Koji Igarashi Kickstarts Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (2.5D, backdash, 2018)

Barely though, if you have enough hearts and holy water, I think 3 hydrostorms kill it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrv8-VW_qtU

I didn't remember it dealing that much damage to him. I defeated him by dashing (command move) in between his legs, then out again when he moved his legs again, lol.

Edit: Plus, I never hear what Richter yells when he uses Hydro Storm. It sounds like "Poncho/Macho Star" to me (which makes little sense, I know).
 
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Here are some good goals I saw posted on the kickstarter comments page.

- Online Co op mode
- 2d characters handrawn
- VS Mode
- New lead male character
- More weapons
- More game modes
- Mirror castle or upside down castle
- Wii U port
- Handheld Support (Vita & 3DS)
- Orchestra score
- AYAMI KOJIMA
- Dracula cameo appearance
- More stuff for lower end backers
- Japanese & English Voices, packaging & text
- More physical goods like: lead characters statue, retro DS or SNES Japanese packaging for the game, stickers, decals,...etc
- Multiple Endings
- Special Movies like the ones on Castlevania SOTN
 
Here are some good goals I saw posted on the kickstarter comments page.

- Online Co op mode
- 2d characters handrawn
- VS Mode
- New lead male character
- More weapons
- More game modes
- Mirror castle or upside down castle
- Wii U port
- Handheld Support (Vita & 3DS)
- Orchestra score
- AYAMI KOJIMA
- Dracula cameo appearance
- More stuff for lower end backers
- Japanese & English Voices, packaging & text
- More physical goods like: lead characters statue, retro DS or SNES Japanese packaging for the game, stickers, decals,...etc
- Multiple Endings
- Special Movies like the ones on Castlevania SOTN

Online coop please. That would be sweet. B
 
Here are some good goals I saw posted on the kickstarter comments page.

- Online Co op mode
- 2d characters handrawn
- VS Mode
- New lead male character
- More weapons
- More game modes
- Mirror castle or upside down castle
- Wii U port
- Handheld Support (Vita & 3DS)
- Orchestra score
- AYAMI KOJIMA
- Dracula cameo appearance
- More stuff for lower end backers
- Japanese & English Voices, packaging & text
- More physical goods like: lead characters statue, retro DS or SNES Japanese packaging for the game, stickers, decals,...etc
- Multiple Endings
- Special Movies like the ones on Castlevania SOTN

Orchestral score would be awesome. They've got some great talent to do the soundtrack for this game. Would love to let them loose with a full orchestra.
 
Here are some good goals I saw posted on the kickstarter comments page.

- Online Co op mode
- 2d characters handrawn
- VS Mode
- New lead male character
- More weapons
- More game modes
- Mirror castle or upside down castle
- Wii U port
- Handheld Support (Vita & 3DS)
- Orchestra score
- AYAMI KOJIMA
- Dracula cameo appearance
- More stuff for lower end backers
- Japanese & English Voices, packaging & text
- More physical goods like: lead characters statue, retro DS or SNES Japanese packaging for the game, stickers, decals,...etc
- Multiple Endings
- Special Movies like the ones on Castlevania SOTN
Sorry but a lot of this feels like it would make the game come out in 2020 /cost too much money. I'd prefer they just work on getting the game out.
 
Sorry but a lot of this feels like it would make the game come out in 2020 /cost too much money. I'd prefer they just work on getting the game out.

Some of it certainly sounds doable, if not what's likely already going to be in the game. Multiple endings and special moves sound like something that would be in, anyway, if the usual Igavania tropes are indeed back in force.
 
Here are some good goals I saw posted on the kickstarter comments page.

- Online Co op mode
- 2d characters handrawn
- VS Mode
- New lead male character
- More weapons
- More game modes
- Mirror castle or upside down castle
- Wii U port
- Handheld Support (Vita & 3DS)
- Orchestra score
- AYAMI KOJIMA
- Dracula cameo appearance
- More stuff for lower end backers
- Japanese & English Voices, packaging & text
- More physical goods like: lead characters statue, retro DS or SNES Japanese packaging for the game, stickers, decals,...etc
- Multiple Endings
- Special Movies like the ones on Castlevania SOTN
Would really prefer no male lead. It is awesome they opened it with a Female lead solo and I'd personally hope they keep it that way till at least the sequel.

Love multiple endings though.
 
Here are some good goals I saw posted on the kickstarter comments page.

- Online Co op mode
- 2d characters handrawn
- VS Mode
- New lead male character
- More weapons
- More game modes
- Mirror castle or upside down castle
- Wii U port
- Handheld Support (Vita & 3DS)
- Orchestra score
- AYAMI KOJIMA
- Dracula cameo appearance
- More stuff for lower end backers
- Japanese & English Voices, packaging & text
- More physical goods like: lead characters statue, retro DS or SNES Japanese packaging for the game, stickers, decals,...etc
- Multiple Endings
- Special Movies like the ones on Castlevania SOTN
2D, male lead, inverted castle, Kojima are not happening (male lead maybe if you consider the second playable character, which is probably Gebel), and inverted castle would change the entire level design if they don't have it planned from the beginning.

The three last would just make the development time unnecessarily big and would be completely useless additions.
 
What? Are people seriously so disgruntled about main character being a female that they're clamoring for a male one on the KS comments??

Just stop. Either you want Iga's new vision or not.
 
What? Are people seriously so disgruntled about main character being a female that they're clamoring for a male one on the KS comments??

Just stop. Either you want Iga's new vision or not.

Unlockable playable character a la Maria (saturn) and Richter would be neat.

Female lead, though.
 
They should really stay away from ports.

They should add all the features they planned to add for the funds they intended to raise towards those ends. But when developers just add new content that was not originally planned the game suffers for it. Call it feature creep, call it Kickstarter bloat, but once Igarashi and his team have the funds to make the game they planned to make, if backers fund a port, that can only be a good thing as it enables more people to play the game.

What? Are people seriously so disgruntled about main character being a female that they're clamoring for a male one on the KS comments??

Just stop. Either you want Iga's new vision or not.

No, not seriously. They are an extreme minority who uses any platform to voice their sexist expectations. These people's voices don't matter and should not be taken into account because these are bad people.
 
I want a stretch goal that replaces the entire soundtrack with "I Am The Wind"

Unlockable playable character a la Maria (saturn) and Richter would be neat.

Female lead, though.

That's already in. $700,000 stretch goal.
 
I didn't notice it until just now, but apparently the FAQ on the Kickstarter added who the concept artist is. (Sorry if already posted earlier in the thread!)

Who designed all of your concept art?

That would be the super-talented Yuji Natsume from Inti Creates!

I also really like this answer
Will there be an inverted castle?

You’d really want us to spoil it for you? Even though Lord IGA knows the idea of an inverted castle stretch goal would bring in money, he’d rather keep that one as a question mark for now to value creative integrity, first.
 
I need confirmation on this. Once I get it, i'll bump up from 100 to 125.



Also, I personally don't think backers belong in the credits unless they actually contributed something to the game design - like the ones at 'design a weapon' tier. Their work/idea technically made it into the game, which deserves credit.

I'm thinking about doing the $125 tier but can anybody tell me if I can select two platforms? I'd like to get a physical copy for PS4 and digital on Steam if possible. Also, does anyone know if the digital copy is the backer edition or a standard digital copy?

I think you can; as I want the same thing for PS4 and PC. The Digital copy may be standard but don't quote me on that.

From the updated FAQ:

Will we be able to mix/match platforms on the Physical + Digital tiers?


"Yes. You can, for example, get a Steam digital key and a PS4 physical copy. This only occurs on the tiers where you get both a physical and digital copy."
 
From the updated FAQ:

Will we be able to mix/match platforms on the Physical + Digital tiers?


"Yes. You can, for example, get a Steam digital key and a PS4 physical copy. This only occurs on the tiers where you get both a physical and digital copy."
Fuck yes! By 2017 I'll probably have a PS4. PC physical for the clean box art and goodies and PS4 for couch replays. Based fangamer.
 
Kinda hope he doesn't just lift that idea, though some other kinda of "alternate version" of the castle would be cool. I guess a "dark world" would be more cliché.

He's already done that, too. Assuming there is something of that magnitude in store, I'd wager it has to do with the glass theme.
 
I kinda like the idea of a subterranean inverted castle, and I think it makes a lot of sense, considering the concept behind most of these games. A darker castle, closer to hell.
 
Here are some good goals I saw posted on the kickstarter comments page.

- Online Co op mode
- 2d characters handrawn
- VS Mode
- New lead male character
- More weapons
- More game modes
- Mirror castle or upside down castle
- Wii U port
- Handheld Support (Vita & 3DS)
- Orchestra score
- AYAMI KOJIMA
- Dracula cameo appearance
- More stuff for lower end backers
- Japanese & English Voices, packaging & text
- More physical goods like: lead characters statue, retro DS or SNES Japanese packaging for the game, stickers, decals,...etc
- Multiple Endings
- Special Movies like the ones on Castlevania SOTN

I don't like this.
 
Here are some good goals I saw posted on the kickstarter comments page.

- Online Co op mode okay with this, since we have local
- 2d characters handrawn Not happening. MAssive cost increase
- VS Mode not sure what they mean, like PVP?
- New lead male character To replace the current Female lead or a second playable?
- More weapons a given
- More game modes we already have speedrun mode and boss rush.
- Mirror castle or upside down castle probably already planned
- Wii U port reasonable, if they get enough money to fund a port
- Handheld Support (Vita & 3DS) see above
- Orchestra score Very much would liek to see this
- AYAMI KOJIMA She's busy, they tried to get her already.
- Dracula cameo appearance no need to tie to castlevania, lets let this one stand on its own.
- More stuff for lower end backers ok with this.
- Japanese & English Voices, packaging & text Voices sure, but packaging?
- More physical goods like: lead characters statue, retro DS or SNES Japanese packaging for the game, stickers, decals,...etc ok, but that takes away majorly from developer funds.
- Multiple Endings probabaly already planned.
- Special Movies like the ones on Castlevania SOTN see above

added my thoughts on these. some are ok, quite a few don't seem really necessary or practical.
 
I always thought the Kickstarter comments section was meant to leave comments for the developer. But the comments section for Bloodstained is just the same several people treating it like a general use forum. They're talking about Mega Man Legends and ther favorite Castlevanias and replying to each other and every other post like its a public thread.

Is it always like this? It is incredibly irritating to think your comments for the developer are lost in the mix of people talking about Mega Man Legends and destructive interpretations of how "gender doesn't matter."
 
The linear levels where just transition areas... I'll never understand this complaint about level design. I guess it comes from people who played only the first two levels.

As if the "non-linear" levels weren't filled with straight hallways with enemies you can't pass without killing that also get copy pasted around for good measure.
 
What? Are people seriously so disgruntled about main character being a female that they're clamoring for a male one on the KS comments??

Just stop. Either you want Iga's new vision or not.

And yet people are perfectly allowed to bitch when it's just a male character? Sorry, it goes both ways. I don't think male lead is necessary either nor but I can't fault some people for wanting it.
 
From the updated FAQ:

Will we be able to mix/match platforms on the Physical + Digital tiers?


"Yes. You can, for example, get a Steam digital key and a PS4 physical copy. This only occurs on the tiers where you get both a physical and digital copy."

Ok, bumping.
 
And yet people are perfectly allowed to bitch when it's just a male character? Sorry, it goes both ways. I don't think male lead is necessary either nor but I can't fault some people for wanting it.

They complain about endless male character leads because they are so dominant in the industry that actual female leads are quite rare.

I'm not sure why anyone would want a male lead here, honestly. The lead has a great design, and is instantly recognizable. Yet another male metroidvania lead would just be, I dunno, cliche.
 
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