Critics and haters were hung up way too much on the 'stealth' sections of Lord of Shadows 2, I had a preconception before playing the game that it was going to be horrendous so I was constantly guessing where it was in the game. After playing through 80% of it I finally Youtube'd it because I didn't notice anything wrong, and really once I knew what IGN et al were talking about it's a real shame.

Really wasn't fair Mercury Steam got bashed for things that made less than 10% of the game. The hate really clouded the positives like solid combat and good free camera control.

Thos rat sections were few and far between. They didn't ruin the game.

I loved the first Lords of Shadow. The ending(pre credits) hit me so hard at the time. The silence was just the perfect choice for that scene. Never had the heart to play the second one.

Yeah first LOS was awesome loved the ending. Tragic how the second didn't follow through.

The game was really fine. Perhaps not so much as a Castlevania game, but as a God Of War ripoff it's pretty solid. The ending was not fulfilling at all, though...

Actually, this interview makes me want to get Lords of Shadow 2 after reading it.

The best thing that happend to Lords of Shadow 2 is this trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Love and adore the first game, Gabriel, journey, locations and story. Unfortunately LoS 2 didn't make it. For me it was one of the biggest disappointments in the whole games history. The second one was MGSV.

LoS was one of the best games last gen, it's a shame Mercury Steam had such internal strife and basically cannibalised itself. LoS was everything i wanted from a full 3D Castlevania game. They should've taken more time on LoS 2, extended development and made it a holiday 2015 current gen release (PS4/xb1/PC). It should've launched around Halloween and been on current gen systems, the extra year and the extra power would've made the game much more palatable and far more successful.

castlevania lords of shadows was good but than i didn't understand why the developers felt the need to try something that doesn't fit instead of making the current features more polished

I still need to play the 2nd game.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau