Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
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Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Inti Creates, released 23 May 2018 on Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita.
What Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon is
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Inti Creates and released in 2018. It is available on Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon is a 2018 platform game developed and published by Inti Creates. It is a companion title to developer ArtPlay's 2019 game Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night and was conceived to fulfill the promise for a retro-style accompaniment to Ritual of the Night after its Kickstarter campaign exceeded crowdfunding goals. Curse of the Moon follows Zangetsu, a cursed swordsman hunting down demons for revenge, as well as three other playable characters named Miriam, Alfred and Gebel. It features an 8-bit aesthetic and gameplay style similar to Castlevania games on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), particularly Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (1989).
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 15 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Bloodstained series
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon is the first of 5 entries we hold in the Bloodstained series. The next entry was Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night in 2019. Its critic score of 80 is almost exactly the series average of 80. The highest-rated entry is Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night at 82.
How it was received
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 71% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 79, across 95 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2Ghz or faster processer, 2 GB RAM and 512MB VRAM (NVIDIA GeForce). At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon launched on 23 May 2018, within three weeks of Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered and Vampyr. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered, Vampyr.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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