Lords of Shadow wasn’t a bad game, but the switch to
hack-em-up gameplay lost much of what made the
Castlevania games so special.
X-Blades, a 2009 hack-and-slash game by Gaijin
Entertainment, reborn in 2012 as... a hack and slash
game by Gaijin Entertainment.
X-Blades was a fairly poor action game starring an
oversexualised anime girl. So Gaijin basically remade
the game three years later with the same mechanics
but a slightly less anime art style.
Devil May Cry, a 2001 third-person action game
by Capcom, reborn in 2013 as DmC, a third person
action game by Ninja Theory.
Ninja Theory’s DmC is a perfectly serviceable, slightly
more realistic take on the Devil May Cry series. It’s
also entirely unnecessary.
Castlevania, a 1986 nonlinear platform series by
Konami, reborn in 2010 as God of War style hack-em-
up Castlevania: Lords of Shadow by Mercury Steam.
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