Curse of the Moon is a good game...

Zero, what would you like to accomplish with this thread?

Dying via pit =! dying from a moving enemy. Bottomless pits are part of the environment, and therefore not the same thing as a moving obstacle coming at you. The fact that there are no power-ups to prevent getting oneshot by the portrait enemy does not make Bomberman equivalent to CotM in any significant way. This logic does not follow. Again, they are still entirely different genres of games.

XombieMike Does a thread have to accomplish something? Would you ask the same of a thread that wildly praised the game? I doubt you would.

It's not like I'm tearing the game a new one anyways. I even praised the Stage 5 boss. Heck, in the very title I admit that it's a good game. I don't see why you seem to take an issue with this thread.

No, they definitely don't. A lot of extremely good games make you die in one hit, Metal Storm, Pac-Man, Super Meat Boy, and practically every Shoot 'em Up like Gradius, R-Type, Ikaruga, Dodonpachi, I think Darius as well, all of these come to mind, and to a certain extent there's also the majority of the Mario series, if you consider that mushrooms are upgrades and not your base form. Even then, that's two hits in classic SMB, three in later games in the series.
Then there's games like classic Ninja Gaiden where you have a health bar but the enemy positioning relative to pits and such is a million times more brutal than the Castlevania series, so much that you might as well not even have a health bar for a good part of those games, since you'll die if you get hit anyways.
Really, a single enemy type with 1-hit kills is nowhere near artificial difficulty, it's actually pretty lenient.

Please use spoiler tags when talking about endings and how to get them. Yeah, the game has great replay ability.

But that's not a spoiler. I didn't spoil any of what happens when you try these playstyles, nor did I spoil whatever effect it might have on the plot. I merely mentioned things that the player can try in order to change the game up. If we're going to use your definition of spoiler, you might as well edit my very first post and every subsequent post (including this one) where I mention the portrait mini-bosses, as those are technically secrets too. Most people wouldn't know about them even after their first playthrough unless they go out of their way to find information on the game.

It's not like people would come here, see this topic, and then get all mad because I "spoiled" how to gain access to different types of playthroughs anyways. If anything, they would say, "Huh, I didn't know that. Thanks!" and move along. It seems like you're applying the forum rules a bit too conservatively. You seem to be more concerned about the letter of the rules rather than the spirit of them. The entire point of a no-spoiler rule on forums is to prevent people from spoiling certain plot points that people absolutely will experience on their first playthrough. That's not what I did here.

My entire point is that I've spoiled nothing. It's not like I'm talking about plot points or endings. I mentioned options that the player has. I don't see how that's a spoiler.

XombieMike, I am starting to think that all our words are falling on deaf ears at this point and it's at risk of escalating if it's kept up.


ZeroSbr You may want to take a different tone when the Forum owner asks you to include spoiler tags, or have you forgotten not everyone has played this yet so something even as small as what was mentioned IS 'in fact' a spoiler and requires spoiler tags. And all those OLD games you point out are what CotM is supposed to be like.....unless in my 29yrs of gaming I've never once known what a retro game means.

neff I concur with what you've said. This seems more of a case of someone needs some cheese to go with their . It's why I had pointed out that, if one can play through Dark Souls or Ninja Gaiden(xbox era) on hard, then jumping over a freaking painting that 1-shots is really nothing to complain about.

You know what, go ahead and ban me. It's clear to me that I can't post critique, no matter how valid, or even mention various ways of going through a game without people getting triggered. If the forum rules are really this restrictive, I don't see it as worth my time to keep posting here. I'm sure a lot of users will be happy to see me go anyways. It's a win-win.