Review: Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (Sony PlayStation 4)

Review by Matt C.

As soon as you describe a Kickstarter project as a spiritual successor to something beloved, you set the expectations through the roof—not least of all when the original creator comes out of the shadows to take the helm. Even if the end result is something that's really good in its own right, it still has to live up to people's rose-tinted memories. We've seen a fair few of these dream projects fumble under the weight of those expectations, and for a while, it was looking like Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night might fall into the same camp: we had delay after delay, and new developers brought on at the last minute to help pull it all together.

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