Castlevania: Lords of Shadow

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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

SOTN is the only good "Metroidvania". All the others are terrible. I don't know how Konami keeps pumping them out.

I too have found reviewers to be more and more clueless as the years wear on. I have a very demanding job and gaming is merely a hobby yet i seem to have forgotten more about games than the entire Gamespot and Kotaku staffs know combined. How useless.

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Circle of the Moon and Aria of Sorrow are really good Metroidvanias that actually offered a little more challenge than SOTN. Not saying they're impossible, but they're worth playing through.

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Originally Posted by ChaoofNee

Circle of the Moon. Add difficulty to Metroidvania and IGA cries and erases it from the continuity. What a jackhole.

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Ha! Nice. Fuck IGA.

I thought Order of Ecclesia added some much needed difficulty to the Metroidvania formula. It wasn't too heavy on gear/accessory/stat grinding and actually forced you to be reactive to enemy boss patterns.

That was the last one I played and by that time, I was honestly so burned out on the DS series that I traded it away.

I just played the LOS demo and I can safely say that I don't mind waiting till its 40 bucks and I am in a giving mood.

I would love to play the LoS demo but since I'm not a Gold Live user I can not. Fucking retarded horse shit.

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Originally Posted by Changeling

That was the last one I played and by that time, I was honestly so burned out on the DS series that I traded it away.

I just played the LOS demo and I can safely say that I don't mind waiting till its 40 bucks and I am in a giving mood.

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I'm buying this tomorrow. I liked the demo a lot.

Careful here, this paragraph at IGN is different based on whether you're reading the 360 or PS3 labelled review.

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Originally Posted by IGN

That said, Lords of Shadow also has framerate issues on the Xbox 360. It can drop when the action heats up -- or just during a cut scene. During one cinematic moment the game was literally chugging at just a few frames per second. Gabriel has a useful instant-kill move he can inflict on weaker enemies, but the game freezes for a moment every time he uses it. The game runs more smoothly on the PlayStation 3.

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But fear not, damage control isn't far behind:

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Writing on Twitter, Cox also confirmed that the game runs at a consistent rate of 30 fps: “The games are identical. The 360 review code had some issues with frame rates but not major and they are not in the final [product]."

"The game runs at 30 fps consistently. Occasionally that may drop but as most reviewers say it doesn't spoil the game,” he added.

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Er... wait. Is it a consistent 30FPS or does it drop occasionally?

James

Yes.

It's temporarily permanent.