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Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Oct. 5th, 2021 11:29 pmI've been so busy playing Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night that I didn't find time to write about it, and of course the more I played the more I wanted to write about. But today is the evening, because I have a band-aid on two fingers which would make playing frustrating. Typing is a little better.
I found the game because I signed up for Humble Choice for the first time in August, originally for Carto, but then I thought Bloodstained looked interesting and gave it a try. By now I've played ~47 hours, which is more than twice as much as my third-most played game (Ori and the Will of the Wisps, ~22 hours.)[Edit: actually, it is Ori and the Blind Forest, at 35.4 hours, I forgot I played it twice.] A comparison with Hades, at ~365 hours, would be unfair.
It's a lot of fun. I like the art and the design, and I enjoy the gameplay and combat, especially once I found some more weapons to play around with and more shards too. The difficulty on Normal was just right for me, decently challenging but not too hard, and I appreciated that I could always go back and grind for level/more weapons/etc. and try a boss fight again later when I was stronger. (I hardly used any online guides either, just for very few specific things.)
It also has just enough story early enough to get me invested, and I really liked the main character Miriam and all the tragedy with her and Gebel and Johannes. I nominated them for Yuletide, promo post here.
( Spoilers )
I also made the great tactical decision to gift a copy of the game to LB on condition of him keeping me updated as he plays, I'm enjoying that too. It's his birthday soon and I thought of gifting him games I talked about that he expressed an interest in, but realistically I would have gifted them to him anyway because I look forward to him playing then and then talking about them, so that would feel like cheating.
I found the game because I signed up for Humble Choice for the first time in August, originally for Carto, but then I thought Bloodstained looked interesting and gave it a try. By now I've played ~47 hours, which is more than twice as much as my third-most played game (Ori and the Will of the Wisps, ~22 hours.)[Edit: actually, it is Ori and the Blind Forest, at 35.4 hours, I forgot I played it twice.] A comparison with Hades, at ~365 hours, would be unfair.
It's a lot of fun. I like the art and the design, and I enjoy the gameplay and combat, especially once I found some more weapons to play around with and more shards too. The difficulty on Normal was just right for me, decently challenging but not too hard, and I appreciated that I could always go back and grind for level/more weapons/etc. and try a boss fight again later when I was stronger. (I hardly used any online guides either, just for very few specific things.)
It also has just enough story early enough to get me invested, and I really liked the main character Miriam and all the tragedy with her and Gebel and Johannes. I nominated them for Yuletide, promo post here.
( Spoilers )
I also made the great tactical decision to gift a copy of the game to LB on condition of him keeping me updated as he plays, I'm enjoying that too. It's his birthday soon and I thought of gifting him games I talked about that he expressed an interest in, but realistically I would have gifted them to him anyway because I look forward to him playing then and then talking about them, so that would feel like cheating.
