AgentChris
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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 Review Thread
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50% of the "review" (consisting of 4 paragraphs lol) talks about the stealth, that is like, 5% of the game. At most. Yeah, very trustworthy review there.
Homunculus
Banned
Clive Barker's Jericho.
I actually loved Jericho, to be honest. I know other people didn't really like it, but I pretty much completed that game in a single sitting.
brandonh83
Banned
Nah, all the reviewers had to do with those reviews is just do some copying and pasting from their other Igavania reviews.
AntiFacebook
Member
Jericho was their best game.
I haven't played much of it but what I don't like: the stealth sections and the extra focus (hand holding?) when it comes to the platforming...which is kinda janky anyway. I don't remember it being this bad in LOS1.
re: the hand holding, it goes like this - you reach an area and the camera swoops and pans to the destination or some door, it focuses on that area for a good 5-10 seconds, then slowly makes its way back to you again.
Kind of takes the rhythm out of it, if there was any in the first place. And jumping gaps or any sort of jump feels like shit. It isn't fluid.
re: the hand holding, it goes like this - you reach an area and the camera swoops and pans to the destination or some door, it focuses on that area for a good 5-10 seconds, then slowly makes its way back to you again.
Kind of takes the rhythm out of it, if there was any in the first place. And jumping gaps or any sort of jump feels like shit. It isn't fluid.
Sanctuary
Member
Time to update the OP...
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strategyinformer.com 7.5 / 10
spaziogames.it 7.0
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gamesided.com 8
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joystic.com 4 / 5
play3-live.com 17 / 20
EGM 7.0
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Bgamer review: 9.0 - http://bgamer.sapo.pt/index.php/revista
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Gamereactor(Swedish mag): 8/10
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Chance Hale
Member
Really sounds like stealth sections, particularly one involving a boss, completely threw some of the scores to the deep end.
Yeah, but it seems this game isn't even good enough to copy and paste from God of War: Judgement or Rygar: The Legendary Adventure reviews...
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
The first one was long and repetitious but it at least was promising. Too bad it seems like they flubbed the followup.
brandonh83
Banned
Looks like the death of the series. DEATH.
I'm not too worried about that being that case at all.
Just reaching like you were.
Igavania, outside of Ecclesia, is a low bar to aim for.
god dammit! it was though wasnt it.
nckillthegrimace
Member
Aren't these guys doing contra next?
That's...great.
That's...great.
It's actually 8/10
SniperHunter
Banned
it always looked like a shitty god of war clone to me. guess people were excited since its multiplatform
Chance Hale
Member
Don't think Kojima did much other than provide the exposition dump at the end of the first game
Look up, you see those 8's and 9's? The game isnt a complete failure. People are just whining about the stealth sections way too much. They're not even that many of em.
Looks like I barked up the wrong tree. Admittedly, I only played the PS3 demo which was really bad and based the rest on the unfavorable reviews the game got, so I may be wrong.
The first one didn't have any stealth sections and I'd score it way below an 8.
So it's worse than Thief for reviewers
Honestly I really don't know what to think.....I don't have a lot of faith in reviews. It seems like the new trend is to punish good games with a few flaws with stupidly low scores when the buzz around them is not really high, while still handing 9s and 10s for free to mega productions backed by huge publishers with big ads campaign.
I definetly want to try LoS2, but considering it's also a last gen game I will probably skip the full price.
Honestly I really don't know what to think.....I don't have a lot of faith in reviews. It seems like the new trend is to punish good games with a few flaws with stupidly low scores when the buzz around them is not really high, while still handing 9s and 10s for free to mega productions backed by huge publishers with big ads campaign.
I definetly want to try LoS2, but considering it's also a last gen game I will probably skip the full price.
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
It plays significantly differently from GOW and MS deserve credit for that. It has a ton of polish issues and padding issues that GOW doesn't, however.
normalmode
Member
Here's the video component to the Machinima review (I was the reviewer & video editor):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hqxiZwconY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hqxiZwconY
Had no clue this was the team that did Clive Barker's Jericho. I actually enjoyed that game. I played the PC version though so don't know how bad the console version was. Still surprised people knock it to be honest. Found the switching between characters to be pretty interesting. It's not OMG amazing by any means though.
Homunculus
Banned
If I go by the reviewers and their locations, it appears that Americans hate Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2.
1st Course
Member
Metacritic 61 atm
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
Yeah it's always seemed that way to me as well.
Sanctuary
Member
I just copy/pasted from the other thread. They are easy enough to verify.
Lostconfused
Member
Got to establish a baseline and maybe even some credibility as they start throwing 10s at Titanfall.
sixteen-bit
Member
I expected lower scores to be honest.
These clowns are making the next Contra?
These clowns are making the next Contra?
Man, what happened? I was a huge fan of the first game but I'm probably going to last-minute-cancel my preorder of this. I never liked the modern day concept but it's too bad to hear that they also messed up the execution of it and many other things.
I'm still curious about that stealth section though and about whether many of these reviews are indeed heavily influenced by many reviewers inability to play a game that doesn't hold their hands. I've seen this so many times in recent years and it's a shame.
I'm still curious about that stealth section though and about whether many of these reviews are indeed heavily influenced by many reviewers inability to play a game that doesn't hold their hands. I've seen this so many times in recent years and it's a shame.