Topic: Castlevania's You've Beat

[CVfan13]

OK, just beat Harmony, all endings, all characters. Y'know, it's kinda scary how easy that game is. I only got it on Tuesday night and I beat the main mode yesterday morning, Thursday! and I just beat Maxim mode a few minutes ago, with 198.7%! 2-3 days to beat a Castlevania game, so unbelievable. That's gotta be a new record for me.

[The Last Belmont]

OK, just beat Harmony, all endings, all characters. Y'know, it's kinda scary how easy that game is. I only got it on Tuesday night and I beat the main mode yesterday morning, Thursday! and I just beat Maxim mode a few minutes ago, with 198.7%! 2-3 days to beat a Castlevania game, so unbelievable. That's gotta be a new record for me.

Yeah I beat harmony quick too, I only died one time at the part where you fight the simon wraiths. I got careless and didn't know they dealt out so much damage and had such good D. I just charged at one trying to hit him to death and he killed me. It's def one of the easier castlevania titles, the item crushes made it too easy, I've beat everybody without them, but if you use them the bosses are nothin'. And drac was crazy easy, alls I had to do was just duck on his second form and just whip the crap outta him.

[Long John Silver]

Wow, yeah the sisters are easier to play with than Richter or Jonathan, were you referring to playing as the sisters when you said it was easy or everybody

Sisters mode. They really didn't try with this one. They could have made it so much better and keep this weird experimental gameplay for enemy modes at least, but no. :/

And drac was crazy easy, alls I had to do was just duck on his second form and just whip the crap outta him.

There's an even easier way. Use one invincibility potion and run behind Dracula during his second form. He will never turn around, so you practically won the fight.

[The Last Belmont]

Sisters mode. They really didn't try with this one. They could have made it so much better and keep this weird experimental gameplay for enemy modes at least, but no. :/

Yeah it could have been so much better, you'd think they'd give it there all and really try to make it enthralling, seeing as how we probably won't see the sisters again unless they make another game that takes place in their lifetime.

There's an even easier way. Use one invincibility potion and run behind Dracula during his second form. He will never turn around, so you practically won the fight.

whoa, I've never tried that, but that's just bad programming man, you'd think the programmers would have considered things like that when they programmed the boss, that sucks all the fun out if you can just teleport behind him and kick his ass.

just beat POR on hard with Jonathan and it was hard, drac wasn't so bad but those last few levels were pretty tough. Only thing I haven't done is finished nest of evil, I'm stuck on the room where you fight the two frankensteins, those bitches is tough, that's gonna take me awhile to pass.

[Long John Silver]

Yeah I really doubt it. Very few of the secondary characters, especially if they were villains return in the next games, at most few are mentioned in the prologue or as a passing memory in the dialogue. Hell, past heroes get kicked down to secondary character status in the sequels most of the time (Trevor in cod, Eric in por, Richter+Maria in sotn etc) or sometimes even die (John).

Dos was so far the only one of the newer games where most of the heroes returned, but then again the time period between those two was so short it could be even considered as second half of aos.

(then we have direct sequels like cv1-2 and cva1-2 where the main hero isn't degraded to secondary character but whatever)

[CVfan13]

There's an even easier way. Use one invincibility potion and run behind Dracula during his second form. He will never turn around, so you practically won the fight.

Yeah, I got behind him in Maxim mode. Then I used his super, multi-Maxim attack thingy (as I call it). And yeah, I died on the Simon Wraiths too.

[The Last Belmont]

tried vs again, I just can't beat that game, I've tried everything everybodies said death is just unbeatable, I might try again someday, but I just can't pass death. Not giving you that 4th hit was the worst idea ever, especially since you whip a bit faster and death seems to be harder than the nes one. I don't know every other boss I can find some way to own them, death is just unpassable though, the psyths have no pattern in the vs one it's just all luck.

[Wolfman Jake]

In Reply To #52

I don't know a lot about the differences between Castlevania and VS. Casltevania, but is there any reason why you can't just use the holy water strategy on Death?

[CVfan13]

In Reply To #52

I don't know a lot about the differences between Castlevania and VS. Casltevania, but is there any reason why you can't just use the holy water strategy on Death?

That's what I would have told him to do, even though I haven't played it in the arcade.

[The Last Belmont]

The problem though (at least when I fight him) he rarely ever goes to the bottom of the screen so it's really hard to hit him with the holy water the only weapons that work are the dagger (which sucks), the cross and axe. But whenever I start owning him with the axe he starts jumping at me forcing me to either dodge him and get hit by a little scythe or let him hit me and dodge the scythes. The cross is alright but he I can only seem to hit him one or two times with a triple shot cuz he keeps constantly jumping out of the way. (maybe I'm just unlucky) It's crazy hard way diff than the nes fight where you can use holy water and pretty much own him if you hit him just right.

[Wolfman Jake]

In Reply To #55

Does Death not float down from the top right part of the screen in VS. Castlevania?  The holy water strategy depends on having a double or triple shot and lobbing a holy water vial onto the raised platform to the right every time you jump.  If you get the timing right, and it's not that hard, Death will float down onto the holy water flames and get stunned repeatedly while taking damage.  There's no need to wait until he floats down towards the large central platform to hit him with holy water if that's what you've been trying.

[The Last Belmont]

In Reply To #55

Does Death not float down from the top right part of the screen in VS. Castlevania?  The holy water strategy depends on having a double or triple shot and lobbing a holy water vial onto the raised platform to the right every time you jump.  If you get the timing right, and it's not that hard, Death will float down onto the holy water flames and get stunned repeatedly while taking damage.  There's no need to wait until he floats down towards the large central platform to hit him with holy water if that's what you've been trying.

Wow I didn't know about that thank you, I'll give it a shot next time. 

Decided to give it another shot with the holy water strategy. Wow that really made it easy, Death's cake if you can just slam him right when he comes down and keep chucking holy waters at him, I beat him in like 5 seconds! Drac's first form was a bit more difficult then the nes game and required a whole new strategy, I died probably 5 or 6 times before I figured out the correct one, but his second form was still cake with the holy water.

Okay here's an update to my original list with vs added.

1)Castlevania / Demon/Evil Castle Dracula(all incarnations beat the MSX one with a save state that started me at drac as I hate the whole key thing and have zero patience for that sort of thing)
2)Simon's Quest/Dracula II: The Accursed Seal
3)Legend of Demon/Evil Castle / Castlevania 3
4)Dracula XX
5)Dracula X: Nocturne in The Moonlight/Symphony of The Night
6)Legend of Dracula/Castlevania Adventure
7)Legend of Dracula II/Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge
8)Castlevania Legends / Demon/Evil Castle Dracula: Dark Night Prelude
9)Vampire Killer/Castlevania Bloodlines
10)Castlevania N64/ Demon/Evil Castle Dracula: Apocalypse
11)Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness/ Demon/Evil Castle Dracula: Apocalypse The Legend of Cornell
12)Castlevania Chronicles / Castlevania Chronicle Demon/Evil Castle Dracula.
13)Super Castlevania 4/ Demon/Evil Castle Dracula
14)Castlevania: Circle of The Moon / Demon/Evil Castle Dracula: Circle of The Moon
15)Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance/Castlevania: Concerto of the Midnight Sun
16)Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow/Castlevania:Minuet of Dawn
17)Castlevania: Lament of Innocence/Castlevania
18)Castlevania: Curse of Darkness / Demon/Evil Castle Dracula:Curse of Darkness
19)Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow / Demon/Evil Castle Dracula: Crucifix of The Blue Moon
20) Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin / Demon/Evil Castle Dracula: Gallery of Labyrinth
21) Demon/Evil Castle Dracula X68000
22) VS Castlevania (beaten the normal and hard difficulties, hard was crazy two hits kills you and the levels are way harder too, filled with lots more medusa heads and bats, not for those who don't know the level layouts by heart and know where all the meats are)

And I'm currently working on Rondo in the dracula X chronicles.

[Wolfman Jake]

In Reply To #57

Glad to have helped.

[Dongled]

CV 1
Simon's Quest
SCIV
Bloodlines
SOTN
Harmony of Dissonance
Lament of Innocence
C64
Adventure

[David]

Castlevania
Simon's Quest
Dracula's Curse
Dracula X Chronicles
Circle of the Moon
Dawn of Sorrow
Portrait of Ruin