Design Review Poll for Castle Design and Miriam's Room

Yeah, background interactivity is basically saying MORE of that. More than their ever has been. A dedicated button to interact with things within the background. Some paintings might have a bubble description of what it is or what Miriam thinks of it. Etc....

It's a way to make the environment even more of a character. I wish I knew where that topic or comment was.. it was a cool idea I was fleshing out with people.

Go to a window click it... " I can hear a wolf howling outside"

It'd be easy to vote for all of them, but I tried to leave out things I wouldn't mind seeing not happen. I tried to look at it from how the game will feel in a complete state, rather than the functional use of such options, as those functions could be represented in a menu or something.

For example, an armory where you can display your equipment, it's nice to look at your stuff, but I don't think it's really necessary for this game. In a lot of online games I love to display my rare stuff, but in a game like this, I'm content with just looking at it while I'm using it, or in my inventory. Things like outfits could fit in a closet, rather than a full armory display, and so, I don't really think it would make an improvement to the feel of the game.

On the flip side, I would support a forge. Not something super grand, but maybe just limited to an easy to access room. It would be easy to delegate this to a menu option, and I think that would be okay too, but I also think limiting the player to going to the forge to craft your weapons and such, will serve as a deterrent of getting too powerful too quickly, and ultimately make the player feel more rewarded when they make a powerful item.

I also don't care for a warp zone. I understand the quality of life check, but I don't think it's going to be so impossibly large to make it take forever to get to where you're going. Having a warp zone will force the logic in players to use it, and will inevitably ruin the feel of the game. I feel stronger about this than I do the armory, but I could just as well see it well implemented, too.

Just some quick one line points:

Zoo/animals: Animals always feels like a cheap excuse for enemies, unless there's a well thought out boss/story.
Boiler room: Makes sense for buildings to have, but offers nothing to the feel of the game or any functionality.
Factories: I feel like this wouldn't be in a mansion unless there's a good excuse beyond the scope of "because magic".
Test subject room: I feel like this fits extremely well with the setting, given the characters actually being test subjects.
Rotating room: I'm not sure if this means that up will become down, or we're talking horizontal axis here, if it's the latter then I am in support.
Miriam room upgrades/keys: This can offer a sense of progression outside of stats, and if online players could somehow other players rooms, it would be even better.

I voted for quite a bit and didn't vote for quite a bit. I feel most of the rest is more in the obvious department, and so I won't delve too much into it unless there's some discussion.

Yeah it's just a shame a lot of things will get left behind because there's such a huge number of things and there's only the TOP 3. ( unless that's not how this is done?)

Lot of the cool locations are being left behind because of things that have nothing to do with locations. This was the problem with this subject to begin with. It's a very broad field, it dealt with layout, locations, and features all together. We want a bit from each! lol

I took this topic as a "this is what the community is the most interested in" type of deal.

...I knew I was forgetting something
But I see a lack of haunted or horror theme areas,even a haunted section of the castle with zombies and ghosts,werewolves and little terrors that pop out from the background (either scare traps or enemies) should have been mentioned

I mean im sure the whole castle is haunted,bbut having an area with creepy music and jump scares is something I must insist upon since it sticks with the castlevania theme

and then maybe if we are feeling generous a haunted carnival within the deeper into the area with some mirrors and wicked clowns,because everyone hates clowns,be a nice area to stack up on candy themed item drops and popcorn,and maybe ride a rollercoaster straight deeper into the depths of the castle

Nice to see people are voting for the sacraficial chamber idea I mentioned

I think the theater and ballroom could fit that very well. Ghosts galore.

A room for Miriam that can be decorated and act as living quarters is indeed a cool idea but I feel people are giving it too much focus and devotion in my humble opinion. This isn't a game like Animal Crossing (not sure if that's the one) but you know those games that are all about depth of home customization. However, a large majority of the room ideas listed for voting are very good.

Ahh if that's the case I'll vote for more things. I thought the top _ choices were gonna be sent.

flaviog, the clock tower is one of several areas that were already highlighted in blue from the previous topic, i.e. the team is already working on (or just looking at the possibility of) its inclusion. Actually these are in the first post here, too, under XombieMike's first bullet. Entrance, caves, large fountain, etc etc.

Dan: that's good to hear...I imagine having cleared up some things like that will alleviate some of these concerns. I think the castle design feedback is comparatively massive when looking at most of the other topics we'll be voting on, too, so subsequent threads like this won't seem to be as much to take in all at once. Everything from here on looks smaller to me.