Comments on: Hack, Therefore Slash: Captain Blood Walkthrough

By: aufi

aufi — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:35:08 +0000

enemy sheeps

By: Chaz

Chaz — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:42:03 +0000

@marilena

Oh enemies dropping coins is as old as the hills in the world of video games. What it reminded me of in that video was the old Bitmap Bro’s classic The Chaos Engine.

By: Spd from Russia

Spd from Russia — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:46:23 +0000

QTEs :\? die plz

By: Sunjammer

Sunjammer — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:21:59 +0000

Looks fantastically boring. I feel sorry to say so. It’s so subdued.. There’s little if any chaos. No “wildness” heh. Pirates===wildness.

By: Koopa

Koopa — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:42:44 +0000

By the way, did anyone else find kinda silly, that the captain had to shoot all the cannons himself? I’d imagine the captain would bark orders to his crew to get things done. Or maybe he was one of those “do-it-yourself” guys…

By: marilena

marilena — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:33:39 +0000

@Chaz

The coins shower is one of the things that I think comes from God of War and not from the games of old, like you think.

It wasn’t the QTE thing that made me think of GoW. It was mainly how some scenes were set up, especially the last third of the first film (from the door pounding on). Also, the combat system.

By: phil

phil — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:26:46 +0000

Rather than GOW, isn’t this just Conan, minus Ron Pearlman, respect for the source material and the sublimely joyful, hacking two arms off simultaneously special combo.

The habour location and upgrade screen in particular look almost identical.

By: Tei

Tei — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:53:30 +0000

I love the Captain Blood videogame (the classic one), and I love also the movie ( the black and white classic ).

This game sould have use a different game, since Captain Blood is a classic. Using his name is somewhat like ignoring the old title, and that is a tasteless thing to do. I applaud the blog for remenbering Captain Blood.

By: catmorbid

catmorbid — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:43:56 +0000

The “swordfighting” looks incredibly boring, as does the game itself. Hey developers! How about taking a leap of faith and trying something original for change? Another juicy pirate theme ruined by idiotic game design.

By: jsutcliffe

jsutcliffe — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:41:14 +0000

“Sadly nothing to do with the classic Captain Blood, and everything to do with classic novel Captain Blood.”

It actually has barely anything to do with the Sabatini novel either, which is a shame and possibly also a crime. How hard would it have been for them to come up with their own piratey setting? There’s no need to abuse a delightful book.

By: JohnArr

JohnArr — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:30:56 +0000

Cool, one character is strong but slower and the other is fast but weaker!

By: Chaz

Chaz — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:02:31 +0000

Looks like good fun. I like the way the enemies shower coins and what not when you kill them. Something about that makes me feel rather warm and nostalgic.

As for the God of War comparisons, personally I think it looks nothing like. Unless you’re refereing to the QTE boss fight. But those things are so common now in the hack slash genre that the GOW comparison is rather akin to calling all FPS’s Doom clones.