Death Animations and other types of animations.

Let's face it, death is the black curtain that separates the soul from the physical body...

So, to a very large extent, I agree with what Zechs mentioned about Miriam's crystal curse preventing her 'death'. Crystals have potential energy (strike a piezo crystal and it emits an electrical discharge). Therefore, her soul could be partly contained within her crystals (a bit like Voldermort's soul hidden in horcruxes from Harry Potter). Since her spirit is still mysteriously connected to crystals due to the curse, following so called 'death', she inadvertently performs an etheric projection and is wretchedly drawn to a crystal formation against her will before a grim incarnation or possession occurs. This means that her soul can never be free and many horrific and painful experiences (rather than death) are inevitable until the curse is lifted.

I'm feeling heartbroken just thinking about it. Poor Miriam! *breaks out into floods of tears*

I like seeing different damage animations, changing it up based on direction(front or back) or severity (standand hit or a knockback across the room) is a nice touch that often goes overlooked.

I do like the curse getting out of control for miriam taking a last minor hit, along with other deaths that might kill her too quick for that.

I always looked for this to post but this is exactly what i'm talking about. SOTN just had so much wonderful details put into it. I hope they really drive that vibe home with Bloodstained. 

I'm more interested in her defeat not leading to death, but instead to total corruption.

Agree cool death animations and a cool game over screen with nice music and a gothic image like most the castlevania's.

I think the more animations in the game the more character the game has. So I definitely hope it's one of the things they give loads of attention to.

All this talk about animation, but let's not neglect the audio factor.

I can suggest unique death animations depending on the type of attack used (even element-wise), for both enemies and the player's character.

By the way... "Go, Frozen Half!!!" (Of course Galamoth would say that)

I think I already said it, but not just unique animations, but stupid hollywood dramatic ones are great. Stuff like enemies being attracted to balcony and cliff edges like magnets as they die to fall over regardless of the fact that what hit them should have knocked them away rather than towards. That last feeble reach towards the sky before death, etc... I don't really think you can milk that stuff in this kinda game though. I think that's more for games where there is little enemy variety and you have to kill a LOT of the same kinds of enemies. (like nazis in a ww2 game, zombies in a zombie game, etc).