Bloodstained News: 37 - Miriam and IGA - in Motion

It's a social media platform where people share 6-second videos that loop over and over. It reminds me of YTMND from about 10 years ago, but with people filming themselves instead of using or making gifs and images and adding text.

Everything seems to look pretty awesome if you ask me. Sure she's a little floaty, but it's nothing incredibly troublesome, or that I would probably learn to ignore a few hours into the game. The kick looks neat (wonder just WHAT are you going to be able to do with it, tho')

Nice seeing the grid map too. That explains how the previous Metroidvania castle designs (IN MY HONEST OPINION, except maybe AoS) were so tight.

Shame about the scarf, tho'. Hope we'll be able to see it next update.

Oh man, I need to try to get on this umbrella vine thing. I hope I have something that can record decent video...

Hey Sunscreen, that new avatar is pretty nito.

purifyweirdshard @mana

Thanks! Credit where it's due, that particular GIF was made by Zedotagger on Deviantart.  He made a lot of similarly cool stuff, including this awesome animated Firelink Shrine:

well, you can achieve the illusion of forward momentum without actually moving the character forward through the characters motions during the animation, while weapons that actually move you forward like the estoc can certainly be a thing, it should be a special property on a few weapons, especially if this property is active during jumps because it has the potential of allowing sequence breaking (not to say sequence breaking is bad and shouldnt be allowed, just that this needs to be weighted towards being an advanced skill to not make it too easy to perform, and if a lot of weapons have this nudge property then you have to plan for people abusing that nudge on their first playthrough, which has the side effect of making even simple jumps harder for those who dont know about the nudge trick)

a bit rambly, but i hope i got my point across there >P

We need to see more of this ! It's excellent.
I'm sure IGA can find a lot of ideas into fans videos.

Most 3d games do move the character forward when using melee attacks, but that comes at a price. VERY few 3D games require the positional accuracy of older 2d games so it's not as big of a deal if the attack animations advance the player. And like it was mentioned before, advancing when attacking is generally more realistic. Videogames seldom (if ever) strive for realism in movement. Controlling horizontal movement when in the air is a trope that comes to mind.

But yeah, 3d games usually dont have to worry about things like pitfalls and pixel-perfect collision and platforming. Those games have a z axis to play with so that is typically what's emphasized rather than things like precise jumps. But back in the nes days, if Simon Belmont moved forward during attacks you can just imagine how many medusa heads you'd eat. That would likely make the game unplayable for most.

It all comes down to design though. If pitfalls and platforming arent very important in Bloodstained then advancing attacks would likely be fine. Hopefully BS will have a mixture of both, with good level design to make advancing attacks something for the player to strategically consider.