# December Treats # ! (Bloodstained December Updates)

Cool!

I super love the stance she has after firing, its so sassy

Yeah, a lot of folks are complaining about her hair--not a humongous deal, but Angel-Corlux I hope the team knows that hair physics would make Miriam look much nicer, given how much folks liked Alucard's hair back in SoTN

Some comments:

gunlord500 : Thank you =)

exile : To be really honest, i don't believe we will see too much moving hair at this game. Doing hair animation is really costly and time consuming. If you pay attention to 3D games, you can see that several characters has short hair, or long hair that is conveniently tied to make it move in "ropes / blocks" and not as strands of hair. You only see hair moving nicely in AAA games or sprite-based games where you can animate the sprites.
A good example of this is Castlevania Judgment. If you all pay attention, all characters from that game has either short hair, hidden hair or hair tied in a way that if it moves, it flows like Miriam's scarf (as a unified "block") because it's easier to do that. Miriam hair is short exactly to not animate it. The only characters with long hair in the game, Dominique and Anne, both have their hair stylized as pigtails / long thick strands to make it easier to animate, if needed.
Short hair with animation is really hard to do, so, i don't think they will do that.

Elfina Ashfield : As far as we know, Guns will have ammo and it was revealed that the gun properties (such as elemental damage) will be determined by the gun's ammo. Considering guns will have limited use, due to ammo, that we will need to either buy and / or forge, i believe guns will have high damage to compensate. Although we also need to put in consideration the fact that, it is most probably that guns will have the highest range of the whole game...So, it's difficult to tell. To be balanced, they need to have a good damage, because they are of limited use, but not outstanding damage because their range is (probably) the highest.

Busterific
Since the first menu back at 2016 DEMO, you could see a tab called "Equipment Set 1". At 2017 Demo, they updated that to this:


The whole idea rings to Dawn of Sorrow that had two equipment sets (thanks to Doppleganger Ability Soul power) and Order of Ecclesia that had three sets.
Considering those two games, it is probably going to be the same, but updated. You will (probably) be able to create "sets" of Equipment & Shards tied together, that you can switch in real time with a button or command. Judging by the 2017 Demo Menu, we will probably be able to have 8 sets.
Don't know if you will start the game capable of creating all 8 sets of equipments, or if it will be like Dawn of Sorrow and Order of Ecclesia (where you had to obtain that ability / relic). Since it's 8 sets, maybe you unlock new slots for sets by obtaining something? 
Either way, that will be in the game, so, yeah, it will be cool to have a set with a gun to attack from distance and quickly switch to a melee weapon when things get tougher and closer. Alongside the whole strategy of creating sets with shards in mind (since i believe each set will be for both equipment & shards tied together).

I do not like guns at all..and I don’t like them in Igavanias.

Loved the gun twirl the first time I've seen it, still love it. Unique after-attack idle animations are pretty pointless, but I love them. Sometimes you just want to stop and admire the gun twirl. Especially if you land the final attack on a boss and just stop. Let the animation play.

That video was a bang. *puts on shades and moonwalks out of room*

More seriously, I like these 'right to the point' videos.

Interesting The ultra high damage ones would be those slow melee weapons like axes lol

I'm really curious about how guns will work in game, considering almost all IGAvanias in the past focused on close-range mid-range melee battle. May we have more enemies with projectiles? Agile enemies with the ability to attack from afar? or even a extra-large room with special placements that gives guns more advantage comparing to other weapons?