Bloodstained News: 37 - Miriam and IGA - in Motion

Anyone else in love with that sword swing animation? Omg such grace <3

Other than that, game looks to be going smoothly so far. Loving all the other animations. I do question the kick though. Not sure why its there, but I mean the animation looks great!

I just woke up, and I have to leave for work, so no in depth comments from me until later, but initial reaction:  fantastic!

The hud does look really nice, it has this sort of vial feel to the hp bar, some flourish to it with the flowers, gold trim, and moon, wonder if the bust of Goofball would change depending on status or story, and i really love the silver filligree around the map ^_^

Miriams kick seems to be mapped to □, so that may be an unarmed attack which is really nice because it gives it a bit more range than a punch and might even hint to different 'styles' of punch and kick weapons being a thing, and i like how she balances herself when she kicks and takes a good stance when she strikes, and the emissions off her back crystal, and the iaido strike is in with a really neat 'sheathing' motion, and so much right with this \^_^/

I wonder if they went with a bit of a 'hand on ledge' look to the drop where she rotates a little toward the camera and ducks a frame before dropping or had it look like she rolls sideways off instead of drops straight through that might alleviate the oddness some people are having with the visual of her dropping through platforms, but it doesnt bother me since it does replicate spritework like others have mentioned

as for the vertical transitions i think thats a frame of reference thing, you are focusing solely on Goofball because you lack all the extra data to process when entering a new area like enemy placement, breakable objects, platforms, the background, the foreground, and music, as more things get added i think that oddness will fade

Ill probably add more stuff later, but im really impressed with what weve seen and love that were getting to see the dev steps that go into creating a stage that isnt a half second flash in a timelapse vid

It can't only be me thinking this right? An unarmed Alucard would throw punches and he had several fist/knuckle based weapons as well. If Miriam's equivalent are her kicks, I think it would be super dupe cool if she had some sweet "kicks" so to speak. Just some sweet footwear that maybe let her do some awesome fiery/lightning/etc. kicks with the appropriate animations. If such weapons aren't already on the table I hope we can let the team know we think they would be cool and/or maybe those who backed at a tier where they could design a weapon could suggest some. For those who want Button Command moves to return (ala the spells of SOTN), if Miriam is an actual practitioner of martial arts, that offers a lot of opportunities to do something along those lines (though maybe balancing them to be good would be hard since range would be short I assume).

With the animation out of the way, I wonder if they can transition from the 2D to 3D-cutscene with the in-game engine?
that will be so cool

That slide. Small thing but for whatever reason seeing this classic Castlevania move almost made me squee.



Perhaps it's the fact that at the moment she seems to phase through the platforms on the way up or down? It kind of bugged me but I guess that'll change later on.



So that's what the kick reminded me of. Damn, now I wish DMC3 had a PS4 port.

Everything looks so good! really. some stuff really needs some tweaking though :

- the kick : they really need to make it look like a hit, not a leg shaking or something, make it faster and add some effect to it and that's it for the kick

- the skirt : what the guy has already mentioned above

other than that. everything looks really impressive! also, is it me or "Cursed Orphan" sounds slightly different in this video ?

I'm very impressed with everything in that video. My only hope is that the backgrounds, when added, give the game more of a 2.5D feel. The grid is supposed to be 2D so they can do enemy placement and whatnot. I just don't want the final product to feel THAT 2D. I want the depth of field from the background with the blood fountain.

Amazing work, IGA and team! Dat Umbrella/katana.....

Nah I'm cool with everything I saw.

I think the kick will feel better once there is a sound effect attached to it, including Miriam's battle grunts. The slide felt perfect. The jump looks like it could transition into a double jump quite nicely, which would be a nice special ability to unlock later on in the game. Her animation when she falls down makes it feel like she's preparing for the fall, which makes sense. I don't think her jog is very slow, there's not any background to look at so I think people aren't thinking about what the big picture will look like in the end, this could be tweaked later on I feel. Fancy kicks WOULD feel nice, but for a basic unarmed Miriam I think a regular kick makes sense, maybe more ability unlocks?

The only thing that bothers me is that Miriam drawing her sword doesn't look as cool as Iga drawing his umbrella.