Update 39 - A Video, Playable Demo, E3 & Galleon Minerva

The song actually reminds me a lot of Demon Castle Pinnacle.

Heh heh...I really need to stop trying to read every comment on the sites/articles for this game, I feel like I have to read them all as if this were my own game. Man...



That's what I'm thinking, too. There's usually an exciting "castle entrance"/beginning level, so I'm thinking the ship is actually more equivalent to Richter on the stagecoach fighting Death before he arrives in the village. Kind of a feeling of tense anticipation - the rain and darkness are there as well. Death's own stage later is the ghost ship, come to think of it...

I'm so relieved to see those purple lanterns, it's indeed obvious what they are. I hadn't seen 100% what I could say were candles yet, phew. Also, I like the treasure chests lol.

edit: I will say that I hope that subsequent levels have a brighter palette, and I think they will in part due to this particular stage just going for a certain feeling. Just hoping for as little as possible of that feel of drab and empty space as with other recent 2.5Ds.

edit2: Mana just posted with the Facebook account! She says that she will be delivering updates with that from now on as well. Good bit of likes/shares already.

OMG D:

It looks..... AWESOME!!!

Can wait until E3 to see if my PC can run that at MAX settings though D:

Anyways, the work seems highly detailed being on a stage earlier that beta, I only noted a couple things(I know this is still being on the works, but I wanted to mention my point of view anyways):

• On 00:20, the dash, It gave me the impression that she stops for a moment before exiting the reduced space and then starts the stand-up animation, would not be better to start the animation until she exits completely that section?
• On 00:36, it seems that the scarf gets trapped between her legs (at least is seems like that xD)

I'm sure they already noticed that and also know this is still a WIP, but this couple of thingsdoes not affect the awesomeness of the work presented, that's how you create hype for the E3 xD

I mean that she uses more than one style of song.  This is one song with it's own style.  Other songs will have theirs.

Looks wonderful. I'm a bit bugged by the fact that Miriam flies through the platforms when going up and down but other than that looks wonderful.



No reason

This is me. Even though my PC build isn't even started yet. (I'm getting there!)
Also, am I the only one to notice the name of the level and ship being Minerva is a reference to the Demeter?  (The ship in the Dracula novel by Bram Stoker!!) Bravo, IGA!

Also, yeah we need some more movement in the background and with Miriam's hair. Good start, but the background looks dull compared to Miriam as well. I expect these to be fixed in the final product, however. It's only alpha. I agree with purifyweirdshard.

I was trying to think of what prior Castlevania/Yamane song the piece in this video reminded me of. The answer I think is this:





It's not 1 to 1 but still feels pretty close. Makes sense I guess since these are both "starting section" songs

It reminds me a lot of Demon Castle Pinnacle from dawn.

Whoa. Big update. I was not expecting an E3 demo, but finding out that it'll be available to backers as well? Nice! I'm impressed! The hype was real and the high expectations I thought people had were exceeded. Thank you to everyone involved with making this happen!

I'm looking forward to the stream next week (June 15th). Romscout's a pretty good streamer and I like hearing/seeing Ben Judd and IGA make appearances.

About five seconds into the video and listening to the music, I thought to myself "Yeah, this is Michiru Yamane's work." Her style is so distinct. I love it. The new track reminded me of "A Whole New World" from Aladdin towards the end.

I'm surprised the Galleon Minerva is the first area in Bloodstained. When I saw concept art for the ship in previous updates, I had a feeling it'll be a later area in the game and it'd be docked in. Having it be the fist area in the game and connecting it to the narrative by having it sail to Gebel's castle is a pretty cool idea. I can see area being included as part of the main castle map once it arrives and the player can go back to the boat at any time instead of being a separate OoE or PoR-style map.

This part of the update stuck out to me.
Having all the enemies from the previous update in the demo sounds really cool. I'm glad they got their own update so their reveal wouldn't be drowned out by demo news. Also, Morte totally has a shard you guys.

I'm still a little confused about the floating coin people pointed out at the 26 second mark and having a difficult time finding it. Can any post a screenshot of it or circle where it shows up?

Also, I don't think anyone's mentioned the fanart in the update thread yet. I like the colors on the first one, I remember seeing jaeon009's on the forums and it's cool to see it get attention, and PistachiBow's looks really nice.