I would rather a spiritual successor to Shadowrun for the SNES. That was my introduction and holy crap it was good... and it needed mouse support. There are the new Shadow Run games, which are awesome, but not quite the same thing.
I think I would like a big budget Shadowrun production in the vein of 2077, though hopefully with less silly ambition and scope. I don't need some big open world, just give me a semi-open experience like Deus Ex(which I feel is what 2077 should've aimed to be from the start) and I'm gold.
I still need to play Returns, but I've heard its by far the weakest of the 3. I did beat Dragonfall and Hong Kong and I loves them so much. I kinda like the level based nature of them, to me the cyberpunk setting shouldn't really be mapped, having a way to escape the city by just driving away seems wrong.
Returns is hella short. I think I beat it in around 9-10 hours? From what I heard they made Returns largely to be an engine for people to create their own Shadowrun campaigns in, and the campaign it did contain was just meant to be a short story deal to show off what it was capable of. But people liked it way more than expected, which led to Dragonfall and Hong Kong which are more proper full length games.
You might really like Hong Kong, it has more of a home town area to roam around and people to talk too then Dragonfall. There aren't a ton of NPC's but a good number and I think they give sidequests, but you can't really steal from them as I remember.
The Castlevania Advance Collection has good games in it. Circle of the Moon isn't everyone's cup of tea but the other two games on it are great for anyone.
Bloodstained is basically a Castlevania game in all but in name.
lol it sounds like you want the SNES shadowrun. It would be nice, was a nice in between an open world game and a CRPG.
They had a Deception IV for the PS3 in 2014 that got an expansion in 2015 for the PS4 but the series has been quiet since. I think Deception 2 was probably my favorite of the series in terms of story, the mechanics haven't changed much across the series.
Oh definitely. The last "Castlevania" game we got was the Lords of Shadows series I think which didn't have the metroidvania style gameplay the Castlevania series had been known for which is why I think people didn't like it much.
Honestly there's quite a few Castlevania clones out there in Steam these days. There's even a entire category of "Metroidvania" games to search for and I've played a few good ones of them, but I definitely do think Bloodstained is the one that gets the Castlevania feel down the best.
Better start playing the Lords of Shadows titles and the PS2 games, because that's all you're gonna get 3d wise.
Don't forget about the Classicvania Collection (the linear non Metrodvania games).
The Mirror of Fate midquel/gaiden game and Lords of Shadow 2 uses metroidvania style. LoS2 combines those elements with a hub world using Dracula's castle.
I actually prefer the 8 bit spin-off games to the canon game. I admit to being having a heavy bias towards the Classicvania play style.
The fist Castlevania TV Series is based off of Caslevania III: Dracula's Curse, with some visual elements from Symphony of the Night.
I do rather like Cold Fear. It's not a great game by any means but it had some cool aspects to it, particularly on the boat.
I feel Bloodstained deserves a specific mention since it has Koji Igarashi behind it, a veteran developer on many Castlevania games before he left Konami. I think there's many who consider Bloodstained to be the closest thing to a direct successor of the Castlevania franchise. Not like Konami seems to be doing much with the IP these days...
I'm sure they'll turn it into a pachinoslot as soon as they remember it exists
I liked the spiritual sequel to 2, "Trapt." It just went bigger and more ridiculous, and that is what was needed. The story was as poor and forgettable as any in the series, and the voice acting was hilariously awful. And the controls were terrible... frankly most of the series isn't good. But that gameplay. Nothing more fun than juggling an enemy in the air between ridiculously over the top cartoon trap weapons. The more hideous and brutal you make some guy's poor Acme Labs-esque death, the more points and money you get. It was a series of terrible games that were the most satisfyingly fun to play I have ever seen.
