Toziuha Night: Dracula's Revenge

Honestly, I am not impressed. The sprite pixel art is nice, the animations detailed (main protagonist's hair when crouching), but the controls are strangely stiff, you have only one attack, the secondary weapons are inconsistent (you lose them when retrying bossfights), tiniest enemies bounce you back, usually into an insta-kill pit. Monsters appear out of nowhere, some are complete joke (spearman), some are super annoying (the jumping hand). The last bossfight has two stages, with the second one being quite unfair. The translation is full of typos and strange expressions ("lifes", "I am whom they who breathe want to... what??!"), and while the in-game sprites are of high quality, the portraits are of teenage fan fiction level, and the writing is "I can't really write, but let me try". It's not a totally abysmal game, but it's no miracle either.

no he terminado el juego, pero es interesante la estetica pixel-art, estaria bueno actualizar la portada esta algo fea para lo que el juego ofrece, aunque ya es un proyecto viejo.

Зачем-то собраны самые раздражающие элемены геймплея из Кастлеваний и добавлены новые. Ну, это несерьезно.

Конты? Серьёзно? Давайте возьмём всё самое худшее из Кастлы, сделаем управление персонажем ещё более топорным, чем за Саймона, и превратим это в современную игру. Великолепный план, Уолтер. Вторая часть по трейлеру выглядит в плане геймплея лучше, надеюсь, она не будет так раздражать.

Buen juego al estilo CastleV de la antigua exploración lineal, no apto para generaciones sociales con problemas de ansiedad, recomendado para gente seria y verdaderos gamers.

Непогана гра, мені сподобалася! Клон класичної Каслванії у ретро-стилі старих консолей, проходиться за вечір-два, якщо ви хоча б трохи вмієте грати в подібне (я не вмію). Гарна стилістика, музика, доволі непогані анімації. Оскільки це проект, який фактично виконувала одна людина - респект у будь-якому випадку, але є кілька моментів, що мене дуже бісили: Перший - це сам інпут... Іноді гра тупо не реагує на кнопки, особливо коли намагаєшся перервати дію або виконати щось одразу після минулої дії. Хоча звикнути можна. Другий - іноді паттерн боссів складається так, що ти точно отримаєш шкоду. Це дуже неприємно і досить підло, враховуючи те, що в грі система життів і контів. Якщо життя закінчилися - проходь локу заново! А так, повторюсь, мені гра в цілому сподобалася, свою долю позитиву я отримав і цілком задоволений покупкою. Радий, що знайшов

Sorry pal, I can't recommend this. The biggest issue with the game is amateur game and level design. I don't mind the store-bought assets, I don't even mind the clunky controls too much. But the game is just bland, repetitive and often tedious. It's VERY bare bones. I get that it's a pretty direct clone of Castlevania 1. But man that's just not enough for a game in the 21st century, especially if you are trying to sell it. The game looks and feels very much like a "first project" type game and likely should be freeware on some obscure indie site. But these days everyone is trying to sell their rough practice projects for cash, which I get, I did the same. But customers aren't your friends, they're not gonna feel proud of you for finishing a project. They're gonna criticize a mediocre product they purchased. But I don't wanna just krap on the game without pointing out some details, try to be constructive of course. So I'll point out a few things here: - Blind jumps/drops are common and often punished hard with high damage spikes. - Bad enemy/hazard RNG can create inescapable patterns that lead to forced damage. - Forced backtracking for keys and doors in a linear stage-based action game is awfully repetitive and serves no purpose other than to needlessly pad out the stage. - Most enemies aren't very threatening, almost all can be mindlessly button mashed to death due to destroying their projectiles immediately. - Lack of (Down+Jump) to pass through semi-solids is a weird and clunky decision. - Using the same enemies for the entire game makes the whole journey feel bland and repetitive, while a few do get introduced in later stages, the same skeletons, zombies, mages, bats and flaming skulls appearing in every single stage. Nothing really differentiates the stages thematically at all which results in a very forgettable experience. - The slow attack recovery and slow movement results in bad player feel and a reduction in player agency, it forces a requirement to play very cautiously during boss fights as trying to go for a 2nd hit will lock you in place and guarantee you get hit by the boss's attack even before they have started their attack animation. - Some boss attacks (especially the plant boss) has too much RNG which can result in patterns of forced damage. Some runs are super easy due to this while others will destroy you in 30 seconds. Those are the biggest issues I had with the game. Well that and the TERRIBLE music. Seriously, who made the music? It's not only boring but sounds awful and bland. I had to mute it entirely. And that's a major sin against Castlevania if you ask me. If the game had a great soundtrack, it would've painted the gameplay in a much more positive light, but with bad music it's like the flaws were amplified. Lastly, the game is quite short. Can be beaten in about 90 minutes. If you run out of lives you are kicked back to the start of a stage which is kind of annoying, but there's a handful of lives you seem to acquire somehow as you play through a stage so I didn't find myself running out of lives often. Also there's some kind of currency in the game but I have no idea what it does, never seem to be usable anywhere. The difficulty isn't very high so it's not a particularly challenging game but it does tend to feel more frustrating than it probably should, due to the above issues I mentioned. I didn't have much trouble getting to the final boss, but I didn't finish the boss as the fight goes on quite a while with very limited player health, after losing my lives and having to start that long backtracky stage again, I called it quits. It's not complete garbage but it's really not impressive or enjoyable in anyway. 4/10

Lots of pitfalls, barebones gameplay and ideas taken from the first castlevania games. Tries to be a castlevania like, but can't even make a fun platformer action game.