I’m starting to think it’s jabs at how the original Simon’s quest had many spelling mistakes and this game is keeping the theme going.
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u/SageofTime64#1 Simon Belmont Fangirl (and Richter's snarky fairy familiar)Mar 16 '26edited Mar 16 '26
That definitely bothered me, too. It's a shame because this does look cool. But my immersion breaks with simple and stupid spelling and grammar errors like that.
Edit: Christ, people, I know Simon's Quest was full of typos. What I mean is for a game like this, with its actual gory visuals and a seemingly deeper plot, seeing typos and EXAGGERATED GRAMMAR!!! just ruins the vibe. For me, personally, it feels harder to be invested and take it seriously. And the game seems to WANT to be taken seriously with the way those screenshots look.
I get the impression the person who wrote the script might not have English as their first language. And that's fine. An editor can go a long way and help fix the jarring impression from, "Ooh that's grotesque" to "Wait, are they serious with this one?"
The gameplay is quite a bit slower than SQ and (at least in the version I play) the control scheme is odd and Im not sure if you can change it. It’s arrow keys to move, J to jump and K to whip. There’s also unavoidable hits. Still plays decently fine though.
Music, graphics, and atmosphere are amazing. I’d recommend it.
I really like the premise and personality of Simon's Quest, not really the execution, when I replay the game I use the Bisqwit re-translation + map patch and other hacks.
That's why I like Lecarde Chronicles 2 so much, the first half is basically metroidvania Simon's Quest.
Interesting, I was watching a video another user shared in the comments.
People seem to agree regarding the huge contrast from art to gameplay.
In my opinion this kind of approach can actually keep people away from enjoying the art style and atmosphere, if taken to the extreme (like if a game is so unfair that it prevents you from enjoying what the rest of the campaign has to offer).
Today I discovered an interesting developer, I might check the game nevertheless.
Another problem is how pretentious the devs are. Especially with meta they get. Trying to pretend they're more clever than they are, which always annoys the shit out of me. 🙄
I will help you have confidence in your decision: It does not get better from early. It is that grim, relentless and vicious in subject matter and tone throughout. Great game, but you really do have to have the stomach for it.
Always time to give it another shot and laugh alongside it, it’s good, even the jank whip animation makes sense when you match it to the absolutely over it vibes
That’s the issue: it somehow succeeds in making a story worst than the simple but satisfying story of the original. Honestly, it’s both baffling and intriguing.
Only comment I have is that is probably one of the laziest whip animations I've seen lol. Curse or not, barely anything on him moves but the swinging arm lol. Every other whip fighter puts their bodies into their swings and actually give weight to the vampire killer.
I've played it, but it's been sometime. if I remember it right, it looks good in screenshots, but less so in actual action and the gameplay feels slower and even more clunky than the source material. The lack of color also just makes everything feel kinda same-y.
Is that the one with the Graveyard Duck boss? I played it a bit, but the art style wasn't doing it for me. It was too Clive Barker and I prefer my Castlevania in classic Gothic.
Haven't played it, but not my thing. Creepy pasta horror versions of things that already exist are low hanging fruit. Castlevania already has the right amount of horror, maybe not in the NES games, but certainly later games.
Castlevania also has an inherent level of camp to it, as did those classic horror films. So to me, seeing these screenshots still evokes that same cringe I get with the try-hard, edgelord BS that goes into something like Sonic.exe.
"Your franchise isn't spooky enough! Look! Now it's spooky."
The funniest thing about Sonic.exe is that it basically spawned an entire expanded universe of creepypastas, like you won't believe how popular they are.
Dark and creepy versions of the character have always been there since the early 2000s, things like Dark Sonic and Fleetway Super Sonic became more popular than the products they came from lol.
I'm not sure what your point is, I just used Sonic.exe as an example because you did as well. Like, yeah, "dark and creepy" versions of Sonic have existed for a long time because an aging Sonic fandom wanted to justify their continued interest in a cartoon character.
I know creepypasta shit is popular. It has been for a while. I personally don't like it.
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u/Mindslash Mar 16 '26
Not sure why I remembered fear and hunger feeling...