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Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

Publisher: 505 Games

Game Information

CRIME BOSS


About the Game

Bloodstained®︎: Ritual of the Night is the FULL game experience, an exploration-focused, side-scroller action RPG packing all of the best features you've come to know and love from the Metroidvania genre into a single, content-packed game.

Play as Miriam, an orphan scarred by an alchemist’s curse which slowly crystallizes her body. In order to save herself, and indeed, all of humanity, she must battle her way through a demon-infested castle summoned by Gebel, her old friend whose body and mind has become more crystal than flesh.

WHAT'S IN THE GAME?



13 FREE DLCs via future content updates. “Speed Demon” Update containing Speed Run Mode, Boss Rush Mode and the Pure Miriam outfit available at launch!



Addictingly tight and satisfying gameplay alongside a rich new story in the gothic dark fantasy style of Koji Igarashi, the celebrated godfather of "Igavania" games.



Story cut scenes and NPC interactions fully voice acted by a star-studded cast, including actors like David Hayter, Ray Chase and Erica Lindbeck to name just a few. (Seriously, we have a lot of voice acting star power in this game, it's kinda nuts...)

Three playable characters, two of which have yet to be revealed...



Literally a metric ton of weapons and spells, which you can upgrade, level up and visually customize.



Beautiful 2.5D graphics: 3D models crafted with a lot of love and care on a 2D game environment. That means lots of cool tricks that "regular" 2D can't do...

THE FUTURE

Expect a worryingly large amount of announcements and updates, everything from updating the look of this Steam page to the game in general. It's going to be one wild ride.

Mac Performance Stats

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Average Rating

4.0/5

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D3D_METALVERY GOOD
M1 PRO
Graphics:
ULTRA
FPS:
60
Resolution:
1920 X 1080
Machine:
MacBook Pro
Chip:
M1 PRO
Cores:
10 CPU, 16 GPU
RAM:
16 GB

Review Note:

Getting over 60 fps with all max settings and framerate smoothing turned off. There are shader compilation stutters. I'm using the Epic Games Store version and controller is not detected. Had to add the game to Steam and enable Steam input for controller to work.

DXMT 0.73 has graphical issues and could not render certain effects.

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