Topic: Best Dracula Battle

[shelverton.]

I can't vote since Super Castlevania IV isn't there. The battle itself is technically disappointing (no real 2nd form), but the atmosphere and the overall feeling is unmatched in CV history. It really felt like you were fighting DRACULA. It was sooooo eerie!

[justin312]

Why isn't the first Castlevania included in the choices?  That was the original battle, and also one of the most challenging.

[Darth Cariss]

I'm gonna go with Portrait of Ruin. The Death/Dracula combo was awesome.

[paletteswapmonster]

In Reply To #18

But it was just RoB Dracula with Death floating around and aimlessly slashing downward with his scythe. :/

[The Last Belmont]

In Reply To #18

But it was just RoB Dracula with Death floating around and aimlessly slashing downward with his scythe. :/

Forget form 2 their bro. Way diff from Rob, it actually took a lil' concentration to take down.

[Long John Silver]

form 2 was all hack and slash and sometimes casually walk away to avoid his attacks.

[The Last Belmont]

sometimes casually walk away to avoid his attacks.

dat's the part that took concentration, gotta pay attention, time it wrong and instantly dead.

[Baigan]

It was done really well in CoD. It was one of the few things that game did well, a real deal sweetener.

I will add that CoD seemed to take a lot of ideas from LoD. We had human-form Dracula trying to catch ya and drink your blood (and regain life), then monster Dracula form flying off to the background to fire projectiles before returning to the foreground. Then as well, the whole premise of the game was like LoD. You are chasing your former friend and rival who shares the same type of special power (Lycanthrope/Forgemaster) through a Dracula-free Castlevania. Then in the end, Dracula gets a new body that is somehow related to the Lycanthrope/Forgemaster.

[gravekeeper]

I personally like the battle with Dracula in Curse of Darkness. It's like an old classic Dracula battle, but remade in 3D very well. Sweetness.

[shelverton.]

The final battle in PoR felt like a random mess to me It actually felt a bit like a fan-made hack. Except it wasn't. It's not very challenging either if you know what you're doing.

Speaking of which... someone should hack, say, Castlevania 4 and put Death and Dracula side by side in the final battle. I wonder exactly how annoying that would be.

[Nazrath]

SotN, but the first fight, Richter versus Tepeş. Not the hardest, not the most inventive, but, IMFO, the most archetypal of such fights.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

I cannot vote 'cuz my fave/best imo is the Circle of the Moon one with the funky background and FAST Dracula 2nd Form.

You really had to use that superjump and slide.

[gravekeeper]

I cannot vote 'cuz my fave/best imo is the Circle of the Moon one with the funky background and FAST Dracula 2nd Form.

You really had to use that superjump and slide.

I enjoyed that battle a lot because it was a true challenge and really hard to beat him. I don't remember how many times it took me, but when he finally died I really felt like I had accomplished something. It's a much greater feeling, compared to beating a fairly easy boss. It's sort of a challenge itself though, making a challenging boss that's still fun to fight against. A lot of hard bosses can easily get annoying.

[Long John Silver]

In Reply To #29

well, it was one of the toughest dracula battles in the recent 2d games, it was also a total sprite redesign and he finally got a whole lot of new moves.

if something, the question should be

How the fuck can anybody vote for portrait!!!???

because the dracula in it was almost a carbon copy of rondo's right up to his sprites which were rondo edits, and were it not for death and his dual attack stuff he gives to drac the battle would be about as easy and retarded as hod's.

[Mobius]

In Reply To #23

You know, it actually took me a while to make that connection until you brought it up. Yeah, it does seem that both Darkness titles share more than the last two syllables of their... well, titles. It is true.

It is also true that the final battle with Drac at the conclusion of Curse was a real standout, following a very lackluster and EXTREMELY taxing ordeal to reach it (I'm talking about the whole game, not just Dracula'castle). It's a shame I had to mute most of the music though, especially during Dracula's transformation. "something-something to the Black Abyss of Death," psshht! Black abyss indeed. This number was the grating boss fight cue that could have very well sent me to the black abyss of death! My GOD, CoD had some lame-ass music. *walks away grumbling*