Greatswords Moveset

As much as I like Dark Souls not every game has to be Dark Souls. I don't recall any occasion in Castlevania where any weapon had follow up attacks, and the game don't really need them. Heck even if the game did have it Bloodstained will probably have backdash/jump canceling(as most Iga games do) so a lot of people wouldn't use them anyway unless the follow up attack is just that good.

This would count as combos and I think that is why they never did that.

Yes, he did say that he won't were going to include combos.



But in this case, I think he was referring to combinations on D-Pad, like a hadouken, not combo moves.

But here he indeed said it:

You're welcome. In fact I needed to re-read it anyway since I wasn't 100% sure too.

Yeah, that is true, though of course we also have to decide how involved the follow-up animations would be. Would it just be shifts between two attack animations, like in the ones of Dark Souls (overhead swing - rising swing, ad nauseum) or more elaborate? Anything more than that might be a lot more work ;o

I dont have an issue with fantasy swords, if the setting is realistic it may be more beneficial to use only real world weapons, but if you as a creator decide to put in a skyscraper as a weapon, more power to you and ill try it out and see if i like it (new game+ skyscraper% >P)

One downside of 3d animation is you cant easily fall back on a one or two frame 'arm out weapon appears' animation since it looks off, the upside of 3d animation is mocap, which they could use to get more references for weapon animations so they feel like they have weight and followthrough and the more unusual weapons or weapons with a specific fighting style like nunchaku, flamberge, claymore, or estoc get their moment to shine

However they decide to do it though will be epic, Iga and his team have worked on everything from pixels to polygons to 3d, and im sure theyve learned a lot along the way ^_^

One thing i think we should remember about comically large weapons is why they came about, in the era of pixels if you have a 16 pixel tall character swinging a realistic sized sword it would be 6-8 pixels tall and 1 pixel wide, and that allows for no detail whatsoever and requires insanely precise controls to get right up on your enemy and not get hit constantly, so for detailed items they made weapons bigger than the character so they could show off that super cool ultima sword of +5 worldslaying you just fought for 30 minutes to get, meanwhile link gets a sword thats as long as he is and half as wide so its usable and easily seen, that same sword realistically would reach half a square and again be 1 pixel wide

Once things moved to polygons this wasnt needed as much but early polygons were not super high res so their texture maps were still fairly small and pixel conservation was still in effect

Nowadays textures can be as huge and detailed as the artist wants for the most part, you can have a single texture that the engine doesnt blink at that would take up an entire NES cartridge, and they can cram all that detail into a tiny dagger that sits on a characters belt if they want

Now i dont want to see comically large weapons go byebye simply because we dont need to do it any more, but neither do we need to switch to only realistically sized weapons just because we can, id personally enjoy seeing a mix of both >P

You know, I never thought of that. Makes sense...now I feel kind of bad that I didn't appreciate them more than I did, if the artists just had to make them larger to show off detail.

Guys, choose your weapons: