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A Retro 8-bit Style Castlevania-Like Game
dbarry_22 - wrote on 06/26/2018
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon is an 8-bit retro prequel to the Kickstarter backed Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. This game plays a lot like the Castlevania games on the NES and provides a lot of replayability.
For those who do not know the story behind Bloodstained, here's a really short summation. One of the producers of Castlevania wanted to make another game and went through Kickstarter to get funding. Over 5 million dollars was pledged so the game Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night got started. That game is more like Castlevania: Symphony of the Night with HD graphics and will be on PS4/Switch/XBox One. But, one of the fundraising goals if reached was to make a retro prequel which is what this game is.
Curse of the Moon plays a lot like Castlevania III on NES. …
