Topic: The first sign rises with the full moon.

[Aiddon]

It's only fitting that the guy who illustrates the Vampire Hunter D series finally gets involved with Igarashi.

[BalancedHydra]

It's only fitting that the guy who illustrates the Vampire Hunter D series finally gets involved with Igarashi.

Amen to that. Even to this day, I find VHD: Bloodlust to be one of the most beautiful animation I've seen.

[Oniros]

That gameplay video was awesome. Inti Creates are a great team.

[CastleDan]

The animations don't look like IGAVANIA games but the visual style they nailed. Feels like castlevania.

[Dremn]

Whooooaaaa I didn't think we'd see anything so soon!

Looks a lot like Castlevania and it's only just a super early build, the feel and everything looks like a proper successor!

[beingthehero]

To be fair guys, it's just a single looping room. The point was to show off animations to IGA and get his feedback. No point yet in crowning in the new SotN killer.

...but yeah it looks much better than MN9 already even though it's an alpha-alpha-alpha build of a single looping room to show off animations to IGA.

[Belmontoya]

Hard to tell much off of the video. I love the look so far from what I can tell.

That part when he talked about hating precision jumping bugged me.
He's still got the same attitude of making platformer games without any platforming challenge. I just can't get on board with the cakewalk level designs.

[Neobelmont]

Hard to tell much off of the video. I love the look so far from what I can tell.

That part when he talked about hating precision jumping bugged me.
He's still got the same attitude of making platformer games without any platforming challenge. I just can't get on board with the cakewalk level designs.

At least there's the classic mode... Also that pacing/strut she has would be perfect for classic mode, seriously.

[uzo]

To be fair guys, it's just a single looping room. The point was to show off animations to IGA and get his feedback.

It still takes a lot of work to even get that far honestly.

[Abnormal Freak]

I also find IGA saying he hates precision jumping a little disheartening. We're all used to it, we all know what an Igavania is so it's to be expected, but it would certainly be nice to see some more difficult jumps in this game. Ain't gonna happen, I guess.

I haven't followed up on Mighty No. 9 really, just waiting to see the final thing, but the difference between IGA and Inafune is that the former is a game designer whereas Inafune, to my understanding, is more of a producer. After all, he was an artist during the Mega Man series' greatest years, and I've never been too fond of the ones he produced. With IGA and Inti Creates at the helm, I expect a much more efficient and skilled development.

[Neobelmont]

It still takes a lot of work to even get that far honestly.

If it takes that much work then is it still possible to release it in '17 I'm curious about this kind of stuff and while there is game club on our campus it's still foreign to me. So I guess what I'm asking Uzo is how long would something like this take? 

I also find IGA saying he hates precision jumping a little disheartening. We're all used to it, we all know what an Igavania is so it's to be expected, but it would certainly be nice to see some more difficult jumps in this game. Ain't gonna happen, I guess.

What if we were to flood twitter/facebook?

[Gunlord]

I'm fairly impressed with the update. I hadn't expected them to get to work so soon, and what they have matches what they first showed us almost perfectly. I guess any worries about the game looking nothing like the concept art can be put to rest. Though perhaps not entirely, since as Hero said, this is just alpha alpha alpha. Still, I'm happy they're beginning work even before the KS is finished! With that dedication, they should be able to meet or at least hit near the 2017 deadline well enough.

Miriam looks very cool, with the aura and the petals. I'm only happy about two things. First, her jump attack animation is the same as her normal standing animation--but I'm sure they'll add in more animations as they progress. Second, she seems to slouch a bit when she's walking...but again, I'm sure they'll spruce her up.

[Maedhros]

Hard to tell much off of the video. I love the look so far from what I can tell.

That part when he talked about hating precision jumping bugged me.
He's still got the same attitude of making platformer games without any platforming challenge. I just can't get on board with the cakewalk level designs.

He don't make platform games. He makes exploration based games. And he's right: shit (precision platforming) sucks in them. They're never and shouldn't be about difficult platforming, but about how good the exploration is.

The reason why SOTN is fucking great isn't because how difficult it is to jump on platforms in that game. Which is great. Besides, precision platformer will be in the game, with Classic Mode.

BTW: Castlevania, even the classics, never had difficult platforming (except some very few instances in some games).

Also, I wouldn't get overworked about the animations. There are only two of them in the game (for Miriam, they already animated the monsters). They didn't really worked well on that, just made adjustments to show to Iga the concept art in a playable form. There'll be lots of animation, turn animations, jump animations, crouch animations... etc.

If it takes that much work then is it still possible to release it in '17 I'm curious about this kind of stuff and while there is game club on our campus it's still foreign to me. So I guess what I'm asking Uzo is how long would something like this take? 

Expect a delay. No kickstater game was released in time at all.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Back in the day, when there was a flood of ROM hacks for Castlevania 1, there were a few ROM hackers who would have a thing for making "Three Block Jumps".  Like, those super-precision jumps that require you to be at the very edge of a block to make the jump.

I found that those stupid ways of bloating the difficulty were not fun.

Having said that, a few jumping locations with hazards like the collapsing tower in CVIII or the endless tower in Super CVIV are welcome.

[Neobelmont]

Back in the day, when there was a flood of ROM hacks for Castlevania 1, there were a few ROM hackers who would have a thing for making "Three Block Jumps".  Like, those super-precision jumps that require you to be at the very edge of a block to make the jump.

I found that those stupid ways of bloating the difficulty were not fun.

Having said that, a few jumping locations with hazards like the collapsing tower in CVIII or the endless tower in Super CVIV are welcome.

This. There's nothing wrong with reasonably hard platforming right? I guess what I'm trying to say is when I make that hard jumps or something I feel good about making it. I'm not asking for dracula x kind of stuff but rather along side the platforming of the nes trilogy, bloodlines and say belmont's revenge( why is it that no one talk about this game it's a hidden gem  )

Expect a delay. No kickstater game was released in time at all.

Not one kickstarted game was released on time? Wow.