Comments on: Anatomy of Castlevania III: Block 7-0A to 7-0C

By: Vega

Vega — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:34:10 +0000

Lilfut, yes, anybody could do it, but only Grant is fast enough to chip their HP to 0 with enough time left on the clock to finish the level. Hence the recommendation.

By: jparish

jparish — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:29:42 +0000

How can you forget the next level? It’s so iconic!

By: Chicago Frank

Chicago Frank — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:34:31 +0000

Here is where I lose all memory of what comes after. Everything up to this point I remember clearly and have sailed through all the different paths multiple times, but it all ends in Castlevania proper. The thing is I have beaten Dracula’s Curse at least 4 times (once with each character and once just Trevor) but for the life of me, even after watching youtube playthroughs I can’t remember these last few levels.

By: Lilfut

Lilfut — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:22:44 +0000

As much as I love pimping Grant, that’s actually true of everyone IIRC. I think they’re programmed with 255 HP or something.

By: Vega

Vega — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:11:39 +0000

Amazingly, Grant can kill those fuzzy balls by stabbing them about 50 times. They’re like the flying skulls in Zelda 2.

By: MetManMas

MetManMas — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 06:27:38 +0000

Much like the skull knight and cyclops* before it, the gargoyle-demon thing also had a revival in Harmony of Dissonance, under the name Pazuzu. It’s more a reddish pink there, but the goat face, wings, and muscular body tone are too similar to just be a coincidence, especially with the other Castlevania III bosses present in the game.

I wonder…If you freeze the Blood Simon Wraith and bat it with the staff, does it shatter? I killed a regular blood skeleton that way while testing out Sypha yesterday.

*Yeah, I forgot to mention the cyclops got an HoDissonance makeover, too. Guy’s still got the hammer and blue skin but he’s taller, lankier, and faster.

By: jparish

jparish — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 05:33:03 +0000

Dude, you gotta dial it down. Seriously.

By: Lilfut

Lilfut — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 05:09:19 +0000

I would hope he’d do a more general overview/layout of Symphony. Why are there fleamen in the library instead of mages?

By: R.R. Bigman

R.R. Bigman — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 04:54:07 +0000

I know you’ve said in the past that you were only doing these for the first three Castlevanias, but you have to do one for Rondo. There’s so much stuff in that game!

By: Lilfut

Lilfut — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 04:39:11 +0000

Which has, naturally, been almost completely ignored in more recent games in favor of LOOK AT OUR SEXY CASTLE ZEBES. Bringing it back was one of the reasons I liked Ecclesia so much.