Lords of Shadow is truly one of the most overhated games ever and for no good reasons either from the Castlevania purists.
Castlevania is one of my fave series and this game right here is one of the top 5 best of the series for me as far as I am concerned.
Everything about it is incredible to me. The voice acting is all fantastic, Patrick Stewart, Jason Isaacs and especially Robert Carlyle as Gabriel? Doesn't get much better than that. Such a star studded cast.
The graphics and concept art are absolutely beautiful and still holds up incredibly well, everything from the luscious forests to the dark castle and snowy mountaintops, it all looks fantastic.
The film score OST is very professionally done and fits the epic cinematic nature of the game.
The story is very profound and philosophical as you'd expect from something Kojima worked on after all, it takes major cues from Dante's Divine Comedy and Gabriel's entire character arc is very well done and tragic as hell.
Oh and I don't give a shit if the combat is just 'a God of War clone' because it does it just as good, if not better than GoW.
The only reason this game gets shit is because it did something from the norm of Castlevania, if this would've been a new IP and didn't have the Castlevania title attached to it, I think it would've been a massive success.
Castlevania is one of my fave series and this game right here is one of the top 5 best of the series for me as far as I am concerned.
Everything about it is incredible to me. The voice acting is all fantastic, Patrick Stewart, Jason Isaacs and especially Robert Carlyle as Gabriel? Doesn't get much better than that. Such a star studded cast.
The graphics and concept art are absolutely beautiful and still holds up incredibly well, everything from the luscious forests to the dark castle and snowy mountaintops, it all looks fantastic.
The film score OST is very professionally done and fits the epic cinematic nature of the game.
The story is very profound and philosophical as you'd expect from something Kojima worked on after all, it takes major cues from Dante's Divine Comedy and Gabriel's entire character arc is very well done and tragic as hell.
Oh and I don't give a shit if the combat is just 'a God of War clone' because it does it just as good, if not better than GoW.
The only reason this game gets shit is because it did something from the norm of Castlevania, if this would've been a new IP and didn't have the Castlevania title attached to it, I think it would've been a massive success.