Feedback to make attacking and killing enemies satisfying

From my experience with 'vania games i find that varied death animations of different creatures is what keeps the combat fresh and interesting, just seeing how differently everything dies not only gives the enemies more character but it also gives the player a sense of achievement and reward. I've been saying this over and over and over again on this forum in various different threads to the point that perhaps i sound like a stuck record. Yes we need gore and flames but also variation in death animation based on enemy type, so Dullahammer might fall apart as it dies, Aello might explode in feathers, Gieremund might just burn away in flames as it fades (i'm not saying EVERYTHING needs a unique death effect but i do think that a lot of enemies should have their own death). I feel this kind of feature is so important in this sort of game, thats why i've been banging on about it for so long.

Every time i've seen a demo for Bloodstained i've seen little evidence of this (seen some things like on minerva the dullahammer kind of collapses which is nice) mostly stuff just fades to red and vanishes in a pretty unsatisfying way, which always troubled me. I thought to myself "they must be adding in animations gore/particle effects later because they MUST ALREADY KNOW how necessary this kind of thing is; i mean they're developing a game for IGA, right?" but then footage of different locations came out and once again i saw very little flair or theatre in the way things die they just kind of curl up and fade away. So as time has gone on my worries on this issue have grown. If anything i'd say it's my biggest concern for Bloodstained - it certainly has a lot of potential to effect my enjoyment of the game if it's not done right.

I dont think it would be too hard to fix, even at this late stage in development, just add some particle effects (whatever's appropriate) to an enemies death animation as they fade with a strong sound effect, (maybe a cry of pain maybe the sound of some spurting or spraying - whatever's appropriate for the particular monster). So sound and visuals working together is important for satisfying feedback but will stress again it's the variation in enemy deaths thats important regardless of how you do it.

Now my little rant about Deaths is out of the way i can address the other question of making an attack on an enemy seem satisfying, i think you need to take cues from martial arts (I have black belt in ju-jitsu so have some experience in this area) a strike is often accompanied by a vocalisation which will tense the abdominal muscle incase of a counter-attack, thankfully i have seen evidence of this in Bloodstained footage so you guys are already on top of this. If enemies are tough to bring down perhaps they could have a "staggered" animation where they are reeling from a player attack and vulnerable to crit. Again i think its about sound and visual cues working together so visual effects for weapon strikes, bigger number to show crits maybe extra animation on an enemy if its hit with elemental vulnerablitity.

Perhaps you might wanna read this thread where some interesting discussion was had regarding player feedback, despite certain (now deleted) people being ill mannered and unhelpful.