Topic: The first sign rises with the full moon.

[Dremn]

I hope this game will have wall meat.

Me too, finding random food in the walls or corners is fun.

[Belmontoya]

Oh never mind X. I had you wrong!

I mistook your post for sarcasm. Noting your favorite game listed right under your name would have helped. My bad.

[Abnormal Freak]

hey what should be Bloodstained ROTN's promotional line?

"Koji Igarashi's about to make you his butt-slut."

That's my vote.

[Aiddon]

hey what should be Bloodstained ROTN's promotional line?

"Night falls, and the hunt begins. Let us partake in festivity, in pleasure, and in blood."

[Dremn]

I like how IGA is always doing the Belmont strut in these live action videos. I wonder if Miriam will have a similar walking animation.

...I don't know what else to talk about.

[CastleDan]

God I hope not. I hate the strut. It works with the old games but it's the future now. Let them have beautiful animation.

[Maedhros]

I love my Vita...the hardware is awesome. I only wish there were more games. It just sucks that such a well-made handheld has very little support going for it.

I bought it for playing some PSP games and indie games. Almost all of the best indie games out there are on the Vita. Specially in the roguelike genre.

And a bit later... in the metroidvania too.

Don't skip over indie games just because they are indie. Indie games are the new mid-sized games. So many great ones out there.

[beingthehero]

Yoshitaka Amano! Holy shit! I mean only $250 backers get the poster, but still. At least I imagine they'll upload the art for wallpapers n' shit sooner or later.

[The Most Curious Thing]

Yoshitaka Amano 

I feel my wallet loosening...but then again it's just a poster. We'll be seeing the art regardless.

EDIT:


Is it just me, or does the overall feel and aesthetic of this game now surpass what Mighty No. 9 looks like now? I have a lot of confidence in this team and am almost sold on 2.5D. Lighting is rich but not overpowering, there's still a 2D-style parallax, and alpha!Miriam really pops like a sprite.

Very, very encouraged to see this 

[Maedhros]

Holy shit guys!!! The prototype... it looks like the concept art. Almost exactly like the concept art.

The animations are rough and Iga is giving them the tips on how to improve her movement.

It's happening! This shit will be exactly what we were expecting!!! It'll be at least on par with the GBA/DS games!

[beingthehero]

Yeah, I was definitely glad IGA said she needed to jog. Her speed was fine, but unless she's doing the full Simon power-walk then she needs to be jogging a little bit.

[The Most Curious Thing]

Yeah, I was definitely glad IGA said she needed to jog. Her speed was fine, but unless she's doing the full Simon power-walk then she needs to be jogging a little bit.

I'm actually kinda glad it's 2.5D for stuff like this. It's scores easier to change the animation of an existing model than build a sprite cycle from scratch.

[X]

Oh never mind X. I had you wrong!

I mistook your post for sarcasm. Noting your favorite game listed right under your name would have helped. My bad.

LOL! No prob. Had me worried for almost the whole day.

@The Most Curious Thing

Nice find! Looks like IGA's game is coming along nicely.

[DragonSlayr81]

This looks awesome. It might be the glare distorting the color a bit, but I'm getting an old SNES-era Capcom vibe with the choice of background colors:

[The Most Curious Thing]

Oh! Something else I forgot to quote from the update:

With our Paypal backers included -- $118k from more than 1400 backers, as of this morning -- you've hit the Orchestrated Tracks stretch goal with momentum to burn! It'll be a while before Yamane and Yamada have all the tracks composed for Bloodstained, but now that you've reached this stretch goal they did want to allay one fear a few backers have had: There's still going to be a ton of variety on this soundtrack.

Hitting the orchestra stretch goal allows them to use live instrumentation where it makes sense, but some tracks just make more sense with electronic arrangements. Songs like Yamada's "Cursed Orphan", which already includes violin and electric guitar parts, will be performed by a smaller, rock-oriented ensemble.

Okay, I feel a lot better about orchestration now. I'm also confident they'll contract a studio orchestra that's tighter than the youth orchestra from that Castlevania concert in 2010 (and that Yamane won't play piano, since it's not her forte  )