Evil Empire

the worst for it so The big game Mike and I have both been playing that came out last week is Castlevania Belmont's Purse.

This is a new 2D Metroidvania Castlevania game that's made by Evil Empire.

They were the folks that developed all the DLC for Dead Cells, as well as the Rogue Prince of Persia, which I have not played, but I've heard it's very good.

Yep, heard it's pretty sick.

Castlevania Belmont's Curse aims to breathe fresh life into this 40-year-old series with a creative blend of old and new ideas.

With a brand new Belmont wielding the family whip, familiar foes in your way, and modern conveniences that have become expected in the genre, developer Evil Empire has largely hit their mark.

But if you were a longtime fan expecting Belmont's Curse to be a completely faithful revival of the series we played back in the early 2000s, then you will want to think again.

This is a different breed of monster you're hunting, both for good and for ill. Belmont's Curse picks up in Paris about 23 years after the events of the NES Famicom classic Castlevania III Dracula's Curse, the game Netflix's original Castlevania series was based on.

Convenient map tracking tools, exciting combat, a great new hero, and movement tech that will test your reflexes all help this long-awaited sequel stand tall in what has since become a crowded genre.

But Belmont's Curse is a better Metroidvania generally than it is a Castlevania specifically, sacrificing some of the series' signature charm and feel along the way.

Even still, I would not be upset to see developer Evil Empire's name attached to another Castlevania game in the future.

I just hope it doesn't take another 18 years to arrive.

That's right.

I think it does bear mention that this is developed by Evil Empire, the studio that did work on, and I don't remember if they are still working on, Dead Cells.

But they also made the recent and much beloved by Moon and I, The Rogue Prince of Persia.

So I

think Evil Empire was the studio that split out from the Dead Cells studio because Motion Twin did Dead Cells, and then the studio, which was a co-op, I believe, had a disagreement about whether to continue supporting Dead Cells or make new games.

So Motion Twin is still Dead Cells, and Evil Empire is the studio that split off to make new things.

Yeah, they do all this other stuff, yeah.

Um, so they do have it listed on their websites that they pretty much did all the DLCs for dead cells.

Castlevania Belmont's Curse aims to breathe fresh life into this 40-year-old series with a creative blend of old and new ideas.

With a brand new Belmont wielding the family whip, familiar foes in your way, and modern conveniences that have become expected in the genre, Developer Evil Empire has largely hit their mark.

But if you were a longtime fan expecting Belmont's Curse to be a completely faithful revival of the series we played back in the early 2000s, then you will want to think again.

This is a different breed of monster you're hunting, both for good and for ill. Belmont's Curse picks up in Paris about 23 years after the events of the NES Famicom classic Castlevania III Dracula's Curse, the game Netflix's original Castlevania series was based on.

Convenient map tracking tools, exciting combat, a great new hero, and movement tech that will test your reflexes all help this long-awaited sequel stand tall in what has since become a crowded genre.

But Belmont's Curse is a better Metroidvania generally than it is a Castlevania specifically, sacrificing some of the series' signature charm and feel along the way.

Even still, I would not be upset to see developer Evil Empire's name attached to another Castlevania game in the future.

I just hope it doesn't take another 18 years to arrive.