Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2

Probably the best classicvania game ive played, really good

There are parents who are sometimes harsh and make their children cry because they despise them, and there are parents who are sometimes harsh and make their children cry because they love them. This game is like the latter. "Impossible" was a term that came constantly in my mind, and yet there I was succeeding at doing the impossible, then later succeeding at doing the harder version of what I had called "impossible". The game is... long. Both in the sense that some stages drag for quite a bit (e.g. Stage 4) and with how many times you have to beat it to fully experience it. And I'm not saying like CotM1 distinction-without-a-difference achievements like "Kill a companion, spare another and-", here things really change and you have to beat it in order to unlock all the modes: Beat the game, now do it again with one less character and harder bosses, now do that again with base Zangetsu, now do that again with the cast from the first game (Essentially killing your previous strategies). When I finally go into Final Episode I thought "DAMN, THIS GAME IS OVERSTAYING IT'S WELCOME", but it actually wasn't so bad (Ah, and after it you'll need to do it again with solo ultimate Zangetsu...…

i finished it with my friend in a one sit, it was tiring but damn fun.

I thought the sequel would improve upon the first game and fix the flaws. Apparently, I wished for too much. Not only did the developers double down on the flaws of the first game, but made the sequel even worse. The only problem they seem to have fixed is that now there is now an option to retry from the last checkpoint which restores all health and revives all fallen teammates. You do not have to manually kill your team anymore. (Or maybe it was already a feature and I did not notice it in the first game, but I think that there wasn't such a feature). They still kept that stupid fixed jumping. You cannot control your jump in-air. So the platforming is limited, handicaped and way less fun than it could be. And this game features even more platforming than the first game did. Playing the episode 1, or as I would like to call it, when you have your first playthrough, the later levels are so unfair. These new teammates are not as good as the ones from the first game, and you cannot perform certain exploits. Altough, I figured some new ones with these other characters as well. Some sections are just plain unfair, you have tight and fast-paced platforming sections with shooting enem…

Cant use my switch pro controller

I really wanted to play this game for longer than I could. There's some strange optimization issue where my CPU is tapped at 10% but my GPU fluctuates between 37% and 99%, and it causes a bunch of frame time inconsistencies and lag. It rendered the game unplayable.