Not recommended.
First of all, the only good thing taken, and kudos were it's due, props to the engineer responsible for the visual "on demand" graphical memory dumping system. I hope you landed a better job instead of staying inside the sinking ship called Mercury Steam. Text book application level, and to this day I still use it as an example about graphical optimization techniques.
Well, to the review proper, final attempt of Konami coping saga of trying to revive the castlevania i.p. with a 3rd party studio.
Nonetheless, it failed.
Game didn't take off, sold average numbers, story writing is terrible this time, the ost and scenario, top notch, but again, bad gameplay bundle, even worse than the first, but for different reasons, make it suffer the same fate: forgotten fast, epics = gray noise.
They should have used the chapter system again, even if a full 3rd person approach was utilized, the open ended segments are terrible;
Felt like a bad "copy but don't make equal" Arkham city, which by the way they also tried to copy the stealth segments... with the rats(crow) system from Dishonored.
Some qol's, but most of them didn't really count when it mattered the most.
Combat this time is so simple and annoying, that makes 95% of the fights complete trash.
There is no depth, it's only dodge since 2 from 3 enemy attacks are unblockable and normal attack with shadow whip = easy win. Lords of Shadow at least had some depth to it's combat, if only including the punishing time frames from enemy tells.
The only expectation of a challenge(Kleidos) is so stupid that once you figure out the way, you just cringe at how hands off it was done...
Hard to say something about the future. I personally want the castlevania i.p. to stay like the 1999 Dracula: dead for good.
[h3]"Better that way than having a woke yag tr00on Soma around."[/h3]
[h1]
Story - 3
Gameplay - 3
Scenario - 5
Sync - 2
Sense - 2
Final - 3/5[/h1]
