fundamentally, Curse of the Moon does have potential though I would be so ****ing livid if it has no optional method to have all the other characters playable at the start.
yea that is a must have feature. it's unfair for Zangetsu to be playable in all stages, whereas the other characters are only playable from the point they are recruited through the rest of the game (which means less stages and the first stages being too one dimensional and limiting having only 1 of the 4 playable).
they can vastly improve replay value having some sort of password, button code or unlockable system where on new playthroughs the player can choose to play as Miriam, Alfred and Gebel from the very start, and swappable.
even CVIII, an 80's game, cared to provide a way to have all characters playable from the beginning, of course CVIII was capped at only two characters, with Trevor having to be one of the characters, but it still technically featured a method to have Sypha, Grant and Alucard playable at the beginning, so full access to all the stages for all characters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIWQTQg07jAso yea Curse of the Moon having some password, button code or unlockable way to have Miriam, Alfred and Gebel playable from the very beginning (**** the story),
that would greatly increase purchase incentives and replay value for a lot of players, including players that dont give a dam about Zangetsu and his generic samurai trope.
preferably, it should be a button code/password, so even newcomers can just choose who they want to play as using that stuff. it would be a pain having to beat the game first before the other characters are unlocked for all stages (and even more annoying if Bloodstained COTM happens to be very hard, at least Double Dragon 4 was somewhat forgiving with a stage select feature but yea it was such a pain unlocking favorites, since not only you had to beat the story, you also had to progress in Tower mode far enough to the point where your favorites are unlocked for use in story mode, and that unlocking method had to be done for every account one uses the game on if one so happens to prefer gaming on a new/different PSN account. and beat em ups are easier than Castlevaniaish games, so not sure if the COTM is beatable by most people anyways. ).
well next week there will be confirmation what secrets and unlockables it has.