Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2010

[Icarus Moonsight]

To reiterate my opinion of two and a half months ago...
Konami, you still have my attention... Really, really damn cool. "Kick Travis Touchdown in the nads and steal his lightsaber" cool.

[exit]

I just watched the trailer and this game is going to be epic. It's the Castlevania that LoI and CoD wished they were, looks like the curse is broken guys.

[Zthun]

So odd, I kinda lump CoD and LoI into the game; they may as well be the same game to me, very similar.

And I really don't see why so many people are getting bunched up about this new game being like God of War. Wasn't God of War a pretty good game that everybody pretty much went nuts over? I don't see the big deal. Isn't Sonic a lot like Mario? As long as the game is fun and plays well, I don't care if it's a "Win, Lose or Draw" clone (well maybe a little, if it's like that...)

God of War was a really good game, but it wasn't 'cream your pants epic' like everyone made it out to be. When I played it, I got the impression 'hey, this is just an average 3D platformer.' Just cause you can have a threesome in the beginning of the game does not make it truly epic.

I can probably safely bet my fantastic four comic book collection that this will be the same case. It'll be hyped up by people, and then poof, it'll just be an average 3D action game like CoD and LoI. Not going to get my hopes up for an epic 3D castlevania game. Castlevania III - that was epic; Castlevania SOTN - that was epic. Castlevania, Aria and Dawn of Sorrow; those were epic. All the 3D Castlevania games - not very epic, average at best.

[kupomogli]

LoI is not average. There are very few games that have gameplay as fun as LoI. You start off with a fairly limited set of attacks you can link into combos, but later in the game when you have the entire set complete, you have several choices to combo into. Add a single subweapon and multiple orbs to add a higher combo count into that.

I think it's got a fairly in depth combo system and the level design, while a bit repetitive isn't too bad and is pretty much built around the main gameplay(the fighting.)

[Kim Possible]

While I have enjoyed the 3-D Castlevanias, I think overall the Gameboy 2-D platformers have been superior, even though they sort of devolved into slightly less good SotN knock-offs.

I really hope this new game can be the block buster the series needs. (I too greatly lament the demise of the Dreamcast game...sniff...)

[Lostdwarf]

portrait of ruin is one of my faves

[hbkprm]

lords of shadow is going to amaze me and the vast inprovement in graphics and story every time

[Zthun]

So I went back and decided to play LoI again just to see if it was as bad as I remembered it.....I was wrong. I actually isn't that bad. It's not great, but it's a lot more fun than I thought it was.

[kupomogli]

So I went back and decided to play LoI again just to see if it was as bad as I remembered it.....I was wrong. I actually isn't that bad. It's not great, but it's a lot more fun than I thought it was.

The further into the game you get the more badass the combos.

Unfortunately, giving Curse of Darkness a second chance won't be as good because it just blows.