RPG Elements in Bloodstained?

Without grinding? Better leveling balance, certainly. With grinding? Impossible. That's sort of the "reward" for overleveling. I know you weren't talking about that but I felt like I should mention it anyway.

Awww.... no one took my angle arm idea and ran with it...

Yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about. It took me more than ten hits, but when I was fighting Dracula in SotN, at level 51, wearing the walk armor and two of those +15 defense trinkets, which I just HAPPENED to find, he couldn't really do any damage to me. Which isn't much fun either.

No, the thing that drops from trolls, hang on, I'll go look up what it's called. EDIT: Nauglamir/Brisingamen

You're right. I was at the stage of the game when I was going back and forth, trying to uncover every piece of map I could, refusing to look up a map or a guide on the internet, and I just happened to get like three of the dwarven necklaces as I was trying to find a way to map those hard-to-reach corners. And I wouldn't exactly call that grinding. I was just playing the game for the first time, trying to go for 100% exploration. And I STILL didn't make it. I finished on about 194.5%.

Yeah, I tried swinging at spots where I thought there SHOULD be a secret room, and sometimes when I remembered, at random spots as I was passing by.

In hindsight, I should probably go back to that save and backtrack through the whole place with the fairy equipped. But hey, there you have it. My genuine first time blind playthrough of SotN (minus the fact that there was a second castle, because uh, I only played it for the first time during the Kickstarter campaign, and at that time, that fact was about as easy to miss as the ground when falling off a cliff.) ended at a not perfect, but solid, 194.5%

I have an idea to deal with lvling up.
Could be a way to active an option (yes, should be an option, not a standard) which the enemies lvlup depending on your lvl. I ill try to explain it below:

Let´s think about a standard enemy with lvl 10 and you´re lvl 6.

2) Miriam is lvl 6 --> Enemy is lvl 10.

2) Miriam lvlup to 10 --> Enemy is lvl 10.

3) Miriam lvlup to 11 --> Enemy is still lvl 10.

4) Miriam lvlup to 12 --> Enemy is still lvl 10.

When Miriam´s lvl becomes exactly 6 lvls more than the lvl of the enemy (in this case, she is lvl 16), the enemy starts to increase his lvl +1 (in this case to lvl 11). So:

5) Miriam´s lvl 16 --> Enemy´s lvl 11.

6) Miriam´s lvl 17 --> Enemy´s lvl 12.

Why the gap of 6 lvls? Because sometimes you want to be stronger than the enemy or boss, but not a lot more. (of course, the gap could be lower, like 2 or 3 lvls)

And why it should be an option? Because other people as myself really like to lvlup A LOT to kill without mercy "that annoying god damn boss or enemy", lol. Otherwise, it can be frustrating to play the game for this type of gamer like me.

What do you think guys?

Insight? Is it a skill or something?

Not a fan of level scaling in general.