Name: 惡魔城。毀滅的肖像--皮卡斯普雷 (Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin - Pikasprey)
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hello Internet users and welcome back to another video.

Once again, we're returning to Dracula's Castle in order to talk about another castle Vania Game.

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This time the one will be looking at is the second of the D s titles.

This one is a very interesting entry, every one of the metro in vain.

Ia's has their own little gimmick that you'll constantly be using as you explore in defeat enemies, for example, Circle of the Moon has the D.

S s cards and the sorrow Games have a collectible monster souls for a portrait of ruin.

The focus of the game play this time is that your plane with two characters instead of one each with their own set of strengths, abilities and even equipment.

The game also attempts to go for an entirely different approach to how you explore Dracula's castle, offering some very unique locations that you'd never see in any of the previous games.

To this day, Portrait of ruin is considered by many to not only be a pretty solid Castle Vania game, but also one of the best in this series.

So let's take a closer look and see just how it manages to make itself so fondly remembered.

The game begins with a brief intro establishing the setting.

The year is 1944 during the Second World War.

All the suffering and despair in the world has once again summon Dracula's castle back to the earth.

There are two people that have set out to defeat Dracula this time Ah, young man named Jonathan Morris and a young woman named Charlotte Allen.

Being a member of the Morris family, Jonathan is the current successor to the legendary whip the vampire killer.

However, it's quickly revealed that he is unable to make use of its power.

Despite this, though, he's very confident that he can still defeat Dracula.

Charlotte is the childhood friend of Jonathan that's here to assist him.

She also apparently has a reputation for being a powerful magician despite her age.

By the way, if it's not obvious by the year this game takes place.

Jonathan is actually the son of John Morris, one of the protagonists from Castle Vania bloodlines.

Although Bloodlines was a stage based castle Vania game with very little emphasis on story, Portrait of ruin is actually a follow up to the events of that game anyways, getting to the actual gameplay.

Like I said earlier, what sets Portrait of ruin apart from the rest of the hand held castle, Vania Sze is its focus on using two characters by pressing the X button while on the ground, the player can quickly swap between Jonathan and Charlotte.

Each of them have their own stats and play styles, but at all times both will share the same HP.

An MP Jonathan plays the most like a traditional Castle Vania protagonist.

His ability slots are similar to the usual set of sub weapons that have been seen throughout the serious, depending on what you have equipped, pressing up on why can have him throwing things like knives and axes.

And although his starting weapon is a whip like Soma code in the previous game, Jonathan can pick up and use several different weapons, like short swords, claymores and spears.

Charlotte is a character who was more centered around using magic.

She could only pick up a few different weapons in the game for her standard attacks.

All of these are magic books that have an interesting look to their animations.

When used for example, when she uses one of the tome of arms she'll attack by opening the book and having weapons shoot out of it.

What you obviously would want to use the magic user for is her spells these air done by pressing up and why you can also hold down the input for her to charge, which will unleash a stronger version of the attack.

Throughout the castle, you confined quite a few different spells for her.

There is the standard stuff, like fire pillars of ice and gusts of wind.

But there are also ones that can temporarily buff certain stats, whether it's Jonathan or Charlotte, though most of their combat skills can be obtained as enemy drops.

This is essentially the same idea as Soma soul gameplay, except here it's a bit more limited with the types of abilities you can obtain.

Not only that, but not every single enemy is able to drop a skill or spell this time, either something else that you can also do while fighting is pressed the a button to some of the second character to attack with you while in this follow states.

If this character gets hit instead of losing HP, you'll lose MP instead.

If your MP gets entirely drained this way, then the character will be stunned and unable to help you for a moment by summoning the other character.

You can do a lot of extra damage, but if you're not careful, then you won't be able to keep throwing out your strongest attacks.

But it's easy to quickly use it all up, even when you're not calling out the second character.

By the way, a little bit into the game, you'll unlock the ability to use the R button to call the other character in for an assist the pop in just for a second to use whatever ability has been set toe up and why.

However, you can't charge any of Charlotte spells when they're used this way.

And finally, by pressing up in X, both characters will unleash a full screen attack that does a huge amount of damage.

This action uses up a large amount of MP, and you can quickly tell if you have enough by checking to see if the meter is flashing.

You may have also noticed that some of these multi character mechanics were actually present in dawn of Sorrow and that game's Julius mood, you were switching between three different characters in a similar way.

The main difference, though, was that in that mode, all of the characters had their abilities unlocked from the start and couldn't have any equipment put on them as well.

In the main game, Soma would also eventually unlock the ability to use the X button to switch between two different sets of equipment on the fly.

It's very clear that they were using dawn of sorrow to experiment with a few things that were planned for Portrait of Ruin.

As the two games were released only about a year apart from each other and Don of sorrows, Julius Mode, the character switching also had a slight delay to it.

And because there were three characters and only one button for switching, it could be a little sluggish at times when you wanted to switch to a specific character, especially when you were in the middle of a fight in Portrait of Ruined, though it feels ah, whole lot smoother because you instantly switch when you hit the button, you don't feel like you're ever at risk of taking a hit, even when you switch right in front of an enemy's face.

I'd say that things worked out pretty well by first messing around with these ideas in the last game.

It allowed them to put a new spin on the bonus mode while also figuring out how to polish it up for the next release.

And in the case of the main game, if you didn't want to manage two cents of equipment, you simply just didn't have to.

It didn't feel intrusive because the gameplay wasn't centered around it.

It was just another option you could make use of.

Another quick thing I want to mention is that portrait of ruin also makes use of the consul's two screens the same as before.

On the top screen, you can view your map, and by pressing select, you can switch it to view your stats as well as info in the last enemy you fought, getting back to portion of ruins.

Shortly after Jonathan and Charlotte enter the castle, they come across the ghost of a mysterious man that calls himself wind Wind informs the duo that the castle is currently under the control of a vampire named Brauner.

We also get to learn that Jonathan hold some resentment for his father, who would apparently passed away before teaching Jonathan how to properly use the vampire killer in the room.

Beyond the ghost, the priest from the start of the game has set up a shop.

It's just your standard shop where you can buy a few potions and equipment that you might want.

There was actually an online shop mode at one point, but I couldn't tell you much about it.

By the time I got to experience this game for the first time, all of the online features for D.

S and We games had already been shut down.

This little area of the castle functions as a small hub.

In addition to returning here to buy items, you can also speak to wind.

Who will give Jonathan and Charlotte different quest to complete.

I have to say that I have very mixed feelings about the quest systems that these games try to.

A lot of them can have you do some very random things, like speaking to when you're D s is set to 12 o'clock or coming to him when the last three digits of your money are 777 and then there's another one where he wants to speak to you when you have no money at all like these aren't even challenging.

They're just annoying to do some of the other.

Quest will also require you to farm specific enemy item drops, and odds are you're probably just going to have to look up online.

It could be very tedious, and the individual quest often don't feel worth it, especially the early ones, Honestly, and just about every play through I've ever done of this game, I just end up ignoring them.

There are some good rewards and benefits, though, like receiving a boost year maximum, hp, an MP and a decent weapon here in there.

But trust me, you can get through the game just fine by ignoring this entire mechanic as he progressed with the game, more quest become available, but only five of them are displayed at a time.

So if you want to access some of the later quest.

You have no choice but to get through some of the really bland ones.

After Jonathan and Charlotte meet Wind, the next thing they come across is a mysterious painting.

It's here that we get to see this game's other gimmick.

Broader is apparently using the power of several paintings to control Dracula's castle.

And in order for the duo to weaken him, they need to go inside of the paintings world and defeat the boss that lurks within.

I don't have a clever morning of 64 joke, but if I don't acknowledge that game in this video, I'll probably never hear the end of it.

So these paintings are actually a pretty neat concept for a Castle Vania game.

Just about every entry in the Siri's either takes place inside of Dracula's castle or a very similar castle.

I can imagine that after doing this so many times, they really wanted to come up with some kind of excuse to explore new areas that you would never see inside of a castle.

There are four main paintings in Portrait of Ruin, the 1st 1 you explores the city of Hayes.

This world is a Victorian town where the streets and shops are overrun with monsters.

Another painting is the Sandy Grave, which is an ancient Egyptian pyramid where you need to climb to the top to reach the boss.

Maybe that sounds a little out of place for Castle Vania, but they've always had mummies as bosses and normal enemies, So I don't think it's that much of a stretch.

The next painting is the nation of Fools.