For this month's update, we have an incredible support who will be joining the Bloodstained team. Can you guess who? It's WayForward!
That's right, WayForward, the makers of Shantae! As you may already know, they are top-tier when it comes to side-scrolling action games. There is even a staff member who previously worked on one of my projects, which is incredibly encouraging.
In consideration of their past achievements, WayForward will be helping the development team realize my vision for this game. Maybe I am even more excited than everyone else - with their help Bloodstained will become an even better game.
We cannot be happier to have WayForward on the project. Best known for the Shantae series, they bring decades of development experience to help us bring Bloodstained to the finish line.
Thank you, everyone, for your continued support!
To address the ‘when’ questions that pop up each time we don’t announce a release date, I’ll point to my comment in our previous Kickstarter Update. As soon as we have a concrete release date, we will let everyone know. With WayForward on the project, we get closer to that announcement.
Thanks for being with us as we continue to work on Bloodstained!
Jason Ryan, a.k.a. “Question”
Sr Community Manager – 505 Games
Seems like they can't make the game and hired WayForward? Lol
So to get out of my game funk I decided to start this game up. So far I am enjoying it. I am not to far in but the game does have that Metroidvania vibe to it. The shards remind me alot of the souls in Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow.
One question I have is does anyone have any suggestions as what weapon to craft with an 8bit coin? I looked at.several walkthroughs but there are several good suggestions. So I figured I'd ask here for some suggestions.
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Don't have it in my hands just yet, Should be by Tuesday hopefully (Or maybe Monday if I'm lucky!).
Mentioned a couple of times before on here that the near immaculate Hollow Knight was my first Metroidvania and is my only Metroidvania at this time of typing.
Totally not Castlevania here -wink wink nudge nudge- is going to be exceptionally interesting on a number of levels...
As I'm sure if I was playing Symphony of the Night instead I probably wouldn't get the pedestal (at least not as much) it's been put upon like I have for a few other games I never got round to playing at the time of release.
So knockoff Castlevaina (But only to legally dodge round copyright issues) that's not as critically acclaimed (by reviewers whom have probably played the 'Vania series and a billion others) but made by the man in question for that series and pretty much described as " 'Vania but with a girl and modernised a bit", no prior series love and only one other game of the genre under my belt?
Very intriguing prospect...
From what I understand there's DLC or rather free content updates added/still be added to this... Can't seem to find what has actually been added so far in a nice little list but I assume the switch port not being up to snuff may've caused some delays on that department?
Previously known as Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy
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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"
"'Vania, but with a girl" could actually describe a few different games in the series
My "Vania Virgin" side is showing even more... I only really know of Simon thanks to his inclusion in Smash Ultimate and the aforementioned Netflix show that I really need to rewatch (and more of too) 😅
If I recall correctly, you weren't a huge fan of Hollow Knight, right?
I'm thankful to say you're misremembering @Ralizah which is probably because I played it before joining here and only mentioned it once or twice in passing
Hollow Knight was pretty much perfect to me. The lovely piano based soundtrack, the opressive "souls like" atmosphere, the background lore, the simple to learn but hard to master gameplay...
Hallownest was a joy to trudge through as my dorky little bug knight. Though the dlc/content updates were perhaps a bit too high of a skill ceiling for my first ever Metroidvania.
Hollow Knight: SilkSong will be a day 1 purchase unless there's some horrible flaw in the eventual reviews
I also think I found an answer to my question regarding the content updates for Bloodstained
seems only the first lot of content was added of
The "Pure" Miriam outfit
New Game +
Nightmare difficulty
Speedrun Mode
& Boss Rush mode
so nothing else has been added and there's still to be
Roguelike Mode
Chaos Mode
Classic Mode
Boss Revenge Mode
Multiplayer Coop & Versus Mode
& two extra characters
With all of it free?
Considering it's a kickstarter project and the noted switch port problems it seems only expected on the delays and I'm glad they fixed that port up for people.
I only hope they still deliver on the initial promises...
... Good thing it's going in my newfound backlog then after a little test after installation though so I might get that new character to play as when I do roll around to it (Might bump it up to after I fin Witcher III)
Previously known as Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy
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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy So... puts on 2D Castlevania fan glasses... at least two of the games (Legends on the GB and Order of Ecclesia on the DS) had singular female leads. One, Portrait of Ruin, featured a set of protagonists, male and female, that you switched between during the game. One of the playable characters in Castlevania III was female. Several of the games (most notably the delightful Rondo of Blood) featured unlockable female characters.
But you're not wrong to say that Castlevania's biggest faces are male.
And... oh, yeah, I misremembered for sure. It would make sense that you liked Hollow Knight, though, given the Souls-esque atmosphere and cryptic lore.
I don't think any of the Metroid-inspired Vanias are as good as Hollow Knight, personally. Although I'm of the firm, if unpopular, opinion that the unique action game design of the older titles represented the series at its best. One possible exception to that is Order of Ecclesia, which felt like it drew just as much from older games in the series as the post-SotN games with its superior level design, often brutal difficulty, and gorgeous gothic artstyle (since the GBA games, the games started adopting character designs that had a very 'generic anime' look to them, but Order of Ecclesia ended that trend).
Well, I'll quit gabbing about Castlevania in the Bloodstained thread. If you get the chance, also try the side game, Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon. It's basically Castlevania III, but with a much fairer difficulty curve.
I'm playing this at the moment. The story reminds me of the Castlevania Netlflix show. I'm not too fussed on the talking heads for all the cut scenes and dialogue. The game looks great though and the small bits of when you see the game in full action, it looks incredible I just wish there was more of it. I suppose that was down to budgetary reasons.
Is the only way to switch weapons by going into the menu? I'm picking up a fair bit and would like to experiment with them, but it interrupts the flow of the game having to go in the menus all the time to change weapons and chards.
Life is more fun when you help people succeed, instead of wishing them to fail.
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Is the only way to switch weapons by going into the menu? I'm picking up a fair bit and would like to experiment with them, but it interrupts the flow of the game having to go in the menus all the time to change weapons and chards.
An answer to my own question, you gain the ability to put different loadouts into shortcut slots, you access to these by holding L2, the direction the left stick and then X. So that solves thst dilemma.
My next one is I'm levelling up but no idea what it does or if I'm supposed to do anything. And there is an option to dismantle stuff, but I've read online that it's not worth doing it. This game really doesn't explain some of the mechanics that well.
Life is more fun when you help people succeed, instead of wishing them to fail.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
Last christmas is when I started playing my first metroidvania @JohnnyShoulder of Hollow Knight ... So I think it's only fitting I ring out the year/start the next with Bloodstained
I had a brief go of the Galleon/ship starting stage on normal difficulty.
Got to the boss and ended up dying (I was being rather hasty/not too serious about it).
She was a lot tougher then I honestly expected from the starting boss.
May've been because compared to Hollow Knight the normal demons weren't that much a challenge whereas in Hollow Knight I was already making a bunch of mistakes with the platforming, bumping into/getting hit the enemy bugs and the much more limited health.
The shard system in Bloodstained seems pretty cool though. Eager to play it properly but I'll refrain for now.
The first boss you just need to learn the attack patterns and avoid her attacks, and the spam her in inbetween. I didn't find it too difficult as you don't have too many moves at your disposal to think about. And that is pretty much the same strategy for all the bosses I encountered in the the game @Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy.
You will, pick up loads of shards and weapons to use pretty quickly. The shards Grade level up the more duplicates you have of them (gained by defeating the same type of enemy, randomly you will get a shard), and will give the shard more power. You can also level up the Rank level by speaking to one of the merchants and ploughing materials into the shard. Depending on what type of shard will depend what that is. For example, you can get one which has this floating head which attacks enemies. At every 2nd Rank (I think, like I said in my previous post some of this is poorly explained in the game) you get an additional floating head. I think the max Grade and Rank is 9.
... I ended up caving and played some more Bloodstained @JohnnyShoulder as I'm apparently no better then a magpie with a shiny sparkly sparkly of a game 😂
I beat that boss this time around playing a bit more seriously. That rather powerful Dullahammer head flail I got this time also helped.
I only got a bit further though to the village. Met that nun. Was surprised to find there was a LOT of different options with crafting/recipe options.
Yeah it isn't the best at explaining things I agree but I haven't found it too bad either.
To answer your earlier question of levelling up it gives Miriam more health for sure and I think it ups her stats too... I noted she was doing more damage . Not sure if it's random though...
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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"
Yeah I googled the levelling up and it does seem to increase your health, magic strength plus the other stats. I will have not by how much. Think I was getting confused as when 'Levelled Up flashes on the screen, that means for your shards and as well as Miriam, but not all at the same time. I was seeing that every few minutes and wondered how Miriam was levelling up so quick!
Life is more fun when you help people succeed, instead of wishing them to fail.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
Did you notice any missing text @JohnnyShoulder when you were playing? I noticed it twice so far with missing subtitles. Once at the beginning with Johannes that was only a missing word and a complete sentence missing from when I just met the nun
(I also didn't save when I had that little go the other day... I wasn't expecting to come back quite so soon so I was on the ship for an hour this time around looking about, attempting to try and get any of the secrets earlier)
Oh and cheers @Ralizah by the way with the Castlevania lesson! I forgot to reply back which was a bit rude of me!
That intro was pretty neat for Order Of Ecclesia ... that male charcter with the gun reminded me a bit of Balthier from FFXII from the quick look at his design.
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Oh yeah there have been a couple of words missing. I generally don't like reading subtitles and try to avoid it when I can, so may have missed it on a few occasions.
Did you know you can quick save? Think it is called suspend save or something in the menu. You can save at any point but it overwrites everytime you use it. It comes in well handy at times.
Life is more fun when you help people succeed, instead of wishing them to fail.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
Ooh enjoy Bloodstained @Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy! One of my favourite games this year. What do you think of the music? The missing text did get on my nerves a little and there is a lack of polish here and there, but overall it was awesome to play what is essentially a spiritual successor to Castlevania.
If you like the game you could then move on to the aforementioned Order of Ecclesia.
Considering it's a crowdfunded title from a newly built studio @mookysam I'm more inclined to let those little quibbles pass due to the circumstances.
Of course. Don't get me wrong, I was absolutely delighted that the game released at all. I feel that gamers are lucky to have received such a great spiritual successor to Castlevania.
That first Zengatsu fight is brutal for that point in the game. After him I think the bosses are a lot fairer - with one two hideous exceptions. An Elizabeth Bathory wannabe is quite possibly the worst.
Speaking of NPCs Have you encountered Susie, the gluttonous geriatric?
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