Bloodstained 18 questions! Do you DARE to answer them all?

1. Plot light. Give people just enough of content and leave a lot of blank usually makes people care about more IMO, and BS is not a heavily story-driven game either.

2. YES! I mean why not, pretty, attractive bad-ass woman killing demons? I'm all in. *cough* Erotic Violence *cough*

3. An item like that would crush the whole game lol, it'll be fun to do though. Maybe make that item as a *collector item* (you can't acquire it with normal means, or even simpler, put it in NG+) would be fine.

4. Yes, a command move is always good.

5. I prefer variation. Some of the main areas could be big enough to lose yourself in, yet others are just peanut size areas. Also different areas could be in different shapes, like Outer Wall in SoTN is a long vertical hallway, and the Cathedral has a staircase-like structure.

6. I do think Morte is the new Skeleton Soldier.

7. Considering Konami's Castlevania series, I'd prefer the timeline of BS is chronically simple lol. I'm not a fan of meta-franchise but if IGA decided to go that way I'd be OK with that.

8\9. Whether BS is successful or not, I only back projects that intrigues me, so it depends. I failed to see the reason why IGA would do another kickstarter if BS is success lol

10. I don't have an idea, TBH. Everything so far is typical in classic Igavania, the only in-game system we haven't seen yet is crafting. Maybe they're referring to that?

11. If you're talking about the story-line, I particularly hate one kind of plot that implies the concept of vain. Everything you (the player) do, is in vain, that feeling of powerless is the worst, at least for me.

12. I'd love to but I can't come up with a good play mechanic with her right now. Miriam is more of a fast melee warrior, so maybe she could be a much slower but powerful remote mage? (I remember saying this in another thread)

13. Miriam. Come on she's the protagonist!

14. Giving craft system is in the game, I highly doubt devs would make Miriam heavily rely on magic power.

15. The shop from OoE is fine, I might stick with that.

16. Somehow I found that keep bumping your head into ceiling is mildly interesting. High jump.

17. Dominique. Her character fits into the world of killing demons. Though I'd love to see Bloodless in Boss Revenge Mode, but more likely that mode is going to be made for Gebel (just my wild guess though, no evidence whatsoever).

18. DOMINIQUE, THIS IS THE FACT.

Few words
Action speaks more than words for Miriam, her journey will be about making a stand, choosing path, helping those in need and get unlikely of friends. The chemistry in her adventures are more than just physical and psychological, but even a part of alchemy, a concept of science that would explain what people 'before' believed were magic.

There is however a few things in this world that will be left unanswered. Rumors of an already Bloodstained 2 have been in the echoes of interviews across the E3 floors, and knowing the forces of hell, that concept are rare to be extinct in just one game. I hope the whole journey Miriam will make, will decide upon the outcome, rather than just finding this or that item before meeting Gebel. A complex code of how, when and who did what.

The lore in this game would be very enjoyable if we could either collect, find it or buy it in the game and read through in a nice area, without monsters but with our favorite music in the background.

I still believe the plot will be heavy in tone, but light in vocals, text and information in symbols.

Now, make haste Miriam! The shards are making Gebel a bit more mad for each second.




Innocence
No nudity allowed in this game, there could be however a great mod-scene which should, if created, be a part of this community.

I for one are looking into the Unreal Engine, but since I have no clue how all of this work, I want to learn more how to mod things, starting off with just changing colors on set-items that are already in the game, making themes and such. When it comes to actual items, I would make it with taste and exotic, not erotic.




Goldsink
Example: Boss Rush Mode. Defeat bosses as fast as you can. This mode is something we might get, it is one of those goals they reached. With a later patch however, they could open up a Hyper Boss Rush Mode.

To unlock this we need to first buy this mode in the game, at a shop. Thereafter, we need to buy keys. Each key represent one room. The HYPER part of this mode are a crazy frenzy (and more difficult) boss battle. Making both Miriam AND bosses way faster. With each key you buy, the second one are in higher price, but only if the game register you already have one or more in your "bag" so to speak. Once used all keys in the Hyper Boss Rush Mode - the price is back to the lowest.

These keys are concidered more as a goldsink, and not special item that unlock a thing once.

The amount of keys will make a goal that you set. Once reached you get to keep the time. Maximum keys can be decided by the developers, but having 99 would be mental, and fun. If you, however are defeated, you get back the keys of those rooms you never visited.




Kicking it!
Her own passive skills, like double jump, dash and "float?" will at least be somewhat her thing too. But kicking in doors or walls (not those hidden ones) would be very cool, something that a few of us would like to see. This is when you get up close and need to destroy it before progress. Her interact with NPC or furnitures can be interesting too. I also think her ultimate shard explosion animation can be interesting. I do not know if that is part of an cutscene or an ability we are getting, but it will be nice to see that type of animation.




Details
My favorit areas, when I want down, is to just fall. If I have the ability to go straight up in a super jump stylish fashion, that would be the same case when going up. I prefer areas that have beautiful backgrounds, less copy + phase. Same goes with the platforms.

I recently started playing Harmony of Dissonance, and wow! there is a lot of beautiful one-time-only pieces of art, statues, bones and structures in the background. Those things really makes a whole section interesting.




B-Movie Monsters
Morte took their place. Seen two types of Morte. I believe there will be plenty of enemies, and everyone might find a new favorit.

There is a chance of us seeing skeletonbeasts of some sort, but normal skeletons seems a bit off. Perhaps a boss maybe? There have been confirmation that we will see a few B-movie monsters in the game.




Twilight Zone
The main theme of Bloodstained should be "shattered time". There are no timelines because they will all mix within the castle. Outside of the castle it might be a date, but that date will never be refered to again, only the time when Gebel first unleashed hell, and the saviour Miriam woke up. That will be the lore.

What happens thereafter are just distrupted, and if we work with dimensions, things could play out, as how we would see it, all at the same time. This because the timeline is mixed, and this castle happens only once. Introduction of dimensions would be different universes, some with similarities, some with less so.




Depends
Maybe, and that is a statement towards kickstarter, not IGA. I would probably buy his game, but perhaps not back it so early. Once you get burned, you bout to stay away. If the game would flop, I would not blaim IGA.




Continuation?
If the next project would sound interesting, I would buy after the reviews were out, as I always do with any other game since I backed Bloodstained - Ritual of the Night (only backed project). This of course if it were anything BUT Bloodstained II.




Tick Tock
Time-disruption. Instead of freeze, you will go back in time. This will shatter the fabrics of time, this could also be the foundation of why we would get a next Bloodstained, because in that reality, things went differently... And Bloodstained 3.. 4.. 5..




The Feelz
Lack of time to make the whole game feel like one giant adventure. Have a change of heart, feel like some areas were less interesting due to fast development. In short: lack of feel all the way through.




Bloodrain
She will be one of them if this mode really becomes a reality. I would try to find double-jump ability as fast as I could (if possible) and just run around with  my umbrella, ella, ella, eh, eh, eh. I would probably just do my best. I am more interested in the other two characters we can play.




Realities
Does goofball count? Zangetsu is one that I could see doing a bigger roll if there would be more Bloodstained related things in the future. Even if he just was gone missing. If we play around with time and portals, there is nothing that will be canon. That is the beauty of the 'shatter'.




Girlpower
Powerful weapons. I am more of a viking / barbarian than a mage or wizard. If I were to be either Werewolf or Vampire, I would probably be Werewolf. That is a matter of choice. In Symphony of the Night, I almost never used the combinations to make magical attacks. I hardly even used the shield-rod since I lack the interest learning those kind of combinations (same goes with all "new" metroidvania games where you have to TIME your attack to counter it so you can dish out any kind of damage, those things really bugs me and kills the joy out of the game).

Better to be tha hammer, than the nail. And if she have a giant axe, that might be my favorit weapon. Girlpower!


Neither?
Have not played either of those games sadly. I believe quests will be part of the journey. No need to trigger the quest, just play the game and as you go through parts you unlock things as it goes. You find most of the things. The shop should be a way to waste money, perhaps even buy things that will make your efforts a bit easier, like more health, pieces of a castlemap, strategies how to defeat a boss you already have encountered. Perhaps even "fluff" like costumes, retro music and other things that do not change the way you are playing at all. The shop, to me, would be things for the villagers, not for castle-raiders. But once in a while, Anne or Dominique might find something interesting, maybe an IGA ring?


Give me ALL!
Infinite High Jumps. That is fast.. I want the option to be fast when I want, mostly in areas I already have been through a couple of times. In Aria of Sorrow we also had a power to go from left to right, right to left with great speed, as long as you had a floor to stand on. That was epic!




The Nun
I would like to see Dominique take on the role as an excorsist, with main "magical" powers. Then we would have Miriam as a solid 50/50, Zangetsu weapon-based and her as a alchemy-based type of character. I still believe Alfred will be a part of something ugly (feel free to speculate), and will not be playable. Johannes is my best guess, even though my lack for him as a character are not that interesting. I feel that Gebel should let be, at least in this version of Bloodstained. And Anne will probably be an NPC you rescue, only.


The Nun
Again.

Thanks for the questions. Hope people do not bore you with all those answers they might give you. Cross fingers for updates soon!

How did it work in Ori?

In Ori you get loads of cool movement abilities over the course of the game that you can combine in fun ways. There are the typical ones such as the double and even triple jump or the dash but there's also stuff like forcefully stomping on the ground below you, speeding through water in omnidirectional motion, climbing and jumping off of walls, supercharging a high jump from the ground or from walls and my favourite one: launching yourself in any direction from enemies, projectiles and certain items in the environment while the enemy or projectile will get launched into the other direction. Most of these can also be used as combat abilities and this dual purpose design makes them even more useful and fun.

Gaining mastery in these combined abilities was one hell of a ride and a whole lot of fun.

As always loving your threads!! 

 1. light plot with a few cutscenes and some nice voice acting would do just fine, keep your plot twists and nonsenses away from my igavania (something that happens to many games with heavy plot).

2. No, oversexualization and fan service only bring controversy and with the lovely community just wait to see the mods.

3. hell yes!! Shard seeker ring.     being serious i would love a luck boosting item to make farming faster and less tedious.

4. an amazing looking power that turns the whole screen into stained glass that then breaks like a SOTN pentagram dealing massive damage to all enemies on screen and costing lots of mana.

5. many places to go mean more beautiful soundtracks from miss Michiru so i say many areas.

6. yes, they were intended to take their place after all.

7. unless the game its a direct sequel tbh i couldnt care less about timeline.

8. no. i refuse to believe this game will fail i would probably kill myself if it does (so dramatic but i would be very very sad).

9. Yes yes yes

10. i was going to make a thread about this but im 99% sure its going to be a COOKING SYSTEM!

11. Miriam forgives gebel then they get married and both are consumed by the curse turning into crystal forever.

12. yes and i have no clue but she is cute.

13. Johannes but he will probably die :/

14. Magic heavy. weapons are your main way of dealing damage but magics are limited to MP and other conditions while weapons can be used for free repeteadly with almost no limitations so i say make magic strong enough to make it worth using it and using those ethers.

15. i disliked both but i say order of ecclesia did a good job so i take those.

16. im begging for an infinite jump, just press A or X as much as you want to perform jumps after jumps without having to waste 1 second of your life transforming into a slow creature that eats alot of your MP.

17. Johannes, and i would love if he actually has his own menu and gameplay mechanics not just pause screen.

18. why are you making a question like that? everyone and their moms know the answer! heck i wish my tests had questions as easy as this one.
(Dom)

1) Plot heavy (lots of cutscenes, dialogue, characters interaction like Metal Gear Solid) or plot light? (Like most Igavanias)?


I'd like more plot than the typical IGA game, if only because this is a new world and characters that I'd love to see really fleshed out, but I dont want it to go CRAZY like the typical Hideo Kojima experience. 


2) Miriam should have a customization clothing option that is purely sexual in nature, designed with nothing more than just sexual exploitation of her looks?


No. Absolutely not. Her current design has enough sex appeal as it is. 


3) Should the game's shop have a exobirbitant costly item? If yes, what that item could be? Symphony of the Night had Duplicator (500.000, infinite item usage), Aria and Dawn of Sorrow had Soul Eater Ring (300.000, give luck and duplicates soul drop chance, souls are the main powers of the game), Portrait of Ruin had Holy Claymore (300.000, highest attack weapon in the game).


I'd think a ring of massive MP regen is a given, possibly super expensive endgame variants for some of the weapon types. Maybe a ring that puts Miriam into a permanent "overload" state where the crystal curse just overtakes her and makes her stupid powerful at the expense of defense. 


4) Should Miriam have a signature move? A power that is so powerful, or just so damn stylish that ends up defining her? Alucard had Soul Steal and Dark Metamorphosis, Richter Belmont had Hydro Storm, Soma Cruz had Minotaur Soul (that even ends up being his main power as a boss in Dawn of Sorrow). If yes, that should be a Shard or a command power (the game may have these)? And how should it be?


As I said above I could see Miriam having some kind of "buff" shard power that sends her curse into overdrive: most of her body is covered in crystal and she does crazy damage but if she gets hit one or twice she dies. 


5) Talking about areas (like Entrance, Clock Tower and such), What do you prefer? Few areas, huge in size, or lots of areas, lower in size?


Between the two, I prefer a greater variety of smaller environments. Its one of the reasons PoR and OoE stick with me, getting out of the castle and seeing a greater variety of areas is just my thing. No matter how good a castle is, I'm going to want a change of pace eventually. 


6) Skeletons were the most recognizable enemies of Castlevanias, and all games of the franchise had them. Do you believe Morte took it's place at Bloodstained? Or something else?


Morte is a good Skelaton equivalent, though I DO wish we still had, like, Skeletons covered in crystals or something, I just LOVE Skeletons. 


7) If Bloodstained turns into a franchise, would you prefer that each game follows the same timeline (like most Igavanias) or would you rather that Bloodstained became a meta-franchise, where each game can exist at it's own universe, but sharing the same elements? (Like Final Fantasy and Shin Megami Tensei).


I'd rather IGA flesh out different eras of a world than do something like Shin Megmi Tensei, Final Fantasy or Fire Emblem. 


8) If Bloodstained ends up being a flop, would you still support IGA if he tried again at kickstarter?


As long as Bloodstained turns out to be a good example of his work, I would have no issue backing him again, though I likely would not throw as much at it a second time. 


9) If Bloodstained ends up being a huge success, would you still support IGA if he tried again at kickstarter?


As long as Bloodstained turns out to be a good example of his work, I would have no issue backing him again, though I likely would not throw as much at it a second time.


10) IGA said in a interview, when asked about new things for his Igavania formula, that there is something, gameplay-wise, that they didn't revealed yet and it is quite new. What do you think that is?


I bet its the true function of the "Effective" shard, we still dont know what it is. 


11) What is the worst possible ending, you can think off for the game? Worst in a sense of badly written and conceived, without being a joke.


A Saccharine, happily ever after ending. Fairy Tale endings like that are just not satisfying. 


12) Bloodless (E3 Demo Boss) should be a playable character for the Boss Revenge Mode? If yes, how would you do her gameplay?


I'd say yes. Have a basic umbrella swing for a standard attack and either various shard inputs or commands for her special moves like blood rain. 


13) If you could choose a single character (Miriam included) to not die at the canon ending, who would be?


Anne, if only because killing children just does not sit with me. 


14) Magic heavy or weapons heavy? Symphony of the Night was weapons heavy. ALucard main method of dealing damage was using powerful weapons, with his own powers being secondary. Soma was a balance between his magical prowess and weapon usage, while Shanoa was magic heavy, even if you consider her "weapon-magic" to be weapons, her pure magic was way stronger than her weapon-magic. I'm not talking about numbers, but sheer power. Would you prefer Miriam to have more powerful weapons or more powerful magic?


Miriam already strikes me as balanced like Soma. 


15) Quests should unlock basic items at the shop, like Order of Ecclesia (that required quests to unlock potions for instance) or they should be more focused on exclusive equipment and such, like Portrait of ruin?


Portrait of Ruin was the better system, it made quests feel important, not just busywork. The shop should just get new inventory as the plot progresses. 


16) Your option over the "ability to traverse the whole castle" most Igavanias had. Transforming into a animal and flying (like Alucard on Symphony of the Night and Soma in Aria/Dawn of Sorrow as Bats, Charlotte in Portrait of Ruin as a Owl), Infinite High Jumps (like Juste on Harmony of Dissonance) or Wings (Like Shanoa in Order of Ecclesia)?


I can see Miriam having crystal wings 


17) Considering Zangetsu as the second playble character, who would you like to be the third? Johannes, Anne, Dominique, Alfred or Gebel?


Dominique, easily. With Zangetsu as the more physical oriented alternate character, Dominique is perfect as a holy-based spellcaster. The Yoko to Zangetsu's Julius. 


18) Who has bigger breasts? Dominique or Miriam?


Hard to say. Probably Dominique but then, Miriam was significantly bustier once her actual model was made from initial artwork so who knows, poor Dominique might end up having to wear a back brace under her robes with that trend. 

 Yes, I do dare to answer them all!    Complete with green text.

freddythemonkey you forgot the first one 

After a while, i may make a second round of random questions, since people seem to have liked it 

.. or whisper. I would believe a new thread should be made, and try to keep it within some kind of topic - this will make it waaaay easier for the developers to get our feedback and thoughts. Random questions are fun, but combine those questions into different threads would probably be for the best. 10 questions per topic.

Example

Monsters = Everything with them. Levels, behaviour, difficulty changes, etc.
Weapons, Character, Lore-related, extra features.

If the title can't give us a proper information (if you wish for the devs to read it more than just us) it will be perhaps buried under layers of other "hot topics".

Just my thoughts. Think about it.