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Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night |OT| We Have Paid Our Tribute, Igavania Is Resurrected
- Thread starter Dancrane212
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The bad ending just resets you to the last save point you saved at. It's obvious when it happens and then you just need to find a different way to advance. In a sense the bad ending is the only missable one haha.
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Superb mod for immersion! Wish I could replace these portraits on the PS4.
Medium ending is easy to miss. I have to get up to that point in my NG+ file to get it.
OK thx a lot - so I guess I'll give Slay the Spire a go, sounds really good!
PS: too bad Fire Emblem isnt out yet...
Thanks for removing my portrait (kidding)
I'll install it, it will make for a nice homage. I have seen my fellow backers more than 50 hours, they sure won't mind if i do, they are people of good taste obviously since they backed the game in the first place :)
In a game with pizza made out of 4 doughs, glasses that zoom the camera, and ladies with flaming guitars, just to name a small amount of goofy things, that the portraits are what break people's immersion is incredibly odd to me, but you do you to make yourself happy.
I get what they're going for, but to me walking past familiar Castlevania artwork is way more immersion breaking than the original portraits.
Fllamethrower shard
int gear / tome / shard
aimed shard tome
risk ring
Warlock's Necklace
Yeah I plan on doing a fresh second playthrough with no attack shards/gun melee only weapon only From some of the stuff Ive seen boses get some pretty crazy paterns
Basically, lol
I would've thought the realistic looking giant dogs and cats emerging out of portals for whatever reason would've been the sticking point for people, but what do I know?
It's REALLY good. If you're a fan of SOTN, there's a very good chance you'll enjoy this.
That guard technique is perfect for that fight, holy shit. There must be a hard counter to every boss fight but a couple such as this I was not able to find in any of my experimenting.
Join me in a fight stick run. Pretty much forced to remove directional shards from the game as no right analog.
They need to have an option to turn those stupid portraits off. What an awful design decision
A mod I'd appreciate would be one to remove the Kaioken effect. I love the buff, but the red aura ruins my Fashionstained. :(
Yeah, I thought the backer portraits were quite tasteful. Haunted pictures are pretty staple enemies for this yep of game. I thought the style was well done to not look super out for place.
I'm surprised that I never saw the cat one though?
On a completely separate note, I'm in what I believe to be the final area of the game Den of Behemoths, and oh man it's a total let down. It's a little bit amusing, but there's no real complexity to the layout and that they didn't do more with an idea that could have been creative makes it feel like they had no time to work on this part.
Those are backer rewards though. And they're not bothering me. I mean, theyre just portraits.
The gameplay is everything I was hoping for. But some people do seem disappointed because of underwhelming story/presentation, although I think both are okay.
I was at around 55% when I stumbled into the bad ending, if that counts.
I mean when you are jumping you dont need to aim with the right stick you can use the dpad while airborn :P I can't play on fightstick anyways my disability prevents it
I did say pretty much! I need to test if you can use the directional ray thing well enough. Might be a road block. One of my sticks lets you flip the joystick to right analog though so that would probably do it.
oh god, swimming is going to be even more ass. ugh.
Yes, its part of the item list.
Found this video on my youtube feed. Nightmare NG, No Damage, No Rhava or Magic Spam.
It's all relative, and Bloodstained is significantly worse about it. Like, there's nothing in any other igavania anywhere near as broken as tiz rozain or heretical grinder.
Yup I haven't dropped good company yet either. The twin dragon boss spirit toasts bosses too.
I've started to get sucked into this game now. While the gameplay can't compete with Hollow Knight, I do think I prefer the general atmosphere a lot more.
I can't think of anything as broken as the Alucard Shield and Shield Rod combo in any other Igavania game, honestly.
I don't think many of us did. Development was clearly very rocky but it seems they truly did steer the ship right in the end.
Oh you sweet summer child :D
(Though I'm sure even more broken stuff will be discovered in Bloodstained down the road)
It's from a time when games didn't have to hate you to be cool
So I saw that the 1.02 Xbone patch was delayed so they could fix the progression issue, and instead they're doing a small 1.004 patch this week. Does anyone know if this patch will add the Imbued items as drops from the optional bosses? I'd really like to finish my weapons list and get me a Rhava Velar.
Yeah, SotN is incredibly busted. I don't recall anything that powerful in other igavanias, but I also don't recall ever really having difficulty at all with the games outside of OoE (and this one tbh).
Huh? Games like DBFZ, Octopath Traveler, My Hero: One Justice, Hellblade and Travis Strikes Again all run at solid performances and aren't as compromised as Bloodstrained is. Blaming the UE4 engine for this is not a valid excuse, they just made a poor version and let's hope they fix the issues ASAP.
I frankly don't care about story/presentation nearly as much when the actual game is as good as it is. The game itself is excellent. It's just what I wanted as a backer.
I mean, it's obscurity next to the fact that it requires the best shield in the game makes it pretty insignificant IMO.
Being able to break the game really easily is decidedly different.
I would love to have a mod that removes some of them and not all of them, I think Iga's portrait and couple other ones are fine.
All of those are from big companies with loads of money, except TSA which is (was?) a Switch exclusive so all the budget could go toward it. Same with Octopath at the time as well, as it were.
By comparison, Bloodstained Switch was added more than halfway through development and is being handled internally when the original plan was to have another studio handle the stretch goal ports, which surely strained their already limited budget and time further. It got two years' fewer development time, of course it's not up to par yet. They've committed to improving it, and seeing how seriously they take criticism (poop vs. new graphics trailer, anyone?) I'm sure they'll make due on their promise.
The beauty of these games is that it's very easy to create self-imposed challenges if you feel like it. You just don't use the stuff that trivializes the game. I personally enjoy feeling incredibly broken in a game like this, especially when it feels very tight to play. Once I get bored of that I know there are a plethora of other more challenging options even without having to select a higher difficulty. To each their own I suppose, but to me this is a major pro.
Yep, I agree with most of your points and they're all true, and many of them indicates there was poor management of the Switch version. It's not like the UE4 engine is the blame to begin with as the previous post suggests.