Bloodstained 2 or more new IP's?

Assuming this game is everything we expect it to be I would be all for a sequel.

It could be direct or in the same era im fine with either.

Both, if Bloodstained become sucessful it should have a sequel, either way it would be cool to create more universes despise being sucessful or not, we could have Bloodstained in 2017, then we develop a new IP to ~2019, then Bloodstained 2 in 2020/2021, then new_IP sequel in 2021/2022, so on.

It's difficult to know since we haven't experienced Bloodstained yet. Depending on the story and other factors I wouldn't mind a sequel or two. But if the franchise reached it's greatest end I wouldn't want a sequel for the sake of a sequel unless it's a spin off of some kind which is probable for IGA's games. But hey, if he wants to use the IGAVania engine for a new IP Gothic romance or perhaps even something further than that then am all for it if it's good.

The second opus of a game or a movie is always a dangerous part.
Oftenly, we wish it never happend. Sometimes, it's even better than the first one ! 

Who never thought in the middle of a game : 'Oh, to think it's almost over... I want a next one !' or 'I wonder what happend in his/her life...'
Some series had a brillant future when they thought it would be over even before the start (Final Fantasy ?). With Castlevania, we had a long serie of amazing games we all enjoyed for ! 

I would never call another Bloodstained Opus 'Bloodstained 2' but more like... 'Bloodstained : Alchemists' Awakening' or 'Bloodstained : Linked World' to refer, for instance, to the catastrophy that hit Alchemist Guild before the Castle got invaded by Demons (if I remember well) as a pre-sequel and, for the other option, what would follow the Final Boss stage (a fight with Gebel I suppose) where Demon World and Human World could be 'linked' as one. The adventure would (probably) never go around the world of course but we can imagine many things.

I tend to think 'AGame'sName 2 / 3 / 4' sounds bad and artistically 'dead'. Of course, there are exceptions (Final Fantasy again) but I like the idea of giving the game a proper title like Castlevania's serie did.
For now, I think we should wait to have beaten half the game for asking ourselves these questions seriously but I trust IGA's choices anyway and maybe it's a new beginning for him and his team. Maybe it is the start of another long serie. What could we hope better ?

I would like to see more games in the same universe. This is a new ip so it wont get old anytime soon, anyway I cant get tired of this kind of games so there can be three trilogies of Bloodstained without any problem xD

So, obviously I would want more Igavania games like Bloodstained, but also I would really like to see more classicvania too. Konami (or anyone else, besides pretty much just Kayin with Brave Earth) is not doing a classicvania any more than they're doing real Igavanias.

So yeah, more The Adventure ReBirth/Rondo style games. They could be digital-only interim entries, side games, something...so long as they're released on a real platform and have that classic gameplay. Those games need to come back as much as any.

i think the idea of doing a classicvania sized offshoot based in the same universe would be a good way to bridge the gap between major games in the vein of prologues, epilogues, side stories, and what ifs... as well as help flesh out areas that may not warrant a full game at the time but could serve as the setup to something further down the road

it could also give them something that could be a testing ground for ideas and adjustments to the system, plus it would let them go really out there in terms of assets since theyre smaller slices of the world, and in later games you could use these when the pc intersects with that slice of the world or have an easter egg of meeting one of the characters of those games and the people whove played that game go 'hey i know that guy!' similar to when maria asks alucard if hes heard of a belmont and alucard goes to trevor from cv3

I think i have a little different opinion here.
Although i really liked all the timeline idea of Castlevania, i think Bloodstained could go for a different aproach. I'm talking about a Metaseries (also called "media franchise").
What is a metaseries, one may ask?
Well, a Metaseries is a really huge franchise that has a lot of subseries.
The best example of this is the Metaseries Megami Tensei, from Atlus.
The JRPG Metaseries Megami Tensei, has six subseries, as follows:

Digital Devil Story series

Shin Megami Tensei series

Digital Devil Saga series

 Devil Summoner series

Persona series

Devil Children/DemiKids series
 
Each subseries is a self-contained timeline and universe, but all of them share the same common elements. On Megami Tensei Metaseries, all games has the protagonist summon creatures (mostly demons, or Personas), but each subseries has a specific storyline. They don't happen at the same universe, but share the same elements.
Each subseries has several games.

So, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night could be the first of the Metaseries Bloodstained. So, we could have, for instance (i made up everything):

Ritual of the Night series: Cursed Alchemist wreacking havoc on humankind.
Artificial Life series: Frankeinstein-esque humanoid built long ago by Alchemists, wake up from their his/her slumber to feed on corpses. 
Alchemist Guild series Alchemist guild prevailed over science and have a global dictactorship controlled by alchemist and demons.

And so on.

If Bloodstained became a real succes, IGA will NEED more IPs. He can't be a "man of a single franchise" as it was before (i think). But those IPs could be all part of the Metaseries.

Yes. I never played it, but i kinda know what you are talking about and yes. Same elements. More or less the same general ambient. But each series has his own world.



I almost feel that Order of Ecclesia is like that. I know it isn't but it feels like it.
Order of Ecclesia deals with a time when the Belmont Clan vanished with no further explanation, and now, other forcers had risen to defeat Dracula, if he rises again. It all sounds very "out-of-place" inside the general timeline. It could be a subseries and not really linked...