Comments on: Anatomy of Castlevania III: Block 5-0A to 5-0C

By: Lilfut

Lilfut — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 03:52:19 +0000

Okay, in that case I’ll back off. Sorry if I seemed too pushy about this. Love the series, btw.

By: jparish

jparish — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 03:48:40 +0000

You do realize that this series is a work in progress, right? And that I’m planning to flesh out the topics I haven’t addressed in later posts?

By: dothecollapse

dothecollapse — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:38:49 +0000

Lilfut, give it a rest. Write your own series if you want, but I don’t think there are any “gaps” needing to be filled here.

By: Lilfut

Lilfut — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 22:25:16 +0000

Well, my logic is that you don’t really seem to use Grant all that much, and since he’s my favorite partner I feel like I can add some extra insight into using him. I’m not defending him, per se, just filling gaps in your articles.

By: jparish

jparish — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:11:46 +0000

It’s OK, dude. I never said Grant sucks, and in fact have pointed out how he can be useful. You don’t have to defend his honor against attacks that never happened after every post in this series.

By: Lilfut

Lilfut — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:04:26 +0000

I can’t imagine the level would be that much harder in the American version. You might need to switch to Trevor to deal with the Skull Cannon staircase or Frankenstein, but Grant would still break the ratchet section. And hell, you can still get him the dagger subweapon to deal with the Skull Cannons.

By: jparish

jparish — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:36:26 +0000

From a few days back: “We’ll be following the path we saw a portion of yesterday to its conclusion before exploring the alternate route.” Read to succeed!

By: jparish

jparish — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:06:15 +0000

This is not an analysis of the Japanese version.

By: MetManMas

MetManMas — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:26:41 +0000

Strange…I thought we would be seeing the other Block 4 this update. I take it the game anatomy’s gonna cover one route through the game, then come back for the other stages later? How’s Block 6 gonna pan out with its three versions?

But I digress. Block 5-Alt is actually new to me, if only because I tend to bail Block 3 early because I’ve been more successful making progress past Block 4 than 4-Alt. It’s nice that CV3 has replay value like that with its alternate stages and characters.

By: Lilfut

Lilfut — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:06:23 +0000

Plus he could go under the platforms to the right and then crouch down to hit Frankenstein over and over while remaining fairly safe himself.