BoogieMan1980

A fake game with just enough content to fool the clueless. It's a scam to get your money that Steam hasn't dealt with yet. What is there is broken, unfinished, glitchy, and using stolen assets. Don't waste your time or money.

Why does it show 1 player? For the PS3 version, it's up to 6 players online and I 4 locally. The game is pretty fun, for awhile, and worth playing, but I don't believe it has good longevity due to poor design. The goals and methods are those of an MMO, where you grind tediously for item drops and try to do speed runs. But MMOs get expansions and new content, this game does not. It has a few DLCs, sure, but it does little to add anything to the game. In a game with very finite playability such a system makes little sense. There isn't much of an online community and there is very little variance in it. 75% of all players play the same character due to it being more fleshed out than the others and can be brokenly overpowered. One of the worst parts of the game is the requirement to get a low drop pair of boots that make you run much faster. If you don't have them, you'll be left behind everyone else with very little to do than pointless kill the odd monster that they avoided, and if you manage to catch up with them at the boss, you'll be more of a hindrance because the bosses are all designed purely around avoiding ultra powerful attacks, and being slower you have a much smaller margin for error. I really hope we see more complete, balanced Castlevania games based on this type of gameplay in the future, as it has promise were it to be more intelligently executed. So to recap, worth playing for awhile but it's cut off at the knees by it's short length and even worse balancing.

Simply put, the game was obviously not ready for release. This game is somewhere in the mid beta test area in terms of playability and quality. It has good potential and perhaps, after a lot of patching, it will be a good game. If you like 4x games in general, you will probably like this game - eventually. If you haven't got it yet, don't. Wait a few months for it to be patched. Don't think too much on the current reviews. Some people are going to downrate it because they feel like they didn't get their money's worth and are angry. That's the risk of buying a game that had such little *real* information made available about it before release. However, you SHOULD be able to expect a game to be in a reasonably playable state when it's made available for sale. This game is not in such a state. Also be suspicious of anyone who gives it a high positive review within the first month or two because they are going to be lying to you. A game that crashes frequently and randomly (every 10-15 minutes at times), has broken/shoddy AI, and a half complete interface is NOT an excellent game in such a state. That's just a cold, hard, fact. So like I said, give it time and come back later. For now, it is not a smart purchase. If they keep up with the patching, it will eventually be worth your time and money.