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Great RPG for Souls-series fans or newcomers alike

Had to turn off that narration, wow

Very cool

This is good, easy to learn with a lot of depth, awesome narration

However a few questionable additions to the game are thrown in to potentially ruin the players kingdom instantly if they make the wrong choice, which is hard to know when you never know what you're paying for when trying something new.


Well, the perfect example is the Knight Statue. What's the Knight Statue? Well, you find statues on the islands, and by paying with gems (a currency that can't ever be renewed after spent in your save file) you can activate the statue by paying again with coins. The first three statues you find are great, and I won't spoil what they do because they're fun to discover for yourself. The Knight Statue is different. You find it last, and since it appears to affect Knights because it looks like one, it deceives you into thinking it must be a really good statue- it was saved for last, it must make the knights amazing!!


Not only does the statue not make the knights better, it makes them suicide-leap in the enemy every night, meaning for the rest of your current life (because only by death will the statue deactivate) all of your knights will die every night. This is just one example of how playing the game without web searching for what new things do will result in you potentially wanting to just run your character out to lose so you can start over. There are several other issues just like this one, and the rest of this review is just going to be a laundry list of problems with the game, with no description, just for showing the raw quantity of them;

• Getting stuck on a slow/low stamina mount without having unlocked mount switching.
  
• AFKing in winter because you didn't prepare to have no income besides banker/spears/ninjas.
  
• The bomb doesn't light automatically even though there's nothing else to do at that point.
  
• The game allows you to buy the bomb before clearing all small portals.
  
• Knights commit suicide by dock portal.
  
• The lighthouse is actually kind of pointless.
  
• The Shogun expansion shouldn't be called the Shogun expansion, because the Shoguns weren't Monarchs. What do I mean? The Shogunate in Japan was a dictatorship where rule was gotten by force, while the emperor still existed but didn't rule. Therefore, if I'm the "Monarch" (King/Queen as called by my subjects in the intro) I'm not a Shogun, and I shouldn't be ruling the Shogunate.
  
• The Shogun reskin changes pikemen into ninjas, but the Dead Lands reskin just has regular pikemen again??
  
• Dead Lands has Shogun sound effects when upgrading town center, but doesn't have ninjas???
  
• Where did the f#$%ing ninjas go????
  
• Every mount that isn't fast/high stamina sucks because you can never reach the edges of your kingdom/scout with a slow mount.
  
• The bad mounts bait you into thinking they might be cool, like the lizard unlock area looks like the mount will be amazing, then it totally sucks??? WHY????
  
• The gem chest costs a gem to unlock and isn't clear in what it will do if you pay more gems.
  
• Winter is boring even if you are making money during winter.
  
• The seasons changing is nice visually but it barely affects anything.
  
• The catapult is a great way to destroy your own base by giving the enemy giants ammo to AoE your soldiers.
  
• Why is buying the catapult a way to upgrade the ENEMY army???
  
• Why can't the pikemen stab upwards to hit the flying enemies?? Or the JUMPING enemies???
  
• I read that the pikemen can stab upwards but I have played 30 hours and NEVER seen them do that.
  
• Towers are a great way to waste coins.
  
• If you build enough towers early on, you can softlock yourself by running out of archers because they are all stuck in the towers.
  
• The only good hermit is the baker, unless you get really lategame and need the ballista but you might as well just buy more archers.
  
• The Dracula guy with the ability to turn into a bat should have been in the base game.
  
• The Dracula guy should recharge his power faster.
  
• Miriam, Zangetsu and the old guy should also be able to turn into bats, because their powers suck and are useless anyway.
  
• Maybe the Dracula guy should be able to bite their necks and turn them into vampires too?
  
• Final item of this list; the Dracula guy should be able to bite everyone's neck in the whole Kingdom, so they can all move really fast by turning into bats.

Thanks for reading my review of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. Have a great weekend.

Game was funny in middleschool, recommended ages 12 or less

This game is great! It's very immersive, feels like becoming a freerunning badass. Story is whatever but REALLY good gameplay!

Love how this game keeps getting updates! Was a lot of fun and challenge when it came out and they keep adding more content. Best kind of game developer right here

This game is so, so slow. The pacing completely gutted the game for me despite the interesting story elements. Finding out that I have to do more and more to finish with an area and move on was killing me, not to mention that there are bugs appearing early on in the game that stopped me from playing until I could fix them, such as by restarting and quitting/disabling the steam overlay, etc. Would not recommend this game to most people, even those that are RPG + Star Wars fans. Only for dedicated Star Wars fans willing to labor through it to find out the story.