Retronauts Episode 252: Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

Retronauts

Technology, Leisure, Games, Video Games

4.5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2019

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

For a little over a decade, Castlevania keeper Koji Igarashi cut his own path with the famous side-scrolling series by backing away from its traditional hardcore action and platforming, and leaning more towards RPG elements and exploration. The result was what we now know as the "Metroidvania," a genre that thrived for the ten years Igarashi found himself away from the style of game he and his team popularized. But does our current glut of Metroidvanias make his newest creation, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night feel less special? On this episode, join Bob Mackey, Jeremy Parish, and Imran Khan as the crew explores Igarashi's latest work to find out whether or not it's a total Dragula.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's Bob here with a special announcement about our next live panel.
0:05.2	It shouldn't come as any surprise when we will be heading back to the Portland Retro Gaming Expo
0:09.4	and yes of course Portland Oregon for another live Retro Nuts panel. PRGE happens from Friday,
0:15.6	October 18th to Sunday, October 20th, but our panel will be at 9pm on Saturday in Auditorium A
0:23.0	and the topic will be when celebrities and video games collide. It's going to be a fun late-night
0:28.7	panel and we'll have tons of amazing clips of some of the worst celebrity appearances in video
0:34.0	games and a few of the best. Again, that is happening at 9pm on Saturday, October 19th at the
0:40.3	Portland Retro Gaming Expo in Auditorium A, but we recommend you stay for the entire weekend
0:45.9	and enjoy the fun festivities of PRGE. Thanks again for listening and we'll let you get back to
0:51.2	your regularly scheduled podcast. This week on Retro Nuts is a podcast hosted by
0:58.4	some real EGMAiniacs.
1:22.9	Hello everybody, it's another episode of Retro Nuts. I am your host for this one Bob Mackie
1:26.6	and today's topic is Bloodstained, Ritual of the Nights, not an old game but a new game that feels
1:32.0	like an old game. Before I go on any further, who is here with me today, across the table as usual,
1:36.7	who is this? Hey it's Yamaraj Parish, I'm Jeremy Parish, half vampire son who hates his dad.
1:42.8	Based on that name I'd never ever figured out. And we have a new guest here, very rare to
1:48.3	have a new guest, but we have one today to talk all about Bloodstained, who is our new guest?
1:51.9	Hi it's Imran Khan and I like to kill those murderers dead.
1:56.3	It's one of the many things you can do in this game is kill murderers dead.
1:59.1	As many times as you want. Yes and you get some good prizes, but yes today's topic is Bloodstained
2:04.2	Ritual of the Night, the true metroidvania and who else, I mean it is, it's the one true metroidvania,
2:13.1	the master has come back to his craft to make us a metroidvania.
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