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The Castlevania Dungeon Forums => General Castlevania Discussion => Topic started by: Nagumo on July 29, 2008, 11:03:27 AM
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;D I can't believe it! I just fought death for the first time in castlevania 3 and killed him with Sypha's thunder spell with no effort at all!!! The game is like a walk through the park when you play as her.
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Hopefully she'll be a powerhouse in Judgment :P
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In Reply To #1
Well, the Belnades family has always had talented mages. Unfortunately, Yoko...sucked. Carrie (although she wasn't an actual Belnades, but was descended from them, into the Fernandez family) was also an incredibly powerful magic user.
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In Reply To #3
Don't forget Juste!
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In Reply To #3
fernandez = belnades. it's the same family, just fernandez is correct romanization while belnades is the same case of screwing up as danasty, bartley, olrox etc.
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In Reply To #5
but so much better sounding imo.
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O_o Yoko = teh pwn. Ever used her ice spell?
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In Reply To #6
How do you pronounce it? It is "bell-NAH-days", "bell-NAH-dees" or "BELL-naids"?
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In Reply To #6
How do you pronounce it? It is "bell-NAH-days", "bell-NAH-dees" or "BELL-naids"?
Well considering that Belnades is a mis-translation of Fernandez, then "bell-NAH-dees" would be the most correct.
But I always considered "BELL-naids" to be the proper english pronounciation of Belnades.
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if there was a proper japanese pronunciation of that, it'd probably be more like bell-nah-dess/days.
yeah the thunder/orb spell is ridiculous in that game, and the fire spell, while not as powerful, is pretty damn effective too. worst part is, every spell uses only 1 heart. worse yet is she has more access to the thunder/orb spell in the japanese version.
grant needs some recognition too, if only for how much superior he is the japanese version. throwing daggers for default weapons = safety while killing most bosses off. especially against franky/the creature.
alucard....just sucks in that game... japanese version he can fly longer at least(the hearts count down a bit slower).
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In Reply To #10
Like... Berunadessu?
And I always liked Grant the most. :3
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In Reply To #7
Ugh, I never liked her. Her lightning spell comes in handy though. I usually only use Alucard, so I never cared about her.
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I always loved Sypha.
As for her last name, since it's (probably) of Spanish origin, I just pronounce it as one would say it in Spanish: Bell-Nah-Days
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I heard Sypha was a man in the japanese version :o
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In Reply To #14
I dunno... she may have been a man early in the pre-planning, but she's certainly a female now.
Why does the Sypha is male rumor persist so?
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In Reply To #15
I'm glad for that otherwise there hugging at the end would be kinda creepy ;D
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In Reply To #16
not to mention juste being the descendant of trevor and sypha would be just wrong and impossible. :o
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In Reply To #15
probably because most people that played the game haven't beaten it, and it says "let him join/leave him behind" when you save her. then i guess captain n, if anyone even remembers that anymore, made her into an old guy(i'm just going off the info from the main page here).
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Deja vu
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Just go with "She disguise herself as a man" like I do.
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In Reply To #20
In my mind, Sypha never intended to disguise herself as a man. Rather it was simply Trevor/Grant's misconception because she was so heavily clothed, plus her SRS BZN personality, and howshe's not all "lol check out my tits." Alucard could probably tell, though, but like he would care enough to inform the others.
Again, this all in my head.
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In Reply To #19
Nice artwork! Where is from?!
Alucard could probably tell, though, but like he would care enough to inform the others.
"Oh, hey, guys. Just so you know, that's a woman."
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In Reply To #21
Women can't become monks. Official canon says Sypha pretended to be a male for a long time.
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In Reply To #23
Wait, what? Sypha was a monk? I thought she was supposed to be a bloody shepherdess.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE ANYMORE. >:(
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She was a Vampire Hunter/Wizard. Where the hell did you hear this monk crap?
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In Reply To #25
Wrong. Here's is the Japanese Translated manual story for Cv3.
"15th century Europe. During the Dark Ages, there was a man who was feared by all. A man who has stopped being human. His name was
Count Vlad Tepes, otherwise known as Dracula. His territory was located at the outskirts of Transylvania, at the Wallachia territory, where he
used a taboo art to ressurect an evil deity. The deity granted him power and in exchange, he summoned several apparitions from the spirit
world in order to scorch and massacre the entire nation of Wallachia with darkness.
He felt he could extend his presence even further and now he's plotting to take all over Europe. The East Orthodox Church were desperate to
solve this situation, that they immediately dispatched a powerful army to Wallachia, but they never came back.
As a last resort, the Pope made a request to a man from the underworld, a man who uses a forbidden art and a pair of Vampire Hunters to end
Wallachia's oppresion.
The first one that was entrusted by the Pope was Sypha Belnandez at the East Orthodox Church, an apprentice monk in pursuit of becoming
a priest. Sypha's ability is a powerful type of magic that harness it's power from the atmosphere and can manipulate fire, ice and lightning bolts.
Sypha's attacking strenght is great, but he doesn't use weapon and is most vulnerable to any damage received from an enemy's attack. Sypha
lost his parents when he was young and was found wandering near the monastery, where he remained at the once-beautiful Wallachia. Sypha
knew that the place in his memories was now tainted and he accepted the pope's request to liberate Wallachia.
Around the same time, within Wallachia, a group of rebels were corvertly plotting to overthrow Count Dracula. However their human strenght
was no help and they were no match for Dracula's dark powers. Some of men were teared to pieces, others were senteced to be skewered and
some were transformed into hideous monsters. Grant Dinesti, carefree man from Wallachia was among them.
Those who tainted their hand once don't know when to stop. Count Dracula was not sastified with the power he already had after selling his
soul and body to the devil and he wanted to have more. The contract he made with the devil was also applied to his own son.
The son opposed his father, who still had a human heart even after getting rid of soul, as his own body was no longer human as well and it
finally went to the point that he slesyd reminding himself of his hate for his father. However, he cannot challenge his own father, who is an evil
spirit himself, all alone as the odds are agaisnt him. Although his relationship to Dracula is a burden for the Cross, nonetheless, Adrian
Fahrenheit Tepes opted to fight anyway. He changed his name to Alucard and infiltrate Wallachia underground with the purpose of destroying
his father and restoring the beauty of Wallachia, he began searching for a comrade that shared the same ideal.
The Pope was in predicament once again. Sypha, the vampire hunter who was sent out to Wallachia did not returned after the promised period.
The Pope assumed that since Sypha didn't return, his mission was already a failure and he was more likely dead by now.
This is when a genuine Vampire Hunter from the Belmont family appears to fullfil the Pope's request. The Belmont family, with their tenacious
willpower and seemingly bottomless strenght were treated no differently from the actual vampires and were just as feared. Because of this, the
Belmont family lived far away from common people, becoming almost folkloric. The Pope searched in all directions until he met a man with
Belmont bloodline. A longhair young man who was Ralph C. Belmont.
Go back in time more than a hundred years before Simon Belmont's time, when the the battle between Dracula and mankind began."
Translated by "Help Me"
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She is my favorite of the 3... spirit companions or whatever. As much as I like the Sunken City stage, I tend to enjoy going on the Sypha path more than the Alucard one.
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Monk.... thats a new one. I never read that one.
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Wrong.
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there are still slight errors in it, though mostly name spellings.
Sypha = Cipher. it was probably some sort of nickname she took not to have a female name not to be recognised.
Belnades = Fernandez. a real life last name.
Dinesti = Danesti. historical family that opposed dracula and his clan, descendants of prince Dan (hence Danesti. Dinesti would imply his name was Din). :o
By the late fifteenth century the House of Basarab had split into two rival clans; the descendants of Prince Dan and those of Prince Mircea the Old. These two branches of the royal house were bitter rivals. Both Dracula and his father, Vlad II Dracul, murdered rivals from the Danesti upon reaching the throne.
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In Reply To #26
If she was a real character she would already be burned at the stake before she could get to dracula because of her magic