Feedback to make attacking and killing enemies satisfying

I have to chime in again because I saw crocodile made a point I forgot. The sound of enemies dying is VERY important. A grunt will do in some cases, but some creatures probably have a lot to say. And what could be more satisfying than the *wumpth* of a large enemy being struck by a hammer? Or the *squish* of slime beneath your boots? Or if you want to be epic samurai like, you could hear a whistle of air when you slice an enemy in two.

Galamoth the spider woman had a different death sound, but I kinda like the running gag of all bosses making that sound when they die. I mean, I wouldn't mod it, but I would think about modding it just for a minute.

I made a thread about this long time ago, It took me long to answer but I'll do it anyways.

Like many pointed out variation on death animations is important. You can go either by deaths unique to each enemies or death by the weapon used against them. If you can go far and spend more time and resources on development, you could handle both and make not only death animations unique for each monster but also for each weapon. In other words each monster will have unique death animations with each weapon or attack. Also not only death animations but damage animations as well where they're required will be a nice touch at least when a critical hit is done to them.

Also don't forget to add death animations for each of the characters that you use.

They already said, in some other thread of mine, that the higher shard drop rates from the 2017 demo where artificially higher to give players a chance to see them. The game will have a lower drop rate.

That would be a good bit above silly, in that case.

Shard/soul drop rates are a pretty subjective preference. They do vary by the enemy, too. It can at the same time be the "fun part" and the "frustrating part", but I think one thing to balance in mind when considering all of this is to remember how the truly rare/hard to get ones are not generally necessary for anything. Their scarcity makes the joy of the hunt and reward sweeter, but you likely can and have mowed down everything around you by several other means. Satisfaction when it becomes common may fail to still be satisfaction, and if you're on top of that equipped with many other ways to decimate the game, it may not be as fun or interesting to get that new thing finally.

It can still be a pain, regardless. I'm thinking a suitable balance will be achieved.

I think the New Game + would be the best solution to satisfy everyone. The reason I bought up my concerns was that I recall grinding to level 8 in Aria of Souls on the first room farming basic zombies over and over and over, etc. Some chance is nice but when it dips below a 1% drop rate things cease to be as fun.

Pure Miriam

Fair point. I still think a 5% drop rate could only have improved gameplay in most instances. For truly game-breaking items such as the crissaegrim sword in SOTN it's understandable to have an extremely low drop rate since challenge significantly changes. That's just my humble opinion however.

Still better than Demon/Dark Souls series (at least the early games) Where enemies only appeared a certain amount of times and did not have a guaranteed drop. "Well guess I have to delete my character and start over for this item."