Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon REVEALED!

   If you were one of those who tatooed Miriam's glyphs on your butt, IGA now literally owns your ass. 

Dunno if I should post this on this thread, but... here's some info on Curse of the Moon straight from Inti Creates...

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15 min of video footage.

Info from the video:

Language Options

The demo shows them selecting between Japanese and English, but the full version will automatically select your language according to your system settings.


Stage names

Stage 1 (played last in the stream) is called

月光に誘われて
Direct translation: Invited by the Moonlight

Stage 4 (played first in the stream) is called

天を穿つ冒涜の証
Direct translation: Proof of the blasphemy which carves into the heavens


From the Instructions

• Once you get companions, you can switch between them using L/R.
  
  
• Every character has pros and cons. By choosing the right character at the right time will enable you to take paths you otherwise couldn’t.
  
  
• When faced with different paths, you should take the one most likely to be a shortcut. If you’re having trouble telling which one the shortcut is, try picking the one pointed to by the bones of fallen adventurers.

• Each character has a separate life gauge, and as such it is best to swap characters when their life is depleted.
  
  

• Finally, the sub-weapons that drop from destroyed lamps each have a character they correspond to. Characters who cannot use a given sub-weapon are unable pick it up.
  
  

Tidbits from Aizu’s conversation with the journalists

• The numbers next to the word weapon represent your sub-weapon stock.

• Items that drop from lamps:

         

1. Items which replenish your sub-weapon stock.
2. Items which replenish your hit points.
3. Items which increase your score.
4. Sub-weapons themselves

• The focus of the game is on getting a high-score.

• Characters share a sub-weapon gauge. Alfred’s sub-weapons, for instance, use it up very quickly.

• Once a character dies, they’re gone for good until all the rest die, at which point you lose a life.
  

• Once you lose all your lives, it’s Game Over. You can continue all you want, but your score is reset each time.

• There’s sub-weapons hidden in the walls, but no meat like in Castlevania.

• You can’t direct your jumps in the air, in keeping with the style of games such as Castlevania and Ghost’s & Gobblins.

Remarks on the technical side by Aizu

• Makes it clear that it’s not a Metroidvania – it’s a game where you clear stages linearly. He also says it’s meant to evoke 8-bit games, but they’re obviously ignoring the actual, technical limitations of the hardware. People who’ve worked on actual famicom games go “you wouldn’t get that many (sprites)”, but it would look cheap if they kept to the famicom’s actual limitations.

• When the train starts, and the screen fades out in the stage 1, he comments on how in an actual famicom game, the effect would have had to have been done by manipulating sprites and would have caused a horizontal flickering effect. Talks about how the effect where the character legs can be seen below the table would have required switching the rendering order of sprites half-way through drawing the screen.

Runes on Miriam means "Koji Igarashi" or just "Koji" or "IGA", its a play on symbols.

Zangetsu seems like a mishmash of different holy symbols. Its to become imbued with magic to either seal, make something alive, or something destroyed / dead / vanish.

There is a video of extensive gameplay of Curse of the Moon on YouTube now, I only peeked at it since I'm going to wait but I figured it'd put it up for any who can't wait. From what I saw it answered alot of basic gameplay questions, this really truly is going to be Castlevania III Dracula's Curse remake.

And the stages look gorgeous too.

Steel your resolve man!

Will be checking and recheck and triple rechecking my Email for the next two days starting now....

Including my junk mail folder.

All I know is that it will be a horrible night to have a Curse under such a Moon!

That or it will be awesome we will see.

But seriously they havent revealed any details.