Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Preview

monkeycurler

To be quite honest, this looks to be more of a Dante's Inferno rip if anything. It has the two masks, heaven and hell, to derive your spells from much similar to the scythe and the cross skills from Dante's. As for the actual combat, it has a derivative of God of War seeing the whip swing much like the swords. As for being a complete fail, I haven't seen anything to disappoint me so far. The story seems well written (a tad cookie-cutter-ish with the whole dead wife and all yet still fairly captivating), the combos shown seem very smooth and well programmed, and the voice acting will either send the dialogue over the top in greatness or simply help out with a failing script. I personally didn't think Curse of Darkness was all that bad. It had a cool idea, giving the whole "summon familiars" a new out-take, but it had a nasty downfall with the level design (which has always been a big part of the Castlevania series imo), the dialogue was very choppy and lacked sustenance, and I will say that a few of the controls were less than comfortable. I have faith in Kojima that they will take what seems to be like a great idea and actually make a very entertaining game out of this particular title. I would shoot this Castlevania title down so fast.