Shards you wish to see in the game

Brown Jenkins is probably my favorite Lovecraft creature. This suggestion is so good. Of all the suggestions I've ever read on this site, this might be my favorite. Here are some more pics.



For those who don't know the story, read it online or just listen to it here:



Mana can you get a Japanese copy of Dreams in the Witch House to IGA? It's public domain and perfectly legal to include in the game.

This. Heh, Galamoth You cheeky little bugger you. ;p

" Crystal Golem" is giving me flashbacks to the Colecovision, and that's a trip I don't mind taking. thx!

Old thread of mine, revived. Nice 

Here some new ideas i had:

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TRIGGER SHARD: Holy Boomerang.

Enemy: Holy Symbol. A flying crystalized broken cross (cracking, one side missing) that attacks by flying at a linear path.

Effect: Miriam throws a crystalized broken cross that works like a linear boomerang.

Leveling: increases overall damage. 

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EFFECTIVE SHARD: Miniaturize.

Enemy: Pygmy. A overly tiny enemy that looks like a micro-sized demon. It attacks in huge swarms but each one is considered a individual enemy.

Effect: Miriam turns into a Chibi form of herself (small body, huge head). Pressing the same button again, creates a Chibi-Miriam clone. Keep hitting the button to create a swarm of Chibi-Miriams. They walk following the real one, and they can seek and attack enemies around the scenario on their own accord, although each Chibi-Miriam has only 50% of attack power of the original real one (The Chibi real one ALSO has a -50% penalty on attack power). They attack mimicking whateaver weapon real Miriam is equipped. If any Chibi-Miriam (aside from the real one) is damaged enough times, it vanishes. MP is continuously being consumed while Chibi-Miriams exist and more MP is consumed depending on how much Chibi-Miriams exist. When the max number of Chibi-Miriams are reached, the last one created does a different sound to alert that. Pressing the button again, after the max number of Chibi-Miriams is reached, cancels the power, making all Chibi-Miriams vanish and returning Miriam back to her former self.

Leveling: increases how much Chibi-Miriams you can create (from 1 to 9, so, 10 in total, including the real Miriam) and how much hits each Chibi-Miriam can take (from 2 to 5).

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DIRECTIONAL SHARD: Stained Rainbow

Enemy: Crystal Angel. A Angel with crystalized wings.

Effect: Throws a crystalized bean that looks like a rainbow. After the beam ends, there is a lasting effect, in the form of a shining rainbow, that keeps damaging anything inside of it for a small time.

Leveling: increases duration of the rainbow lasting effect.

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ENCHANT SHARD: Soul of Faith.

Enemy: Holy Spirit. A suspicious looking ghost, a blue sillhuete with a yellow crystal right at it's chest. The ghost resembles a warrior. It attacks with whip attacks and throwing broken crosses like boomerangs.

Effect: When equipped, it does nothing. But if Holy Boomerang Shard is used while Soul of Faith is equipped, instead of throwing a cross, Miriam summons a beam of light with several crystalized broken crosses running around her body alongside Shards of all colors. It consumes way more MP that way. 

Leveling: increases Holy Boomerang damage (if used alongside Soul of Faith).

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FAMILIAR SHARD: Ragged Doll. 

Enemy: Ragged Doll. A flying female doll made of rags, missing one eye, all patched, with long black hair. It attacks by screaming horribly, showing a huge menacing mouth full of teeth and bitting. It keeps trying to bite the player all around until it's killed or the player moves on from the scenario.

Effect: Summon Ragged Doll. As a familiar, it has the same exact look of the enemy, just a brighter color. It does the same as the original enemy does. Attacks by trrying to bite with her oversized mouth. Some small and low-lv enemies (with exceptions) can be completely swalled and killed in one hit by  vanishing inside her mouth completely.
If there is no enemy for her to attack, after a certain amout of time doing nothing, it gets enraged and bites Miriam, calming herself. That attack DOES real damage.
There is a secret that, if Miriam is equipped with something specific (i don't know what lol) AND lets Ragged Doll Familiar bite her, she will be swalled and will be teleported to a secret realm (a secret part of the map).

Leveling: increases it's overall damage.

In light of the E3 Trailer and Gematsu gameplay videos, I've got two more Shard ideas to submit here.

#1. EFFECTIVE SHARD: Suspend Momentum
Obtained from: Wind Elemental (enemy)
Description: Required for progression in the Castle; Miriam gains the ability to hover in one location at any point in a jump or while falling. Miriam can gain "momentum" (extra damage) for her Dive-Kick when using this Shard and, if held in position long enough before letting go, Miriam's diving kick will cause the screen to "shake" upon impact with any surface or enemy.  If it connects with a surface, debris will be sent flying in random directions. (This fully-charged diving kick is required to destroy certain barriers to progression in the Castle)
Leveling: Collecting more of this same Shard (maximum of 9) will increase the amount of damaging debris created upon impact with surfaces (not enemies). At the maximum of 9 Shards, the charged dive-kick (any charge level) will then inflict extra Wind-attribute damage.

#2. SKILL SHARD: Free Movement
Obtained from: Crocell (enemy)
Description: Miriam is now capable of moving normally through bodies of water, on slippery/frozen or sticky surfaces, or against wind-currents without her movements ever being affected. In addition, as long as this Shard is active, Miriam will be able to use dive-kicks while underwater.
Leveling: N/A

#1)  DIRECTIONAL SHARD: Frost Laser (similar in concept to BalancedHydra 's "Cold Breath" idea!)
Obtained from: Abaia (BOSS) - See here in the Bloodstained Enemy Discussion thread
Description:  A powerful beam of cold that can be aimed in any direction, freezing any enemy that is weak against the Ice attribute; The laser will last as long as you hold down the button or until Miriam runs out of MP.
Leveling: In each New Game+ playthrough, absorbing Abaia's Shard again (up to 9 times) will increase the duration of the laser's "freezing" effect.
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Video Examples:  The beam could look like either of the following examples below (especially since I had Gergoth from Dawn of Sorrow in-mind when thinking of this Shard power).






#2)  ENCHANT SHARD: Ice Resist
Obtained from: Forneus (enemy)
Description: Become significantly less-susceptible to the effects of Ice-attribute attacks.  Damage is reduced by a certain percentage depending on how many of this Shard is collected; Much less-likely to be "frozen" (status-ailment similar to petrification).
Leveling: 5 Levels ~ 1 Shard = 10% resistance; 3 Shards = 20% resistance; 5 Shards = 25% resistance; 7 Shards = 33% resistance; 9 Shards = 50% resistance.

#3)  SKILL SHARD: Curse Empowerment
Obtained from: Beleth (BOSS)
Description: As long as this Shard is active, Miriam's stats sharply rise whenever she is afflicted with the Curse status-ailment; her MP also doesn't fall past a certain percentage. (Late-game Shard)
Leveling: N/A

This is really saddening to hear. I'd rather it level up based on use or crafting it to be better. It was fun in PoR to have my attack abilities change just because I was using something often, and I dislike the idea that all shards you get from a boss basically are max level immediately, with no way to improve them. In the Sorrow games, collecting souls from bosses just wasn't really exciting (or any other shard that started at max level).

Galamoth God curse was a bitch in the older games, eh...?

*Hits me one time, MP drains to zero*

Me: Eh, it's whatever. I'll just try not to get hit with it again.

*Hits me another time with curse*

Me: Alright, so maybe these god damn float-y curse-y enemies are really frustrating to get around. That's cool. It's whatever.

*Gets hit a third time*

Me:

trigger shard> the good old globus, i so much love that skill

familiar shard> plese give me a succubus familiar, make this dream come true!