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I scanned my Yodobashi Camera A4 Clear File to share this beautiful artwork with you.

From what I can tell, this A4 Clear file was an exclusive pre-order bonus only given out at Japanese Yodobashi Camera brick-and-mortar stores back when Ritual of the Night originally launched.
I got my copies recently from sellers in Japan using Buyee.

I believe the image of Miriam in the mirror wearing eyeglasses only appears in 3 places:
The Kickstarter customizing update #31
The equipment section of the Art Book
And the Yodobashi Camera exclusive A4 clear file

My scan was at 600 DPI (47mb). It had lots of ink dot texture and horizontal streaks from the Clear file printing process.

I have never done anything this involved before and it took forever to get to this point.

I adjusted the colors and did some weird things to screen out the ink dots and printing errors.
Made a very blurred layer as an overlay to reduce the printing texture.
Used Gaussian Blur, Sharpen, Levels, and Color Balance on base image and overlay. Clipping masks to adjust the color of the hair and eyes.

I tried to get it as close as I could to the original art. I think the original is "blue shifted" - you can see that in the ribbon in Miriam's mouth being more purple than red. Same with the tips of her hair - I ended up adjusting that toward yellow to look a little more like the in game model.

The physical A4 Clear File folder is very dark compared to the Update and Art Book images.
I separated the Mirror from the background to preserve the Clear File's dark purple and allow Miriam to be adjusted independently.
I clone stamped over the thumb slot cut out and clear corner.
Had to .JPG because the .PNG was too large too post here.
This was using 20 GB of ram in GIMP 3.0 at one point lol.

Let me know what you think.

I found the article from Destructoid Magazine Issue #1, that featured the artwork of Miriam Dual-Weilding the fire/ice whips with the 3 dragons on the Cover Page.

Here is a post I made with a third Dragon being found in the Glacial Tomb.

Destructoid Magazine: Issue 1

• Exclusive Bloodstained cover by Inti Creates artist Yuji Natsume
• Exclusive interview with Bloodstained creator and Castlevania legend Koji Igarashi

link to Magazine cover from the 28th Kickstarter update.

I don't think I have ever seen the secret passage in Classic Mode II: Dominique's Curse posted here before, so I figured I would share it.

I was hunting for it on my own and gave up too soon.
I looked it up and I was inches from finding it.

Link to Secret in Classic Mode I

I have not seen anyone post the secret stairs in Classic Mode I in a while, so I thought I would share.

Also showing off Miriam's death animation for running out of time.

Link to secret in Classic Mode II: Dominique's Curse.

You may have noticed the Den of Behemoths has a few rooms with similar designs to rooms in the Garden of Silence. The wishing well and broken bridge room being the most noticeable.

I noticed the piano in the background recently. I think it hints to the connection to the Garden of Silence.

I think the Den references the map from the Revenant's room all the way to the wishing well that leads to the waterfall.

I think the developers said this area was supposed to be in the middle part of the game, but they ended up using it for the approach to the final area instead. I think they said it was due to time constraints. I cannot find the source I read a while ago but, Here is a link to the summary on the official Bloodstained Forum of the Curry the Kid AMA.

The latest update from IGA shows Leo doing the Trucidating Gyre technique with a Great Sword.

I made an 1/8th speed clip of Miriam doing the technique with the Berdiche, which is the weapon you learn this technique with in Ritual of the Night.

Link to official Bloodstained website news section.
Direct link to the image of Leo doing the Trucidating Gyre

Against the icy mural she is revealed - a Shardbinder by her own dark transmutation.

Pulsing wrathfully through her crystal heart, their exorcist blood cannot expel her corruption.

The Red Door slams shut, framing her fate - another Red Demon, painted upon their Glacial Tomb.

Dominique Baldwin - A fool who believed demonic power would allow her to transcend God.

The previous painting posts:
The Alchemist's cliff the red demon is just off screen to the left.
The woman in the painting
Todd's studio
The Master Carpenters summoning school
Celeste’s room of remembrance
The Tomb of frozen Red Demons

Her Descent Into Wrath complete, Dominique returns to the Glacial Tomb of frozen Red Demons.

Their image consumed her every thought, the paintings her relics of focus for this final hour.

For the Bloodstained fate of her parents - vengeance against the Church, against God!

At last she will summon the King of Demons and invoke the power to slay gods!

The previous painting posts:
The Alchemist's cliff the red demon is just off screen to the left.
The woman in the painting
Todd's studio
The Master Carpenters summoning school
Celeste’s room of remembrance
*coming soon

Dominique haunts Celeste’s room of remembrance, practicing a ritual of summoning arts.

Though long the Master Carpenter’s study, attempts to commune with her mother’s spirit fail.

Two Red Demon paintings hang high in this space, each viewed from opposing chairs.

Between them a third painting - motherless kittens starting life among the skulls.

The previous painting posts:
The Alchemist's cliff the red demon is just off screen to the left.
The woman in the painting
Todd's studio
The Master Carpenters summoning school
*coming soon

Image slideshow of each chapter with music.

The Master Carpenter is described as "A demon carpenter gifted at summoning."

During her exploration of the Castle, Dominique studied under a demon carpenter gifted at summoning. The Master Carpenter carves Ouija chests to commune with the dead and summon demons. A Red Demon painting adorns the bloodstained workshop where she practiced her new arts.

The previous painting posts:
The Alchemist's cliff the red demon is just off screen to the left.
The woman in the painting
Todd's studio

The short video set of the story thus far. (with music)

This is the 3rd Red Demon painting I have seen. The other 2 are in Dominique's shop. Why is there a painting of Dominique here?

Did Dominique become best friends with Todd before Miriam even got her first Hair Apparent?

The previous painting posts:
The Alchemist's cliff the red demon is just off screen to the left.
The woman in the painting

Could she be the artist? Do you think she is related to one of the characters?

They appear to be walking off a cliff.
You can almost see one taking a plunge if you look closely.

I put my Blu-ray in the player last weekend and the 1997 date on the disc caught my eye. 2027 will be the 30th anniversary.

I did a quick search and found out about the art book, and the fathom showing last weekend - I couldn't make the showing, but I did see it in the theaters for the 20th anniversary back in 2017.

Is there anything else planned for the 30th anniversary next year? I preordered the art book. It was $36.72 at thriftbook with free shipping. looks to have 270 pages. book size is 10"x12"x 2" thick.

I hope it comes back to theaters again next year too, maybe even with some IMAX showings.

"A precious sword used by a legendary defender and champion."

The Blutgang Sword has the parry technique built in. Once mastered it can be used with other sword type weapons.

I saw this post last week and decided to see if a summoned chair would also do the librarian gag.

Looks like this became available on August 24th 2017. I am just finding out about it now.

Would love to have one to wear to the Round1 Arcade, even without the special foil bonus sticker.

Announcement post

Website listing

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Seed theme: Use Gram to run fast.
Upgrade weapon speed via equipment, upgraded optimizer shard, and Tomes. Master techniques to use with other Greatswords

Spoiler Log:

Theme Essentials
>!available Greatswords!< - >!Gram, Berdiche, Steel Lightning, Carnot's Rebuke, Schedar, Durandal, Fragarach, and Dies Irae)!<

>!Gram !<– >!First Chest!<
>!Optimizer !<– >!Seama – Upgrade with!< >!Thunderbird plume (Zagan), Bovine Plume (rocky) Flight Feather (Ice elemental,)!<

>!Berdiche !<– >!Dullahammer (has a greatsword technique)!<

>!Gebel's Glasses!< – >!Wall check in after train stairway!<

>!Assassin's Vest!< – >!in the shop, can do Susie's 2^(nd) quest to get x3 Solomon's rings for money.!<

>!Increase speed!< - >!Prowess tome for attack speed, Tailwind Tome for movement speed.!<

Go Mode

>!Dimension shift!< - >!Mimic!<

>!Zangetsuto !<–>! DNE must use Moonless OoB to enter glacial tomb!<.

>!Moonless!<: >!Silver Bromide(Above draw bridge)/Identification/Passplate, Summon Chair (Sidhe), Rhava Bural (Ordog), Reflector Ray (Carabosse), High Jump (Zagan)!<

>!Invert !<– >!He moves so fast, you won't even see him!<

>!High Jump!< - >!Zagan!<

Progression

>!Deepsinker !<– >!Hellhound!<

>!Bloodsteal !<– >!Chair Mimic!<

>!Craftwork !<– >!Cannon Morte!<

>!Silver Bromide!< – >!Above the draw bridge!<

Have fun, run fast, and use Sickle Moon and Trucidating Gyre on anything you can!

I made a recording to show how to do an out of bounds glitch that I saw other players do in this post. This has been know to the community for a while, but I wanted to highlight it again for the use of saving otherwise good randomizer seeds.

I am calling this "Moonless" because it makes cutting the moon over Gebel, and the moon in the Garden, not required to enter the end game areas. Please let me know if you have a better name.

"Moonless" Requirements: Silver Bromide/Identification/Passplate, Summon Chair, Rhava Bural or Flying Edge, Reflector Ray, High Jump or Invert.

We can use this to save some fun rando seeds that are missing the Zangetsuto, but still have Dimension Shift and the required shards/weapons listed above.

How to preform this out of bounds entry to Glacial Tomb:
Go to the hallway at the Train exit.
Summon a chair near the stair.
Sit in the chair and use the Rhava Bural or Flying Edge while seated.
This allows you to now use reflector ray while seated. Point it toward the edge of the screen and trigger the shard ability.
Once you are out of bounds here, use invert of high jump to travel upwards on the map to the Glacial Tomb.
Once you see the Glacial Tomb, you use the mini map to see where Miriam is and try to keep the dot close to the doorway break on the map while holding forward.
After some time of holding forward near the doorway, Miriam will pop into the Glacial tomb space, but cannot stay in in bounds.
Push pause when you have Miriam at a location that looks to be in bounds.
Uses the suspend function to make a temporary game save and then reload your save file.
You should now be in bounds in the Glacial Tomb.
You can now finish your rando run. Have fun!

Death and Brauner conspire to bring "sanctuary" to the cursed Belmont ancestors in hopes to alter the timeline and prevent Brauner's biological twin daughters from dying, or so was the plan....

What do you suppose the gyroscope with the glyphs and center crystal eyeball could be used for? Assembling the Vlad relics throughout time? Or perhaps it is the fabled heart of the castle which is know to allow it to traverse time and space?

Also, I cannot see yet how this could be Olrox. Does someone have a good set of evidence for that? Here I see the monocle, cane, and coat, are much more likely to be Brauner's than Olrox's.

Please share you fun ideas here.