Topic: Lord of Shadow Experience

[KaZudra]

My experience was more like Pan's Labyrinth meets Lord of the Rings meets Castlevania, The Landscapes made the game worth watching someone play, the battle system is what you find in all beat em ups, grabs and combos, with the exception that you only have one weapon, If Simon were Batman he would have had the combat Cross as well. The Game itself was pretty much to entertain you as if you were watching a movie rather than making you feel like your there cracking the whip yourself, the music aided to that aspect entirely, the music was a great journey that comes to end, rather than making new catchy tunes for you to jam on with. The Story was very top notch and told very well with memorable spoilers and scenes, but was it a Castlevania experience...?
well, yes, I can say it was a castlevania experience, like its IGA Counterpart, they both share quite a few elements...

• Introduction of Belmont
• Fixed camera exploration
• Explorable, yet linear gameplay (arguable)
• Introduction of Dracula in some sort of fasion
• Belmont loses loved one
• Varous Characters

More can be listed, but the main difference is that Lords of Shadow never really identified the Demon Castle itself Castlevania, whereas all the rest do.
In a summary, it was a Good experience, Felt a bit like lord of the rings and pans labyrinth at times but still good all around.

[darkwzrd4]

Yes, it is a top-notch game, but aside from using some names from other CVs, it really isn't a CV.  My opinion: it should be its own series and the current CV timeline should be left as it is (no reboot).  Iga should be allowed to make a few more games to fill in the blank points (why the belmonts can't use the whip after SotN until 1999, how Mathias/Dracula actually goes from powerful vampire to lord of darkness, etc.)

[KaZudra]

Yes, it is a top-notch game, but aside from using some names from other CVs, it really isn't a CV.  My opinion: it should be its own series and the current CV timeline should be left as it is (no reboot).  Iga should be allowed to make a few more games to fill in the blank points (why the belmonts can't use the whip after SotN until 1999, how Mathias/Dracula actually goes from powerful vampire to lord of darkness, etc.)

IGA is still making Castlevania, and The Arcade has already filled in a little on the gap, the Reboot has Nothing to do with the original, both timelines are coexisting without interruption, think of it like the comic books, like Marvel ULTIMATE universe is a reboot of the original universe, yet does not intersect at all

In Video Games...
Reboot = Alternate universe
Reboot =/= Restart

[Flame]

In Video Games...
Reboot = Alternate universe
Reboot =/= Restart

Its an Alternate Universe Restart. Honestly, how ELSE can it be done? if they were going for an alternate universe idea, they cant exactly have all the years of history that the previous games had, they made their own story.

Also, its not the only game to not contain Dracula's ACTUAL Castle.

Both Lament of Innocence and Dawn of Sorrow were lacking Dracula's actual castle.

[X]

My personal experience with this game isn't at all what I was hoping for. It was almost the complete opposite. The biggest let-down for me was the almost total lack of CV vibe. If it doesn't feel like CV, it's not a CV game for me. I still haven't finished the game yet...and I have no real desire to either. When LoS actually got good was at the start of the castle areas. The first and final areas are all none-existant to me. Forget calling this a CV game, I'll just say it like others have on the net: Lords of Shadow of the Colossus  

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[Shadowserg]

LoS - is a horrible game. Better IGA than this... 

[Flame]

LoS - is a horrible game. Better IGA than this... 

Thank you for your totally useless and completely unexplained opinion. Have a nice day.

[crisis]

I wouldn't call Lords of Shadow horrible by any means; it's not even bad or average. It doesn't really pick up until after Chapter IV anyway.

On a scale of 1-10 I'd say it's a high 7. If you ignore it's bad qualities & just look at the positives then it's a really great experience.


btw the "creature of chaos" is kinda alluded to in the scrolls you recover from the fallen brotherhood knights. it hints at the Bernhard family being the former curators of the castle until an evil force took hold of it, so they were unable to make an accurate map because the layout is always changing.

[Richter]

As a game it looks great, has great combat once you have the magic system going, and offers a decent length adventure in a time when a lot of releases only last 6 hours. It suffers from being highly derivitive and having a soundtrack that is very nice in places but repeats itself way to often, and personally I didn't like the story writing or characters. Personally I don't care that it's not another Symphony remake since the Gameboy Advance and DS has plenty of those already which are still good to play. As a Castlevania experience there was enough there to keep me happy overall, I just hope they don't rip us off with the true ending being DLC....

[Carmelo]

I have yet to play the whole game, but the demo wowed me.  I think it has the feel of early CV.  Pre IGA.  Which to me is a good thing.  It does its own thing as far a CV, and has all the elements of a good action/adventure game.  Camera aside, I really like it and can't wait for my limited edition from amazon to come in.