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

I keep wondering if the demo will include the map, inventory and the save room, i mean if it is short they could decide just to not include these features due to unfinished details.

What about the map connection, will the ship map be connected to the map which leads to the castle or will it be a completely different area? I am not against disconnected areas however i would surely like it more if everything is connected, i mean the time the ship get to the land it could open a continuous area to the castle instead of a sudden transition so you can go back and forth to explore freely.

Something just dawned on me.

Think of the artwork of the castle. There is something unique about it.

There's no land around the castle. The castle is essentially an island that exists only surrounded by water.

Perhaps we take a boat - the boat in this demo - to the castle. Very much a Legacy of Darkness type of thing.

That's exactly what happens. It says so in the update, the ship is taking Miriam to the castle

My only thoughts are that the level looks JUST a little too even toned color wise. I love the bright colors they've used, but I wish the mid-lit and dim-lit areas (mainly the mid-lit areas though) of the level were just a hair darker for some better contrast. I mean after all, from the look of the stage this appears to be an old abandoned half rotten ship with demons on it. It really shouldn't be so well lit. But that is really a minor thing. This is after all a DEMO and is probably up for more polish yet than we already see.

I agree with some that her movements seem a little stiff/robotic in certain motions (mainly while running) but I think this maybe in part be due to the fact that this IS a youtube video running through their rendering codec and not direct video from the game's engine which i would lessen the slight chop to the movement in the video.

I would also agree that Miriam's footsteps on the deck do sound too "squishy" and should really be more of a "plop" or "plunk" sound for wet decking. And as far as the deck not looking wet, I think that is in part due to the angle and also again due to the fact that it's a youtube video and not direct rendering. It could also just be that they haven't added that in yet. Also, again, this is a DEMO. If this were the beta I would be a bit worried, but this is a DEMO video so worried I am not.

Lastly I agree that it would be nice if the cargo net moved and deformed as you walked across it. But hey! DEMO

I must say though that I am very happy to see how this is progressing and extremely excited to see it moving this quickly.

Three cheers for Lord IGA!

I didn't read the update about the ship, so I think it's cool of the game -- or my intelligence -- that one can figure the ship's relationship to the castle without being told.

They've confirmed that this is the biggest budget IGA has had to work with, also it's much easy to do 2.5d with a lot of the gameplay systems they're working with such as equipment they changes appearances and the like. So in theory it would take less time to build the game and they have more money and a bigger team. ( which again I'm not sure where you're getting smaller budget and smaller team). They have a bigger team and a bigger budget and different teams working on the vita and wii u versions.

Not to mention they're working with Unreal 4 which is incredibly versatile and easy to work with which cuts development time a good deal. On top of ALL of that they're releasing the main game first and staggering the extra content, so that makes it easier to release the game in a decent time

Yeah. Not just the biggest budget IGA has to work with, but also one of the biggest successes in Kickstarter history. At 5.5 million dollars , Bloodstained was actually the biggest kickstarter success ever at one point before Shenmue outdid it.

Kitti_W If i remember correctly during SOTN the development team was actually pretty small from what i have heard of, i am not sure about the budget though (since it was a side project i believe it was not that much) and i guess they took like 3 or so years to develop it. However that was a sprite-based game on a time we didn't have any professional tool that gives us the productivity that we have now, also if we were to make a full sprite-based game on 1080p it would be much more time consuming for sure, since Bloodstained has 3D models and scenarios and we are using state-of-art engine Unreal Engine 4 that are made exactly to increase productivity as well as quality things are easier, also i am pretty sure we have a bigger team now compared to SOTN.

All these things together make it possible to create a great game in that timeframe, though i won't mind delays if it is to make the game better, also it seems many extra content will be released as updates so we have enough time for the core game to be ready in 1 year and 9 months (let's say 2 years since we know Bloodstained started being developed in secret before the kickstarter campaing).

Anyway i believe we have all we need to make a great game from budget, staff, time, software and passion. The timeframe is pretty hard to be set, March 2017 was just a guess based on some basic information, i just hope they are not affraid to say it may be delayed if it comes to that (the development is going great though) the thing is that it should be released only when it is ready.

Finally i am pretty optimistic, well much more now that we have seen the video and getting a demo in a matter of days, and don't forget the most important detail here: we have Iga and he is a legend.

I can't say much because everyone already said everything.

Great video. We will play a demo!

Damn, i'm hyped!