Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night E3 2017 Trailer & Gameplay

the animations speed does make a lot of people concerned
even my brother agrees on that when he watched the gameplay
though I'm sure CastleDan will defend the speed though

Mr. German Weapons have pretty much always been that way in Castlevania games, so I don't know why they'd change that now.

New antagonist character o.o

I bet it's the boss you fight before reaching the final boss lol

I'm pretty sure she is going to be playable, mechanically speaking Bloodless doesn't fight like a boss, she fights just like Miriam. She can run freely around the stage, jump and control how much time she stays on air, horizontal weapon swing, backdash, throw projectiles with a hand wave and point her umbrella + aim it up and down. She will likely follow the same control scheme that Miriam has.

Hell, she even has a flinching/staggering animation when getting hit for no reason (The only castlevania bosses that do that are playable characters), she might already be playable to some extent.

For all we know at this point, "Bloodless" just might be one of the three playable characters for the main castle-traversing Story Mode.

Take another closer look at her I noticed that the blood dress she's wearing is actually bleeding(?) from her throat...

That's something badass.

Scars Unseen i see. I understand you. I still think it loks good, but it is also a matter of opinion. I'm not the best one to make rational analysis over this game, since i'm a dying fan of Iga and Igavania games and i want this one to suceed so much, that this clounds my rational judgment and i honestly admit that. So, i take constructive criticisms like yours as a way to put me back to the rational side that i wander off constantly.


estebant about Castlevania and Bloodstained enemy equivalents, i think Dullahammer Head is the expy of Medusa Head. About the Death Animations, i totally agree with you. I hope they get more varied and unique, that was a good thing at older Castlevania games. I will never forget the Owl Knight, crying over when his owl was killed before him, kneeling down, moaning and going back to beat your ass. About the Church name, yes, i got that too, but i forgot to research about it, nice call.

seraph and Galamoth i'm pretty sure she will be part of the Boss Revenge Mode. Be the third playing character? Although i don't think so, for the same reasons seraph has implied, i gotta remember that,  since this is a alpha build, maybe she will have a larger backstory and could ended up being playable at the main game. Killing her doesn't mean much, considering Joachim from Lamment of Innocence barely had any backstory whatsoever (mostly at the manual), is killed in a single fight and became a playabe character. So... Who knows?

Elfina Ashfield someone commented about it and i noticed it too. Basically, her dress is made from her own blood that is constantly overflowing from a cut at her throat. That is really really badass. 

What i really liked about Bloodless is that all her moves are more or less linked. Blood Arrow is actually one umbrella turning into a fast projectile. That Blood Ray (whose name i couldn't hear properly, but it "sounds" like Blood Cycle or something like that) and the smaller blood throw, alongside your own attacks, helps "paint" her room with blood that she uses it later on for Blood Rain, where the blood from the celling rains down and you can protect yourself with her umbrellas and Blood Steal, where she absorbs the blood from the scenario to heal herself. That is really creative and i really hope other bosses can be as creative as she is. 

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Now, i wanted to give a tip to everyone, that i already said before. We don't know fully what soundtrack the church will have. It could be Holy Wisdom, but it can also be still part of the entrance. Anywyas, since it is the biggest scenario, do the experience i did. Open up both the church video AND the video of Luxurious Overture on loop, each one on a tab. Put the Music video at around 70% volume, start the music and then go to the church video, start and watch it.

Here are the links.

Church Gameplay


Luxurious Overture music on loop


I used Luxurious Overture because there is no Holy Wisdom on loop yet.

Also, when the player reaches Bloodless, stop the video before the curtains opens up. Change Luxurious Overture video for this one, Vepar Boss Music, and start right after the curtains opens, at the cutscene. Don't forget to put the music video at around 70% volume.

Vepar Boss Music


We don't have Bloodless Boss theme yet, so, this will have to do. 


See the HUGE difference music does at the game. I may be wrong, but i wonder if the lack of music isn't also affecting people's opinions.
For the people complaining about speed, does the same thing above, but put the church video at 1.25 speed and see how it goes with the music.

So, I think everything looks VERY nice... just one little thing I'm not a fan of is the colour for the summons. I understand the need to tell the difference between friend and foe but.. yeah.. wish they would'a tried something else.. :/

Everything thing else though looks (and sounds) amazing!

You know what Bloodless' bleeding neck reminds me of? This moment from DC's "The Omega Men," which came out a couple of years ago (it's from early in the series, but spoiler'd for image size).


I'm not sure if anyone involved with Bloodstained reads western comics, but it'd be pretty cool if one of the artists saw that page and went "this bleeding neck is an interesting visual, I wonder if I can include something similar in Bloodstained and crank it into overdrive."

As for Bloodless being playable, I'm all for it. Seeing her in action put her in my contenders for the 3 playable main characters. But if it turns out that's not the case and all the bosses have this much detail, well, that's still a good sign since it means the bosses are receiving a lot of attention.