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Castle In The Darkness |OT| - Metroidvania by Nicalis / artist of Binding of Isaac
- Thread starter KillerIsJed
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It has nothing to do with software engineering, it has to do with design and art assets. If you want a 2D game with lots of original enemies, great looking backgrounds, lots of different attack animations and equipment, where do you think that comes from? People have to be paid to draw and animate them, and it's painstaking work. It doesn't even mean the people working on it earn a lot, it just means it takes time. Why do you think that every Castlevania game reuses assets so much? Outside of some unique bosses and a handful of new enemies, almost everything is recycled over and over. If you're making a brand new game from scratch without anything to recycle or reuse, it's going to cost that much more.
Living Proof
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Living Proof
Member
I have to set up the controller with kb/m and then restart the game. If I don't it doesn't recognize anything but the left joystick for some reason.
I can't get to the key config for joystick controls. Nothing happens when I click joystick, it just keeps reverting to keyboard.
This is what keeps happening.
This is what keeps happening.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Oh, that's a relief. (Yes, I'm serious. ^^)
Tizoc
Member
Game doesn't recognize my DS4 and crashes whenever I try to change the resolution =/
witchedwiz
Member
Yes i've red a few opinion, but the more the marrier
For those of you having issues with your gamepads, go into the game's folder. There's a little readme with some tips for fixing that. Might help.
I found the first part of the game to be the most frustrating. As you play, you get more health and more armor. You still can't take a lot of damage, but you can take more than two hits, and you get a lot more tools to do a lot of damage quickly, or from range, etc.
I found the first part of the game to be the most frustrating. As you play, you get more health and more armor. You still can't take a lot of damage, but you can take more than two hits, and you get a lot more tools to do a lot of damage quickly, or from range, etc.
Yes i've red a few opinion, but the more the marrier
I'm currently playing through the game to do a review on it. Hopefully I'll be able to knock it out by Monday or Tuesday depending on my schedule.
And I figured out my issue where I was stuck. I didn't realize that wearing plate mail reduced your jumping ability THAT much.
It's a nod to Monster Party, which in turn made the nod to Little Shop of Horrors.
Pretty fun game. Although a bit rough around the edges. I like that you don't have to go far to find a new boss. Level design isn't the greatest. A bit too many paths and locked doors that you have to remember and then backtrack to. No map. The spikes feels cheap at times. Bad humor.
Had to map the DS4 to the keyboard to get it to work with the game. My biggest problem with the game is that it crashes randomly.
Had to map the DS4 to the keyboard to get it to work with the game. My biggest problem with the game is that it crashes randomly.
As a last resort, you can use joytokey to make your gamepad send keyboard inputs to the game.
Thanks for the impressions.
I saw this popup on Steam this morning before reading the thread. Added it to my wishlist to track but wasn't sure about it. Glad to hear it's pretty decent. At such a cheap price, seems like a no-brainer.
terrdactycalsrock
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I cant get the game to accept my xbox one controller, help?
DaBargainHunta
Member
Looks amazing, but I'm worried about the controller issues being reported here and elsewhere (I use a wired 360 controller) and I do wonder if this will ever come to PS3/4/Vita/etc. (I much prefer playing on a console).
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
Was going to grab this, but all this talk about insta-deaths and ehh..
I don't know, I guess I'm just tired of so much dying.
I don't know, I guess I'm just tired of so much dying.
Dying doesn't matter because you have unlimited lifes and there are save points every 5 minutes or less. I'd rather play hard games like this compared to games where you have limited continues and have to start from the beginning after game over.
And it's not that hard but it's more trial and error but the punishment is small.
Wii U Pro Contoller with Mayflash adapter works just fine. Very strange you can't map pause button to your controller though.
And it's not that hard but it's more trial and error but the punishment is small.
Wii U Pro Contoller with Mayflash adapter works just fine. Very strange you can't map pause button to your controller though.
KillerIsJed
Member
I have not found but one two invincible enemies, one is clearly not supposed to die and the other is an homage of a ghost character in Castlevania 3. It isn't easy, but neither are the classic Castlevania games.
Updating OP with controller fix that worked for me.
CONTROLLER FIX (that worked for me)
In a run box in windows type "joy.cpl"
Click advanced and set your preferred controller, as the game doesn't detect it if it is set to none.
Use keyboard and mouse to config controller. All you should have to change is jump and attack to your preferred keys.
Clearly you haven't' been to the "water temple", which has one save point, two bosses, and is pure hell haha. I didn't find the torture chamber that bad, but I'm on my way out of it.
DaBargainHunta
Member
I typed joy.cpl in "run" and it was already set to the 360 controller, so does this mean I should be okay? (Haven't bought game yet because of this potential issue and other misc. reasons.)
KillerIsJed
Member
You're welcome!
Did you check under advanced? That is where it matters.
DaBargainHunta
Member
Yep, set to 360 there too, with no other available options.
Solid SOAP
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Any chance of this coming to consoles or 3DS!? I'd love to have this portable.
KillerIsJed
Member
You should be alright then!
KillerIsJed
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You'd like this then. It reminds me of Mega Man's / a little less stiff than Aben Hawking and the 1001 Spikes.
Ahhh I loved 1001 Spikes and even got all the Achievements. Gonna grab this for sure.
DaBargainHunta
Member
I wonder why that's still $15 and this launched at $5. Any ideas?
eastx
Member
1001 Spikes launched at $5 on Xbox 360 (XBLIG). With this one, maybe they're just trying to get the ball rolling with word of mouth before increasing the price.
Demon Lizardman
Banned
Just bought it, got up to
The platforming there is insane.
What do I do with the
The Sorcerer part of the castle
The platforming there is insane.
What do I do with the
White orb I got from the sunken ruins?
Should I be worried that I haven't done the water temple yet? I'm going through the Sorceror's wing now. Tried doing House of Ruth but I couldn't beat the final boss there.
Oh, in House of Ruth in the basement, there's
Oh, in House of Ruth in the basement, there's
a guy that sells a dreamstone for 20,000. Take that to the inn and rest for the night to enter a dreamscape. It gets you a set of armor with either 7 or 8 defense to it. Just thought that should help!
Yeah as soon as I saw that blatant Monster Party reference I was sold. Decision making process ended right there.
Cannon Goose
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Where do I get the double jump? I feel like I need it to make anymore progress but I have no idea where it could be.
eastx
Member
Yeah, the default volume is at least 50 percent too loud.