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#51. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (PS4, 2019)
A game that to me, is Symphony of the Night but I think just feels better. As I mentioned in that review I love the style and gameplay of that game but it always just felt a bit slow to me and that feels more addressed here. I think it's not much faster, but just the right amount. That is "offset" (in a good way) by the game being notably longer and deeper, which I will appreciate in these kind of games to a certain extent. This game to me was a lot of the good parts of your GBA/DS Castlevanias combined with SotN- it has a nice deep level of customization around the souls and weapons, freeform enough in pathing, and it's fun to fill out the bestiary, craft items, and do the villager missions (KILL THOSE MURDERERS DEAD!!!).
The game looks stunning, I love its art style. I was afraid from the way it was animated it would play kind of sluggishly but it never feels that way. There's some neat enemies too like the cat heads and the rockers.
The plot makes it feel just like you're playing a castlevania game and there's a lot of references and continuation to the Curse of the Moon side-series, which I'll mention here too is another great set of games not in my top 100, but as this game invokes SOTN, those games invoke Castlevania 3. So that's worth playing too.

Some great voice acting here also with David Hayter and Robbie Belgrade

Anyway yeah. This was the update to SOTN I had long been waiting for, and I would say it surpassed it!



Next up: A GTA clone that should come as no shock that I love it.

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