castlevania

Toups · tyranically banal Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Location: Ebon Keep

toll :(
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Dracko · a sapphist fool Joined: 06 Dec 2006

i'm [redacted] and i like to play devil's advocate :trips over chairs:
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bza · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 2:37 am

we need more long haired castlevania characters regardless of gender

alucard's hair... shanoa's hair... it's all so flowy and nice~
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cassievania · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 6:23 am

maria's hairstyle in sotn is cute
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cassievania · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 6:57 am

last night i beat castlevania on one life over and over while jimmy eat world was playing on my ipod on repeat

and i just wondered why i'm so tired now
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diplo · Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Location: Brandy Brendo's bungalow

sollah, can you poll this

Loki Laufeyson · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 12:43 am

hm, missing posts
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Mime Paradox · Joined: 07 Oct 2011

So I'm not 100% certain, but I'm pretty sure the Sun and Moon rings in Ecclesia use the Nintendo DS's internal clock to determine when to activate their stat bonuses--I was playing the game earlier this evening when I realized that the Moon Ring wasn't doing its thing, until suddenly it did . If so, that's kind of neat! Are there any other items in the Igavanias to make subtler use of the hardware like that?

diplo · Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Location: Brandy Brendo's bungalow

Yes, they are dependent on the clock. The Sun Ring's effect stops at 6PM. Pretty neat!

I think Portrait of Ruin gives you an item on your birthday, but I don't know what the item is.

Currently running through CotM for screenshots to complete my GBA Castlevania threads.

lolipalooza · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: Curitiba, Brazil

You better do SOTN later diplo >:(

tacotaskforce · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: Logical, Practical

It's a birthday cake, predictably enough.

CV HD has items that work the same way as Ecclesia's sun&moon rings. SotN also had those rings, but the PlayStation didn't have an internal clock so they'd just swap every six hours. The Saturn did have an internal clock, however, so they functioned based on the actual time in that version. I have no idea what the Dracula X Chronicles version does.
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cassievania · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 5:43 am

Mr. Apol · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 6:18 am

diplo · Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Location: Brandy Brendo's bungalow

bza · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 6:49 pm

playing through dracula x chronicles with japanese voices is illuminating
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cassievania · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 6:51 pm

Dracko · a sapphist fool Joined: 06 Dec 2006

WARNING: It's bad.
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Levi · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

god that first covers beautiful

spinach · Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 11:11 pm

i was under the impression that shanoa was meant to be a sacrifice for dracula's resurrection? works better than any other castlevania witch chick except cipher (she was a cursed witch and then she joined trevor after getting rescued, totally not a church sponsored witch).
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spinach · Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 11:12 pm

castlevania has women as protagonists because frank frazetta posters are awesome
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spinach · Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 11:14 pm

castlevania exists because frank frazetta posters are awesome
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extrabastardformula · Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 11:30 pm

Castlevania exists because Universal and Hammer were pretty awsoma.
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cassievania · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 1:18 am

spinach · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 4:58 am

they should've just tried telling the story of what happens between frazetta covers

like heavy metal but with dracula in it
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diplo · Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Location: Brandy Brendo's bungalow

Dark Age Iron Savior · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 5:23 am

does anyone know if there's ever been a full retranslation of the villager dialogue from Castlevania II? I've seen a post about Deborah Cliff and I think there was once a topic on RHDN about how the Graveyard Duck (although fuck the RHDN forums) dialogue is accurately translated and yeah it's been said that all the villagers lie in the original Japanese version but I still wonder about some of the lines.

The Blueberry Hill · Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Location: The otherwise central zone.

That's something.

The Blueberry Hill · Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Location: The otherwise central zone.

You're in the way of my comment, DAIS.

Dracko · a sapphist fool Joined: 06 Dec 2006

cassievania · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 2:39 pm

well, at least you didn't buy it

my copy of batman #180 is sitting right on top of it this very moment
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Toups · tyranically banal Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Location: Ebon Keep

can anyone share some monster pro strats for the dracula battle in ecclessia? I'm having a very hard time dodging his bat flood attack
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Renfrew · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 5:10 am

diplo · Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Location: Brandy Brendo's bungalow

Yeah, you just need to duck. You should be able to find out where it is. If you're using the background as a reference point, I think it's the space (on the left or right side of Dracula) between the skeleton sculpture and column supporting the last platform before the central staircase. Alternately: watch pro-strats on a YT vid.

Dark Age Iron Savior · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:07 am

unless you're using albus, a shield spell will block the bat flood (I'm pretty sure).

or, yeah, find the right spot and duck.

Mime Paradox · Joined: 07 Oct 2011

Wait, are we talking about the first form's second attack pattern? Doesn't the bat stream alternate heights specifically to discourage standing still and ducking (in which case the answer is to duck, slide, keep ducking)? Or is that only in hard mode?

diplo · Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Location: Brandy Brendo's bungalow

It alternates height in both modes. You can stand still and duck in each case.