Update 58 - A New Environment? When Pigs Fly!

Loved this update.

My jaw literally dropped when I saw the new environment.

The art direction and level of polish is beyond anything I could have hoped for when I backed the game.

My only concern now is that the rest of the environments don't look stale in comparison! ;-)

Also nice to see the first enemy in an IGAvania I'd like to have for Christmas Dinner...

I'm wondering if it'll drop HP replenishing roast if you kill it with a fire attack. Angel-Corlux ?

beautiful environment that also looks like there's many places to explore and go other than just left or right and just like to say job well done with smoothing out the jump animation, it all looks and sounds great.

That little piggy is super-cute, cant wait to turn him into bacon!!!!

Interesting environment too kind of an inverted/impossible japanese garden, interesting choice for something set in 18th (very nearly 19th) century England. I like it though, feels kind of maze-like and claustrophobic.

Yän

Probably will be the place.

Great update. As always, i have some bits to say about it.

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Dear Darwin, i loved that song! It sounds so damn different from Castlevania, so fresh, so new, so, "Bloodstained is it's own game" that i loved it due to that. The whole japanese vibe it gives is also awesome in many ways and i'm really glad something so different and so unique to a Igavania series will be on Bloodstained.

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Does that remind anyone of anything?

As shown on my pictures above, that scenario is clearly inspired by one of the first concept arts of the game. You can see the candles at the back, and the whole japanese motiff. It's good to know that such an early concept art for a stage ended up being used. It really looks like catacombs, with a autumn vibe. Like SOTN and others, i do hope Bloodstained can have more than one kind of cavern, but it seems this is, at least, part of Gebel's castle caverns. I'm dying to know what kind of enemies we will face there. Also, from a plot standpoint, it's interesting to think that Gebel pulled the Castle from hell itself, and the castle has an area shaped like an asian reference. Maybe hell has symbolic reference to all regions in the world? Iga stated, when kickstarter started, that at first he tried to do something different, with no castle and the player traveling around the world, to see if it would appeal more for developers. I wonder if a small part of that is still in the game. Maybe Gebel's castle has bits that represent various areas around the globe? Speculations...
Also, i believe the shining water is not lava, but water with candles being reflected on it.

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I couldn't find any demonic or mythological reference to "Parma", only common meanings (such as being the name of a dish). The enemy itself looks cute as hell in a really weird way. That thing MUST drop a Pork Chop when killed. I wonder if Plume Parma will have a Shard, and what kind of shard would it be.

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Fun update. A shame the december treats will spill out in January, but at least we got another meaty update to talk about. 

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That's all folks!

Remember guys - it's not 18th century England, it's Dracula's castle IN 18th century England (yes, I know, technically it's Gebel's castle, but you know what I mean ).

What was it that Alucard said in SotN, when Maria remarked than it looked different than she remembered? "This castle is a creature of darkness." Its  interior is free to morph into whatever darkness (or in this case IGA) wants it to be ... except the interior of the Robot Restaurant in Shinjuku. That's a red line for me, LOL.

We have flying pigs now? Does this mean that Konami will start caring about their franchises now?

Love the design of the new area.

That pig confuses me. Why does the fur cover only half his body? Or is he wearing pants?

I could just eat a bag of pork scratchings now!