Mounts in Bloodstained

That sounds really cool, but my only questions are how many of them will be mountable?
And does that mean that certain staples of the castlevania series will be left behind for the mountable familiars?
Just food for though XP

Like if you have a flying mount won't that defeat the purpose of having something like bat company from Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow or perhaps the griffon wing from other Castlevania games?

What if whenever you are on top the familiar you could attack with the familiar.
However they could decide to just have Miriam attack instead of the familiar any input on whether Miriam or the familiar she is riding on should be the one attacking?

I would like to see the smoothness of Alucard in Miriam's movements. Which would complement a large amount of animation to support the nuances of player behavior we saw in SotN.

An interesting steed of sorts would offer some ingesting gameplay and interactions if done well. Some sort of spell which materializes or teleports a mythical horse like Slephnir or a Qilin would be awesome.

My concern stems mostly from how effectively a steed type travel and combat would interact with level design. If you remember the wolf transformation in SotN, there were very few places you could enjoy dashing across the screen, and very few meaningful interactions you could have with opponents as well.

If they introduce a mount, it would benefit from being designed with more vertical mobility, maybe the ability to run on walls and ceilings if they are the right texture, and focus more on having is own set of powerful attacks, allowing you to hit foes with the crushing force of attacks from horseback in combination with the horses thrashing and kicking. It could be an interesting display of just how brutal an equine can be in combat if done well.

I never cared much for Dragon Riding, I'd be happier if Gebel had a dragon transformation power as one of his hidden OP options, but that's me.

yeah I agree it is more for the cool factor... but as Iga said it will be a large map so I believe there will be parts where these "mounts" could be useful. That is only if Iga-sama looked more into an open style "castle"

I can see it working... and than on the flip side I can see it utterly failing lol. but that is why I made the thread to bounce ideas on people... I like your point that it wouldn't work if the lv design are like the traditional castlevania style lvs.  that completely whooshed by me lol but again if the lv design is different than it might work.

If it were me I would just make it enemy specific... like if an enemy can ride a monster you should be able to steal it from them. everything else seems too complicated.. imo 

Actually 2D is harder to do than 3D... with 2D you'd have to draw every movement... but once a 3D model is complete it can be programmed to do whatever you want (within reason).

I personally would not want to sneeze at "sprite variations and motion behaviors"... it is easier to change out multiple 3D models than it is to swap out multiple 2D sprites... cause with each sprite you'd need to draw all the movements of the other sprites and I personally think that would take forever.

I personally think this is why Iga decided on 2.5D instead of a 2D game... at least if he was with Konami he would have access to all the old art... can you imagine having to start a 2D game from scratch?

it will be easier with 3D once they have a model they can manipulate it how ever they want.