The venerable ‘Castlevania’ franchise, which has been around since the 3rd Generation and even received a horrific port to the Tiger brand of stand-alone handhelds, has garnered a reputation for reinventing itself. Mixing up its tried-and-true mechanics with liberal borrowings from other genres and styles has seen both ‘mainline’ ‘Castlevania’ as a series of 2D platformers, ‘Metroidvania’ as an incredibly well-received series of connected-world castle-crawling pseudo-Action/RPGs, and most recently the ‘Lords of Shadow’ attempt at transforming ‘Castlevania’ into a modern 3D franchise (after a horrific failure with “Castlevania 64” in the 5th Gen). “Castlevania: Lords of Shadow –Mirror of Fate HD” (“MoF”), in addition to being quite a mouthful, is a fil... |
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