February 2018 Kickstarter Update is Live!

Very exciting update, glad to hear the soundtrack has finished. There was some awesome footage in the video and it looks like everything is coming together nicely. Also really excited to see more about the demo, great update guys loving the trend.

Just going to copy/paste my reddit post on this because I'm lazy.

As somebody who thinks that music is one of the most important aspects for this genre of game, I'm a big fan of this update.

Otherwise I'm glad the radio silence on the demo has finally been broken, still was hoping for a bit more news on it besides the already assumed "It's coming."

"This month the team has been working super hard on quite a few things, and something in particular we can’t talk about publicly yet"

I assume not, but just for clarity's sake, is the "something in particular" the demo?

Also since I don't feel like making a new topic for this: Nightmare mode should be unlocked from the beginning, if not by default, then by a cheat code since we will be getting those as well.

And finally, why does Tord look like he's literally made of chrome? Jesus Christ.

Aight well my future replies are going to be consolidated here then lol.

I'm hoping that the secret thing that you're working on but can't talk about is the online mode. I've put a disgusting amount of time into Harmony of Despair so I'm extremely interested in how this mode is going to stack up to HoD. Lost track of my HoD playtime over the years/hard resets but at one point I had a Soma with dual miser rings, dual valmanways (not +1 though), sonic boots, and a bunch of other things I can't remember.

"Roger that on your Nightmare mode feedback, I'll make sure to include it in the report I send preiodically to Iga and the team."

Awesome. One of the most rewarding 'vania experiences I've had was throwing myself at the brick wall of insanity that was Curse of Darkness's Crazy Mode. The difficulty was above and beyond ridiculous, Mostly because there was no character/level carryover, and that is an experience I would like to relive in Bloodstained. As there's going to be a NG+ mode, it's clear that we'll just be able to plop our geared up Miriam over into Nightmare mode, and that's just not the same for me. Sure we could just start a new file but I honestly lack the self discipline to start from scratch I'm going out on a limb and assuming that we'll have sort of a globalized save that will keep our level/gear/etc. in between NG+ modes, rougelite, and "Totally not Harmony of Despair" modes, so the game already kind of discourages hard character resets.

To be frank, the other "hard modes" in 'vania titles were pretty trash, as the game was only marginally harder, and the only real challenge came from level cap limitations, so I really hope that Nightmare mode is comparable to Crazy mode, and really just makes the game outrageously unfair.

Also copy copy on lighting, thanks!

good update, like to hear about how hard people are working and the biggest news in it I'm most thankful for is giving out Steam codes of the demo for all backers instead of just PC backers, was a little worried I was gunna miss out on it being a Switch (slacker) backer when that is merely my platform of choice and have the option to play on PC. if those are really the same frogs as the ones that were shown off previously it's pretty amazing how much detail went into them for such a small enemy that's hard to notice fine details of in actual gameplay. got me hyped up for the March update, sounded as though it's coming on the 17th?

That music is gorgeous. The OST can't come out soon enough. A shame that we didn't get an update on what Virt has been doing.

Have you seen his jewelry doe

www.etsy.com/listing/555740279/castlevania-sorrow-cross-disc-pendant

purifyweirdshard No, I can't say that I have seen his jewelry. Who knew the man was a jack of all trades?


Also, I would just like to point THIS out:


"1st day of recording the script for Bloodstained over at @rocketsoundus! It's pretty amazing to see the crazy high caliber of talent going into the story...and how long the script is! So much longer than another certain famous Igavania game..."

This basically narrows it down to 2 games; Symphony of the Night, and Aria of Sorrow. IGA consider Symphony his 'Best' game, while he consider Aria his 'most creative' game. I wonder which one he's referencing...?

I think it's probably long compared to any of them, yeah, since none in particular had that much dialogue. Question is how they'll manage that, though...because come to think of it, we still don't know if the game has portraits and boxes for dialogue (in this case with voices to them, like SotN) or if it will be in-engine cutscenes with the camera moved in, or...something else entirely. Perhaps both of the formers?

And yeah I want that necklace. Think I want to wear it to SXSW, and it'd be kinda neat to present IGA one, but...too heavily Castlevania for that.

Same here. Subtitles for everything, because I don't want to miss any meaning or detail, and it gets me into it more yeah. I think that started for me with Metal Gear Solid or so

But it also applies to something like TV shows, i.e. Game of Thrones. I must soak all the things in