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Re: The first sign rises with the full moon.
« Reply #3255 on: May 14, 2018, 01:46:18 PM »
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fundamentally, Curse of the Moon does have potential though I would be so ****ing livid if it has no optional method to have all the other characters playable at the start.

yea that is a must have feature. it's unfair for Zangetsu to be playable in all stages, whereas the other characters are only playable from the point they are recruited through the rest of the game (which means less stages and the first stages being too one dimensional and limiting having only 1 of the 4 playable).

they can vastly improve replay value having some sort of password, button code or unlockable system where on new playthroughs the player can choose to play as Miriam, Alfred and Gebel from the very start, and swappable. 

even CVIII, an 80's game, cared to provide a way to have all characters playable from the beginning, of course CVIII was capped at only two characters, with Trevor having to be one of the characters, but it still technically featured a method to have Sypha, Grant and Alucard playable at the beginning, so full access to all the stages for all characters. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIWQTQg07jA

so yea Curse of the Moon having some password, button code or unlockable way to have Miriam, Alfred and Gebel playable from the very beginning (**** the story),
that would greatly increase purchase incentives and replay value for a lot of players, including players that dont give a dam about Zangetsu and his generic samurai trope.

preferably, it should be a button code/password, so even newcomers can just choose who they want to play as using that stuff.    it would be a pain having to beat the game first before the other characters are unlocked for all stages (and even more annoying if Bloodstained COTM happens to be very hard, at least Double Dragon 4 was somewhat forgiving with a stage select feature but yea it was such a pain unlocking favorites, since not only you had to beat the story, you also had to progress in Tower mode far enough to the point where your favorites are unlocked for use in story mode,  and that unlocking method had to be done for every account one uses the game on if one so happens to prefer gaming on a new/different PSN account. and beat em ups are easier than Castlevaniaish games, so not sure if the COTM  is beatable by most people anyways.   ).

well next week there will be confirmation what secrets and unlockables it has.

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I pretty much like all of that. That would really drive the NES homage home, with button codes, unlockables, and the like.

Here's hoping "HELP ME" returns as a password for extra lives and possibly an easy mode.
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« Reply #3256 on: May 14, 2018, 07:04:26 PM »
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For that IGN poll, I had to say that I looked forward to playing Alfred the most.  He actually looks like what I "thought" I was playing as in Castlevania III before SotN came out and I learned Sypha was a girl haha (never did beat CV III as a kid lol).  I always thought I was playing some old wizard.  Captain N did not help clear up my misconception at all.
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Re: The first sign rises with the full moon.
« Reply #3257 on: May 14, 2018, 07:41:46 PM »
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i somehow spent years thinking Soma was a female.

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« Reply #3258 on: May 14, 2018, 08:44:00 PM »
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i somehow spent years thinking Soma was a female.
W-wha- How?! The guy's voice doesn't sound at all feminine in the slightest! Have you been playing AoS and/or DoS without sound all these years?
It is precisely because it never cared, that people do care.  It's something which it's lacking, because that which it has, it has lackluster of.
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Re: The first sign rises with the full moon.
« Reply #3259 on: May 14, 2018, 08:57:05 PM »
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W-wha- How?! The guy's voice doesn't sound at all feminine in the slightest! Have you been playing AoS and/or DoS without sound all these years?

i was 11 and somehow read "She" instead of "he" the first time i read the AoS manual and afterwards i never paid attention because i was convinced he was a she. Most of the times he actually says words involve daemonic transformation so i assumed that was why "she" sounded deep. Oh the Curly soul didn't help my confusion either.

I only got he was male like years after, while reading wikipedia.

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« Reply #3260 on: May 14, 2018, 09:47:31 PM »
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Wow. Want a membership ticket for the "I Hate Past Me" club?
It is precisely because it never cared, that people do care.  It's something which it's lacking, because that which it has, it has lackluster of.
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Re: The first sign rises with the full moon.
« Reply #3261 on: May 15, 2018, 01:39:39 AM »
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i somehow spent years thinking Soma was a female.

Wow! Thinking back, I was fangirling on Soma's voice actor Midorikawa Hikaru.

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« Reply #3262 on: May 15, 2018, 07:36:13 AM »
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We totally need a bigender castlevania character lol.  More than just the Curley transformation.

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« Reply #3263 on: May 15, 2018, 02:14:08 PM »
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well i mean, if you took Soma right as he is without changing any art, just all his gender pronouns to female, she'd be a pretty unique main character in the gaming world

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Re: The first sign rises with the full moon.
« Reply #3264 on: May 15, 2018, 07:00:21 PM »
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Here is some footage of Curse of the moon :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZHzLc09is8

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« Reply #3265 on: May 16, 2018, 07:07:57 AM »
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Inti Creates will be hosting a stream tonight featuring CotM: https://mobile.twitter.com/IntiCreatesEN/status/996683850179727360

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« Reply #3266 on: May 16, 2018, 08:31:40 AM »
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When will backers receive their codes for Curse of The Moon?

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« Reply #3267 on: May 16, 2018, 08:34:43 AM »
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When will backers receive their codes for Curse of The Moon?

So far, it looks like the same day it releases (haven’t gotten any email saying when the code will be released to the backers yet) but I’m hoping we may get it a day or two early.

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« Reply #3268 on: May 16, 2018, 09:14:26 PM »
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Inti Creates will be hosting a stream tonight featuring CotM: https://mobile.twitter.com/IntiCreatesEN/status/996683850179727360
Greatest stream ever.

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« Reply #3269 on: May 17, 2018, 07:18:55 PM »
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well its crazy, 7 more days to play something Bloodstained.    though on that day, I will look up to see whether all the characters have a means to be playable in all the stages, including the first stages, through some method.   

some speculate that after recruiting a character, they are "saved" and if a new playthrough is done, they already are selectable at the start.  though others speculate it might require beating the game first, or a button code or something.  and we still dont know if there is a password system or something within.

so I'll check info on that before deciding whether to purchase.  H1Z1 launches same day, so I will evaluate COTM before determining whether they dropped the ball on the replay value aspects and first stages accessibility of the other characters.  theres bound to be secrets they can add to the first stages that only Miriam and the others can access, so that would add more replay value incentive too.

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