Miriam Full Costume Poll: Which would you prefer the most?

My thought went on with the whole A. set of items and armors are only costumes and B. Armor with attributes.

When it comes to costumes, they are always a bit more crazy in my opinion. And people wanna look silly. This is why I was thinking that costumes are always locked in colors, but armor with attributes would be unlocked. Only reason would be so people have "more" options.

Now, you might think.. More? Locking something isn't more?! Well, it is in terms of options because if you really love to run around looking like an elf (pointy ears) for example and you can color them blue or whatever, you will always do that and not use that diadem with the powers.

That was the thought behind it.

You said however you would love for everything to have stats, and the "glam" / costume setting would be nullified in terms of stats if you use it. Then I would see the color in similar way to how you do it. So, the whole color thing would only be locked if these cool costumes were without abilities and stats.

Reason for the first place that costumes wouldn't have any affixes / stats / abilities, is as simple as giving the developers more time to do more costumes. If you would apply stats to every piece, the same object in game are at least twice as difficult to place inside the game. With only costumes, with no stats and only looks, the developers could do so much more silly stuff for us without worry about balance.

This is why I suggest costume items, would be without stats. While the real armor would have stats.

When it comes to costumes, I can also see weapon-skins. How about seeing a flaming sword being witch green etc. with bubbles from it? Not a skin for flaming sword per say, but for that attack animation! The "skin" wouldn't change stats of course, and be silly. Visually changed, only.


garvin like this?

You know, I believe it's also a loud minority that likes sexualisation as well, as the majority of fans and backers aren't active in communities like this.
From these votes it could seem like "your" minority is larger in here, however.
We'll see what the team decides for. From a diversity perspective I think most of society, including the gaming world, has evolved rather positively since, say, the 90's and early 00's,
where we saw enemies like the succubus shown above. That said such enemies are a small part of the games regardless. Making the protagonist look like that would be a larger one.

My opinion regarding bust size in the gaming world in general is it should, roughly proportionally, strive to reflect what women have. I've not had that impression regarding Miriam, but I don't know. I'm a man so I'm not the best judge here.
I was a bit skeptical regarding the design of the demo boss however.

I'm glad you don't support sexualisation. Maybe a succubus could be made that wasn't that way.

We can both be a minority within the large group of backers and fans, most of which aren't active in the community. Fx. one wonders how many backers we have in total compared to the number of voters in this poll. It's only a very small percentage that's voted.

Thank you, you have a nice day too!

The impact/feedback generated from this poll will be weighted appropriately, if it is indeed counted as an opinion from backers toward a choice to be made. 505, ArtPlay etc would certainly be well aware that <100 votes on our forum would not be representative of the wider opinion of their playerbase, fans, market, etc. This topic mostly targets the people that would -want- costume options more than others, because those are the people that will respond after all, and isn't known of or accessible to a lot of people that wouldn't have as strong of an opinion either way, and those types of people likely being those that would vote for more conservative outfits.

So basically...it's data and it matters, but no, it's of course far from "this is what 'everyone' thinks". Roughly at most, it's something like, "this is what a respectable percentage of our core fans at one outlet over the span of about a week that cared to respond on a fan topic liked". The opinions of your fanatics and Miriam-lovers is an important consideration, the folks closest to you should be happy, but there is indeed a lot to consider here and the folks in charge respect that greatly I'd say.

Anyway, the option as listed is "succubus (NSFW)". I do believe they can/would add an official succubus outfit to the game. It would however probably not be NSFW. From how I'm seeing it, that's an unrealistic expectation. Something, anything like all the other Castlevania succubi (excepting exposed nipples), absolutely.

It feels a bit hard to vote since execution matters so much - in theory I could see something akin to a Valkyrie outfit being super cool but its not like it isn't easy to mess something like that up. The biggest example would probably be something like Evil/Corrupted Miriam. I can think of 100 ways to make something like that awesome but also 100 ways to make something like that lame and boring. If we were to assume the best possible rendition of these costume ideas, I would prefer them to lean into the theme of the game (i.e. something gothic). So stuff like Evil Miriam, Vampire/Succubus,  Angelic/Demonic, Mage/Hunter, Weregirl, etc. would be the most appealing to me.


First off I wanted to say thanks for commissioning that recent piece of fanart in the Bloodstained gallery. ragecndy did a good job and it was a great piece of art (though I'm not sure why you uploaded such a small version of it ). The alt version (bikini ver. only on their tumblr) is good too (I assume you are somewhat slyly referring to it in your post?).

Second off though, I highlight this post because it (and a few parts of some of your other posts in here) kind of exemplified an issue I posted about in another thread a while back. People can like or support (or want to) a product overall even if they dislike/hate specific parts of it. People are allowed to criticize things. You can debate the merit or tone of the critique but the fact that it exists doesn't make those people haters or make them people who " complain just to ruin the fun for us fans" be it about this game, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, etc.

Also I'd add its not so much sexualization itself that is an issue usually (even if people just say that as a shorthand)  but rather tone, degree, context and execution that turn people off. How/when you do something matter as much as what you are doing.


I recall you posting a piece of art you did on the forums but then quickly deleted because you were embarrassed about it. But like it was perfectly fine art. If you do whip something up, don't be a afraid to share it. I think you underestimate your own skill and I think most people here will like it.  I feel confident that any criticism that were to arise would be constructive We aren't going to rip you a new asshole

This. 

Enkeria

It's true that sex sells, but I think the term NSFW didn't have much of an impact on the votes it's getting, since Vampire (Elegant) is number 2. I mean, the difference is like 1%!

IMHO People just like the whole gothic vibe - any additional sexyness is just icing on the cake for those who like it (and for the record, I don't dislike it myself, )

Angel-Corlux

Thanks for chiming in! Some people see the original Dracula as a very sexual novel, despite the fact that the most that happens is one kiss (the movie Bram Stoker's Dracula TOTALLY butchered it in this regard, adding sex where there was none). When you think about it, it does make sense though: it's a story about a creepy old man who pretends he's young and visits women in their sleep every night.

The point I'm trying to make is that the gothic-romance theme and sexuality have always gone hand in hand. That's why enemies like "bloodless" are there. I think most of us are on the same page as far as that goes.

Those are almost exactly my choices! Only difference is I went with elf and ninja, no vampire, though that's a good call too.