Toziuha Night: Dracula's Revenge

Toziuha night was surprisingly good for a classic vania style game, enemies had decent patterns that you could easily learn eventually, enemies all had a weakness of sorts for the most part to take advantage of with a bit of skill, bosses were the same but of course much more difficult and at times quite varied, I appreciate a lot of the more important bosses even having phases and unique attacks dood. I'm not one for lives systems but this one balanced out fair pits and lives being decently easy to get a hold of, I came close to losing all of them because the game is a genuine challenge if you don't adapt but I was able to pull through with all the lives I managed to keep dood. The whip is nice and snappy, you also have sub weapons which are interesting as they have the ability to have advanced versions be used if you hold up, with varying uses, I can't say I really used them, fights were fast enough and points were scarce enough that you didn't really want to use them unless yo...

It's alright. It shines (not too brightly, but brightly enough) once you get the hang of it, but there's lots of tiny bits of balance that make the overall experience less rewarding than what it could be. It's a fairly basic Classicvania, with a few setpieces and bit of keyhunting within screens to spice things up, but at its core it's just the same old "get from point A to point B while getting harassed by enemies" of retro games. Fixed-arc platforming [i]feels[/i] stiff, but level design is forgiving to account for it. Most enemies are easy and getting the right positioning isn't hard, with the subweapons being OP if you have the mana to spare. A couple instances of positioning making things harder, but [b]mostly[/b] you can eventually adapt to the intended strategy. The bosses are where the game relatively underdelivers. This is a shame because individual attacks are well thought out, but the pacing ends up making passing or failing often less of a skill or even knowledge check an...