Please, let us use skills as Miriam

No, this is a weapon skill, like alucard sword in SOTN, I want to talk, really skills, who didn't need exactly weapon to use. Unique commands for skills, like "Soul Steal"

Ah I see what you mean now. If I remember correctly there was an update back in the early days of this Kickstarter in which such magic spells were presented as concepts.

my biggest issue with this making a return would be too many inputs tied to the same button, fighters can get away with this because they have many different buttons to map similar motions to

in sotn you had qcf+att, hcf+att, 3qcf+att, up+att, i think there was another close to qcf+att, and then you add on a weapon that could be bf+att or qcf+att, with the only input being not tied to attack is superjump which is du+jump

in bloodstained you have weapon arts, which so far use qcf+att and fbf+att, which is simple and elegant
magic spells were long ago folded into the soul/shard system which has its own button
this game adds right stick and button for directional shards which is good cause they also let you map this button to r3 to keep it self contained
up+att for subweapons are now part of the soul/shard system where i think they fare much better because you can level them up
if? superjump is in its unknown if du+jump is making a return or if itll be its own button, but this is fine since it has its own button

my opinion overlapping any of these systems will muddle the flow of what you can do, the spells in sotn were nice (and sometimes super op) but the overlap of 3 different attack systems made for a command system that was very easy to mess up with

I asked Igarashi about this during Castlevania's 25th Anniversary.
This information may possibly be outdated, but here is a quote from the interview.

September 26, 2016



Please note Igarashi's answer is lacking specific detail. He merely confirmed that special input combos were planned for "special attacks". We can see from the Beta Demo that Bloodstained will have the weapons' magic strikes, but the martial arts and magic spells were not explicitly confirmed.

Question Angel-Corlux . Any chance you guys can get some clarification on this?