The road to Blood was strange and good. Full of fear and surprise of good and evil. Mighty No. 9 (which had previously shared a developer studio with Bloodstained), has resented confidence in how long the Bloodstained dish has lasted. However, Home Stretch was full of updates and positives, and visual updates and WayForward were joined in development.
After several years of anticipation, Bloodstained: Night of Ritual has returned to us. The perfect timing was obtained due to the resurrection of the old Konami brothers. With a huge map filled with secrets, challenges and bizarre gags, Blood Studs give the impression of "Igavania" style evolution in packages such as Castlevania's true successor, Symphony of the Night.
Bloodstained Ritual of the Night Review
Blood dye: Ritual of the Night follows Miriam, the "Shard Binder". Basically, the crystals on the skin of a powerful demon juice have been magically attached to the skin through human experiments. Miriam is one of the two subjects of this experiment, and the other is the bloody brain. The setting here is to try to avenge the world in which Geber dirty him, and part of the plan is to summon a huge castle full of demons.
Miriam, dropping time bombs, wants to stop Gebel and find a way to "curse" both of them. The story is frankly, a bloody weak link. The game opens with a brief narration that throws a lot of jargon on your face, and simple conversations between people who already know each other try to fill in the blanks. Storytelling does not have a strong blood stain, but it does not have to.
After all, Castlevania was never a strong narrative experience - it had a powerful timeline built on a simple foundation. The Pfizer struggle is working hard to get a different feel, and when it does, it wants to fill in preliminary knowledge and jargon.
Gameplay
Shardbinder's stuff is professionally crafted in Bloodstained's gameplay and aesthetic sense, but it's not likely to draw much narrative. There is everything else about the bloodstained rules. The Metroidvania game has been a wonderful thing for years in indie games since the genre really disappeared in the major leagues.
One of the OGs, Koji Igarashi, has not seen this style of game since the Castlevania: Nintendo DS's Ecclesia Order. Noteworthy is the fact that despite the reputation and popularity of this series, there was no massive follow-up to the Symphony of the Night on non-portable platforms. At last it sheds blood and the result is almost threatening.
About Bloodstained Ritual of the Night game
Bloodstained: Night of Ritual is huge. The castle of Gebel gives you a familiar feel as one of the many hangouts in Dracula. However, this modern version gives a huge impression because fans get used to playing these games on small handheld screens. While exploring this castle, you will feel all the corners and oddities that can not be reached over time.
Upgrades, equipment and other bonuses are available everywhere because there is plenty of room. While many of the Castlevania handheld titles deliberately focused on design, Bloodstained felt much more open and neat with its side-by-side pickups, and the feeling of Metroidvania was much less linear. It takes a lot of time between major upgrades, such as classic double jumps, but that space is not wasted.
Bloody is not afraid to entertain himself, but uses scale and fidelity to cause the player to lose almost or almost as much as he likes. A few distractions and extra small systems on critical paths can be found throughout the castle, and each system can give more and more stress to a fulfilling expert. For example, Miriam is amazingly customizable.
You can discover new hairstyles and change your skin color while traveling. Some accessories have strange things that sometimes change her look and sometimes do not expect her voice to be heard. This experience was like a kitchen sink for Metroidvania, except that IGA was responsible for it. So he distinguished his leadership from his peers in a way that felt genome, and always shot over it.
The IGA DNA is most commonly used in Bloodstained's Shard system. Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS Castlevania is the new endpoint for every experiment seen in titles. As a game developer, the Igarashi team was playing with RPG elements of this game for innovation.
We have seen many forms in the idea of raising new abilities from enemies. And once again, the gate feels as if the gate is open. Earlier Castlevania titles used skills in different ways, but generally they used one specific method for each game.
Game Systems
The Bloodstained Inn has its own shard menu with slots offering different functions. Enemy drops can take many forms, from one of two attack methods to a passive boost, and to a very special role, such as object manipulation (a total stop to proceed in the game). These Shard abilities are instantly exchangeable and can be fully distinguished from one another. However, there is also an upgrade slash production system that can further enhance your capabilities.
You can also make items and food. The latter shows the first taste of the new recipe permanently. There is so much to do and there is enough explanation to tell you what Bloodstained should do to you, but it is fortunate to find what you want when you want it. The bloody bone has so much meat that I barely scratched the surface in this review. But my work is not a rough description of everything.
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is a game that returns the player's return on investment, such as passing a critical path as soon as possible, or diving deep into a recipe and checking all of the last collection on the list. This is a game that is familiar with pedigree, and everyone involved in creating the game has called everyone a reputation.
Except for some minor performance issues and localization typos that do not have to be mentioned, Bloodstained is an amazing achievement in the development of independent video games. I will come back to this book for years to come.
