I somehow missed Lords of Shadow 2, even though I thought the

>>384689387
The Castle parts are great, combat is a major improvement in every way, modern day city parts are dogshit, music visibly inferior for the most part, shorter, story is pantsu on head silly, final boss and ending are disappointing as fuck.

>>384689387
It killed the reboot universe so what do you think

>>384689598
Also to add to that, you can turn off highlighting hints and QTEs unlike in the first game, there's also like 3 or 4 forces stealth sections that are quite stupid.

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>>384689598

>the modern day city parts

Shit,I forgot that's where they were going with it.

Oh well, I'll still play it I guess.

>>384689710

The game was marketed as being the last chapter in the lords of shadow "saga".

1, mirror of fate, and 2 are all that were planned.

Anyway OP its worth finishing but has questionable design choices. Every time the game makes you possess a rat you die a little inside.

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Everything about the city parts felt like you were playing the wrong game or something that was cobbled together with assets from a different, cancelled one and there's one plothole and logic error after another.

>>384689387
The parts in the past where you are on the castle are fine, the game goes to complete shit when you enter the modern city, this happened because the director went insane because Kojima picked his studio to make Castlevania and he kept fighting with the rest of the devs until half his studio simply left.

They also somehow ruined the design of Lucifer by making his a fat ass metal album cover

>>384689890
The game is divided about 60% Castle and 40% Modern city if it's any consolation.

>>384689897
>this reddit spacing
Disgusting

Isn't this the one that kicked off that whole controversy when an SJW """games journalist""" interviewing the developers felt that Dracula doing what Dracula has been doing since existing in lore from the 1800s was Literally Rape and the fact that the developers were making the game meant they were promoting rape in real life?

>>384690042
>They also somehow ruined the design of Lucifer by making his a fat ass metal album cover
I actually liked that part, with Lucifer lifting for all those years in hell to prepare for a rematch so he won't get wrecked. And then when you actually get to fight him again he shits his pants. It was fun knowing that Gabriel gave him such a huge PTSD and inferiority complex.

>>384690050

>reddit spacing

Jesus you stupid faggots will use any reason to act contrarian

>>384690060
What the fuck? No and your post reeks of trying to start /pol/shitstorm again.

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>>384689598
>mfw MAY YOU AND YOUR SPAWN BE DAMNED FOREVER

there is one sneaking section i did not like other than that it was fun

>>384690180
The asylum proportions were so FUCKED that it was almost funny. But mostly depressing since you knew this part was done by some shitty intern.
>>384690302
Death was a pretty good boss fight, one of the better things about the game.

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>>384689387
The "final boss" was so fucking shitty that his catch phrase is forever burned into my very soul

>DON'T HIT ME FATHER

>>384690329
>one
There's 4
The tutorial one at the start of the game, another one in chemical plant, another in Pan's brother's garden and last one where you're going up Emperor Palpademort's tower.

>>384689857
>there's also like 3 or 4 forces stealth sections that are quite stupid.
The worst was the one in the garden. The fucker knew you were there so the idea of hiding from him was retarded to begin with and you kill him not even a minute later.

>>384690385
IT'S YOUR SON THAT'S SUFFERING, NOT ME

>>384690501
In defense of that part, it was the only one that was actually quite decent in requiring good timing and the player being clever and utilizing your powers. As in, it was the only one that felt like a true stealth section. The others fetl horribly tacked on.
If it were me, I'd leave the tutorial one at the start of the game since it makes sense plot-wise due to you being weak as fuck, and the one in Pan's bro's garden but remove the other ones.

>>384690442
i only remember the pan one with red leaves thats the one that really annoyed me

>>384690714
>thats the one that really annoyed me
Because it's the only one that had any semblence of difficulty and required you to use the powers like mist.

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>>384690353
Not only the asylum but pretty much half of the city parts which gets especially noticeable whenever doors are around.

>>384690521
He kept saying shit like that and I felt literally nothing, the game couldn't make us care on iota for Alucard and somehow expected us to feel bad

>>384690846
What the fuck?

Some parts where GOAT, a lot of it was shit though. Stealth segments were fucking stupid and annoying

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>>384690987

>>384690050

Ive posted like this since 2005 so whatever helps you feel comfortable anon

>>384690915
Literally half of the company (including most of the talent like lead art designer and art director) quit the company halfway into production due to the CEO being literally insane and powerhungry more than a saturday morning cartoon villain.
There's an interview online with an anonymous employee, I'm sure you can find it if you google.

>>384690632
I see where you are coming from but I'd just prefer that area to have been a regular spot to explore as it look very nice. I'm a sucker for gardens in games.

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>>384689387
Game's negatives were seriously overblown because they lend themselves easily to FORCED STEALTH SEGMENT bullshit. It's an alright game otherwise, but definitely inferior to the first one.

>crazy director who had no idea what he wanted to make
>his team fought him every step of the way
>he won

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>dat feel when he turns Gabriel's old moves on you

I can't shake the feeling Victor was supposed to have a much larger role in the game.

>>384691190
What'd they do, hire some high school students? That's straight out of "My_Firstlvl" in Hammer.

>>384692030

Should have gotten to learn more about him and the Belmont line since Simon

>>384692030
He did, there's info in that interview I mentioned earlier as well as leftovers in the files themselves.
He was meant to be Julius Belmont (just a different one in LoSVerse, not the original one obviously) and be the one to beat up Dracula at the end, Alucard was meant to die along with Satan, and Dracula captured by Julius was to be kept by the Church imprisoned forever, cut up into hundreds of little pieces and walled in. Last scene was supposed to be the blood on the ground starting to move to form back together implying that Dracula is regaining strength, cut to black, roll credits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT97tLHFczQ

The game had its moments but overall you can tell the last third was rushed

>>384692328
The Toymaker section was my favorite part.

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>>384690987

Holy fuck Mirror of Fate looks awful.

Wasnt this the game some journalist had a hissy fit over because you feed on a woman at the start of the game?

>>384693021
It's a 3DS game anon, what did you expect exactly from such weak hardware?
PC version at least has 60 FPS, removed QTEs for the most part and upgraded lighting.

>>384693152
Shitaku's resident SJW got triggered at Dracula being Dracula and eating a mother and her daughter.

>>384693152
It was during the only actual evil act of the game, in the very first 5 minutes of the game you kill a family to feed

>>384689387
Its garbage. Irredeemable.

>>384693324
>>384693220
That sounds like one of the only interesting things from this game, though. Wasted the potential of you being Dracula if its just a derivative hack n slash, you're supposed to feel like a monster.

>>384693220
>>384693324
>a vampire feeding on humans is something that actually shocks and horrifies someone
Did they somehow forget that's what vampires do?

>>384693324
>It was during the only actual evil act of the game
You forget the medieval first level where you're the full blown evil Dracula and that lasts about an hour, maybe less. The one that ends with Dracula out-praying the paladin guy.

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>we will never get a proper Castlevania game where you play as a Dracula with no bullshit excuses of Soma or Alucard being goody two shoes

>>384693324
You mean the only fun part? Whose shithead idea was it to play as Dracula but don't actually get to do any of the fun Dracula things?

>>384693580
>Did they somehow forget that's what vampires do?
Blame the Twilight generation. It ruined vampires for at least a decade.

>>384693676
Well, LoS2's opening level is as close as it gets.

>>384693580
It was a shockingly bad article that painted the devs as misogynists. I think Mercurysteam sucks but it was terribly tasteless.

>>384693594
I didn't really consider it evil, just dickish on his part but to be expected since he was being attacked for supposedly being the ultimate evil even though he really didn't act the way most of the time and just preferd to stay holed in his castle while his demons somehow did whatever the fuck they wanted with no actual regard for him

It shat the bed really bad. How can you fuck up this badly is beyond my comprehension. The premise was interesing: You are Dracula and Satan is seeking revenge on you.

The modern city segments reeked of shitty B action vampire movies, the castle segments were good though and I wished we had more of that. The combat is pretty much the same as LoS but a bit more smooth and with more variety. Forget about the open world bullshit cause it really isn't even though it was marketed as such.

>>384693937
Patrick Stewart was the best part, any time he's present the game was enjoyable.

>>384694036
Both Stewart and Carlyle did an excellent job in both games actually. Too bad the plot in LoS2 took a nose dive halfway through.

>>384693821
MoF makes it rather explicitly clear that it was him that actually unleashed the armies on the populace, but pretty much only because Brotherhood pre-emptively attacked him first and manipulated Trevor without telling him the truth which caused him to die (at that point Dracula thought he was too late to revive him and that Trevor did in fact die).
Simon's story further reinforces that with Dracula's armies ravaging the land and shit and being directly responsible for death of Simon's mother.

>>384693937
The castle sections are pretty interconnected though, just in a tad more linear fashion ala OE castle.

>>384694319
LoS2's shortcomings are pretty much entirely to be blamed on two things.
1. The CEO of MercurySteam who also directed the game being a power hungry lunatic that drove shitton of people to just leave.
2. Konami cutting funding mid development due to themselves getting a new CEO that wanted to focus on Pachinko machines instead.

Honestly I believe that if the CEO and Konami were taken out of equation, we'd get a MUCH better game.

>>384690846
>>384690987
>>384691167
When will they learn?

>tfw no game where you play as Dracula and can design your newest incarnation of Castlevania
>get to hire bosses, upgrade it, plan on how to deal with the latest Belmont coming to try and fuck your shit up
>starts at the earliest Belmont lineage and keeps going with new Belmonts through the centuries
>later time periods open up new things to do with your Castle and expands gameplay options, traps, etc
Anyone else would play the shit out of that?

All things considered, you can't deny that the castle parts were extremely good.
Alucard's DLC even more, being entirely in the castle for starters.

>>384694612
>Julius is the final boss
Sign me up

>>384694445
>Pachinko machines
Are they run by Yakuza or something? That's retarded

>>384695260
>Are they run by Yakuza or something? That's retarded
Anon, Konami and SEGA are world's biggest manufacturers and providers of gambling machines.
And to answer your question, most of Japanese companies are owned by Yakuza.
Yakuza are so assimilated into Japanese system that if you were to remove them, the country would collapse overnight because they're even in the government.

I quit playing after I had to keep doing repetitive shot to fix that mirror.

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>>384690180
>>384690846
>>384690987
>>384691167
Dracula confirmed for manlet.

>>384690846
Jesus, that looks like a unity asset flip.

It would not surprise me at all if that was from another game like that other anon mentioned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL8GJsnVSPU