Topic: It's the little things...

[Shiroi Koumori]

konami completely ignoring the 25th anniversary

Yeah. And I wonder if there will ever be a 30th anniversary...

Back on topic,
All those food sprites and the funny descriptions they sometimes have.

[theANdROId]

I could easily echo many of the same things others have mentioned!

- In relation to foods, one of the little things I like is how you have to catch the peanut in SotN!
- In the 64 games, I like that they included the statue of Mary crying teardrops of blood...that then becomes an enemy!
- The brief reference to the CV bat, that is eaten by Balore in AoS
- Many of the background details mentioned, such as the corpses on pikes, rats in the ceiling in SotN, and prisoners rattling their cell bars.
- The storm blowing the curtains and rattling the windows (I'm pretty sure in the start of SotN, and maybe in another game too?)
- "Puzzle" type sequences, such as:
- - a few in HoD where you beat the giant knights backwards into stuff
- - the gears that open the secret room in the SotN clock tower
- - the hammer game in either AoS or DoS (where you have to ring the bell!)
- - the platform you ride in AoS, where you have to press the d-pad to get through
- - getting the Pneuma glyph in OoE

And though it maybe isn't a "little detail", but I really like learning of new secrets and shortcuts, like the secret elevator in the outer wall of SotN (you can access the same room later after you get the mist form).  However, that's the only secret/shortcut thing I can remember at the moment.

[darkwzrd4]

How about the MUSIC BOX stage in LoS1. The song it played once you had all the song parts was VAMPIRE KILLER.

(it's a same that was the only real classic CV song in the LoS saga aside from the WATERFALLS OF AGHARTHA).

[Flame]

How about the MUSIC BOX stage in LoS1. The song it played once you had all the song parts was VAMPIRE KILLER.

(it's a same that was the only real classic CV song in the LoS saga aside from the WATERFALLS OF AGHARTHA).

And Nothing To Lose. As well as that atmospheric piece from the very first stage of SCIV.

little things-

Breakable candles and shit in LoS1's castle. Made me smile.

Also, those small nods to old characters, often times smaller ones. i recall a dead knight speaking to his wife "Iris"

[whipsmemory]

dat painting

also speaking of huge paintings the pieces of wall coming down in chronicles/x68000 hallway leading to the death fight revealing it's in fact a painted wall and not an actual landscape

then there's the basrelief portraying some kind of dragon beast in the pillar bones room in the clocktower (x68000 again) which does actually exists but cannot made my mind on where i saw it

[darkwzrd4]

I don't have a screenshot, but in PoR in the room right outside of where you fight Dracula, there is a statue or something in the background that appears to of a woman her child (a baby). And while thats something on its own, I wouldn't be surprised if the woman and child depicted were Lisa and an infant Alucard.

[Shiroi Koumori]

I don't have a screenshot, but in PoR in the room right outside of where you fight Dracula, there is a statue or something in the background that appears to of a woman her child (a baby). And while thats something on its own, I wouldn't be surprised if the woman and child depicted were Lisa and an infant Alucard.

This one. before the fight starts.
Castlevania Portrait of Ruin Final Boss Dracula and Death - No Damage&Subweapons

Hmmm, I suppose it is Lisa and Alucard.

[Mike Belmont]

Hmmm, I suppose it is Lisa and Alucard.

I always though (I am pretty sure) that the image outside the Dracula`s room is a description of the book of Revelation chapter 12 verses 1 to 4 (in the Bible). And lets remember is not the first time that a passage of the Bible is "cited" in a CV game (Matthew 16:26 I believe...).

EDIT: Another "little thing" is the same image, but without the heads in the secret room (upper room), with a scyte slash in it (I am sure that it was Death`s scyte).

[darkwzrd4]

Yes, that was the one. I also never said it was of Lisa and an infant Alucard. I only said that it could be and wouldn't be surprised if it was. That's all.

[Mike Belmont]

Yes, that was the one. I also never said it was of Lisa and an infant Alucard. I only said that it could be and wouldn't be surprised if it was. That's all.

My mistake, then, your statement was correct. Maybe is the fact that I love to read the book of Revelation as a child, so when I see that image in PoR, I recognize from the book.

[theANdROId]

Since I've been playing LoS, a few little things I've noticed are:

- Sometimes, if you dodge into an enemy it makes them stumble and fall over.
- When you throw a goblin (after lighting it's grenades), it runs around in a panic X-D

[Flame]

In LoS1, if you toss daggers with shadow magic, they are fireballs.

Similarly, in LoS2, shadow daggers + chaos = fireball.

[crisis]

suddenly getting swarmed by a gang of bats at random in los1/los2
alternate richiter outfit in symphony
pumpkin innocent devil in curse
getting the boots item that increases alucards height in symphony
discovering the maoi head in dawn/cv1
defeating Dracula with pies and paper airplanes in portrait
trading items with strangers from the shop in portrait
playing endurance round with strangers via wifi connection in portrait
Jorge singing "I am the wind" to me at new years eve 2008
the fleshy organic-looking throne room in ecclesia
the forgotton one battle in lament being similar to the beezlebub battle in symphony
mirror of fate ending with bat flying away from castles destruction with simon looking on being an homage to cvadventures ending of virtually the same thing
seeing the corpse of the Cerberus in symphony
the secret room full of all the chairs you collected in curse

[zangetsu468]

I always though (I am pretty sure) that the image outside the Dracula`s room is a description of the book of Revelation chapter 12 verses 1 to 4 (in the Bible). And lets remember is not the first time that a passage of the Bible is "cited" in a CV game (Matthew 16:26 I believe...).

EDIT: Another "little thing" is the same image, but without the heads in the secret room (upper room), with a scyte slash in it (I am sure that it was Death`s scyte).

Except if you read those verses they don't match the statue exactly. Given the woman child and Dragon before the Throne room I'd say it is Lisa

[Mike Belmont]

Except if you read those verses they don't match the statue exactly. Given the woman child and Dragon before the Throne room I'd say it is Lisa

Well, the image that I see have a woman, a child, a dragon and some stars. The cited verses mention that three characters, and that the dragon wiped the third part of the stars in heaven. I know that is not very exact with the ingame image, but as I said, reading that part of the Bible and then see it in the game, to me is imposible to not make a comparission... The only ones who knows what it means for real, is the PoR programers ...