E3 Demo Feedback for the developer's team

So. First, the positive: I absolutely loved the feel of the game. The graphics were beautiful (even if backdashing at walls would momentarily put the character model "in" the wall in shadow form). Movement felt great, once I got a feel for the controls. I had a great time exploring and felt like I was "at home" playing Symphony.

Things I think could use improvement:
-Challenge level. At no point did I feel really endangered by any of the enemies. The boss pattern was not difficult to predict and evade, making the boss fight more a matter of grinding its health down than anything else. I would like to see a greater degree of difficulty from the enemies (faster movement/attacks, perhaps) and especially from the boss.
-Graphics. The above backdashing graphic oddity was the thing that stuck out. Back up to a wall, backdash, and you'll see the "dash" animation pass backward into the wall before the character comes to a stop against the wall.
-Controls (character). The jump command felt a bit heavy to me, as though there were a bit of start-up hesitation to it. Might've been a function of...
-Controls (input). I was using a PS4 controller via BT, with no input remapping going on. The input hints in-game were all Xbox-controller hints (singularly unhelpful), and were mismapped as well (jump was circle, jump/attack was triangle, attack was square, bullet type special was X. What I would like to see here is twofold: 1) button icons for PS4 layout (as it's a fairly common PC controller now) and 2) input remapping support.

In summary: a few areas that could use improvement, but as I told people generally, "My body wasn't ready. It was all of my dreams." Much love, Bloodstained crew. You put a huge smile on my face tonight.

I think it's kinda weird using AD to move, S to Crouch but to open the chests you use W. (Space is the actual key to jump), I also believe that attacking the chests would be more intuitive than pressing a button, but that's just me.(Nothing that a key mapping feature doesn't solve.)

Honestly I didn't liked the pause that comes whenever you level up, I think that combat shouldn't be paused just to show that information, just a simple indication would be better imo.

Just got fire magic.

Sometimes It won't cast the spell. Seems to work only if I mash RT

Just finished the demo twice-over, felt like it was pretty well put together (though I haven't come across some of the issues others have). Really loved the look and feel of everything!

In regards to Miriam's backdash, I actually felt like it was pretty spot-on. There is a little bit of delay, but it didn't feel like it was troublesome, especially if you do a tiny hop afterwards.

The attacks do feel a little slow - the kick attacks especially - but I like that there's some animation canceling you can do such as the quick draw sword swing (tap jump then attack) to help speed things up. It reminded me ton of SotN and the (3)DS Castlevania games.

My only complaint is that the boss was pretty easy, as I don't think I took any damage either time. I do agree that the boss is maybe just a little too colorful in contrast to the rest of the environment? That might be the point though, who knows 

One thing I am wondering however is if there's a double-jump ability in the demo, 'cause there's a couple areas that I couldn't get to, but probably could with that ability. Not having 100% map completion is driving me crazy haha

There's a bunch of beds and chairs in the background of the starting room.

Seriously pay attention to the backgrounds, a lot of rooms have a unique feel to them.

I already played the demo, first of all I want to congratulate the entire team for the great work, it surpassed my expectations.

Without the elements pointed in the kickstarter update and this post I want to remark the elements I enjoyed

-Visual art and every detail on the galeon is amazing, the water, the rain, the crashed wood. This will be important to keep this kind of details in the game
-The concept and the colors differs from the Castlevania series which I applause because this is not becoming a copy from previous entries of the series, it feels new and fresh
-The menus felt simple and easygoing, that is helpful with the item management and the entire presentation of the game, this is an improvement from the Castlevania series
-The animations are great, Myriam walking, kicking, swording, jumping feels natural
-The enemies looked cool, Morte surprised me walking on roofs
-The boss seemed very colorful to my taste but it is a new approach and it looked good the design
-The music is amazing, Yamane sama knows her stuff, I had the privilege to meet her when she came to Mexico and she is a wonderful lady

My only concern was that I felt a little slow the game and the rhythm, I think is has to be faster but not as faster as Metroid or Strider, maybe as Ori and the Blind Forest

If this is a work in progress, then the final version will be a blast. Thanks for sharing the demo, I hope to play the beta and share any input that could help you with the game development.

Best Regards!

Change the hp n mp bar style it looks soo dulll.

Thank you all for the feedback so far! We're loving all the positive energy we're getting.

From my side, we'll probably fix a lot of the translations and of course, the spelling errors too. There's a set letter count for each menu/description so some of the wording is very awkward. The final game will be localized by a professional, so it'll be much more natural!

Psst.... is there anyone who got the Amy shard? If you did, lucky you! It only has 1% drop rate in this demo.

Ok, so I love it so far, but I think there needs to be a way to map controls to one's liking, particularly to make things more convenient for keyboard users such as myself.  I've tried pressing everything, and I'm still not sure what the keyboard equivalent for "Y" is.