Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania Edition Nintendo Switch
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Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania Edition Nintendo Switch

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🎮17 Levels
⚔️150+ Weapons
🧙‍♂️5 Bosses

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🧛‍♂️ Unleash Your Inner Hero in a Pixelated Nightmare!

  • WEAPONRY GALORE - Choose from over 150 weapons and skills, including swords, bows, and even frying pans!
  • UNLOCK EPIC CONTENT - Access all four original Dead Cells DLCs for extended gameplay and new pathways.
  • BATTLE THE DARK LORD - Venture through Dracula’s Castle and prepare for an epic showdown in the throne room.
  • EXPLORE DIVERSE REALMS - Dive into 17 uniquely atmospheric levels, each brimming with secrets and challenges.
  • FACE THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE - Conquer 5 meticulously crafted bosses designed to test your skills and strategy.

Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania Edition for Nintendo Switch offers an exhilarating blend of action and exploration across 17 levels, featuring 5 challenging bosses and a vast arsenal of over 150 weapons and skills. Unlock all original DLCs for an enriched gaming experience, and prepare to battle through the iconic corridors of Dracula’s Castle.

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4.8

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M**E

Not what I was expecting, but I can see why people like it.

Not my type of game. I ordered it to try out, it was fun for a few hours. Good music and art style. I gave it a high review because I can really see the charm and appeal for others, just not for me. Just fyi for non-gamers or people that are buying as a present for a gamer, this is a rougelike game, which is what the play style is called. Just make sure you know that prior to purchasing.

M**S

Great bargain at my time of purchase!

Everything was fine! A little shaky on packaging but , again everything was fine.

T**S

very fun

dead cells is a great game. even when you die most times you have done something in the game and in this game death is not the end. also like this one as it has all the dlc so i had to buy this one even though i had it already lol

A**.

A+

A+

B**N

Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania Edition

Battle through the ancient corridors of Dracula’s Castle wielding iconic Castlevania weapons, in this expansion to the acclaimed fast-paced action roguelite Dead Cells.The inspiration behind it all returns to its 2D action roots! Castlevania’s unforgettable characters & gothic setting meet the fast-paced combat of the award-winning roguelite Dead Cells in this unprecedented collaboration.A gateway to a striking castle has suddenly appeared, and an imposing warrior called Richter asks you to help him vanquish the great evil within.Enticed by the promise of new loot rather than a sense of moral duty, you strike out through the grounds and corridors of the gothic castle to find and kill this mysterious Dracula...Slay hordes of his supernatural minions as you progress through our biggest DLC yet, including two levels, three bosses and a new storyline!WIELD CLASSIC CASTLEVANIA WEAPONSUnlock 14 iconic weapons such as the Vampire Killer, Throwing Axe & Holy Water to decimate Dracula's bestiary of monsters and finally the dark lord himself. Each item has been translated into the fast-paced combat of Dead Cells while keeping their original essence.EXPLORE EVERY CORNER OF DRACULA'S CASTLESecret rooms. Flame-lit corridors. Gloomy tombs. Beautiful paintings. Food hidden in the walls. Full of original monsters from the series, such as harpies, werewolves & haunted armors, the character of the iconic castle will transport you into the realms of gothic fantasy.ENJOY CLASSIC & REIMAGINED MUSICWe're giving you access to an alternative soundtrack made of 51 of the original Castlevania tunes, that can be heard across the entire game. Yes, 51!On top of this, we've taken the 12 most iconic tracks, such as Vampire Killer, Bloody Tears and Simon Belmont's Theme, and reimagined them in the style of Dead Cells as a soundtrack for this DLC, while preserving the Castlevania ambiance of course.DISCOVER A NEW STORYLINERichter Belmont and Alucard will be by your side throughout your quest to vanquish Dracula, helping you to navigate the maze of Dracula’s Castle and providing you with strong weapons (sometimes willingly, sometimes not). However, where there is good there is evil, so watch out for powerful foes who will try everything in their power to stop you from reaching the throne room.MASTER THREE EPIC BOSS FIGHTSFight against the very essence of evil in two intense duels versus Death and Dracula, both set against a majestic backdrop. If you can survive these gauntlets, prepare yourself for our most ambitious boss showdown yet...UNLOCK CASTLEVANIA CHARACTER OUTFITSUnlock 20 outfits as you progress through the castle, letting you roleplay as all your favourite characters like Alucard, Richter Belmont, Simon Belmont, Maria Renard, Trevor Belmont, Sypha Belnades or even Dracula himself

J**W

One of the best rogue-lites ever

One of my all time favorite games. The gameplay loop is very satisfying. It’s a hard game, but once you get into it, you can tailor it to your gameplay style. Like fast and twitchy gameplay? There’s items for that. Prefer to time perfect parries? Yep, there’s a loot for that too. Tanking it more your style? There’s shields galore. Don’t be afraid to start fresh and only unlock items you like once you get a feel for it. It will make your life much easier. If you don’t want to bother with the grind though, there’s customer mode that lets you dial in available items and monster stats so it’s as difficult or easy as you want. In my opinion, this is a perfect rogue-lite.

G**.

DLC Is Actually On Cartridge, But With a Catch

Writing this review after seeing another review that claimed that the DLC wasn't on the cartridge. This isn't actually the case, but they aren't completely wrong as updates are the size of the complete game.If you put the game cartridge into the Switch while in airplane mode, you can still play the game with all DLC included as v1.23.1 is the version on the cartridge (this corresponds to v3.3 of Dead Cells based on its platform agnostic changelog on the Wiki GG page). To be specific, the cartridge contains update 3.3 of the game as well as the 5 DLC keys that enable you to be able to use the DLC (since the game includes DLCs in updates and then you normally pay to download encryption keys to decrypt the DLC features).HOWEVER, the moment you try to start up the game while connected to the internet, the game will prompt you to download an update (specifically the "Clean Cut" update at the time of this review, which is v3.4 in the changelog) that is roughly 2gb in size. This big size is because updates for the Switch version of the game are essentially re-downloads of the game that completely replace the game's source code (instead of changing sub-files within the code). As such, this essentially changes the role of the physical Switch cartridge of being a complete build of the game into a license key for the update (PC and PS4/PS5 just download the necessary data chunks for DLC, for the record).In short, Motion Twin did not lie when saying that all DLC is on the physical game. However, because the cartridge and disc were made before the Clean Cut was released back in April/May (updates change the title screen, but the title screen can be adjusted), you would need to effectively re-download the game on the Switch in the form of an update to get some of the newest content of the game (v3.4 added new stuff to the Castlevania Content like a boss rush, for example). As such, you DO get all of the DLC on cartridge/disc as v3.3 (based on Dead Cells changelogs) and the license decryption keys, but you don't get ALL of the newest content on the Switch cartridge since this is an August release of a March v3.3 update that was shrtly followed by a May/June v3.4 update (and any future updates after this review) that forces a download the size of the compiled game.Seeing that Dead Cells frequently releases new physical copies of the game that contains more DLC keys on the discs, we might get another version in the future that contains all updates (assuming another DLC pack is released or the game ceases development).For reference, this game has the following physical releases:-The Original Release;-The Action Game of the Year release that has the Rise of the Giant DLC key;-A revised Action Game of the Year release that added the Bad Seed DLC key; and-The Return to Castlevania release that added the Fatal Falls DLC key, the Queen and the Sea DLC key, and the Return to Castlevania DLC key.Since updates completely replace the installed game that's on your system, each Switch cartridge release essentially acts as a new collection of DLC keys to be used with the current update.tl;dr: Product actually has DLC keys on cartridge and v3.3 of game (corresponds with Switch version 1.23.1), so you can play the DLC as is without internet updates. However, the Switch version of game has 2gb updates that completely replace the installed version of the game with a new build of the game (cartridge still has v3.3, but system has v3.4 / Switch software v1.24.1), so you would still need 2gb+ of space on your system or SD card if you want future additions to the game.This gets 4/5 stars as they didn't wait on creating a build that incorporates the v3.4 content. Instead, we only get up to the v3.3 content, which forces Switch users to download a free update the size of the game if they want the v3.4 content (instead of having a complete build of the game that has all content included by the time the game comes out physically).

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