Developer Art/Play announced a sequel to their Castlevania tribute last night, which will have more whips, action and epic scope to marvel at.

Man, I was so looking forward to Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night from Castelvania: Symphony of the Night director Koji Igarashi. That was one of my favourite games, and the Castlevania games that followed it provided some of my most treasured experiences. And while Bloodstained is a good game, I grabbed it on the Switch – and was presented with one of the most disappointing ports imaginable. While it wasn’t completely unplayable, it had terrible frame rate issues, input lag, and horrible graphics.

It’s hard for me to state just how excited I was for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. The sprawling, explorative Castlevania games are some of my favourites, and the idea of a new game from Koji Igarashi tickled me. And then the game came out, and by all reports, it was pretty damned good! I grabbed the Switch version, because it seems a perfect platform this sort of game – and was slapped in the face with one of the most disappointing ports I’ve played. On the Switch, Bloodstained not only looks bad, it plays worse – with constant frame rate drops, weird input latency and frequent crashes.

Much like the games that influenced it, the latest Bloodstained game also has plenty of secrets up its sleeves. Hidden rooms, mystical mysteries and powerful bosses who hide items of great power within the walls of your current locale. Some are obvious, whereas others require you to do a little bit of digging to get to the good stuff. Here’s how you can lay your hands on the keys needed to open these locked rooms, if you’re brave enough to take down the monsters waiting inside that is.

In a new trailer, the game’s new look has been shown off, showing off the much improved art, better lightning, more vibrant colours and cleaner lines. The trailer also revealed that the game is set for a 18 June release on PlayStation 4, PC and Xbox. The Switch version is coming on 25 June

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