Comments - Ilseroth

Alright, Ill be frank, despite infringing on copyrights this game is okay.

Graphics:
The game isn't bad graphics, considering the engine usd it is well modelled. Textures are low res tet still convey what they are supposed to be. Note: The boss bat is obviously an enlarged bat, due to this you can see the texture is bieng stretched, this distorts it quite a bit so watch out there, might want to get a new texture.

Audio:
Pretty much a straight rip from castlevania the quality is decent but there are bugs with sound effects such as dying. The quality is kind of back and forth, music is the classic castlevania but sound effects are off.

Controls:
The starting controls are pretty muc unusable, your fingers are all over the board. Luckily the option to change those are there which is very useful. after changing the keys it became easy to hop all over the place. the only big control problem is attacking creatures comming in from the side cant really be hit.

Gameplay:
Gameplay is kind of back and forth, the AI is sloppy and animation is glitchy. The AI is kind of annoying in these ways

Common Bats:
Swooping in from the sides make them impossible to hits, however who really needs to when you cn simply out run them.

Ghosts:
Walking in from sides slowly, easy targets btu thats understandable, but yet again; they can just be run by.

Aqua Creatures: Kinda just stand there, though now and then they actually move.. and jump backwards through walls.

Big Boss Bat:
AI is fine on this guy actually, with fireballs flying its actually a challenging fight as long as you were low on health in that. But the Ai is fine, flyign back and forth hurling fireballs at the player.

Animation Problems:
Really only a few animation problems; first of all is the aqua creatures, they just appear, instead of jumping on screen. No only that their movement is rigid.

Bugs, GLitches and General **** me offs:
1) Dying camera is buggy, twice I didnt die yet the camera scew, then I couldnt leave the screen at end of level. also this made i treally hard to play. I couldn't recreate this event, it was random, so I am unsure how to fix.

2) Dying Sound is buggy also, seems that if a soudn effect is already bbieng played it seems that it completely overrides the death sound so it doesnt lay it.

3) As you know that dying doesnt restore health, it jsut sets you to (i think) an auto save at beginning of level. This isnt how it played, but then again if you died in old version suaully it started you at half point or beginning of stage.

4) Bat movement is straight, in old game it swerved up and down, not going straight towards the player which is not only not goign with classic vania just makes it too easy to klll them

5) I know you knew this was comming, but I myself prefer the good ol 2d, but I wont let that effect my ratings or remarks.

6) As you walk through the stage big pillars go in front of screen, constantly intruding on gameplay.

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Im done for now, and other then that I must say for a freeware game converting the old castlevania its nto bad at all, though sorry to be critical, I am a game designer for a full game dev group thats making freeware mmo so I have to be a bit critical of everything so sorry if I was a bit harsh. It is a okay game and at first it didn't seem great but once I changed controls it was okay and entertaining.

Good luck and I can't wait to see if you fix some of the bugs and problems and mayube get some High res textures.

Sayanara