Bloodstained Weapons (Submitted)

I'd like to see a yo-yo like weapon. We're talking oversized cord, with a giant sawblade-type yo-yo head. You could tap the button for something approximately like a whip attack, but give it some weight and momentum where if you hold down the button and then press on the d-pad, you can rapidly swing it around back behind and above you before it returns. If you want to get really fancy, allow "tricks" where a combination of swings has an auto-finisher; say you go forward, behind, forward, behind, and she then goes into a whirlwind animation. I've always liked this weapon type when it showed up in other games like Startropics, The Goonies 2, and Kirby Super Star.

I also hope there's a whip that causes enemies to explode when you kill them with it, damaging other enemies right next to them.

Not sure if I posted this before but I hope they put an importance to sound with weapons. Part of the reason SOTN's special weapons ruled were not just due to the visuals of them but the sounds as well. A good example is Alucards sword, had a very bassy deep slash sound and in Dawn OF Sorrow when you play as Alucard in the bonus mode, the alucard sword has a normal slash sound instead. Takes a cool sword and makes it infinitely less cool. 'Twas that moment I realized how much a sound effect matters.

actually, there are more swords that do this. the.... tyrfing as well i belive, although thats only one example. traditional lore startes that if a katana is drawn, it is to take blood before it is sheathed once more anyway, but that may not be coerrect on my part.

Just don't make a shield like the Alucard Shield. Or rather, make a shield that looks like it, but doesn't make you practically invincible when you use it in conjunction with the rod. Btw, it wasn't the rod itself that was OP, if you remember. It was the special ability.