Custom Breathings / Demon arts

[burnt elm]

I’ve been thinking once all the canon breathings and demon arts from Demon Slayer have been added, it might be a great idea to start introducing custom ones made by the dev team They don’t need to be from the anime, just original concepts that fit the overall theme and vibe

It gives the devs a chance to get really creative with new mechanics, visual styles I think a mix of canon and original content would make the game stand out even more

[craggy wedge]

Yesss I need this

[vague trout]

This will also help gameplay not be too repetitive c:

[craggy wedge]

Yeah and make it stand out among the other ds games

[stable nymph]

Not.. really?

[latent steppe]

I dont see how it would make gameplay not repetitive

it would literally stay the same

[orchid ore]

Yeah it’s just doin the same things but with different looking abilities

[vague trout]

If we’re viewing the game from a long term perspective than adding in new styles outside of the (roughly) 20 right now with new unique abilities changes the gameplay, since there’s new playstyles and match ups. It’s the same concept as most character based games: adding new characters = freshens the gameplay.

[vague trout]

Well yeah everyone does damage with different looking abilities, but their abilities and moveset offer different playstyles, combos, and sometimes even mechanics like Douma BDA that technically make everything less repetitive. Would you rather have just water and Akaza in the game or Water, Flame, Akaza, and Douma? You probably wouldn’t want to keep playing the game if it was literally just Water and Akaza forever.

[stable nymph]

It would change the visuals of the moves, but combat would basically remain identical, as the best playstyle is just pbing and bullying the person after a pb

[stable nymph]

It's mostly just been water, flame, akaza, ever since release, because those were most used and people prefer to copy others

Douma is popular because it's new, and roblox players are a monkey see, monkey do mindset

You can use any playstyle with really any art or breathing, they all have equal potential with the two best styles

[vague trout]

Doesn’t that imply that all of the breathings and BDAs apply no variation in gameplay

[stable nymph]

For the most part, they do not really add variation

If fighting them functions almost identically, meaning the different is almost purely visual, it's not a gameplay variation

On top of that, adding pvp content is basically just adding post-game lazy content imo

Gameplay for a game like this is your pve and your base combat mechanics, not the players you fight

[vague trout]

Are we talking about gameplay as in bare down to the bones do damage to kill? From that point I guess that’s true.

[vague trout]

I probably should’ve specified that I meant from a PvP perspective (assuming that Hinokami does indeed have PvP).

[stable nymph]

Even from a combat mechanics perspective, every move in rpg2 for example is basically the same to counterplay against

With few exceptions

[vague trout]

What if we expand those exceptions so it’s actually diverse

Like new breathings and BDAs can open up gates for creating unique mechanics

[stable nymph]

For a new game sure, not for rpg2

[vague trout]

I thought the post was talking about Hinokami

[stable nymph]

Hino is already established as doing more of it's own thing instead of following DemonShitter

[stable nymph]

Then it's another suggestion from somebody who doesn't inform themself first

[vague trout]

Aur

[burnt elm]

I was just throwing out a small idea for Hinokami, sorry I mentioned it wrong

[stable nymph]

Just reading up on info about the game before making unnecessary/dupe suggestions

[amber juniper]

gotta be real with you here brother

This is not going to work

I mean maybe it could but think of the balancing issues with different breathings and unnecessary content.. if they do do it that'll be cool but it'll have some issues

[vague trout]

As long as they’re not absolutely broken like Douma pre-nerf or do like 0 damage,I don’t think there’s that much of an issue since this game is mostly skill > abilities

[stable nymph]

Douma pre-nerf was not absolutely broken, just saying

Broken was arrow y one shotting or thunder y one shotting

[vague trout]

one wasn’t much of a problem, but going against two felt like trying to break a brick wall with a plastic spoon

[stable nymph]

Because 95% of the game is built to be 1v1s

[vague trout]

This is also a better example

[vague trout]

Sadly that is usually not how it plays out

[stable nymph]

But that's how the kits were mostly designed

Ans the combat

And*

[vague trout]

I would like to argue though that having inf combos in kits aren’t very sound game design choices. I think even 80% combos are tolerable, since you at least have a chance to pick up your feet and turn the fight around, but it’s not really the case unless someone assists you.

[stable nymph]

That's a good part of why rpg2 needs to be abandoned and all focus moved to hino, almost everything in rpg2 has 100% or infinite combos