Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2 Reviews

Pretty cool. I like.

make curse of the moon 3 you cowards

One of the best NES style games ever made. It takes everything the first game did and amplifies it. Don't let my playtime fool you... I put many more hours in the PS4 version.

Good game, with mechanics more polished than the first. But, Episode 2 has some balancing issues, and the final stage to get the true ending is obnoxious. Overall though, it's a great game. Just goes on for a bit too long.

I don't usually do multiple playthroughs of the game, but this game made it worth it with it's true ending. Truly amazing game.

Oh boy, this is a very hard one for me. For one, I do like it if games simulate retro feeling and I did enjoy the first game. So I do not have a problem with the controls being clunky, as that was done on purpose. But it just isn't as fun? It is hard alright, but hard to a frustrating degree imo. I played on veteran at first, but had to go down to easy. Even on easy this game is very hard. Especially as it has many passages designed for specific characters, that just don't work with other characters... Or if they work, they're incredibly much harder, than just using the right character. Well the right person died? Too bad, you got 3 others you gotta go through first, before you can try again, so jump into a pit with all the other characters, or just experience pain. The hardmode actually kills off all characters if you die with a single one, which makes that smoother, but I don't play on hard, I play on easy. It just annoys me that I gotta do this to respawn the character I actually need. Some passages I am very thankful for having knockback removed on easy, while on other passages the knockback could actually be used to damageboost. Overall I prefer it without the knockback after playing through this though. There are too many cheap ways to suddenly have an enemy or an attack be spawned so close to you, that it basically just pushes you randomly into a pit. I do like how you can learn all the bosses though. They are what I'd consider the fairest part of the game, though if you're not playing on easy, you'll have a very hard time actually learning them, as you will be game over, before even figuring them out. There is just lots of stuff that wastes your time with cheap deaths. I do like a challenge, but the first game felt fair, this one does not. The soundtrack is really good though! Now this game wants you to play through all stages 3 times... First episode is the first time. Second episode is the second time. (Does it change much? No) The first few stages have small differences, as you're collecting 3 items for the 4th stage, to be able to beat the final boss with it or something, I stopped halfway through, because the stages stopped having any changes whatsoever and I ABSOLUTELY HATE playing things twice or even more time. I looked it up online, to see if there is any significant change that I'd like to see, so it'd be worth doing?... but... no. One new boss and thats it. So then I read something about having to do this stuff a third time, to be able to go to the true final boss? Again without changes? If I already dislike playing things twice, having to do it even more, is a huge pass for me. I enjoyed playing through it once, but I have no desire to keep doing it. It isn't fun enough for me to waste more time with. The movement isn't fun (on purpose, I get get that) The game doesn't feel rewarding at all. It forces you to repeat things over and over, while you're already doing that, by just playing through the game, as it isn't that easy to begin with. Aside from invincibility cheese. If you really like these kinds of games, I believe you'll be satisfied. It wasn't for me though. I do enjoy a challenge, but I do not enjoy wasting my time.