GAME SINS | Everything Wrong With Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2
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At one point in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, Satan rides a giant worm into space. Can we have a moment of silence for this once proud series?
Here's GAME SINS | Everything Wrong With Castlevania Lords of Shadows 2.
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"For someone who claims to be an eternal thorn in the side of God, Dracula is spending a lot of time and effort to stop Satan"
Anime 101.
No. Just... nobody likes too much competition.
One thing that I find interesting is that that they made Carmilla all boy crazy even though one of her most noteworthy literary characteristics was her preference for women. So couldn't they have come up with a way to give her an antagonistic motivation without making her a desperate man-stalker and nullifying one of the classic character's defining traits?
I also find it interesting how tiny Dracula's head is.
To be fair 'Nagitrad' is one of the cooler anagram names...
Certainly rolls off the tongue better than something like "Senoj Yrret" :3
Inb4 a user named Nagitrad makes videos the exact opposite of Dart's, Everything Right With "Insert Game Title Here"
Well the inverse of Cinema Sins is actually pretty good so this seems like the logical conclusion. Oh and we would need an Anime Wins, too.
The is a Cinema Wins channel, so why not Game Wins?
That's actually pretty cool too.
If Dracula can possess people, isn't it logical to assume that he also gains access to their memories? Naturally he should be able to figure out modern technology after possessing someone.
"Careful, you're risking a Polygon article with lines like that".
Oh snap!
If that weapon is the only thing that can kill Dracula, then why he is not invincible when fighting enemies ? 1 sin
It's not the only thing that can kill Dracula, is just an alternative
It's the only thing that puts him down for good. He can be killed by anything else, but he just resurrects. The Vampire Killer puts him in the afterlife permanently
The Vampire Killer kills him FOREVER, ending his immortality
Contradicting the logic of the other Castlevanias. Nothing can kill Dracula permanently.
@@TheTrueLeafless Exactly, the *OTHER* Castlevanias, Lords of Shadow is a reimagination of the universe
"I am the blood that runs through your veins."
"I am the dark shadow that chills the hearts of men as you pass."
I am.... Darkwing Duck!"
That slow motion scene looks painful to watch, it doesn't add no dramatic effect to it.
*1000 sins because Konami*...........I think everyone in here will agree with me on this one.
gr8 b8 m8
+Infinite Mega opinions are opinions. and more people are hating on konami than capcom nowadays and they kindof deserve it. fuck off
What is a Konami? A miserable little pile of mobile games!
Lord of shadow 1 was great! And even if there were many weird things in LOS2, i enjoyed it too
Gerald Snowman I feel the same way about these people who hate things if they don't make them feel nostalgic. But unfortunately, nostalgia is one of the hardest and most addicting drugs around.
This was one of those games where unfortunately the trailers were more awe inspiring than the game itself. The musical scores performed in those trailers were absolutely phenomenal.
Also, a little trivia sin bonus: LoS Alucard sword name is Crissaegrim, which was originally just a "common" drop from a enemy in Symphony of The Night. Instead of creating a cool ass name for that Katana-like sword, they just took the name of the most overpowered weapon from SoTN and ran with it.
I can't help but think that a story about Dracula just trying to leave the castle and the castle fighting to keep him there, juxtaposed with him trying to reconnect with his humanity, would've been better.
Or maybe a story about how he built the castle in the first place and filled it with monsters? Maybe he took it from some other big bad like Walter Bernhard in a big fight. Maybe he had to hunt down and defeat all of the classic boss monsters and put them in their place before finally claiming dominance over the monstrous edifice called Castlevania.
altraferne Is the Carmilla's Castle from LoS.
The idea of a Belmont being Dracula would've been an interesting twist if it was in the original canon, but in this story it just doesn't work. Also the first sin made me laugh.😧😂
I've always thought that myself that how can Dracula possibly have knowledge of modern technology and infrastructure when he is from the 11th century. Like the bit where he's like "This virus is manufactured. There must be an antidote" How could he possibly know anything about manufacturing and antidotes. Also isn't the whole thing with having a virus that mutates people and transforms them into monsters a big Resident Evil rip off and does anyone else think that Alucard's armor looks suspiciously like the Daedric armor from Skyrim?
As far as technology goes Dracula was hundreds of years ahead of the rest of the world and he had magic to get things like teleporters
Maybe he gained the knowledge from that family he drank from. Thats my guess
So why does Dracula need help climbing? Or does his "Prince of Darkness powers" only work when the plot demands it 🤔
Having watched your stream, I got to say, returning the heart to the Toymaker to end the bossfigth would've been the icing on the cake of this so strange great part of the game.
"Immortality is a curse, cliché" can it be a cliché if it is the truth?
There's at least ONE PERSON that would say "fuck yeah immortality !"
@@AlphaI250 And that person would probably be like me, with an inability to safely and healthily form lasting relations with literally any other person in the entire world. Ah, gotta love permanent mental scarring from two decades of abuse...
Why would immortality be a curse?
Sure you see all of your loved ones die.
But you do so if you are mortal, too.
You just meet more loved ones and lose more loved ones if you are immortal.
Immortality is is only a curse if you seclude yourself.
"This is precisely why you don't include the spin off games in your main fiction. Looking at you, Kingdom Hearts." YEAH
THIS IS SO FUCKING TRUE
Kinda funny Zobek looks more like Sean Connery but he is voiced by Patrick Stewart.
I think I actually sinned the previous game for that, so I didn't bother bringing it up again in this video.
Dartigan I'll rewatch the previous one. Also watching the videos only makes me wish those games were remastered for PS4
Gotta admit I loved this game a lot.
+Kanan Matsuura and why is that
It's perfectly fine if you enjoyed this game. My videos are not meant to make people hate games or feel bad about liking something that others didn't. If this game was fun for you then that's all that maters.
Well said.
I enjoyed the game as well. After all I gave up a long time ago on decent voice acting for any video game. The ham levels are typically through the roof. It's quite an enjoyable game, with a few bad sections I admit, but then again, all games have their bad sections. They aren't numerous to be more than an annoyance and the plot is actually followable, and an interesting take on the CastleVania meta. I think Lords of Shadow continuity should have gotten more love than it did, but we will probably never know. It's amusing though to point out the bad voice acting, and the callback lines of dialog to SotN, when that dialog and voice acting was absolutely wretched in that game. I think my main issue with the Lords of Shadow games is that they were just too serious for a CastleVania game, and missed the charm and fun, and of course not having the musical callbacks didn't help. Where CastleVania was often an homage to classical movie monsters, you had none of them in the Lords of Shadow games (no the Creature (aka Frankenstein's Monster, Adam), Medusa wasn't the gorgon we know, no wolfman, creature from the black lagoon or any of that). While I applaud them for trying something new and different, the misstep was Lords of Shadow 2 didn't have enough callbacks to make it feel like it could be a natural evolution of CastleVania and a generic plot about a Resident Evil style bio-weapon in the end. I think that's what turned people against it.
+RepleXTA this is one of my most favourite game
1:37 - It really puts my mind at ease when I hear someone else call Kingdom Hearts out on its horseshit even in a quick throwaway line, reminds me there are still sane people in this world.
13:35 - I AM DARKWIIIIING DUCK!
difference is the Kingdom Hearts spinoffs are great for the most part
Lol, I'd love to see Dart try to sin the KH games in prep for next year's Lightning Return's sin stream. I wonder which game will give him a stroke.
Kingdom Hearts is my favorite game series, but it's so rare I get to see someone actually call out some of it's bullshit. Sometimes I wish someone would just tear it to shreds.
I really liked Kingdom Hearts 1, but it was so hard to get into 2 because of the handheld games that I didn't play. I can only imagine that I will be completely lost when it comes to 3.
+Dartigan Some of the games came out of order, but once you figure out where they go chronologically, the story become clear to understand.
Voice acting wasn't that bad. Much better than others
I just realized that Inner Dracula's speech was missing something. "I am the blood that runs through your veins. I am the dark shadow that chills the hearts of men as you pass. I am the fury... your hate and your vengeance. I am...DARKWING DUCK!!!" Proving that this own game is so far up its own ass that it almost becomes a parody of itself. Anyhow, awesome video as usual! ^_^
I'm conflicted with the games to vote for again. On one hand, L.A. Noire is probably the one I'd like to see sinned more, but on the other hand, I probably won't be around for as much of the stream for it. Eh, I want to see Mafia III get sinned as well, so let's go with that.
You just killed!!!😂😂😂😂
He'd have to have led with "I am the terror that flaps in the night" something most DWD references forget.
I thought the exact same thing.
Actually, Alucard wasn't Zobek's bodyguard for long. The dlc shows that after he removed the sword from Dracula and then reclaimed the Void Sword and Chaos Claws for Dracula to find later, Alucard tracked down Zobek's bodyguard and killed him to steal his armor, taking his place for about a day or so before Dracula woke back up.
I would add 10 Sins that even at the end of the game when you're ready to fight Satan, you STILL have to avoid them power armour users and don't even fight them as late game enemies.
God, this game! The first one was at least tolerable, but this one was just infuriating. Though from what I could gather, MercurySteam originally had different plans, and wanted to continue the plot reasonably, until Konami started punching the deadline out of impatience, and making modern assets is much easier than coming up with medieval scenery. They also didn't receive the full payment for this project, if I remember correctly. Oh well, maybe Bloodstained can restore some faith...
Also, I vote for L.A. Noire. The plotholes in it are supposedly the stuff of legends, and I wanna see your take on it, Dartigan!
embraceyourinner tophat Oh, right! Completely forgot about that! I think he even fired some guys when they spoke out against his nonsense, and controlled every idea as far as possible.
The whole development was full of incompetence and nonsense! It's hard to believe the game was ever finished, but the result shows that we wouldn't have missed out on anything, either way. It's just sad.
embraceyourinner tophat That's possible, but pretty much all the people in charge messed up badly. The good people who actually put in some effort got sabotaged by the development head and Konami, so there isn't much heard of them, unfortunately.
+embraceyourinner tophat Those stealth sequences along with the whole space marines in a fucking Castlevania game ruined any chance this game had.
It really fucking did this game could have been epic
It was a great game, I just finished it recently. It wasn't as good as the first but it was still great and unique
Who else misses the 2D Metroidvania Castlevanias?
On the bright side, Bloodstained is coming out soon. If you don't know what it is, it's a metriodvania made by IGA.
Just remember that some tales are better off buried. I didn't like the Bloodstained demo that much, especially if I were to get an idea of the blatant fanservice and female main character archetype style it is going with.
Sometimes, some tales need to be buried, even if they are wearing a different skin. Looking at you, Mighty No. 9.
If you want, you can just buy Harmony of Despair on X360 or PS3. It was the last official 2D Castlevania game, and does its job very well.
+fieryrebirth The female main character is not a new thing, Legends, Order of Ecclesia had main female characters, the demo looked waaaay better than MN9 and it hadn't a advertising strategy of mocking its own consumers like MN9 did, that monster on the demo as fanservice as it seems is a reference to a SOtN boss
I wish more people played HoD online these days... Also wish Konami weren't a bunch of idiots and made a sequel to that game (it really deserves one).
1:59
Actually he was given that name by Gabriel because he didn't tell his father his name before he died, and suffered from post-resurrection amnesia afterward. He only accepts it after the battle for reasons revealed in the endgame.
7:33
Failing again to remember that Castlevania explains the tech anachronism via the Evil™ guys having forbidden knowledge.
12:33
Hunger and/or thirst can do crazy things to the rational mind, you can no more blame Gabriel for killing that family than you can blame a predator for killing its food. And in fact, Gabriel being blood-deprived is *WHY* Zobek put them in there with him.
13:08
Probably happened offscreen.
"Can. You. Please. Stop. Punctuating. Every. Word. Like. This. It's. Distracting."
... O. K. ...
last line was the best xDD
"No sequel baiting here. It's all pachinko machines from here on out" ^^
6:22 Looks like somebody got their "Resident Evil" in my "Castlevania".
13:40 I Am Darkwing Duck!! XD
Also just a thought, but how could Satan's minions think that Dracula was dead...wouldn't Satan be the first to know if Dracula was dead since he would surely go to Hell? The writers definitely didn't think that part through did they?
I think a better line for Dracula to have said at the beginning would've been "I've been sleeping a thousand years, it seems. Got to open my eyes to everything." as, if this game made sense, Dracula wouldn't know a thing about modern technology (plus I would love an Evanescence line in a video game).
The biggest sin is that not a lot of people talk about the "Lords of Shadow" duology
Basic enemies with NO RECOIL during taking hits - 1000000 sins
pot meet kettle
Opportunities they missed in this game: developing zobek and gabriel's relationship beyond "you betrayed me, now you did, we fight" , showing draculas reactions to the modern world, flashbacks to gabriel as dracula in the past showing how becoming a vampire and losing everything changed him.
List ur own below lol
Come on man, the Gabriel Marie dialogue is as much heartbreaking as in the end scene of the previous game.
Having to press a button to suck the blood out of a family is like making a Mario game have a "press x to kick a puppy" segment
7:01 bro really said "bondage straps" 💀
Laughed way too hard at this one. Great work! Also, bonus points for your "fuckonami" song.
Even for Castlevania game that started out with help from Kojima, that climax jumps like a billion sharks to get to the ending.
I´m not sure if Dartigan himself will see this but he really should include an outtakes section like "CinemaSins" does at the end of their videos, if he is gonna make several movie references and count them as sins anyway.
If he was going to be a tragic hero, they should have made Zobek kill the family and feed Dracula, also the whole super futuristic setup doesn't mix well with Castlevania, unless they had put extra effort on it, something they didn't.
My thoughts on the transportation between the castle and the city: since the city is built on the same area, and Dracula awakens from his sleep, the castle is also awakened. It must be a portal to himself and everything inside is his interpretation of returning to evil or changing with the help of his family. People can only enter with Dracula but Dracula wouldn't want to enter without his family's help. It must be all in his mind I guess
I have to admit, because I actually was pretty well informed with the Castlevania lore, once they were saying that Trevor was Alucard, I was going, "What!? You can't be serious with this?"
I still loved the most epic Cross Melting Aura ever put into a game. Also, dat Mortal Kombat reference in the opening narration.
Just a thought: when Drac returns to the room where he killed the parents, and the daugther is nowhere to be seen, he actually faintly smiles. Could that indicate that he spared the girl? We don't see him killing her after all.
makes sense but they could have made that more clear i suppose
I kept thinking that maybe she did survive and would reappear in the story. But I don't think that's the case. I think they just didn't want to show her body.
I actually liked that scene, you get to see Dracula as the monster the game tries to sell you. The only one, sadly.
Considering that a lot of smokers (not all of them) smoke inconsiderately and unscrupulous in the very close proximity of other people and non-smokers without checking first whether they pester someone with their stench and filthy air, that "cigs indicate assholes" thing works quite well.
Yeah. Blood starved. Goes back to sleep. To wake up later flash backs, and go outside.
Can someone explain that?
I got really pissed of because the idea of being Dracula for the first time I though it was really cool, and even though I love Castlevania I always though that the enemies were too cartoonish, so I liked the darker tone they took for this, but man did they fucked it up. After all those years I still try to like it but i only hurts more and more. This game makes no sense: from beginning to end, it has holes in the plot holes.
This game is giving me Castlevania Aria of Sorrow dualogy flashbacks.
First Lord's of shadow was peak of the three games.
I'm playing this game right now, and I was looking for your vid, lol. I have to say that the scenes in Dracula's Castle are memories mix with monsters and bosses from the present (yeah, 1 sin for that), but that explais why Carmila and Dracula's wife don't have bitemarks for example. The Pan in the other hand is not that he is evil, but he has simply lost the reason, and blames Dracula for the murder of his brother. I agree the part of the toymaker is my favorite. I also loved the character of the Chupacabra lol he's so funny (you can't count a sin for him to open a shop for only one customer) and paying for items with exp. points should have been sinned, lol. And the stealth parts are the best of the game if you play it on the hardest difficulty; in that moment you think "Ouhh yeah, some relaing time"! Btw the Golgoth Guards yould have been sinned for their huge armor and not wearing a helmet. The game on a whole is very good in my opinion: very cool powers, easy stealth parts, mid-difficult action parts, great city and castle, and great NPCs.
Nagitrad sounds like it could be a city in The Witcher series.
One thing that irked me (one of many things about the game) was the very long death cinematic if the second Acolyte (bald electric man) caught you, almost making you think it was an unavoidable event.. that and the "stealth sections" freaking Pans brother..
Victor was supposed to be Julius Belmont a character everyone wanted to see finally put a stop to Dracula in the 1999 war. Luckily, IGA put a stop to that. Everything about this game feels like someone trying to prove their OC was the greatest thing to ever happen to this franchise.
Victor was a canon character from a cancelled game I believe
@@aurancrash4654 That's doesn't really change what they wanted to do.
@@Ether101_Prime I don't know man. It sounds like projection on your part. Do you have any evidence to back up your claim?
@@aurancrash4654 You mean beyond it being the game files and IGA talking about?
@@aurancrash4654 ruclips.net/video/8RjBZ249YIY/видео.html has a quote.
Dartigan's laugh is everything I need seriously
I just played this game for the first time and beat it today. I really wanted to love this game, but there is so much about it that makes no bloody sense whatsoever, and is stupidly frustrating at the best of times. No game has ever left me feeling more dissatisfied after beating it (except maybe the first one, whose ending was just confusing as shit initially). Having said that, Konami, if you happen to read this comment: JULIUS BELMONT NEEDS A FUCKING METROIDVANIA GAME!!!
This game is on par with Bioshock Infinite, fine the first time... once everything is digested you find out just how stupidly everything is slapped together just to find out it's one of the games that went through development hell because it couldn't deliver on the hype.
The only difference between the two games is that Bioshock Infinite is a highly successful game, far superior in sales and it DID deliver on the hype
LA Noire would be awesome, nice video by the way
Great vids of always. Also congrats on 100,000 subscribers!
7:20 damn you thought the train battle was boring? I thought it was awesome
Carmillia should be the protagonist of the next game.
One sin in and I'm already smiling hahaha.
Absolutely love these vids man, really brighten up my day when I see them uploaded, keep em up!!
We also share a similar sense of humour (not sure if thats a compliment or insult)
I'm glad you enjoy them so much. I hope I can continue to live up to your expectations.
The biggest sin in this game is the BADLY spoken dialogue.
This could have been decent if they'd embraced the absurdity of Dracula in modern times and rolled with it. Or if they skipped the stealth sections. Or had a plot. And why pull the same shit like in the previous game? You set up three villains, you give us boss fights with two of them and then Satan shows up to kill the third one. Granted, Zobek got better but we still didn't have a boss fight with him.
yeah the Castle is pretty confusing, I mean yeah it could of been in his mind.. but the Second Acolyte follows you into that castle to Possess the statues you then fight soo.... pff who knows?
Dartigan let's replace everything with Castlevania Logic!!!😂😂😂
Satan exists in this world so I guess heaven and hell exist also. So if we go off of lore when a vampire dies it goes to hell. Why would gabriel want to die knowing that instead of resting like he wants he'll be burning forever.
Valid question.
Man. Watching this now, and I still can't believe how horrible this is. What were they thinking? This and the first one are just so, so bad. The franchise died forever on probably the worst note imaginable.
So the final battle against Satan when he posses Alucard is in a falling down stage, like the final fight of Megaman Zero 4 in Ragnarok?
I enjoyed the game, along with the first part, for me is one of the best Castlevania
I knew it was not something wrong with Dart. It's just the last few games he sinned were kinda bad. I see Castlevania LoS in the title and I know I will be cackling like a madman through the next half an hour while simultaneously contemplating about the general medicority of current games' storytelling.
I vote for L.A Noire. But, there is something important that I must tell you @Dartigan. (If you end of doing L.A Noire) There is a major collectible in the game that are called newspapers. You need to find all of them to have context on the main storyline, or rather the storyline that will take over the plot until the end of the game. They aren't too hard to find, I found a video that can easily be found on google. It's up to you whether you decide to either go and collect all of them or just look at the video that shows all of the newspaper cutscenes. But you have to look at them. Remember that @Dartigan.
Should add one for releasing on last gen in 2014 when it could of released on ps4 and xbox one
In this game, Dracula ends up in a modern day era. A time period where people are in the year 2055. By the way, this marks the 50th anniversary of RUclips.
That "Fuck Konami" bit made the entire video for me. KOJIMA!!!!!!!!!!
I realize now that Dracula is the young version of the person of interest guy
This were konami fucks up castlevania but im glad the series redeem itself by releasing the netflix animated show
The game at least had the theme of Castlevania. The Netflix is all style yet what doesn't have an iota of the main theme of Castlevania.
If Dracula is evil why does he care if Satan is going to bring darkness to the world?, and why is he fighting against him? they both seem to have the same mission, this game sucks on so many levels
Congrats! You just now hit 100k subscribers! Be proud!
Everytime Alucard is mentioned I instantly thing Hellsing so
Ripping off Hellsing *ding*
also
"Says he doesn't want to be like his father yet still takes his name. Even though he flipped it to mock his father it's still taking his father's name. Which is already kind of being like your father."
*ding*
The sound of the book opening in the begining is the same as the grenade pick up sound from old cod games
Damn...L.A. Noire is killing it already...hopefully whichever wins it gets a hide and seek reference...we are far overdue for one and hopefully either game delivers.
Nagitrad :'D
oh jesus, I can't stop laughing;
that one was hilarious :D
16:38 I guess Planet Fitness opened a branch in hell? Makes sense.
I played the DLC and don't know how he became Dracula
THIS IS! WHY! I CANNOT! WAIT! UNTIL! BLOODSTAINED! RITUAL OF THE NIGHT! APPEARS! TO! PUT! KONAMI! TO! SHAME!
The first Lords of Shadow was an amazing surprise. LOS 2 was a shitty sequel.
LA noire !
I know you would do it ! You grinned !
Now that I think about how much Dartigan likes anime he should start doing his own Anime Sins series.
There's another crucial plot point that you missed in this video that I don't remember if you addressed in the one for the first game: if *Trevor* is actually Drac's son who becomes *Alucard*, then how did Trevor fight *alongside* Alucard in CastleVania 3 for the NES?
And they forgot that Alucard's mother's name (according to Symphony Of The Night) is actually *Lisa*.
Unless the LoS games are supposed to retcon THOSE games too...
*smh*
This is a rebooted timeline. The stories from the old games don't matter to this game's plot. For instance, Dracula wasn't a Belmont in the old games.
Thanks for the clarification, and I totally imagined your voice saying that reply. :D
Who will win:
Dracula, who slayed a Satan even before he got his vampire powers, great hero with superhuman strength, enough to kill literal titans, vampire lord, that killed hundreds of people with single strikes, corrupted clerck, that blew up 500 million army + half of the contonent with single spell and survivednit himself
VS
One beefy guardian boi
Enemy blocking & wearing armor, it's redundant.
Also the existence of the genetically enhanced guards, I don't know why they bother bringing demons to earth when they already had those guys
LA NOIRE! Because it's older so less people care about spoilers, and it REALLY wanted to make the most out of its facial capture, so no subtlety in most facial expressions :)
The fact that you used TB's Fuckonami anthem would've earned you a sub if I wasn't subbed already. Didn't know you watched the Co-Optional Podcast :)
I've watched TB for many years now.
do i need to mention that the last human Belmont guy has the same voice actor as Reid, the vampire blood doctor in Vampyr?
Discount Zack Snyder film/300, Ryse: Son of Rome, Bayonetta, and Devil May Cry and Darksiders
Hey. There. Dartigan. Punctuation. Is. key.
Can you do L.A Noire that games has a load of sins in it as I have played it already.
What other projects do you have for the future and are you going to sin the Wolf Among Us or Game of Thrones from Telltale thanks and bye.
I for certain plan to do Wolf at some point. Probably not Game of Thrones as I don't know much about that universe.
The voices seem a bit off at times.. almost like they had to match voices to the animation, and not the other way around. If that's the case, I guess you can't really blame Carlyle for staggering at times.
I think he did a good job other than that, and he's a great screen actor - really would like to see him get some more interesting parts in movies.