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.
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.
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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.
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.)
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...)
SO not the Drama.
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.