Two question about familiars for yall.

The fairy familiar was always my fave, so I will go with that.

I fairly expect it to be for the most part like SotN and a tiny little bit like OoE/AoS/DoS, if not totally 100% like SotN from the get-go.

Mr. Welldone Thank you for you reply and I apologize for my late one.  Long day at work today. 

All this might actually make sense, so here goes 

My view is that out of all outcomes, the very best worst case for familiars would be keeping it as traditionally "SotN-esque" as possible, especially around the beginning of Miriam's main scenario / gameplay.

The growing Bloodstained IP should welcome some sort of healthy divergence from past Igavanias, or a gameplay structure that can be one-to-one with a previous Iga title but ramped up to acceptable extremes, or even something like a continuation of where Iga left off from with OoE.

So with all that in mind, "SotN-esqueness" in Bloodstained really is just a single element within a set of attributes that make up Bloodstained, not as what Bloodstained literally is as an end in itself.  Familiars can be just as "helpful" as they were in SotN, and they can be literally saviors as how I think they'll mostly be throughout Bloodstained gameplay.  Maybe depending on circumstances, familiars can function as better gatekeepers and a few notches above the devil familiar that just presses the switch.

What I'm trying to say is that I'm expecting fresh new experiences, and each will somehow remind me of an old Igavania title, roughly 90% or so between SotN and the AoS/DoS games.  And the further along I play through the main scenario, the better the gameplay experiences get.  But the most common element that I feel will always be present while playing Bloodstained 1 is the feeling of playing a SotN title.

I need to go to bed