![]() Seeing combat against familiar enemies with recognizable weapons really drives home how Dead Cells' remarkably satisfying combat has always felt like the best moments of Castlevania. You'll almost immediately find renowned sub-weapons like the Cross and Holy Water while making your way through the castle, and once you've unlocked them, they'll be available for upgrading with modifiers, like any other piece of equipment in Dead Cells. Those enemies range from the lowly Fish Man to hulking armored knights and, naturally, a confrontation with Dracula himself. The most recognizable homages, though, come in the form of new enemies and weapons. It's almost as if the game is building a fresh, albeit relatively small, Castlevania map every time you respawn. In fact, that's one of Return to Castlevania's most impressive tricks-it's still built around interlocking pieces, but the more secret-solving components don't feel contained to small, individual parts. The Castlevania biomes are still randomized in the roguelike style, but the pieces do feel more oriented around puzzle-solving and secrets than in the main Dead Cells game. So the blending in Return to Castlevania can best be described as Dead Cells doing its best Castlevania impression. Now Playing: Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania DLC - Final Teaser & Surprise Reveal In this regard, they couldn't be more different.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's You'll recognize certain pieces after you've played it enough, but it will always be impossible to draw a consistent map or to tell a friend exactly where to find a secret key. Dead Cells very much isn't that, as its roguelike biomes mix and match different pieces like Lego bricks. ![]() Castlevania, and especially the Symphony of the Night sub-genre that serves as the basis for most of this expansion, is an exploration-based action game, with a castle full of tightly-knit secrets and clockwork-like precision to its progression gating. The similarities between the two are cut into stark relief by their differences. How would that work, exactly? Pretty well, it turns out, as Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania is a clever fusion of Castlevania homages and Dead Cells' structure, and helps to illustrate how Castlevania DNA has been a part of Dead Cells all along. So when the studio announced it was making an expansion modeled after Castlevania, I was certainly intrigued, but also surprised. The acclaimed action roguelike from Motion Twin certainly had some passing resemblance in some of its combat mechanics, but not so much that I ever made any association to Konami's vampire-hunting franchise. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.I loved Dead Cells, but it never struck me as particularly Castlevania-like. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using the Brave browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse, then send that data back to a third party, essentially spying on your browsing habits.We strongly recommend you stop using this browser until this problem is corrected. The latest version of the Opera browser sends multiple invalid requests to our servers for every page you visit.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
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