Bloodstained Enemy Discussion (Submitted)

yeah just a plain floating eye could be awesome... or it could drip red liquid... that makes you stuck when you step in it. it should be unkillable unless you are close to large spikes. you'd have to hit the eyeballs into the spikes to kill them. 

Going by arachnophobia statistics, you're in the process of agitating some 15000+ backers.

I was playing Castlevania HoD and I was fighting Skeleton Blaze (or Skeleton Blades in other games) and I wanted something like this in Bloodstained. So I thought what about zombie ninjas? or maybe possessed shadows (they will look like ninjas but come out of shadowy places)

I want a giant demon gorilla. Why? Because.

I hope he has telepathic powers and possibly super speed.

Some ideas that i have are:

Alchemist & Cursed Dog: Just like the Owl Knight they are two sepperate enemies that comes togheter, The alchemist have a flintlock gun and fires it from far range and can throw a vial of poison in an high arc and the dog rushes the player with claws and bites, occasionally shoots crystal shards from its mouth. Depending on who you kill first the other one will get some kind of power up. Killing the Alchemist first will cause the dog to be enraged which makes it faster and shoots a quick beam instead of a shard. If the Cursed Dog dies first the Alchemist goes down on his knees and absorbs the dogs curse, making him attack more often and gives crystal shot move which shoots three breakable homing crystals at the player.

Crystal Slime Thingy: A slime thingy that can hardened to crystal at will and shape itself, it could do stuffs like jumping in the air and transform into a crystal sword to slice you up or engulf the player and transform into crystal to lock the player in place. could pretty much do anything use your imagination XD

There actually has been another enemy that behaved similarly to the Owl Knight in past Castlevania games, that your post reminds me of.

The "Dead Mate" enemy in Super Castlevania IV is a ghost of an old man with a zombie-dog, usually found guarding treasure.  Upon the dog's death, the old man rushes over to it, kneels, and starts grieving.  It disappears soon afterwards.

I like your idea.  A perfect way to include this type of enemy again.

That'd be a good way of tugging at the player's heartstrings. Especially since it's such a small and unexpected detail, and small details add up.

"Yay, I made progress with the boss... oh no, something sad is happening. No, no, I can't handle this. I'm going to reload my latest save data and see if I get a different outcome by doing the fight differently."

I have just posted something similar in another thread. Here is some inspirational art, for a boss or for a character in the game. I have always loved this art and once even created some fanfic around it
For Bloodstained I can imagine him as a boss who turns out good and helps Miriam in the end.