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Castlevania: SotN -- a couple things
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I remember picking up SotN the day it came out. My brothers, both very much casual gamers, were like "dude, why you want that? Get Madden man!" A week later I had to kick 'em out of my room so I could go to bed at 1 in the morning.
Highest percentage I ever got on a turn was 199.7% if I recall. I hear you could get up to like, 200.1, never finished off that last half point. Spent hours tracking down rare item drops too.
Also, I once, entirely accidentally, put in a code that gave me a ton of potions. Like 26 full sets of them. Needless to say I never needed healing items again on that turn, but I was wondering if anyone knew what the code was? I did it accidentally while fighting that really big humanoid boss that takes up like two screens.
Highest percentage I ever got on a turn was 199.7% if I recall. I hear you could get up to like, 200.1, never finished off that last half point. Spent hours tracking down rare item drops too.
Also, I once, entirely accidentally, put in a code that gave me a ton of potions. Like 26 full sets of them. Needless to say I never needed healing items again on that turn, but I was wondering if anyone knew what the code was? I did it accidentally while fighting that really big humanoid boss that takes up like two screens.
Crystalkoen
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SantaCruZer said:
I can agree on CotM. Very sharp looking, liked the Card system (Even if it pissed me off MUCH more than AoS's Soul System... Go farm the Venus soul for a half hour, then take a few hours in CotM to get some of those cards...), and a cool replay system.
Speaking of replay systems, I liked the SotN replay stuffies
X-X!V''Q anybody?
Richter was hard as all Hell, especially in the Reverse Castle.
Drek said:I remember picking up SotN the day it came out. My brothers, both very much casual gamers, were like "dude, why you want that? Get Madden man!" A week later I had to kick 'em out of my room so I could go to bed at 1 in the morning.
Highest percentage I ever got on a turn was 199.7% if I recall. I hear you could get up to like, 200.1, never finished off that last half point. Spent hours tracking down rare item drops too.
Also, I once, entirely accidentally, put in a code that gave me a ton of potions. Like 26 full sets of them. Needless to say I never needed healing items again on that turn, but I was wondering if anyone knew what the code was? I did it accidentally while fighting that really big humanoid boss that takes up like two screens.
Actually, 200.6% was the highest normal percentage you could get. You could go higher than that by exploiting a glitch in one area on the left-hand side of the map, morphing into the bat and flying "outside" the castle. My first playthrough percentage was pretty bad, something like 170-something. Then years later, I decided to go back and play again, and checked an FAQ for the extra rooms I missed. The game is still a blast to play all these years later.
Crystalkoen
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Drek said:Highest percentage I ever got on a turn was 199.7% if I recall. I hear you could get up to like, 200.1, never finished off that last half point. Spent hours tracking down rare item drops too.
Highest possible percentage is 200.6, iirc. This percent is based on Map Completion, so getting item drops from enemies doesn't help it (Although I'm unclear if Relics/static items reflect here). There's something like 5-6 squares that don't count toward the normal 200%, so getting them is how you get the 200.6. Personally, I've gotten 200.1, and I can never remember where the last squares are.
EDIT: Beaten by a minute *sigh*
the year 20XX
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Jonnyram said:
Hee hee-- THANK YOU!
SiegfriedFM
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You can use the special move of the Sword Familiar to make a glitch in the chapel towers. You can then fly out and around them, getting a few more 0.1% of map coverage.
I used to answer questions about SotN on a fan site, but I've forgotten some specific items and placements now. Still, I play through it on a yearly basis at least... it remains the best game ever created.
I used to answer questions about SotN on a fan site, but I've forgotten some specific items and placements now. Still, I play through it on a yearly basis at least... it remains the best game ever created.
You can glitch the castle and get like 390%+...
http://home.golden.net/~maggi/wbw/usvermap.html
More time and energy than I'd ever put into it, though... sword bros glitch, the wolf charge glitch, etc etc.
Also: iirc, Runesword was a drop from the Dodo Bird in the upside down castle, but I may be mistaken.
http://home.golden.net/~maggi/wbw/usvermap.html
More time and energy than I'd ever put into it, though... sword bros glitch, the wolf charge glitch, etc etc.
Also: iirc, Runesword was a drop from the Dodo Bird in the upside down castle, but I may be mistaken.
Crystalkoen
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triste said:
I was talking NON glitch percentage. I never bothered with the glitch stuff, too annoying.
And yes, Runesword is from Dodo Bird... that thing is a pain in the ass to get, even on a luck game. And I'll be damned if I can remember what it's called, but the floating knights in the clock tower drop their sword as a rare item, and it's similar in function to the Rune Sword, just goes straight out first, and spins back.
:lol @ 50 people vying for "first dibs" on the Cube of Zoe explanation.
Anywho, yes the voice acting kicks ass...precisely BECAUSE it's bad. It's b-movie bad, like the first Resident Evil's voice acting. It's cheesy and campy. "You steal men's souls!" "What is a man? *glass shatters on ground* A miserable pile of secrets!", etc.
Anywho, yes the voice acting kicks ass...precisely BECAUSE it's bad. It's b-movie bad, like the first Resident Evil's voice acting. It's cheesy and campy. "You steal men's souls!" "What is a man? *glass shatters on ground* A miserable pile of secrets!", etc.
DaddyZ said:
I don't remember that track (and I'm not about to dust off my PS and hook it up
), but I do recall that "Lost Painting" was one of my favorite tracks in the game. Another one of my faves played during that reddish/brown underground cave area, iirc. Another was the track that played in that open area right above/to the left of the library, where you could practice that super-jump technique. I need to play that game again one of these years...I used to love using that sword that created a skeleton army for you-- I'd sit there and create a vast skeleton army in the hopes of slowing the game down due to the number of sprites.
Ash Housewares
The Mountain Jew
marble gallery/tower of mist melody is my favorite
but it's basically all good
just wish there was better music variety in upside down castle
but it's basically all good
just wish there was better music variety in upside down castle
Neutron Night
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No, that would be Wandering Ghosts.
Oh, and if you want to make the game ridiculously hard, there's this one sword, I believe it's called Red Rust or something, that's actually worse than using your fists. Using this sword is like picking Dan in SF, it means you're God.
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page 2. you sure you guys dont want to answer what the cube does again?
SiegfriedFM
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You get Sword of Dawn in the inverted castle, in the very beginning. It's below (on top of, in the regular castle) the place where you find the double jump originally, in a breakable wall.
I played through the game using only knuckles. There's a good one that you can get early by going to the room in the hanging tower (59,24 on that map), breaking the wall and then crouching inside the hole for quite some time. You'll sink down to the lower room where you can get the knuckles.
It's not that hard, if you use your supporting weapons correctly. Fireball teleport, mist form and daggers are very useful. Watch the boss movies, they always play with 75 HP.
I played through the game using only knuckles. There's a good one that you can get early by going to the room in the hanging tower (59,24 on that map), breaking the wall and then crouching inside the hole for quite some time. You'll sink down to the lower room where you can get the knuckles.
It's not that hard, if you use your supporting weapons correctly. Fireball teleport, mist form and daggers are very useful. Watch the boss movies, they always play with 75 HP.
Loki said:I don't remember that track (and I'm not about to dust off my PS and hook it up
I used to love using that sword that created a skeleton army for you-- I'd sit there and create a vast skeleton army in the hopes of slowing the game down due to the number of sprites.
Awakened soul is the song in the area where you fight ricter and the 2 other guys in that ring...
you know, i think i'm due for a replay. it's been years. i've never actually finished the domestic version -- i get scared off by the voices every time -- so i don't have a clear idea of the plot. plus i never got that "sword of dawn" thing (or at least never summoned any skeletons with it), which in itself sounds like sufficient reason to replay it.
Parallax Scroll
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For first-timers, I recommend the Osafune Katana as a weapon of choice in the inverted castle. You can pretty much make yourself invincible with it, which makes some of the tougher areas easier to handle, but your timing has to be good for that to work - so no game breaker.
You pick it up by
You pick it up by
the waterfall in the inverted castle. The one that flows up.
SiegfriedFM
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Flamberge drops from the floating knights in the clock tower, so that's not it.
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Are you sure that's what causes it? I've been turned into a stone gargoyle once in all the dozen or so times I've played through the game. It's not a sprite that you ever get when you're using the double jump.Cyan said:
I have the Japanese version of this game (it came with a bonus soundtrack CD with the NES music on it). So I will never know how bad the voice acting is, and even the names of the items. I just picked up each item and figured things out. I didn't even know that you could change forms and stuff for a good while.
Yet I still loved it to death.
Yet I still loved it to death.
I found the Dawn of Death tonight by a total fluke. The Sword Familiar was doing its thing when I heard that wonderful crumbling sound. I went over to where it had been and started hacking the wall, finding the DoD. It's awesome. I hadn't gotten when I beat the game before (got ~200%, too).
I also got the Cris. :\ I didn't want to, really. It's ridiculously powerful. I'm not sure what compelled Konami to put it in, especially so early.
I also got the Cris. :\ I didn't want to, really. It's ridiculously powerful. I'm not sure what compelled Konami to put it in, especially so early.
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triste said:
Yeah the Ring of Varda doesn't appear until after you have a "clear" save on your memory card. Oh and I alsos loved the Lord of the Rings reference on it.
Azure Dream
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One of the simple things that amused me was the... I think they were called the One-Inch Boots or something. Literally raised Alucard a pixel up. If you equipped then de-equipped them, he'd fall down from it. (Can't remember what they were for, specifically, did they keep you out of certain damaging floor substances or something?)
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I always used the Yatsusuna (don't know the American name) instead as my weapon.
The first time getting into that spiked room, I did it a different way (didn't have the Spike Breaker Armor); I died from the spikes and had one of the fairy familiars, and she used a revive peach thing, and I just walked into the door while being invincible. :lol
I have the Saturn version too, and made the 9 new songs in mp3's. The best ones IMO were the remake of Vampire Killer (Maria's entrance theme) and one of the Bloody Tears redo's for one of the 2 new areas in the game. One was a garden (under the entrance to the castle) and another was a Mausoleum-type place between two early areas. Neither were spectacular , nor large, but they were cool anyway.
The first time getting into that spiked room, I did it a different way (didn't have the Spike Breaker Armor); I died from the spikes and had one of the fairy familiars, and she used a revive peach thing, and I just walked into the door while being invincible. :lol
I have the Saturn version too, and made the 9 new songs in mp3's. The best ones IMO were the remake of Vampire Killer (Maria's entrance theme) and one of the Bloody Tears redo's for one of the 2 new areas in the game. One was a garden (under the entrance to the castle) and another was a Mausoleum-type place between two early areas. Neither were spectacular , nor large, but they were cool anyway.
SiegfriedFM
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Crissaegrim is the mountain surrounding Gondolin in Middle-Earth. There's also Fist of Tulkas (Tulkas is a Vala).
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The Japanese version really does have great voice acting. I was shocked when I found out the entire opening story is voiced (It's text-only in the US version).