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Also, I wish the combat in Bloostained, the upcoming Castlevania successor, looked more like this, speed-wise. Bloodstained looks so slow and floaty by comparison.

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I assume you either haven’t played the demo or don’t remember the old Castlevania games. If you compare the frame rates and movements, Symphony of the Night, the director Koji Igarashi’s magnum opus, is actually SLOWER than Bloodstained, and that’s at a smaller resolution AND zoomed in. The zoom and the movement animations give the illusion Alucard is moving faster, but in reality, that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Bloodstained is an HD 2.5 dimensional widescreen game. Dead Cells is a fast paced action metroidvania that requires knee jerk reactions and movements to get through and complete. They’re not the same game and pacing and Castlevania wasn’t the same either. You’d especially know this if you played Order of Ecclesia.

Not trying to rail, but I will say one thing though. The backers have been trying like hell to get the team to improve and add to the jump animations. They’re very stale at the moment and need updating.

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I assume you either haven’t played the demo or don’t remember the old Castlevania games

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I haven't played the demo of Bloodstained or Order of Ecclesia. But I've played most of the Castlevania games multiple times. I played through 1 and 3 last year and about half of SOTN earlier this year, though I've beaten it multiple times since its release.

Games can evolve and change, even within the same series. Castlevania 1 - 3 and Super had very deliberate movements with 0 (or very limited) air control once you committed to a jump. Rondo of Blood and SOTN changed this, especially the latter. In SOTN Richter and Maria (if you're playing a version that includes her) have more interesting, quicker movement options than Alucard. The movement in Dead Cells feels like the natural evolution of that.

I'm simply saying I wish what I saw of Bloodstained excited me the way Dead Cells has. I've always wished the combat in the post-SOTN Castlevania games leaned a bit more toward skill and less toward equipment stats. What I've played of Dead Cells hits a fun balance so far.

If there is a gameplay video of Bloodstained that should get me excited, please share it. I would love to see it. What I can find on Youtube from just a couple of months ago is not doing anything for me.

What does that have to do with Dead Cells.

ETA: You expounded on it a bit. Still a weird tangent.

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Sorry if you feel I got all over you a bit. >.<

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It's fine. I can tell you're passionate about Castlevania and Bloodstained. I wasn't trying to dog on that game while talking about Dead Cells, but I can't help but think about Castlevania while playing it and Bloodstained is the heir apparent for that series.

Although I do wish Konami would wake up and make a legitimate, new Castlevania game, as you mentioned in your thread from yesterday.

As far as Dead Cells goes, one downside is when you have an awesome run where you get weapons that compliment one another, but then your next 4 runs don't provide you with weapons that mesh well. It makes me sometimes wish that this game was a true Metroidvania with a static map and more traditional progression.

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Damn this is my game of the year so far, most addictive game I have played in a while. After you beat the first boss or two it really opens up. The different builds are awesome, no two runs are the same and you can be a bad arse with with whatever you are handed if you lean the moves.

Really wasn't expecting to like it this much, it's the perfect mix of Diablo and Castlevania for me.