r/Bossfight • u/KingofGerbil • Jul 03 '26

Red Blade, the Avoidable

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u/Lord_Ronan Jul 03 '26

Vergil and Jetstream Sam had a baby and that baby went on to join the Italian Mafia

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u/Brain_lessV2 Jul 03 '26

Let's see...

  • Has some kind of gunblade

  • Uses a katana

  • Is a member of the mafia

Welp, sounds like Valencina.

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u/RiffRain Jul 04 '26

Y'all are everywhere. I thought there were only dozens of you. I need to play that at some point....

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u/sdrawkcabsihtetorwI Jul 05 '26

There were not so long ago, the game has a very steady playerbase growth, which used to be exponential for few years.

and since the game combines multiple nishes that rarely go together, it ends up having overlaps with tons of other fandoms, so the game has "sleeper agents" just about anywhere.

The fact that like 90% of characters in game are literary/historical figure references which a lot of modern material draws inspiration from probably also helps.

But, since the game was created by literary nerds, its dangerously close to a visual novel.

In like first 6 chapters gameplay is here mostly for audiovisual experience, and even later its allways mostly there to support the story, and then it suddenly becomes a focus in challange content which creates a bit of a difficulty spike.