Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night E3 2017 Trailer & Gameplay

I'm hoping knife and Basilard will be different. Why would you include both in a demo that supposedly highlights the differences between weapons? But I won't get my hopes up.

Also, I mentioned this earlier, but the knife and fist class weapons would do double hits if you were point blank range.

What's important is that now, possibly, you may be able to make oddball weapons like the nunchuku viable late game with the crafting system. That + specials could be big for variety and player individuality, and are big things I'm looking forward to learning more about.

I'm much more into SotN-y weapon variety and their unique attacks than shards. Always liked the options of gear and innate abilities over monster powers.

My only complaint from the latest demo is how boring the death animations are compared to old Vanias.

I think it's mostly a placeholder, as in the old demo they seemed to have variants and neat details, so that may be an indicator of the fact that they want them to be varied/detailed/interesting.

CastleDan is right, it's ok to get away from the Castlevania's enemy design wise, but let's not exagerate! Come on, we need at least 2 or 3 skeletons around, you can still make them different than the previous ones by innovating on their designs (there is a million of things to do with skeletons), come on who doesn't loves skeletons . I will even give you an example: a skeleton that rip out his own bones to attack you, there will be different types of attack depending on what kind of bone he is using, once he uses most of his bones he loses balance and drop dead on the floor or maybe as a last resource attack he jumps himself on the hair and detach his skull launching it towards you, his body dismantling when it hits the floor

Death Animations
There will be many different death animations on each enemy, with exception of bosses (perhaps). Mostly due to the elemental nature of weapons. In Diablo III as an example, the elemental damages had every enemy get an affix / effect attached to them. Ice attacks would make a chilling animation around the attack, the enemies would be somewhat if not entirely frozen. I have seen similar things in Bloodstained, mostly with the fire. Adding a fire attack to Morte, made them bubble up and explode, while using a sword to cut them would make their head fall off. It was cool to see and a welcome addition to the game. Very excited for these "affixes" and animations.

Odd Weapons? Much Love!
I am looking forward to odd weapons like nunchuks once again, and we should not forget the backer created weapons, which may take the gameplay into a complete new twist. I mean, walking around with some kind of weapon that would originally never ever be a part of IGAs mind are something I am looking forward to. The ideas and the variety will surely satisfy the most of us. My highest wish for weapons are not how they work, but rather that they are balanced towards the end, so everyone can pick their favorite animation / style and stick with it, knowing they wont loose power over favorism. Whip, Axe, Dagger, Sword, Gun, Spear and so on.. All being good as an end game item, just different ways to wield them.

Bones
Skeleton + Morte have been seen. I am pretty sure the concept of "skeleton" will be in the game. And giant bosses loosing limbs were almost clarified to be in the game. Almost!

The Blue Familiar
Familiars with more colors than blue would be nice after some thought. The blue is sticking out too much. If anything, just add the blue as a faint aura around what ever creature we have as an familiar. And it is kind of sad to know not ALL of the familiars in the kickstarter backing poll progress would make it into the game. I am a sucker for art and such, and showing this and that, these and those guys.. It always ends up as a feel that I want it ALL to be in the game. It is like showing a piece of an soundtrack but some songs cant be played. (long live Goofball!).

Key Weapons Makes Progress?
Do we even have any?! I do not think so. The cool part is that Miriam have kick animations, and in one of the interviews during E3 2017, they said the 'Kung Fu Boots' made it possible to make more things than last time. This could mean that we need to equip them, and perhaps other weapons to get pass some areas. Is this a feature we want? Are you for it, or against that idea? I think it is kinda neat.

Thanks
Sorry bout my englishuu, I have been writing on this forum the past days while being very sick, so my spelling have been off, (as usual but anyhow).

It's not so much the need for some sorta skeleton in the game, I just think skeletons made a great cannon fodder enemy. It was an enemy that was in a great deal of the game and had many different types. They were enjoyable to kill and were recognizable......that nice crackling bone explosion sound.

So I think it's just I miss them being as a main enemy for the game, granted we've seen small bits so far but the morte type giving you a bone throw kinda seems to imply skeletons are out as that main type of enemy. Morte doesn't really seem all that recognizable to me in a classic horror sense like a skeleton does.

( MINOR NITPICK RANT)

I replayed AOS and OOE at least 5 times because new game+ carried over almost everything. I hope bloodstained will stay the same because there is no need for new game+ if I cannot carry over my progress