Animations need a lot of work

Yeah the animation work is one of the things that bummed me out about it that I didn't think would be an issue based on the first demo. Some of the enemies feel really stiff and slow.....and a lot of the death animations enemies just kinda slump over or bounce on the ground and vanish into specks.

Heartful agree with this, especially the animation when Miriam obtains every first shards, the animation of struck the shard in her body then turn to camera like nothing happened is just dumb.

I strongly feel they should get rid of the talking animations for dialog scenes and replace them with static portraits. Not only is this extremely common (Persona uses them, Shantae games use them) but it's what the Castlevania games used, and Bloodstained is obviously trying to mimic those. It would also be easier to implement than tuning the animations for both English and Japanese. That's time and effort that would be better applied to polishing up other parts of the game. Plus, we'd get more great Mana art out of it.

Miriam's running animation doesn't seem to loop properly to me. There's a slight stutter that makes it look like she has a limp. I don't remember that in the original demo and don't know why they changed it. Also somebody please fix the animation of that dude running away from the monster in the very beginning. It looks like something out of Team America.

they should give us the option of portraits or animated.