/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3888860
Whaaaaaat?

>>3888860
If you do the super jump you can go through the ceiling and knock the librarian around in his chair, it's fun. Looked for a gif but didn't find one.

>>3888860
That you can escape the castle?

>>3888892

No, those secret rooms I circled. In the reverse, there is a Katana in there. It's a nice weapon and not super broken like the end game Katanas.

i knew about the one on the left, but not the bottom one.
if you have the fairy out she'll point out the left one.

>>3888981
I found that spot on accident. I was throwing axes at some monster and found it.

>Duck Tales 2
>there is a secret within a secret within a secret

>>3889000
DKC1 had a bonus room within a bonus room and you can only access it by doing the one thing you wouldn't normally do.

>>3889005
Not played DKC, elaborate?

>>3888860

I often miss the sunglasses and cloth cape on recent play throughs. I got them originally but forgot about them.

For my first few play throughs I didn't know about the Hide Cuirass and Leather shield.

I got 200.6% on SOTN.

>>3889268
Pics or it didn't happen.

>>3888860
That's usually the only secret room I remember to visit.

i guess you didnt explore the entire castle with the Fairy familiar.

get on my autism level you pleb.

Did you get the jewel sword at the entrance? Because that is not a breakable wall.

It took me 3 whole playthrough to get it. I only grind it to the drop of Disk Armor, if I remember it right.

>>3888860
You also didn't know about the Life apple/Jewel Sword room just to the southwest of those.

Seriously, how is anyone supposed to figure that shit out besides the most unlikely of dumb luck? Or a guide of course.

Also, you're not SUPPOSED to find it, but there's this room that was left in the game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbWVFPEntE8 skip forward about 2m

It is supposed to lead to a new area that only made it to the Saturn version.

>>3889274
Not him, but pics inc. They're going to be shit quality because it's on PSP.

>>3889268
>not getting 211.2

>>3889323
>>3889274
Delivered- with a bonus 6%!

>>3889013
In Donkey Kong Country this bonus room is hidden within another bonus room.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KirUqmvIQRI

>>3889351
>lvl72

Shit. Even at lvl 60 it started taking forever to lvl up even against the enemies giving the most exp.

Also in Outer Wall if you stand still in that spot where you get the pot roast, an elevator takes you to the room below.
Takes ~10 seconds.

>>3889368
True that. I've found the most efficient way to level up after greater knights stop giving good exp is the same way to power level familiars; just run in and out of the cathedral room with the spectral sword and spam room clear items. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPMdp8HGajk

This guy is actually being kind of inefficient; you can just rock back and forth on the dpad while alternating button presses for pentagrams. You don't need to run completely into the room, just barely changing screens is good enough.

>>3889351
>lvl 72

What are you doing at this point? Harassing the Guardians at the reverse castle? Just as this >>3889368 said, the exp at that level is so minimal. I remember at around lvl 65, they only give single digit amount of exp to you.

>>3889031
For whatever reason whenever I replay SotN I always forget you have to buy the jewel of open instead of finding it and end up wandering for hours like a dumbass.

>>3889380
Those knuckles come in handy early on.

>>3889351
>35 hours

Does Symphony keep time from previous playthroughs on a NG+ file or are you trying to do a completionist run?

The Axe Lord Armor, there is actually a way to get it without using the Axe Lord Armor cheat. I got this one by pure luck.

Remember the bone pillars at the Chapel, the last one you always ignore because the spike ball will come down to you after climbing the long stairs? Hitting the spike ball produces 1 damage, and its a test of patience if you're going to kill it via normal weapons (its killable of course, just take too much time).

Kill the spike ball with Crissaegrim, to make the process faster. It will drop the Axe Lord armor eventually. I got it when I was having fun of 2 Crissaegrims and thinking of enemies to cheese from, got the spike ball enemy at the chapel and had my fun on it.

>>3889416
>Does Symphony keep time from previous playthroughs on a NG+
Not that I know of. There really isn't a NG+ in the sense that you get to keep all your old stuff. You just get some unlocks on subsequent playthroughs(ring of varda, duplicator and sound test, perhaps more.)
It's also been awhile, but iirc those unlock for all saves- so no need to NG+ if you want the extra goodies, I could be wrong though.


Also, completionist. I just want to see how much of the game I can uncover. This thing is just jam-packed with secrets and hidden gems. Like the shield rod making the little defensors from Gradius, the sword that when thrown spells "Verbotten"("Forbidden" in German, also, the spelling may be off), to the more obvious like the confession room with that eerie track that is used for that one room alone.

>>3889394
see >>3889384
Once you reach that point, it becomes about how fast you can get that 1xp at a time, and the cathedral room seems to be *the* spot. Though I'd be open to anything better.

>>3889351
>>3889324
>>3889268

>>3889397
...same

>>3889320
you can actually get the jewel sword at the start of the game if you're fast enough at backdashing

>>3889420
the librarian drops axe lord armor if you hit his chair enough times anon.

>>3889441
using the octopus room and throwing knives at the octopuses to grind your murasame to max damage at the same time

SotN had so many fun little secrets. I wish I could forget everything I know about it.
Have you tried walking into the Alchemy Lab for the first time, then immediately going back to the room in which Death takes your stuff?

>>3889640
Now that is something. I only stop hitting it until it drops the ring of arcana.

Of course, it was the time where we bought magazines for cheat codes, so I guess this is another one of the few secrets that I missed.

The Mablung Sword can cast shield rods spells as well, another accident I got. Well, If someone hates the Shield Rod for whatever reason, then there is this sword alternative.

>>3889323
It's in the PSx Version, just blocked off permanently

>>3889441
>Not that I know of.

That's what I figured. Been years since I played SotN which is why I asked because I remember it being incredibly short on repeat playthroughs.

>>3890425
they do not, once you beat the final boss, whether it's Shaft, or Dracula, that's the game. One can play Sand box mode after it and dick around for more secrets, but that's it. you'll hafta start a new file which the game recognizes that you beat it for extra stuff, or Richter and Maria IF you have a Saturn or on PSP

>>3890360
You can still get in.

>>3890445
You can pretty much get anywhere (slowly) with the Heart Refresh glitch. In fact, you can "waterfall" any part of the game and move downwards until you hit the bottom of the map grid. Map glitching is somewhat of a passtime for some people, and they deem the "waterfall" as cheating. Barring such tactics, you can still fill out way more of the map than ever intended, as shown in >>3889538.

>>3888860
>Granfaloon
What did they mean by this?

>>3890858
You can get in at the very start of the game actually. You can't get out once you're down there though.

>>3891015
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granfalloon
>A granfalloon, in the fictional religion of Bokononism (created by Kurt Vonnegut in his 1963 novel Cat's Cradle), is defined as a "false karass". That is, it is a group of people who affect a shared identity or purpose, but whose mutual association is meaningless.

>>3889323

I got that room on casual play throughs multiple times by accident because the series of rooms leading back left to the entrance favor the wolf form's dash and I would do autistic shit like change into the bat in the cave as seamlessly as possible.

I can only guess testers did similar shit and someone figured it'd be cool to put a secret there.

Don't you hate how Alucard flies backwards whenever you're hit?

If you can make it to 100 def, then Alucard will no longer have flinch animations; you can freely run through enemies all you want and you won't bat an eye(you do still take "scratch" damage: 1hp usually).

Please note: Actually getting 100 def is quite hard, and only possible with shield pots/leather shield + shield rod, and/or map glitching for godly walk armor(the def of this scales with map % uncovered, even if the uncovered map is "illegal" as seen here >>3889538 ).

Cheating Death is still one of the funnest tricks to activate but it's spoiled me to the point where I can't play through the regular game.

>>3888860
I discovered this one since the my first playthrough, the first time that I went through this place.

>>3888996
>this
although, it might have been the Soul Steal spell, for me.

>>3891015
>>3891040
http://castlevania.wikia.com/wiki/Legion

>>3891428
>>3891040

They wanted to avoid Biblical names, for whatever reason. Most likely just a quirk of Blaustein, or maybe intentional censorship.

>>3891040
Btw, to anyone in this thread, if you haven't read Cat's Cradle (or any Vonnegut for that matter) do it. It's fantastic.

>>3889538
>32342423224%

>>3889268
>Tfw pretty sure I have a 200.6% save file but I don't want to dig my 360 out of my closet and hook it up at 5am just to check
I'd love to replay through SotN some time since I've been playing through the DS Castlevania's lately. SotN is still one of my favorite games ever, I remember I also had both a Richter mode file and an Axearmor mode file (for shits and giggles) but I never managed to complete either. Wonder if my laptop can emulate the PS1 version well, cause it's a lot comfier to do that than bust out my 360. I wouldn't mind getting 200.6% again or finishing Richter mode.

>>3892308

God help you if you're trying to beat Richter mode with the 360 dpad.