Ritual of the Night

[A Black Falcon]

Hmm... two great kickstarters here, Yooka-Laylee and this. Should I back them, though? I mean, these are sure to release, and if I don't back them they'll surely end up cheaper eventually, after they release... unless I want a boxed tier or something, but... probably not. I'll think about it, though, maybe I'll back something. Probably Yooka-Laylee first, I have more confidence in ex-Rare to be great than Iga-- his 2d games are mostly good but isn't entirely consistent. And the less said about his 3d games, the better...

I... am not sure motorcycles existed back in 1850. Neither did skeletons... Oh wait, yeah skeletons existed back then. Okay it all checks out.

Heh... yeah, actually, I think the game is set before 1850 isn't it? But yeah, no motorcycles then. But then, the Castlevania games have never been at all attached to their supposed setting times. I mean, most of the Castlevania games are set in the 16-1900s, and they've got all kinds of weird outfits, whips, all kinds of random monsters from throughout history and fiction all mixed up together, etc. I guess I didn't really care about the motorcycles because it's a franchise that never in any way tried to have a plausible setting.

I'm just glad Iga is getting over his issues with females being vampire hunters, or demon hunters or whatever the case is with this new series. They could still go for Dracula actually. No one owns Dracula (any more, consider Count Orlok).

The cynical (but probably mostly accurate) explanation for this would be that Iga went with "guys like fanservice" over "but girls can't go on adventures like guys"... but regardless, yeah, it's good that he stopped opposing the idea of female major characters in his games. (Of course, OoE was the first one with a female main character, but PoR has one character of each gender in the main pair.)