Orthographic vs. Perspective Projection

Yeah I'm not exactly asking for specifics here. I just want an amazing game and I feel like Iga and Inti can deliver. Ultimately what I want is a well polished game to surpass the likes of Symphony of the Night. I'm not necessarily asking for more of the same, but to look on what made that game so great, and make it better. My concern over graphics is simply my desire to have the game look decent. I'm not asking for perfection, but more so asking for things to not get screwed up in the end lol. As an example, Star Ocean 3 had a pretty nice art direction. Star Ocean 4 was built to appease Western gamers and tried to improve it in a Western style mixed with a Japanese style. The result was horrible, and no one benefited from it, that's what I'm trying to avoid, an art direction where no one benefits.

Pixel art is actually just incredibly time consuming and there aren't a lot of talented designers in the pixel art field right now. 3D models at this day and age are a lot easier to create, and you only need to make 1 model to account for all of the actions you want that character to do (unless they transform or something).

(The main game) Bloodstained needs to be 2.5D. I don't think the game will bring in as much profit post-release if it was strictly 2D in general.

Iga is very talented. And I believe he will make plentiful use of the 2.5D space in a way that will prove perspective projection will work fine.

Now I need to see any more new play/debug testing of the game... hopefully sometime soon........

If I were to describe my ideal Bloodstained experience...

The game would play normally with a 2D perspective of some sort. Maybe there would be some camera shifts, depending on what angle of a room you're in. Maybe it'd change if you were going up an elevator or a tower or something.
When you go into a room and confront someone like Gebel, it would go into a cut scene. The camera would shift, and you would see a closeup of both characters. You'd be able to see their faces and another angle of the environment. It might not be full frontal, as maybe only one side of the environment will actually be rendered at any time, though if specific areas were given a full environment, then that would make it possible. Also, if a specific area had a full environment, you might only walk along the edge of the wall, say on a walkway, and then you'd see the end of the room and it'd curve around to the other side of the wall, where you'd have a completely new stage, but within the same room. I think that'd be cool.

Edit: another quick thought on camera angle.

Staircase towers are really popular. What if it was put into 3rd person mode, just for walking up staircase towers? Miriam would put her weapon away and go up the tower in a light stroll.

Orthographic Perspective but perspectives can be alternated depending of the nature of the stage.

I want to say : "Why not both ?"
I definitly voted for Orthographic, with no doubt ! 

However, maybe the Perspective could be more useful at certain bosses or plateform phases. This poll reminds me the Anime / CG discussion about cinematics. My argue is : Use both's best whenever needed. 
Luckily, we live in a era where, instead of choices, we can take everything, everything that can be useful. This is why a video-game can be magic. 

I am also up to trust Igarashi-san's vision but I sincerly hope he will use both, mainly Orthographic (that is why I picked this choice) but also Perspective sometimes. I feel the same about Anime / CG, I like both and I would love to see what they both have to offer to the game. We are a lot to have tremoundous expectations toward this game. Let us make this happen.

We're expecting to get the next round of screens from IGA and Inti Creates by the end of this week, and we'll be working to put the update together (translating Ask IGA, writing everything up, etc.) as soon as they're in. Anything can happen until we get the art from the dev team, but the middle of next week feels like a safe estimate right now.

I completely prefer orthographic.  While I know the game is being art'd as a 2.5D setup, something that can still evoke 2D sprite work would be ideal for my tastes.   That said, going with perspective in some rooms would definitely be a benefit.  Say for example, an area that's a catwalk between two towers, and you see the outside terrain panning beneath you while you cross it.

nah several people on kickstarter didn't read anything and missed the memo that said 2.5d. There were some raging going on, and people saying they broke their promise for a 2d game, yada yada... the dumb is strong in some.