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

Enemies kinda disapear very fast, theres not alot of gore, wish there was more decapitation and blood and stuff.
As for the enviroments, fog is needed, or some other element to make it more alive, wind, thunder, rain that kindof stuff

Yes I want deathanimations based on what weapon or magic you use, it feels kinda cheap they just glow and poof less then a milisecond, where is the gushing of blood, the decapitating of heads, the wolfs/hounds whimpering when they die?

darkbrotherhood, on a related note, you should check out The Crown Stones: Mirrah. It's dark and gory to an uncomfortable level lol. Very CV, too.

krystal What a colorful discussion we have here. To me, it doesn't follow that games are more lifeless the more color you add to them, because a lack of realism doesn't equal lifeless. Ignoring the absurdity of what we're doing and what's going on with the perspective and movement in this game, a commonality in all Iga games is a light, energetic and fun feeling that contrasts the direness and setting. The music does this too, with him often interjecting a more melodic and energetic feel into Yamane's compositions. There seems to be a prevailing thought in some folks that Castlevania games are all dark and gothic, hopeless and voidlike endeavors of despair and all that, but to me they really aren't. The games are upbeat with color and humor with a game-y feel unique to them, with nothing else quite having candle slashing, hearts everywhere, meat walls, etc. They're fun game-y games and they're not supposed to be "real" and brooding.

Super Castlevania IV fans especially might point to that as exemplary of the series' nature, but it's instead an exception to me. Almost every other game is brighter and focuses more on melody than moodiness.

Yea thats the kind of jazz im talking abouth, thanks for the headups.

I really like the Zangetsu room.
It's nothing really special or anything.
But at least it shows not everything will look destroyed and weathered. That was starting to get old.

Edit: No pun intended. Lmao

I don’t think the game looks bad to clarify. I like the visuals it’s just a color thing. Lol

Enkeria

i don’t think the mace needs an entirely animation I just think they can adjust the current one and added a deeper stronger sound effect for different weapons to differentiate a bit better. These are all minor problems ( the color issue being my biggest one thus far).... I’m not saying I’m outraged over something minor like this it’s just something I think that would be appreciated.

its like the wall breaking. Originally you hit the wall in the first demo and you wouldn’t see the wall slowly crack it would just break right away. That was a minor complaint but now they made it slowly crack more and it makes it that much better. Just a simple change means a lot. So does it need a new animation? No, could it be more unique and feel like it’s own thing if it was slightly altered ( like the rod weapons from sotn for instance)? Yes, definitely. 

I’m the type of fan that will say the minor negatives more than anything else because to me the little things add up. So if they take those comments to heart and make adjustments all the better for the game, if not? It’s no sweat it’ll be good regardless.

Astaroth

I think your last sentence is mainly what I'm driving at, it's not that I'm saying everything needs color otherwise it's bad. It's more some of the objects in some of these locations could use more variety to it's look. Like not every piece of the castle exposed that Miriam runs on has to be grey/white, not every statue has to be grey in every room, there could be flags with color, drapes with color, rugs with color, there could be pillars with color....but so far I'm seeing anti-color in those regards. From area to area, theme to theme, location to location. The village does stick out as an area that does have color but funny enough it was the one area I didn't complain about when I saw it, probably because I liked seeing some color

Just take a look at my Curse of Darkness VS Lament Of Innocence comparison as an example of what I'm saying. Lament has grey in it too but they did a far better job of using color to fill up rooms or objects in your surroundings that make the visuals pop. Curse of Darkness lacked a lot of color everywhere and it really sucked the life out of the locations. You can do themes that stick out and still use color as evident by Lament.



Use this as an example of what I'm saying. Look at the pillars, look at the ground, look at the ceiling, look at the drapes to the side, look at the drapes around the bath. They're all the same color. Now apply that to what I'm saying about the other locations, that's my issue. ( i get that the blood shows contrast to the white but still, it feels TOO lifeless ) There's nothing theme like or popping if everything is too similar from location to location. I notice the church location has a pink lighting outside and that's it's theme but what about the floor and the pillars of the location a lot of it bares similarities to the white/grey of the entrance location. So there could be more things that change up the theme outside of lighting.

Who knows though...we've only been shown what they want us to see, so maybe everything we haven't seen is full of color.
I've talked about this subject so much, I apologize. lol

Since the castle seems to be an illusion. I mean.. It is from Hell, and it has decorations and arent in a total ruins of harsh flaming pits and demons chewing on all the doors.. The colors would make sense even on the outer area. But also, if it is an illusion, or something from the mind of Gebel (?), there are no real rules here.

Only thing I hope to see 100% of, is the moon once we are outside or can peek out. As soon as that moon becomes a half from the whole, I know we are playing with the time here, or illusions. Thus far, all "moons" in Bloodstained have been full. If the moon would change, this would let us know the time spent in the castle are either faster than anything else, or it goes back and forth in time, or it is a thing from Gebel's (?) imagination.

The moon also helps to shine up areas, in either this or that color. I would however approve of the external Castle being more grey, even darker in tone. And once inside, people gasp for the decoration and wonders it hold.