Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2

I believe it popped up in Steam code or something a month or two back.
 
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Coming To PC This August. June 5, 2013 . 9:00am

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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow: Ultimate Edition is headed to the PC, Konami have announced.


Castlevania: Lords of Shadow: Ultimate Edition is headed to the PC, Konami have announced. The PC version of the game will include the two add-on story chapters, Reverie and Resurrection.

The PC version will also be capable of running at 1080p at 60 frames-per-second at recommended system specifications, and offers Trophy integration as well as Cloud saves through Steam.

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow will be released on August 27th via Steam. A physical version will follow on August 30th in Europe.

As previously reported, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow II is headed to PC as we
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source: Siliconera
 
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 To Focus On Free Exploration. June 6, 2013 . 10:36am

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Konami shared a lengthy new trailer for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 during their pre-E3 presentation this morning.






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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2′s Dracula Is “Not A Good Guy”. June 12, 2013 . 6:50pm



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“He’s not a good guy. He’s a bad guy and we show that,” says Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 creative producer Dave Cox.







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I missed the latest trailer during E3. (link here, also posted above by zenith16)

Trailer is awesome! I had to watch it again. Can't wait for Castlevania: LoS2. I've really got to replay the first one b/f this comes out.
 
the pc Demo of the first game is almost here.


Castlevania: Lords of Shadow gets fresh PC screenshots ahead of tomorrow’s demo




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Tread lightly, for I have bundled so much Castlevania news into this post, that at any moment it could burst into a grotesque shower of spiders, gothic scenery, and weirdly angry coffins with legs. Konami released a selection of screenshots for the updated, polished, and DLC-bundling Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Ultimate Edition. Have a browse through, and anticipate the weird things you’ll get to slice come the demo, which, according to the game’s Facebook page, is due for a Steam summoning tomorrow.
Then, when you’ve filled your eyes with the horrors of 2010; gaze into the future courtesy of the extra screens depicting the PC-confirmed Lords of Shadow 2, due out this November.


source: PC Gamer
 
Watched a playthrough of MoF for 3DS. The story is incredibly light considered next to LoS. I wouldn't call it necessary to have played the game if you've played LoS and are awaiting the sequel.
 
yeah I know it's more of a pick it up if you don't care much about the story thing or can live with out it. It been known since the reviews about came out. the game play is ok other wise. well not as fast as it's console predecessor, but ok. so it's not a total loss. The story could have been better.
 
Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow 2 Interview On Vampire Powers And Surprising Players. August 19, 2013 . 5:58pm

“I think the story is going to surprise people the most,” producer Dave Cox said to Siliconera. “I think a lot of things will become clearer of what our intention was with Lords of Shadow 1 and to a certain extent Mirror of Fate.”



Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow 2 Interview On Vampire Powers And Surprising Players Since Gabriel Belmont is now Dracula, Siliconera asked Dave Cox, producer on Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, about his newfound vampire powers. In this interview, Cox explains how MercurySteam changed the combat system from using Light and Shadow magic in Lords of Shadow to a multiweapon combo system in Lords of Shadow 2. Gabriel Belmont is Dracula in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, aside from the Blood Whip what new vampire powers does he have? Dave Cox, Producer: The Void Sword and the Chaos Claws work very similar to the Light and Shadow magic in the previous game. Unlike the demo you player in E3, you have to fill the focus bar. You fill the focus bar by hitting enemies, doing damage, but not taking damage. When you become focused enemies drop blood and you can funnel blood into either your Void Sword or Chaos Claws. But, you cannot use the Void Sword or Chaos Claws if you are not focused, so you have to play well in order to use those weapons. What we’ve done with this game is we’ve given each weapon its own set of combos, it’s own combo tree, if you like. You have abilities linked to that particular weapon. For example, the Void Sword has about 35 additional combos only for use with the Void Sword.



As you use the Void Sword, and you buy specific combos for the Void Sword through experience, and you use a particular combo it will become mastered. It’s like a little gauge. The more you use that combo, the more you become mastered. When you become mastered that gauge becomes full and you can siphon that mastery power into the weapon itself and make it much more powerful. It gives you extra abilities in terms of doing more powerful moves, doing more damage, etc. The Void Sword itself also has the ability to do other things. One of the things, you can do is freeze enemies with it. This is an ability you get as you play the game. During combat, you can target an enemy, fire a projectile at an enemy, freeze one, and deal damage to the other. While you fight that enemy you can wait until the other enemy unfreezes. You can constantly do that, even with boss characters you can freeze them. In the previous game, we just had the Combat Cross had its combos that was it. Light and shadow magic supported that, but in this one we have three separate weapons that can be mastered. Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow 2 Interview On Vampire Powers And Surprising Players What about those vampire powers? One of the other things Dracula has is what we call the Bat Swarm ability.


The Bat Swarm ability is a distraction. Basically, you can throw a swarm of bats on enemies and they become distracted. If you’ve got multiple enemies coming at you, you can distract a few of them and then dish out the damage on the other ones you can deal with. One of the things we do in this particular game is we have mini-bosses and support characters. You might have five enemies that come towards you and one of them is a mini-boss. You’ve got to deal with either the mini-boss or the support characters first. Using the freezing ability or the Bat Swarm ability allows you to manage the combat. There are a lot more options around in the previous game. Can you tell us more about the weapon switching system, I believe you can switch weapons mid-combo. You can switch weapons mid-combo. You go back to the Blood Whip if you run out of focus.



The other thing is if you’re fighting an enemy with a shield and you’ve got no magic – how can you break that shield without the Chaos Claws? We give the player other abilities. One of the abilities is the somersault. You can literally somersault over an enemy and then do a reverse follow through, that allows you to build up focus that way. We’ve got the dodge ability, which lets you dodge past enemies and dish damage. Obviously, the enemy will turn around and block. You can build up focus that way. We give players lots and lots of options in order for them to build up focus and use their more powerful weapons. Really good players they will be able to come into a fight, dish out damage, and be able to constantly use their weapons all the time because they’re playing well. They are buying the combos, using the combos, and using all of the tools we give them. They can be a real badass. Basically, the more you play the more of a badass you become. Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow 2 Interview On Vampire Powers And Surprising Players Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow 2 Interview On Vampire Powers And Surprising Players Speaking of options, Castlevania:



Lords of Shadow 2 has different exploration routes. How do these work? Will there be different rewards? Will some paths feel more platform oriented or combat oriented? We’ve done a bit of both. The game is told in a linear fashion and it starts off very linear as well. You start the game and it feels like the original Lords of Shadow. As you go through, as the world grows more organically and you explore more areas you start to realize I can go back, I can go wherever I want. What we tried to do is give players things to find. There are a lot more items in this game than there were previous game. There are a lot more relics, secondary weapons, and a lot more abilities and secrets you can find scattered in the world. We want players to realize, and you do realize very early on, that you can explore and there are things you can see that you can’t get right now. Especially, with the free camera. It allows you to go, "what’s up there? what’s over there?" A lot more of that goes on than in the previous game. Making it interesting for players is the key. When you come back you don’t want to keep facing the same enemies. You want to have a different challenge.



It might be a puzzle this time. It might be as you said more platforming elements. With exploration, you will even get more story elements that weren’t there the first time around. I remember the story in Lords of Shadow 2 was a linear story since you have a tale you want to tell players, but there are story scenes you can miss. Can you give us a little example. Yes, you can miss story scenes. Well… I can’t because that would be spolier-ish, but there are certain enemies you may not face in the first playthrough. These enemies will have story elements that will help fill out the story. Most players finish the game around 50% to 60% their first time around. That’s what we’re finding right now. Then they go back through, re-exploring, and finding new story elements that add to the story that they didn’t see before. How many of the Belmonts will we get to fight? [Laughs] There is a Belmont in the game intent on Dracula’s destruction. They’re all intent on Dracula’s destruction. [Laughs] Yeah and for good reason! [Gabriel] is their shame. He is their ancestor, essentially. That’s the reason why the Belmonts have to go after Dracula. Alcuard plays a role, as well. Alucard is a character that is very important to this particular game because he’s Dracula’s son, but he is not the Belmont that’s going after Dracula. It’s a whole new Belmont. I can’t really tell you now because that would be spoilery.



Is it someone that we may have seen before at some point? Mmmm… that would be spoilerish! Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow 2 Interview On Vampire Powers And Surprising Players Can you tell us more about the boss fights? Like the Titan battles? One of the ones you saw in the trailer is Medusa. Medusa is a classic enemy from the Castlevania series. We’ve given her a European twist because the Gorgon is three sisters. We have the three sisters and the three sisters, without giving too much away, become the Gorgon and then you have to fight the Gorgon. You’ve seen the Gorgon in the trailer where she blows fire and she looks at you and turns you to stone. She’s also a Titan boss, like the Titan we have in the demo and you face lots of perils. You will be attacked while you fight on her. We wanted to make the titan fights a bit more interesting than last time. Last time, you kind of followed a set path and break the ruins. It was a bit limited.






This time we want people to allow players to fight on Titans. We want players to be able to platform properly. Like you saw with the Siege Titan in the demo, there are more things to do. The same with the Gorgon, it’s a really interesting fight. Will we get to fight Death? He seems like he would be a cool Titan. Who knows? [Laughs.] You know Zobek is Lord of the Dead and he is one of the key characters in this game. That’s all I’m going to say. Yeah, in the epilogue Zobek said he is going to rid Gabriel from the immortality he’s cursed with. There is a weapon Gabriel once had that is able to end his life. Remember in the DLC, he broke it. When you run around the city, will you be able to rampage the city as Dracula as well? Kind of. The game takes place mostly in the city. We only showed mostly castle stuff because we’re not ready to show the city. The game takes place in one night, it’s a night when Satan comes back to the Earth. A night of chaos, a night of the apocalypse. Dracula is the only one that can defeat Satan because he has done it before. So you need to re-acquire his old powers in order to do that and part of that means going through the city. There will be people, things going on in the city for sure. Can you do vampire stuff while you’re in the city? Like, I don’t know bite people? Yeah, well vampires bite people. I don’t want to spoil things, but yeah. It’s a living breathing city. There are cars, there are people. Although it’s not a city like New York, it’s a imaginary city, so it fits the universe.


So there will be a lot of places to go, to explore, lots of fights, and a lot of cool things to do for sure. With Lords of Shadow you continued the story with those extra DLC packs. Since this is the conclusion of the Lords of Shadow series how can you expand on the game because I guess Dracula has to be freed from immortality somehow. Does he? [Laughs.] What does he want? Seriously, what does he want? Is he evil or is he looking for redemption? Or is he looking for revenge? I mean this storyline is not going to deliver what people are expecting. We want to surprise people. We want to give people something memorable for them to remember, something that is really unique. This is a Dracula I don’t think people have seen before. I think Lords of Shadow 2 ends, and don’t get me wrong, it does have an ending. Don’t get me wrong there is a satisfying conclusion, but I think people will be surprised.


How will you do DLC for Lords of Shadow 2? Will players be able to play as different character like Alucard? Maybe. [Laughs] Maybe. Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow 2 Interview On Vampire Powers And Surprising Players What do you think that will surprise people the most? I think the story is going to surprise people the most. I think there are a lot of interesting aspects to the character and the things that happen.

I think a lot of things will become clearer of what our intention was with Lords of Shadow 1 and to a certain extent Mirror of Fate. I think people will be surprised by scale of the game, it’s massive. It’s a much bigger game than the previous game, not just in size or in terms of gameplay, but in terms of the epicness of it. The whole game just feels really huge in terms of story, characterization, gameplay, combat, exploration, platforming, art direction, art design, it just feels so much more polished than the last game.


So, I think it’s really an achievement of team at our size to deliver something like this. What I’m really hoping at the end of it, once the game is out, the critics have had their say, and the fans have played it. Like it or love it, I hope people will look back at the series and quote Lords of Shadow was really cool. It told Dracula story and it made sense. It felt cool and it surprised me and it did new things. I hope people look at it with kind eyes.
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Victor Belmont From Unreleased Dreamcast Castlevania Is In Lords Of Shadow 2. August 21, 2013 . 3:24am

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, the final game in the Lords of Shadow series, will be available in North America on February 25 and if you’re a fan of the series you may remember Victor Belmont.







Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, the final game in the Lords of Shadow series, will be available in North America on February 25. Konami will release the game in Europe on February 27.


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Victor Belmont From Unreleased Dreamcast Castlevania Is In Lords Of Shadow 2 The game continues the story of Gabriel Belmont, better known now as Dracula. The Belmont hunting Dracula is a neat surprise for fans. Victor Belmont has technically never been in a Castlevania game because he was the protagonist in Castlevania Resurrection, which Konami canceled. So, when he says he’s the last surviving Belmont that’s true as well.

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While the trailer from Gamescom mostly shows the castle, most of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 takes place in the city. "The game takes place mostly in the city. We only showed mostly castle stuff because we’re not ready to show the city. The game takes place in one night, it’s a night when Satan comes back to the Earth. A night of chaos, a night of the apocalypse," Cox said to Siliconera.​
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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 Gamescom Trailer


A new video for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 highlights Dracula’s various skills through nearly eight minutes of gameplay footage.
The video details Dracula’s Void Sword, which causes damage while drawing Life Points from enemies, and how best to wield the blade in combat. The Void Sword can only be used as long as Dracula has magic energy stored, once that depletes, he’ll have to build up a new supply by relying on his shadow whip to gain Focus. The nearly eight-minute-long video also contains plenty of gameplay footage, including platforming, routine combat encounters, and boss fights.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 launches on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 February 25 in North America, February 27 in Europe.


source: EPD.TV/ROTR
 
An obvious for shadowing of where reviews are headed

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate HD Is A Mirror Of The 3DS Version. September 27, 2013 . 3:13am

I was holding out hope it would be a bit more than just a prettier version of what we had on 3DS, but those hopes crumbled when I tried the Xbox 360 version of Mirror of Fate HD.





I thought Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate was a game with squandered potential. The game’s combat was a mere fragment of its 3D prequel’s and the checkpointing system removed all significance from the platforming. While I knew it was unlikely that those things would be balanced for the HD version, I was holding out hope it would be a bit more than just a prettier version of what we had.

Those hopes crumbled when I tried the Xbox 360 version of Mirror of Fate HD. The demo contained the first 10 or so minutes of Mirror of Fate, a tutorial with Gabriel Belmont and the approach to Dracula’s castle with Simon Belmont.

One of my concerns with the original Mirror of Fate was the game gave you your entire moveset as Gabriel, then took it away to be unlocked as you leveled up with the other characters throughout the rest of the game. This demo was exactly the same way. I could combo for days with Gabriel, throw out direct and wide attacks (which are still kind of useless in 2D) with X and Y, jump to launch, then smash my enemies to the ground with heavy strikes (holding direct or wide). Simon’s combos were shorter, his heavy attacks nonexistent, and his launchers limited to direct attacks alone.



After realizing combat was exactly the same, I decided to see if the increased number of buttons on the controller added anything. Triggers and bumpers just did exactly what L and R did on 3DS, but aside from that, there was nothing special gained by using the Xbox 360 controller. The right analog stick could have been a handy remap for dodge rolling (which is tied to L and the left analog by default), but the stick remained unused.

The maps and controls were the same, but I was probably most disappointed to see how muddy the visuals seemed. After seeing how crisp Final Fantasy IV: The After Years looked, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate HD seemed messy. It was a shame, considering how good the cutscenes looked and how strong the game’s art direction is. It seemed more like a port than a remaster, and I wanted more, either visually or mechanically.
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