Matt McMuscles ✕『RSS』Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025
- Recorded live from our Momocon hotel room! More Bloodstained gameplay that isn't Bloodstained itself!
Also, to any people who have played it, I've heard about the cool Zangetsu stuff you can do that we missed during this video!
Check out more of Matt on his channel! / @mattmcmuscles
Matt: It's over Liam-kun, I have the high ground!
Liam-kun: Oh I can make this jump!
"No Iga, you can't take Julius with you to be a supporting character again." And thus, Zangetsu was created out of spite.
Zangetsu looks more like Gabriel, honestly.
I love the way Bloodstained is looking, but it brings me great sadness that we’ll never see Richter or Julius again.
Agreed. I know there's a phone game in the vein of Harmony of Despair, and a Harmony of Despair fan remake on PC (It's great so far) but I doubt we'll ever get a real Castlevania again. I'm hyped for Bloodstained, but it's just not the same without the Belmonts.
I'm so glad you still make vids with McMuscles dude. Especially if it's for not-Castlevania games 👍
I've played this game 3 times now and I've absolutely adored it, it's so good.
It's so damn good, man. Learning the bosses is so much fun and the extra stuff later js great. I'm in love with this game!
I absolutely love Liam's trademark, Impatient Crouching.
I don't check out your videos all that often, Liam, but one thing I always adored back on the Best Friends channel was your playthroughs of Castlevania games. Your enthusiasm for the genre is a joy, and I'm super excited to watch you play Bloodstained!
Btw David Hayter is playing Zangetsu (whenever Zangetsu spoke I imagined Snakes voice), Ray Chase is the main villian Gebel.
Dragon Spooker thanks for exposing Liam and Matt as FRAAAAAUDS
fusionfountain It’s a tough job but someones gotta do it!
You're right! I messed up!
Haha I actually thought that too until I watched a behind the scenes video showing the actors, I think everyone just assumed that when they showed the initial characters.
I can't wait to give this a watch; Best Friendvania was one of my favorite things on SBF. Is there any chance you and Matt will do more Castlevania stuff? I was hoping you guys would do an lp of my favorite game in the series, Portrait of Ruin.
I would say there's definitely a chance! Bloodstained for sure, though!
The lionwheel is Buer! He's a President of Hell, and you will respect him as such!
And Kid Dracula is Alucard, back when he thought his dad was cool. His nemesis Galamoth even appears in Symphony of the Night!
>both of them barely played Dracula's Curse
the STATE of your credibility!
Castlevania starts at Aria of Sorrow
Yeah... no, it does not.
Castlevania starts at Lords of Shadow
figurante inutil how did this blasphemy reach 10 likes?
Slowpoke Devil May Cry starts at DmC: Devil May Cry
I started getting back into CV partially due to this. The only one I ever actually FINISHED is AoS but I'm planning on playing through most of the Metroidvanias, started with the DS ones (OoE in particular) and I'll probably be playing SotN afterwards.
Great video as always though, convinced me to get this actually after 1.5 levels or so. Guess Liam-senpai got me into Castlevania!
I had to pause like ten minutes into this video to buy the game, but now that I've beaten it, thanks for playing this! What a thrill!
This game was so good, it single-handedly made me go "meh" to "YEAHHHHHHHHH" in regards to Ritual of the Night hype.
I was all ready excited for Ritual of the Night, but this game really elevated my excitement even further.
By their very nature I try not to judge Kickstarter games until there's a lot of tangible stuff to see/play, and even though this isn't the actual game (and I didn't get my hands on the E3 Ritual demo), playing this and FEELING the quality makes me genuinely excited for RotN.
PLUS THAT MUSIC THO
Oh yeah, Michiru Yaname and Inti Creates really did an excellent job with this game's soundtrack.
I was already excited for ROTN, as I played the backer's E3 demo, and was very impressed that, even in a relatively early state, the game felt sooooo goooooooood.
COTM just recemented that hopefulness.
Correction to Liam: Kid Dracula is Alucard (Dracula's son). Even Captain N references this. In fact, it's weird but on purpose that Galamoth from Symphony of the Night was originally the final boss of "Kid Dracula", so it's not wasted that Alucard is once again fighting his old childhood enemy, Galamoth.
Argh! You're totally right! My b!
Thought I missed a stream for a second. Going to have to come back to this one because I'm still waiting on that backer code.
Ha I thought I had too, as for the code I just decided to pay the $10 so I didn't have to wait, it's really good.
you need to go to your survey page on fangamer to get it
you just go there and there is a 'get code' button, if I recall corectly
unless you are talking about console versions, which I believe where delayed (at the least in europe) but there are temporary steam keys you can get via the same method to play it
Beat it this morning. What a great tribute. I screamed for that Medusa/Knight Death hallway.
KillScottKill Yeah I hyped for the hallway too, it was so good!
At least on the first runthrough,
abusing the freeze arrow combined with the battle-axe buffed with Zangetsu's demon mode practically one-shots bosses.
Since the attack that breaks the ice does extra damage and the buffs carry over character switching,
breaking the frozen boss with the buffed battle-axe deals ludicrous amounts of damage.
I think the double spell carries over switches aswell, meaning you can throw out double scythes with Miriam and whatnot.
So zangetsu has threatened to kill and despises the existence of every party member? I'm sure this will end well.
Thegoodoldays what a hero,this magic-phobe man.
Spoiler alert for game mechanics...
You can kill them all, and even get unique zangetsu abilities for each.
I've been waiting for this once I saw it on steam!
Actually Zangetsu has upgrades, but he has to slay his allies instead of recruiting them.
I was so surprised when I found out about that. I was also surprised that you could just walk by the characters too without talking to them.
Your choice of what to do with the other characters also governs which ending you get.
Only through these comments have I realised that was a possibility.
Neat.
Waited to watch this before playing myself, and boy howdy am I glad I did! This is freakin' awesome! Honestly, makes me a bit more hopeful for Bloodstained; not that I wasn't before, but there were a couple things that I was hesitant towards, but I'm confident that they'll deliver a great game.
Beaten the game 4-5 times since it came out. It kind of requires 3 at least to see the majority of everything it has to offer with Normal, Nightmare, and then the Zangetsu only run. Enjoyed my time with it and glad to see you guys taking a look.
Also I don't know to describe the effects on this video other than really bad ghosting whenever you're moving across the screen or practically doing anything. It's not great.
Yeah, I saw it. It sucks. I did a few renders, but the only one without it was a totally unacceptable filesize for my 3MB upload speed. Even this video was 10GBs in my attempts to minimize it. :(
Liam playing as characters when they have low health instead of switching to other characters is triggering me something fierce.
I can't wait for a very certain Sub-Boss to appear. I'm sure the guys will love it.
I've played the game and I'm curious as to which sub-boss you mean, could you let me know in a non spoilery way for other people?
Welp... They completely glossed over it. So I'll just say it.
The Sub-Boss at 1:35:00 is literally a picture of Igarashi.
Yeah that was really cool, I didn't recognize the other picture, maybe it was just a random woman.
Bought it. Loved it. Ready for more. this recording quality though, it kinda hurts my eyes to look at it after a little while;
Yeah, I wasn't 100% happy with it. Unfortunately even with some improvements I made through a few renders, this file was still like 10GBs, which starts to get ridiculous for my meager 3MB upspeed. :(
I knew immediately when Liam said he could make the jump, that he wouldn't be able to. And that anticipation for failure made the moment all the stronger.
glad you guys got a chance to play this and get some video up! It's super cool. That said, the point when you ask if the bodies are needed, you skipped a bunch of the short cuts they were pointing out. I get you were probably doing at least some of them on purpose, but yeah, particularly when there are areas like with the locked doors from other routes, I think they are kind of needed.
This is basically the only old school Castlevania I’ve played.
The only castlevania worth playing is old school
Man, this looks great, the pixel art has that Shovel Knight vibe to it.
The subject matter is kind of a step down from Dracula but this game about stained butts is shaping up to be pretty good.
It's about Dracula's Butt Stains. They are very bloody.
T4silly Oh than this is the greatest series of all time then.
oh god, I really hope you guys do a full 100% playthrough of this, cuz this has so much cool shit in it
I am still discovering everything! (and I am about 6 playthroughs, if not more, in)
(Part 01)!
While the amount of parallax scrolling on display doesn't make it look exactly like an NES game, it looks so good that I can only give a limited quantity of fucks about that.
Yeah, it cheats a lot! Still pretty sharp looking!
Thanks for the stream, Liam! I picked PS4 on my backer survey, so I won't get to play this until later.
I hope you enjoy it when it arrives!
Moon-kun's curse is that whenever he gets a new shirt the shirt will always, gets bloodstains no matter what.
What a good game! My favorite CV is 3 so this was a treat for sure. Make sure you try for the bad end and complete nightmare mode too!😉
I finally got around to watching this whole thing and I have one complaint. I have no idea what happened, Liam, but I had to max out my tvs volume to hear you guys. Other than that, great vid, can't wait t o see more Castl-I mean Bloodstained!
anticipating the post momocon talk when you get back. saw some photos and it looks fun
Yo.
Yo.
This game.
Is tight.
It's Classicvania at its best.
Like... 3 mixed with Rondo?
Just beat it myself and now want to relive it with these smucks.
Super best Volume lol. I had to wait until I got home so I could crank my tv to max to even hear anything
So I looked it up, and David Hayter is actually playing Zangetsu, like Matt said (I think Matt said it. I'm not going through the video to find it again), not Gebel. Gebel (pronounced Gee-Bill, which I just learned from the wiki) will be voiced by Ray Chase.
Anyway, this game looks so cool. I hope the download code for the PS4 version gets sent out soon.
Also, the Picture miniboss was a portrait of Iga himself.
Yeah, he was right! I was really surprised!
"I hope that sequel comes out..."
SEQUEL IS NOW.
Neat... On the first, blindest playthrough of any given room, I did about as well as Liam does (though he's under let's play conditions) or sometimes better. On the second or third time through he absolutely wrecks me. The kid learns and adapts like a terminator.
"People are killed when they are dead" vs "people die if they are killed"
Wow Zangetsu, I can't believe the stinky got you.
Man its been too long since a good retro Castlevania style game came out. I've definitely gotta get this.
Man this whole coming generation of games that I'm hyped for either involve samurai/ronin, swordsman with a faux hand, or sometimes both! Glad to see Bloodstained is apart of that crew as well (by the by how do you feel about all the Zangetsu upgrades? I love all of them but I kinda wish he had a 3 hit combo like Zero in mega man X, though that would break a lot of fights)
I think an opportunity was missed to call the game "bloodstained: bloody curse of the blood moon"
This game was so much fun, I was loosing my shit over everything and I never even played Castlevania (some how missed every Castlevania commercial throughout my life, sue me). I'm so excited for Symphony of the Night
As annoying as it is when a subweapon that you don't want briefly turns a patch of ground into a hazard, it's nice that only the character that particular item is for can pick it up. If something that you don't like drops, you can just switch characters and walk through it.
I... didn’t know about that final lightning spell. I spent a good half hour memorizing the boss’ pattern to do legit... huh. Well don’t I feel like a goofus.
the audio is low but i loved the video
Ah, gomen! ;_;
Don't worry Liam-Senpai, one low audio video doesn't take away the great quality and passion that yourstream/channel has you are one of my favorite LP channel and streamer in the world
Zangetsu?!? New Bleach game confirmed?!?
To quote a RWBY song: "Shattering the moon and bloodying the sky!"
Gebel can fly but he can't stay out of the pits.
Didn't expect to love this game as much as I did.
I think I need to dust off some older Castlevania games that I missed now.
Matt, that's Gebel. Goebbels is someone completely different.
What a good game for a stretch goal!
Yeah! We in there! More Castle.....Stainia with matt and liam!
Where's Part 2? Q_Q
This isn't Bloodstained, this is Bloodlestainia 0.
I know that this was recorded from a hotel room so no intro here but you guys (or someone else) needs to make a crossover intro for your crossover streams one of these days.
I didn't know you could hurt the coin boss by attacking his money
You guys should stream megaman zero series?
need to crank up the gain on that mixer man...
Matt shouldn't be drunk when recording videos with liam
ah man I thought for sure Liam would do his own bloodstained LP and then maybe it'd show up on SBF also so I'd have two more whole LPs to watch /greedy
Every time I hear about momocon I get pissed off, I couldn't get in because there wasn't any parking
Aw fuck, man, I'm so sorry to hear that. That's a super shitty reason to not be able to get in. :(
I knew liam-senpai would play this
Who thought the Final Bloodporne boss is the final boss of a Gama about a cursed moon?
Only castlevania game I've played is order of ecclesia. So playing this is a neat experience for me.
On hard mode. All attacks that hit you knocks you unfortunately towards a pit regardless of direction or facing.
Huh. I thought Bloodstained was supposed to look a lot better than this, I seem to recall the old demo thing looking really decent..? I guess they switched to a retro aesthetic. Glad it's out, I thought it was delayed way longer than this.
No, no, this is a prequel game! Like it's not the main game, just an extra title Inti Creates developed!
+Liam
I know, I was kidding. I suppose I should have been more clear on that. Rather than not clear at all. Oh well, have a nice day, Liam
You forgot "/s" somewhere in there.
Started and finished a normal Veteran run last night. Good fun, and plenty of things to make it easier for a filthy Castlevania casual such as myself. I certainly couldn't beat 1 or Dracula's Curse in one sitting back in the day. The sucker punches after some of the boss fights were kinda annoying though.
+4Wilko DON'T FORGET to finish Nughtmare mode. I literally put the game down after my first run but luckily I quickly found out to play Nightmare mode immediately after without getting any spoilers. Play it!!
In the third run you can kill all of the playable characters with Zangetsu to unlock some cool shit and the "Ultimate" mode.
Yeah I need to try the alt runs later on. I played a bit of Nightmare mode after my normal run and figured I should call it a night when I died to a pit somewhere.
What is the "up and to the left" a reference too
I've heard it multiple times but never heard what it's referencing
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I guess i might as well ask this right now, any chance of you guys playing the upcoming Sushi Striker game together on Switch?
I would love to see some sick ass Sushi competitive MLG gameplay footage from you guys.
Yep! I'd like to with him!
That and this could be good training for Matt if he ever decides to go one-on-one with Hitomi Tanaka in a future online Sushi match, lol.
Here's hoping that Matt has the courage to take this "playing games with Hitomi" thing to the next level beyond just Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
Any chances of a Bokati lets play?
Did they ever do part 2?
Ah, shit, yeah, that never happened. I should update the info...
Sorry, man. :(
@@risingsuperstream3533 ah pity. I was hoping to see Matt lose his mind at the B run final boss. But thank you for finishing at least play through A.
oh hey
Buer enemy
Zangetsu is a one a hot man! Baby!
So....Curse of the moon 2?
a-audio is a-a bit l-low...
How much is this game? Its a perfect pick for my switch
$10 USD
thanks Liam, keep it up. Have fun watching woolz getting mind blown in Nier Automata xD
+Neptune Vasilias Too cheap for such high quality. The game is better than the majority of AAA games for damns sake.
3:28 and nope, david hayter is zangetsu
whaaaaaaaaaaaat, I really thought he was Gebel! My bad!
@@risingsuperstream3533 Many, many months late but - I looked at the Kickstarter main page recently, and it _does_ say that Hayter was supposed to play Gebel. Matt invoked Anti Crazy Talk.
For some reason the game isnt out in my region yet, come the fuck on PSN!
Bestfriendvania ReBirth
You know back in 1998 Bloodstained would be been the laughing stock of the gaming community just for the graphics alone but you know retro has been cool since 2010 all of the sudden. Ive always been into classic video games ever since I bought NES carts for 25 cents at Funcoland. People back in those days thought I was weird for playing Contra 1 instead of looking at Lara Croft's pyramid boobs but now the same hypocritical people who follow any fad are buying $100 NES carts. They don't deserve Bloodstained. Screw these poser "retro gamers" of today. They turned my hobby into a fashion statement just like their weird looking Dr. Robotnik mustaches and Duck Dynasty beards.
It's supposed to be an 8-Bit game, not 16-Bit. It only uses the NES color palette.
Theres a lot of people like that today too. "Why you playin this shit brah when you could be playin CoD?"
Such bullshit. They sent codes out to reviewers on console, but the codes were delayed for us backers. Oh, but of course it's out on PSN/Xbox if you want to buy it. Some friends of mine who didn't put one cent towards it are playing it, while I have to wait. No wonder it caused a shitstorm.
Except they gave us steam codes that last until the 8th while they get console codes out. Unless you're without a PC at all, there's not much of an excuse since it runs on toasters.
Except I don't like gaming on a PC, I use my console for everything. With Iga sending out that video, everything should have been okay beforehand. There's no excuse for this happening, especially when the game itself has been delayed too.
JustforKikX They've stated on Twitter and the recent updates that they requested them long beforehand. I don't know which Iga video you're referring to, but it probably has little bearing on the sheer amount of codes that were requested and need to be sent out to backers. It's mostly just on whenever currently Sony and Nintendo decide to send the big batch of codes to them.
I get the idea of not wanting to change your habits and use your PC for one game, but considering the ease of use of just being able to plug in a PS4 controller these days and it automatically working, I just don't agree. It's mostly just on you if you don't want to accept the completely reasonable workaround they've given for the time being.
I know it's not Iga and his team lol, it's INTI. These publishers don't care about the gamer, I've heard horror stories about other kickstarters and the Hell they go through.
Skramms What I'm more upset about is having to start over. Any progress I do on the temporary steam code will be gone after June 8th and then I would need to redo everything again on the switch version.
I also have a terrible computer. It can't even handle this game without some frame rate issues. I am neutral to this as the company at least did something when it didn't have to, but being upset is reasonable for us backers here.