Topic: Castlevania Confessions

[zangetsu468]

Arrived Dracula's damned Castle today. Shit is getting hotter and hotter

The strongest enemies and bosses I can tell by now are
Issac first fight (No doubt the toughest for me)
Saint Germain (thron/brambles attack+gun attack together)
Crazy Armor (*Yes, of course!  )
Fleaman/Ripper
Dead Baron/Higher ranking Fishman/Jin

And no idea about Crazy mode final battle

Just remember when Dracula spams his beam attack in demon form you can time Hector's flip correctly and gain some invincibility frames.

[theplottwist]

Oh, you'll just love the Isaac-Death one-two punch before Dracula on Crazy mode, given that it's plenty hard for most players on Normal.

Most bullshit battle in the game. Defeating Isaac is already a shore, but nooooo, Death HAD to have moves edging on instakill.

[Jazz Paladin Productions]

I used to video tape myself playing Super Castlevania IV on VHS so I could rewatch and learn from my "mistakes" to get better times and scores.

[Lumi Kløvstad]

Most bullshit battle in the game. Defeating Isaac is already a chore, but nooooo, Death HAD to have moves edging on instakill.

It's not even that; it's the literal one-two of a grueling battle against Isaac in which most players will drain many of their healing items and take major hits to their Innocent Devils. THEN, with no cooldown or chance to heal and recover, Death shows his genre-savviness and attacks Hector once Isaac has softened him up.

It's totally realistically unfair and a fantastically villainously dick move by Death, and makes his battle the single hardest in the game.

Dracula WOULD qualify, as it is a fairly challenging version of the Count (far more than usual), save for the fact that unlike Death, you can stop, save, heal, replenish your supplies, and grind prior to ascending that final staircase.

Death attacks you only once Isaac has you on your last legs, and Isaac's battle is specifically constructed to drain you and force you to run on fumes.

It's when Castlevania almost became Dark Souls-level Guide-Dang-It hard again. Isaac alone comes closer to being a stereotypical SNK boss than any other boss in the 3D games because of how agile and spammy he is.

I can't even imagine doing that on Crazy mode legit.

I did Action Replay my way to victory in Crazy Mode back in the day, and even with invincibility, unlimited hearts and the best gear in the game, Isaac-Death is an exercise in sheer frustration and pure rage.

[Aceearly1993]

Now Crazy mode cleared and one of my long-life goals had been achieved (I cleared Trevor mode before the year 2014) . 

The emu (pcsx2) has graphical problem and I had to test for a while in order to get the best result but no further problem found and it run well

HOLY HOT DAMN.

[zangetsu468]

Now Crazy mode cleared and one of my long-life goals had been achieved (I cleared Trevor mode before the year 2014) . 

The emu (pcsx2) has graphical problem and I had to test for a while in order to get the best result but no further problem found and it run well

HOLY HOT DAMN.

That escalated quickly...

Congratulations !

[Aceearly1993]

Isaac alone comes closer to being a stereotypical SNK boss than any other boss in the 3D games because of how agile and spammy he is.

Yes and his most dangerous attack is that of a rush-grab multi-hit attack with blue flame (Similar to one of Trevor Belmont's moves and possibly a carbon copy), almost insta-kill if he caught Hector.
Sometimes the flaming rush attack being a single-hit straight punch that can kill Hector by 999 damage but I never see this variation after I leveled up Hector

Death is a bowl filled with shit soup and I was fucked at the first time when I met him: He has an half-transparent punch/hand attack that cause the battle arena being transparent and turned Hector to stone. I don't have any image of this move because Death is really something like a pushover during normal mode for me

Dracula's HP is almost the same as normal mode thanks goodness (First form; Issac, Trevor Belmont, Saint Germain, Dullahan, Death and Dracula second form all goes higher than 10,000 HP counts and Issac first fight is the most outstanding because of the point he appears).The second form is too hard for physical damage but means nothing if bombed by bird's Carpet Bombs

I never forget how hard and painful I was beaten by the most bowlshit bosses like Issac first fight. And in boss rush mode THE NIGHTMARE RETURNS. Explosion magic circle made by Issac's ID still kills me, by the damage that is four times higher than my current HP. I gave up thinking, equipped Moebius Brooch and crushed through all the boss battles with bird's Carpet Bombs

Still uneasy for me because the damned CRAZY ARMOR. Died almost 100 times (Almost equal to the amount of time died at Issac/Saint Germain fight) because equips and items are so limited that can't help during boss fights at first few areas. Gave up at last and leveled up to lv.6-lv.8, beat the boss, then the long and painful journey to beat the whole crazy mode, and at last the boss rush

[X]

He has an half-transparent punch/hand attack that cause the battle arena being transparent and turned Hector to stone.

If one of your fairy buddies has the Crystal skull ability then Death's stone spell shouldn't be a problem. 

[mig3]

I have bought the japanese release of SOTN in 1997 ( before the EUR and US releases ). I do not understand japanese very well  so i though at first that Richter was the final boss  some days later i have found the clock rings's enigma and then discovered that a second castle existed 

[Lumi Kløvstad]

We tend to think of SOTN's second act twist as kind of an obvious thing today, almost 20 years later, but it seriously wasn't at the time. Unless you did the right things ahead of time and pretty much scoured every inch of the Castle before fighting Richter, the game doesn't really telegraph that it has a second act very much at all (though there are some clever spots where a player might notice a detail looks like something else if flipped upside down) and winds up being a unique reversal on Castlevania where the Dracula-like character of Alucard saves the world from the Belmonts. Unless you get Maria to give you the special glasses to see Shaft's orb -- in which case it's a.... inverted reversal in the Inverted Castle!

And of course, the game further reverses things after that: the only way to get to the second act is to nearly 100% the initial Castle, which prohibits most faster runs, but once you get to the Inverted Castle, you can beeline along a linear path with no consequences whatsoever and skip a lot of it. So the in addition to being upside down, the Inverted Castle also rewards a navigation style that the Regular Castle punishes. It's a near total mirror image of the first half in terms of plot, navigation, and of course, map layout.

I love Symphony so much.

[Belmontoya]

Imagine a castle that slowly rotates in full circles.

That's just about the only way I can think that the upside down castle could have been topped.

[Lumi Kløvstad]

Imagine a castle that slowly rotates in full circles.

That's just about the only way I can think that the upside down castle could have been topped.

That would... not be playable.

[Belmontoya]

That would... not be playable.

Use your imagination. It's a powerful thing.

[Lumi Kløvstad]

Use your imagination. It's a powerful thing.

I did. My mind vomited from motion sickness.

[Belmontoya]

I did. My mind vomited from motion sickness.

There are certain sections of CV4 that I'd love to watch you play.

I'm taking about a super slow, gradual rotation here.