Bloodstained's difficulty

Ah yeah, he said something like that in the Kickstarter Ending stream. I do hope he tunes it up a bit though, or maybe let us choose the difficulty from the start instead of leaving hardmode for New Game +.

"easier than sotn" is a joke , where is dawn of sorrow? I voted on OoE because the difficult level there is really refined and fair, but Dawn of Sorrow seems quite good too, these two games should be the reference.

Harder than OoE or DoS might be too much for some players. And SOTN i am playing with the low stats cheat plus a unnoficial mod called "Hard Type" which intends to make the game much more difficult, sometimes the mod is unbalanced but that's not a problem, the game became pretty challenging with this mod.

Anyway, every new game i felt the difficult became more balanced, SOTN was the first to use the RPG elements, so it has big flaws on that matter.

I voted for different reference. I'd like something harder than SOTN, but not as difficult as OOE. I felt the Souls and PoR games had a good level of difficulty.

But as other people have brought up, I'd like the super hard stuff to be in Classic Mode or Nightmare difficulty in order to give people more options on how to enjoy the game.

I'm going to play it on Nightmare difficulty anyway because that's what a manly man would do.

The thing is SotN was actually a decently challenging game (i.e. you could feasibly actually die) early to mid-game, but most of what we remember of it is the late game. Before your levels get high and you get that silly equipment, there are times when you have to really think about what you're doing. They had the right idea for the most part, but throwing in so many powerful options later makes every part of the game trivial.

I mean, who didn't die to the doppleganger the first couple of times? You could go down the Outer Wall and challenge the knight down there and likely get yourself wrecked. The clock tower could be a problem before you have tools to deal with Medusa heads that petrify you.

Even on into the inverted castle, there's some spots that are pretty troublesome...until yeah, everything does 1 HP of damage to you and you're fighting with a blender Alucard doesn't even have to visibly swing. Richter mode goes to show how actually tough the game is if you have to honestly play smart and dodge things/beat enemies with traditional attacks.

I think they know what they're doing...the balance of latter Iga games goes to show it, imo. I hope that Nightmare, Classic et al modes have some incentive to them, too.

I want it to be near to Order of Ecclesia, but hard mode doesnt should be too focused on damage, I hate how Albus Lvl 1 dies with one hit in almost all areas. Unless it is a "1-hit kill" mode, like NOMIS, you should be able to take atleast 4 or 5 hits at minimum, no matter from who. SotN was hard at first to me, but now its so easy that if you use all things that the game give to you even without farming, you can become immortal.




Please, you can share it with me? Here, in another thread or via PM. I agree that maybe SotN have so many flaws in difficulty maybe because it was the first of a kind, if we didn't count CV2.




Yes, as a kid I died a lot in SotN even in earlier areas like Marionettes, Cthulhu (the one named wrongly as Cthulhu) and bosses. But as time passed, I was almost unable to die. Since you have insight on this, you know why it becomes so easy after playing it for sometime? Im not even talking about equips, even a naked room using potions is a easy reality in SotN, if you are able to use soul steal, you don't even need potions.

Something between DoS or OoE is fine. The game should be at least a little challenging, but not that hard or frustrating, and OoE is just like that.

Regarding the difficulty mod...I've had that for a while now, been planning on recording myself going through it and talking about Bloodstained/Castlevania in general. Maybe not streaming, because I probably wouldn't be sticking to a regular schedule and who would watch it live anyway, but perhaps put it on youtube. You can grab the patch for it at insanedifficulty.com. This site does not have roms or emulators. I'm sure almost all of us already legally own the game, but just thought I'd throw that out there.

I'm very rusty when it comes to games like this...
So, don't make it too hard, please??