Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night - The Future of Castlevania
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- Ritual of the night is the main game in the Bloodstained series. It's a spiritual successor to Castlevania that got made from a Kickstarter campaign from fans loyal and excited about the metroidvania genre. This game is full of incredible passion and detail that dives fully into this genre of exploration, then backtracking, then more exploration, then go back you now have this item to unlock these doors, etc. The spawn of Dracula aren't gonna slay themselves!
Let me know what you thought about my Bloodstained Ritual of the Night review!
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Iga: "I would like to make game"
Konami: "pachinko?"
Iga: "No?"
Konami: "leave"
Woof ._.
Lol
They make slot machines too
I Like Konobie Company .😃
....i cant hate.
I can’t wait for the castlevania candy crush crossover
Nobody seems to mention the fact that if you play the game late at night Johannes will say "staying up late?" if you visit him.
Same if you play so late in the night that it's morning, he'll mention how you play rather early
@@crysosisback7115 It threw me off so much the first time I heard it the first time.
@@crysosisback7115 I felt so called out :'(
@@Xenonia ikr
He always asks me if I’m eating right
this entire game is literally one big Power Move by Iga
The whole Bloodstained franchise is. A sequel and the two curse of the moon games as well.
@@ShadowdaHedgie11This is exactly how the conversation went and no one can convince me otherwise. I think Iga was striking Jojo poses the whole time too.
@@brotbrotsen1100 Nah he was just standing menacingly while giving his speech.
@@OmarM626 T-posing and asserting his dominance quite possibly too. '=.=
Yeah, but I never knew that Iga was a fan of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. There should be special edition of Ritual Of The Night where you can purchase a collaboration character, Jonathan Joestar from JJBA: Phantom Blood.
I have a tangible connection to this game. My best friend backed it at the tier to create a weapon. And while he came up with the idea for the "Deathbringer", he actually had my wife design it and send it in to the devs.
So yeah my wife designed the Deathbringer.
Dude... That's awesome, mad respect to your wife
My favorite weapon in the game so hell yeah!
Your wife made my favorite weapon haha
Your wife is awesome! 👌🏿
That weapon carried me through this game so hell yeah :D
I'm so used to hearing people say "Za Warudo" that hearing "The World" feels wrong, even though it's totally correct.
Maybe thats the trick in activating the skill
5:26 “With the help of a charming chemist, a sexy nun, and Fallout Boy Samurai,...”
The best team to have.
@Tanner Price, but did they all get charged with crimes that they did not commit, as well as have former careers in the military, and an awesomely powerful GMC van with a unique paint job, though?
The name of OD: Orlok Dracule is also an easter egg for both count orlok from the movie Nosferatu and Dracula from the novel! :)
I think the Lord of the Lower Castle in SOTN is a vampire called Count Orlok as well.
@@greenhowie Olrox but close enough.
@@GoldStorm07 Damn. I got no brains.
It is also a reference to archnemesis Dio Brando from the Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure manga series as Orlok Dracule = O.D = D.O = Dio. Well done, Iga!
@@greenhowie It is (kinda) Orlok in the Japanese version tho.
オルロック (ORuRokKu)
The barest differences between OD and Alucard, right down to sharing the voice actors in both English and Japanese, felt like IGA daring Konami to go for the lawyers. I love it.
@GoldStorm, now if only Konami and Igarashi would actually add more levels, enemies, and such in a remastered version of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.
@@paxhumana2015 I bet Igarashi would be down to make a remastered Symphony of the Night. If only Konami would let him :(
Castlevania but without wine glasses and questioning what men are.
Also no 70's black cop with a suggestive name
I’ve been doing RUclips for 3 years and I don’t even have 200 subs anyone have any ideas on what I should do to get people on my channel
Spoiler: Fight Iga and you'll get one of those two things back.
Actually fun fact if you beat the IGA boss the shard you get from him gives you a wine glass to throw as a spell.
@@TheLegendOfCool Which is actually an attach he himself uses during the fight
When Konami won't make the next gen Castlevania one of the creators is gonna have do it themselves.
Now we just need Kojima to make a Metal Gear spiritual successor and it'll all come full circle.
Until then there's the parody game Unmetal coming soon. Seems fun, and funny.
@@vahlok1426 I doubt that will happen for a good amount of time, Kojima is more a dev which prefer to create unique experience, just by the fact that Death Stranding exist and his next game is an horror focus game, prove it.
@@DracosKasurani I can live with that for now. Until the time comes there will always be dedicated fan projects and the old games to fall back on.
@@DracosKasurani hopefully his next game will function properly.
I also doubt he'll go back to a MGS successor, since for a long time he wanted to end the series.
I got those boss tokens through cheese, cheese, and so much cheese. Hellhound with raw magic power min maxing meant thousands of DPS. Pair it with the homing gun and the gun hat of double damage meant curb stomping bosses like a superpowered chump. 🤪
"I believe that alchemy is also known as.. cooking?" Oh Jirard, discovering now that you're a Dio fan, if only you knew of Fullmetal Alchemist-
I continue to be incredibly happy I backed Bloodstained. So happy to see it on the Completionist, because this was one game I absolutely LOVED completing 100%!
Edit: Welcome to the community, Jirard!
I've been stuck at 99.80 complete for months now. I can't find the ladt part to finish the game
Yeah the Complete it is the correct word on Bloodstained Ritual of the Night. But the last of us 1, 2 and part 2 is more finished it or look at it because it not worth it because that not presentation. So rest because the Corona virus is not a good idea on pushing the brain to it limited like greed.
I got my Platinum trophy and never even tried Nightmare mode with either character. Thankfully beating it in that difficulty isn't a requirement for the Platinum and thank goodness because that mode isn't fun for me. Hard is where it's at but not Nightmare.
@@AlexRN Yeah something like that.
I continue to feel burned for backing this game. I got the Switch version because it seemed like a game I would play on the go and it was complete unplayable hot garbage. Like playing in slow motion at fifteen frames, input lag so bad I would continuously miss jumps, and it kept crashing after about fifteen minutes of gameplay. I’ll never back another video game Kickstarter because of it. Always wait for reviews.
Everyone who loves castlevania should get this game. Soooooo good!
Is it on Switch???!?!?
I’ve been doing RUclips for 3 years and I don’t even have 200 subs anyone have any ideas on what I should do to get people on my channel
@@gyromurphy It is on Switch - though the community agrees it is the roughest version of the game. Patches have mostly fixed it up but it is still a lesser version than the others.
@@gyromurphy yes it is.
@@gyromurphy Yes, but I'd recommend other versions as someone who bought that version. Its perfectly playable on switch, but it takes longer to get updates and the graphics, load times and general smoothness is a lot better on other platforms.
When Jirard said "I could be your father" my heart skipped a beat.
Well your mom did get around so it's always possible.
I still remember when people complained about the graphics, even though they weren't even that bad. However, IGA was even willing to please them, too, and enhanced the graphics to make them look SO much better.
He didn't even have to do that, but he was willing to make sure everyone possible was happy, even the graphics elitists.
I'm just glad they didnt went with pixel arts bs tbh, what a breath of fresh air
@@stylesheetra9411 Personally, I would've been fine with the pixel art style, such as the hidden area in the game that has that. I mean, it's not like Shovel Knight would've been even better if it had graphics like ROTN, right? Graphics don't make a game.
Graphics don't make a game, but you can have so much same looking games before you get tired. I've played a ton of pixel art styled games in the past few years and would honestly be much more open for games taking up on more unique and detailed art styles. I am not saying that pixel art styled games are bad, I am only saying that a breath of fresh air every once in a while is nice to have.
@@cloroxhammer3289 That's fair, man.
TRUE Programmers!!
At least the castle didn't flip upside down and you have to go through it all over again.
Dude I'm so proud to have been apart of that kickstarter campaign that Fangamer ran, I love those nerds over at Fangamer!!
Their recent Banjo-Kazooie merch has been amazing I wish I could have them all!! (Lol I may actually buy them all)
I’m so glad I donated to this game. It was in my top ten of 2019.
Which version did you get. Both my roommates got the $500 one. They are parts of videogame history now
Richard M what comes with the $500 edition?
They get their name in the credits, and some really cool merch. I'm not sure what else
I too, am happy you donated to this game.
I'm really disappointed in myself for not donating to this game when I could. It's still one of my top tens lol
Johannes: "I can use alchemy to prepare meals for us"
People who played Atelier series: "I don't see any problem here"
Jokes aside this game is awesome
@Ash Wei, the Tales games did the meal crafting as well.
I’m so glad you mentioned how tough games like these can be. I don’t have the time in my life to attempt playing everything on Nightmare Mode. But I love seeing you kick butt all through those. More power to you, Completionist!
Y'know, sometimes I get uncomfortable with how far you go for completion. I feel like you're punishing yourself with how you may go too far sometimes. Personally, I considered this game complete for me when I finished the item, demon, shard and journal lists, filled out the map, mastered all techniques, completed all sidequests and gotten all the steam achievements. Heck, the only shards I even went out of my way to fully upgrade were the passive shards since they became permanent at max rank.
When I got the platinum trophy on PS4 I felt that I did good enough. I have not played it on Nightmare yet and I don't feel the need to to consider it complete. Nightmare Zangetsu is just punishment for punishment's sake.
I agree. Games are meant to be played for fun and yes, some challenge. But not to the point of suffering.
Well, yes.
Unfortunately that's one of the weights he has to carry with his Name (The Completionist, not Jirard)
Yeah, this seems to come up every other video now. He REALLY needs to add an asterisk tier for when completing the game requires doing one ungodly frustrating task. I don't think anyone else thinks he needs to be as "complete" as he takes it.
Dodging Chickens in Zelda for 20 hours, finding 999 koroks for a piece of poop, playing game on one hit death Nightmare modes (like this or Horizon Zero Dawn) , any RPG that requires you beat the game multiple times for single items (Persona 5 or the Tales games...) beating a game identically dozens of times (Tony Hawk)... If he's ENJOYING the challenge and pushing himself its one thing but he REALLY needs to set a new tier. "Platinum completion" or "what the game devs reasonably expected out of you" should count as "complete it".
Then above that there should be an "Obsessive completion tier" where he just goes "Yeah, I tried doing this bit for X hours. It was frustrating and unfun, and there's no reward for it, but if you want to attempt it, you do you."
@@robbybevard I like that idea, tbh. I enjoy completing games myself but, there's only so far I'm willing to go/so much time I'm willing to invest before I get inevitably side tracked by one of the other dozen games on my backlog. Plus, there's other responsibilities I have to tend to now. Not like it was back when I was 15-16 and had the time to get stupid good at GH.
Also the fact that's called STAND still is just too funny. xD
"He was told there was no future, but he knew they were wrong."
I approve of your profile picture.
my therapist: "Jirard with titties isn't real. He can't hurt you."
The endcard of this video:
For someone like me to enjoy this game without having played any past Castlevania or having watch the Jojo anime or getting any of the Easter Eggs...
That shows how good of a game this is on its own.
Same
Been two years, played any old school Castlevania yet?
As a Platinum trophy holder for this amazing game my rating is very much "COMPLETE IT except Nightmare with Zangetsu" because fuck that shit.
Kinda surprised you didn't mention the cheat codes that give you unique headgear or weapons.
Those were all part of the backer rewards that eventually got leaked/released. At best, you get unique appearance in a weapon or armour, but only a +5 to attack or defence.
I'm just extremely surprised this game went under the radar of most game reviewers and other awards when it initially came out. I'm so glad you completed it finally! Zangetsu is indeed a true nightmare in nightmare mode... You did an awesome job! Thank you so much!
I got to play this as part of my Game Pass subscription, and I was anticipating it since the kickstarter and playing Curse of the Moon. It's so good I bought it after finishing Galleon Minerva, even though I could continue playing it via the subscription. I just wanted to support it, it's that good.
Real heroes like you are why we get games like Bloodstained RotN
I appreciate you playing the DKC3 Treetop Tumble Mix during the "Rewards" segment. That's one of my favorite VGM fusions. It's really good.
The completion is absolutely crushing it these days. Keep up the great work. Your channel will always be relevant. Just keep making videos :)
YES! I've been waiting for this!
Jirard: doesn't blink
Me: say sike right now
I started gaming in year 2000 with my Gameboy Color and it still holds a deep place in my heart. It pains me to see many game titles who finished or get cancelled. Viewtiful Joe, Okami, Metal Gear, Prince of Persia, Uncharted, Drakengard, Heavenly Sword, Dark Souls , Castlevania, etc. etc. etc.
Those times were the greatest and im glad that i was born in that generation.
Hi Jirard! Member of the Operation: Akumajo staff here. I'm glad to see you enjoyed the Simon Belmont reference! Hopefully you also enjoyed the Dominus sword which is a reference to the war of 1999!
The stone mask, ZA WORLDO!? OH I so need to play this.
Nux, is that you?
@@4ncientGu150 Nani?
It also has Joseph's hyperbreather mask from Battle Tendency. It's just full of the Jojo's, I swear.
*Za Warudo
is that a jojo reference😂😂😂 nah he aint be serious because he said ZA WORLDO and not the world
Koji Igarashi, a legend, made another legendary game.
Don't forget Toru Hagihara who was the director for Rondo of Blood and co-director of SOTN. Pure Igavanias have rather different vibe than those two with Hagihara's handprint.
I just want to say that the fact a randomizer mode was added to Bloodstained is something I will always be super happy about.
I just really love this game. There is so much to do, I would never encourage anyone to complete it in the manner to which you need to for youtube. This is a game that encourages time and nurturing while in the same respect paving a new type of difficulty to match that of the originals. It's just amazing that Iga and co. Were able to bring this much to the plate despite the issues and delays!
Definitely one of my favorite games. I love it so much.
Miriam is a blue mage.
Blew your mind didn't i?
Good to see you! I listen/watch your Curse of the Moon 2 ost videos!
OD having an optional boss fight near the end is a neat detail I never knew about. Reminds me a little of how in Castlevania 64 if you buy too much stuff from the demon merchant he shows up before the Drac fight to try to claim your soul. Not sure if that's an intentional callback, but fun to see the similarity.
I'm so glad this game turned out as good as it did. I rarely platinum a game, but I did it with Bloodstained. Fortunately a Nightmare Zangetsu playthrough is not required.
Regarding the anachronisms, like the train and electric guitar: assuming Gebel's castle is similar to a typical Dracula castle from the CV series, I always figured it's in a constant state of physical and temporal flux. Drac's castles were always changing from game to game, and included a number of elements that don't fit with the time they're set in. Bloodstained touches on that with the really out-of-place Egyptian area. The castle draws things from the past and future and combines them in one unsettling amalgam.
It’s a great mixture of Symphony of the Night and I LOVE it!
"Next, he's gonna use 'alchemy' to clean the dishes by loading up the dishwasher and adding soap!" NGL, that one cracked me up! Keep up the good work boys!
Is it just me or am I the only one who’s always excited to see what misc. items are on the shelf behind him? Keep up the awesome work!
I always heard about The Completionist and saw a random recommendation when I was looking for something else. Finally started with this episode, and it's great! Definitely going to check out more channel. I also love how you beep out the f words to comical effect.
Awesome I loved this game glad your giving it some love, I had a blast 100 percenting this game lol
I was today years old when I realised I'd completed a game before Jirard.
I'm glad Igarashi has never been afraid to show his influences! For instance, he's referenced Jojo's as far back as aria of sorrow where one of the souls just gives you a stand.
Gosh golly geez u r a great man, can't wait to help with indieland!
I just started playing this game this week and I LOVE IT. WOW! it's so awesome. So glad they are making a sequel.
i got platinum on ps4 and i couldnt and wouldnt waste time fighting all bosses with no hits😳cool they making a new one,its a cool lookin game,but ps4 has these hitches in game and that loading between areas are slow
I've actually never heard of this before. Thanks for the video.
j a it is such a good game
I genuinely wasn't expecting this game to be on the channel.
Keep up the good work!!!
Helped back this game back in the day and got lucky to get my name in the credits the games story is interesting and satisfying a good successor to castlevania and im super glad you completed this one!
Hey Jirard since the new Prince of Persia Sands of Time remake has been announced, it might be a good time to complete Prince of Persia Warrior Within ;););) The game has some completion bonuses and collectibles (definitely more than Sands of Time) plus it can be completed in 20 hours.
Yes that trophy where you finish it without gameover was fun...
(half kidding aside I would love to see Warrior Within completionist episode though)
...have you guys heard the news? Indefinite hold?
@@Descro382 Yeah but they said they were gonna release it in 2022
@@Rifat.Rafael.Birmizrahi oh they confirmed that? Hell yeah
I finished the game today and It gave me a feeling that I had lost for a long time.....
I also steamrolled the end game with a purple light saber and a lot of pizza .
Lol i stopped watching this video to avoid spoilers but just came back after 'finishing' the game. I can't believe what you have to go through to 'complete' this game! I am still going for all achievements so long as I don't find out i need to do those perfect boss runs or something..
Anyway great vid and well done, truly impressive!
Thank you! This is the only game I've ever completed. I've been waiting for this episode since then!
This game is great, but the madness of Completion is well maddening.
Yes, some drops are lunatic to farm.
The Shovel Armor that the Shovel Armor drops lets you play as a Shovel Armor yourself~
Don't forget to equip your shovel to go along with it.
That reminds me of the old axe armor mode in Castlevania - Symphony of the Night. If you type "AXEARMOR" when starting a new game you get an old axe armor item in your inventory that upon equipping turns you into an old axe armor. It only works after you already beat the game with the good ending, though. This mode also made a comeback in Castlevania - Portrait of Ruin in the form of a separate playable character that you can play as after finishing the game.
@@cloroxhammer3289 Yep, it's a direct reference to that :) In fact in SotN, you can also earn that Axe Lord Armor as an item during a normal playthrough. It's a rare drop from the spike balls attached to the pillar heads on the staircase in the royal castle. If you kill the pillar head first, the spike ball gains invulnerability and tumbles down the stairs. But if you don't kill the pillar head, the spike ball is destructable, and has a rare chance of dropping the Axe Lord Armor.
It is also an item that can drop from the Master Librarian when using the Gravity Boots under his chair.
@@oromain Yeah, it's a really neat item. Too bad you can't save or interact with anything while wearing it. You also have to switch it out everytime you come across platforming obstacles so you might as well not even bother using it anywhere. I think it was the best in Castlevania - Portrait of Ruin. Since it's a separate character that you can play as, it has gained a few unique moves of it's own and is able to traverse the castle with ease.
@@cloroxhammer3289 Yeah that was always disappointing about the SotN version. Bloodstained at least has gear loadouts you can easily swap between, and the Shovel Armor has more mobility than ol' Axe Armor did, though still not enough to fully explore the whole castle I don't think. I guess that depends if he can still use shards, I don't remember but I doubt it since it'd require animating him to do them.
I wanna go back and see again and if he can I want to do a Shovel Armor run ...
Awesome video for one of my fave games! As a sidenote I would love to see more wacky characters from Jirard that utilize his considerable acting skill! I really really love that infomercial lady.
So glad you made an episode for this dad! PLEASE TELL ME YOU WILL DO ONE FOR BOTH CURSE OF THE MOONS
Wow, I got here, fast. Love the stuff Jarard keep up the good work.
How to make Castelvania even better? use a sexy lady character as the protagonist instead of a boring random guy, fan service pays off, apparently, still a great game.
Also that Jirard lady at the end was disturbing as hell.
"Boring random guy"
Alucard would like a word with you
Boring random guy? Female protagonists in Castlevania games are the most boring to me. Shanoa was probably the best, but for me It's much more fun to play as a Belmont or someone like Soma or Alucard.
14:35 wait, how do you get to the den of beasts with zangetsu? the moon didnt turn red when i fought gebel and its other location remained normal for me...
Just a tip for those that are starting this game for the first time or are early in. Keep luck maxed. It will increase drop rate and criticals which will go a long way. That's why by the time I reached the last fight, I had very little collecting or gathering left to do. Also, max those augment shards as soon as possible. Again luck, but there's also one for shard drops and money drops. Lastly, a good technique is to max the alchemy shard. It'll give a chance (like 1 in 3~5) in crafting more than one (2~5) with the same amount of ingredients. Which you can then desynth into the original ingredients. So... basically, it's item duping. Goes a long way in helping you get hard to farm for items like gold (the material, not the currency).
My favorite game of 2019. Absolutely love it and Miriam too
Hmm. That stuff about Dio/ OD is cool, but we cant leave out ODs connection to Alucard. 😏
Edit: Soon as I posted, you said it! Well played, sir 😊
They ripped off devil May Cry
Time stopping ability
Pretty sure Jojo us older than DMC
Also its not like time stop was an inconceivable and trademarked idea
YES! Ive wanted you to cover this game, so excited to finally see it happen.
The video I've been waiting for!
Could not agree more Jirard, this is a good game and I have finished it twice, but all the extra stuff is not worth of the time and effort.
Play astral chain! I think you’d love and there’s so much to complete!
I mean, the only PlatinumGame he's touched is Bayonetta. And, developed by them alone, there are at least...three..games that absolutely should be higher on the docket: Vanquish, Bayonetta 2 and Nier: Automata.
In Castlevania Portrait of Ruin, the protagonists also strike a pose when you hold up for an extended period of time, Jonathan's looking more akin to a JoJo pose. Unfortunately I don't believe any of the other Igavania games I played had any such references, Aria and Dawn of Sorrow didn't have anything obvious and Order of Ecclesia mapped the Up button to absorb Glyphs. But both PoR and this game have to be proof enough of the JoJo references.
(6:20): " killed a 'demond'... " lol
Edit: not making fun, the amount of VO that Jirard does without making any mistakes is impressive, and he's awesome! Good work at usual, dude!
Me: Oh this game looks pretty cool, I might get it.
The Completionist: It has Jojo references.
Me: i'Ll TaKe YoUr EnTiRe StOcK!
WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY with us BRUZZAH!!!
Avoid the Switch version like the plague
Conway Fiddy Didn’t that version get patched over time?
@@metal_gear_rayquaza8914 it appears functionally similar. Frame rate not as consistent although the game can randomly drop on all versions. missing a few more subtle lighting/reflection effects but they improved the bumpmaps on switch so less blurry than before. As I understand it still not quite as sharp visually as other versions. Input lag seems to be fixed
and a decade if not 2 later, symphony of the night still looked, played, sounded and was overall still way better lol
In all fairness, that's true of most games in the genre.
I love symphony of the night but...
This game has a fuck ton of combat options, way more then SOTN and the musical quality is fantastic, its just down to whether you like the songs better in SOTN or this game.
@@angelpacheco1608 doubt i could ever like any game over an other based on the music. thats like me liking 1 music cd over the other because 1 has better album cover art lmao
but dance of pales is 1 of my favorite songs of all time, not just from a games
i dont remember any music from bloodstained, not saying it was bad, just saying i dont remember and even if it was great, it wouldnt make me like the game over sotn
@@THaB4DGuY Yeah the music in both games is really good. But that's my point though.
The gameplay is better in Bloodstained (because they have had years of ideas to add onto SOTN's gameplay) that comparing both the games comes down to something as subjective as music.
SOTN has nostalgia and legacy, but if someone never played either - I wouldn't be surprised if they end up liking Bloodstained more because of all the gameplay additions over SOTN.
@@angelpacheco1608 thats what i thought i was going to think, but bloodstained had bad choppy framefrate, and between the graphics/map design, there was nothing special about it to me and after i beat it, never wanted to play it ever again, whereas i beat sotn multiple times from ps1 days and even beat it again on xbox1 and ps4
One thing about the Shovel Knight easter egg... back when the Kickstarter for Bloodstained was ending there was a twitch stream where they had Iga (plus translator) as a guest and he got to watch speedrunners destroy SotN, they talked about the development of that game and how some of those glitches worked and he played some western indie games that were inspired by his work.
One of those games was Shovel Knight and I remember that he especially liked that one.
Unfortunately it seems like that stream's been lost to time. If anyone still has it archived please let me know.
Thank you for doing this video. I am definitely adding this to my videogame play list.
This game is perfect
No
Funny Im actually trying to complete this game right now I only need to get the weapons armor and helmet parts
Edit.
Just completed the game 100%
Nice. I got the platinum trophy a month after release, and recently returned to the game and take on the Randomized mode.
And got stuck 9 hours in, without the ability to swim, but Teleporting and high jump like no tomorrow.
I might just give up on the run as only one enemy is left to get a shard from and it's the 8-bit boss. But my armor is not good enough.
Was thinking of trying this on mobile (ipad, no external controller). Some reviews said conrols are bad, is it worth paying $10 on mobile?
Me and my friends stated that this game was one of the few games to actually do really well on Kickstarter and to this day, that point still stands. So glad I got my copy signed by David Hayner in a con a year and while I am still mad that my PS4 crashed, meaning I had to replay all of my games again, including Bloodstained, at least I know how to get the true ending on this new run and plus it gives me another excuse to play the game again.
This intro did not age well
How so?
Yeah, I’m wondering that too.
I tried to watch this in late 2023 and was getting nostalgic until you brought up IndieLand. Sigh. Do better man.
Just tried to play after taking a long break from this game now cant get past first loading screen just stuck at a white screen on ps 4 couldn't find any help on google does anyone have a fix?
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Yikes this aged poorly
I still wait for the day we get to know what the Child of Light teaser was in the release trailer of Bloodstained :P
I'm surprised I didn't see Jirard do the max MP regeneration dash shard farming trick in this at all. That made end game farming kinda fun.
Shout out to that sweet Dustforce OST at the beginning, one of the best platformer soundtracks to chill to!
A small JoJo Easter Egg not mentioned: Lindsey's list of people also includes Dario, Dio's father that he hates. The name even goes by as you scroll through at 9:49
Bloodstained was such a lovely experience, so glad to see you covering it
0:28 Lifeformed kicks in
I knew you were a king Jirard. Dustforce Completionist when?!
Dope. Been waiting for this
16:26 that's one of the things I love about this game; it's a good value for any level of devotion. Just a simple one time playthrough will still get your moneys worth at the base price, or you can play it again with any of it's added modes. I think I have at least 5 randomised starts just to see what kind of crazy, broken drops it would give me. One time I got Zangetsu's sword in a chest on the opening boat level.
started 2 randoms myself. Well 4 because i technically got softlocked in 2. 1 because the boat gave me nothing but food, armor, and a really weak attack shard. So i was trying to beat the boss with chip damage. 2nd got good stuff then got screwed at the horseman because i didn't have craftworks to clear the path, tried to bypass with dimension shift and go around but i also didn't have double jump sooooo, yeah. Still love the randomizer mode, honestly playing that more than the straight run.
As always great work
What is the weapon that makes the circular damage circle?!
I absolutely loved my playthrough of the game, it was fun getting crazy strong and getting 100% even the bosses that gave me a hard time just got me to keep trying until I beat them. The satisfaction and perseverance was something that I haven't had in many games.