Topic: SoTN Bosses, yay or nay?

[AlexCalvo]

Reading this post made me think how much I'd love to see a Trevor or Simon oldschool NES mode for Symphony.  You could still keep the newer style graphics, just give them the old clunky controlls and weapons. 

You might have to add a few blocks, staircases, or give the Belmont a double jump to make it work, but it would be pretty cool...


Alternatively, you could bring back the whole CV3 party and use Grant's jumping or Alucard's turning into a bat to get past those areas.

Something like this could probably pretty easily be done via ROM hack. All the sprites are already in the game thanks to the zombie trio. Probably my favorite boss fight in the game.

Also in the OP can't believe I forgot to mention Dracula... One if the worst Dracula battles in the series if you ask me. At least we got something more.classic in the opening, albeit heavily nerfed.

[GuyStarwind]

Yeah, being too easy is my biggest problem with the game. Maybe I hadn't noticed the bosses being easy because everything else is too.

[AlexCalvo]

Well the idea about this thread isn't just that they're easy, but conceptually and technically boring/uninspired. At least for the most part. There are outliers of course, like the zombie trio.

[zangetsu468]

Well the idea about this thread isn't just that they're easy, but conceptually and technically boring/uninspired. At least for the most part. There are outliers of course, like the zombie trio.

Despite the fact many people think the boss design is lazy, I do appreciate that Medusa also retreats when Alucard wears the Mirror Cuirass. If there's one thing SOTN doesn't lack it's the little details.

Although I really liked the Nightmare sequence, I thought the Succubus was rather uninspired. I know she wasn't Carmilla, but just look at her in COTM, she was a much better boss.

Speaking of Medusa for that matter I thought SOTN and LOD's Medusa boss battle were fairly similar, but that boss battle was more fun and worked much better in 3d than 2d.