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Attention CASTLEVANIA fans: The Lecarde Chronicles 2 released!
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SolVanderlyn
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Novum_Veritas
Member
Just watched the trailer, downloading as we speak, this looks really great for a fan made game. Great bonus Belgrade is voicing Alucard again.
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
Lecardes don't use the vampire killer whip!
I wouldn't say this is up there in fangame quality with the likes of Streets of Rage Remake or AM2R, but it's a decent game.
The controls are a bit stiff and took getting used to. Stairs and ramps are handled like the old games, where you have to hold up to land on them, but it just feels awkward passing through what usually looks like solid ground. The better way to handle this would be to hold down to pass through, or always land on them then use down and jump to pass through. Since you have to hold up to throw your subweapon or change your change your magic.. polarity.. thing.. those can interfere with each other if fighting on or near stairs. More usable buttons would've been nice too. There's not much reason for having the up + button combos, aside from that's how it was in the old days. We've got enough buttons now to not have to toggle magics, and also throw a subweapon with one press.
There's a lot of backtracking in this game. Progression so far feels more tied to obtaining key items more than unlocking new abilities. Can't go to the poison place without the poison protection. Can't go to the cold place without cold protection. Getting what amounts to keys is less interesting than when you unlock sliding or double jumping because it means you can go back to older areas that weren't blatantly keyed off and potentially find new stuff. Twice I've been put in unwinnable situations. One of those times was right by a save point, so it was no big deal. The other time
All that said, I ended up playing it for a few hours straight. It's worth giving a shot.
The controls are a bit stiff and took getting used to. Stairs and ramps are handled like the old games, where you have to hold up to land on them, but it just feels awkward passing through what usually looks like solid ground. The better way to handle this would be to hold down to pass through, or always land on them then use down and jump to pass through. Since you have to hold up to throw your subweapon or change your change your magic.. polarity.. thing.. those can interfere with each other if fighting on or near stairs. More usable buttons would've been nice too. There's not much reason for having the up + button combos, aside from that's how it was in the old days. We've got enough buttons now to not have to toggle magics, and also throw a subweapon with one press.
There's a lot of backtracking in this game. Progression so far feels more tied to obtaining key items more than unlocking new abilities. Can't go to the poison place without the poison protection. Can't go to the cold place without cold protection. Getting what amounts to keys is less interesting than when you unlock sliding or double jumping because it means you can go back to older areas that weren't blatantly keyed off and potentially find new stuff. Twice I've been put in unwinnable situations. One of those times was right by a save point, so it was no big deal. The other time
was because I didn't buy a weapon upgrade before an armor upgrade and so couldn't kill a boss.
All that said, I ended up playing it for a few hours straight. It's worth giving a shot.
Ganondorfo
Junior Member
If this was an exclusive official Konami game for the Switch, people would love Konami again and that hateful Konami meme would dissapear after a while.
Okay, I played through the intro and this is really fun, videos of it don't do it justice. Controls are tight, music is great and the voice acting is surprisingly decent. It's pretty much a way better playing Castlevania 2 with a map layout like the later games in the series.
I assume that's Belgrade narrating the intros?
I assume that's Belgrade narrating the intros?
robotzombie
Member
nvm
I had the same thought. The sprite detail looks slightly above what was actually in ROB or SON, as if someone made a Castlevania for a 90's Japanese home PC back then.
I'll probably just snag this before it disappears, but I have no idea when I'll play it.
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
Yes it is Belgrade.
The art quality is really uneven. It's like some things are NEs quality, some are X6000 quality, some are SNES quality and so on. Can't knock it since it's a fan game so whatever,
I believe all of the assets were made by one person.
The same person who coded the game, IIRC.
whiteninja
Member
Gave this a try and maybe its just my pc (trying it on my laptop) but the controls seems terrible. Kinda laggy input and I had to use joy2key since it wouldn't work with my controller.
Movement is painfully slow too. I guess it's supposed to be similar to the slowness of classicvanias but I'm just too used to SoTN and those after it.
Movement is painfully slow too. I guess it's supposed to be similar to the slowness of classicvanias but I'm just too used to SoTN and those after it.
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
You get upgrades that allow you to move faster (slide, air dash).
witchedwiz
Member
downloaded..
will play it at some point
will play it at some point
Mister Wolf
Gold Member
Would be nice if Konami published this and cleaned it up some so we can get a downloadable console release. They really should look towards what Sega did with Sonic Mania
Lanrutcon
Member
Same size. Been watching a Let's Play of this, and even with the trial and error bits edited out the dude is covering a lot of ground. There's also a fair amount of backtracking when you get new abilities to get to secrets and whatnot. The level design is impressive, because everything kind of flows together the moment you have the full range of movement abilities.
MetalliCabombination
Member
A vanillaware developed castlevania with iga as the director is the dream.
Mister Wolf
Gold Member
Iga is taking too long. I will take a cleaned up version of this right now.
Link_enfant
Member
Is there any tweak to enable the D-Pad on Dual Shock 4 V2?
The controller's natively compatible once plugged in but only the left stick is detected, which isn't really comfortable for this kind of game.
The controller's natively compatible once plugged in but only the left stick is detected, which isn't really comfortable for this kind of game.
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
You can use xpadder.
It looks very impressive!
Artstyle and graphics won't appeal everyone - I like them alot, even though the whole presentation could use some refinement, especially in typeface/illustrations' regard - but the amount of work and attention to detail are commendable.
I agree with whoever said it has a certain '90s PC game' flair... It also reminded me of stuff like a more modern Rusty, at a first glance.
Artstyle and graphics won't appeal everyone - I like them alot, even though the whole presentation could use some refinement, especially in typeface/illustrations' regard - but the amount of work and attention to detail are commendable.
I agree with whoever said it has a certain '90s PC game' flair... It also reminded me of stuff like a more modern Rusty, at a first glance.
FrontalMonk
Banned
Haven't played this yet, but the folks saying that the game looks better in video than stills are totally 100% right. Stills look garbo but in motion the game looks pretty great.
Also, dat remixed version of GB Castlevania Stage 1. Hnnngh.
Also, dat remixed version of GB Castlevania Stage 1. Hnnngh.
Bloodporne
Member
So I ended up getting really sucked in last night and played for about 3 hours. This game is really atmospheric and beautifully done so far as far as I'm concerned and especially so for a fan game. If this had been released commercially, I would've been in the preorder line.
I think it looks great in motion and I have a real soft spot for the 'adventure' feel of it all, the traveling through forests to different locations like in Castlevania 2, the town, I love that kind of stuff. The music and sound effects are great and very atmospheric, a crucial part to any Vania title for me, and areas have been quite creative and well-realized with cool little gimmicks like climbable wells and switches etc. strewn around.
I've downed about 4 or 5 bosses so far and they were very well done, quite tough but fair with clear-cut, recognizable patterns.
Bottom line is I think this game rules and I'm hooked. I would've easily dropped $20 on this if it had been retail and I think every Castlevania fan burnt by Konami's bullshit treatment of the franchise owes it to themselves to check this out. It's a great game based on my time with it and definitely doesn't need a 'for a fan game' disclaimer.
I think it looks great in motion and I have a real soft spot for the 'adventure' feel of it all, the traveling through forests to different locations like in Castlevania 2, the town, I love that kind of stuff. The music and sound effects are great and very atmospheric, a crucial part to any Vania title for me, and areas have been quite creative and well-realized with cool little gimmicks like climbable wells and switches etc. strewn around.
I've downed about 4 or 5 bosses so far and they were very well done, quite tough but fair with clear-cut, recognizable patterns.
Bottom line is I think this game rules and I'm hooked. I would've easily dropped $20 on this if it had been retail and I think every Castlevania fan burnt by Konami's bullshit treatment of the franchise owes it to themselves to check this out. It's a great game based on my time with it and definitely doesn't need a 'for a fan game' disclaimer.
Mufausa The 3rd
Member
Some of the areas in this game is giving me Cadash flashbacks for some odd reason:
ModernBoxes
Banned
Poop green as the main color for the primary character? why...
That aside is there any synopsis of what this game is based on? Who is this guy, what's the timeline, why does he get to meet Alucard and such.
That aside is there any synopsis of what this game is based on? Who is this guy, what's the timeline, why does he get to meet Alucard and such.
NinjamicWZ
Banned
Some of the areas in this game is giving me Cadash flashbacks for some odd reason:
Yeah, the color pallet was reminding me of Haunted Castle, similar era and aesthetic.
Main character design, weighting and agility moves, enemy detail and overall sharp look was reminding me of Rondo:
...and others brought up the Sharp X68000 Castlevania which I forgot about... definitely fits:
Especially the style of parallax.
This game basically is like amalgamating all my memories of browsing the Castlevania Dungeon website on 56K and seeing all these obscure Castlevania games I never knew about or could never get.
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
I'm almost close to the end now, about 90% done, and the game honestly gets better and better the more you progress. The game has 3 endings by the way. Feels like a retail game, I'd easily pay 30-40 for it.
Bloodporne
Member
That's pretty wild, can't wait to get there myself. I've been thinking about playing it quite a bit today, I'm hooked.
By the way, the Save Area theme is fantastic and I love that they incorporated some areas with pure echo'd ambient background sound instead of actual OST tracks. It gave me a bit of a Demon's Souls vibe for a minute atmospherically running through the
mine area
decisions
Member
Holy shit guys, um...I just played SOTN last year and this game really isn't that far off in terms of how much fun I'm having. This needs more publicity! Am I crazy or is it totally ridiculous to say that this game seems to blow Bloodstained out of the water? The gameplay is crisp and responsive, the music and art is really pretty great! And Robert Belgrade is actually in it! Where did this come from?
Also for some reason my previous DS4 issue totally rectified itself. Simply rebooted the game and all my buttons worked, including the D-pad and analog stick. No third party program (DS4Windows, etc).
Also for some reason my previous DS4 issue totally rectified itself. Simply rebooted the game and all my buttons worked, including the D-pad and analog stick. No third party program (DS4Windows, etc).
Maxey
Member
I played it for a little bit and it seemed pretty good but man, I get it that they wanted to go for the true old school experience with this, but why should I have to suffer with outdated interface standards? Let me skip the intro and autosave at the damn start, god damnit.
Why should I have to restart the game from the main menu if I die before I hit a save point?
Why should I have to restart the game from the main menu if I die before I hit a save point?