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I did read that the DLC isn't very much either.
Can you tell me more about the Chaos mode and how much coop is involved?
From what I recall about the upcoming co-op modes, Chaos Mode is going to be some kind of special Boss Rush that allows you to take on some or all of the bosses in the game with a second player. The other co-op mode, I believe, will basically be a versus mode of sorts.
If you are looking for a great co-op experience, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night may not be for you. Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon also does not have co-op, but I would recommend its sequel, Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon II, because that does have co-op. Albeit local co-op if I recall correctly, so it may not be online co-op exactly. However, I still recommend both Ritual of the Night and the first Curse of the Moon because the two are great spiritual successors to Castlevania as is Curse of the Moon II.
That said, you are correct that the DLC is actually not much content. Bloodless Mode is the best one so far in my opinion, though it is also the only one that I think will remain good. Zangetsu Mode and the Randomizer were fun for a time after they were both added, though I have not gone back to playing either of them since. Classic Mode was alright to an extent, but I also did not return to it for the same reason. And the Dead Lands update was just poor because it added only a single one-room area to the game with just one new boss and two Gamigins that you can encounter in the base game. The Shard you can get from that optional boss is not really worth much in my opinion; it is just another Familiar Shard that became unnecessary since I had already greatly strengthened several of my other Familiars, with Dantalion now being my main Familiar due to the buff he provides to my attack power.
Thank you for the great info. I will take a look at that one.
Do you have other recommendations for online coop games where both players can play through the entire story together? I have played a bunch of them and I am struggling to find good ones. Preferably ones that have full controller support, 2D, adventure story to progress through.
I know I'm asking a lot but don't worry about it. I suppose I'm not sure where to post such things looking for help and advice from players.
Thanks again.
You're welcome. I have not played too many online co-op games myself, so I am afraid a list from me will be pretty limited. The only ones I could recommend off the top of my head are Portal 2, Left 4 Dead 1 and Left 4 Dead 2, and Team Fortress 2. You may already know of or are slightly familiar with each of these, so I'll give a basic description of each.
Portal 2 is the sequel to the first Portal, continuing many years after where the story left off. This game's single player mode is a continuation of that story, though the co-op story takes place before, during, or after it. In the co-op mode, you can join a friend or another player in a campaign featuring the robots, Atlas and P-Body, through a variety of levels much like the single player campaign's levels. Gameplay-wise, it is like the single player in that respect, though both players need to work together as a team/cooperate to progress since the puzzles/tests are built around two-player teamwork.
Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 function very similarly to Portal 2's co-op mode in that the players have to all work together as a team. Unlike Portal 2, both take place during a huge zombie apocalypse (calling the zombies infected and special zombies special infected). In these games, players are placed on a team of four players and have to go through each of the campaigns until the end. Or play through one of the alternative modes like Survival for instance, in which the team has to see how long they can survive against the hordes until they fall. There are also versus modes in which one team of four players is pitted against a second team of four players in control of the special infected; once the team in control of the survivors makes it to the end of each map in a campaign or the special infected team is victorious, the teams' roles are switched to let the survivors control the special infected while the special infected team become the survivors for their turn on the map.
Now, I've not played Left 4 Dead myself, but I have played Left 4 Dead 2 and I feel like it may be a lot alike to the first game with some differences that make it distinct from the first. I could be wrong about that due to never having played the first game, so someone else might know. Also, you might experience issues with Left 4 Dead 2 as a result of the Last Stand update; I have encountered some since this update myself, though the forums for Left 4 Dead 2 will likely contain more details about issues caused by this update.
Lastly, Team Fortress 2 is another online co-op game that, like the versus modes from Left 4 Dead/Left 4 Dead 2, place players on one of two teams competing against each other to complete a variety of objectives such as capturing certain points on the map, securing the enemy team's intelligence, or pushing a cart across a few points to the final goal, to give a few examples. This is what most of the game is about, though there is a cooperative mode called Mann VS. Machine in which a team of six players must work together to stop hordes of robots. Mann VS. Machine is different from the rest of the game in that the robots will not be controlled by other players; they are NPC enemies, sort of like the infected from both of the Left 4 Dead games.
There are other co-op games available on Steam, and I think there is a co-op user tag you can use to narrow your search down to the co-op games specifically. The three/four I had listed, whether you have heard of/played them before or not, can be starting points if you have not heard of or played them before.
Thanks again.
I have already played these games. Yeah, I used the co-op tags to narrow down the search. sadly, the pickin's are slim.
Only one I am interested in at the moment is 30XX but the full release will be in a year or two. It's early access.
Don't hold your breath. The crappy randomizer with no logic to ensure the runs are actually able to be beaten (IE: currently the game can put the key to open a door BEHIND the door that the key opens.)?
That was supposed to be a full roguelike mode with a castle that changed each time you played. They got lazy and canceled it with the excuse "Well we talked to our group internally and said it's fine. So it's fine."
Don't put money on this game. Buy Curse of the moon 2, that has actual co-op and is an amazing game made by a much better company that doesn't constantly promise features then change them later.
PS. A reason a lot of the promised updates were canceled is because Iga blew a bunch of the kickstarter money on alcohol and plane tickets to visit abandoned castles to film himself sitting in. I'm not even kidding. He sees the people who support him as a disposable income to support his drinking problems and shady practices, and it's a big sticking point for a lot of us that have been supporting the game since launch and seen all the features that have been changed or were outright lies to begin with.
Like, The other playable characters, Zangetsu and ? ? ? (Nobody knows because it's been years and nothing has been announced, but yes we are supposed to have 3 playable characters.).
FOR Zangetsu, we were told that there was NO way for him to be playable on launch because "The entire castle has to be changed in order to fit his unique playstyle, and it will take time to add those features to the castle.".
Instead, they just took his boss sprite and gave it a janky control scheme of command inputs like a fighting game (That doesn't really work so well in a game like this, especially when just pressing the attack button does just as much damage as his strongest special attacks.).
He has no cutscenes, No unique ending, nothing. It's just a "mash buttons through this area and win, nothing can stop you" mode.
If this was the GBA? Sure, that would be fine. But it's not....
It feels bad because what's here could have been MADE into a good game, but as it stands it still plays like a game in early access, with bugs that have been around since launch day, like items falling forever on stairs/slopes, making them unable to be collected.