Religion We can't have things like... Modernistic stuff...? And there are many Gods depending on other Religions some are a god of one thing and a lot of them are a god of everything
Its why being agnostic is the ideal way for me. If there is a God, let em judge you for how you were as a person and not that you followed these X number of rules that have been changed or could have been altered over years by other people, assuming there even is one.
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I knew she was evil due to her overpriced crap in the store, only villains do that never heros
😂
IS THAT AN AL-MIGHT REFRENCE
@@ahmadmirzatappi8142 I read that as anal lol
exactly
@Joseph Moore OD gave a bigger clue when he mentioned that humans haven't invented photography yet but she had photo equipment
I knew something was up with Dominique the moment I saw her portrait in the Barber's room in the castle.
Maybe she's the one who cursed Todd
Wait that was her?
For some reason I kept thinking it was Bowsette as for some weird cameo XD.
I hope that if they do a sequel Todd returns and he's like "OOH is the one who helped me with my curse.....uhh wanna still help break it?"
...I can’t believe that I never noticed that her portrait was in there.
HOW DID I MISS THAT?!
I thought Todd was just a simp. And just looking at Dominique, I wouldn't blame him lol.
If there's one thing I never understood about this game, it's how everyone conveniently showed up in places you fought tooth and nail to get to like the castle wasn't rampant with demons, lol.
Welcome to metroidvanias
The same happens on Castlevania the protagonist always wonders about it
in games like Order of Ecclesia, it is more explained why with the villagers, but no idea about the one lost guy in this game anyway
Zangetsu and Alfred had the excuse of being bosses, Johannes can even be explained by alchemy nonsense, but Dominique was meant to be suspicious.
Exactly - one of the biggest clues pointing to Dominique's true nature. ;)
Wow. The idea of having the merchant as the final boss just blew my mind, and now it happened.
Well bayoneta has the merchant as a secret boss lol
I was not expecting her to be the main villain of the game we all got tricked thinking Alfred was the bad guy but no it was her the whole time Alfred was good after all
The Persona series does something similar... twice. And one was the most random NPC ever, but it makes sense on hindsight lol.
Dominique: I have a demon lord!
Miriam: I have 99 high potions.
Having demon problems, i feel bad for you son. Got 99 high potions, and your demon aint shit!!!
She'll be back in 100 years.
whoawhoa, i can only equip 5 high potions at a time, how do u have more?
Same. I was wondering that too.
@@kar12894 high potions under the form of foods :P
as weird as the boss look, i think this is one of the most faithful depictions of Bael on any game ever.
It really is a tribute to Castlevania, since look at how Dominique and Mathias from Lament of Innocence are alike. Both were once firm believers of God only to turn against him due to their personal reasons and began to seek the powers of darkness as some sort of revenge. Both also used the main protagonists in order for their plan to succeed.
No shit. No one gives a crap.
Let's be honest, Bloodstained is a game about awesome demon cats and the rest is window dressing.
I def like window dressing Miriam as much as possible 🤤
I saw a portrait of her somewhere in early rooms of castle, so it was kinda obvious, that you will fight sometime
her portrait in that killer barber room where you can customize miriam lol
Dominique: Behold as I fuse myself with a cat's forehead!
Interestingly enough, this form matches Baal/Bael's description from Ars Goetia.
This last boss fight remind me many of good old Castlevania final boss fight, one of them is Dawn of Sorrow man I love that game and I love this game, thanks Igarashi and co for bring back what game developer should do than just make same generic game.
I'm thinking about how to reconcile Dominique's rejection of God for ignoring the suffering of his servants, while *also* shrugging off all the deaths she'd cause by conjuring Bael. My best guess so far is that she really only cared about the deaths of her parents during the incursion the alchemists caused (note that she would have been 15 or 16 at the time). Those alone may have started her vengefulness towards...well...the world in general? I hope that when/if we get a sequel, we learn more about Dominique's childhood, and her psyche.
I'm thinking about how I don't give a godamn atom about the story of this game.
I love how she ends up swearing to kill all the demons just like zangetsu in the beginning of curse of the moon.I hope they wont share the same fate tho
So her stand is shovel knight? 🤔
Taimat CR “Leaked JOJO Part 9”
@@agenericguy1014 or the true antagonist of part 8
Because you are not a true indie game unless you have some reference to Shovel Knight! /sarcasm
@@mas8705 Iga said on an interview that he doesn't consider himself an indie dev, and this game had the support of five studios, a bit of an overkill lol
@@gustavonomegrande Fair enough. It just feels so good how after so many kickstarters bellied up after launching, we got another winner with Bloodstained.
Dominique: I have the most powerful demon lord from the hell on my side!
Miriam: Who cares, I'm level 41. Piece of cake
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honestly just max out the ice dropping spell and spam and you take this guy out before she does anything(did this my 1st game play through.
The krissagram and critical hit ring for me.
A neat twist on Bael's design from the Dictionnaire Infernal, right down to the expressions on its faces.
though would have been better if it was the og design of him with spider legs and etc?
@@daehan8227 And the crown on the human head, I missed that too. That said, the idea of it being a vortex you fight in the middle of does lend to both the abstractness of the entity, as well as giving a good scale of the fact that you are fighting one of the most powerful infernal entities in all existence.
@@triplehate6759 it honestly felt like a throw back to Chaos (at least one of its form was a reference) the final boss of Aria of Sorrow. Trapped in a circular space and killing the boss.
@@daehan8227 The first thing I thought of when I saw that was Spiral Mantruda from Ultimate Ghosts N' Goblins; though this doesn't look nearly as brutal as THAT fight.
I'm having a major Shin Megami Tensei mind trip since many of the demons in this game I recognized from the Fallen and Tyrant races, tho the last time Bael was even seen was Devil Survivor, tho he had the Mesopotamian God Baal and the Sloth Demon Belphagor fused into his body, he did indeed had the Spider legs tho.
11:31
Dominique: No... this cannot be... Aaaaah!
One odd thing: if you beat the game with the ultrawide fix, Zangetsu is actually in the town in the final cutscene, off to the side, just standing there.
Really? That mean can exist a Happy ending
When I finished it yesterday, I thought I heard someone walking as she and Johannes were leaving Arvantville. Nice to know. Perhaps they have something planned in the future. I beat Bael again with 100% map coverage and no change.
@@pizzaparker1651 yeah, something more is needed
Could just be there as a placeholder asset / could be for a future alt ending. Who knows.
That's good. I stood there for awhile after the Gremory fight wondering where the hell was Zangetsu. Unless he was instantly vaporized or displaced in sub-space, his death should've had more impact.
The boss is based on the 3 headed demon from the lesser key of solumon(a book on summoning Demons), a lot of enemies are also, like Buer for example which was described as a wheel shaped Loin. Edit: Lion.
Loin lol.
Man, if Sigma from the Megaman X franchise had a giant second form like that it would be a tough boss fight in the Megaman X series.
THE END REMINDS ME OF CHAOS FROM ARIA OF SORROW AND MENACE FROM DAWN OF SORROW.
Shovel Knight is so God that he dig in midair and where don't have land XD
Also, i don't think Zangetsu is dead.
If he plays in higher resolution, you can see Zangetsu's shadow at the bottom right corner. If he plays in widescreen mode, you can literally see Zangetsu walks away after their conversation.
He is alive in the end.
Zangetsu became Tensa Zangetsu
Well, in anime, unless the cool character got straight up killed with something like a blade through the chest, any others ambiguous way to died pretty much scream they are alive.
@@homercheung4334 It is definitely someones shadow and you can even hear foot steps a few seconds before Miriam starts walking off.
Anyone notice the very brief shadow of someone walking in from the right side, up to Johannes & Miriam during the last cutscene, back in Arvantville (and the sound of footsteps) BEFORE both of them start walking to the left? 14:41 and listen closely while looking at the bottom right side of the screen.
Ah! Finally someone else noticed!
think thats a shadow from clouds in an area shaded a lil different
Ooooh this is a first time i see a game seriously consider adapting a demons image description & not just copying the names.
Yeah, I like how they did that. I also make my demon OCs just like this, fitting their appearance, and abilities
Uuuh, persona has being doing it for over a decade?
@@garyoak8014 now that u mention it.......perhaps this one make more of an impact perhaps?
@@sanctifiedantagonist1565 No. Not even slightly. SMT/Persona is a HUGE franchise. Stop kissing ass.
@@noyouwillnot1169 Persona is ass, only weeb bitches like it
So the true main villain is not Gremory, it’s Dominique. What a twist. Talk about “betrayal”.
People kept talking of Gremory being the equivalent of death she's was the penultimate boss
I mean some people also wonder about "what if there is no god" thing
@@leonardofarias8843 Death has never been the final boss in any game. Even in the Lords of Shadow series finale he got stomped before he could complete his plan of dethroning Satan.
@raynaldo arlen k.eman Oh I knew she was evil the moment I seen her overpriced stuff in her shop, no good person would EVER do that.
@@thousandyoung
Um...what about Castlevania Lament of Innocence? Wasn't the final boss in that game Death
The only thing that i really dislike about Bael's fight, is that the game doesn't even hint you that in order to deplete his life-bar, you need to only hit the head where Dominique currently is. I SPENT NEAR TO 2 HOURS HITTING BAEL WITH NO RESULTS UNTIL I GOOGLED IT.
a fellow poor soul suffers of the same fate as mine
Git gud
I'm sorry but 2 hours is too long to take to figure it out. You should have figured out the pattern in less than 10 minutes.
Why am I hearing DIO yelling, “WRYYY!!!” when Dominque talks?
I REJECT MY HUMANITY! MIRIAM!
So I was completely right in not trusting Dominique from the first meeting in the backer demo. Or the church if that has any relevance because I haven't played the game yet and am getting switch version
I feel like its more of dominique betraying everyone including the Church.
@@arnowisp6244 Yeah, its basically just her, from what i can tell.
Might wanna get bloodstained on other platforms. Its ported horribly on switch
MrHellGnome bit late for that now friend... my game crashed on my first examination of the first bookshelf just before the save point and I'm just waiting now so it's a bit more playable
7:20 ...so she pulled an Ultimecia, huh?
Desperation leads to invention...
And they both live happily ever after~~
Thank goodness this is up on RUclips... I experienced a bug where Bael's death noise just kept playing, like warbling static screaming over the entire final scenes until it got to the credits... It was awful & I just had to skip it all.
that sounded nice didnt it
Stash Allemagne It was funny - up to a point. The thing is, I could hear my earphones starting to hate me so I had to just skip everything.
The cherry on top was boss rush was bugged for me too.
This game is a brilliant mess, haha.
My game crashed when Miriam and Johannes were talking after the castle disappeared.
this game is like aria of sorrows and symphony of the night in one
Edit: i did this on another video but bloodstained order of sorrows or bloodstained: symphony of sorrows or bloodstained: symphony of ecclesia
With a bit of Order of Ecclesia mixed in
5:58 “Guts become a demon | ending of Berserk full HD”
*When atheism goes too far*
I overleveled too much so I did this boss in lvl 70, yeah... i just lost like 500 hp and then the game was over so now I'm here to see what i missed
This end boss is a bit too easy. Gremory is just far more difficult.
I just prep a lot of stuffs like maxing out a lot of passive shards and clearing Susie's quest to get the infinite ammo hat, and then craft the red pistol with diamond bullets and boom, ez game ez life
castlevania : the symphonies of the bloodstained
IGAvania: ritual of the harmonically dissonant symphony for the bloodstained with sorrow by the curse of the despairing moon.
featuring snake from the metal gear series.
GOTY.
I prefer call it Castlevania : The Bloodstained Ritual.
@@bhirawamaylana466 or Castlevania : Bloodstained Symphony of the Dawn
Oh Shovel Knight, at it again with your game pogoing .
Any game that features shovel knight is just one asking to not be played. That character is everywhere and is really annoying.
@@BigattckFirecat Any proof?
@@ProfessionalNamielleLewder69 All the games shovel knight appears quickly are forgotten.
@@BigattckFirecat Except Shovel Knight?
@@BigattckFirecat your loss
Dominique: *I AM A GOD!!*
Miriam: I eat gods for breakfast!
Why does Iga have to kill off everyone cool in his games. RIP CUTTING MOON, BOOTLEG MERLIN AND PART 6 JOJO REFERENCE
trying to understand the jojo part 6 reference and failing..
@@pakapata priest that wants to end the world as we know it
@@efremvarnadoii2849 aaah......i was trying to think how Gebel fit in part 6. But true true
Theyd die between games anyway since the adventures are usually decades/centuries apart.
Is a bittersweet
I was sus of Dominique when I saw her in the secret lab
got both bosses in 5 secs with Ruinous Rood. Just an op shard :D
Ruinous Rood is a dirt nasty shard, love it lol
I love fighting the same boss over and over again.
5:38 ... just wow.
There's currently a fatal bug at 14:43 on the Switch version 🙃
That's reason why im here
@@zyzoma They replied to a comment I made on their Facebook page saying they're working on it
Literally the same origin as IGA's Dracula. Lost all her loved ones, so she denounces God and decides she'll stick it to Him by becoming even greater.
Dominique: Behold as I fuse myself with a cat's forehead!
Honestly, I was somewhat sympathetic towards her until she pulled the “weak people deserve death” card.
@@fissilewhistle Every once a while a sympathetic villain throws that out because they can. It isn't suprising especially when it comes to surprise anime betrayals.
Makes me wonder, did Dominique simply fall prey to a crisis of faith, or is she right about the church and God? I hope the sequel gives us something concrete to chew on.
There was MUSIC during the Bael fight? I just beat the game for the 1st time and the Bael fight was silent. Made it very intense!!
Knew the second I saw her she was a villain, Japan loves to make people from the church the bad guy, plus she was too sexy to just be the good guy.
Her reasoning is pretty lame too, sure you lost your faith in God, but to go in the complete opposite end of the spectrum and murder thousands to millions to obtain demonic power just shows you really were only pretending to be a good person in the first place and not worthy, tho I guess villains aren't always logical.
I feel like some wires got crossed when they were writing her motivation. She starts by saying she lost her faith in God because of all the senseless death at the hands of demons. Fair enough, but then mere seconds later when miriam says that dominique's actions will result in the deaths of more people, she says anyone who dies deserves it for being weak. The only explanation I can think of for that is that her losing her faith in god made her completely nihilistic and decided, "well, if nothing matters, then I'd might as well attain power and become a god." If that is the case, it's not expressed very well in her cutscene.
@@shnobby3547
I agree, it's just Japan's silliness at that point. They make great games and can make good stories, but I find that they really don't understand people of faith because any time they write those type of characters, their motivations are either illogical or completely contradict their actions.
Like, fine you can write your evil church guy, but the way Japan writes it is pretty childish and lacking any true complexity 99% of the time.
@@CanterlotCrusader Let me be honest tho, Iga is the one who direct this story. And his castlevania franchise's plots alway seem simple and childish to me. So i dont expect much on the story part when it's come to Igarashi's games
@@arkachivanagand9915
Fair enough. Least the game is fun.
I mean Dracula did basically the same thing with 2 wives lol.
i dont remember bael this strong on the Castlevania series
En Castlevania aos chaos es el jefe final y es igual a este jefe solo que con gráficos de aquel entonces me encantó esta referencia
Wow, I went through the entire game not knowing that food healed HP. I thought it was just for the stat upgrades.
Maria explained it best, "a bad thing is still a bad thing." That's all that needs to be said to these types. 😆
The ending its like Demon Castle Wars wherein Yoko Belnades performed a rite to banish the remains of dracula and lock up the castle to solar eclipse
The second one is Bael, looks like Titan Eren
As a final boss, humanlike form【such as Zennon , Guar 】 is better than three…… snakes with different heads.
I got Bayonetta vibes from this
Getting it on the 25th when it comes out for switch...im definitely jealous, and wish i didnt have to wait 7 days...:p
I'm getting the switch version and the metal case on Tuesday. I bought the xbox1 version on launch to hold me ovwe until the switch release and i finally best it today. I hooe the switch version looks and plays well
I laughed so hard when I saw the cat 😂😂😂
Is a backer reward
it's from the bael archaic design
Watching this here because the final cutscene crashes the switch version... and makes you fight Bael again and again until you skip it...
i was level 65 and so op that everything in this game was so easy for some reason
lol my combo with the light spell and the poltergeist didn´t even let Bael reach the part where dominique pops out, pretty easy game actually
@@diegoviveros556 same with me n i was wondering while watching the video that i never get to see that phase :P i was level 69 btw .
i got this battle and used a trainer cause not a single fuck, not gona waste my time leveling up like crazy
When you thought Bael is gigantic demon, but he's snake abomination.
Dominique that dom
Do you ever get to play as Zangetsu in this game?
They’re releasing him as Free DLC at some point in the near future
Very happy because playing the extra character modes are some of my favourite experiences in the post-SOTN games
The wiki compares Dominique to Mathias Cronqvist from Castlevania, which I think is complete tosh
Mathias turned bad because he was overcome by grief after losing his wife, Dominique just seems like every other power mad sociopath
I mean her family was killed in the demon horde brought about by the Alchemists guild. It's not a lover but it is still loss of family grief that drove her toward embracing destructive nihilism and the power of demons.
@@PANICBLADE still though, if her family was killed by demons wouldn't that be incentive to fight against the demons instead of joining with them
@@deathbykonami5487 With her powers she dominates them, not joins their ranks. Plus she came to the conclusion that if God would be responsible for protecting her and her family and she sees him, if she exists as he knows him, as just as evil or incompetent. Therefore she places her faith in demons since she knows they are very clear and present while the God this church worships is more elusive and silent. In her own words, "What if the lord we grovel and pray before is a lie, and our faith draws power from some other nameless, unspeakable thing? If so, I wash my hands of it. Because God can rot. I decided to seek a higher power. The power to slay gods."
I mean Mathias' wife was killed by disease, so by that logic why didn't he become a doctor and try to cure the disease that took her away instead of harnessing the powers of darkness and killing his friend's fiance too?
@@PANICBLADE true enough I guess, it just seems that Dominique is just ripping off Mathias's motivations
And at least Mathias succeeded since Dracula will always be around
@@deathbykonami5487 When the point is reached where people will argue both that it is bad because it is different and bad because it is the same, it makes no difference. Mathias's plot was a rehash of Dracula's motivation for Lisa anyway so Dracula has 2 backstories that have even more in common with each other than Dominique's to either of them. And Dracula is a public domain figure based off Vlad the Impaler, so it's not even Castlevania's exclusive character that they already have an unoriginal backstory for. This was already the case way before Bloodstained.
the abyssal cloud spiral should throw some thunders to miriam
Is this true ending??? As i know, last 3 castlevania game has few ending...
Yes. There is also a kill Gebel early and leave ending, and another one which seems to imply Dominique's plan for Miriam succeeding, but I didn't get a cutscene with that one.
wao no tengo forma de refutar los argumentos de dominique
I just remembered, there was a backer bonus of Voltaic Chains from Gunvolt. Is it still there, and were there others?
Luis Raul Diaz Rios 13 free dlc......
I realize now i made this game worse for me because I literally over leveled and sought out every little thing before i even made it to the final boss.
Actually this boss can be cheesed by the Standstill ability.
VERY EPIC FINAL BOSS!
GUYS Dominique doesnt spawn for me, i waystoned out of tbe Glacial Tombs , and when i came back to fight her i just enter the room and walk. jts empty... PLEASEEE HELPPPP
Did you use Gremory's shard to teleport behind walls at one of the coridors?
@@KeyleeTamirian , no i have not, do i need to do that? tell me everything in details please
@@solarxknight7953 No! You must learn through the Trials of Error!!!!
@@user-jv7gr1jb3r well turns out am a dumbass, ive been entering gremorie's room instead... fml
Man. I wish I didn't use the Rhava Velar in that bossfight. I finished the game, and I was like "wait what? That was it?" The weapon is too op lmao
for some reason even with that weapon it took me several tries to kill Bael (dominique became easy however, i even no-hitted her during my successful attempt) and i didnt have much healing during that fight
So a magic part demon fighting the forces of the demonic world and gaining their powers, all while doing so to save her brother figure and the world from his corrupt nature and thirst for power....is Miriam just more boring female Dante? I’m cool with that, just wish...actually the game is kick ass I don’t need to wish for too much more.
You're a complacient pansy.
The story was pretty standard fare, but the gameplay was solid and that's most important
I lost my shit when he said go back from whence you came 😂
Protip just use the poison dagger. Makes both fights so easy
Noooo! Not Dominique! Why her?? 😢😢😭😭😭
The GanJiCiAn Vietnam Flashbacks...
She saw many of her friends die and she snapped completely
Dark Deity Gremory 😂🤣😂 OMG! That’s too good! 😂
Because you didn't buy the discount voucher
Went cuckoo. What a waste of a niece piece of ass.
Threatened the world with something close to Nuclear annihilation.
When you use the reverse magic in bael end boss on the game,since it is powerfull should bring the lava down! 😅
As I expected, Bloodstained has classic Castlevania Difficulty, but I think Dominique was pretty cheap. I still have to get my HP higher as my HP is very low against her (1100 HP)
Same for this battle the Blood heal shard and the multihit sword makes this also too easy
Nerds in the comments section not even talking about cancerously difficult this boss is.
Had to watch it on here because each time I land the final blow in the Xbox One version my console shuts down. When I turn it back on, it says that it overheated. Anyone else having this happen?
Where is the guy that mention the specific base info of every demon from the ars goetia?
With time stop and rava vhelar this boss os less than a zombie.
I got too strong, level 60 with a lot of fully levelled skill shards. I thought the battle was too short, none of those middle fight quotes played lol
The journey was great though
The length of this game, does it similar to Castlevania Mirror of Fate, or it's slightly longer?
took me 11 hours to beat
That's not include level farming and item farming, is it?
@@trevast93 including. My ingame timer is at 11:08 after beating main boss. Shitty game 6/10
@@trevast93 I was level 41. Farmed maybe 3-4 shards (spear mastery, sword familiar, true arrow and one of the first spells from squids like a bouncing water ball, dont remember the name)
Much like Timespinner, eh?
how do i get the final fight? i just defeated the moon red demon haha
I destroyed her ass easily in the first try with the black ray shard in level 7 and the aceleration shard to scape her attacks fast.
Peace of cake once you have long range attack that make 150 pv damage approximately by second.
Did not use the sword at all.
same for me but I only jumped and used a maxed ice dropping spell(my 4th shard to do so) and she did not even manage to do anything, Bael just stopped circle the 1st time when they died from this(1st play through).
Growing up I learned a lot of science crap and I'm starting wonder about my religion(I'm Catholic) like yeah... What if there is No God
Other religions have their own respective gods yet the one of the commandments is "you shall not have other gods besides me"
Honestly I don't know anymore and I'm strating not to care bout these stuff
I'm just going along with everything when it comes to religion
Hm? well God is ultimate being. can't becompared to human. doesn't need to eat, sleep, not fell tired watch and rule his creature.
Because God is ultimate, God don't have mother, nor brother, nor son.
God exist. prove? look at your hand who create it? atom? well.. who create atoms? who create electron? can you make atom? I mean make it from nothing, not fission or fussion things.
Time what the what is time?
who create "time" concept at the first place?
It's God who exist before time and God will brings end to "Time".
Who is my God you ask? Ultimate being beyond human imagination, ultimate being who cerate our realm, our reality, and every natural laws in it. The true and the only one deserve to called as God الله
and yes, I'm Muslim.
@@diswardexia6105 so without Religion
We can't have things like... Modernistic stuff...?
And there are many Gods depending on other Religions some are a god of one thing and a lot of them are a god of everything
Its why being agnostic is the ideal way for me. If there is a God, let em judge you for how you were as a person and not that you followed these X number of rules that have been changed or could have been altered over years by other people, assuming there even is one.
We can not provide evidence of a god or gods, we can only provide arguments for why some people believe in a god or gods.
THICC VS THICC
OD was harder tham this
Anybody notice how abel's kinda designed like chaos from aria of sorrow?
With the 3 forms? Yeah. I think so too.
Hope the game have a shanoa or alucard dlc.
What shards was this miriam using
The bael fight was such a disappointment to an otherwise awesome game. I expected more when they hyped him up so much during the game.
maybe there is another ending? o_o
Sans
But she's beautiful!
Thats it?
I think Hollow Knigth is much better
Posible more endings
Yup, lame as fuck
@@celebezz i wanted save zangetzu at least
Dominique is thick
Was that the triforce?