What news are you looking forward to the most?

Good spread of options.

The music and new game plus are a big draw. The meat of the game being developed in secret to retain surprises for the player is the substrate holding up the rest but as far as spoiler free revelations go I'm anxious in the positive over those.

...For me it is about the playable characters.
Why is that? It is because the whole lore depends on it. Who is bound to get more importance vs who is going to be a NPC... simply put, either fighting against demons and risking his/her life or just giving quests/needing to be rescued?

Many things come from that too. A character theme (yes, enemy characters will get one for sure, but would you give one to one that ended being a NPC?), epic lines against enemies, a way lot more dedicated voiceovers, a wider range of dedicated character frames including jumping, attacking, special moves and reactions to pain and so on.

Will other characters gain access to forging? Yes, I believe they will have that (I do not want characters that do not evolve in terms of weapons and armor like in past igavanias), but it will be restricted to their weapon of choice. I don't see someone like Zangetsu using guns or axes (and yes, once again, I want him to be playable as well as Dominique. Two demon exterminators, one from the East, the other from the West; a clash in methods and values and motivations).
Obviously, the shard system is Miriam's only. Will they be able to shapeshift? That's all to know.

My other choices were

• Forging, as it's important to see how it will be done, will we get something different than in MMORPGs, numerous metroidvanias, Dawn of Sorrow and the like;
• Weapons and items: How will you survive? What sort of lores are attached to items? Will there be anachronism issues?
• Abilities and transformations: Not only offensive spells and attacks but also defensive ones, ways to progress as well (double jump, dash, backdash, special commands, ways to go past hard locks, etc.).
  
• Enemies: Who/what will you face? Will there be absolutely new designs? How will they react to Miriam? Can there be adaptative enemies depending on health% or others monsters nearby?

As for the music, the prequel, the environments, the nightmare mode, the prequel and other ways to make Miriam and other characters fancy and the familiars, I am hopeful this will turn out very nicely. I sense these as a big bonus. For me, playability and the richness in moves and what is to face or interact with counts for me the most.

From The Facebook Guys

Vote - Category (please take these into account when seeing the whole polls)

1 Nintendo Amiibo
0 Movements [Speed / Animation]
0 Crafting & Forging
0 Playable Characters
1 Environments

0 Weapons & Items
0 Options & Settings [Shard Animations etc.]
0 The Nightmare Difficulty & New Game +
0 Player & Castle Customization & Mods
0 Familiars

0 Abilities & Transformations
0 The Prequel Game & Retro Level
0 Mercs [Ayami Kojima Poster etc.]
0 Enemies & Bosses
1 Music & Soundtrack

0 Staggered Content Info
0 Voices Behind The Characters
1 Save Rooms, Shops & Teleportation Chambers
0 Co-Op, Competitive & Leaderboards
0 Trailer Videos

Special move inputs being on weapons. lol I can wait to find out if they are there or not, for sure, but I just want them to be there. I guess that falls under abilities, but I don't necessarily want to know any specific examples. Otherwise, everything else is kind of spoilerish, so just merchandise and other pre-release stuff.

Enemies & Bosses is my primary choice. I'm gonna be hugely interested what monsters I'll be encountering on the adventure. Nothing incites more than the anticipation of getting ever closer to a boss door and discovering what horror lies beyond it.

Okay, so I deleted my earlier post because I wanted to put some actual thoughts down now that I have some time to do so.

>Voice Actors
While certainly not the most important thing ever, I've always had fun noticing when certain people keep popping up, and I'm curious if Bloodstained will go with relative newcomers, or if Hayter is any indication, if we can expect industry regulars like Laura Bailey and Troy Baker to show up.

>Crafting and Forging
We've gotten so little information on the crafting system and I'm just itching to know what it's actually going to be like. Will it be like Dawn of Sorrow? Curse of Darkness? Something entirely new? I've got my own predictions and I still really want to know how the crafting is going to work and how prominent it's going to be.

>Playable characters
Who doesn't want to know who the other playable characters are? Having more than one playable character has almost always been a good time in IGA's previous games (and in some cases I like the alternate character even more than the main one *cough*TrevorBelmontInCurseOfDarkness*cough*) and though I'm 99% sure Zangetsu will be one of them, I'm dying to know who the other is. Dominique? Johaness? Oh the suspense!

>Environments
This is very key for me, as one of the issues I had with some of the past IGAvania titles was how a Castle, no matter how lovingly detailed, only has so many ways to make it look different. The existence of the Galleon Minerva and Cursed Village gives me hope that we'll also get places like Caves or a Greenhouse on top of places like a Cathedral, Clock Tower or Alchemy Laboratory. I'm not expecting lots of areas outside the castle like CoD or OoE, no haunted forests or dragon-patrolled mountains, but more variety within the castle will be important for me.

>Weapons and items
And of course, the weapon variety. I'm very anxious about how weapons will play out, since its not uncommon for IGA's games to have weapons that are SUPER cool but also weak and don't stand up in the endgame, like the Whipsword and Pistols from Aria and the Nebula from Portrait. We know thus far the Backer Katana and Whipsword are endgame weapons, but I'm hoping every kind of weapon has a powerful, late game version so every player can have what they want. Swords, Guns, Spears, Whips, every kind of weapon should be viable.

I want IGA to give a figure license for company like Kotobukiya, Phat!, Alter, Freeing, GSC, and many more to make Bloodstained figures
though I cannot see that happening soon until the IP gets so popular to the point people are demanding it