Topic: Something I don't understand in SotN

[darkwzrd4]

Did any of you ever notice that there is an empty room in the catacombs of SotN?  It is near the boss.  From the save point next to the room where the walk armor is found, go one room to the left, then go to the room on the lower left.  That is the room.  There is only a lone lantern in that room, yet it seems like that there should be something more in that room.  It's the same in both the original version and in the remastered version that is apart of the DXC.  What is the point of this room?  Does anyone know?

[Xain]

It is there to drive you mad. 

Stay far away from that room.

[Gimph]

There are plenty of useless empty rooms in Castlevania. Does anyone know what to do in Harmony of Dissonance in the rooms with random junk written in the bottom right hand corner? One has "??", another says "13579" another has a picture of a small rectangular object...?

[Gimph]

I didn't want a smiley face! I wanted 3 "?" symbols!

[A n t r a x x]

There's actually a few instances of weird empty rooms in the game:

There's the drop from the staircase near the save point in the Marble Gallery when coming from the Alchemist Lab. Before you get to the stain glass windows and marionettes, there's a lone break in the stairs that has a little cubby niche underneath. It totally looks different than any other screen layout.

There's another empty stairwell right before the Sword Poltergeist (after the Skelerangs), when entering Olrox's Quarters from the Clockroom.

I think there's one in the Underground Waterway, too.

I think these strange instances are just to mix up the layout a little bit. It oculd possibly have to do with loading, but I doubt it.

[A n t r a x x]

There are plenty of useless empty rooms in Castlevania. Does anyone know what to do in Harmony of Dissonance in the rooms with random junk written in the bottom right hand corner? One has "??", another says "13579" another has a picture of a small rectangular object...?

Those letters/numbers/symbols are clues on what you need to have, or do to get the merchant to appear in that spot. Different spots will change what he carries in inventory. Deciphering what the symbols mean is the fun part.

[Bloodreign]

In Reply To #3

The 579 at the end of that number is a play on Konami in Japanese, it's also in Gradius as the default high score for Gradius 2 is 57300 as well as in a few other Konami games.

[Legion]

Whats up with that Piano room. You just walk on the keys.

[A n t r a x x]

Whats up with that Piano room. You just walk on the keys.

Yup, not to mention it comes off as kinda silly, despite the visual effect of the "key" pressing down looks neat.

[Gimph]

I can play Mary had a Little Lamb on that keyboard!

[A n t r a x x]

Just -- why the hell is there a gigantic piano in the floor in the middle of a castle?

Well.. I guess for the same reason there is the gigantic chandeliers in both Super CV IV and DOS.

But still, it looks very weird.

[Gimph]

Konami likes pianos...?

[Legion]

In Reply To #11

Can you imagine the Architect.

Dracula Coming up to this person: So can you put a Giant Piano on the floor

Architect:........what??? Why?

Dracula: For something new I guess

Architect (Under his breath): oh like the countless coliseums, chapels,spiked rooms (Iam not even going to say how many guys I lost on that one), libraries, and other assorted insane creations were not NEW!!!!!.

Dracula: hmm what was that?

Architect:.....oh nothing.

[Gimph]

Well, we know Dracula plays violin. Why not piano? Besides, he needs a BIG piano, if he plays in his Dracula Ultimate form!

[Long John Silver]

the giant piano was in celia's castle, not drac's. the castle in dos is a fake, a replica. so yeah, celia likes music.