Bloodstained News: 37 - Miriam and IGA - in Motion

I imagine so, no/starter equipment runs have been a thing since before gamefaqs started getting guides on them, and gamefaqs' been around since dialup and 10 minute bof2 guide loads ;3;

Everything looks good. Just make the kick a little more faster.

I like the sword strike at the beginning. It's really well done

The cool thing is they really seem to be expanding on the old games. It's got all the things you like from the previous games. The crazy equipment options and visual changes of SOTN, the soul type system from Aria/Dawn, and they're even coming up with new things like the kick and possibly equipment for the feet.

That's all i've been asking, I felt like the DS games were a more streamlined version of SYMPHONY. I want what SOTN did but better and incorporate ALL the cool qualities from the best games into a new direction. That's what Bloodstained seems to be.

I'm unsure about an entire equipment system centered around her kick, but something like "Spiked Boots" that enhances kick damage? I can see that. Haven't there been items like that in the past games? Boots that add damage for the skill where you jump, then drop onto enemies (even pogo-ing off them across a hall, always fun).

Time to give my two cents.



I really like what i saw in general. The devs are really hearing us, we can see that on this little gameplay video. I think we need to talk and clarify what we liked and not, so we can help the devs even more.


About her Kick

Considering the button mapping, i really think that her kick is her unarmed attack, witch is a nice little thing. I also don't think it is slow, it just lacks impact. Maybe a lil effect on her feet would help that. I disagree on putting special combo kicks on her through. Although i do like SOTN's fightning skills, most of then was downright useless and a little hard to imput for untrained players. I'm all for a Aria/Dawn Soul-esque magic system, where you equip your magic and use it with one or two buttons.

About her overall animation

Everything looks smoth, witch is fine for me. Her running speed is good, i also agree that Castlevania games where much more about momentum and position rather than pure evasion speed.  When she jumps, she is falling on a delicate, girly way, witch is a quite nice touch but yeah, she looks a little stiff in general, but not too much. The way she drops down from plataforms is very bad, i agree. She kinda goes down and then suddenly stands and then falls down. No, no good. Need to really improve that.

I loved the slide! So Castlevania-esque!

She does look like she is floating a little, but this is not something that i particulary find it bad and i think this is an optical illusion, because the test grid has no background and the floor is undetailed.

At first, i was thinking that her skirt needed more weight. I was thinking "wait a second, her skirt floats with her jog, so, she is always showing her black boxers-like shorts." But then, i noticed that when she is STANDING STIL you can see her lower clothing. So, that is just how her clothing works. Her skirt is not there to fully cover her undergarments, it is just part of the overall model and that means that her skirt is short and light, so, the animation makes a lot of sense.

The hud

The Hud is obviously just a placeholder, but i like it. It needs more love, of course, but the vial potion look is really nice. The game is about alchemy, in a sense, so, it would be fun if those two bars looked more like big long potions or glass vials. The mini map is a great idea, something that every castlevania needed.

The need for the shoulder ribbons

I like the ribbons i and i think Miriam needs then. I can imagine Miriam walking and fightning on a great and detailed background and she will not stand out without then floating on her back and i think she even needs more than that. Her back flower, as the person above said, could sparkle more and some petals could keep flying over as she jogs. I hope we see her with the ribbons on a new video soon!

About the Music

The music is a little different from the first version, i think. It is still nice and fun!

Liking it so far. Two observations:

Maybe it's just me... but it needs... more weight in her actions? Falling speed after the jump. Yes, I know that it reminds many of SotN and that is nice and all, but I feel it lacks just a bit of weight. Also. it would be nice to see a different animation to distinguish a jump from a short distance from a "long" drop... how do I explain? When jumping from greater heights, maybe that the player receives visual feedback, the character reacts to a higher drop.

I'll keep an eye on this. Liking what I see.

Excellent update, and exciting progress!

The movement animation looks great i like it, specially the kick animation that was amazing really! The katana swing also looks very nice, no complains there. Sliding animation also looking great, i feel like i could play like that already no doubt they are going on the right direction.

The only problem i see there is on her running animation a detail about how her clothes react to her legs moving, if i see correctly her clothes passes inside her legs, however that can "easily" be fixed i guess. About the running speed i have no complains yet as other people thing she is slow, i don't think so, at least until we have more references to see how fast she really is (monsters/background) it seems pretty good for me.

I am not sure about her kick speed, it's hard to tell since we lack other weapons attack speed references to tell anything about it, however the animation stance it's absolutely great. I can easily think about variations of her kicks (requiring or not 'relics' to enable) like a spinning kick or a charged stronger kick and/or a kick that makes her move forward maybe affecting multiple enemies, also a spinning kick could create a powerful swilr on the air, or be able to lift enemies to the air (or down to the floor) with a special kick move oh my god my mind is filling with possibilities for kicking enemies azes now. Kicking things makes much more sense than punching them since we are playing as a woman, i love it.

As promised I said I'd upload pics of frames frozen on specific animations of etails to show the great work they're doing.

This is the turn around which is always beautiful animation in the 2d games. When you do a quick change of direction you see the front of the character. Still looks as good as ever in bloodstained.

this is the iconic idle pose of Miriam and reminds me of Soma's in dawn which I think is great-



This is her crouch 




This is the animation I noticed when she's running full speed and stops abruptly 



Finally her good ol kick! So i gotta say they're putting the attention to detail that they did with the 2d games which is very reassuring. I couldn't be happier after watching this in slo mo and seeing all the little details. All they truly need is minor adjustments and even then it's just icing on a cake