Game:

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (2019)

Duration: 6:45:00

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Played by: Tsunao

Part 2: https://youtu.be/k6fQxAoI-Fg

Metroidvania by ArtPlay. Game known for having a Kickstarter campaigned started by Koji Igarashi, the mad man behind SotN and pretty much all the other Metroidvania games.

Follow Miriam as she treks a castle to save her buddy. Along the way, she meets a church woman, a samurai, and an old man.

This game plays like the usual metroidvania games: you trek through places, get a power-up that allows you to navigate (like double jump), fight a boss somewhere, all that fun stuff. You also get many different weapons, like the usual swords to shoes. This game also plays more like Dawn of Sorrow: kill an enemy and they may drop a shard (like souls from Aria/Dawn). Collecting more shards power it up (thus, Dawn). You can also rank them up by transmutation (aka crafting), changing their properties, like more projectiles for example.

This longplay goes for 100% map, 100% Shards, and 100% sidequests on Hard difficulty while doing shoddy routing and getting hit by every goddamn thing and making multiple stops at save points. There's some grinding because shards and crafting says so! I ORIGINALLY wanted to go for all boss medals, but Zangetsu was making me tilt HARD. I also throw in the recital. That grind was worth it. No DLC, though.