I restarted and did a new playthrough; I think I found a small bug. When talking to the dog next to the stable in town, the icon changes to bianca?
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Speaking of which, "its" is possessive, "it's" is a contraction.
If you don't mind, I'm going to copy a fair bit of your post since it seems pretty comprehensive.
That was part of the point, so of course I don't mind. Though I saw that you added it as a new reply at the end, and the idea was for it to be edited into the first post so it's the first thing people see when they enter the thread. I think that's one of the reasons it went overlooked, since some people only read the first post before deciding to look further. That's why a lot of devs tend to keep the most up-to-date information in the first post.
Hmm... Or
did you add it to a new reply at the end? You said you were going to make a new post, but maybe a mod moved it?
Only vampires are specifically called minions of satan.
I'll admit that part put me off a bit. I think the issue is that Satan as a character is kind of meh unless done in a setting focused on gods and myths (like Actraiser, where the protagonist is essentially God himself, so of course his enemy is
Satan "Tanza"), and Satan as an
absent character just feels like there's a big bad that we'll never get to fight. I wasn't a big fan of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow to begin with, but when Satan suddenly showed up out of nowhere I couldn't suppress a groan.
Though it's a bit odd, as I don't get the sense that Dorian and his brides are minions of Satan, and Ashe didn't seem to be a fan of the Satan-worshipping village, either. (Though I don't know for certain what type of vampire she is to begin with.) And from what I can gather, all lesser vampires are just more distant "descendants" of ancient vampires. So does Satan just get the scraps, or what? Maybe vampires aren't actually all beholden to Satan by default, but that particular nun just decided to keep being religious and fixated on what she knew as the "god of evil"?
...I should probably wait until I'm actually able to play the third chapter before I speculate on anything, though.