Excellent, better than I thought it would be

So I don’t really like these kinds of games, but I am a huge fan of Castlevania. So much so I bought (and beat all of) SotN on iPad. I figured, “I either get this for free on mobile or spend $5 to do it on console.” So I downloaded it reluctantly, and did not regret it. I’ve now spent several hours grinding the game, figuring out evolutions, builds, and collecting relics. I recently beat the game, defeated Death, and got all the relics and levels. Obviously, being a huge Castlevania fan I got Ode to Castlevania almost instantly, and absolutely adore how well they translated Castlevania into this game. Excellent game. Do yourself a favor and download it. It’s free. No reason not to. As for the ads complaint, simply disable ad rewards in settings. That’s what I did. My favorite build: Richter Belmont, equip Morningstar and use Alchemy Whip, Hydro Storm, Santa Water, Axe, Knife, and Runetracer, and then use Tirajisu, Attractacorb, Candelbrador, Bracer, Duplicator Ring, and Armor. Evolve everything. I find this build to be highly effective, and Vampire Killer and Hydro Storm will end up being highly effective. Of course some of it’s from Ode to Castlevania so you might need to tweak it a bit. Overall, great game, I highly recommend it.

Moonglow

Let me start off by saying this game is very enjoyable and easy to progress in. I like that games are limited to 30 minutes and every run has a different outcome based on your abilities. There’s lots of “secrets” and discoveries, I find this very enjoyable! I know when you start the game there is a photosensitivity warning, I am not an individual that typically struggles with this issue. However, on the level “Moonglow,” without warning the screen started to warp and wave and pulsate colors. I found a setting to stop some of the motion but it was very difficult to look at or play through. When the stage moved me to the next area it got worse, with no option to turn off the motion. I had to give my phone to my boyfriend to try to finish the level because of how extremely dizzy it was making me. I feel this level really needs an extra warning to tell people about this. Ive not had these issues with any other levels and I felt extremely dizzy for awhile after not having my phone anymore. Like I said, I think it’s a great game. It’s very enjoyable, but “Moonglow” really needs to have a second warning for players. I appreciate the artistry of the effect, but I found it very debilitating. I hope they can add this extra accessibility warning on the level, or add another setting to make it easier on the eyes perhaps.

Dairy coffin doesn’t open..PS: there is landscape mode!

I got to the Dairy Plant and defeated all the enemies that circled the coffin then continued to run around for 15 minutes, every 30 seconds running over the coffin but it NEVER OPENED!!! I ended up dying at 29:47. 😭 Do the coffins have to be opened up in order of levels or did the game glitch? I’ve been trying to look up answers with no luck. I saw 1 video where after killing the enemies surrounding the coffin he waited a couple minutes and when he ran over the coffin it opened up soooo I have no clue why it didn’t open for me? Devs could you look into this or let me know if there’s something I did wrong? 🙏🏼 Go to “options”. Then click the arrow at the bottom to go to page 2/3 Then “orientation” and you can switch between portrait and landscape mode. Awesome the devs thought of that. Game is awesome! Do people not look at settings before complaining!? It even goes into landscape automatically on my iPad. And there’s controller support! Epic!!!

Can’t really play without unlocking a lot of upgrade and knowing metas I feel

The game relays on coins which you get form playing to purchase permanent upgrades for your person, a plus about this is no pay to win, but without these upgrades you can’t really get to the end of a level even the first level, you just get to the same point and die because it gets ridiculously hard. so your going to have to end up playing 25+ times probably more if you don’t know what to upgrade and die at the same point. Maybe I’m just bad at the game and I think if you choose the right abilities/meta then you might be able to make it further, but I also feel like without the permanent upgrades you can’t do much besides redo the same missions over and over again, die at the same part until you get enough coins to choose the abilities you actually want to play with. Personally not my type of game because of this, but it’s not bad. It’s a simple and small game. I just don’t like how hard it gets out of nowhere without the right ability’s and permanent upgrades, I just want to play with whatever I want and be able to do good, but I don’t think its that type of game.

Love the game, only very minor things to fix

Like I said in the title i love the game, its my favorite game to play on my phone without a shadow of a doubt. The only things I would like fixed or to add to the game comes very late. Once you start getting into the high AOE parts with Randomizo cards and stuff giving you buffs every level. A lot of the effects start to lag, or outright crash the game. It is totally understandable why. And on the PC version its not much of a problem. But on mobile it would be rather nice to have something that can turn off the effects. Or at least reduce the resources needed. For example, the smoke on Vicious Hunger could be removed and that could help a lot. As well, since you have to physically tap now, a way to have a buy in bulk option for the merchant would be really nice. All that is very late game pushing the limits type stuff. For someone playing like a normal person its absolutely fantastic, and playing around with all the builds is fun.

Faithful port of the addictive phenomenon

All the features are here, from your favorite weapons to the hidden characters, to the Arcanas, to the unlockables. Just make sure your device can handle it; my iPad Pro from 2016 begins to get bogged down towards the latter 10 minutes of each run due to the number of objects on the screen, weapon interactions, etc. For free? Wow! Yes, there are ads, but they are in easily avoidable places: fail on a run and want to revive your character? Watch an ad for a free revive. End a run and want some bonus gold? Watch an ad. Other than those two places, I haven’t see any ads, and certainly none of the intrusive ads you may see in other free apps. For the Developer: Please keep in mind that there are plenty of us who would happily pay a fee to remove all ads entirely. Yes, you did a commendable job making your monetization as non-predatory as you could, and for that I thank you. With that said, I’ve purchased the game on Steam full price and would happily have paid the same price for an entirely ad-free version on my mobile devices, too. If that option had been included, this would have been a flawless five-star release (mayhaps for an eventual mobile release of the Moonspell DLC?). As it is, however, thank you for your diligence! (Also, unlocks and such don’t carry over between the same account on different devices iPhone/iPad ?) Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go try to continue unlocking and evolving characters/items/Arcanas/etc….

Fun game, but missing some features

To begin, I’d like to say that I’ve played this game much more on my pc than on my phone. I’ve had a ton of fun with the games pc version, so I was thrilled to learn that there was a free version for mobile. However, I soon learned that the mobile version simply isn’t as good. My two biggest problems are that we can’t see the stat page when paused, and that we can’t see what weapons are affected by what arcanas after we’ve selected them. It’s super frustrating that I cant see my stats , since it’s really nice to know how much bonus area, damage, luck, curse, etc. I have. Also, I should mention that the arcana thing is a problem for pc as well. I think it’d be a really nice (and easy to implement feature) for us to be able to just click/tap on the arcanas we have in the pause menu and to see a description of what it does and what weapons it affects. Overall, the games awesome and I would recommend it to everyone. It’s just that it could be even better!

Great game but there are 2 bugs that I notice.

Love this game. Played it since before arcanas way back when. But there are 2 bugs that would make the game so much more enjoyable if fixed. The first is that sometimes picking up an attractorb or using the pentagram upgrade the red gem and sometimes other gems will actually go careening off the screen next to you rather than continue towards you. While I’m sure you can get the rest of the levels you missed from that gem from a new red gem later, it is a little frustrating to see if you don’t have the speed or catch radius to grab it. The second is sometimes changing applications and coming back will reset the app regardless of the fact I didn’t close vampire survivors entirely. This means you have to restart a run entirely. The obvious solution is not to close the app at all, but sometimes I get texts or things to do and I’d like to pause and come back in a minute. If these are fixed then this app for sure gets the full 5 stars

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