Bloodstained Enemy Discussion (Submitted)

And there's also the dragon skeleton that spat fire, and another one with a midget riding it, and also a skeleton that threw boomerangs, and that giant flying skull head. Geez, who's the idiot that said there were only 3-4 skeleton enemy types in SOTN?

Sidenote: t was cool how the boomerang skeletons when entering Olrox's quarters would throw their boomerangs in sync with the song (sometimes). Seemed like they were elegantly dancing to it.

Hmm, another idea not too different from yours. Maybe after throwing enough wine glasses, maybe 500 or 6,666, you start seeing animated shards of wine glass start appearing in some hallways near boss rooms (making it more of an annoyance to get to). Maybe just demons or dark spirits of wine themselves attacking you, and taking your wine reserves (if that's a resource) for every hit.



Spoilers to Castlevania 64/Legacy of Darkness:

I don't want them to literally copy old enemies, but beyond that I don't really have any qualms about standard enemy types.

Considering the plot we have so far, I think it should probably focus more on demons and such, rather than skeletons and zombies, but other than that I don't have much preference.
You could just say skeletons and zombies are demons too or something, but that kinda feels cheap.

Add in some angelic enemies. You could make it a chaos vs. law type deal. One of the music composers brought up how he wanted to make different kinds of music and brought up and angel type enemy as a possibility, make it happen.

What would be the goal for an angel to so clearly make it Miriam's enemy?
Whatever religion you decide to pull from probably would label alchemists as heretics and all manner of instrumentation and byproducts of their experiments to be innately heathenish.
Angels would regularly attack Miriam due to her background, regardless of her actual stance on anything, simply because of what the alchemists have done to her.

Since angels wouldn't side with the demons, they would naturally be a third party in relation to Miriam and Gebel. You could possibly have angels and demons fighting each other, and have Miriam able to take advantage of the skirmish.
You could even have defeated angels serve as another source of abilities for Miriam to harness. We've been told she'll be able to harness the power of defeated demons to some extent. That could be extended to angels as well.

I don't see why classic enemies (as in ones with generic ties to horror and not specific ties to Castlevania like Medusa heads) couldn't come back. I think the important thing to do is make sure they feel distinctive to Bloodstained by giving them interesting and unique interpretations. Bats and Skeletons could be found in almost any horror game but Bats and Skeletons made out of say stained glass would be unique to Bloodstained (as an example, I don't think the "stained glass well" is the only one that should be or is worthy of being mined).

I think IGA will include that walking armors like axeknight and finalguard in some way, the may be iconic but they´re also characteristic for a castle.
And with showing us "Shovel Armor", I think IGA already showed us a hint for those walking armors and eastereggs as well^^

I don't really know why, but I most want to see Skeleton Gunmen return, firing their muskets row-by-row.

That, and multi-colored Blood Skeletons from my Floating Catacombs.

More skeletons ideas lol

Skeleton bone thrower (read before saying "they have that already" please. I don't like rehashing stuff)-
ok so I don't know if iga is going to have a bone throwing skeleton in Bloodstained but if he does I think the skeleton should run out of bones. I mean wouldn't it make sense? A skeleton throws it's bones at you... sooner or later they should run out of bones and just be an arm or something in the end. that would be awesome... or what if the skeleton had mp and that mp regenerates bones, and if you use an mp drain magic or item on it than it loses the ability to regenerate bones, but it will still try to chuck something at you until it has nothing left.

edit: more ideas

Dimensional Gunner - instead of slow musket gunners, how about a gunner with style? I know flint locks were the only guns in the 1700 but what about a skeleton that pulls them out of a black hole from his ribcage constantly pulling guns out in a rapid fire attack. or even acrobatic gun play (like jumping over the player and shooting down at them as they arc over the player)... but when the skeleton runs out of ammo (or in this case guns) they can pull out a cannon and shoot in turn blowing themselves up. mind you this does not need to be a skeleton it can also be a dimensional demon that pulls guns out of his coat (tench coat baby!!)