Floaty jumps are better, especially for someone with powers like Miriam. the demo looks like they have the gravity balanced well. let's not act like the jumps are SSB space walk floaty or something.
http://www.siliconera.com/2016/06/08/bloodstained-gets-new-gameplay-footage-will-playable-e3-2016/http://gematsu.com/2016/06/bloodstained-playable-e3-2016-new-videohttp://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1229657https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VKfthxb4t8It is very interesting the adventure starts on a ship. That's actually very awesome.
commonly in IGAvanias, they either make their start:
*running or riding horse into the castle entrance
*idle chat and walking/jogging towards the castle
*starting in some building, chatting, before going out and going to all these places and boss fights, before looooong after finally the castle appears.
So it's great Miriam is getting a ship ride to the castle. the ship itself can count as the tutorial, while feeling a natural part of the world and plot progression.
there is a massive castle to explore, the largest in IGAvania history, so the rest of the map making would be the castle itself. I think with how massive their castle plans are, they saw that they have room to make the start take place on a ship right before arriving at the castle. It is a very creative and refreshing start from previous IGAvanias,
and even in classic Castlevanias, stages with ships usually are more of a side thing rather than used for an opening stage.
So it's really cool how they designed the playthrough starting on a ship this time. It also kinda symbolizes how the IGAvania legacy has left on a ship towards a new world.
Bloodstained Ritual of the Night could have the greatest castle ever. It's so great the vast majority of it takes place in the castle itself without any gimmicks (like POR's painting worlds, which actually took away from the actual castle's size). there's practically no castle to date that rivals SOTN castle as a whole, and the amount of content, variety of castle themed sections, level design, and bosses within, but ROTN can surpass it.