RPG Elements in Bloodstained?

Thank you for this.  I'd never heard of the game, and now, after reading the wiki entry, I really want to play it.

"The humans who breathed the toxin-filled air on the Earth's surface became one with the Earth and kept dissolving. The history of humanity ended and dominion of the planet returned to the demons.  These mutant creatures did not depend on oxygen to survive.  Therefore, they were able to breathe the air and use the land.  Meanwhile, an army of robots wage World War IV against the demons in order to conquer what is now known as Makai - the Demon World.  These robots came to the planet on a wave of energy that created an explosion that turned the world into a wasteland.  Much later in the game, concurrent themes including Adolf Hitler,  war, creating a perfect race of people, and the destruction of humanity in the year 1999 are revealed to the player inside one of the robot's main bases."

I don't remember that. Smashing apart individual bodyparts in valkyrie profile 2 was tons of fun, but bosses would respawn. I hope bloodstained doesn't 'force' you to kill every boss super slowly because you want to kill all their bodyparts for all their drops without accidentally killing the boss first or whatever, that could be annoying unless they respawn or something to let you just do it normally knowing you can get the other parts later.

I'd be totally fine with however the main game, among other playable modes, will be handled RPG element-wise.

For those who'd rather not play an "Igavania"-esque game with RPG elements, there's the Classic Mode option that will be available in Bloodstained (if I remember correctly from the Kickstarter stretch goals).

All I'd be wondering is if there will enough variety in enemies so that it wouldn't be too difficult (or tediously time-consuming) to reach close, if not all the way, to the maximum level. Although, I'd be totally fine with an absurdly-high level cap...since I've never reached the highest level in any Metroidvania before, anyway.

For those who prefer a greater challenge in the main single-player mode, why not have a "Level 1 Cap" difficulty option?


*(Edit):  Personally, I'd love it if Bloodstained's castle is larger than 4 SotN castles put together, and there would be enough variety in powerful enemies throughout your travels in the castle for a maximum Level-Cap of 255.

I actually agree 100% with this, despite my earlier comment.  I just think they'd still be able to pull off a high-quality castle, and I'm sure it will be much larger than SotN's Castle (large enough) without repeating similar themes too often, if at all...and without it literally being 4x bigger.

To fit this in with RPG elements though, I'd like to see just how varied that enemies and item drops can get, as you'll undoubtedly be fighting progressively tougher enemies and finding increasingly rare items (as well as crafting some through Alchemy) as you travel throughout the castle's many different sections.

I'm not trying to make this game really hard actually my favorite part of the igavania games is the RPG element (and I hate Classic Mode). I just beat SotN (again) and Dracula was way too easy (I was only lv 50). I started this thread to see how we could balance the game. and I still think the best option is to turn off exp when we want to.

that sounds awesome. So the many of the monsters will have 5 drops instead of 2, like in most other igavanias XD.. I can't wait that means a lot of item drops... I hope the forging be really deep... I wonder if crafting abilities will be lv based

"Don't worry, I'm not going to kill you. . . I just need your eyes!"  _ghost

Wabbajack would be an interesting item to use in a game like this.

God knows we had enough LotR references in SotN, so... it could happen.