Topic: Random CVIII Factoids

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

I've been replaying the USA Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse on my NES and TV, and I've been noticing some interesting things I thought I'd share:

1. Grant can crouch under the Bone Pillar's upper fireballs, a Gates-of-Death's chainwhip strike, and a Dhuron's Sword Thrust.
2. Grant can jump over the Cyclops's  Dash Attack.
3. Grant can destroy Medusa on the Haunted Ship by chucking Axes from the ceiling.
4. Alucard's Bat-Transformation can be used to safely pass through the Cyclops's Dash Attack, if timed just right, by transforming right as you're about to jump into his eye.
5. The Orphic Vipers on the Moat Bridge seem to take excessive damage from Sypha's Lightning Bolts spell.
6. Doppelganger is difficult, but if you have Grant you can crouch-stab him to death if you're lucky enough.  The Doppelganger will spend time chucking Axes at Grant, which sail over his head, and rarely throws the Daggers.  Not sure whether one can crouch under the daggers, since Doppelganger was stabbed to bits way before he could launch one.
7. Sypha's Lightning Bolts fail on Death's 2nd Form (mostly), since they have issues tracking the giant skull.  They also erroneously attempt to attack Dracula's Third Form's floating platforms.  I guess the Bolts think the platforms are enemies.
8. If you choose not to go to the ClockTower at the beginning, you instead go to the beginning of the Forest.  This stage is the only one that's a 0 stage; most stages are 1-01 or 4-0A, while this one is 3-00.
9. Although after you talk to Grant you're climbing back down the ClockTower, the stage numbers actually continue to increase.  Meaning 2-01 and 2-06 are copies of the same level.  However, some item placements different between the 'going up' and the 'going down' versions of the otherwise identical stages (there's an Axe midway through 2-02 that isn't available in the same candle on 2-05, and there's an extra candle at the end of 2-06 with a big heart, that isn't in the going up version 2-01).
10. Crumbling blocks won't crumble if Grant is clinging to them from their underside.

[X]

Heh, must've been a busy weekend for ya

[Las]

Yeah i defintly know about 9,10 and grant ducking under the skeleton pillars..those i do remember.. However weird stuff happens when fighting doppleganger boss im talking on atleast a couple of occasions if found a random loop glictch..like a pattern it keeps following if you jump up on th left ledge at just the right moment.. I remember doing this a couple time..a while back.. I cant' explain how to do it..but i think it was done with trevor and i jumped up onto the left platform area..while it was in the process of jumping up from the floor area. by the time it went to jump for the platform to strike me..it never did..and missed the platform...maybe do to where i was standing.. After this..as long as i didnt swing to early as it continued in its loop to jump up to the middle area and up again to the left..and strike at justt the right time..i'd get a free shot in every time..and just bascially beat him super cheap.. Of course there is a widely known cheat by hitting select..similar to the megaman one rock cyclps devil boss in Wily's stage..but this was a bizzare gltich my friend and i happent to stumble on one day.. I do know too that i've heard you can deal extra damage to cyclops in mad forest when lighting touches down..though i cant' confirm this..

[Mike Belmont]

7. Sypha's Lightning Bolts fail on Death's 2nd Form (mostly), since they have issues tracking the giant skull.  They also erroneously attempt to attack Dracula's Third Form's floating platforms.  I guess the Bolts think the platforms are enemies.

Its weird, ´cause the first time that I reach Death, I use Trevor to eliminate him. Then, the only weapon that I use against the second form is the Sypha´s  Lightning Bolts. Maybe I need to play the game to set another strategy . As for the Pazuzu/Dracula, I always use the Axe while I drive the platforms ...

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

I do know too that i've heard you can deal extra damage to cyclops in mad forest when lighting touches down..though i cant' confirm this..

That's true.  You can see it in this Akumajo Densetsu Youtube video, but it also works on the USA version:
Castlevania 3 Dracula's Curse Cyclops Lightning Dagger Trick