Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night E3 2017 Trailer & Gameplay

purifyweirdshard    that was funny    what a stupid joke haha.

There is something i wanted to talk about, that we didn't talk too much yet, mostly because there is almost nothing about it yet. The forging system.
I did a thread about it at the beginning of this year.

Here we are, at the 2017 E3 Demo, with a alpha build being released in August, and absolutely no sign of the Forging system yet.
Kickstarter page says this:

" It's not an Igavania without leveling, and Bloodstained will be no exception. In addition to the classic elements everyone’s come to expect, enemies in Bloodstained will drop a wide variety of items, materials, and magi-crystals necessary to create the items that will get you safely through Gebel’s castle."

And it also says this:

"Crafting: As you explore, fight enemies, and complete quests you will gain experience and become more powerful, acquiring a variety of weapons along the way. Enemies will also drop materials you can use to craft new weapons and abilities using Miriam's training in alchemy."

I also remember that, in one of the old, old IGA interviews about the game, HERE, he said this:

—Please tell us about the crafting system. I understand enemies will drop rare materials which you can use to gain different magic and skills?

Igarashi: This was one of my earliest ideas, so it will need some brushing-up as we move forward, but I wanted a system where you’d be able to learn to use enemy skills and attacks. To be specific, there are five different kinds of drops, corresponding to different parts of an enemy, like their heads, arms, etc. Of those drops, some of them have magical abilities, and they sparkle to show their rarity.

Normal crafting materials will be used on quests, or for weapons and armor, but the sparkling rares, if you level them, will become crystals. Those crystals will link with the magi-crystals on Miriam’s body and allow her to use special abilities/skills. I also want the drops to give different stat subeffects: for example, an enemy head drop will raise your magic power, or a drop from an enemy leg/foot will raise your movement speed. By using the different drop materials (even a single monster will have different drops) and the different stat subeffects, you’ll be able to customize Miriam to your liking.

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A lot of things could have changed between that time and now, but ti worries me a bit that we didn't got a single glimpse of how the forging system will work. And about the drop system, as of now, it seems each enemy has a single drop.
How all that will work?
They gave up on the "each enemy part drops something" idea? And how the forging system will work? What about Magi-crystals? The whole "sparkling rares" that you level up and became crystals? They will be used for crafing, but we have no idea about how they are gonna work yet.

More screens from E3 demos

MENU


New text-font for information. This is our main menu in these demos.


INVENTORY


New text font. Clear text and sme numbers have been changed. Sort-list is minimal.

EQUIPMENT



New font on words and some numbers. Dot-system to show "page / build". New minimal sortment text. Icon for bullets more visable. Miriam behind the lower overlay for more space to write lore and such about the item you are looking at. Rapier weapon shows its a downgrade, this by showing a red arrow beside the ATK attribute.

3 IMAGES



Image 1: When taking shard for the first time there is information that says: "SHARD : Demon power that's been crystalized. It cannot be handled by an ordinary person." and can be seen after the "rose-shard blast".

Image 2: Blue arrow up shows an upgrade. Red arrow down (not shown on image) shows an downgrade.

Image 3: Passive Skills from white shards let's you toggle On / Off like older Igavania games, this is just to give the player the option to make things more difficult when playing, that is all. Dots over the Equip Set 1 showing which set-page you are on, this might allow you to choose "builds" faster when playing.

What I've understand from Symphony of the Night interviews and such is that IGA made the error of leaving the menues as a default development menu, not the actual style he wanted. Once the lesson learnt, he now have always made an effort on the menu right at start.

But knowing a bit how developers work. Menues are one of those last things you actually make, other than "new" bugs and errors. So, we shall wait.

A 3D model you can spin around and see the weapon and items she use ingame would be cool to see, perhaps even with her current familiar. I know it took a while before Diablo III manage to pull that off so I guess it is super low in priority.

I like how it is right now actually, latest changes show a better font, it reminds me of 'Gill sans pro', a font I love to use in design-projects.

Totally unrelated though, I remember that both Super Mario 64 and Super Smash Bros. Brawl had their menues rendered in 3D. In despite of looking like 2D plains.

Yeah I remember seeing a vid where they showed how they did the Mario64 main menu, pretty interesting.

Yeah the 3d bestiary is for selfish reasons really. I just like to inspect game models whenever I can, especially if it is a game I am interested in.
Maybe it will teach me some new tricks I can utilize when I make my own models. =]

Having an in game 3d bestiary will save me time and effort. Otherwise I would need to unpack the game files and what not to get something close to a bestiary.
(which, lets be honest, I will be doing anyway)



Something like that vid would be great, pretty simple scene, maybe with a better pedestal and an idle animation.

Have you guys seen the digital figure mode in Guilty Gear? It's like this, but really heavy on the features. You can place the characters in various poses/expressions/colors using different backgrounds on pedestals with each other to make dioramas, and it's been the only way I've been able to see all of the detail on their costumes*. Really cool extra they added for free.

* for instance, and I wasn't the one to find this lol, Jam's underwear change every day of the week. Seriously. lol

I am more about how they did in Diablo III both on console and PC