Topic: The Lords of Shadow series has come and gone, time to reflect on it.

[Dremn]

This thread was created for the sole purpose of reflecting on your final/personal feelings of the LoS saga.

Mercury Steam has kept their word and wrapped up their trilogy, now it is ultimately up to Konami what they wish to do with the franchise from here on out.

I'll write my personal feelings on the matter later but I wanted to post this now since the game is officially out today.

How do you feel about Mercury Steam's vision of Castlevania after all three games?





(I'll get better pics later lol)

[Hagathrom]

...I've yet to pick up my copy of Lords of Shadow 2 so I can't talk about the Trilogy as a whole but I can speak about the 1st 2 titles and can honestly say that MS took everything that worked with past Castlevania titles and made them better.

* Castlevania Lords of Shadow

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* Castlevania Lords of Shadow Mirror of Fate

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* Castlevania Lords of Shadow 2

[X]

My personal feelings..?

"The morning sun has vanquished the horrible night..."

Cheesy, but straight to the point. 

[crisis]

mercurysteam has indeed succeeded in bringing the franchise to the forefront by gathering new fans, but at the same time has also succeeded in getting classic fans to be more vocal about the classic pre-los style returning

castlevania has almost always been a front-page headline, even with the GBA games which were also if im not mistaken critically acclaimed for the most part


subjectively i think this sub-series is cool for what it is & what it tries to do; comic book series do it all the time with alternate titles & universes for main characters. altho i am not really a fan of the "amalgam" of certain characters (leon+mathias=gabriel, trevor+alucard, etc) i recall only a few months after los1's release we here at the dungeon throwing the name "alucard belmont" around in a mocking manner, and lo & behold look what happens. its kinda cheesy and MS coulda been a LITTLE more creative with the property so it wasnt so damn predictable all the time

but the point of los saga is that after all these years castlevania still has selling power amongst a sea of neverending FPS clones and the like. lets just hope the next producer doesnt say assholeish shit like "4get everything u knew about castlevania, get on our boat or be left behind" but instead says shit like "we're gonna move the series forward by still embracing the past, please stick with us to see what we mean" programmers that will think outside the box rather than aping elements from other games & slapping the castlevania skin over it

[Nagumo]

Ironically, MoF was the best thing to come out of this reboot.

[Rugal]

My personal feelings..?

"The morning sun has vanquished the horrible night..."

Cheesy, but straight to the point. 

I think I love you

[uzo]

the tl;dr version is as follows:

LoS was an interesting experiment. It was a passable game, that used "Castlevania" more as an attention getter rather than a game that was really following the series footsteps. It wasn't a bad game, just not really a good Castlevania game.

From there things just got worse. The one off experiment was lingering, and fixing things that didn't need to be fixed, while growing things that distanced itself from the franchise even further. I lost interest entirely after the first LoS.

I'm happy at the potential that they may be making games I care about again.

[mistressalucard]

The Lords of Shadow series has come and gone, time to reflect on it.

I really wonder why people get a game and play it so fast that literally the day it is out: what's next? 

No attack on the OP but amazon just delivered it like 30 mins ago here so... I won't even play it until tonight and this weekend.  I just don't get PLAY THE GAME FINISH FINISH!! and move on to the next one...  do people actually enjoy games or do they sit and play everything as fast as they can just to be done? 

I really am just curious because it takes me a few days to play them, I can't race through a game because I enjoy them (not saying someone who beats something in an hour isn't having fun too).  It seems a lot of game series go through this, the day they come out everyone is done in an hour and wants to know what's next.

[Hiryu]

LoS was an interesting experiment. It was a passable game, that used "Castlevania" more as an attention getter rather than a game that was really following the series footsteps. It wasn't a bad game, just not really a good Castlevania game.

From there things just got worse. The one off experiment was lingering, and fixing things that didn't need to be fixed, while growing things that distanced itself from the franchise even further. I lost interest entirely after the first LoS.

I'm happy at the potential that they may be making games I care about again.

This.  Glad that the series lives on, but it's been a God of War clone that plays like a chore.  I didn't think Mirror of Fate was enjoyable either.  I'd rather have silly anime characters in metroidvania than that.

[crisis]

i feel the same way mistressalucard, which is why i called out everyone in the los2 thread that beat the game in record time just by putting the game on easy, and no one had the balls to even admit it & just ignored my posts lol

[Nagumo]

What I absolutely hate about LoS1&2 is that both of them are roughly one-third a Castlevania game and the rest is something completely different. The games aren't even structured like a Castlevania game. I honestly think when people said "this doesn't feel like a Castlevania game", consciously or unconsciously they were talking about the structure of the game. It's probably the major gripe I have with these games. Did they honestly think it was a good idea to add locations like Agharta and a futuristic city? I can still appreciate with MoF for being a western take on the Castlevania series, but I honestly can't figure out what it was LoS1&2 set out to do. To take out the things that made the series appealing in the first place, I guess?     

[Dremn]

The Lords of Shadow series has come and gone, time to reflect on it.

I really wonder why people get a game and play it so fast that literally the day it is out: what's next? 

I made this thread on release day because I figured no one would post in it yet, but when they spent enough time with the game they could eventually post their thoughts here.

I have not yet played LoS2 myself so I can only speak about the first two games and what I've seen from LoS2.

[Kaori]

I've already mentioned my opinion a few times in other random posts, but I'll go ahead and post here as well.

It's really disappointing that I just don't like the LoS games, especially since I remember being SO EXCITED watching all the trailers for the original Lords of Shadow. I thought it was going to be amazing! I remember being so excited when I got my collector's edition of the first game...only to be disappointed as I started playing it more and more. It just wasn't what I was hoping for. There wasn't enough "Castlevania" to me. I think Nagumo summed it up pretty well.

Ultimately, I don't think the Lords of Shadow games were bad though. I thought that over all the environments and the atmosphere were pretty good! Out of Lords of Shadow and Mirror of Fate, I thought that MoF was the better of the two, as it felt more like Castlevania to me, but I still couldn't even really get into it. Lords of Shadow 2 from all the random pieces of it I've seen on Youtube doesn't really look that bad, but I won't be trying it given how I didn't like the first two games.

I think my biggest complaint about the first game at least were the titan fights, actually. Those titan fights were actually what made me hate the first game the most. I also didn't like the music. The music wasn't bad by any means, but it just wasn't what I would expect from a Castlevania game.

I do think that there are good things about the LoS saga though. Like I said, I think they did the environments and atmosphere well. I also like the story between Gabriel and Alucard.

[uzo]

Yeah. I was really excited for the first game, despite the odd changes we saw. I was duped into the lie they crafted. The way they cut that one trailer was so deceptive, showing the castle in the rain (was never in the game) and overlaying Jason Issac's voice pretending it was Dracula. Just a lie trying to lure in the old fans, making them believe there would be an epic showdown of Belmont vs Dracula in the castle. Well, we know that never happened.

That helped put me off to the future games, and especially the people who make them. Such a dirty thing for them to do.

[X]

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