Animated Miriam in the Menu

Showing customization is a definite, and a plus. But there are even more possibilities.
Will her general condition when we pause change it?
(Status effects/hp) Or perhaps the curse?

pause screen details are always a plus, there's a reason Skyrim cared enough about it to give every item in the game a 3d portrait for every item in the game you can look around at, I wouldn't expect bloodstained to go into that much detail though as it's not like it has anywhere near the budget or time to do so just saying any pause screen details are always nice to have. surprised they are going into such detail with the pause screen though when the game is supposed to come out this year, we haven't seen updates that make the game look close to completion (especially considering we were promised beta access which I would assume comes a few months before release and there's no word on when that's coming) and wouldn't pause screen stuff be lower on the priority list of bonus things to put into the game than animated hair for example?

That would surely be a nice feature. Imagine if you are on low Health and Miriam is breathing heavily, or you are poisoned and she is acting out weirdly or the equipment reflects on her graphic. That would be awesome.

About updates that the game doesn't look close to being complete, recently it was revealed by the dev team that all the game's weapons (and maybe equipments overall) are finished and locked already. (So, suggestions for new weapons are useless now).

Enkeria
A beta next week? I didn't know that

I thought it was just some demo next week.

...But the actual Beta?

It was implied originally that it'd be a normal demo first than later on a bigger chunk as a beta. So this is most definitely just a new demo.

The "beta" will be the slices of the game we get that the next update will lay out the details of, for the next playable that is. There may be another.

The beta will not be an Early Access thing that many people are picturing because that doesn't really fit the idea/spirit of this game. It will be sectioned parts of the game instead, which I'd rather have myself. I don't want the whole game itself until that's done. Playing an unfinished/early "full" Igavania doesn't really work imo like it does for multiplayer games. There'd be many out there "finishing" the experience and getting incorrect impressions of what the game will be when fully done, and then not going back to play the game again when it's out. Why would I spoil my experience with that vs what the final product is? We all know how important the little things are.

Anyway, this is GREAT news and I'm just happy with it in and of itself. However I think Tuxedo Mask told us this, not this Angel Corlux guy, so we may have to treat it as rumor. Don't know if I trust guys with white eye masks.

Yeah Pure Miriam, mostly Angel answering questions on Discord or his responses to questions/comments elsewhere. It can get in-depth in the Bloodstained channel on very specific questions.

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Oh, i see. Sorry haha

Should be fine.. Menu is usually one of the late things you fix before release. Imagine SotN. That menu never "made it" its still in Dev Mode