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The Castlevania Dungeon Forums => General Castlevania Discussion => Topic started by: Nagumo on March 20, 2017, 01:18:06 AM
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Theoretically, this should be possible. The only items required to enter the castle are Dracula's ring and the magic cross. But what happens then if you get to the room where Simon burns the body parts? Do you just get stuck and have to reset?
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I thought you needed the nail to break the blocks, not the ring.
Any who I can't find any playthroughs which have tried this, however http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Castlevania_II:_Simon%27s_Quest/Dracula%27s_Castle (http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Castlevania_II:_Simon%27s_Quest/Dracula%27s_Castle)
if you do enter the castle and fall down the first drop after the initial flight of steps, you can't get back up.
I'm trying to recall whether I tried this as a kid. I can't.
If you can enter the room without all the parts, then the whole "Dracula attacks Simon with the fang" doesn't exactly make sense.
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It seems you need all five body parts and the magic cross in order to destroy the blocks on the bridge leading to Dracula's castle. Even if you have ring and the nail, nothing happens if you try to destroy them. I'm not sure why specially Dracula's ring is the item that is described as granting entrance to the castle if you actually need all five body parts in order to proceed. Unless I missed something.
I should mention I made use of a password generator in order to start with all the neccessary items. I'm not sure if that affected anything.
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I tried to enter Castlevania with only two body parts once. Threw my holy water at the breakable blocks just at the foot of the bridge and nothing. The blocks didn't break.
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It seems you need all five body parts and the magic cross in order to destroy the blocks on the bridge leading to Dracula's castle. Even if you have ring and the nail, nothing happens if you try to destroy them. I'm not sure why specially Dracula's ring is the item that is described as granting entrance to the castle if you actually need all five body parts in order to proceed. Unless I missed something.
I should mention I made use of a password generator in order to start with all the neccessary items. I'm not sure if that affected anything.
Re: the bridge, you either need to equip the Nail and whip the blocks (referencing the clue saying something like "Dracula's Nail may solve this riddle") or use the holy water. (I've always used holy water, and never even knew the nail was a thing. Which actually doesn't make sense thinking back that if you use HW you don't need the Nail selected, it's only for whipping blocks!! Wtf???)
I suspected there'd be a fail safe that either wouldn't allow the player to collect the cross or access the bridge without all the body parts.
My 2 cents: I'd just like to say that from a narrative perspective, given Simon requires all the body parts and the cross to "see the path" to Dracula's Castle, it's so weird that there's a final body part that Simon doesn't, nay can't collect because it's in the damn throne room... While mediating between narrative and gameplay, it makes no fucking sense!!
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Outside of using a Game Genie code (LOTENP will do high jump but crash game if SWs are used) there may not be anyway of be anyway of doing this. Yet I seem to remember seeing a Youtube video of someone doing it.
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I've tried it. Don't remember what parts I didn't have but that bitch isn't breaking without all 5 and the cross. I assume simply walking into Drac's room triggers the cutscene and fight, and the wall in front of the bridge was made to keep people away unless they have everything
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It seems you need all five body parts and the magic cross in order to destroy the blocks on the bridge leading to Dracula's castle. Even if you have ring and the nail, nothing happens if you try to destroy them. I'm not sure why specially Dracula's ring is the item that is described as granting entrance to the castle if you actually need all five body parts in order to proceed. Unless I missed something.
I should mention I made use of a password generator in order to start with all the neccessary items. I'm not sure if that affected anything.
This. If I remember right some of the blocks can't be destroyed and only disappear when getting all the body parts.