Bloodstained: Curse Of The Moon Double Pack Physical Switch Release Announced

Hopefully it does come across. I have the first game digitally, but would love to own both physically.

I have neither game but have been interested in possibly getting them. This would be ideal for me.

Why they never make a third game? It would make more sense to make a third entry and then bundle them all as a trilogy instead.

Correct me if I'm wrong, as I haven't played the games yet myself, but aren't the Curse of the Moon games regarded as better than the Ritual of the Night games? I'm down to pick this up if it comes westward.

Even though I have the Limited Run physical editions, it's great to see this bundle and I hope it gets a wider release. I won't be double-dipping, but these two games deserve the physical treatment and I love it when they do packs like this.

@Ade117 as someone with zero nostalgia for OOOLD castlevania, and who usually doesn't even really like those kinds of action platformers, I think CotM is lightyears ahead of what I got out of RotN, which I honestly dislike as someone who IS a massive Fan of metroidvanias - in particular the actual castlevania ones - and I tried to like that game really hard. I just can't get into that one at all.

The others feel like I remember old platformers in general to play like, even if they're absolute jank by today's Standards. Basically like how good remakes look how you remember old games but go above and beyond, in reality.

If you are a big fan from this game they are releasing a Art book, two disc Soundtrack and a Key chain.

@Ade117 They're both great. Just might want to avoid Ritual on the Switch. Performance and fidelity problems that can get pretty distracting.

@Dom_31 play Odallus when you can.

@Ade117 I have literally never heard anyone suggest these are better than Ritual of the Night. Probably retro fanboys at most but still haven't heard it.

It's a bit like somebody saying Castlevania 1 is better than Symphony of the Night or that the prior Streets of Rage games are better than 4.

Just got the Blaster Master Zero triple pack. Buying tf outta this.

@Phornix I don't think they're too comparable honestly. Both are pretty high points in their genres.
Also, while I prefer 4 to the classic SoR games, 2 is so perfect I'd hear that argument out and probably not push against it.

Curse games ARE better than Ritual. This comes from me who prefers "metroidvania" type. Curse games gave me so much more joy to play.

The first game's Limited Run release was so long ago, secondhand copies are too expensive on eBay for me. I'm glad they decided to rerelease these physically, as I think they're excellent games.

And to the discussion regarding whether the Curse of the Moon series is better than Ritual of the Night - I think that Ritual is obviously the bigger, more feature-rich game, absolutely - however it does fall short on its goals in many people's eyes, either graphically, level design-wise, gameplaywise, or in other areas. Meanwhile, Curse of the moon may be smaller, simpler and less anticipated, but it 100% nails the execution of what it set out to do.

I have the first one through Limited Run, but didnt really like it, to me they seem to have really focussed on the look of the game, not the playability of it.

@LikelySatan "They're both great. Just might want to avoid Ritual on the Switch. Performance and fidelity problems that can get pretty distracting."

This is the consensus. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is, say it with me everyone: "better played on other systems".

I played through Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night on Switch and had zero issues with it asides from a couple of minor framerate drops on bigger boss fights. It's had a few patches now and I think the continuing narrative of it's 'awful' performance on Switch is a bit overblown and exaggerated, to be honest.

@TromaDogg I tried ritual on ps4 and later on switch after people told me "it's much better now" and it's honestly still garbage.
It doesn't even consistently hit 30fps which is death for the kind of game it tries to be on the system.

As a classicvania fan I desperately need a third game. These games were so perfect for me. I even go back to these instead of CV lol

@TromaDogg yeah agreed. I even had a quick session the other day and it was more then playable. People overreact about momentary chugs in like two boss fights in its current state.

@Serpenterror Because not everything has to be a trilogy, and the second game pretty much finished the story.

Bought them both from Limited Run. This seems like a weirdly late decision, unless there was some contractual holdup from LR.

@TromaDogg and I stopped playing it because the performance is so bad that it affected the gameplay. It's cool you didn't notice it but I did.

@Dom_31 100 percent. I love the game too but I'm not going to just lie about it.

hmmmmm. if they get released physically in the west I'll definitely consider it!

@MontyCircus I had no performance issues.. I just couldn't beat the first boss on the boat so I gave up, lol

That’s nice, that’s a lot nicer than Limited Run or exorbitant eBay prices!

@TromaDogg I’ve noticed mileage has varied with a lot of switch titles. I had a ton of issues with RoN even after the patches, but it seems a lot of others had a pretty good experience. Likewise, I’ve heard of some performance issues with Xenoblade 3, but it ran damn near flawlessly for me.

Wouldn't mind a third curse of the moon game. They scratch that classic castlevania itch like nothing else.

I got these games from LRG so I am good.

Preoreded for the two in one and to collect it.

@Bunkerneath nailed it. I feel the same way.

@Dom_31 @LikelySatan

I can only speak from my experience, dudes 🤷‍♂️ I definitey didn't find it anywhere near unplayable, and fully completed it with the true ending.

@SpoonySpoons Yeah, I know what you mean there. I found the original Darksiders completely unplayable on Wii U, it'd constantly stutter, freeze and randomly completely lock up whenever I tried to play it. Only game on my Wii U that I ever had that amount of problems with. I ended up abandoning it completely and playing it on Xbox 360 instead. Other people who bought it said it ran flawlessly, or near flawlessly for them though.

I adore that box art. I am still on the fence about the games themselves though. I am very unknowledgeable about Castlevania-likes. I think the only Castlevania game I have finished was Mirror of Fate and while I know that it is a solid title, I also know that it is not even close to the best Castlevania game. I really need to play one of the classics to see if the genre is for me.

@Half-ShellHero Same, but haven’t really touched it. Is there voice acting or is it true to its aesthetic with only text? If there is, I’d hope for Japanese/English options to compare, and English subtitles on/off toggle.

Also I’m tempted to wait for them to make a 3rd game so can buy a trilogy lol.

No voice acting to speak of. A couple of grunts or yells here and there. Really straight forward game. Even more so an NES style game than some might think.

Hope this comes out here, I have been hovering over buying these but am a sucker for a good physical double pack