Update #79 - New Shards and Graphical Updates

I'm sure the hair movement wouldn't look too fast if you're falling down an incredible height, or if the area is "windy".

No, you're not the only one.  In the update, when IGA said "something seems to be moving that wasn't moving before..." I just assumed he was talking about the sky.  I didn't realize the hair bounce was new until Question spelled it out.

Still, I'm pretty excited about the news nonetheless.  It's far too easy for 3D to look stiff, so the extra work is appreciated.

You don’t have low standards, if anything from your very detailed posts analyzing every single detail tells me the contrary. It’s just that you, just like me, know where and when you should focus your attention to. The “helmet hair” I honestly never thought about but now that it moves I’m glad that it does because it does look better, but its not like it looked bad before but I’d did for some. I’d rather have them focus their time in other parts but now that they did change it I’m okay with it. But this nitpicking about the hair physics I think is a tad much.

@autumn Yes, it is good because it makes Miriam looks more realistic.

Enkeria Well, i think it depends on perspective, yes. I mean, the game looks great to me and i' more interested on stuff to kill, stuff to find, stuff to explore and such.

Aztec The focus is a good one. Probably, i focus on other things.

mourningxsun I agree with you, to an extent.

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Something almost no one commented yet, and i feel it is very important, is this: 

Being able to get Bloodstained in front of millions of Nintendo fans was a great opportunity for the game. While this is a Kickstarter project, it is also a retail product and we need to take advantage of any opportunity we can to ensure its success. If the game does well enough, the goal is to make Bloodstained into an ongoing series of games.

I really hope Bloodstained turns into a franchise. IGA has his own company (ArtPlay) to do other games, is helping on other games (such as Revolve8) and Bloodstained could be a "flagship" for his career. And i'm thirsty for Igavanias. I do like Metroidvanias, played a lot of them and this is a style of game i can't get tired of, but IGAVANIAS (Metroidvanias made by IGA, Castlevania-like games) is something i'm even more thristy for.

I really want Bloodstained to turn into a sucessful franchise, and you know? I was thinking about that these days.  If Bloodstained ended up a great sucess, it could turn into a Meta series (like Shin Megami Tensei). A main storyline (Ritual of the Night ownards), at least one spin-off storyline (Curse of the Moon ownards) and maybe something else. It would be fun.

Always saw the hair as part of the shard curse.

So really, never bothered about it.

I know Alucards hair flow when he was moving around all over the place. I agree the details make an game interesting. But even if he was bald, the game itself would still be nice.

Eh, I don't think it's reasonable to say that Bloodstained is much "more anime" than OoE, Aria or even SotN. The more likely comparison in those guys' minds (what they'd rather see) is the art style of the non-Iga Castlevania games. I had an initial distaste for the art style of DoS and PoR myself, but this game's is pretty far removed from that, isn't it?

A number of the older fans might want the gruff, barbarian-ish + monster movie vibe with a slightly goofy/campy edge, that's old classicvania. It's also something quite difficult to do well in modern times, I think, for large companies and even small indies. The tough guy/muscle man aesthetic, setting, monsters being in pop culture - all that would be a pretty rough nostalgia sell now. If Konami ever does anything at all again, at most it will be somewhat of a compromise with those themes + moving forward into something modern/serious, much like what Lords of Shadow was, which is yet another example of thing that some fans want rather than an "anime" look or something more Japanese flavored than it needs to be.

The true misfortune of all this is that Iga is delivering to Igavania fans what they've wanted all this time, and to a fairly large section of classicvania fans what they'd been searching for as well, but there remains a diehard contingent of guys as I've mentioned above that may never be satiated and that sucks. Anyone that's been in the CV fandom long enough surely knows what I mean. I...guess this is still on topic? lol.

About Bloodstained becoming an franchise if doing well is, to me at least, old news. I read that when Angel came to Discord. Ofc it's always "we hope" scenario.