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Bloodstained is an old-fashioned ritualistic 2D horror fighting game

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is a pretty old-fashioned game, with 2D side-scrolling, a heroine with a large bosom and a mini skirt, grunting that sounds uncomfortably sexual, and a lot of repetitive button-mashing action.

And that’s probably what a lot of its fans are going to like about it. The game is being made by longtime Castlevania producer Koji “Iga” Igarashi, and publisher 505 Games will show it off at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) next week. The game raised more than $5.5 million in a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, and it is one of the most anticipated platformers coming.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.