Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night E3 2017 Trailer & Gameplay

Love how the game looks! I especially like the new font used in the menus, on enemy names, and on the damage numbers. The new font is larger, clearer, and overall easier to read. Very pleasant on the eyes for me.

this has gotten rid of all my doubts for this game. this is truly shaping up to be a great game, but obviously still looks early development as most of what is shown has very few enemies, what enemies are shown the combat looks a bit slow, most enemies don't attack back (or it at least feels like it as other than the boss/ the knight the attacks just don't look menacing), and there's no music, also really needs more movement on screen to make it feel more lively, but with a year+ to go in development I'm sure things like that will get worked out.

Oboy, will reply to a few quotes here. Might be a long post
Thanks for this crocodile

I didn't watch all of the videos but notice the Chapel area had their version of the flee-men, and that "Soma Cruz's Soul-Spear-Throw" was back á la Miriam. I hoper we can try out the demo soon.



Same here, or at least, I will watch it plenty of times.



That makes me wonder if we (the backers) are getting the demo too, as it seems a few others have gotten hold of it. If it works like Blizzard Entertainment's business, family and friends gets it first, then later on (in our case, backers) a few youtubers and such. And with it a policy that allows us to stream, record and take "the game apart". If there are NO mention of this, all of it should be fine, but if there are any of it - these terms should be respected.



Cool, thanks!



There will always be people that compare, its in our nature. Things we love are things we want more of, and out of fear they might compare about that too. I have never heard about Hollow Knight, and I compare Bloodstained with Symphony of the Night all the time, and I can't help it!



Familiars.. This time around it seems that we will get the more easier models and features that are auto. Perhaps a leveling system that puts out damage according to your level somehow, but not much more than that. I would happily be wrong. I would however see a more advanced approach and get a way to evolve/ mutate the familiars if the game Bloodstained 2 will be released. I know many would love to see this since Curse of Darkness was such a great hit around the different aspects of familiar-usage and evolvment.



That is correct. I hope finding all of them will give us the entrance to defeat him in a secret battle. And thus getting the Swordwhip! Woooo!



Thank you!

The biggest delight of the trailer for me was to see that they will be using camera tricks with the 2.5D graphics (). When I played Capcom's new 2.5D Strider game on PS3, I was hoping to see some of those same techniques in Bloodstained. So, kudos there.

Seeing a room with the pool of water in the background center was also very neat.

Here's what I find strange: The trailer itself I felt lukewarm about, but the individual gameplay videos that have been posted since somehow just feel better. It may be that the trailer wasn't cut quite right or that this type of game doesn't do well in a "sizzle reel" because of its inherent internal methodical pacing. I think part of it is getting used to seeing a game like this in 2.5D, especially one that is still deep in development. The brain has to adjust to what it's seeing on the fly.

All things considered, I am feeling positive, though not overwhelmed. The first shot with Miriam getting the ability looked off to me in terms of the environment (and the stained glass effect might need some extra effects to it, as well). Some of the environments seem to overpopulate things like candles and pillars too close together, or just look cluttered, and some of the textures look a little more like plastic or claymation--which seems to be a side effect of HD graphics in more than one game I've seen over the years.

I agree with others here that the chandeliers need some animation (though it is worth noting that they did not in many previous IGA games, IIRC); I'd still like to see a few more things like ropes and such swaying with the ship (the chains are, though, so that's good). Shower curtain could do with some ripples, too. The bell crashing down to reveal another area was just used in the Lecarde Chronicles 2, as I recall, so I'm glad to see some more interactivity like that in this game. The floor shattering animation needs to be touched up as has been said, but this I'm sure was still another piece that was a work in progress.

Overall, I think it's coming along nicely. I supported this more as a longitudinal Castlevania fan than an IGAvania fan, honestly, so I'm never going to be in love with the "floaty" jumping; but that's been a part of these kinds of games for a while. Some asides: Maybe I need to hear the new music isolated, but it was just "middle-of-the-road" for me, as most of the soundtrack to date has been. The dulahammer heads...any chance they'll be like Medusa heads? The boss was interesting, but like the one from the previous E3, I have been surprised how anime-inspired they are in look/attitude. I don't mind it, but I somehow didn't picture that originally when this was announced. (As I said elsewhere, it's more Soul Eater or Akame ga Kill than Vampire Hunter D in its approach to anime flavoring.) I suppose I should have expected this approach considering the main character's design. I just want to see some creepier and moodier vibes in this as it goes along. So far, it's leaned a little more toward "playful" and "cartoonish" it seems. I may be overstating this a little bit, however. Being Team Whip, I was happy to see the whip in there. Maybe I need to rewatch this, but it seemed like the whip will be more like a slashing weapon than a ranged strike weapon. That'll take some getting used to, if true. Looks like it has some decent "verticality" and variance to its structure so far, which is heartening.

Anyways, I am impressed how much the team has shown with these various videos. A lot of great work has been done. Keep it up!

Also I just noticed the area name for the church is "The Church of Dian Checht"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dian_Cecht

Probably ragdolls are ment for you to feel powerful when slaying. They will probably be fixed. And not all are ragdolls. I guess they are trying out some different outcomes when you use different weapons.

I could appreciate a ragdoll effect if I really smack them hard with an axe or use some kind of explosives, all in all, everyone of them will be changed and weighted. The effect is pure fun if done right and all attacks (numbers upon impact perhaps?) could decide how hard you actually strike. The deathblow should have a natural flow towards hit -> sweeping in the air -> hit wall / floor etc. and it is that "sweep"-effect that needs  to be balanced.

If say I would play through the game once, and keeping my level of power and do a re-play, shouldn't I be a bit more powerful and sending medium enemies out of reach off the screen? It would make sense, and would be an absolute blast if, like I wrote, done right.

I do see the ragdoll having problems with weights, mostly on the Harpy monster (can't remember name now, sorry), the wings have too much and making the ragdoll become more of an yoyo when hit. How this is made perfect I do not know, but I have seen it before, and I have always expected and seen fixes upon those effects later on.

They are still learning and ragdoll effect was something I totally missed out on seeing in even earlier development. Also, if you kill enemies with shard-skills, like for example fire, the animation might be different (or applied to the ragdoll effect). More information might come before launch of the game.

I feel like the trailer was put together because they needed to start showing off the game in a bigger way since it's supposed to come out next year. It's very clear that the trailer is mainly just a gameplay sizzle of locations within the demo area.

A good castlevania trailer was the Lament Of Innocence one and I'm sure later in development we will get a more hefty story focused one with a mix of gameplay.



Did anyone else notice that in the church footage when Miriam attacked the wolf enemy near the wall the blood actually splatters against the wall and more shows up as you slash at it more? That's some awesome detail. Well done team, the more subtle details in this game the better it will be

There's a thing that got me thinking... It's a church level right? In a game about stained glass? Then why is there no stained glass to be seen? Wouldn't the church be the perfect opportunity to show of a whole lot of the stained glass aesthetic?

I haven't read this thread and am typing this in a rush on my break time. Will come back to read the whole thread later. But...

What!?! Why so many negativity on Youtube? Slow? Bad animations? In my eyes this is perfect! It's just like SOTN on modern hardware, which is the whole point of this project. IGA did said this from the beginning(I forgot which interview) that "we're not shooting for innovation here, we're giving the Castlevania experience the backer have been waiting for many years".

If Mana or any staff members reading this, atleast in my(and I believe many of you here)'s opinion, you're going in the right direction. I just hope that you don't change course because of some bad feedback. You know what you're creating. You know what you're after.

Great trailers!