Olivia!!

was hacking the elin save format for a few hours (3-4?) last night. its a massive json, and i had some reason* to believe cards.globalChara.1.D.A was the player's stats... which is just a bare array of 450+ numbers *entirely based on intuition and vibes (not those kinds)

with some pattern recognition i figured out that this bare list is actually a flattened 2D array of five values each (id, a, b, c, d), where id is a unique identifier for what skill / attribute / whatever is referred to and a, b, c, d are unknown fields for that skill

my first approach victory!!

i have no clue how youre ever supposed to get this done lmao

it also seems remarkably useless? i like when little side objectives like this are hidden tutorials teaching you new ways to use abilities but like, this is the damage this enemy takes from being petrified + dropped... versus just hitting him in the face once

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every room in this game feels like a warzone. help #belmontscurse

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this is a weird complaint but the relic system... is bad. this sort of "equip a number of passive upgrades that you can replace as you want" straight up does not work if you dont limit *when* you can replace them. i see this mistake all the time and its annoying every time #belmontscurse

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this game takes place in 1499 but there are pictures of Brauner (born ~1870) and Shanoa (born ~1810 most likely) #belmontscurse

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other than that: its a little bothersome that switching spells / weapons is at minimum six menu presses. i hope for something like glyph sleeve to show up, but im pretty sure it wont. also where are the warp rooms!! it takes so long to get around #belmontscurse

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cool crash

end of the night and new castlevania is pretty fun, but its sorta not castlevania. which makes sense when you put the prince of persia guys on making another 2d platformer. 70% of the game is doing walljumping + grapple-swinging segments over spikes and buzzsaws.

i clipped through a wall in new castlevania ` w´