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Good points, all. Yeah, the suggestions for toggles people are making are not BAD at all. And I can't give you a good reason to not include them (unless it is not feasible from a development standpoint).

"So instead of saying "do it my way", they're saying "can you make it so that I can play my way, too?"" This is a good point. I had not thought of it that way.

I guess it is just me being in "crash position" for too long. I see complaints and the wish for a toggle, and I take them as a negative, when it should really be more of an additional choice for the players.

Well, it seems I'm very very very late to this party, but hopefully, it's not too late to contribute to this conversation...

First, let me start by saying that I have NOT played the Beta Demo. I'm a console gamer, and my home computer is an iMac, so I'm at a major disadvantage to comment on most of the gameplay issues being discussed here.  That being said, it warms my blood to see all of the thoughtful and detailed feedback being posted here. I'm sure Question , Angel-Corlux , and the entire team are feeling a bit overwhelmed translating and digesting all of these opinions --but I'm confident our collective feedback will bear fruit.

I really don't have much to add to this conversation, but there is one issue that I mentioned a long time ago...
It's not particularly important, but it's one of those high-quality details that I expect from a genuine masterpiece.

When I look at the shimmering water on the Galleon Minerva, when I see enemy blood spattering on the pillars, and when I see the greenery shiver in the garden breeze...   I see Igarashi reaching for that living breathing gothic world that I always imagined Castlevania to be...  But something is amiss... There's still something very static, something that I'm desperately hoping can and will be fixed for the final game.

Please please please... Tweak the platform physics.

RichterB  gave an excellent example of this when he criticized the Minerva nets...



Jul 6, 2018 16:37:44 GMT -5 RichterB said:


*I would really like to see the rope-hammock platforms on the Minerva have some “give” to them under Miriam’s weight, like the bridges in Super Castlevania IV’s Stage 2. It doesn’t have to be huge, just a little subtle physics. (Also, since the boat is already swaying, and so are the lanterns, there should be some small swaying on the ropes and hammock.) SEE BELOW (video 7:36-7:41 time-stamped):


His comparison to Super Castlevania IV is 100% correct, but I'd like to go even further...

Consider these additional examples...





These kind of platforms are feeling way too sturdy --especially the awnings in the ruined village.  This isn't solid ground or the rock hard castle masonry --these are improvised platforms made primarily of wooden planks no more than a few inches thick.  They need a little give to show that they're bearing Miriam's weight.  They also need a little bounce when she jumps onto and off of them.  I'm not suggesting they should be trampolines, nor am I suggesting they be breakable. All I'm saying is that they need appropriate physics to acknowledge Miriam's mass.  On a related note, each surface should have appropriate sound effects when Miriam walks or jumps on it.  Walking on dirt should sound different than walking on stone.  Walking on stone should sound different than walking on wood.  All of these surfaces should make additional drip and splashy sounds when wet.  You get the idea...

One last thing....

Miriam should look like bloody Carrie when she goes for a swim in that fountain.


As a general rule, she should stay wet for at least a few minutes whenever she's exposed to water.
Bonus points for dripping and leaving a wet trail wherever she goes.

I haven't seen any examples but I'm hoping Miriam still lands in a kneeling position after a long fall.
This is one of those little details that give her appropriate mass and weight --as I explained above...

Bevity is the soul of wit, so I'll leave it at that.


 Cheers . 

add a greater level of difficulty do not transform the one that can be a mark of the style in another game without challenge. prosperity for all.

Overall, I enjoyed the beta. Here's some feedback for improvements.

-Tone down how frequently Miriam yells or grunts when she attacks and make them sound not as loud.

-Once the Galleon Minerva reaches land and the player returns to it, the water in the background shouldn't be as intense as the water from when it's sailing, and it should have the background with the red skies from the village. It's kinda jarring to go from being on land with one background to the middle of the ocean with a different background. They should be the same since the ship is no longer sailing.

-The villager sidequests should tell you what reward you're getting when you turn them in. I lost track of what the rewards I actually got were.

-I'd like to see some sort of tracker for the progress you've made in your active sidequests display under the health/mana bar. I would be okay if it ended up being optional.

-There's what I'm guessing is a warp room in the room above the hub in the village where you find Johannes, Dominique, and the villager who gives the player sidequests. As of the beta, it looks like you'll arrive in the warp room, have to go outside, and then go back in the hub room below in order to reach Dominique, Johannes, and the villager. In order to save time and feel less tedious, I'd rather see the warp room get moved so its entrance/exit leads directly to that same little hub so you can access four different features from one room.

-The animations for the human running into the room with Miriam and Johannes at the beginning looks kinda... janky. It'd be nice to see their animation improved, if possible.

-Beginning of the game with both an Star Wars-style title crawl and the conversation between Miriam and Johannes feels long and it gave me this feeling of "get on with it!". Is it possible to move/edit some of the conversation with Miriam and Johannes to a different point in the game?

-The walls and background of the save rooms in the Galleon Minerva should match the rest of the ship rather than the castle.

I'm having some trouble with describing this next suggestion, so I provided an alternate explanation to go with it.

-If the player has all the equipment to craft an upgraded version of an already existing weapon/armor, and then still enough to upgrade to the next/better version of that weapon or armor in that same category after that, I'd like to skip directly to upgrading towards that instead of upgrading to one item and then upgrading to the next item.

For example (I'm using generic names because I don't remember all the weapon/armor names from the demo):

Instead of only crafting items in the order of: Short sword -> Iron sword -> Steel sword

If we have enough crafting materials for both the iron sword and the steel sword left over after that, it'd be nice to have the option from go from: Short sword -> skip straight to Steel sword

I'm really really REALLY late to this shindig, but I had two things that stuck out like a sore thumb.

Here's my two bits:
The cutscenes using the character models are a great idea. However, they could stand to use more poses. The voice acting is great, but everyone has a static pose so far. Here's my idea, think of how Shantae has different poses/portraits per emotion/line/expression or even take note of how another (now)3D game like Ace Attorney/Layton/The Crossover between the two.
Shantae:
Layton/Ace Attorney Crossover(No specific examples, though the whole video basically shows what I meant):



Number 2: The yelling of Miriam for every single shard and the frequent grunting.  Yeah, it's a bit loud and repetitive.  If it can be toned down, that would be grand.

Other than those, everyone covered it perfectly.  I don't have much to add this time.  That's what I get for being late.