XBLA - Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night - 800pts

[quote name='Chacrana']I'm also at around 200%... not sure where I still need to go... eh, whatever.[/quote]

Crap, I assumed I'd hit past that just by playing normally, I'll have to be extra sure this time around.

I did the money glitch cause I never tried it before, and I admit I was impatient. Plus, since I've beaten the game before, I can go ahead and cheat a bit if I want to. That's my logic anyway, after you beat a game once normally, you can cheat as much as you want afterwards.

That missing monster could be the Mud Man, You can only fight it during the Lesser Demon boss fight.
 
[quote name='fathamburger']I'm also missing one monster in the bestiary so I'm guessing wherever I find him is the missing 1%? [/QUOTE]

It won't help with your map percentage, but the one monster you're missing is likely the Mudman (#61). It's summoned by the Lesser Demon boss in the Long Library...and that 's it. You only get one shot.
 
Yeah you guys are right, it's the mudman. I'm working on that last % now. I'm getting frustrated enough to try the out of castle glitch soon at this rate.

This is a real solid, old school hardcore game. The stuff to find and the completion bonuses prove that. I totally recommend this as a purchase and the game you show "hardcore gamers" who grew up with Halo and GTA what a real hardcore game is :)
 
[quote name='fathamburger']Yeah you guys are right, it's the mudman. I'm working on that last % now. I'm getting frustrated enough to try the out of castle glitch soon at this rate.

This is a real solid, old school hardcore game. The stuff to find and the completion bonuses prove that. I totally recommend this as a purchase and the game you show "hardcore gamers" who grew up with Halo and GTA what a real hardcore game is :)[/quote]A PS1 game? Really?

Head over to the Virtual Console and get yourself the original Castlevania or Kid Icarus. Now we're talking hardcore. ;)

But, of course, SotN still rocks.
 
[quote name='daroga']A PS1 game? Really?

Head over to the Virtual Console and get yourself the original Castlevania or Kid Icarus. Now we're talking hardcore. ;)

But, of course, SotN still rocks.[/quote]

Haha, yes. SOTN is an absolute cake walk compared to most any game. Sure, there's stuff to do, but it's an easy time. It's one of SOTN's big weaknesses, difficulty.
 
[quote name='Supercake']Haha, yes. SOTN is an absolute cake walk compared to most any game. Sure, there's stuff to do, but it's an easy time. It's one of SOTN's big weaknesses, difficulty.[/QUOTE]
I don't know about it being a weakness. I think there's enough content, that at least on a first play through, the difficulty keeps it perfectly enjoyable. The first Castlevania is a frustrating pain-in-the-butt. I'm glad the series isn't exactly like it anymore (i.e. cheap). CV II and III were huge improvements in that area.
 
200% now, it was a small room with one meal ticket on the left middle of the inverted castle. I knew about it but forgot to go back to it on my last run through last night.

I'm guessing that last .6% is the same part I'm missing with the other guy. If you find it, please post it. Must.. not..cheat :D

Oh yeah, old school NES games were probably hardercore. I never had a NES or master System. Parents wouldn't let me have one, so C64 carried me through :)

Hey Zewone, where was that .2% for you?
 
[quote name='CAG 79']How do you check the number % of the map??[/QUOTE]
When you load a save, it'll say in the bottom of info sheet.
 
200.1% missed a save room near the alchemy lab in the original castle. 5 rooms left to go.

Also, I never got the elevator working in the reversed castle, is it possible to do this? it shouldn't count on the map but its the last thing I haven't done.
 
200.5%. The rooms I missed were two stupid ones I overlooked, and the inverted area where you get the sword familiar. Now the hunt for the last .1.
 
[quote name='zewone']200.5%. The rooms I missed were two stupid ones I overlooked, and the inverted area where you get the sword familiar. Now the hunt for the last .1.[/quote]

Geez, I never though this achievement would be such a pain. It's 200.6 right? Good luck, same goes for me when I struggle for this one.
 
200.5% for me too, there was .4% sitting in the inverted castle on the left, a big square room with armored lions and flying heads which looked like an upside down T to me too because when I first got to it I didnt hit the bottom rooms as I was getting my ass kicked.

I used this map. http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/psx/file/196885/13134

There are a couple of errors, there's an inacessible "save room" on the right of the inversted castle, just above the "staircase ceiling" bit. I think that's an error since I haven't gotten into it on either castle and that would be 200.7% if done ;)

yup.. onto the last .1%
 
200.6% YES! the final room was in the inverted castle up the top, it was the power of sire room. I could have sworn I'd already picked it up, or maybe I went into it, died, had to come back and forgot about it, but anyway I found it by looking at the map I posted the link to above.

Instead of looking at the rooms, I looked at the shape outlines around them and specifically looked for black where none should be. BOOYAH! god this was a pain in the ass, it may be easy to "beat" but it's challenging to complete. Damn this feels good!

Now for richter mode lol. Im glad I dont have to do this again with him.
 
I got it! Another stupid overlooked room. That kind of pisses me off because of the time I took to level up my sword familiar to level 99 for no reason.
 
Good to hear you finally got it. 20 minutes huh, superjump straight up to the inverted castle?

and no, you need to get the holy glasses, spare Richter and hit only the green orb (Shaft) to open up the inverted castle. If your sword familiar is high level you can just mist form and let it do most of the work, shouldnt take long. The orb has low HP.
 
[quote name='CAG 79']Is there a certain percantage of the map that must completed before playing on the inverted castle?[/QUOTE]
No. It's more complicated than that.;) I don't want to ruin it for ya, but pay attention to any rings you find. Check them out in the inventory. Just in case you want to know, I'll spoiler tag the solution.

You have to find the gold and silver ring. Look through a guide/faq. These aren't that easy to find. You have to go out of your way to obtain them. Wear these both in the big clock room. You'll find Maria and she'll give you the Holy Glasses. Wear these when fighting Richter and you'll see a green orb. Don't attack Richter, just the orb.

20 minutes huh, superjump straight up to the inverted castle?
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Pretty much. I watched a speed run video in which a guy beat it in 7 minutes with Richter. I'm not that good though. :)
 
Got the seeker achievement... Like I wouldn't have kept playing until I got it. Now to play through as Richter... which is actually pretty fun. Wasn't that difficult last time I did it...
 
Playing through as Richter kicked my ass once I got to the inverted castle. There is a long stretch on the towers where you dont get a save point for ages, but you have to keep double jumping and dealing with the panthers that turn into goo. All you have to do is be patient but after repeated deaths, I was reading to strangle the screen that I couldn't dash through it... consistently lol i.e chance of air dash stopping right at the point you take damage. THEN I decided to go across the spikes, which involved more air dashing and a lot of luck. Maybe I suck because I have difficulty pulling off strings of super jumps and dashes but there were numerous times where I was screaming at Richter to learn to double jump and fly.

Maybe taking the left path is easier lol.
 
[quote name='fathamburger']Playing through as Richter kicked my ass once I got to the inverted castle. There is a long stretch on the towers where you dont get a save point for ages, but you have to keep double jumping and dealing with the panthers that turn into goo. All you have to do is be patient but after repeated deaths, I was reading to strangle the screen that I couldn't dash through it... consistently lol i.e chance of air dash stopping right at the point you take damage. THEN I decided to go across the spikes, which involved more air dashing and a lot of luck. Maybe I suck because I have difficulty pulling off strings of super jumps and dashes but there were numerous times where I was screaming at Richter to learn to double jump and fly.

Maybe taking the left path is easier lol.[/QUOTE]

It's been 4 years since the last time I played SOTN and I played through with both Alucard and Richter then... and I remember that it was a pain with Richter until I really started grabbing those health ups like crazy.
 
Damn I just beat the game on accident I think. I did not even got the sword familiar yet. Time to reload that last checkpoint.
 
Finished with Richter... so I got all the achievements.... this is the first 360 game I've gotten all the achievements in and it's my favorite game on the system... which is a little sad considering this game is a decade old. 2 odd things I noticed though: 1) Those knights you kill in the clock tower... their swords don't attack you like they did in the PS1 version unless I somehow missed that every single time. 2) Scylla and Charybdis (the first bosses) had their names changed for some reason...

Anyway, overall, my impressions were:

Pro:
+ Achievement points are kinda cool in this game
+ Ridiculous voice acting left in
+ Enhanced graphics are kinda nice

Con:
- Audio quality took a hit
- The Xbox D-pad proves again that it's useless
- Lots of weird audio changes

Overall... definitely get this version if you don't have the PS1 version.
 
[quote name='Chacrana']
Con:
- Audio quality took a hit[/QUOTE]
Did you change the sound to stereo? For some very odd reason, the default is mono.
 
[quote name='zewone']Did you change the sound to stereo? For some very odd reason, the default is mono.[/quote]

I wondered if that was just me. I thought maybe they had to lower the bitrate to get it to "fit" within 50mb initially and forgot about it.

They didnt use up the full 150mb either which makes me wonder why they didn't include the CGI's (as bad as they were back then) but compressed with divx or something.
 
[quote name='zewone']Did you change the sound to stereo? For some very odd reason, the default is mono.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I had it on stereo... it still seemed like it was lower fidelity than what the PS1 version had.

Oh, and I forgot the worst thing: No loading screen. Meaning, you can't play with the "Now Loading" text. Why even bother playing now?
 
[quote name='Supercake']Haha, yes. SOTN is an absolute cake walk compared to most any game. Sure, there's stuff to do, but it's an easy time. It's one of SOTN's big weaknesses, difficulty.[/QUOTE]
Simon's Quest was the hardest Castlevania to me, but to be honest, there were some parts of that game that didn't even seem possible (summon a tornado anyone?) without some sort of walkthrough.
 
After seeing Angry video game nerd on screw attack reviewing Simon's Quest, I don't ever want to touch that game. It looks annoyingly obscure.
 
Why does Richter have to be so terrible? I can get to the colosseum, but I get raped in there every time. No save spot even near that point doesn't help either. Of course I have the cross, and not the holy rain, so that makes the shit even harder.
 
Yea I'm having trouble trying to do a speed run with Richter too. I can get slightly past Medusa but then I get killed in like...two hits.

I'm so used to dominating with Alucard this is quite the change of pace.
 
[quote name='Trakan']Why does Richter have to be so terrible? I can get to the colosseum, but I get raped in there every time. No save spot even near that point doesn't help either. Of course I have the cross, and not the holy rain, so that makes the shit even harder.[/QUOTE]

If you're just looking for the achievement, why not just skip the Colosseum all together? That shit is so hard w/o Hydro Storm.
 
[quote name='jimfoley16']If you're just looking for the achievement, why not just skip the Colosseum all together? That shit is so hard w/o Hydro Storm.[/QUOTE]

Any speed video I've seen shows that you have to go through the inverted castle colosseum to get to the center clock.
 
[quote name='tayaf69']Simon's Quest was the hardest Castlevania to me, but to be honest, there were some parts of that game that didn't even seem possible (summon a tornado anyone?) without some sort of walkthrough.[/quote]
The one thing about Simon's Quest is that reading the manual proved to be highly important since you learned that not all of the townspeople are going to be helpful, let alone tell you the truth. Second of all, it let you know that the Holy Water could destroy false walls, which was absolutely necessary in order to find some pivotal items and townspeople with info. Lastly, by making you talk to all of the NPCs that you can find, the first run through was basically trial-and-error.

In the end you play through the game the first time and, if you're lucky, you just beat it in around 12 to 15 hours and get the worst ending. The only problem is that the game never really mentioned multiple endings so most people missed out on the fact that if they kept running through the game they could get a wholly satisfying ending eventually.

Hard as hell game, really, but I still love it for what it tried to do. Frustrating at parts, moderately frustrating, and filled with hidden areas and secrets. It was one of those old-school $40 purchases that was well worth the money since it really offered a lot of content and replayability, sort of like Legend of Zelda and Clash at Demonhead.
 
[quote name='Chris in Cali']Simon's Quest was awesome. Especially the music.[/QUOTE]
I wholeheartedly agree with that; I don't think any of those tracks were remixed for later CV games, were they?

OT, 199.7%. NOW comes the part that sucks.
 
I got raped in the colloseum too (with the cross), even after being patient and flawlessing past the towers. So I skipped it. That's why I eventually went through the big room with the karasumen, got the save pooint but ended up dashing through the spikes which I'm not sure the designers ever intended. If you can get through the spikes, it's pretty easy after that with a direct route to the clock tower.
 
[quote name='jimfoley16']If you're just looking for the achievement, why not just skip the Colosseum all together? That shit is so hard w/o Hydro Storm.[/quote]
I was just going according to the video I have. If there's an easier path, please post it.
 
[quote name='Trakan']I was just going according to the video I have. If there's an easier path, please post it.[/QUOTE]

Same..someone help us?
 
[quote name='seanr1221']Same..someone help us?[/quote]

Well, I went a different way. I headed left until I hit the clocktower and one of the enemies dropped the holy water, so I could use hydro storm. Luckily I got through that and got to the outer wall. Saved there, and it probably took me another 15+ tries to eventually get to Shaft.

Finally got the achievement.
 
[quote name='Trakan']Well, I went a different way. I headed left until I hit the clocktower and one of the enemies dropped the holy water, so I could use hydro storm. Luckily I got through that and got to the outer wall. Saved there, and it probably took me another 15+ tries to eventually get to Shaft.

Finally got the achievement.[/QUOTE]

That's what I was going to suggest. It's not easy, but if you don't have the Holy Water it's the best way to go.
 
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