Am I the only one feeling a bit disappointed?

This is very true. 

I don't mind the colorful look of the characters. Castlevania games have always been colorful to a degree in the past as well.
It didn't go for a super dark, edgy, realistic look in the past. (except for the 3d games, and SotN to a degree.)

I dont agree that what they did wasn't wise, to give the backers some say in the shader decision.
I assume that all of the options that were given to the backers were art directed. Its not like they gave the backers free reign on what the shaders should have looked like.
It was a controlled vote.

While I like the style of the characters/monster. The more the dev's work on the game the more I feel that the game starts looking more sterile.
Maybe things will look a bit better in game vs compressed videos or still images.
However i had a similar worry when it came to the environments in the 2016 e3 demo. I even made a paint-over back then to illustrate my points.
The 'improvements' the to environment don't feel like improvements to me. Sure they may have used better textures here and there, and touched things up a bit. but it still feel like everything is disconnected.
Like the levels are a collage of different images stuck together. Like a sprite based 2d game really.

I still feel that a major lacking thing in the game so far is lighting.
bloodstainedfanforums.com/post/29444/thread

To me it almost feel like they are not quite sure how to approach the environments.
Like someone just learned a new tool and they are struggling through it. Which -sort of- is true as they stated UE4 adoption in Japan is fairly new.
The fact that Dico, which are developing the game right now, stated that they used to work on sports games in the past doesn't give me much faith either.

On top of that, them going for the visually procedural variation makes it so that they can not really take advantage of 'pre rendered' lighting effects either. As the environments will not be 'static'.
So lighting effects like bounce lights, baked shadows or even baked AO, is not really possible.
They can use real time shadows which they are as far as I can tell, and perhaps SSAO. But again they cant take advantage of the baked lighting in UE4.

All in all... I think I just set my expectation too high. Maybe the style will grow on me as time passes.. however it needing to grow on me is a different issue altogether.
The 2d games, even for a low budget, still looked pretty polished to me. Of course there were bits and pieces where they cheaped out in the 2d games, like having palette swaps for entire environments and what not.

So yeah I think the game has potential, however you don't want to be in a state of 'having potential' for too long, as ultimately it will end up being a missed opportunity.
Alot of things look unfinished/not polished. I really hope that this is the case and it simply is all a work in progress.
The boss battle areas in the trailer for example looks like they literally threw a few things together to have something new to show for the 2017 e3 demo.

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Dont get me wrong but this statement feels very misinformed to me.

You've got to realize that those games have allot more budget and bigger teams working on them vs what ArtPlay has.
Plus they had established studios as well. ArtPlay on the other hand had to set up studios/partnerships to even begin working on this game
All the big AAA games usually range anywhere between 15 million to 200 million.
For example Beyond two souls cost 27 million to develop.

So, relatively, the  5 million ArtPlay got from Kickstarter is a very modest number

I wonder this as well, to be honest. 

I stated that negative comments can be contagious and spread paranoia. I wasn't saying that it does. Some of the negative comments on Youtube are cynical and somewhat fatalistic and goes against the grain of the moral majority who have high aspirations for Bloodstained.

I'm sticking to my belief that folk have no reason to be disappointed with the current progress of the game. I see it as positive and encouraging considering its limited budget and the fact that Mr Igarashi wants to make it as good as SotN or even better. I have strong faith in Iga ... have you?

I looked at all the footage again from yesterday and then looked at some SOTN footage and came to the conclusion, that besides some more or less minor complaints, bloodstained becomes exactly what IGA pitched:
A castlevania/sotn "reboot" with more content, modes and modern technology for modern systems. And I am VERY pleased.

I also want to add that I don't have any nostalgic feelings about this game. I bought dracula x chronicles on my vita AFTER the bloodstained crowdfunding campaign was over, because I never played any castlevania game before and wanted to understand the hype about bloodstained. I enjoyed rondo of blood and SOTN and became a slacker-backer.

So, I am not disappointed, but I understand all your concerns. I don't think it will end up as a bad game.
Since the hype around this game is based on NOSTALGIA, it can NEVER satisfy all the castlevania-fans completely, that's not possible, just look at the reactions on yooka-laylee, it's just like banjo kazooie with all the flaws, but a lot bigger. the backers of that game played the old games as KIDS, you can't copy the feeling of playing such games as kids, when you are an adult. I say that, because thats how I feel about it.
(I leave mighty no 9 out, because inafune clearly hasn't put nearly he same passion in that project as IGA and thought more about expanding the franchise and keeping the costs low, like the pure businessman that he is. I mean IGA in comparison even got more devs on board to meet his quality standards, that burns a lot of money).

At first the E3 trailer looked strange for me. Then I paid more attention to the details and the backgorunds are amazing. The problem is the lack of enemies and enemy variation. When they develop more creatures and distribute them as they know, the general picture of the game will improve significantly.

I think you have the right to stop coming here for the reason you stated (although i don't think it is a good reason, it is a valid one). And i agree that people shouldn't shame others for their negative opinions. 
What i can say about myself (that i even told to Scars Unseen ) is that i have a emotional link to the whole Castlevania / Metroidvania / Igavania convo and i personally admire IGA, so, i'm totally aware that this clounds my rational judgment and i'm mostly biased towards wishing things are good and will be better. 
That's why, when i talk back to negative feedback / comments, i try to be as polite as possible, but, yes, i do talk back to most kinds of negative feedback because that's just how i am. Admiting that this is mostly due to me being 


consciously biased   but i don't think this is sufofcating negative opinions. If i am, i'm truly sorry and i will try to change how i behave.
I don't know about others, but i think, maybe, some people here are a bit like me. Have such a emotional link to all this convo that they let this cloud their rational judgment, and they try to argue to protect what we want to be great.

This is such a well-organized forum that, if "Suffocating negative opinions" is really happening, it would be good if that stopped. 
All in all, we are all at the same side here. We all want this game to be great. 
So, let's not suffocate negative opinions here.
And i'm truly sorry if i ever did that. 

The only thing I don't like is the weird glowing blue stuff around the familiar and ape summon. Just use a different colored texture of the enemy why do they have to make it stick out so much in a meh way?

The one reason I am not more actively participating in the forums, as well as annoying people on discord, is because I feel safe with the directions the game is taking.

I see many possibilities and many suggestions, but none of thse seems to be against what I backed. And I am a very paranoid person when it comes to pledging money.

I understand the game has specific visual flaws as it has been presented during development. But, at the same time, I seriously doubt they will not be taken care of.


Now, if Iga suddenly posted a video where he's talkign about `chaining combos into combos for that hot combo action´, now then I would be worried.