Level Grinding in the Demo!

LEVEL	ATK	STR	INT	LCK	DEF	CON	MND	HP	MP	AMY needed to kill Vepar
1	10	7	9	7	3	6	8	120	78	?
2	11	8	10	7	3	7	9	132	86	?
3	11	9	11	7	4	8	10	144	94	?
4	12	10	12	8	4	8	11	156	102	?
5	12	10	13	8	4	9	12	168	110	?
6	13	11	14	8	5	10	12	180	118	31
7	14	12	14	8	5	11	13	192	126	?
8	14	13	15	9	5	11	14	204	134	?
9	14	13	16	9	6	12	15	216	142	?
10	15	14	17	9	6	13	16	228	150	25
11	16	15	18	9	6	13	16	240	158	24
12	17	16	19	10	7	14	17	252	166	?
13	17	16	20	10	7	15	18	264	174	?
14	17	17	20	10	7	15	19	276	182	?
15	18	18	21	10	8	16	20	288	190	?
16	19	19	22	11	8	17	20	300	198	20
17	19	19	23	11	8	17	21	312	206	19
18	20	20	24	11	9	18	22	324	214	18
19	20	21	25	11	9	19	23	336	222	18
20	21	22	26	12	10	20	24	348	230	16
21	21	22	26	12	10	20	24	360	238	16
22	22	23	27	12	10	21	25	372	246	16
23	23	24	28	12	11	22	26	384	254	15
24	23	25	29	13	11	22	27	396	262	15
25	23	25	30	13	11	23	28	408	270	15
26	24	26	31	13	12	24	28	420	278	14
27	25	27	31	13	12	24	29	432	286	14
28	26	28	32	14	12	25	30	444	294	13
29	26	28	33	14	13	26	31	456	302	13
30	26	29	34	14	13	27	32	468	310	13
31	27	30	35	14	13	27	32	480	318	13
32	28	31	36	15	14	28	33	492	326	12

I grinded up to level 32 and these are all of Miriams stats up to that point. This is all without weapon and armour. You should be able to see the pattern it has in each stat. The pattern are long in some of them, and in the others quite short. I added the numbers of Amy's I used as well, the ones with question marks are those I didn't do with Amy's and grinded outside of Vepar. I have tried to figure out how much health Vepar have based on Amy damage, but I don't know if the Amy's I shot from the door went to the face, breasts or mouth on Vepar so I don't know which is correct. If somebody knows please tell me.

Fun fact: If you shot an Amy before going into the cut scene with Vepar you can see the Amy flying in the cut scene. 


It has taken me around 5 hours or so, to do this and write everything down. So I really hope this isn't something that is already know by most. 

Some classic circle of the moon mechanics. 

Viftech
Int appears to be following +(5/6) each level (that is, five sixths) using the unobtainable level 0 as a base. That value should be about 84 or so at level 99. You may wanna check my math there.

CON might have a pattern, but I couldn't figure out whether it was arbitrary or if it's pattern growth.
I tried lev0 CON of 5 with 0.75 level growth. That came pretty close. but since we're looking at roundup instead of round, it's not close enough.

The math seems pretty accurate, but if we could get a mod that lets us keep our EXP between play throughs somehow...

My body is ready to spam Amy at Vepar for hours on end.

Undoubtedly. I always go for the level cap in every single IGAvania. Here's to hoping the cap is BEYOND 99.

Edit: to add, I would certainly grind out the level cap in the demo if there was a mod to support keeping EXP progress.

You're probably right about the lack of a save system, so modding in a way to track EXP is probably unlikely. A cheat engine, while not the same as a pseudo save system, would at least allow us to dig into the level tables for EXP curves and stat growth.

Nonetheless, please accept my gratitude for your contributions to the community!

I personally hope that Iga chooses to let the game stack up, sort of like Diablo 3, Sacred 2, Dark Souls, etc. New Game+ will be harder but with correspondingly better drops ("+1" versions of what you found before) and a new level cap. And New Game++ continues the pattern, a half dozen times or so. Maybe with some extra minor bits of unique content to keep it from feeling like just the same experience with slightly different difficulty dynamics. There's plenty of precedent, it's a new IP, and this would really do wonders for the game's longevity.

In the very least, I want to see elements such as these explored upon in the Rogue dungeon mode. Just imagine how many hours we could sink into the Rogue dungeon mode if there's an insane level cap, or benefits to be gained by restarting at Level 1 after hitting 99 (like better level 1 stats for example) and higher difficulty tiers to tackle. Couple this with different playable characters, online co-op, and holy hell: Bloodstained could make Harmony of Despair blush.