Bloodstained News: 37 - Miriam and IGA - in Motion

No idea why it is I've been copy and pasting the kickstarter link and it just fails to work.

Goofball's fault, don't worry about it.

Hahahaha! I had a feeling.

The slash is pretty swag though. Impressive, I think.

Animation test video has some interface toooo...

"...But she's got a new kick!"

Miriam's kick attack is a neat little addition I never expected. It'll be neat to see how it fits in the game's combat. I'm guessing it's her "unarmed" attack.

It's nice to see the umbrella video Mana talked about a while back. I was expecting it to be circular motion (I normally associate umbrellas with people twirling them around for some reason), but never occurred to me that it'd be a katana animation. The side-by-side comparison was neat.

The look at gameplay footage was a good surprise. I didn't expect the game to be that far along. I like how the grid looks in the upper-right corner. Something about the room transition when Miriam drops down bugged me, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

I'm glad to see Miriam in motion and it looks great. However is it just me or does it look a tad bit weird when she drops through platforms? I'm not sure exactly what it is but maybe it's due to her staying in the air for a sec before actually falling.

I'm also liking the HUD, even if it's most likely a placeholder HUD.

Yeah she kinda looks floaty. I don't want here SUPER quick to fall down or anything like that but slightly more quick would be better.

Ok everything is fixed. What isn't fixed right now will be first thing in the morning tomorrow. Now for my thoughts.

Pretty friggin solid if you ask me. If it looks floaty that's because its trying to replicate spritework. IGAvania sprites where always pretty floaty so the floatiness here was to be expected. As for the platform drop looking weird as some people have pointed out, it's also a side effect of replicating spritework as there's literally no animation to drop off a ledge or through a platform, again this was the case with past IGAvanias it just wasn't as jarring because it was a sprite not a full 3D model.

The one thing I will complain about however is that kick. As hyped as I am for it, it looks way too slow. The stance and the animation itself is fine but it plays out way too slowly, the kick itself should be about twice as fast as it is now. A kick that slow is not a kick, it's shoving with your legs, in fact a kick that slow is harder to do IRL than an actual kick.

But outside of that I'm pretty hyped.

I like most people like it, and I actually don't see this 'floatiness'. I like how her clothing reacts so well to her movement, not just her hair and skirt, but her shouldpads too, and I think I even see the white frills on her top billowing... Or is that what people mean by floatiness? I LIKE it like that. Hopefully these effects get accentuated in certain dungeons that may have a breeze or gust. Or maybe even enemy attacks like the whoosh of a fireball or whatnot.

I don't see why the scarf is needed still. Maybe it'll be more apparent when there's a real background, but I kinda doubt it. Maybe I'm just conditioned to make out characters easily after 4 player dragon's crown or something.

I want to clarify that I did say if the floatiness is because the 2d games had that feel as well then I'm completely fine with it, I think they should replicate the feel of those games even if it looks slightly weird due it being a 3d model now. So disregard my comment, I do agree that the kick should be a bit faster. Animation wise and the general feel/look of the character running and jumping around is absolutely perfect at replicating that 2d game feel.

Well done team.