Colour-coded map

I think i´ve seen something like this before^^
Thumbs up, good idea for Bloodstained;)

Wouldn't use it personally cause it would make the castle feel like different areas instead of a whole castle to me but i'm not opposed to having the option either in the vanilla game or modded.

I mean it's still one castle, it's not like it automatically makes it a stage based game. It's a good idea to help differentiate. I think it'd be cool if it only becomes color coded once you leave that location and go to the location.

So you're in the chapel it's blue, you go to the library now the chapel has become a color. Once you've gone through an area once it then becomes part of the color system.

Personally i'd find that colour coded map confusing. When i look at the map from Aria of Sorrow for example, my eye is instantly drawn to where i am and then i can look and plan my route to get to where i need to be.

When i see your coloured map my eye is drawn to the different coloured areas first and i wouldn't be able to tell where i am on that as quickly as with the traditional "vainia-style map". Interesting idea yes, but it does not work for me. Perhaps you could have the colour overlay as an option that you can turn on and off.

EDIT: Maybe you could toggle the coloured overlay on/off by pressing and holding a button on the map screen - eg. the map is blue till you hold (RT), then the colours are overlayed until the button is released.

Given the proposed size of the castle i think its a real possibility that you're gonna run out of easily distinguishable colours (was it the maroon area or the burgundy area i was heading for?) pretty quickly. It also has a tendency to look really busy and distracting so as genemag says desaturated palette if you're gonna implement this(which would limit your colour options even further). I'd really want this to be an optional feature either toggled from map screen as i said in previous post or enabled/disabled from options menu, dont force it on people.

Some people are blind.

Totally agree with this, really a map is a place used for guidance, it doesn't take anything from the game nor it forces the devs extra work while adding each area a color to distinguish itself. What a better way do identify a graveyard than with something like a marble grey (like the mausoleum in Aria of Sorrow), and a library with a wood brown (like in SOTN). Would love this simple yet elegant feature.