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Let me just start by saying that this rating is from the perspective of a hardcore Castlevania fan only. If all you want is an alright hack'n'slash, you'll find worse things out there, I guess.
I couldn't. After playing through every single game in the series up to this point, I couldn't continue playing through Lords of Shadow any longer than Chapter 2. It's not a Castlevania game.
And I don't even mean that from a story/style perspective, although it does apply there as well. This kind of gameplay doesn't resemble a Castlevania game in any way, shape or form. Look up a video or boot up the demo, and forget about the game's title for a second. If you're like me, Castlevania is the LAST thing that'll run through your head.
Constantly being interrupted and told HEY LOOK AT THIS, MAYBE YOU SHOULD FIND A WAY TO BLOW THIS UP. MAYBE YOU SHOULD TRY TO LIGHT UP THESE RUNES.
The game QUITE LITERALLY goes "You can't do anything about this obstacle yet. Come back later once you've upgraded your skills" at one point. After playing through dozens of games that actually respected my intelligence and let me figure things out myself, Lords of Shadow zooming the camera on a ledge and making the edge super shiny just to make sure I wouldn't miss it felt like having a prank played on me.
I hate the way this game looks, I absolutely despise it. It blends in with literally any western fantasy action game imaginable. But you know what's funny? What pissed me off the most wasn't the visuals. It wasn't the gameplay. It wasn't the story. All of those things have gargantuan problems if you're looking at them from the lenses of a Castlevania game, but they're passable if what you want is a cheap God of War knockoff.
What sucked my soul and dragged it to hell was the music. No joke.
The soundtrack in this game is genuine, corrosive slop. It's unacceptable. I JUST finished Harmony of Despair hours before starting this, and it felt like I was committing a felony to my ears. The most generic, uninspired "epic fantasy" score you could ever conceive in your imagination. Ask Chat GPT to generate you a fantasy score, you'll end up with tracks far more remarkable. I couldn't take any of what I was looking at seriously because every scene was presented with the epitome of "soulless" in the background.
I won't waste any more time with Lords of Shadow or its sequels when I have much better games to check out before October ends. Truly a shame that these are the last games to bear the "Castlevania" title. A proper death would've been preferable.
I couldn't. After playing through every single game in the series up to this point, I couldn't continue playing through Lords of Shadow any longer than Chapter 2. It's not a Castlevania game.
And I don't even mean that from a story/style perspective, although it does apply there as well. This kind of gameplay doesn't resemble a Castlevania game in any way, shape or form. Look up a video or boot up the demo, and forget about the game's title for a second. If you're like me, Castlevania is the LAST thing that'll run through your head.
Constantly being interrupted and told HEY LOOK AT THIS, MAYBE YOU SHOULD FIND A WAY TO BLOW THIS UP. MAYBE YOU SHOULD TRY TO LIGHT UP THESE RUNES.
The game QUITE LITERALLY goes "You can't do anything about this obstacle yet. Come back later once you've upgraded your skills" at one point. After playing through dozens of games that actually respected my intelligence and let me figure things out myself, Lords of Shadow zooming the camera on a ledge and making the edge super shiny just to make sure I wouldn't miss it felt like having a prank played on me.
I hate the way this game looks, I absolutely despise it. It blends in with literally any western fantasy action game imaginable. But you know what's funny? What pissed me off the most wasn't the visuals. It wasn't the gameplay. It wasn't the story. All of those things have gargantuan problems if you're looking at them from the lenses of a Castlevania game, but they're passable if what you want is a cheap God of War knockoff.
What sucked my soul and dragged it to hell was the music. No joke.
The soundtrack in this game is genuine, corrosive slop. It's unacceptable. I JUST finished Harmony of Despair hours before starting this, and it felt like I was committing a felony to my ears. The most generic, uninspired "epic fantasy" score you could ever conceive in your imagination. Ask Chat GPT to generate you a fantasy score, you'll end up with tracks far more remarkable. I couldn't take any of what I was looking at seriously because every scene was presented with the epitome of "soulless" in the background.
I won't waste any more time with Lords of Shadow or its sequels when I have much better games to check out before October ends. Truly a shame that these are the last games to bear the "Castlevania" title. A proper death would've been preferable.