- Borrowed game from Erik, interested in trying it out...
- Patrick Stewart! YAY!
- Lesser Lycanthropes and a Great Warg. I like this already. Except for the frame rate.
- Lush dark fantasy graphics, decent combat with a solid block mechanic, a book that lists all encountered monsters with beautiful drawings and some backstory... Good stuff.
- In a surprise casting choice, Robert Carlyle portrays a tense scottish Gabriel Belmont.
- Similarly to how I solved the annoying puzzles in Onimusha 2 puzzle boxes, I did a quick brute force on the Castlevania rotation puzzle, using the hint that only one-way rotation should be needed:
# Castlevania: Lords of Shadow: Pan's Temple puzzle solver by schmid 2012-05-24 moves = [ [-1,+1,-1,"middle RT"], [+1,-1,0,"inner RT"], [0,-1,+1,"outer RT"] ] def apply(move, puzzle) (0..2).each do |n| puzzle[n] = (puzzle[n] + move[n]) % 4 end end random = Random.new 100000.times do puzzle = [1,1,1] # start position (0 is north, 1 is east, etc.) move_list = [] (1..5).each do |m| # shortest solution is 5 moves move = moves[ random.rand(0...moves.length) ] apply(move, puzzle) ; move_list += [ move ] if puzzle == [2,2,2] then # solution is all south puts "solution:" ; move_list.each { |move| puts move[3] } exit end end end
Solution: outer RT x 2, middle RT, inner RT x 2 - Patrick Stewart to the rescue! After a very Shadow of the Colossus-esque boss fight, I completed Chapter I/XII.
- EUW! Ginormous spider!
- Completed part 2/9 of Chapter II. This game is H.U.G.E.
- I dislike the stylistic choice of simulating a handheld camera for a fantasy game. Fantasy should not call attention there being a camera. Cameras don't exist in fantasy.
- Defeated the mighty Stone Idol Titan, another boss fight ripped directly from Shadow of the Colossus. I don't mind, though, it's still pretty cool.
- Completed Chapter II/XII. Oh no! Gabriel has absolutely no luck when it comes to women.
- I just found a Brotherhood Knight Scroll, stating that 'The Cake is not a lie.' What the...?
- Got stuck with a missing lever ... I restarted from the last checkpoint and the lever was there again.
- Completed Chapter III/XII. The Dark Lord of the Lycans was a worthy opponent, a very tricky boss fight. I went back, completed a couple of old levels to get a dagger upgrade, which helped a lot (turns out werewolves don't like silver daggers - who knew? :) and the Dark Crystal horrible demon magic finished him off.
- Awesome Ogre fight ... reminds me of the end of Shadow of the Beast - the way it should have been :).
- 'You cannot carry any more Faries' is one of the weirder sentences I have encountered in a game.
- Chupacabra? Heh ... kinda cute. Wait - where did my stuff go? Why, you little!!
- Completed Chapter IV/XII. Die, Crow Witch.
- Completed Chapter V/XII.
- Insert Disc 2. :)
- Hooray! I won the awful chess-like board game against a vampire girl.
- Another butcher demon? That seems to have become somewhat of a trope.
- Completed Chapter VI/XII.
- Completed Chapter VII/XII. Horribly boring chapter with complex, yet mindless puzzles and uninteresting fights.
- Completed Chapter VIII/XII.
- After gaining the double jump ability from magic wings, Kratos ... I mean Gabriel must now travel to Hades ... I mean Hell to redeem himself. Good thing they switched the crowd control and single target buttons from that other game when they copied every single combat mechanic from it...
- Completed Chapter IX/XII. I enjoyed the Scarecrow stuff, reminding me a bit of Medievil. The Music Box, however, was a bit boring and poorly made.
- Yay, poorly checkpointed 3D platforming - my favourite. Damn it.
- Completed Chapter X/XII.
- Completed Chapter XI/XII. Although the Dracolich boss fight is lifted directly from Shadow of the Colossus, this one was so incredibly cool looking, that it was utterly memorable by itself.
- Last chapter is named Final Fight. I hope that Mike Haggar shows up.
- Final boss - it doesn't get much bigger than that. :)
- Completed the game on Warrior (2/4) difficulty.
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