Nintendo Duel Screens Podcast! Open call for questions!

Hmm, OK, I have a couple questions that might be good to be addressed, in ascending order of how much detail you'll probably be able to get into them:

1: What's the status of the demo for the backers? While you've mentioned repeatedly that it's coming, can you give us any tantalizing crumbs about it? Not a release date, obviously, but can you mention how it's coming along, and whether or not it might be bigger than the gameplay slice with Bloodless a lot of folks have already played?

2: On that note, maybe this is personal interest, but could you describe the challenges of creating a demo for the backers as opposed to a demonstration for a show? In the Discord I've been telling people that it might be more complex to make a backer demo than a demonstration one, since you need to make sure it works on everybody's computer on Steam, people will spend more time with a demo at home than at a demonstration booth, etc. and I'm wondering how accurate that assessment is

3: Again, while I understand you won't be able to give many concrete details, can I ask about how the other campaign promises are going? Aside from the base game, we also have things like:

Second and Third playable Character
Nightmare Mode
Cheat Codes
Local Co-Op
Speedrun Mode
Retro Level
Boss Rush
Classic Mode
Asynchronous online features
Online challenge
Prequel Minigame
Roguelike Dungeon
Boss Revenge Mode

Again, you've mentioned that all that stuff is being kept, nothing's been cut, and of course you can't give too much detail, but could you describe if there's a plan for the implementation of these features (whether staggered release, whatever) and if the team has begun laying the groundwork for them in-game, or if there's another strategy IGA and co. are planning to rely on?

4: We've heard of DICO being brought on a while ago, but we haven't heard much about them since then. They're still working on the game, right? What is their relationship to 505 games? Have you worked with them before?

5: You guys just had a show in Spain recently! I know 505 is European, but how large do you think the European market will be for Bloodstained? Are you banking on a lot of sales coming from the EU?

6: Is Mana making more art for the game? Everybody loved the piece she did last time for NYCC and we want to see more~~

7: While the nature of IGA's talk at the upcoming show in Houston will of course remain mostly confidential for now, can you tell us if he'll just be talking about game design, or if there might be some cool stuff coming up in March we haven't seen before?

Can you address cheat codes? I wanna know if they are really cheat codes as in god mode or infinite hp and such, if they are their very existence would ruin the enitre fun and challenge of the game.
it's like accidentally hitting the console button on a pc game, just having that cheater cop out option there is souring the expierence.

What is the possibility of seeing a cool Miriam amiibo?

Hello I have so many questions but there's only three that I really want you answer

1.will the game have Belmont cameos in it?(I know that those names are own by Nintendo or such but, thinking that the same person who work with one of the best if not the best castlevania games is one of the main developers I want to know that this is to remember the legacy of these games

2.is the game coming out this year or in 2019?, I know so much people ask this but we want to have a date Or something anything would be good even saying if this year is the one, pls

3.how good is Iga playing the game? Seriously I've played various castlevania games, and they are hard, obviously this is not a castlevania game, it's a metroidvania (love the term <3) game mostly the same, I wanted to know that this game is as hard as one of those games I played when I was younger

Thank you for your attention, I hope you find my questions interesting and that they are very important to development
I hope you guys have a great days and happy Valentine's day

I'm no Angel (neither am I a stranger to the dark), but:

1: Not known yet.
2: No date set for that, not yet.
3: You can vote on merch ideas in our poll here, and it's been hinted a Mana poster is possible!

bloodstainedfanforums.com/thread/2264/bloodstained-merch

He may answer your questions himself (and I hope he does), but I mostly wanted to point out the merch thread.