Possibly. Some trial balloons actually get picked up and used as cudgels. I just like to wait until the same story gets picked up and tossed around two or three teams before assuming the regime is going to let that run
This looks like one of those countless little trial balloons that float up and get ignored by the larger media. I still remember when they released weird allegations about Fauci and then those vanished the next day.
Embed this noticeDrRyanSkelton (drryanskelton@mugicha.club)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 08:28:42 JST
DrRyanSkeltonI might need to play a few more CVs again more recently to properly rate it (As I sure changed my rating of MMZ and ZX seeing how seldom MMX was good) but Castlevania Bloodlines felt perfectly average. Now average for CV is excellent by any standard but I can see how despite technically being a more refined game than CV4 it doesn't have the it factor that makes CV4 so memorable. Stage 5 is trash and almost every boss looks stupid, almost all of them bad demos of the Genesis sprite manipulation capabilities but whats the point of making a monster with 16 different coordinated sprites that all rotate and dance and do all this Dynamite Headdy shit if he ends up looking like a retarded shapeless blob? The fact that the hardest platforming in the game was a boring fireball room that was also upside down felt simultaneously banal and spiteful.
Still all that aside the game is still quite good and worth a play. Bonus for a soundtrack by someone who was new to Castlevania. Some girl named Michiru Yamane or something, I heard she was nervous being tasked for that game as she wasn't sure if she was up to the demands of CV music. Wonder how that turned out...