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The Castlevania Dungeon Forums => General Castlevania Discussion => Topic started by: Inccubus on August 10, 2011, 08:49:55 AM
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Let's say you were put in charge of adding bosses to all the mansions in a straight port of CV2.
Which ones would you pick?
The only restrictions being that they have to be their own room right before the room with the Dracula part.
Also, in the case of Vampira/Carmilla & Death, how would you improve them?
As a reminder the original game had 5 mansions, 2 of which had an optional boss.
Feel free to add more bosses and mansions, but a an extra added challenge try to come up with an additional body part and a function for it. (No Dracula schlongs please.)
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Berkeley: Lesser Demon. Nice and simple.
Rover: Scylla Wyrm (since the place is mostly a sunken structure with only a small island protrusion). Either that, or that fish chick from Ecclesia.
Brahm: Already has The Grim Reaper but I might switch that one around and put it on another just 'cuz it's too early for him.
Bodley: Olrox, with two forms (might have to make the room larger for it)
Laruba: Carmilla's Mask, Then her Specter, while dodging her servant. (would have to make her room larger).
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Since all the original bosses have died at Castlevania, I would use others that are also well known but were never involved in the battle. Carmilla I would update so it's not just her mask you fight. Death could be in two stages. You fight him in the mansion as usual except he'd be more of a challenge. The second time you fight him is just prior to the fight with Dracula. As for the other mansions I would have the Minotaur, a Golem and the Cyclops.
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oh... this is a very good topic
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Had an idea since one of the existing bosses is Carmilla's mask and one of the Mansions was a mis-localization of Bathory. Why not have some bad-ass vampires as the guardians of Dracula's remains in the mansions and instead intersperse some 'regular' bosses in certain areas in between?
For the big 5, I have Carmilla (Laruba), Elizabeth Bathory (Bodley/Bathory), Olrox (Brahm's/Bram's), and ... I need two more vampires from literature that are about right for the 17th century. Any ideas?
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Lord Ruthven of "Lord Ruthwen ou les Vampires" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vampyre)
Sir Francis Varney of "Varney the Vampire" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varney_the_Vampire)
If you want to be more international, you can use:
Oneiza of Thalaba the Destroyer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalaba_the_Destroyer)
Or, you can just use Jiang Shi from Order of Ecclesia. :)
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Ah, "The Vampyre". I read that years ago.
I think those two would work rather well along with the likes of Bathory, Olrox and Carmilla.
They are contemporary for the time of CV2, most of them being rather young vampires makes them perfect as bosses.
Olrox would be the elder vamp as he is a derivative of Dracula himself.
Elizabeth Bathory having died in 1614 is the next eldest.
Varney was turned some time between 1653 ans 1658 because of the interaction with Cromwell.
Carmilla would likely be the second youngest given the portrait of her labeled 1698. Which is a bit late, but nothing says she couldn't have been turned prior to the portrait's commission.
Last that leaves Lord Ruthven, who doesn't seem to have a specific date associated with his turning.
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I'd use Count Orlock rather then Olrox as he was based off Orlock. Nothing like staring down an ugly rat-like vampire with the powers of the bubonic plague at his disposal.
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I'd use Olrox for two reasons, it was localized as such and Nosferatu has a nasty history copyright violation suits. =P
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Really? Please describe one such incident, if you don't mind.
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Bram Stoker or his widow or something sued the creators of the original Nosferatu film because it was basically a rip off of Dracula. (I was kidding in my previous post anyway, though.)
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Bram Stoker or his widow or something sued the creators of the original Nosferatu film because it was basically a rip off of Dracula.
The same can also be said of Bram Stoker ripping off the Carmilla story as the events are eerily similar in structure. That and Carmilla came out several years before Dracula did.
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Except Sheridan LeFanu did not sue.
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The same can also be said of Bram Stoker ripping off the Carmilla story as the events are eerily similar in structure. That and Carmilla came out several years before Dracula did.
LOL! I was reading up on Carmilla's history and it is itself a rip-off of another earlier book as well. I guess authors were a lot more mellow a hundred years ago.
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LOL! I was reading up on Carmilla's history and it is itself a rip-off of another earlier book as well. I guess authors were a lot more mellow a hundred years ago.
Okay I gotta see this! What book was it?
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Probably Lord Ruthven or something. Or Barnaby the vampire.
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balore from AOS(the dos is too easy and shows up too soon.).
legion SOTN kicks asses if you re not well equipped.
beezelbub is another great boss.
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Okay I gotta see this! What book was it?
From Wiki: "Captain Basil Hall's Schloss Hainfeld; or a Winter in Lower Styria (London and Edinburgh, 1836). Hall's account provides much of the Styrian background and in particular a model for both Carmilla and Laura in the figure of Jane Anne Cranstoun, Countess Purgstall."
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From Wiki: "Captain Basil Hall's Schloss Hainfeld; or a Winter in Lower Styria (London and Edinburgh, 1836). Hall's account provides much of the Styrian background and in particular a model for both Carmilla and Laura in the figure of Jane Anne Cranstoun, Countess Purgstall."
Hmm... some new fresh meat for CV ;D
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Bram Stoker or his widow or something sued the creators of the original Nosferatu film because it was basically a rip off of Dracula. (I was kidding in my previous post anyway, though.)
And doesn't Bram Stoker's estate have that film to thank for the novel's success? From what I understand the novel didn't sell very well at all until the films came out.
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Koronat, Pazuzu and the succubus for the other mansions.
Rowdain for that area where the morningstar is turned into a flame whip.
The headhunter for one of the town shops.
The last crystal knight would turn into something like Sir Grakul.
The stranger who offers you the silver knife would turn into a Simon doppleganger.
A giant peeping eye for the cavern where the sacred flame is found.
Skull knight and that dragon bones enemy from CV3 as a duo boss in the graveyard.
Orphic vipers at the lake.
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those would be awesome
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Hi Reinhart77, did you get the PM I sent to you?
EDIT: Never mind, guess I made a BIG mistake.
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And doesn't Bram Stoker's estate have that film to thank for the novel's success? From what I understand the novel didn't sell very well at all until the films came out.
That's true, but it didn't stop them from suing. Hell, if anything, the success of the films fueled the law suit against it. Really, would you say, "Look how well they did by ripping off my work! Good for them! It should give me some publicity too."
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Berkeley - Steel Golem
Rover - Succubus
Brahm - I would make it impossible to run and make death's attacks much more powerful
Bodley - Zombie Dragons from Circle of The Moon
Laruba - Carmilla would take much more damage to beat and be a two phase fight with the mask just being phase 1.
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hmmmm mabe a medusa that looks like the one in thie first's concept art; that was badass!
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medusa; she's badass!