Topic: random question

[crisis]

how do the Belmonts and allies manage to escape the castle in record time before it is destroyed?

[Trevorcard]

There could be a secret passage way out of castle from behind the throne room.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

I always assumed they jumped out of a nearby window nearby landing in the nearby river or forest off screen.

After all, each final boss battle throne room seems to have a nearby window.

[Ahasverus]

I always assumed they jumped out of a nearby window nearby landing in the nearby river or forest off screen.

After all, each final boss battle throne room seems to have a nearby window.

This. Double jump out of the window and swim to the shore. Or perhaps the cinematic is not played in real time (The Castle doesn't crumble inmediately but in some time)

[Shiroi Koumori]

As for the allies, they can either jump off with the Belmont or just use some sort of teleport magic.

[Chernabogue]

In CoD, there's a secret passageway behing the throne room of the abandonned castle.

I would love to have a sort of extra escape level, where the castle crumbles and you have to escape.

[shelverton.]

I would love to have a sort of extra escape level, where the castle crumbles and you have to escape.

Yes! I want that too. Maybe if the final battle was a little more dramatic, where you defeat Drac but then the entire castle tries to kill you. You have to run, jump, slide and parkour like crazy through a crumbling castle. No QTE though. I'm thinking something like Super Metroid basically, albeit more and crazier.

[X]

In CV64/LoD Reinhardt had to bail before the towers collapsed, but he didn't take any shortcuts. We also have the final cinematic scene in Rondo of Blood where Maria and her friends were escaping the collapsing castle and then dove out the window once they neared the outer wall.

[Ratty]

I would guess that most (but not all) of the time the Castle doesn't actually totally collapse for about an hour or so. Since in most endings the heroes appear to not only be outside the Castle but also at least a mile away.

[The Puritan]

Julius probably had to GET TO DA CHOPPAH after beating Drac in '99.

Everyone else... yeah, I'll go with secret passages. I'd agree with the "castle doesn't crumble right away" hypothesis, but OOE, POR, and Maria's ending in Rondo all seem to suggest otherwise.

[X]

Everyone else... yeah, I'll go with secret passages. I'd agree with the "castle doesn't crumble right away" hypothesis, but OOE, POR, and Maria's ending in Rondo all seem to suggest otherwise.

Not necessarily. The castle probably starts to collapse but it takes a while before it becomes visibly noticeable on a much larger scale. There is also the final scene in the Castlevania X68000 game where after Dracula dies you can see the castle start to dissolve around you. But it doesn't begin its full-on collapse until after Simon is out of the castle itself.

[theANdROId]

Maybe the castle is like, "I'M GONNA CRUSH YOU!!  Nah, just kidding!  You beat me fair and square!  I am gonna crumble though, so you should, you know...probably get a safe distance away from here.  I'll wait."  X-D ;-P


But seriously, I like the idea of playing through a crazy rush out of the castle.  I definitely wouldn't want it to be a QTE, but I could handle if running was automatic and I just had to control other actions like turning, dodging, jumping, attacking, etc..

[GuyStarwind]

Most of the Belmonts can fly so it's all good. For the ones that can't one of those eagles that carry flea men help them down.

[shelverton.]

it would've been rather epic if at the end of Harmony of Dissonance, when the final boss is defeated, Juste runs through the crumbling castle only to be crushed under a random piece of furniture in his cluttered "Room of collectibles" on the way out. It would be a totally unnecessary and random and epic ending.

[son_the_vampire]

Dunno how the belmonts woulda made it out. But I know Jonathan probably just Sonic jumped to safety. But he's a wanna be so ehhhh