I was gonna do more with this but I didn't want to wrestle with procreate

other selling point of Highrook is afaik it wasn't made by a known creep 😵‍💫

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My main complaint is the way the main characters were written, it felt very...gimmicky at times? Especially for Vitali where they never even try to be subtle about his very pointed interest in the occult like they hammer it in every dialogue
I think overall Astor and Caligar were my faves

Abstract otherworldly concepts and creatures still exist there, but it's a more linear story with characters having their own cutscenes and dialogues. Much easier to follow, which again might be disappointing if you really wanted something complicated, but ymmv here

If you liked CS and BoH specifically because of how obtuse and complicated it got, you're not going to enjoy this as much, but if you got turned off by exactly that and would have liked something similar a bit more streamlined/less confusing with the same atmosphere and setting, this is for you!

If it's about seeing the charas/settings again the animated series already existed too?? Even if you thought that sucked ass it's still recent content with the franchise's lore, like it's cool they're making a new one but come on now

I knoooooow one guy doesn't represent a whole franchise or determine if it's allowed to keep going or not, but Bloodstained is so incredibly Castlevania in every way too that seeing it getting ignored like we had a whole lot of nothing since OoE till now is pissing me off bad

what's your freaking damage

They didn't have Gaku sadly but they had custom comms available and I got tkgk ones 🥺🥺🥺 ( two-sided charm by @/fullcapsETHAN on twit and art comm from @/owlMEH on instagram!! )

the fuck you mean relink was 'dead', whole game you can still totally play solo too with a done campaign and no live service shit, what the heck