Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (PS4)

Played all modes normal, hard and nightmare, got Platinum all trophies, I can safely say this game rocks. Graphically way nicer than Dead Cells, very smooth animation on the Unreal engine. Music very good and enemies are varied, as usual medusa heads suck but you can use Portrait shard to make it easier.Upgrading and collecting shards (enemy souls) to Grade 9, Rank 9 makes it a passive ability so with grinding and farming, you can become very powerful. Early on Augment luck and gold are massively useful. Cerulean Splash is useful early on as is Chaser arrow.Best weapon for me was Great Sword Deathbringer as you can craft it all the way up to 75 Atk with 8,16,32 bit coins and 8bit nightmare.Nightmare mode was rubbish as all they do is give you ½ hp and mp and make your passive shards less powerful. Also OD only gives you 2 books and you cannot fight him for all the books.

A great game overall that the metroidvania fans awaited for some years now.But a little dissapointed that they didn't include in the game box something like a poster or an artbook or something.It is a little ungair that mostly the backers of this game benefitted with special goodies except the rest of us that didn't payed extra.Good thing that they will be include hopefully soon a free update for the whole game,and will also see a patch for it because it has some issues here & there.Overall a good and fun experience for the genre lovers by koji igarashi!

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is an old-school hack and slash action RPG with some modern touches. The visuals, sound, and music are wonderful, and the characters, although light on dialogue, have heart.The game places a strong emphasis on player exploration, and doesn't hold your hand or tell you what to do. This can result in some moments of frustration, running around in circles not knowing what to do, but is also part of the old school ethic. I would have liked to see the map have more options for icons, as you can only place a blue one which must be used for everything (a place I could not jump to, a chest I could not access etc). If you come to a locked door for example, you can't place a lock or key icon and one will not appear at that location on the map, you just need to place the blue symbol.There is no difficulty setting, at least not on the first play through, and "normal" is quite easy. The exploration is what is more tricky than the enemies. If you take some time to craft recipes, explore, and power up your character, it won't be too much of a challenge on the first run through. I've been using only a few weapons so far, even though I have many in my collection now. The abilities you collect must be used at certain points though, which is nice.The items and crafting are well-done, although with the weapons and shard abilities (power ups), it would have been useful if the game displayed a little preview clip of the weapon or shard in action, like the recent Devil May Cry game did, for example. Again, that doesn't really fit with the old school style of the game, but it would have been helpful to see when deciding which weapons to buy and abilities to equip.There are some items which can alter your appearance somewhat if you visit one of the characters in the game, but aside from that and some journal entries I cannot see any other collectables (yet). As mentioned before, the game is light on dialogue and story, but I hope there is concept art or other items to unlock.I've experienced a few glitches here and there, for example the character getting stuck for a moment when floating in water and not being able to attack or jump, or items that enemies drop floating in the air, but nothing game-breaking. The frame rate can also dip at points, and my PS4 seems to sweat at times and get very noisy, strangely when I am just crafting items and not fighting enemies.Overall this is an excellent game and I think does what it set out to do. I would happily trade some of the weapons and abilities for some extra dialogue and non-playable characters to meet and chat to / complete quests for, as I think there is too much of the first and not enough of the second, but never mind. The minor faults can be overlooked when you consider all the positives. Recommended.

An absolutely wonderful game, pretty much a modern version of Castlevania SOTN. It has beautiful graphics a great story and just wonderful gameplay and Miriam is a great alternative to Alucard. Casual gamers be warned though to get the best out of this game you have grind but it does reward you for it.

addictive Metroid style exploration game play, Difficulty spikes throughout the game can be annoying. Rough, ugly 3d graphics for 90% of the time with slowdown common. Music is ok. Worth picking up if it hits £15 or less. Make sure you download the updates before starting the game.

great game very similar to symphony of the night which gives a form of familiar nostalgia

Despite me not playing any games similar to this in the past, I picked it up on a whim after hearing the great reviews. I was not disappointed. There is about 25 hours of fun content here, not too story-heavy, and it’s unique - unlike anything I’ve played before. Highly recommended.

Enjoyed playing game lot of fighting and moving to different levels lots of action good game

Happy with this purchase thanks

Superveloci, affidabili e pacco protetto benissimo. Ottimo gioco da avere nella propria collezione. Metroidvania da 9.5/10

J'ai découvert ce jeu par hasard et il m'a été recommandé.Metroidvania très intelligent avec une très bonne durée de vie.Des modes bonus en plus à faire uniquement après la première partie piur ne pas se gacher le jeu et l'histoire.Très bon jeu à découvrir et velle bo.Du tout bon à ce prix là 👍🎉

Un juego genial. El paquete fue vendido y repartido por Amazon, perfecto en este aspecto. Llegó completmente nuevo , empaquetado correctamente y rápido. Se lo regalé a mi hermano, ya que le gusta Castlevania: Symphony of the Night; y este juego es la mejor opción ofreciendo una experiencia parecida.

なぜかジョジョネタ満載。あきないよ。