Topic: LOS2: Revelations - Alucard DLC releases March 25th - First Screenshots

[derision]

XBL updates on Wednesdays so it's not up on the marketplace.

Does it, though? The skins were put up for download earlier this morning, just not Revelations. 

[Belmontslayer]

XBL actually updates every day during the week. And I've bought dozens of DLCs on XBL and they have almost always been released on Tuesday.

Like the above poster said, we got the preorder bonuses today, but no Revelations DLC, which is really strange. There must have been some kind of issue, but I can't get an answer from anyone.

[crisis]

no revelations dlc for xbox today? THANKS A LOT OBAMA

[Somacula]

I'm still a few hours away from playing this as I still have work, but can anyone who's played the DLC tell me one thing? I want to know if Alucard gets his Demonic Wings back for a double jump ability. Any other returning powers from MoF would also be nice to know about.

[Trevelyan]

Initial impression: playing as Alucard owns. 

One odd downside: either the game update or the dlc seems to have removed the 'hourglass with blood in it' loading icon.  Why would they do that?

[Shiroi Koumori]

Initial impression: playing as Alucard owns. 

One odd downside: either the game update or the dlc seems to have removed the 'hourglass with blood in it' loading icon.  Why would they do that?

Maybe that hourglass is just for Dracula. Or they just forgot to include that code.

[KaZudra]

I'm super broke right now, I probably wont get revelations or MoFHD until a week or 2 later

[Ahasverus]

Any impressions?

[Mike Belmont]

Well, after seen the whole walkthrough in youtube (again), in terms of story, I have to say that

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I don´t see Slogra or Gaibon in it. The Lieutenant is the final boss, but the uploader doens´t show his data, so I dunno what is his name.

Sure, there is more scrolls to read, but maybe there is more story than in the ingame.

Surely this DLC

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is a Prologue to LoS 2, and serves well in answer a few things.

Two touching moments:

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When Alucard and Marie hug each other as mother and son, and the Alucard words at the Lieutenant when they are going to fight: "nice armor"

[Ahasverus]

OK I'm watching it, it's so good it hurts.
Man, this is the game we deserved

Edit2: OMG YOU CAN ENTER THE THRONE ROOM FUCK ME

[Kingshango]

Huh, so that's what those weird door looking structures were for.

[Asgardwolf]

Alucard`s abilities are really awesome, but the game feels linear with no so much freedom for backtracking. Story is ok i guess but not even new bosses... Alucard`s 1 weapon combat system doesn`t feel as good as Gabriel with all his weapons. It`s ok for 8 bucks i guess...

[Kingshango]

The Forbidden Wing is a very creepy place.

[Viskod]

I'm not seeing what is supposed to give the impression that this was outsourced.

[e105beta]

I'm not seeing what is supposed to give the impression that this was outsourced.

Because it's so much better than the main game.

I mean, it's NOT outsourced, but having just finished the DLC, I can definitely say that if LoS2 had been this level of quality, it would have been a way better game. Its environment puzzles were more creative and more engaging than Dracula's stealth bs, it had some ACTUAL platforming sections if only a few, all of Alucard's powers made you feel like a powerful vampire (as opposed to just mist), shimmying was almost entirely replaced by bat cloud (nothing of value was lost), and it had the advantage of being entirely in the castle. But even then, it's castle parts were better than Dracula's castle parts.

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The whole section in the Forbidden Wing was awesome, with the scrawled words and the sound clips from Gabriel's despair at the end of LoS1 playing in the background. This was an aspect of Dracula's psyche that never got explored in the main game at all. There was plenty of lip service to his anger and his saddness in the lorebook, but we never got to SEE it. Now we did.

But the most insulting thing about it was

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EVERYTHING STORYWISE. Marie talking about "Dracula walking his path of redemption" and Alucard telling the castle that he would honor his father by freeing him from it. It all sets up for that mysteriously absent Dracula redemption story that LoS2 was SUPPOSED to have. None of this "Dracula rules the world" bullshit that Cox is trying to pass off on Twitter. I don't know what the hell happened during this game's story writing jam sessions, but I guarantee there was an ending planned that was not the one we ended up with, and not the "leaked" ending from Bergeron.

"I cannot die, yet I cannot live", "End the curse of immortality", "All I want to do is to escape", "This is no place for you either"

Where's my redemption story, Konami? WHERE IS IT?