Comments on: Anatomy of Castlevania III: Block 6-01 to 6-05 ~ Ruins Route

By: Kupek

Kupek — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:07:39 +0000

I did not appreciate the degree to which the levels made physical sense. Brilliant.

Also, my 9-year-old self had no qualms with using HELP ME every time, and I still don’t. The game was still hard, just a little less frustrating.

By: Marshall Ward

Marshall Ward — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:36:54 +0000

It looks like the Cagliostro influence carried over to Dracula X

http://www.castlevaniadungeon.net/features/castles.html

(Also discusses the influence of many real castles on Castlevania)

By: MetManMas

MetManMas — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 06:45:04 +0000

Block 6, this friggin’ Block 6. There’s a jump at the start you have you to make pixel perfect or die (unless you cheese it with Grant or Al, which takes the usual two to three second alternate character loading times), there’s an army of skele-dragons out for your blood, and when you think you’re at the end after going through an already lengthy stage, the boss bails before you can kill it and you have more stage to go before you can finish it off. And now there’s fragile platforms. And it’s flooding. And you can’t see the mermen anymore.

I think I’ll just use the HELP ME cheat. It’s better than getting to the second half on my final life only for some fish face to pop out and knock me into the blue death, and I may even have better luck with the other routes, too.

By: jparish

jparish — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 04:36:19 +0000

Well, sure. They were destroyed by an undead dragon in the 15th century.

By: jparish

jparish — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 04:35:42 +0000

This one’s not that bad! Just wait until Block 7!

By: Alex Scott

Alex Scott — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 04:30:16 +0000

From what I can tell from Google Image Search, there are plenty of Roman ruins throughout Romania. None of them seem to be underwater, though.

By: Lilfut

Lilfut — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 03:11:38 +0000

Fuck. This. Level. Ended my first run through the game.