/sotn/

[Anonymous No.5444485]

How the fuck do I beat this nigga

[Anonymous No.5444487]

>>5444485
Shield rod and alucard shield

[Anonymous No.5444494]

>>5444487
This.
Or look around the reverse castle's entrance where the mermen were in the normal version, you'll find an acessory that absorbs electric.

[Anonymous No.5444502]

>>5444485
donkey punch him to death, no joke

[Anonymous No.5444521]

>>5444485
Equip the beryl circlet. It makes lighting damage heal you, so he heals you while you whack away at him.

[Anonymous No.5444523]

>>5444521
* lightning

[Anonymous No.5444591]

>>5444485
It's vital to learn how to bait out his lightning rain attack where he steps forward and holds his mace out horizontally. Quickly pass his leg with the must then go wild on his legs. Attacks that can hit multiple times at once are also helpful, as each of his limbs can take damage.

[Anonymous No.5444594]

>>5444485
Legit mode: Learn patterns and react accordingly
Easy mode: Get the Beryl Circlet in the inverted castle entrance tunel with the bat
Baby mode: Dual crissaegrims
Fuck it mode: Alucard shield and Shield rod

[Anonymous No.5444636]

the same thing we do every fight Pinky

Soul Steal

[Anonymous No.5444723]

>>5444594
This

[Anonymous No.5444756]

There is a way to get trapped in the left side of the screen so none of his attacks actually hit you, but I don't remember how it was done. The first time I got to this boss, I had to defeat him with a piece of shit sword that did like 60 damage per swing. Imagine hacking away at this piece of shit for 7, 8 minutes. If I hadn't found that sweet spot, I would have never defeated him.

Mind you, this was way back in 1998, when I had no internet and magazines didn't post stuff like Crissaegrim or Shield Rod.

[Anonymous No.5444757]

I regret back then not starting a new save after I luckshitted into a crissaegrim (or just not using it) and making almost the whole game a joke.

[Anonymous No.5444858]

>>5444756
Same
My bro and I got him stuck in a looping pain animation while just whacking his shins, never could replicate it

[Anonymous No.5444871]

>>5444485

This game needed a boss rush.

[Anonymous No.5444954]

>>5444485
Combat Knife nigger.
>>5444487
if you're a pussy, this. never used the shield rod through out any of my game plays because im not some sissy faggot. if you beat this game using wands i want you to know personally to go fuck yourself. they break the game and they suck the big one. combat knife the entire game or go fuck yourself with a goblins nose. imma go skate at the park now, see cya later nerds.

[Anonymous No.5444960]

>>5444485
Use your head dammit

[Anonymous No.5444964]

>>5444485
ah, I remember this guy assraping me into oblivion over and over as a child. good times.

[Anonymous No.5444967]

>>5444485
Git good or git Beryl Circlet

[Anonymous No.5444971]

>>5444485
Use the mist like an invincibility toggle.

[Anonymous No.5445004]

>>5444971
you can do this with spells if you don't suck dick

[Anonymous No.5445064]

hit the galamoth until it dies

[Anonymous No.5445465]

>>5444954
based

[Anonymous No.5445484]

Remove all armor and equip combat knife

[Anonymous No.5445498]

>>5445064
Literally this.

[Anonymous No.5445627]

>>5445064
For the longest time I didn't get why Galamoth is considered to be hard. I got him the first time around by locking him into doing his flinch animation over and over like in that gif. Poor bastard didn't even get a hit in while I rhythmically bopped him

[Anonymous No.5445719]

>>5445064
>have to do that 162.1621621621622 times

[Anonymous No.5445775]

>>5445719
and just how long does 160 hits take, less than 3 minutes? even if that's too long for you to keep up, you can just grind stats and get better gear before confronting him
SOTN is piss easy

[Anonymous No.5445790]

>>5445627
And then everbody clapped

[Anonymous No.5445795]

>>5444485
simultaneously the coolest and most stupid boss to exist

[Anonymous No.5445805]

>>5445064
How do you get behind him before he walks away?

I was able to do it with Richter, but I always had problems with Alucard

[Anonymous No.5445818]

>>5445790
How is it far fetched? There are plenty of safe zones and cheese tactics in a lot of the bosses in Castlevania series

[Anonymous No.5445824]

>>5445805
I think you have to bat charge

[Anonymous No.5445837]

>>5444485
I teleported between his legs and rapier'd the hell out of his sheen

[Anonymous No.5445925]

>>5444485
You can beat this guy with no equipment just by getting him to stand in the right spot and stunlocking him by punching him in the nose. It's hilarious.

[Anonymous No.5445926]

>>5444954
chadpilled

[Anonymous No.5446049]

>>5444954
based

[Anonymous No.5446236]

>>5444594
Bitch mode: spam your sword teleport i-frames

[Anonymous No.5446247]

>>5444487
That's baby mode though.

I do remember accidentally stumbling upon it as a kid, then I shocked my older brother by beating galamoth in seconds.

[Anonymous No.5446252]

>>5444594
I dunno, if you have the patience to get 2 crissagrims, I think you've probably moved beyond baby tier into lazy tier.

[Anonymous No.5447942]

>>5444756
I recently replayed this. Didnt feel like getting the electric absorbing accessory. Died like 10 times to this fucked til i found that spot. Figured it was just a glitch. Never knew that was a thing. I swear I discover something new everytime I replay this

[Anonymous No.5448360]

>>5447942

Last time I played I discovered how to rearrange inventory items. Feel like a retard not knowing all this years.

[Anonymous No.5449913]

>>5444487
Or Moon Rod.
Or Crissaegrim.
Or Mourneblade.

>>5444591
>then go wild on his legs.
Make sure to use the Funky Cold Medina first.

>>5444594
God this game needed a hardmode.

[Anonymous No.5449919]

>>5446252
Well, it's possible to luck into it, theoretically, someone out there lucked into two of them.
Yes, I know that's farfetched as shit.

[Anonymous No.5449921]

>>5449913
>God this game needed a hardmode.
It has one. The faster you play through it the harder it is.

[Anonymous No.5449928]

>>5444485
Monotheism.

[Anonymous No.5449929]

>>5445775
>SOTN is piss easy
This seems to be a consistent problem with all Metroidvanias. I haven't played one that rally punished me for sloppy playing.

[Anonymous No.5450046]

>>5449929
Circle Of The Moon is pretty sparse with healing items, sporadic with card drops, and has a seriously fucking hard Dracula, there's also different character modes, which change how you play the game.
Aria and Dawn have unlockable hard modes, which do some to make a better challenge, they also feature alternate character modes.

I think what makes Symphony so easy is that there's a whole bunch of items you can stumble into which make the game pretty easy. You have the Shield Rod, Crissaegrim, Mourneblade, Moon Rod, etc, items which are seriously powerful. They are fun, but they also make the game really easy.
Another thing is that the upside down castle, I don't think it's actually very well thought out overall, like it's an idea they got late in development, and didn't have a lot of time to refine it.

[Anonymous No.5450097]

>>5449929
>This seems to be a consistent problem with all stat-based Castlevanias
ftfy