Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon REVEALED!

Thanks for the answer. Even though it is really, really bad news.

Here is the VoD of the live stream so you can see these questions in context.once they start playing the fighting game they no longer talk about CotM.


Time stamps for the Twitch VoD
24:20 IGAs role in CotM
25:00 Linear?
26:35 Interpretation of bosses
31:15 Extra modes?
31:45 Backer codes
33:40 No GoG
34:40 Time line and lore
36:05 DLC?

Dawn of the 6th day.

Right now, having seen that "let's play" with the level design in context, I am slightly concerned. It actually made my concerns from the trailer more solidified. I think it will be enjoyable, but it appears it will not be particularly thrilling overall. The level design seems to be based on the more meandering structure of Rondo, but is carried out structurally in a way that seems to look more like the stretched-out mundane monotony of Castlevania Legends. I didn't want to see too much (although I did anyway) so I skipped around at parts of the video; but from what I saw, it does not look particularly tightly designed. It's greatest strength seems right now to be the fact that you can swap characters for different tasks/paths. But I want to point out that this "paths structure" is also in the vein of Castlevania The Adventure Rebirth...which also looked more engaging in its level design than this so far. (In that game, finding and keeping keys determined your shortcuts, which were vital to get through levels on harder settings.) And as XombieMike said, Alfred is [ridiculously] overpowered. Also, if they were gonna stretch 8-bit limits, Miriam or Zangetsu could have had some Bionic Commando-style swinging abilities.

It's a nice little extra anyways, but I'm not convinced that it maximized "Classicvania" if they were going to already put in so much extra effort. I'm hoping the Classic Mode on the main game will have some more compelling level design.

The official site has got an update about character unique attacks for any that want to see...

curseofthemoon.com/en/characters/

Can anyone translate what the patches on Zangetsus arm say?

gunlord500

Well 3 new attacks 3 extra characters to unlock..... Coinkydink?

Though personally I hope it something like Zelda 2 where you have to find the swordsmen hidden in the towns to learn their skills.

Kinda surprised that they made Miriam's sword throw attack rapiers and not katana's since katana won the sword or whip thing. Though to be honest the graphics make em look more like broadswords anyways.

It also suggests that Alfreds Voltaic Ray attack has to be found and equipped perhaps all these skills have to be found?

On a side note, I've now officially broken more than 100 holes in the wall and stolen the macaroni I found... um do I get a prize.... or at least some cheese to go along with them?

My general thought is that the locations of the candles that you find the sub-weapons in are fixed.  This would follow the how Castlevania III handles it which this game seems to be largely patterned after.  I'm hoping to give the older Castlevania's a quick run through before Bloodstained game is out, but lately I've been hung up on Hollow Knight instead.

Best ask Angel-Corlux  to ask IGA to ask the guy who wrote them what they're intended to mean... 'cuz they look like some tenshotai (proto-kanji, so to speak) mixed in with ... I dunno, some sanskrit?

It's not modern Japanese, in any case. It's an amalgam of ancient symbols from the Far East.

I can tall you one thing, though: I can tell you Zangetsu means Slashing Moon. 

dareka

Dammit now I'm more curious... I have to ask him what the runes on Mirams breast mean as well while I'm at it.