Update 39 - A Video, Playable Demo, E3 & Galleon Minerva

Whoa, jim and BalancedHydra were right. Kicking Vepar in the boobs IS like kicking a dude in the nuts. Hooray!

Looking at some other videos as well (and it seems someone else touched upon it too), I think the most damage is done when you hit the boss in the head and the least is when you hit their tentacles. Different damage for different spots on the boss both makes sense and is kind of cool/funny (especially in context of this particular boss ). I think this boss is the coolest "first boss" in an Igavania yet (or at worst second to Arthroverta from OoE). I just hope the version that is in the final game is tougher - the boss battle in the demo was super easy (for obvious reasons).

Speaking of some of those other videos I've seen, this short video focused on the boss battle shows off a "magic mace" attack Miriam is able to use. Clearly its a Trigger shard you get for defeating a Dullahammer but I never saw one of those drop its shard in any of the other demo videos:



This next, longer video is from Dengenki Online. The player is Japanese and mostly speaks in Japanese. Not too much new info here but you get to see at the end the player switches back to the sword from the Kung-Fu Boots and seems to do even more damage to the final boss suggesting that the boss is either weak to cutting attacks or resistant to the blunt attacks of kicks. I hope weapon/magic resistances and weakness are played up more like they were in Order of Ecclesia than they were in other games (they existed in other Igavanias but I felt you rarely had to take advantage of them whereas you often did have to in OoE). You can also hear some English speakers in the background of this video. I can't recognize their voices but someone does talk about the jump being 3 pixels too high . Is romscout back there? Or some other speedrunner? Who knows!

Nah, don't sweat it

But I do appreciate it if we don't discuss too deep into the demo video yet, since we will get the demo soon, and what the thread discussed might be already in the game or something

My guess would be no shards implemented yet for the boss since I saw no animation of receiving a shard.

But you bring a good point. Boss fight are often either repeatable to get the soul shard or it's a 100% drop rate (or jumping through some hoops like for Legion). Since this one is location locked (I can't see a similar fight elsewhere), do you think her shard is 100% drop rate?

Dullahammer's shard appears to be rare, but I doubt they added a shard for Vepar.

How would you use it when the bosses death animation doesn't even finish in the demo?

I'm sure people will dig in the files to see information in the demo build, so we may learn of Vepar's ability, if it has one.

I actually hope that does return in Bloodstained.  There's got to be some demons that actually can't be slain by certain damage attributes ("elements"), but are instead healed by them.

The issue with unique boss drops is that it's awful for completionists 'cause you can't farm bosses for obvious reasons. If the drop occurs 100% of the time as with the souls in Aria and Dawn I think it should be OR since it would be weird for an enemy to drop two things at once.

Alsoo its super cool when you get it. After some years playing Aria, I decided one time ago to collect everything and for my surprise, the first boss dropped his soul. I felt so lucky, because this soul is very powerful for the beggining of the game but also difficult to get, normally I would need to farm this boss in another area that he acts as a normal enemy.