Topic: Castlevania: Legends - Transfusion

[darkmanx_429]

my biggest suggestion would be to have the camera snap directly to the player, or even move in front of it, instead of lagging behind Sonia like that. that kind of camera movement can make precise platforming very tricky.

I can adjust that. Simple.

[darkmanx_429]

Cheers to you getting back in The Game, so to speak.  I would strongly recommend you play Legends to get a feel for how trash it was (>)) compared to what came before, that way you can better calibrate your sense of how much ass your efforts will actually be kicking.

Yeah that game gets ALOT of hate.

[Eric Roman]

Not that it wasn't warranted; by this point I'd been conditioned to expect marked improvement with each release, but this post-Symphony thing was no successor to Belmont's Revenge and smarts of Alucard cashgrab in retrospect.  An early teaser of greater disenchantments down the line... 

(Since coming upon this thread I'm currently inching/wincing through the extended rewrite of my initial impressions for a refresher.)

Caveat: Legends (or Other Disagreeable Title Here) was someone's cherished initial CV experience. 

[zangetsu468]

I like that the wokeists can’t complain the title isn’t inclusive.

[Eric Roman]

There’s always been media that was organically “Politically Correct”/“Progressive”, they’ve just been forgotten long enough to serve a recent narrative that #SomethingNeedsToChange (in a heavy-handed and offputting sorta way). 

Perhaps it was because I enjoyed Sailor Moon more than DBZ that I was a proponent of the Girl Belmont concept months before I learned that game was happening, I just wished what came out was worthwhile.  (Similar to how High Guardian Spice spent more effort virtue-signaling than building an awesome show.)

Sonia Belmont deserved much better than what she wound up with and that is why I am in support of any work attempting to elevate her blown opportunity.

[Eric Roman]

I like that the wokeists can’t complain the title isn’t inclusive.

Eventually realized what you did there.  D’OH! XD

[X]

To me the biggest issue with Legends was riding the coat tails of SotN, rather then have Sonia stand fully on her own (story-wise and some other things). And that the game itself could have been better designed along with slightly better graphics and music composition. But there was also IGA's intervention that got the game removed from cannon for several reasons. A) at the time he didn't care for strong female lead protagonists, and B) it interfered with what he had planned for his future story-telling. We got LoI after Legends and I can see a bit of Sonia in Leon (design-wise). To me at the time it felt like an on-purpose dick move. The DoS hack (Dawn of Dissonance) gave us a much better story for Sonia to work with, despite her whip being too short (again  ), and her being a bit under-powered and taking way too much damage too easily. But from what I can see darkmanx_429 is using the exact same sprite set of Sonia that was used in Dawn of Dissonance for his game. It's a really good sprite set after all so my compliments to the maker