God damn, so disappointed with this one.
Such a awkward change of tone and feel from the first three which felt much more grounded. This isn't to say that 1-3 were these believable, realistic games or anything. But they felt cinematic, and benefitted from their Resident Evil roots, characters weren't super-well voice acted or anything, but the performances felt lightyears different from what we get in Dawn of Dreams.
DoD shifts into full anime-mode, with a blonde main character who does the whole cliched lazy main hero who has to be nagged into action, which i've seen like a million times before. Partnered up with this hyper cute kid who made the tengu from 3 look realistic.
I kinda hated how nothing really got set up properly story wise, we never have the moment of the hero gaining the oni-gauntlet, or the fancy orbs that get you the weapons. It's skips all this, and just has your hero wander in all pre-made, you have no opportunity to warm up to them, they're pre-baked.
The fact you pick up weapons in random boxes or just buy them, rather than having to do these interesting set pieces where getting a new weapon was this hefty, powerful moment takes lots away too.
The inclusion of electric guitar stuff into the soundtrack again felt tonally weird compared to the other games, which tried to be more classy.
I don't like how they split everything into levels, whereas before it was much more open and you could travel all over and return to areas for grinding etc, the story just naturally moved you from area to area, and didn't awkwardly just scream "LEVEL 2" at you.
Also the way the camera just swings around every time you progress 5 feet forward and highlights doors and direction just treats the player like an idiot. Like you can't work out where to go without being told every two seconds.
Annoyed me to no end that the buttons for examining and absorbing souls were swapped, and menu navigation buttons got all fucked up too.
Massive downgrade, what a rubbish end to this series.
Such a awkward change of tone and feel from the first three which felt much more grounded. This isn't to say that 1-3 were these believable, realistic games or anything. But they felt cinematic, and benefitted from their Resident Evil roots, characters weren't super-well voice acted or anything, but the performances felt lightyears different from what we get in Dawn of Dreams.
DoD shifts into full anime-mode, with a blonde main character who does the whole cliched lazy main hero who has to be nagged into action, which i've seen like a million times before. Partnered up with this hyper cute kid who made the tengu from 3 look realistic.
I kinda hated how nothing really got set up properly story wise, we never have the moment of the hero gaining the oni-gauntlet, or the fancy orbs that get you the weapons. It's skips all this, and just has your hero wander in all pre-made, you have no opportunity to warm up to them, they're pre-baked.
The fact you pick up weapons in random boxes or just buy them, rather than having to do these interesting set pieces where getting a new weapon was this hefty, powerful moment takes lots away too.
The inclusion of electric guitar stuff into the soundtrack again felt tonally weird compared to the other games, which tried to be more classy.
I don't like how they split everything into levels, whereas before it was much more open and you could travel all over and return to areas for grinding etc, the story just naturally moved you from area to area, and didn't awkwardly just scream "LEVEL 2" at you.
Also the way the camera just swings around every time you progress 5 feet forward and highlights doors and direction just treats the player like an idiot. Like you can't work out where to go without being told every two seconds.
Annoyed me to no end that the buttons for examining and absorbing souls were swapped, and menu navigation buttons got all fucked up too.
Massive downgrade, what a rubbish end to this series.