
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is an exploration-focused, side-scroller action RPG by Koji Igarashi. Play as Miriam, an orphan scarred by an alchemist's curse that slowly crystallizes her body. Battle through a demon-infested castle and defeat its master to save yourself, and all of humanity!
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Years after release the game now requires a connection to Epics cross-platform services. If you, like me, have blocked Epic entirely, you can not launch the game anymore. Absolutely scammy move from 505 games. It is the first and last game i bought from them.
You can't play this without allowing Epic Games' spyware to run on your system. As somebody who bought the game when it first released in 2019 who is no longer able to play a game they purchased, I can't exactly recommend this title.
Forced Epic crap is not disclosed on Steam page and was added years after release.
横スクロールアクション。探索と成長が楽しいメトロヴァニア系の作品。 [h1]よかったところ[/h1] 操作が簡単 レベル上げや宝箱探しが楽しい 料理で初回のみ能力が永続強化されるので作るほど強くなるのが楽しい 先の気になるストーリー セーブ部屋が多めでボス部屋前にも配置されている [h1]気になったところ[/h1] セーブがチェックポイント方式ではないため ボスにやられると最後のセーブまで戻される オートセーブに慣れた人は不便だと思うかも [h1]悪いところ[/h1] お店で売却するときに装備してるものまで売却できる 見た目が変わる装備もあるが購入前にプレビューが見れない レベル上げ・装備等の月下の成長要素はそのままでグラフィックが向上した感じになっている。 古いゲームですが定価だとなかなか高額。 大幅割引の時には90%オフの時もあるのでその時に買うのもいいと思います。 メトロヴァニア好きや月下を楽しめた人ならおすすめです。 補足 メトロイド+キャッスルヴァニア この2つのゲームデザイン思想を合わせたジャンル名がメトロヴァニアとなった。 メトロヴァニアの元祖の片方である悪魔城ドラキュラ月下の夜想曲に深く関わった主要スタッフが作っている作品です。
👎 The [url=https://steamdb.info/patchnotes/20844919/]2025-12-23 update[/url] added Epic Online Services to the game in a way which is poorly implemented, as choosing not to login with it can cause stability issues or problems such as having to wait tens of minutes to even get to the main menu. While some of these problems can be fixed [i](disabling cross-play fixes the delay in accessing the main menu)[/i], and some folks who already have an EOS token left on their machine from another game may not even notice, it doesn't change that they pushed a patch that did nothing [i](v1.6 both before and after that update)[/i] but make the game worse for users who don't use Epic. Someone has written a helpful guide on how to deal with the issue by installing the pre-EOS version, you can find it here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3629952266 [i]My negative review isn't due to the use of EOS, it's due to the poor implementation of it.[/i]
---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS (No pixelate anymore like the Cursed of the moon series😂, the characters and the enviroment well detailed!) ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Masterpiece ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't (One of the best metroid and most unique i've ever played! Based on my experience, just in this game we could flip the entire map (with skill) and walk at the ceiling to more explore the unreachable area, so innovative!✨) ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf (Better song than the cursed moon series, this time they used violin bgm, aaand its really really fits PERFECTLY with the atmosphere and some conflicts, what a great improvement!❤️) ---{ 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 (Check minimum spec for better experience!) ---{ 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 (11gb+ for full size!) ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☑ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls (Average metroidvania nowadays) ---{ 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 (More you explored, more you got the strong item/equipment for the endgame areas, I recommend you to explored the entire map first because there are some HIDDEN item/equipment!🔥) ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☑ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life (SPOILER ALERT! Different universe with the cursed of the moon series, this story more like "WHAT IF" route.) ---{ 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 NEARLY 20hrs 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 (I recommend buy it during sale ONLY for now👍) ---{ 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 : SPOILER ALERT! In my opinion, Cursed of the moon series has more catchy STORY, idk why, but all the endings (include true ending) in this game feels like SAD ending and i dont expect everything end like that,,😔 but yeah, maybe IGA-san just want to make the "WHAT IF" route seriously this time. In other hands all of the gameplay, graphics, UI, mechanics, voice actor, BGM, was REALLY REALLY improved! Love it personally.❤️ Can't wait for the next sequel!✨
tmlb这脑瘫玩意居然还强制关联epic,还不能取消!无限载入中!逼着用户关联epic
imagine u have a good offline game and then a fkd up beeing called Epic wants to bruteforce u to play online even though its a singleplayer offline game. shame on the devs for implementing stuff like that. if they release another game i allready know how i will get and play that game. they wont see any money from me anymore.
Honestly, just over-long, bloated and a waste of time. Way too many different things at once. The design amounts to the gameplay loop being like: grind for one item, to get another item, to craft together with another grinding item to fuse to make a weapon you break down to get another resource that you then need to merge with another ingredient and do this 12 times in a row, all for a 1hp increase and maybe progress another 1% through the map. It's just constant roadblocks and annoyance, and SO. MUCH. GRINDING. Also about fourteen different systems too many. Crafting, cooking, weaponsmithing, shardmaking, you name it. VERY bloated. Just makes for an overall opaque and irritating experience. It's all the WORST and most bloated design aspects of a JRPG glued onto a mid platformer.
epic is a bad loser service
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