Would you be fine with a bittersweet ending?

I guess I can't really answer that till I know more about the characters and world but I'm not out right against it, we know there are going to be multiple endings... Though I'd like to see Miriam more then once (twice with CotM) Zangetsu I'm sure I'd love to have his own game. Though mayhaps he will be the one to sacrifice himself?

A bittersweet ending in some form? Probably, depends on the rest of the story. Above all, I hope the story is consistent, whatever happens.

An ending where Miriam dies? Probably not. I don't particularly like stories where the main character just up and dies. I can certainly think of games where the developers decision to kill the main character was one of the worst ones they did.

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Which is why I specifically gave two answers. I'm not expecting Miriam to win the lottery, hit a vein of gold and be awarded half the kingdom, living the rest of her life with no hardships. Chances are, even the best ending is going to have negatives. I'd hope that the positives outweight the negatives, but I expect the negatives to be there.

That said, I expect Miriam to survive the events of Bloodstained after all my efforts to keep her alive and for there to not be a twist ending that makes the entire journey pointless, be it for the sake of trying to pull my heartstrings or to "subvert my expectations". If it's revealed that everything would have been better if Gebel had won and Miriam had walked the plank, I'm going to be angry.

I liked Ecclesia’s ending, which had bittersweet ending, it leaves a mark and you remember it forever. For Bloodstained, I hope Miriam has bad ending, as I don’t like her at all, hehe

I doubt there'll be only one ending. I'm expecting the standard three. One of them will be the Bad Ending (possibly about Miriam succumbing to her curse), another will be the "Normal" Ending (likely the bittersweet one), and then finally the Good Ending (in which Miriam survives).

Heck, there could be more. And we still don't know if the 2nd & 3rd playable characters will be more than extra content; if they could possibly have their own Endings (and story involvement in general). Yeah, we know Zangetsu is involved in the story, but we don't know if we'll see story content when finally playing as him.

Nah, I want the best ending to be the real ending and for it to be sweet without the bitterness.

There's enough sad sh*t in life as it is. I don't need any of it in my escapism, and besides, killing off characters is hardly ever a good idea: you won't be able to use them in the future without resorting to silly plot twists.

Igarashi's games, and to a larger extent Castlevania itself, have usually been pretty bad with endings.

If they even plan anything, that might be interesting in itself. I'd be cool if the ending is a wink to what Bloodstained was pitched to publishers as, implying a more globetrotting affair. Maybe they defeat the baddies but something related to the Liber Logaieth or the Ars Goetia gives hints something else in the world is amiss.

SOTN had a bittersweet ending, Order of Eclessia had a bittersweet ending, Portrait of Ruin had a bittersweet ending, Curse of the Moon had one too and that one isn't like the others, so I'm no stranger to that happening in Igavanias.

This story, from the little we got from it has the potential to go towards a that style of ending. Unless Iga had plans for many different protagonists in in the future, Miriam dying would be a waste. I am curious about the world building for this game though. That would determine how sequels could be made. Castlevania had Dracula rezzing every 100 years...or some asshole mage reviving him too early to get around that. Bloodstained having something similar to that might be too familiar, so I wonder if he'll go a different route.

I think a happy ending looks pretty damned unlikely given the bleakness of the beginning circumstances.

WAKE UP YOU'RE CURSED AND YOUR BROTHERGUY IS BLOWING UP THE EARTH AND TO STOP HIM YOU HAVE TO BE MORE CURSED.

Sounds fun!