16 Minutes of new Bloodstained Gameplay (Demo SPOILERS)

Regarding save rooms, i also think it's a beautiful room but it doesn't make much sense to be inside Galleon. By the way, there are two particular things i wanted to point it out, one of them being the savem room itself.

IGA usually likes to explain features in most of his games and even so i do know some things can't be easily explained, but it really makes no sense for that kind of save room to be inside the Galleon Minerva. If you pay attention to the save room, it has a moon at the background and even some pillars and a whole castle motiff to it. They simply copied and pasted the save room from the castle to the Galleon Minerva.
We ARE going to suggest stuff like that when the demo is out (if they do'nt change it right away) but i also think it should be different. Why they would have / built a Galleon with a room for rest that is bizarrely close to the same rooms inside Gebel's castle? The only explanation for that would be if the Galleon itself was built with the same materials / magical stuff from the castle somehow. And even so, the save room architecture doesn't make any physical sense unless it's "magic".

Something easy to do would be what some people suggested, using the big red couch (since it's an object, easy to move around, programming-wise) inside a common wooden room of the Galleon Minerva itself. They can even maintain the same animation and everything, just put the big red couch inside a common Galleon room instead of using the whole save room. That could be used for ANY save rooms outside the castle itself.


Galleon Minerva has a closed door that can be opened only by magic by pointing Miriam's hand to it. That is a nice touch i see no one commenting by the way. It kinda makes sense to be inside Galleon Minerva, since the boat has a special purpose so it must be defended  / protected well somewhat. But not only that, that opens a huge room for gimmicks, locks and stuff like that.
The castle can have different types of doors. Some of them may only open if Miriam has a certain level (her "magic power") or maybe requiring specific Shards to be equipped. "Cheap locks" to block progress, but still a cool idea.

I think that the save room being like that in the Galleon has absolutely no sense and any kind of in-game explanation would be a stretch. It just doesn't fit.

Also, I'm not too big on those magically sealed doors. It's just a common door that requires you do wave your arm in front of it to open (also, why the arm? Miriam is literally stuffed with magical crystal energy so if nothing else the door should detect magic as soon as she approaches, behave like a modern automatic door and just open). Just make it a normal door and don't interrupt the action unnecessarily OR give it some other purpose.

I think the magic doors are OK to have. It's no different from Metroid having red doors that have to be blasted open with missiles. There is no point other than stopping the action and making you waste your ammo. Maybe Miriam won't be able to open these doors at some point in the game until she reacquires some magic that she loses along the way. Or the door may not open if the person approaching is too affected by the crystal curse. As far as functionality goes, I'd say that the direction you have to move the stick will change between doors or even have a moving target on some doors.

Redogan yeah, that's what I meant. They should be tied to progression somehow, and maybe function in different ways. Otherwise, there's no point.

P.S.: yeah I'm not a fan of the missile doors from Metroid.

I know, the link I posted was an old school Tales of Phantasia elemental thing.