Nintendo Life: Joining Witch's Cat in Agetec's recent duo of playfully spooky eShop releases, Bloody Vampire is a stylish, side-scrolling adventure in the Metroidvania vein. It tells the story of Latis, an exquisitely pigtailed half-vampire / half-human, who sets off to investigate the coming conflict between her two bloodlines with Cereza, her loyal protector and vampire defector. The characters are mildly interesting, but the plot, elucidated through talking heads cutscenes, is not one of Bloody Vampire's strong points. That's fine as far as we're concerned, because the game behind it is frightfully fun.
The potential is there, but Bloody Vampire is just too rough to be fully appreciated.
Gamesta.com is back with this week's Nintendo eShop digital downloads for Europe. Aside from games like the newest Mario & Donkey Kong, 3DS owners can look to Crash City Mayhem, Bloody Vampire, Color Commando, as well as a bunch more games on other platforms.
DHGF: There are a lot of games out there that try and provide the experience of games that we enjoyed playing in the past, games that are meant to either trigger nostalgic feelings in those of us that are old enough, and made with a simple and clear design to be enjoyable for those of us who didn’t have the joy of growing up on 8 and 16 bit consoles. When done well it can provide for a great video game experience that also fondly recalls some of the classic 2D games. When done poorly it can be a kick in the rose colored glasses and a reminder that the amount of bad 2D games in the past far exceeded the number of good ones.
