BLOODSTAINED - Koji Igarashi's Newest Project Unveiled

[Koh]

I don't think it's a piece of shit, pretty good actually, just its stiff controls suck. Once you've played games with much better control, in the same genre and same category (arcade, platformer, or whatever), downgrading to something that's unnecessarily much more stiff than it needs to be just sucks.

Mario came before Castlevania, and is a time-tested, approved way to handle jumping control, for example. So if you've played something like that, then go to Haunted Castle, Castlevania 1-3, or Rondo of Blood, that's an immediate stiff feeling you face, because it's missing such a simple element that was made a standard before they even existed.

I don't think anyone here really dislikes the linear style. In fact I've seen some support for another game like that, but only if it had controls like Super Castlevania 4, which I agree with.