Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night Dev Teases "Big Announcement" For 2023

I'm excited to see IGA's next game! I do hope none of his future projects involve kickstarter, let alone stretch goals that require the team to work on the same game that they already released years after the fact.

He had a big team and a big budget last time to make Bloodstained the very best it could be so not sure why the game still end up running poorly on Switch even though similar games ran just fine or even better than Bloodstained. It was suppose to be a Wii U title at first too so the better hardware of the Switch doesn't help? Not sure if I am excited for much of anything he and company had plan going forward. It seems he lost his touch ever since his leave from Konami. I am still looking forward to some of their future projects but probably won't be as much excited about those like I did Bloodstained. Until they could prove that they get the job done or go above and beyond what they did with Bloodstained will be when I took them seriously but at this point I see them as nothing more than an indie company looking for their place in the business.

Having played both Ritual of the Night and Curse of the Moon, I actually found the latter to be the better experience overall. And that's actually coming from someone who has always preferred the Metroidvania approach.

Something about Ritual of the Night has always been... off, compared to any of the Metroidvania games that came before. Like a weaker copy of Symphony of the Night, versus how Curse of the Moon felt like a fantastic revisit of Dracula's Curse.

I'd like for this sequel to be better, but I'm not exactly thrilled. I'd actually be on board for another Curse of the Moon (I've yet to play 2, however) before a sequel to Ritual.

Really enjoyed the first game on switch. I wasn’t aware they were still adding content. I hope we get a sequel soon along with Curse of the Moon 3. I fully expect an Asia region trilogy cartridge once that happens, lol.

i could use a free update guide, ritual of the night was my game of the year, 100%ed it, did a new game plus right after, and a zangetsu playthrough. other than that i need a reminder of what else is in there

I could definitely go for a sequel. I enjoyed the game.

I played and beat the Switch version (on release, mind you) and only experienced 4-5 hard freezes/game quits. It wasn’t as bad as folks made it out to be. Sonic Frontiers seems to be done a lot worse from what I see.
Luckily Bloodstained was fun enough to just boot it right back up and have another go. Honestly, was very satisfied with this game with my only complaint, if I had to even pick one, being load times.
All that being said, I hope the next one is even better as this one was definitely deep and well-done but also forgettable overall. It’s also one of those games where if you put it down for a bit and come back, you lose your place and your reasoning behind shard/gear loadouts. I think there were too many powers/options/combinations or really just too many throwaway ones.
I just think Symphony of the Night is the better game if comparing the 2, but maybe that’s just me being a sucker for pixel art. 🤷‍♂️
Looking forward to this news!

May do a Bloodless run, seems to have more differences than the other bonus characters who are just there with no story. Hope the last character gets more.

Cannot wait, I hope for more Dracula vibe in the next one, and hopefully a guy as a main character

I loved Bloodstained...on XBONE. The Switch version saw me quitting because of the inexcusable performance.

I hope they took some lessons in switch programming. The current version is very poor. And if the can’t handle it, they should give it to a more experienced team.

I really liked the game but the slow downs are terrible in an action focused game.

@ChromaticDracula mine was glitch city especially during the final boss, it looked like my screen got smashed. So yeah it was as bad and took away from my experience at the time

Probably the sequel. I heard it was being made over a year ago. Bring it on!

I’d love another Curse of the Moon as well (I’m replaying 2 at the moment), I think Grim Guardians will be scratching that itch in February based on the trailers.

I wasn’t that big of a fan of Ritual of the Night, much like Symphony of the Night I found it too difficult. I prefer my Metroidvanias like Super Metroid with plenty of health around.

Ritual of the Night was very fun, but as a backer from the start, it's a little disappointing.

It didn't fully live up to the hype of the kickstarter - especially in regards to the graphics and the scope of the game. Many of the kickstarter promises remain unfulfilled. The awkward graphics, cut content, lacklustre second half of the game, and the AWFUL Nintendo Switch port very much soured my enthusiasm for this game.

Regardless, I think it's a fun game.

I like the game, but at this point I hope they're making a nice 2D pixel sequel. The fact that they're still releasing more and more crossover content is just so weird to me

I generally like the Inti Creates games and I am not very sensitive to slow down and stutters but this game really was a mess to me to the point where it actually affected the gameplay by feeling really sluggish. Never got round to finishing it and returned to it recently after loads of patches to find that it still felt off. Doesn't help that it looks like a low end PS2 game on Switch and yet bizarrely takes up a massive 14GBish amount of memory. Nah, deleted it now and doubt I will ever bother to finish it. Hollow Knight, Dread and a ton of others prove that this genre can be done well and look great on Switch.

I need a sequel!! The first Bloodstained is one of my favorite games!

if they do a sequel for bloodstained iga needs to make sure another dev does the switch version after dev 505 royally screwed up the switch version releasing it broken and glitchy till they were forced to fix it.

A 3rd Bloodstained?

@somnambulance cheers to that

@TKundNobody true

After seeing how the first game ran on Switch, I don’t have high hopes of the sequel running well on Switch. But hey, it might not come to Switch too.