January 2018 Kickstarter Update is Here!

Enkeria
That's what usually happens. You have a Jewel Sword. You dismantle it. You get four materials of what made it, and the sword disappears. It doesn't make sense to dismantle something, and that something still exists. If the Jewel Sword was made with a "Long Sword" as one of it's materials, you will have it back. But the Jewel Sword itself vanishes. If that means losing that unique piece of weapon that you can find only once... Well...it's your decision to do that. I know it sounds "not-very-good" but the whole idea of dismantling something is to make it vanish when you finish, and you receive it's parts in exchange.

Cooking... COOKING?!? Is there cooking? I love it already, yummm!!!

Also EDIT @ikai Aaahhh...I miss Mortal Kombat, Deadly Alliance.

In many games with crafting, especially MMO, there is a chance for crafting to "fail". After a bar is loading or something, the ingredients are consumed, a clunky sound plays and instead of getting the resulting item you should, nothing happens.

Angel-Corlux Have you ever played Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow? In the game, to create a specific weapon, one must expend the soul of a boss type enemy that one encounters only a single time in the game. To get both the soul and the weapon, one would have to play the game over again in NEW GAME +. Will there be similar items expended through the use of the alchemy system? Ergo, special items that cannot be claimed again unless one were to transfer over save data to a new file?

And what of backer exclusive items? I would imagine those won't be a part of the traditional alchemy system, since those are novelty items...

Does it count if we take a portion of what you said wildly out of context, since technically you did say the game is complete if we can leave off that unwanted part relating to not jumping the gun and waiting to hear something.

... I'm still voting for Alfred to be one of the playable characters even if it's looking like other characters are going to be more likely to fill that role.

Angel-Corlux Pure Miriam @ikai

About loosing the item, there are different ways to go about it.

Different games, different approaches.

1. You want to salvage, the item breaks and are destroyed, you get little materials back every time, but never the actual weapon / item.

2. You salvage, the item breaks and there is a small change everything revert back to normal, before you ever upgraded that item to begin with, if there was no upgrade of that item when salvage it, it breaks and goes away. This to get more materials.

3. You have one material left and have saved it for item X, instead you pick item Y while being tired or not focused and lost that vital material, and wasted it on wrong item. Now you have two items which you do not wanna use. You salvage item Y but now you perhaps lost it or the material you needed for item X. What do you do?

4. You can't salvage anything, and are stuck with whatever you have upgraded. You can however break down the basic items you've found for additional materials. Which could be by mistake. These will be lost, but you could possibly, like materials on their own, grind/find or buy new ones at a shop.

Bit tired, so I think I have missed a few other thoughts about items getting broken / lost or salvaged by mistake. All of these cases have solutions however. Just curious about the fineprint if things would go "horribly wrong".

LeoLeWolferoux

Exclusive things for crafting is in many games, mostly when you buy Collectors Editions, DLC's etc. I know Diablo III did this, you got wings and skins, this by registering the game and you got recipes when logging in. I know GOG is DRM-free, but if anything, there might be a registration-code and with that you could perhaps get the Swordwhip and Pure Miriam costume/skin by registering. They can do how they please by this. If now there even is exclusive things for us.

Angel-Corlux

Good to hear. The balance of making and finding or getting is the best approach

Can't for this game. 2018/2019 is gonna be a great time for games for a variety of reasons.

Dark Souls...boss souls...are like shards...

Weapon + boss shard = boss weapon.

Bloodstained is the Dark Souls of jsdklafjsl;