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TopicPost Each Time You Beat a Game: 2021 Edition
NBIceman
07/15/21 9:26:46 PM
#357:


Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2 (PC)

It's kind of a wonder that I grew up to love video games as much as I do, because I very much got my start in gaming with NES platformers, and I was never any good at them at all. Now, these days, we've got a lot of games being made with those sorts of titles as inspiration, and... I'm still pretty lousy at them. Pretty small sample size and all, but GameFAQs has such games as Celeste, Cuphead, and both La-Mulanas (all of which I've played in the last couple years) rated as harder than CotM2 by the community, and I found this to be notably tougher than any of them on a screen-by-screen or level-by-level basis. But hey, I finished it! And according to Steam achievements, plenty of folks don't, so that's something I guess!

Anyway, as the game itself goes, it's definitely the weakest of the three Bloodstained projects. Hard to put my finger on exactly why, but it just doesn't seem to have the same heart or care put into it. Levels feel less "tough-but-fair" and more "claustrophobic trial-and-error." The music isn't nearly as good, either. And the story (at least through Episode 1, which is all I'm doing for now because the others as I understand it are just the same stages done with different characters) is kind of a carbon copy of the first CotM. It all just feels less inspired.

Still quite solid, to be sure, but as another point of reference, that first one took me one sitting of a little under hours to get through, and this one took about 3 and a half across four sittings, so yeah, just didn't grab me. Glad I did it, but I was ready to be done by the end for sure.

Think next up might be Hades, which I'm incredibly excited for.

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