Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night Update 1.6 Now Live, Here's What's Included

Every now and then I reinstall this to see if it still runs terribly. It still runs terribly...

Ill check it out.. but Im still bitter about how bad this game turned out to be on Switch. Especially after finding out the majority of sales for the first bloodstained came from Switch..

@LikelySatan was thinking about grabbing this but you answered my question 😂

Come on guys it's a good game and yes the optimisation is subpar on the switch but it is definitely playable and enjoyable.

Plus it's a good igavania, better than several other games in the Castlevania series.

And finally I'm sorry but Symphony is overrated. Actually a couple reviewers have done castlevania worst to best videos and have recognized that once you take off the nostalgia goggles it's a good game by castlevania standards but clearly lacks polish. Now Rondo though is another story so I'll give you that. But I've said it and I'll say it again, all Castlevania games from Aria to Order are better than Symphony. So do yourself a favor and grab the collections if you really don't want Bloodstained.

The three Bloodstained games are a very promising start for the series and I hope the team recognizes the fact that the best selling version of the first game (and probably the two nes styled ones) is the switch version and that they really give it their all for the next game on switch 2.

I never really saw performance issues on this? Maybe at first. I’m not sure. At least not after the first major update on Switch. I played a little bit of it and enjoyed it a lot.

Am I also correct in understanding that one of the more recent updates kinda messed things up too? Like how does that happen?

@mlt Exactly right! It’s fun and can absolutely be played. I like it. Haven’t played a whole lot of it, aside from borrowing my brother’s Switch. But it is a good game!

@mlt I completely agree.

@Zuljaras There is a New Game + mode. I've played it myself.

@mlt I think it's an incredible game, better than good. But the performance is terrible with no right to be.

@Kidfunkadelic83 I really enjoyed it,was my favorite game of the ones I played that year, bought it after the first sale thinking it had a performance update already.

@Zuljaras
Yes I agree Ritual is unpolished and I'm not saying it's better than Symphony. Just that Ritual is underrated and Symphony overrated.

Bloodstained has slightly more manga atmosphere and character design and I would also like it to take itself more seriously and be closer to Castlevania in its atmosphere and designs. But yeah it's also filled with good ideas and I have high hopes for the sequel personally.

@mlt

I played all three games. Ritual of the night was awesome. Only segment I had problem with was that ice cavern boss where the frame rate dropped, otherwise it ran smoothly (I played it two years ago I think). Curse of the moon 1 was spectacular. Curse of the moon 2 was cool but felt like unnecessarily hard so I only played one play through.

Very good series imo

Played it during the 1.2 to 1.3 updates and it ran fine for me then. It was the first game in a while I 100% completed. I enjoyed it a ton and I'd love to try the new modes once all the updates are out. Also it seems weird to complain about the guy who helped pioneer the franchise and genre for bringing things with him from the games he's worked on. Guess you won't be trying that ReFantazio then since it has things from Persona.

I only have a Switch, so the Switch version is the only one I could play, but I found the game to run fine to me. I actually enjoyed this game a lot. It's been a while though; I'd like to pick up the dlc and play though the game again with its recent updates.

@Zuljaras I am fairly late to Castlevania (didn’t know about it as a kid so started playing it in my 20s.) I say that because I don’t have childhood nostalgia attached to the series and I have to agree that Symphony of the Night is a masterpiece.

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is good, I enjoyed it a lot more than expected, but it’s no Castlevania. As you said it’s almost point for point copy of Castlevania which did everything better. In saying that, I do really enjoy Bloodstained.

Thanks for the heads up

@UNCLDNS for me it's the train

Is this the most patched videogame in history or what? The state of this when it launched must have been awfully bad. At least the developers care enough to fix it this many years after release. Now that's dedication!

Wasn't there a sequel in development?

The slower performance on Switch never bothered me as much as the game being a bland regurgitated mess of the previous games. Outside of that autumnal area with swordsmen everything felt like a copy paste. If Order of Ecclesia and Aria of Sorrow still felt fresh and exciting following two games on the same platforms with similar assets and similar gameplay, there was no reason why the long development for Bloodstained resulted in a mostly long line of seen that before, seen that before. Not to mention the map layout and story were somehow lamer than Mirror of Fate. Even the soundtrack felt like someone told Michiru Yamane to do it exactly like SotN - and again, the previous OSTs all have a unique flavor. Really wish they'd stop tinkering with this and make a real worthy follow up to OOE.
At least we got the retro games of it.

@Truegamer79 Cyberpunk 2077 says “Hello”. Now there’s a game that went through the wringer.

@LavenderShroud
I'm still on the fence about that one. Never bought it because of all the bad reports. Would you say it's mostly in acceptable condition now?

@Truegamer79 Honestly I have no idea. I’ve never played it. I only heard about everything. I think last I heard it should be? But I honestly don’t know, I apologize.

@Truegamer79 it is, yes. It's a real game now

This game plays so much worse than a lot of the Castlevania knockoffs with zero pedigree. Even when I tried it on Steam Deck.

A big bloated mess with all those ugly features like backer cameos and stretch goal gimmicks that shaped early Kickstarter games.

Couldn’t bear it. By comparison I played the GBA collection recently and my first play through of Aria of Sorrow was a 10/10. Magic.

Haha so much hate Played it still playing from time to time and have no complaints great game.

I've tried many times, to give the game a new chance (on PC and Rog Ally X), but I always give up after a couple of hours.
It just doesn't have the same quality of music, character and level designs, of the PS1, Advance and DS "Castlevania" games.
And I can't stand the ugly and cheap looking 3D graphics.
The controls are also not as great as in those games.

Too me, the Curse of the Moon spin-off games, are much more fun to play. I would be more excited, if THAT team, made Bloodstained 2, with 32-bit quality 2D graphics.

complete jank on switch. the -sequence with the dragon boss at the tower was like a frame-by-frame powerpoint.

I’m glad other people enjoyed it on Switch. I put it down a loooong time ago. Updates at this point are tiring to me. It crashed waaaay too many times to not have autosave for me. And at one point wasn’t fun enough to go through finding 20% of the map again, due to crashing.

@Rhum17 i did play SoTN when I was young. I thought it was cool then, but I'm even more impressed by it now as an adult. Probably decades of slop has really thrown SoTN into sharp relief, about what a great game can be.
Has anybody played the "Deedlit" game? She is an elf from the old anime "Record of Lodoss War" and her animation is exactly Alucard. I'm guessing some of the SoTN people worked on it. Sadly the levels are kind of lackluster and the game is short.

To be fair, it's good that the game is still getting updates. It's just unfortunate that the Switch version should've been made by someone else.

I played Bloodstained on a Switch Lite and it ran great. The d-pad is absolutely needed for this game.

Played this on ps4 and it was amazing. Will probably replay in the future

@LikelySatan Can confirm 😔

@mlt Whoa wai— wha— Symphony “lacks polish”?! It’s one of the most polished videogames ever. It’s level design is way better than AoS, and its soundtrack demolishes AoS (and just about any other video game actually). Yes it gets easy but that’s only up until the inverted castle.

AoS is good but there are way too many flat, straight areas. AoS soul system is ace but Dawn did it all better

@LikelySatan Yeah this is one of those frustrating Switch ports that SHOULD run decently but doesn't.

It's extra insulting since, I think at launch at least, the Switch version was supposedly the highest performing platform for the game.

Genuinely amazed with how much effort they are still pouring into this port of the game. I commend all staff for being so dedicated to this project. Great game too; although I only played it on my PS4.

Wasn't there supposed to be a co-op update for this game or was it just a dream I had?

Only problem I had with the game on Switch is that I couldn't beat the first boss, lol