A demo for Castlevania Lords of Shadow has landed on Xbox Live Marketplace for Gold subscribers today; the demo weighs in at a whopping 2 GB.
Lords of Shadow is Konami's "re-imagining" of the Castlevania series as a third-person, action-adventure title in the vein of titles like God of War, along with a hint of Shadow of the Colossus. The title was developed by MercurySteam, who had previously worked on Clive Barker's Jericho, along with Kojima Productions.
It's out this week for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. We'll have our review up as soon as Jim can finish the copy he's planning on buying tomorrow, when the game is released.
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9:40 AM on 10.04.2010
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In other words: Called it.
Am I the only one who thinks it felt really weird that the light horse had a russian accent? >.<
I have a strange feeling this game is secretly about horses. Horses of the Russian and flayed variety.
In other words, you're the guy Mercury Stream is hoping to sell this game to, because for you anything could pass for Castlevania. They're not selling it to me, who sees a GoW/SotC/RE mash-up with "Castlevania" slapped on the box.
At least when Castlevania was borrowing from Metroid, it was still maintaining some degree of identity. It was kinda like having a Chevelle or A Perfect Circle album around when Tool was making anything new. It filled a needed niche that other bands weren't filling.
Games like Lords or Shadow are dime-a-dozen these days. In fact, they should have just called it "Lords of Shadow."
The gameplay is tight my friend, tight like the sinews if a freshly flayed horse. I enjoyed it (the gameplay, not the horse) quite a lot.
Also, the score is epic.
But seriously, the demo surprised me in a good way. I didn't expect to enjoy this as much as I did.