Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night E3 2017 Trailer & Gameplay

Regarding the demo, 505 marketing and all of that - 505 is Indivisible's publisher as well, and they got a playable prototype put on the PSN store for all to play. I think that might be a good idea for Bloodstained, though as stated, I guess you do kind of "get it" or you don't as far as the gameplay of these. I think I'd still like it to get out there just for the exposure, though.

Maybe they can replace it with this occasionally to spice things up:

Ah, so something more like this?

Scars Unseen That made me laugh more than I should've. Thanks!

Galamoth and Scars Unseen ahahaha. You guys.

...stop that.

So, my own personal points of interest:

1. I think it's funny that everyone is trying so hard to collect money in the demos that I've seen. Focus on the gameplay, damnit! Ahahaha

2. Curious that the 'Double Jump' shard is obtained from a method unorthodox to the series. (IE candle instead of a boss) If this is the case for a large chunk of the mobility shards, it might be more in one's interest to focus on exploration rather than slaying boss type enemies. Very interesting. (It would also be more of a Symphony of the Night, and less of a Circle of the Moon, were that to be the case. I surmise that a very happy CastleDan will be part of the end equation...) :]

3. I like that they kept the majority of the pause screen the same. OWN IT, BABY!

4. I love that there are TACTICS to the boss fights! Staying under Bloodles's umbrellas during her 'Blood Rain' ability is a  simple, yet BRILLIANT idea. Love!

5. Everything is looking CLEAN. So far I haven't really noticed anything that has bothered me. Keep it up, IGA...!

In short: white shards are from enemies, not bosses exclusively. For the sake of the demo, the pillars looking quite interesting.

Now.. Here is a suggestion.


Save the pillars, use them in the save-rooms.
Thread: bloodstainedfanforums.com/thread/2236/evolve-save-room-more

I'd love abilities to be found due to exploration instead of killing a boss that is plain in sight. A mixture would be good though. I don't want the ability to be in an obvious location like it was in the demo. The harder to find the better. Let me feel like I've accomplished something to find it. Which brings me to my other hope, I hope the game doesn't have chests littered all over like the demo. They look out of place as is to me with how big they are, I don't want two chests in one room or to open chests left and right. I hope they're spaced out better and fit in with their surroundings more.

Blah blah blah Dan with sotn again.... but I kinda preferred when they made holders for items in that game and the holders fit whatever environment they were in. Sometimes you slash an orb that liquid pours out of and an item is in it. Sometimes there's a rock structure holding the item... etc. it just felt better than big clunky chests being in the middle of the floor. So hopefully it's done in a more aesthetically pleasing way ( only one within a room )

End of Dan's nitpick ranting

Well since it is a demo and they nost likely wanted to show off the different weapons, i assume Thats why there are so many chests.

I agree with castledan though. It would be nice if special items/upgrades were laying around the environment that the player has to interact with.

Now that I think about it this was sortof done in OoE as well with some glyphs.

For HP ups it could be cool if Shanoa needed to rip out the heart of some statue to gain the 'extra' life. Kinda like that bloody fountain.
She rips the hart out, gains the effect of the HP up, the statue starts bleeding as if it needed that heart or something.

When it comes to special items... She needs to interact with something to get that item. Like pulling a sword out of some rock. Taking a piece of armour from some manequen. etc. etc.

When it comes to chests, Id like to see them reserved for common items and possibly in remote 1 unit rooms.
Like a chest in a study could contain a map.
A chest in a bedroom contains... cobsumables.
A chest in a smithy contains basic forging materials.
etc. etc.




Heh... I was actually planning on giving the Lolita mod I was making an umbrella as a weapon as well.

so much stuff i wanna do... so little time T_T

About abilities, as far as i can see, Igavania games kinda progressed interestingly over time. Bloodstained is using the same idea of Aria of Sorrow. When Aria of Sorrow system was made, IGA decided to get rid of relics and put everything at the game's magic, to make it more coehernt. Double Jump ability is obtained in a "Soul Holder", a pillar with a soul, with the soul of Malphas, a flying humanoid with long dark wings that exist on Symphony of the Night but doesn't exist on Aria of Sorrow. The game gives no explanation for the existance of those things, so, some fans kinda made up that  the Soul Holder holds a soul from a enemy that wasn't materialized in the castle for some unknown reason.


I also have some nipticks sometimes, and it is related to the game's lore. Relics was always explained as being magical items that Dracula / Demons collected. The items from the candles, IGA explained that they are a kind of a "gift" from human souls trapped on those candles that Death usually collects (some fans added things like, including souls trapped in walls that give food and things like that). Some things are explained, some are half-explanined and such.
I don't want everything having a explanation, of course, but, since Bloodstained is going to use the same concept, that they called "Candlesticks", i would like a bit of lore to it. Demons were summed by Gebel, that is a victmin of the Magi-curse, so, it makes sense that demon's powers can be crystalized, probably as a side-effect of the curse used to summon them. But what about the Candlesticks that holds Shards? The only thing i can think of, is that those shards were extracted from demons, or forged, by Gebel and he purposely let them around the Castle because he wants to unlock Miriam's full potential for some unknown reason (which makes me even think that maybe there is a higher enemy behind all and Gebel wants Miriam strong enough to fight it..).

About chests and the Candlesticks placements, i'm pretty sure that is because it is a demo. IGA himself said it in one of the interviews i read, that they purposely put weapons all around to show them, so, they just spread out the chests to show off the different weapon types the game will hav. The Candlesticks have more or less the same reason. The first one, that gives Fire Cannon, he said, is just there to show to the players how Fire Cannon Shard envolved, graphically and gameplay-wise (you can see it is MUCH stronger than it was before). It is most probably that it is not going to exist in the final game, since you obain it at the Boat level. 
The Double Jump Skill Shard is there because IGA said they didn't want to overload the Demo with Bosses. That probably means that the Double Jump Skill Shard is either NOT going to be a candlestick and it is actually going to be the reward of a Boss OR it is going to be protected by a boss. IGA said that the usage of Shard Candlesticks will be kept in a minimum and that the majority of shards will be obtained from enemies, so...

You can see that, at the E3 2017 Demo, Miriam starts at LV 15. That is not one of the starting areas. When we will reach there, we will already have things like Fire Cannon, other shards and other weapons and equipment, and most probably Double Jump. I think they added all that to compensate for that, instead of adding up all with Miriam at the start, inside the Menu, in order to stimulate the Demo players from picking them up and using them.

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EDIT:
I forgot to say that those videos CastleDan posted shows that the player really didn't got a lot of Shards easily like the other one. I think the other player just got lucky and the overall shard drop rate is not as high as i thought.