Topic: The first sign rises with the full moon.

[Nagumo]

What's the symbol on his talismans supposed to be? It isn't angelic script and it isn't kanji either.

[Shiroi Koumori]

What's the symbol on his talismans supposed to be? It isn't angelic script and it isn't kanji either.

Some sort of Kanji-fied Enochian glyphs?

[Belmontoya]

Love the design on the new guy. Very Gabriel/John Morris in appearance. I can't wait to play bloodstained on my vita!

 

Maybe Bloodstained is a symbol for Konami, LoS, Cox and all those things. Making NotGabriel both evil and nice could be a way of saying: I hate LoS, cause it destroyed my career! But I like it too cause it made Bloodstained possible!

And NotGabriel is a representation of all those mixed emotions. And we probably get to kill him in the game, or he'll get killed by someone else, but not before helping us out, or something. 

I hope Iga doesn't blame his past career woes on LOS. The only reason Konami went with a different dev was because Iga's games were falling short. He would only have himself to blame, not cox or anybody else.

And by the way Onechanbara is super fun.

[Gunlord]

At first I wasnt keen on the Gabriel lookalike, but wow, what Shelvy said makes sense XD

[Zetheraxza]

I like this character. For once it's not another generic bishonen character.  Being a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure fan, this has me pumped. He does give off that Gabriel/Simon/Julius bit... Aesthetic wise, Gabriel but I think this Character is... Julius Belmont. He is a demon hunter and Miriam may have those powers and he ends up fighting her ala AoS style only to be shown mercy perhaps... but that's just my take.

In all honesty, sure LoS was a disappoint with some good things, but I've nothing against Gabriel Belmont. He was a nice character but he was an understatement as The Prince of Darkness.

They should change his pants colour to be black. I never loved that Santa Belmont shit though...

[Belmontoya]

Gabriel would have been so much cooler if he was separate character from Dracula.

They should have just had a different Dracula altogether. More of a traditional Dracula!

I get bummed when I think that they almost did a Castlevania 1 remake. That would have been better.

Still, it's a great game. I loved every moment of it after the first 3 stages.

[beingthehero]

Gabriel would have been so much cooler if he was separate character from Dracula.

They should have just had a different Dracula altogether. More of a traditional Dracula!

I get bummed when I think that they almost did a Castlevania 1 remake. That would have been better.

Pretty much this. Expand the castle sections and remove the hours-long werewolf jungle ruins and it would've been much much much better. They should've just stuck to being a CV1 remake, really. Would've on par for the course, given Haunted Castle, Super Castlevania IV, and Castlevania Chronicles. When you move to a new platform...retell Simon's story.

[thernz]

Thankful for Gabriel becoming Dracula, if only for the parts of Lords of Shadow 2 where Dracula and Zobek chill in mega corporation building, and Dracula always has to leave thru the Long Loading Elevator.

[Castle34hk]

Here is the full video of CV boss og stage at Gamescom 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA8a_Nvd_bw

[Claimh Solais]

Here is the full video of CV boss og stage at Gamescom 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA8a_Nvd_bw

For those that don't wanna watch the video:

-Crossplay functionality between the PC and Xbox One versions of Bloodstained.
-Not!Gabriel has no official name as of yet. He is a demon hunter, who fights the demons that appear in the world 10 years before the events of Bloodstained. He wields dual swords, and uses Japanese spells as well.
-IGA isn't very good at cracking a whip.

From how they describe Not!Gabriel, it's rather in-depth about his abilities, so he sounds like more than just an NPC. Perhaps a boss, or -- from what I gather on his history -- even being playable (perhaps in the prequel minigame).

[Zetheraxza]

He actually got the whip on stage? Haha, he is so lame but I like how humble he is and his Engrish is much better than Hideo Kojima.

[Shiroi Koumori]

IGA must have been practicing English. His English skills have improved.

[X]

I like this character. For once it's not another generic bishonen character.

Diddo. That kind of thing was wearing itself out way too fast in the latter half of the CV series.

[Zetheraxza]

Update #29

斬月 — Zangetsu — 42 —  Male

Coming from a small country far away in the East, Zangetsu specializes in fighting demons. He makes his way to England when the demons first show up 10 years before the main story of Bloodstained begins.

He uses a dual katana fighting style along with Japanese “ofuda” paper incantations to destroy his demonic foes.

During his long battle to keep the demons at bay he loses his left eye and right arm. Using a special Ofuda spell he is able to animate a wooden prosthetic arm to nearly the same level of mobility as his original arm. The Ofuda that covers his missing left eye grants him the ability to see both auras of both the living and dead.

He lost a great deal of friends during his 10 years of fighting, creating an absolute hatred for not only the creatures themselves but also the Alchemists that brought them to the Earth.

More from IGA:

Zangetsu is a character I came up with when trying to answer this question: What happened in the lost time between the appearance of the demons on earth and Miriam's awakening 10 years later?

In all my games I’ve never had a Samurai character appear, much less a character from Japan, so I’m using the opportunity of working in this new universe to try something new.

The character is an interesting blend—he wears a Western coat, reminiscent of the era, but has it half open, which is a very Japanese style. I wanted to show off a bit of his wild nature with the design. We are still working out the Ofuda concept, so please bear with us.

It’s kind of ironic—I was able to come up with Miriam, Johannes, and Gebel’s name rather easily, but landing on a good Japanese name ended up taking a long time.

- IGA

Yeah... He is definitely Snake with that 'Prosthetic Arm'. Hopefully he gets voiced by Hayter.

[Claimh Solais]

Doubtful on Hayter being this guy's voice. There likely won't be that many characters, so I doubt they'd share actors with that small of a cast.