Was very excited when i got my code for this prequel, but then i launched the game and... And encountered the levels of peasantry i didn't even think were possible before. Pause button is "P" (yes, i'm bloody serious). The only place it is ever mentioned is manual, and you can't rebind it. You can't rebind menu controls (confirm/cancel). You can't bind actions to half of the keyboard buttons (like numpad). By default attack and sub-weapon are bound to mouse buttons (in a retro-platformer with no aiming or...

When I first loaded up the game, it asked me to input the controls for the gamepad controller. It skipped over down or up on one of them, and misread it as the wrong input. Now the game will not register a down or up with a controller connected, as it will misread the input. I can't change that basic a controller setup with the controller still attached, as I can't go through the menu to restart it, and if I disconnect the controller, start the game, use the keyboard to get the initial controller set up st...

The game gives you the option of two difficulties from the getgo: Veteran, which is supposedly designed for people who are used to these sorts of games, and Casual, which is for people that aren't used to the NES-era Castlevania difficulty. Veteran is st...

I know it's a hot take, but I have actually grown to love Bloodstained: Curse Of The Moon that much. And I haven't even ♥♥♥♥♥♥ the sequel and Ritual Of The Night yet.

Hey all. First, full disclaimer: Castlevania is my all-time favorite series, so I was IN on Bloodstained when IGA left Konami and teased it a year before the Kickstarter campaign. I even dug it so much I consider it one of my favorite platformers on PC (https://www.gamersdecide.com/articles/best-steam-platformers if y'all care about a plug, there it is :p). So, I was quite surprised to see that Curse of the Moon was so directly inspired by Classicvania, and particularly, Dracula's Curse, one of my favorit...