Bloodstained News: 37 - Miriam and IGA - in Motion

Hey folks, the latest video's frame rate was scaled down to 29.97 fps in order to match the footage of IGA talking/swinging the umbrella. For reference, here's a full fps .gif of the kick animation:



(your computer/phone may not play it at max speed unless it has a very fast processor)

Also here's the Katana animation as well:

Yeah looks better on 60 fps !

Yeah, I hope that's still in it. It's a nice little visual that helps the sword have a bit more visual flair.

Hmm the kick still feels a bit weak. I think the issue is that it doesn't snap like a real kick should. The entire animation seems to be at a constant speed when the beginning should be slower and the motion of the leg extending and retracting should be faster. It also hangs a bit when her leg is fully extended which shouldn't be happening (and is actually harder to do than the actual kick at times), reducing the length of the full extension animation by about 2-5 frames and it should look better.

sweet, the katana animation gets off a feeling of power and speed right off the bat, and the move to guard before going back to ready is a nice touch you rarely see in combat animations, i do notice she slowly brings the weapon back down to her hip after moving to ready and that iga did that as well, im curious, is that part of the form or something iga did that was really cool and carried over, either way its one of those details that i really like and hope stays in some fashion, the only gameplay issue i have with the extended part of the guard to ready is if that is a hard cooldown and a single swing takes that long people may not use it unless its absurdly powerful to make up for the long reset (or can jumpcancel it), but since the kick has an animation cycle where miriam has a pose she goes into between the kick and her default stand and you can still kick fairly quickly i have the feeling the katana has something similar on the table and we got to see the full animation cycle because epicness and it syncs with iga doing the full motion ^_^

as for the kick, the 60fps does make it a little more forceful and smooths out the jerkiness in the ks vid, especially on the intitial kick, the second kick seems a tad slower but still has some power to it, also its not as obvious in the gif but i love that she actually wobbles a bit in that ready stance and bends her knee to keep herself balanced on top of her leaning back and extending her arm during the kick itself, its a very impressive kick, there is one frame at the full extension where shes hovering off the ground but thats a minor nitpick and it took viewing it in hd for me to finally notice it ^_^

crocodile if youre talking about her thigh on the full extension its the shader, it makes the white cuff on her boots blend into her leg and makes it look like theres a huge cutout in her outer thigh by her knee

crocodile i see what you mean now, her cuff is clipping through the back of her thigh, i was too busy oohing over the other leg in that pose >P

Mana neat, good to know about the kick, im interested to see what the updated one will look like ^_^

With regards to combos, all I can say is please pleeease have most weapons have say, 3 or 4 chainable strikes. I love SOTN with all my soul but my replay is teaching me that the combat would feel much more satisfying if it wasn't just "slash, wait, slash, wait". Current technology obviously allows such things, and I think it would make the combat more satisfying, smoother, AND look cooler! It's one thing if it's like, a gigantic hammer or something, but I feel most weapons should have strings of attacks.

With crocodile in this. I'm all for new ideas but not if it'd change the very feel of what makes igavania games igavania games. Going to a combo type system changes the very pacing and feel of the game into something it's not.

Sorry i am with the others, this could change the feels of how a igavania should work, not that it couldn't be good or even better, but i can't see it working properly on an igavania yet so it seems too risky to do. However this could be added as a special attack from certain weapons costing a certain ammount of mana to cast and maybe a drawback in the end of the chain attacks like a cooldown animation leting you exposed to attackes before you can hit again.