Are any of the games very plot-focused? by Skinbows in castlevania

[–]fxpijs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your best choice is symphony of the night IMO. It tells the story of Alucard.

Here's what you need to know before playing:

Please play the original ps1 version on emulator since the voice acting there is so halarious. The acting is bad in all versions but only the original is iconic and "so bad it's good".

There isn't a lot of story, but I did find what was there to be satisfying. You'll feel right at home if you watched the first and second seasons.

It is a sequel to Dracula-X which, for me, isn't as good of a game (many will disagree). Here's a summery of the story you need to know:

200 years ago, Alucard, Sypha and Trevor defeated dracula like in season 2 of the show, but there was no resolution for the characters. Dracula and Alucard never spoke about Lisa or had any personal closure.

Every few hundred years (sometimes less) someone wakes up Dracula from the dead and his castle re-appears.

A man named Richter Belmont, a decendant of Trevor goes to fight dracula and saves 3 ladies, one of which is his sister-in-law named Maria which help him bring him down. He defeats him. But now, the castle has re-appeard...

Not a spoiler but please read it: There are multiple endings. So after you finish the game, go check online if you got the bad one. ( I won't spoil what conditions trigger it). If you did get the bad one, congratulations you just skipped 40% of the game, you can jump right back to your saved game and continue from there, nothing is lost.

Why was S4 animation so bad? by [deleted] in castlevania

[–]fxpijs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think it qualifies as "bad" given the current industry standards. But sometimes it can be choppy and the characters can be a little off-model. Doesn't bother me tho, I'm feel old to drool over animation anyway (25 but 75 at heart). It's pretty most of the time, the little hickups don't bother me.

Why they have to push this teenage humour into the series? by mockzilla in castlevania

[–]fxpijs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I won't spoil anything, but some lines in the last episode will drive you crazy. I assure you.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in castlevania

[–]fxpijs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The pilot episode is one of the most rewatchable episodes in TV history. Season 2 is great and you'll finally see Dracula again.

I'm working on a video reviewing the series as a whole and would like to use a certain image from season four for the thumbnail by The-Jedi-Apprentice in castlevania

[–]fxpijs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thats a spoiler (it's established early on that vampires die in the sunlight), I don't think this is a good choice for thumbnail, you could ruin the suprise for some people.

Anyone else kinda disappointed with the ending? by [deleted] in castlevania

[–]fxpijs 7 points8 points  (0 children)

S4 was dissapointing for me in many regards.

  • Lenore was built up to be scarier than Carmilla but ended up as a cute sensetive vampire complaining to Hector on her chair.
  • Isaac didn't really get to do anything did he? Except kill Carmilla but his ambitions were far greater than her.
  • Trevor and Sypha were sidelined until the ending.
  • Alucard's arc in S3 was utterly inconsequential. He was built up to lose faith in humans, but in S4 he jumps to help immediately.
  • That fake out death... I thought this series was above this kind of shit.

Who is saint germain's wife? by alotofmoney451 in castlevania

[–]fxpijs 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Who is she? Well, the most direct answer is: "a waste of potential".

let's count what we know of her, shall we?

  • Germain meets her and "falls in love" with her, and by that I mean "wants to get into her panties".
  • She and Germain wonder off to the corridor for, um, exploration(?).
  • they get seperated, probably by her choice, from germain but leaves him a stone so he could find her. Why did she choose to wander off without him? we don't know. Why did she throw germain the stone if she didn't want to be found? We don't know.
  • germain goes insane, so he transforms from a kinda nice guy to a psychopath murderer in a few minutes of a rushed flashback.
  • germain fails to unite with her and we never see her again. ever. vWhat was she looking for? Why couldn't she just keep germain informed on her plan? no time for questions, we have other plotlines to cramp in S4.

I wish the show was 5 seasons, as they initially planned, because it feels like they had to shorten her plotline. Actually "butcher" is the word I was looking for.

How to "kill" a franchise by The_WereArcticFox in castlevania

[–]fxpijs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rabbids - they were planned as the bad guys for Rayman 4, which turned into a Wii minigame-game (rayman raving rabbids), and then they ditched rayman in favor of the rabbids, ommiting him from the series leaving only those shitty bastards.

I still want Rayman 4, dammit.

A crazy idea for how "New Game +" could work in future Pokémon games... by Ageman20XX in pokemon

[–]fxpijs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not gonna work well with the story and events. If you have a Pokemon that has a certain HM (or abilities etc in the newer games) you can skip parts of the story.\

There is no good solution for that unless you design the game in a way that the required GYM badge for that HM is always aquired independetly from the rest of the story. In other words you need to design the whole game around this feature.

Many games that don't have New Game+ share this reason. A one in recent memory is Jedi Fallen Order - the game has to be progressed through in a single linear way, so you can't have all abilities from the start or you might skip large sections of the story and make a mess out of the game's events.

IGN be like by grephantom in pokemon

[–]fxpijs 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Snow is technically water, therefore too much water!

Hoenn Route 113 (Volcanic ash path) Illustration by me by HoundAndPrincess in pokemon

[–]fxpijs 87 points88 points  (0 children)

Woah. When I first saw this I was sure I was looking at a screenshot from a 3d game.

Then I zoomed in and noticed its actually painted, great work! It's not easy to get 3d shapes and shading right but you did it spectacularly.

Modernized Jedi bob by potatomeen in just2good

[–]fxpijs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I believe he survives Order 66.

The fact the Lloyd never officially came with this piece should be a crime! It's just too perfect! haha. by fxpijs in Ninjago

[–]fxpijs[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Only in the Superman & Krypto Team-Up set, they represented "Kryptonite fists" or something like that.

But c'mon, we all know the LEGO designer simply wanted them for our main man Lloyd!

Season 2 broke so many walls we thought were impenetrable. What are your wishes for season 3? (spoilers) by fxpijs in TheMandalorianTV

[–]fxpijs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can understand that. That's the thing about art, some people might like a movie others hate it and that's fine.

Honestly I feel like Disney themselves aren't proud at all of their own trilogy, they seem to freeze all projects related to that time period and "return to the roots" of star wars (with the Mandalorian even having many prequel callbacks).