Yup, we’ve gone full circle. The initial release of vampire survivors copy pasted a lot of Castlevania assets, but now they’ve negotiated a deal to have them officially in the game, which is neat.
refusing to be transparent about updates and future dev for over a year just letting it slowly die.
That’s par for the course for Hi-Rez… Realm Royale was a smash hit when it was in alpha, and they ignored the fanbase and kept messing it up more each update until it faded into obscurity.
The article is tongue in cheek, but I’m not sure where you’re getting “pretty decent AA game” from. It got scathing reviews and has a worse average score than Forespoken. It’s currently mostly negative on Steam so from what it sounds, it seems like a bad game that got zero advertisements because the studio gave up on it.
I haven’t played it yet, but my friend that’s played the originally and generally likes the Silent Hill franchise says it’s great. It apparently lives up to the hype.
It’s still wild to me people are continuing to break records in classic Tetris. You’d think they’ve reached the peak long ago, but they somehow continue to impress!