A Discussion about Quests

I rather enjoyed Portrait and Ecclesia's quests, so lets see:

1. I'd agree Bloodstained might not even NEED a system like this, but exchanges between her and the quest giver(s) could nicely flesh out the characters. It'd be funny if Miriam gets increasingly exasperated by the whole affair and finally looses it when the final quest turns out to be absurd. Plus, having mini-goals behind exploration has always been good by me.

2. If Zangestsu is on friendly terms with Miriam I could see him giving her missions to test/train her. Making Johaness the quest giver AND shopkeeper would be the easiest solution but I'd rather 2 different characters do this.

3. I think Portrait would be the model to follow here: finding certain items, doing special moves, killing a special monster etc. Though I'd want to avoid stuff like "Kill 10 Buers", thats just the most generic MMO thing ever

4. I think quests should give gear and crafting elements, but not shards.

5. I don't know about random/infinite quests. Games like this, I feel, really bank on "I finished it" and having some penultimate quest, so I feel like having quests never end would crimp that feeling.

Side note: I'm imagining a cool parallel between Zangetsu and Wind/Eric from Portrait. In PoR, one of the last quests had Eric give you the Alucard Spear. I think it'd be cool if Zangetsu were the quest giver, and his last one is that he gives you his Katana, and BOOM, that's how you get the uber Backer Katana.

I loved the quests in OoE and PoR but I don't think it's imperative that Bloodstained needs a quest system. The vastness of the castle, the number of enemies and the weight of the story should hold enough activity to keep it interesting. My main concern is would IGA and Inti Creates have enough time to fit the quests in?

Who gives Miriam the quests? I like to think that it could come from a mysterious source. Perhaps, she discovers a secret room where a disembodied whisper comes from an eerie face in a stained-glass window.

I like the type of quests where you have to find or capture something that is highly elusive and requires great skill and speed to get the result.

Prizes? Well, I think being rewarded with gold is rather boring to be quite honest. I like getting rare weapons (Terror Bear) and strange abilities (Eye of the Devil) as two good examples.

Continuous/Unlimited quests are totally unnecessary and would be too much of a distraction to the big adventure IMO.

My only gripe with quests is with the ones that are little more than kill X enemy Y times and go to X location and get Y item. With a game like this I can't imagine this being an easy thing to avoid so moderation will be acceptable.

I would prefer quests that end differently than intended because the area wasn't as expected, an ambush occurred, etc as well as ones that require Miriam to track down locations that require some puzzle solving. As long as the developers get creative really then that's good enough for me.

I'm one of those people who think it doesn't need a quest system. I think I don't like being told to do this to get this. I rather just explore without knowing there's "TASKS" for me to accomplish. 

So i'm bad for this thread.