Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS (Pixel classic-style like the first series) ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Masterpiece ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't (Classic metroidvania) ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf (No Song, just classic BGM like super mario bros bgm, pacman classic, etc) ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☑ Check if you can run Paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer (If your PC can run Spider solitaire, you can run this game smoothly) ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data (Under 100mb for full size!) ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☑ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls (Average metroidvania) ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding (Just follow the route by NPC and you will go to the next stage) ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☑ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life (Better story than the first one, more characters, more mechanics, and suddenly made me a Dominique fan😂) ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☑ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond (Depending on patience and skill ofc, if you are metroid player estimated 10-20 hrs for full achievement on Steam) ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money (Bundled with the second series, so i recommend buying during sale) ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☑ 9 ☐ 10 NB : Dominique is the reason i played this series😍, but the story is really improved from the first series! Thanks for Inti creates to this masterpiece. Can't wait to try the next sequel Bloodstained Ritual of the Night!🔥🔥

Tremendous downgrade from the first game. I loved the first game and 100% it on veteran difficulty; so I expected an equally good maybe even better game with the sequel. Oh boy was I wrong! Whats wrong with it? Well, aside from the beautiful pixel graphics; which arguably looks even better than in the first game: EVERYTHING! I didn't even get further than the options menu before I noticed a downgrade from the first game. There's no f@kkin volume control. Literally unbelievable. The first one had a volume control; every normal game in history have a volume control in the options menu. Then when I begin the game, it's in slo-mo.. and I'm completely baffled why the game is stuck in 30FPS. What? Eventually I find out that the only way this poorly programmed game can run in 60FPS is if I put it in windowed mode. As soon I put it in fullscreen mode it autlocks into 30FPS and gets into unplayable slo-mo mode. What a joke! How come the first game had none of these issues but this one has? Did you fire the senior devs for some incompetent DEI hires or what? Alright; so two bad things already; and I haven't even gotten to try out the game yet. When I eventually figure out that this game is only playable in windowed mode; I realize something else that has degraded heavily from the first game: THE MUSIC. The first game had a legendary soundtrack; this one, every track is at best mediocre and often just a discordant headache inducing disaster to listen to (Stage 5 for example). Everything from the bosses, the new characters, and the level design themselves just feels and plays worse than the first one in every regard, by the time I reached stage 5; an incredibly poorly designed and tedious level with cheap pitfall deaths everywhere I just turned game off and decided to jump on steam to write this review to PUNISH these f@kkers for what they've done to this game and to me!!! Wasting my f@kkin time and money!!!

Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2 is a fun game, but it may not be a game you actually complete. I'm going to tell you a story to illustrate why. Back in the bygone year of 2008 Capcom released Devil May Cry 4 and made the bold decision to make the game by building half a game and then making the player do it twice. It was not super well received because despite the deep gameplay and multiple characters going through the same level twice is kinda boring. This lesson was clearly not learned by Inti. This is a 2D Castlevania style platformer, so not wildly high in depth at the best of time and yet -despite this- in order to see everything you have to go through the game three (3!) times. Two of which are with the same set of characters sans one. That is ridiculous. Pick it up on sale and play it until you get bored, then either stop or download a save or something, because if you're anything like me playing through the same game 3 times will drain the goodwill right out of you.

Depois de algumas horas em ambos os jogos consigo cravar o que eu ouvi muito antes de entrar na franquia: "os dois Curse of the Moon são melhores que o Ritual of the Night" O COTM foi bem tranquilo, me trouxe muitas memórias do Castlevania e o segundo conseguiu melhorar ainda mais essa experiência nostálgica que eu senti no primeiro. A melhor parte desses dois jogos é que a platina não vai te exigir um horário exagerado, algo ali entre 15/20 horas e você já aproveitou o jogo o suficiente. Tem uma boa rejogabilidade, com toda certeza vou jogar algumas runs soltas quando o tempo for corrido para jogos maiores.

8/10. Um baita jogão, se mantem charmoso e desafiante mesmo após tanto depois do lançamento, meu jogo preferido da série Bloodstained com toda certeza. Meu único problema é como é chatinho o início do último capítulo, com poucos personagens, algumas sessões das fases se tornam estressante, tendo em mente que poucos personagens conseguem se manter por si mesmos. Mas de resto, me trouxe muita diversão e emoção. O modo co-op também uma ótima opção, esse jogo é permite muitas jogadas planejadas, o que torna a experiência ainda mais gratificante e recompensadora. Incrível.

Inti knows how to make bangers but their bad games can be offensively bad. This is one of those bad games and my god it is cancer. I get that they tried to amp up the difficulty in this game but the way they did it is by putting cheap instant death all across the map. Hachi feels terrible to control too and despite that you'll need it to traverse various parts of the map. Blaster Master Zero also amped up difficulty with each entry but they feel fair because it does not have all of these cheap death traps that throws you far back if you died. Another problem is certain enemies are extremely difficult or downright impossible to beat if you don't have the right character with the right weapon in your party which makes it a lot more frustrating because this definitely wasn't an issue in the previous game. Bad game. Buy it on sale and just play it on casual anything harder than that is just troll difficulty which is beatable once you pulled all your hairs out in frustration and memorise the level layout entirely because you can't even let a single character die if you don't want to torture yourself.

平心而论，月之诅咒2是一款非常优秀的作品，它很好的继承了一代的种种精髓，诡谲的城堡，凶恶的强敌，简单梆硬却反馈极强的动作系统，依托不同角色的破关路线与机关解法，自豪地又交出了一份复古风格下相对更适应现代审美的恶魔城答卷......大体是这样。 在本作很多方面都能看到许多小细节，可见之打磨作品的热情，像素动画质量也有显著提升。非常值得夸赞的是本作似乎终于意识到了剧情的重要性，人物性格弧光的刻画体现更为丰满，虽然受限于游戏类型真去细数也不会有几句话，但它确实做到在如此有限的文本里讲了一个充满勇气，羁绊还带点小感动的好故事。为了规避文本量的硬伤，制作组还非常聪明地在大量关卡中的加载部分增添了过场小动画，幽默又应景，添加了相当的完成度。最终战前的全家福对话更是给我一丝JRPG的熟悉感，对此我是非常满意的。 但本作在更为主要动作与地图设计部分反而用力过猛。不知是否因为本作新增队友的能力过于强力，甚至直接将奶妈与无敌甩到了脸上。游戏在最初三关后的难度设置越发放飞自我，道中出现了非常多的多角度堆怪跳跳乐与超长高压陷阱版面，加之本作仍旧是僵尸跳与掉坑秒杀齐飞，玩家在本作中摔死的次数会显著高于一代，几乎到了令人恼火的程度。作为重大卖点的BOSS也是一样的情况，高密度弹幕与大范围aoe层出不穷，还出现了大量需要向斜上方打出有效攻击的飞行boss，但本作其实是缺乏斜上攻击手段的，实在是难以忍受。不止如此后续章节中的BOSS还会得到强化，攻击欲望增强，部分技能还会得到新效果。一代中作为特色的决死一击不再会秒杀，但需要切换复数安全点位的情况显著增多，初见杀程度太大了。恕我直言，这种面多加水水多加面的设计思路非常惹我生厌，有一种故意与玩家对抗的感觉。 地图设计方面，不得不提的是，一代素材复用实在太太太多了，眼熟的陷阱，怪物，地图屡见不鲜，而这同样的地图你得重复打至少五次才能全成就，其中只会有两张新规，重复游玩的无聊感不断上涌。或许是为了一定程度上缓解这个问题，制作组依旧采用了以不同角色能力为关键的锁钥结构，希望鼓励玩家在不同周目选择不同的路线。不能说完全失败吧，但本作的全角色出场要到非常后的章节，你经常只能眼睁睁的看着近在咫尺的捷径却三过无法入，或者只能走一半，给人的感觉比起新增了什么，更像是被夺走了什么。而无论是怪物配置，路线锁钥，机关陷阱，在本作都设计的太过于刻意，一题多解的情况显著减少，很多地方你都只能或不使用对应角色会非常坐牢，或者倒不如说几乎每个角色都被设定了完全无法处理的情况，有种摁着头教我玩游戏的感觉。 我能感觉到制作组在做出一些尝试，但他们好像对这些行为背后的意义全无思考，以至于最终呈现出一种灾难性的与玩家刻意对抗的氛围。最终盘的月球战中这种感觉到达了顶峰，前文所述齐齐上阵的同时，为了迎合月球主题，他们改变了跳跃的手感，玩家需要在本作最高压的环境下适应新的跳跃距离与下落速度。太整蛊了。顺便一提在这一战前还莫名插入了一段小飞机STG，作为调剂还是蛮有趣的，但流程做的出乎意料的长，多玩几次感觉挺麻烦的。 我想我从本作中还是获得了可观的快乐，但与我的预期实在相距甚远，在一周目最终关卡卡关后我甚至有整整半年升不起游玩它的欲望，所以差评了。一代那种充满热情与探索欲，痛并快乐的感觉一去不返，月之诅咒2它不坏，但我只能推荐硬核玩家入手了。

This game is a sequel to Curse of the Moon and it is way better than the first one. The game has three chapters where chapter 2 are just remixed stages with harder boss battles. While chapter 3 gives you more playable characters and a bonus stage, I think for what its worth, yes definitely pick this up if you are into NES or classic Castlevania. The final sequence was especially cool!

I really wanted to love this game, it's Castlevania inspired, it's a sequel to a great game, it's got local co-op, great art style, decent music, big bosses, so what happened? I'll tell you what. Bad game design and total lack of restraint from the director. This game throws everything at you plus the kitchen sink. 7 playable characters, many with broken abilities that trivialize much of the game, but if you don't use them the game is so poorly designed you'll never survive without it. Rooms are filled to the brim with fast moving enemies that hit hard as trucks. Pitfalls everywhere, icy platforms, moving platforms, low gravity, a ton of ♥♥♥♥♥ that doesn't belong in a stiffly controlled retro platformer. You can't dodge in this game on account of how slow and stiff you are, your jumping is rigid with a fixed arc, this works in classicvania because the levels and challenges were designed around those restrictions. That's not the case here. You just get bounced around and eventually fall in a pit before you can really do anything. That includes some of the bosses too. If it weren't for cheese tactics, they'd be impossible to kill without simply trading hits. There are still some attacks I don't know how to avoid taking damage. But as mentioned before, some sub-weapons are broken and you can melt bosses quickly before you run out of health. The game is a sloppy chaotic mess. And I suppose exploiting the poorly balanced abilities is the intended strat, and that's a shame. The worst part of the game is that when one character dies it kicks you all the way back to a checkpoint, even during boss fights. This is ridiculously stupid and leads to pace-breaking frustration for no reason whatsoever. When you are sent back to the checkpoint all your characters will have less health, so you basically gotta burn a life just to respawn with full health and attempt the boss again. It's ironic they call the casual mode casual when it doesn't do anything to reduce difficulty, it just gives you infinite lives which you're gonna need. And reduces knock back which is also important given the stages and swarm of enemies everywhere. Clearly they "balanced" the game around the co-op with 7 characters to swap between and abuse their broken mechanics. They were probably hoping for a "co-op chaos" kind of fun, but let's face the reality, most of us are not convincing anyway to play this game with us. Solo play is how most will experience the game and as it stands it is so poorly designed for solo play, which is why I give it a full blown DO NOT RECOMMEND. There are better classicvania style games out there. Check out Infernax, it's pretty fun and quite faithful to the classics.

honnastly didn't like this game as much as the first. probably because its harder. but its still a good game