BLOODSTAINED - Koji Igarashi's Newest Project Unveiled

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And if you argue that both players could just use the car instead, then that's a completely different game.

Doesn't this work counter to everything else you've said in defense of Castlevania, though? At least continuing to use the Chess allegory, it would... I mean, in Chess, both sides have access to the same units, strategies, and abilities. This isn't so in Castlevania, where one side is limited in movement and offensive capabilities, while the other has dozens of units with different attack strategies, many of which can not only attack as a group, but to return to respawn an indefinite number of times.

Both players using a truck to crush chess pieces is way more the same game to chess than Castlevania is... and claiming that leveling the playing field would make Castlevania a different game just goes to show how different it actually is from chess.