{"id":215568,"date":"2018-05-11T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jbsgame.com\/bloodstained-curse-of-the-moon-is-a-beautiful-80s-throwback-releasing-this-month\/"},"modified":"2022-02-08T13:24:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T19:24:53","slug":"bloodstained-curse-of-the-moon-is-a-beautiful-80s-throwback-releasing-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jbsgame.com\/bloodstained-curse-of-the-moon-is-a-beautiful-80s-throwback-releasing-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon is a beautiful 80s throwback releasing this month"},"content":{"rendered":"
When Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night<\/em> hit Kickstarter, it immediately became one of the biggest video games ever funded on the platform. Its initial $500,000 goal was quickly eclipsed, and by the time the campaign ended more than five million dollars above that, Koji Igarashi pledged and promised a bevy of stretch goals for the game. One of those goals, located deep in the basement at the $4.5 million dollar mark, was for a Prequel mini-game for PC and consoles. $250,000 more than that promised the mini-game would make it to portables. Consider this a promise made and promise kept, because at BitSummit, Inti Creates, one of the developers working on Bloodstained<\/em>, revealed Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon<\/em>. <\/span><\/p> Featuring aesthetics ripped straight out of the NES era, Curse of the Moon<\/em> stars Zangetsu, a sword-wielding demon killer. Depending on player choices, Zangetsu can be joined by up to three other playable characters who can be switched into action at any time: Miriam, the lead character from Ritual of the Night<\/em>; Alfred, a weakling armed with powerful magic; and Gebel, who has the ability to turn into a bat. The game will feature multiple endings depending on who players choose to ally with and each level has areas accessible only by certain characters.<\/p> <\/iframe><\/p> Since Shovel Knight<\/em> blessed us almost four years ago, my favorite art direction in gaming has been “NES graphics that could never have been done on an actual NES.” I mean this is plumb beautiful. <\/span><\/p> <\/p> Not only does it look old-school, but Curse of the Moon<\/em> plays old-school as well with two selectable playstyles: Veteran and Casual. Veteran brings a difficulty similar to those old Castlevania<\/em> games including enemy knockback and limited lives while Casual features unlimited lives and no knockback. Individual characters will have their own health bars but not all bars are equal. <\/span><\/p> Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon<\/em> will release on Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Steam, 3DS, and Vita on May 24 for $9.99. If you backed the game like I did, log into your Fangamer pledge page now. Backers above a certain threshold will get one download of the game for free on the console of their choosing.<\/span><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":215565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"article_type":"","gamurs_wordpress_blocks_hide_tags":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[398,190,1,104,97,152,101,99],"tags":[1547,579,928,580,883,172,100,136],"internal-label":[],"invoiceable_action":[],"article_type":[],"coauthors":[{"id":13,"display_name":"CJ Andriessen","user_login":"CJ Andriessen","user_nicename":"cj-andriessen"}],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n