now playing BLOODSTAINED: CURSE OF THE MOON

Now that I’ve finally finished SKYRIM’s main quest after nine years, the next game I want to finish is BLOODSTAINED: CURSE OF THE MOON.

Earlier in the year I beat BLOODSTAINED: RITUAL OF THE NIGHT and quite enjoyed it, so next up is CURSE OF THE MOON. RITUAL was a modern game, but CURSE is what’s called a “retraux” game, made deliberately in imitation of the old 8-bit NES games. RITUAL was Kickstarted, and apparently the conceit of CURSE is that it’s the “old” NES game that RITUAL was based on, but the development of RITUAL took so long that CURSE came out a couple years earlier and went in its own direction.

(I have to say that every firsthand story I’ve ever heard about video game development makes me very glad I never went into that field!)

CURSE reminds me a lot of CASTLEVANIA III (which I finally beat earlier this year) but with a lot of the rough edges of the old NES games smoothed off. Definitely enjoying it! So if you enjoyed the old CASTLEVANIA games for NES and SNES, you’ll enjoy CURSE!

-JM