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| “ | If your HP gets low, go to your Inventory via the Main Menu and use healing items like potions. | „ |
| ~ Loading tip from Ritual of the Night |
Hit Points, abbreviated as HP, are a statistic found in the Bloodstained games. They are a representation of the player character's remaining amount of health and are usually portrayed as a red bar which represents the actual numeric value of Hit Points left on the heads-up-display (HUD).
In Ritual of the Night, their actual numerical value can be viewed both in the HUD, as well as in the game's Main Menu.
Losing Hit Points[]
Hit Points may drop in the following situations:
- Every time the player touches an enemy.
- Every time the player is hit by an enemy attack.
- Every time the player comes in contact with other environmental hazards (such as spikes or fire traps).
- Every time the player is inflicted with the Poison status ailment (or its variants).
When the player's Hit Points have been fully depleted, the character will die. The game may be then resumed from the latest point it was saved, although any progress made inbetween will be lost.
Restoring Hit Points[]
Hit Points are usually replenished by consuming healing items, such as a variety of potions or food, or also by conjuring some specialized spells.
There are many other ways to regain health. Some examples include:
- Sitting on the couch found inside of Save Rooms will completely refill the protagonist's HP and MP bars.
- Miriam can get hold of a variety of spells that serve as means of healing the wounds she suffers in combat:
- Use of Blood Steal allows her to heal via absorbing the blood spilled from enemies. Healing allows her to gradually heal herself by small amounts by spending MP as long as desired until the meter depletes.
- She also counts with a variety of regenerative spells that will passively heal her at no MP cost (such as the Regenerate shard or the Amphibian Speed shard, which continually heals her at a slow rate as long as she is underwater).
- A variety of weapons and body armors also allow the protagonist to regain health.
- The Carabosse support familiar can make use of her own assortment of restorative potions to heal the player whenever they're low on health.
- As a playable character, Bloodless can recover HP by absorbing blood through her own Blood Steal, but only after acquiring the Vampiric Blood.
- Aurora's familiar Igniculus can heal her at no cost, though he does so infrequently.
Status ailments[]
A common threat inflicted by the Poison status ailment is that the protagonist's HP will be continuously drained by a set amount for an extended period of time. This effect can be counteracted by consuming Holy Water, as well as many other varieties of similar medicinal potions.
Sitting on the couch inside of Save Rooms can also cure the player of any poison (or any other status ailment, for that matter).
The Carabosse support familiar can also make use of her own assortment of curative potions to cure the player from the effects of poison.
See also[]
- HP Max Up
- Maximum Hit Points (MAXHP)