Bloodstained Weapons (Submitted)

I think there will be alot of powerful weapons that are beneficial player but I would like to see some joke weapons that are perhaps not so beneficial or have some sort of strange effect on the gameplay. It is the easter eggs like that which make me love this type of game.

Maybe even add a glass bottle too. Shorter range than the Bug catching net, but faster and has the same deflecting abilities. (OoT References   )

Or maybe Shovel Knight will let us borrow his shovel.

It was also in at least one Castlevania game, I think.

That could be interesting.  I feel like people would be a bit pissed if they could mess up forging, though, especially when rare materials are involved.  Still, they could always just reload their last save, and this same method could be used for obtaining those joke weapons (normal result?  Reload).

Aria of Sorrow. Sword in the Stone. You swung a huge boulder. Because you were not the True King of England.

Here's one more from me, based on how cool it looks. Anubis from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 3.



A very cool egyptian-styled curved sword that would work as an inspiration for a Katana-type weapon.

Which is why you announce it up front so you know that that's how the game mechanics work for those difficulty levels. Don't like those risks and penalties? Get better at crafting or don't play those modes. And as far as auto-saving with the crafting I would only be in favor of that method of preventing circumvention so long as the only thing the auto-save effected was your inventory and MAYBE your stats if it was decided that some incorrect combination were to have some sort of permanent effect like loss of XP. (Of course wouldn't that be interesting if there was an XP cost for doing crafting that was higher or doubled if you got it wrong. ) It shouldn't effect anything else in the save (i.e. position in the castle, bosses defeated, abilities gained, and the like).

I mean that's why I only proposed those kinds of ideas for the higher difficulty levels. I mean by the point that you're playing on Hard and Nightmare the basic mechanics of the game like the inventory and crafting aught to be second nature. If you screw up you deserve to have something bad happen to you. Just like if you mess up and forget how a boss moves/attacks and you get hit it's your fault, not the fault of the game or the boss. Hard and Nightmare mode are supposed to be more difficult and less forgiving of mistakes.

It's just like the difficulty modes themselves. If I find Hard mode too difficult, especially if the frustration is angering me, I don't complain that Hard mode is too hard. I go back to Normal, I stop playing, or I practice and get better. So should it be. Besides just because I think hard mode is too difficult doesn't mean it should be made easier. There will probably be people that will even say that Nightmare mode is too easy because they are just that good at gaming.

OH! No no no.... I'm sorry if there was any confusion. I know there is going to be crafting. This means there are recipes. If you make the recipe correct, they work. If you make them incorrectly, they don't work. And in some systems ALL crafting attempts have a chance to "Fail" good or bad recipe. I don't know if that last element will be in Bloodstained or not.

What I was originally suggesting was that for "incorrect" recipes that involved items that had a high drop rate could maybe have joke or broken items result, but if ANY of the components being used in the "incorrect" recipe had a LOW drop rate, i.e. were RARE components, that trying to craft that recipe would do nothing and wouldn't use the materials.


SEPARATELY I was suggesting tying the outcome of a failed attempt or an attempt made with an incorrect recipe to what the difficulty level was. I was NOT suggesting that those concepts be applied INDEPENDENT of the difficultly level. Which is why I suggested that for the "Easy" and "Normal" difficulty levels the only possible outcome of an incorrect recipe be the results I just described above, and crafting failures (if they included that mechanic) should basically do nothing i.e. not even let the attempt be made. But this should only be true in the "Easy" and "Normal" difficulty modes. In the "Hard" and "Nightmare" modes it should be assumed that if you are playing those modes you should be fairly well versed in how to play the game, therefore, incorrectly doing things "you should know how to do by that point" should have a consequence.

Of course this is all dependent on whether there are 3/4/(5??? ) difficulty modes or whether it's just Normal, Hard, and Nightmare as well as how the crafting system works which currently NONE of us know (and I'm not sure Iga knows yet ) exactly the crafting system in this game will work.


Again! Sorry for the confusion.

Do you guys think it would be cool if you had to craft your own familiars? (a'la Curse of Darkness)