Update 56 - New Music, New Video, And Coming Attractions

The Executioners sounds like a basic, average boss music and to me, it kinda makes a comeback to Festival of Servants, Symphony of the Night's boss track. It's heavy, loud and dangerous. I wonder if that will be used on more bosses, since it is used at Zangetsu's fight (or if they put there just as a placeholder).

Theme of Johannes is a classy track. It really haves a mysterious feeling to it, and that just adds a ton of speculations towards Johannes's characters. I'm getting a feeling that this track will be used when you enter at Johanne's workshop or something of the sort, that may be where you forge things.

Gears of Fortune is TOTALLY Castlevania. Michiru and Noisycroak team created this song specifically to remind us how Castlevaney this game is. I really think this song could fit a Clock Tower scenario (just look at it's name!) but it is used at the Garden of Silence as a placeholder (they said that the are of this song wasn't revealed yet).

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The Hud color has changed. Barbatos enemy is actually a interesting reference.

The first thing to note is that, as Enkeria said, the MP vial at the hud changed colors from blue to purple. I remember that HP vial is red and HP potions are also red, and the same was true to MP vial (being blue and MP potions being blue, MP flowers from candles was also blue) i wonder if MP potions and flowers also changed colors to match the new vial color.
About Barbatos, in demonology, he is a duke of hell and one of his abilities is to lead men to treasure hidden by magicians. He is part of Goetia. I wonder if his Shard will be his shot from that magical bow (Trigger) or maybe a Enchant Shard that increases gold drop, to match his lore? Also, Barbatos is represented holding a rifle and they changed that to a bow.




Another new enemy from this video is Toad, a classic enemy that lurks around Igavanias since Super Castlevania 4. A very weak thing that just exists to be a bit annoying. I firmly believe Toad will not give any Shard (like Morte). Now, some people complained about the looks of the water in the background, and i agree it looks a bit strange, but it seems Mana said somewhere that this is still a work-in-progress, so, i think we can hope things to look better later on.

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I have quite a lot of things to say about the menu. First of all, as some people noticed, the Menu's font has changed again. It actually looks neat in my opinion. Nothing much to talk about it. "Archives" option is still greyed out. Considering Miriam is LV 8, i wonder if this is at the beginning of the game and that's why Archives is still locked. Maybe you need to pick up a item to see it?

Something else i need to say is that the Resist area at the Menu has some icons with different colors. The lightning element (now purple), poison (now green) and darkness/curse thing (now red).

This area is called "Garden of Silence" and that is a cliche, but powerful name. Play time is actually 40 minutes, with 74 enemies killed (that clearly shows this video was taken from a internal demo). Max ammo you can carry seems to be 999 and i wonder if you start the game with that or the max ammo is lower and you upgrade it by leveling or something...




As someone mentioned already, Miriam's horns is now a equipment, which means that you can remove it and let her head with nothing but her hair and that is a nice touch. By the way, her horns is actually called "Aries Horns" and they resembles sheep horns. That's so damn cute. Beast Beret is also a really cute piece of equipment and gives a Russian Vibe to Miriam's looks haha. Also, notice the large space between the equipment description and what it offers (Def bonus and such). I wonder if the game will have equipment which lenghty descriptions about what they offer.
Also, as a last note, the "Equipment sets" seems to have vanished completely. I firmly belive this will be some kind of thing we will pick up later, that allows us to change equipment sets on the fly, and the player didn't got that yet at that video.

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Every new video, we can get a glimpse that the game looks a bit better and this one is no exception. The Castle's architecture looks polished, i really like how broken, messy and with so much of ups and downs it has. It is not "room after room" design and that is really a relief (CastleDan , i know you care about this kind of stuff and i do too). The moon at the background, the walls and the towers looks beautiful and we can easily say it is inside the castle thanks to that (and also thanks to a huge part of the castle that can be seen at the beginning in the background). Now, i agree, as i said above, that some parts of it, specially the water, needs some work.

Miriam's jump and attack speed was changed, i believe. They couldn't make it with so much negativity toward's game's speed. Many are complaining that her jump looks odd because she apparently jumps fast and then floats in the air for her momentum. To be really fair, i just noticed this after people pointed that out, so, for me, it is not really a problem. Even so, i remember IGA saying that the jump and movement mechanics are tuned everytime, so, if that is a problem, they will probably fix it.

Also, as a last reminder, someone commented about the fear of the game spoiling it's contents too much. That is also a fear that i have, but considering how sparse (and how low of content) the updates has been since some months ago, i believe they are taking measures to not spoil us with too much information.

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