Castlevania Lords of Shadow (Series)

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Spoiler: Just beat it. VERY Spoilery ranty time

The whole ending is… weird.

Satan gets summoned and he's a terrifying badass as soon as he rips off the third acolyte's face I was unbelievably stoked, but then you suddenly transition to fighting on Leviathan whose going to blow up the world (because apparently that was the plan even though he didn't expect Dracula, so there's no mention of all the mega demonic terraforming that happened), and then Satan possesses Alucard as you fall and you two fight, and cutscene stab Satan, and just kinda leave him lying there in the street…

So… after all the build up to kicking big muscly Satan's ass in a boss battle… it never happens. There's no conflict with Inner Dracula which seemed like a big deal at the time. Dracula NEVER transforms into a Dragon during ANY cutscene, which I felt was a massive disappointment because that could've been SO badass. In the end, he just wanders off with the Combat Cross instead of dying like he wants. There's no explanation about what little Trevor meant by, "When the time comes, choose your family." or whether he and Marie are still imln the Castle, or how Trevor is both a kid in the Castle (which is a real place that you can bring the Second Acolyte to), while also being Alucard in the real world.

I'm just… I'm so very confused about everything. Given the opening where you murder a family and the bit where inner Dracula refuses to give up, I was expecting something… DARK and impressive, like the sort of emotion that got evoked at the end of the first game. Not wandering off away from the sunset and leaving a heaping pile of question marks behind - especially since this was supposed ta be the conclusion of the LoS story, but it felt like nothing came together.

I want more stuff like Inner Dracula, Toymaker, & Victor because those bits were amazing. Hell, the bit with Victor was probably my favorite, because it beings back all those LoS1 memories, but Dracula still never seems like he's nearly as badass as Victor, which makes me sad, 'cause I wanted to feel like the evil superpower who everyone feared (kinda like how you feel by the end of the first Force Unleashed game), but I never really felt like more than Golgoth Grenade bait, or that there was a moment when Dracula DID regain his powers completely.


tl;dr - Weird ending left me feeling weird.

I'm missing the little chapter markers, because I wanna hunt for additional Pain Boxes (still sad that all the gem containers look generic, and getting 5 doesn't seem amazing from the little animation), and Dungeon Key things, but it doesn't look like there's a checklist by area to assist in narrowing down how many I have, or where to explore. I kinda wish that there was a map in your book that you could use for that like the LoS1 chapters.



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[Keveh Kins]

Just picked this up for my girlfriend for her 21st. Dude in the shop raved about it. My anticipation for my own copy continues

 

[Tetsujin]

I'm missing the little chapter markers, because I wanna hunt for additional Pain Boxes (still sad that all the gem containers look generic, and getting 5 doesn't seem amazing from the little animation), and Dungeon Key things, but it doesn't look like there's a checklist by area to assist in narrowing down how many I have, or where to explore.

On the world map it says how many of the total you have found in each area though.

Edit:

Spoiler: Spoilers up until "Next Stop: Castlevania"

Just finished the train segment. That was pretty cool. :p

Impressions so far: My gut feeling told me I'd like this game as I have liked LOS1 and MoF and so far I do. Stealth segments so far have not been terrible though I feel like technically Drac should already be able to take the Golgoth guards at the point I'm at. What is a grenade launcher to Dracula but a miserable little pile of explosives?

I'll start from the beginning: Prologue was already known from the demo and was cool and all but as I mentioned earlier, the climbing section when you're playing as fully empowered Drac seems a bit silly.
Would be too easy and not functional as tutorial if you could just teleport all over the place I guess but maybe they could've just saved the climbing stuff for later. Eh. Whatever.
The bit with the paladin (Dracula: "(...)because I am his Chosen One!"), I liked it. :p

The family Zobek sacrificed to Drac...poor bastards. Even the little girl. =<

Zobek's bodyguard is basically like: "Oh hey, pleasure to meet you, Mr. The Dragon. I'm looking forward to being a cool boss battle for you later on.

Also, I might be Sephiroth's reincarnation."

The nature of Dracula's castle is intriguing. It's sort of his memories but seems real at the same time. The whole bit with the castle not wanting to let its master go and turning against him was creepy and a neat idea imo.

So the Chupacabras' in LOS1 were all one and the same. Kind of chuckled when I saw that annoying prick locked away in that cage.
Seeing him teleport around his shop and cleaning and reading stuff makes him look kind of adorable though.

The gorgon sisters apparently jumped straight out of...I dunno, Silent Hill or something. Was hoping Drac would tell them to cut that shit out.
"Could you stop twitching around for a sec, deary?"

The modern world as many have mentioned seems more generic with the interior industrial designs and sewers, but the exteriors...goddamn.
The city's gothic architecture and verticality are cranked up to eleven! It's beautiful too look at and kind of ridiculous at the same time. Being on street level and yet higher than high rise buildings...it's wonderfully chaotic. =p

Raisa Volkova's demon face with those teeth is just...ew.

The city memorial scrolls are interesting to read...I thought they'd go the route of "in modern day, everything's a myth to people no matter how many fucking fairies and dragons there were in the old ages" but it seems people are very aware of what happened and who and what Dracula is.

The one saying the subway might be finished in 2057 probably places this game in the 2040's or early 2050's?
Depends on how long those construction delays they spoke of are.
I like reading the lore in these games.

Other thoughts so far: Playing on "Lord of Shadow" (Hard) difficulty but the game honestly isn't too hard. Mirror of Fate at least seemed a bit more challenging during boss fights (most likely because it takes away your mid-fight checkpoints at Hard/Hardcore :p)

I agree about the pain boxes looking generic. Would be nice if they had a visual clue as to what gem you get...I guess in that case it's the same as LOS1, with various soldier corpses also not giving you a clue in advance as to what you will get.

Drac's grunts and shouts during gameplay...they don't sound as obviously non-Carlyle as they did in the first but they're still off...did they just use stock sounds? Some of them sound familiar.

Anyway, fun stuff so far. Definitely not the 4/10 game some have made it out to be...unless it gets ridiculously shit from here on.

 

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I had no idea there was a world map. xD

I now have all of the Castle, and downtown done, but Good lord I have a lot left in the Science District. I look forward ta hearing more of your thoughts as you progress!!



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[Tetsujin]

Again with the stealth: Playing hide and seek with

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Carmilla

was a bit silly, no?
Got a bit sidetracked after getting the mist form and got a few more gems in downtown.

 

[Tetsujin]

More stuff:

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I was surprised that the reveal of Raisa being an acolyte was...well, a surprise. Thought they had already known and it was mentioned before? Huh.

Anyway, Drac straight up reverse-Bahamut-SINned that bitch. Awesome.

I also got to the infamous Agreus stealth part. Was really frustrating at first until I just youtube'd how to do it. Why didn't I think of using mist form...>.>
A few times I just winged it and somehow made it...
Anyway, definitely something that didn't belong there. It's incredibly silly to sneak around Agreus so you can reach...a lift to a battle arena where you straight up murder him anyway.
And the reason I couldn't do that downstairs was....?
Stupid.

The brotherhood clerics and their teleporting around are annoying as shit. Really satisfying when they hold still for a sec and you pummel the shit out of them with the chaos claws. :p

I liked how the Toy Maker performed a play even during the boss battle.
Gabriel's humanity is coming through again, hooray! After murdering a family in cold blood earlier on he now spares the Toy Maker's life.

Getting to the Arts District, I was a bit disappointed I couldn't get back into the church where Dracula awoke...I wanted to look around a bit. :p
Victor Belmont's boss battle was great, with him basically using all the shit and techniques from LOS1.
Really loved him summoning the Anima-booby-demon at the end only for it to be easily disposed of by Gabriel.

I did find it strange how he so easily started trusting Dracula?
Even before Victor was given the antidote he already started being all conversational with him...o.O And it sucked he died so soon. =/

Anyway, I just beat Inner Dracula.
The remaining secret trophies tell me I'm getting close to the end.
I have a shitload of undiscovered secrets though, especially in the Sciences District. Something tells me that I should go explore a bit now that I have the double jump. I do wonder if I also get a decent sprint like in LOS1...

 

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More stuff:

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I was surprised that the reveal of Raisa being an acolyte was...well, a surprise. Thought they had already known and it was mentioned before? Huh.

Anyway, Drac straight up reverse-Bahamut-SINned that bitch. Awesome.

I totally agree.

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I also got to the infamous Agreus stealth part. Was really frustrating at first until I just youtube'd how to do it. Why didn't I think of using mist form...>.>
A few times I just winged it and somehow made it...
Anyway, definitely something that didn't belong there. It's incredibly silly to sneak around Agreus so you can reach...a lift to a battle arena where you straight up murder him anyway.
And the reason I couldn't do that downstairs was....?
Stupid.

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Yeah, I completely agree with you here. Did you see the glitch that I ran into with it, where you still rustle leaves and Agro him while hanging on the ledge? Fucking pointlessly obnoxious as all hell.

Also, apparently there's a trophy for killing his bird with a fireball. Ugh.

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The brotherhood clerics and their teleporting around are annoying as shit. Really satisfying when they hold still for a sec and you pummel the shit out of them with the chaos claws. :p

I liked how the Toy Maker performed a play even during the boss battle.
Gabriel's humanity is coming through again, hooray! After murdering a family in cold blood earlier on he now spares the Toy Maker's life.

Getting to the Arts District, I was a bit disappointed I couldn't get back into the church where Dracula awoke...I wanted to look around a bit. :p
Victor Belmont's boss battle was great, with him basically using all the shit and techniques from LOS1.
Really loved him summoning the Anima-booby-demon at the end only for it to be easily disposed of by Gabriel.

I did find it strange how he so easily started trusting Dracula?
Even before Victor was given the antidote he already started being all conversational with him...o.O And it sucked he died so soon. =/

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I hate the Clerics a lot, but killing them is SO satisfying. Using the L2+Square in the air with Chaos Claws when they make a portal is the best, because it instantly stuns everyone, and then one more shot kills all of them, so now I just play around until them summon something.

The Toymaker & Trevor were HANDS DOWN my favourite boss fights of the game, both because of how they were laid out, and how well they do storytelling while fully engaging the combat. I really wanted more from both of them.

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Anyway, I just beat Inner Dracula.
The remaining secret trophies tell me I'm getting close to the end.
I have a shitload of undiscovered secrets though, especially in the Sciences District. Something tells me that I should go explore a bit now that I have the double jump. I do wonder if I also get a decent sprint like in LOS1...

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Yeah, that bit was... pretty sweet. I like how it showcases that there's a part of Dracula that isn't Gabriel, and is completely a part of him - I like that there are little bits on the Bernhard lineage mentioned (which is also Gabriel's lineage via hints from LoS1), but I wanted to see more of it.

Also, I have... like 14 left in the Sciences District, so don't be surprised. I have WAY more there than anywhere else.


Also, I just started using Dodo Eggs, and they're way useful. I'm the person who forgets about items, so are there any that you found to be useful?



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[Tetsujin]

I often forget about items too.

I use the healing items every now and then but apart from that...

The one that temporarily unlocks all abilities and levels up your weapons was pretty nifty early in the game. :p
I don't feel like I really need it anymore even though I haven't unlocked everything yet.

I have to remind myself that in a pinch I can always use the dragon amulet, but this is the type of item that is rare and you never end up using it because you don't wanna waste it.

I kind of wish there was a way to have a playable dragon form of some kind.

Like, maybe in the final battle against Satan (unless he isn't the final boss and the game drops a Giant Space Flea from Nowhere on me.

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Or maybe the Lieutenant. Or Alucard. Or Alucard IS the Lieutenant! DUN DUN DUNNNNN!!!!!

Or maybe it's Nega-IGA.

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I often forget about items too.

I use the healing items every now and then but apart from that...

I literally only use them when an enemy drops one, and my inventory is full.

The one that temporarily unlocks all abilities and levels up your weapons was pretty nifty early in the game. :p
I don't feel like I really need it anymore even though I haven't unlocked everything yet.

I have to remind myself that in a pinch I can always use the dragon amulet, but this is the type of item that is rare and you never end up using it because you don't wanna waste it.

I've only used them to quick kill 3 jailors, or because I temporarily forgot that you can freeze skeletons when they turn to blood pools, and they're just generally obnoxious as fuck.

I kind of wish there was a way to have a playable dragon form of some kind.

Like, maybe in the final battle against Satan (unless he isn't the final boss and the game drops a Giant Space Flea from Nowhere on me.

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Or maybe the Lieutenant. Or Alucard. Or Alucard IS the Lieutenant! DUN DUN DUNNNNN!!!!!

Or maybe it's Nega-IGA.

).

Everything about this was perfect because of reasons.



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[Tetsujin]

I'm starting to yearn for more history of the Belmonts.

We know the final (prologue) battle against Dracula occurred in the 1500s so there's 500 more years in-between MoF and that event with the Belmont clan and the Brotherhood fighting him.

I was hoping the scrolls you'd find would shed more light on that but then it occurred to me that they probably didn't wanna tell that in detail because Konami may or may not choose to tell more stories in the Lordsvania verse (just that I have the feeling with Mercurysteam moving on to something else, LOS2 will be the last Lordsvania in general with the next Castlevania either returning to the original continuity, being another reboot...or maybe the franchise'll just submerge completely for a while).

Oh, I forgot to respond to this:

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I like that there are little bits on the Bernhard lineage mentioned (which is also Gabriel's lineage via hints from LoS1)

I'm confused as I don't remember this - are you possibly mixing it up with the Kronqvist family or did I miss something?

 

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I'm starting to yearn for more history of the Belmonts.

We know the final (prologue) battle against Dracula occurred in the 1500s so there's 500 more years in-between MoF and that event with the Belmont clan and the Brotherhood fighting him.

I was hoping the scrolls you'd find would shed more light on that but then it occurred to me that they probably didn't wanna tell that in detail because Konami may or may not choose to tell more stories in the Lordsvania verse (just that I have the feeling with Mercurysteam moving on to something else, LOS2 will be the last Lordsvania in general with the next Castlevania either returning to the original continuity, being another reboot...or maybe the franchise'll just submerge completely for a while).

I'm interested to see what you think will happen with Lordsvania after you beat the game.

Oh, I forgot to respond to this:

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I'm confused as I don't remember this - are you possibly mixing it up with the Kronqvist family or did I miss something?

You're probably right. My copy of LoS1 has gone walkabout, but now that you mention that I think that you're correct.



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Potential DLC (no surprises here)

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http://www.gamespot.com/articles/ca...eature-a-new-playable-character/1100-6418056/

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[Tetsujin]

*dodges spoilers*

Still busy with collecting shit.

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Konami code reference in one of the soldier's diaries. :p
I wonder if it does something here. It did in the first one after all.

I wonder if I actually get to fight Golgoth guards at some point. After the initial stealth sections you'd think the obvious payoff would be to eventually just lay the smackdown on them.

 

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I've tried using it after I beat the game, but I couldn't get it to work - but that doesn't mean it doesn't do anything.

Also, I won't say whether or not you do, but I do have something to say about the Golgoth Guards once you finish the game.



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[Tetsujin]

So, returning to the story...

Sneaking into the building after

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Victor died

and - of course. Fucking Golgoth motherfuckers. You fucking serious? I still have to sneak around them? I killed like a

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fucking acolyte of Satan

and have a talisman that unleashes my inner insta-nuke-dragon but a bunch of armored moronic assholes with grenade launchers is where Dracula meets his match? Fuck off.

I also have no clue what to do at the moment. You'd think this was simple but I have no idea where to go? Tried the grates and everything but uh. No fucking idea.

I want a cardboard box. =/

Edit: Nevermind, figured it out. xP

 

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So, returning to the story...

Sneaking into the building after

Spoiler

Victor died

and - of course. Fucking Golgoth motherfuckers. You fucking serious? I still have to sneak around them? I killed like a

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fucking acolyte of Satan

and have a talisman that unleashes my inner insta-nuke-dragon but a bunch of armored moronic assholes with grenade launchers is where Dracula meets his match? Fuck off.

I also have no clue what to do at the moment. You'd think this was simple but I have no idea where to go? Tried the grates and everything but uh. No fucking idea.

I want a cardboard box. =/

Edit: Nevermind, figured it out. xP

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I saw super sad to see Victor die. I was also confused as to whether or not he ever got the antidote to all the people that the Brotherhood had kept underground, or if he died before doing anything with it. I really wanted more of an arc with him. Hell, I'd LOVE some DLC with him, since all of his abilities and things are exactly what you had in LoS1, and it seems only natural.

The only thing that bugged me is that (despite the fact that you obviously won the fight against him and made it seems like a simple thing), his general athleticism and movement made him feel a lot more badass than I felt as Dracula which was rather annoying just because that was really the point that made me feel like I wasn't quite the ultimate badass that I was supposed to be.

And yeah, that Golgoth section is fucking obnoxious, because it's another, "It's really a timing puzzle, not a stealth mechanic" which makes it inherently bothersome. Also, there's a 5 second (walk away or else) section right after that that should've all been handled as a cutscene imo. Still, nothing raises my ire as much as the Golgoth guards, because you have to fucking stand around and wait for them to kill you when you fail.

Funny note, in the room after that I got hit by a laser EXACTLY as I turned to mist on the fan, so it did the whole "slow-motion, it's going to reset things" with the fail sound, but still let me drift up to the grate above and progress with no penalty. xD



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[Tetsujin]

Funny note, in the room after that I got hit by a laser EXACTLY as I turned to mist on the fan, so it did the whole "slow-motion, it's going to reset things" with the fail sound, but still let me drift up to the grate above and progress with no penalty. xD

Exactly what happened to me.

Just finished it. Reading your spoiler rant now and will rant a bit myself afterwards, I reckon.

 

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Exactly what happened to me.

Just finished it. Reading your spoiler rant now and will rant a bit myself afterwards, I reckon.

Hahaha. Super glad I wasn't the only one.

Looking forward to finally having a proper chat, and now I can finally make this statement:

Spoiler: Ending Game Spoiler

...If only Satan had possessed a Golgoth Guard instead of Alucard, he could've won.

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[Tetsujin]

Right, first of all:

Spoiler: Here be spoilers

unless he isn't the final boss and the game drops a Giant Space Flea from Nowhere on me. (SPOILER) Or maybe the Lieutenant. Or Alucard. Or Alucard IS the Lieutenant!

Son of a bitch.

Not only was the Alucard the Lieutenant, he was actually the final boss in a sense and there was even a Giant Space Flea from Nowhere! I predicted it all!

Okay, so.

The second acolyte. I was like "oh, you can walk away? Guess I have t- oh nevermind, he got me. Cutscene time. Oh no wait, that was a death scene. Uh. Weird stuff.

Fighting Zobek was a long time coming. Good to finally actually fight the last Lord of Shadow.

Stuff got weird for me when I used mist form to penetrate his shield as it froze the game. =/
Luckily, the game loaded the finishing cutscene upon restarting.

Then getting to Satan...as he summoned Leviathan, I got a PS3 error message saying "unhandled error" (plus error code) and uh. I don't know what the fuck was going on with that. Those restarts really broke the mood. =/

Anyway.

The whole ending is&#8230; weird.

Agreed.

Satan gets summoned and he's a terrifying badass as soon as he rips off the third acolyte's face I was unbelievably stoked, but then you suddenly transition to fighting on Leviathan whose going to blow up the world (because apparently that was the plan even though he didn't expect Dracula, so there's no mention of all the mega demonic terraforming that happened), and then Satan possesses Alucard as you fall and you two fight, and cutscene stab Satan, and just kinda leave him lying there in the street&#8230;

So&#8230; after all the build up to kicking big muscly Satan's ass in a boss battle&#8230; it never happens. There's no conflict with Inner Dracula which seemed like a big deal at the time. Dracula NEVER transforms into a Dragon during ANY cutscene, which I felt was a massive disappointment because that could've been SO badass.

Definitely. The dragon form being relegated to an item use for gameplay reasons is understandable, but I wanted something amazing for the final battle. Dracula transforms as a final boss in other Castlevania games after all. :p
Then again, I was also disappointed for this not to happen in Mirror of Fate either.

I kind of wanted Dracula at 100% to look like that first CG teaser trailer. Remember that one? Where he just straight up obliterated everyone with ease. Shit was awesome. But even the prologue of the game had you do underwhelming stuff such as climbing around your castle which I would think is beneath someone called the Prince of Darkness at full power. :p

Satan being all beefy but then not directly fighting you but possessing Alucard instead was disappointing. I kept hoping there'd be another battle after that where shit gets real. =<

In the end, he just wanders off with the Combat Cross instead of dying like he wants. There's no explanation about what little Trevor meant by, "When the time comes, choose your family." or whether he and Marie are still imln the Castle, or how Trevor is both a kid in the Castle (which is a real place that you can bring the Second Acolyte to), while also being Alucard in the real world.

I'm just&#8230; I'm so very confused about everything. Given the opening where you murder a family and the bit where inner Dracula refuses to give up, I was expecting something&#8230; DARK and impressive, like the sort of emotion that got evoked at the end of the first game. Not wandering off away from the sunset and leaving a heaping pile of question marks behind - especially since this was supposed ta be the conclusion of the LoS story, but it felt like nothing came together.

Again, I agree.

I was like, "oh, the good stuff is in the epilogue after the cred- oh, nevermind, there's no post-credit bit. =(
...sooooo....that's it?"

I want more stuff like Inner Dracula, Toymaker, & Victor because those bits were amazing. Hell, the bit with Victor was probably my favorite, because it beings back all those LoS1 memories, but Dracula still never seems like he's nearly as badass as Victor, which makes me sad, 'cause I wanted to feel like the evil superpower who everyone feared (kinda like how you feel by the end of the first Force Unleashed game), but I never really felt like more than Golgoth Grenade bait, or that there was a moment when Dracula DID regain his powers completely.

Yeah.

And as I mentioned earlier with the Golgoths, killing them would have been the obvious payoff. In a game that makes a point of you having to regain your former strength, what more obvious could there have been than letting you completely annihilate an enemy that previously was too overwhelming for you to take on directly?

This annoys me so much actually because now those Golgoth wankers get to have the last word.
You beat all kinds of monsters and then Satan himself! But a few brainless mutants with grenade launchers? Nope. No can do'sville, babydoll.

Stupid. I can make the ground burst in flames, turn into flaming mist and shoot icicles out of my ass! Just let me at 'em, dammit!

Also, did they walk back into the cathedral at the end? Did I see that correctly?

...shouldn't it be kind of destroyed by the Leviathan bursting out of the ground...?

 

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While playing, I knew that the Lieutenant was Alucard the second he pulled out that huge ass sword, so his reveal was no surprise to me. Seriously though, when you said the bit about the Lieutenant, Alucard, & the space flea, I burst out laughing at my computer and was so sad that I couldn't say anything about how inadvertently spot on accurate you were.

I'm sad you got errors. I didn't run into anything like that. I just had my one invincible boss glitch with Inner Dracula.

I 100% agree with your comment about the opening cinematic. THAT is the Dracula I wanted to control (and I was kinda sad that they didn't actually use that cinematic for anything but a trailer, too). Instead Victor's leaping around walls, as you slowly clamber through buildings after him. Like, it doesn't mean you can't still have awesome combat with tough enemies, but I really wanted to just totally Dynasty Warriors my way through a whole army with my blood whip like he did in the trailer, but I never got there. I also totally wanted a scene of Dracula & Satan just brutally beating the shit out of each other like real rivals. Seriously, SATAN has been delaying his return in fear of Dracula, and even got all tough just in case and... Yeah.

Satan & the Golgoths sounds like a band name, but that's literally all I wanted from the final battle to be strong enough to fight those guys and wreck them.

Also, I saw rumor on Neogaf that there was originally a different ending planned for the game. Dracula had to actually kill the possessed Alucard with the Vampire Killer in order to slay Satan, and doing so also destroys the only weapon that can kill him, leaving him trapped forever on Earth and immortal, having killed his own son again, and he really IS the last Belmont. (meaning the only family he has is the semi-real-ish memory versions of Trevor & Marie in his Castle world. And would also explain what was meant by Gabriel Belmont is the only one who can slay Dracula, because he would've had to choose his own death or defeating Satan, and also bring in his whole "God's Chosen One" from the opening).

I don't even care if that's made up, because that's the ending I wanted. Full stop.

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[Tetsujin]

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I 100% agree with your comment about the opening cinematic. THAT is the Dracula I wanted to control (and I was kinda sad that they didn't actually use that cinematic for anything but a trailer, too). Instead Victor's leaping around walls, as you slowly clamber through buildings after him. Like, it doesn't mean you can't still have awesome combat with tough enemies, but I really wanted to just totally Dynasty Warriors my way through a whole army with my blood whip like he did in the trailer, but I never got there.

I was thinking of Heavenly Sword as at one point you get to lay waste on an entire army and it feels glorious and I wanted to do the same here.

Also, I saw rumor on Neogaf that there was originally a different ending planned for the game. Dracula had to actually kill the possessed Alucard with the Vampire Killer in order to slay Satan, and doing so also destroys the only weapon that can kill him, leaving him trapped forever on Earth and immortal, having killed his own son again, and he really IS the last Belmont. (meaning the only family he has is the semi-real-ish memory versions of Trevor & Marie in his Castle world. And would also explain what was meant by Gabriel Belmont is the only one who can slay Dracula, because he would've had to choose his own death or defeating Satan, and also bring in his whole "God's Chosen One" from the opening).

I don't even care if that's made up, because that's the ending I wanted. Full stop.


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I literally just read that on neogaf.

Apparently there was also a bit where Dracula ends up being tortured by the Brotherhood for eternity but yeah, there was no real source on that rumor though.

I mean, where does he go from there now? For someone like Drac, the "death equals redemption" trope should come into play imo.

 

[Tetsujin]

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Hahahaha. Well played.

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What do you think about the idea of the Alucard-based DLC?

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[Tetsujin]

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Eh, I dunno. The DLC's not gonna make the meh ending any better. =(

The LOS1 DLC was all in all also underwhelming so I'm not getting my hopes up of this being worth its money.

 

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Spoiler

Eh, I dunno. The DLC's not gonna make the meh ending any better. =(

The LOS1 DLC was all in all also underwhelming so I'm not getting my hopes up of this being worth its money.

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Totally agreed. I hope it'll flesh out a couple things, but TBQH, I'd 100x rather play something with Victor at this point. I'm hoping it'll be nothing like the LoS1 DLC if they do it.

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