Death Animations and other types of animations.

I completely forgot about this aspect of the game to be honest. Having varied horrible demises for the protagonist and villains alike is something that adds a sense of excitement to the gameplay.

For all my championing of complete artistic freedom I am hoping for something falling a little short of let's say Mortal Kombat Fatalities.

Well maybe it isn't in previous games, but they did have unique damage animations.





In a few sprites here you see different damage animations. He also has damaged sprites that are unique to Wolf and Bat form. Richter Belmont did as well, and I think Maria too in the Saturn version.

Variety is the spice of life after all.

I wouldn't worry about that. I highly doubt we'd go anywhere near the level of gore in modern Mortal Kombat games. (And, this is a bit off-topic, but I feel the current creators of MK have a completely different view of the fatalities then past creators did. In the past there was frequently a goofy element to the fatalities, like uppercutting three heads off of someone, or Sektor having a human compactor hidden in his chest. MK9 and MKX have genuinely horrific fatalities.)

For Inti-Creates' games, I've really only played the four Mega Man Zero games and the two Mega Man ZX games. I recall that all enemies in those 6 games had a 'sliced in half' animation, even bosses. Provided it was a regular Z-Saber slash and not a charged Saber attack. (Though specific, plot relevant boss characters, like Harpuia, did not have those animations.) And ZX Advent had a new 'shot through' death animations for enemies and bosses (but again, plot relevant bosses excluded) if you finished them with a charge shot.

Some various death animations for enemies depending upon what sort of attack you used to kill them in Bloodstained could be fun. A few various player death animations could be fun as well, though I hope they don't get gruesome with what can happen to Miriam.

I've always found it a bit disappointing when playable characters die in the same old manner (spray of blood). So, I think it's only logical and relevant that player characters should perish in a style that is related to the powers, spells or weapons associated with enemies (especially bosses).

Swords, knives, hammers, guns -
1) A generous spray of blood.
2) Body collapses with limbs falling off.

Fire -
1) Reduced to a charred statue.
2) Blazing away into a pile of ashes.

Chemical -
1) Dissolves into a pool of green sludge.
2) Withers into rotting emaciation.
3) Turns into a skeleton

Spells -
1) Atomized into a cloud of blood, dust or light.
2) Shattered into bloody pieces or chunks of ice.
3) Turned to stone or glass.

Lasers -
1) Obliterated to glowing smithereens.
2) Melts into a smoldering mess.

Of course, none of the above would be complete without a blood-curdling scream!

Using an effect specific to what kills her is ideal. Chare for fire, freeze and maybe breaking for ice, etc. But if it is physical, and for a little fun what about Miriam taking the damage, falling over and being raised as a zombie, skeleton of some other form of undead? Two reasons for this:

It implies the world continues after she falls.

And

It can be used to introduce Miriam undead enemy types. You know. Just for fun. But this would be a game feature suggestion... Like the topic kind of is.

I wonder if they will utilize the Crystal curse for death sequences. Say if Miriam takes one final hit, her body covers with crystal as she tries to move before she is crystalized. Like a statue.

Also, if this was the case, it would be cool if those statues exist through everyone's online game world to show where spots are tough and where they aren't (and where it may take time to figure out what happened).

Yes... I knew I couldn't sneak that in.

It was cleaver and could be used easilly in such an atmosphere if they wanted to include online stuff such as that.

I'd be fine with her just exploding and blood spraying everywhere like in castlevania

"Miriam's fighting Gebel right now!" *boom* "...And she exploded!"