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You need exactly 200.6% or better castle completion for the Best Ending.
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Shiki Dan posted:You need exactly 200.6% or better castle completion for the Best Ending. I'm pretty sure it's 196% or higher. Actually just checked and yeah, everywhere I can find it's 196%.
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Sep 18, 2018 20:29
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I think we're all remembering 200.6% because that is the maximum completion percentage achievable by playing normally.
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Sep 18, 2018 20:36
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GeminiSun posted:I think we're all remembering 200.6% because that is the maximum completion percentage achievable by playing normally. Question..why 200.6%? Wouldn't 1 castle be 50ish and the second castle the other 50?
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:Question..why 200.6%? I think 100% would be up to the throne room (maybe it'd be 100.1?) but since Donkey Kong Country would do 101%/102% and so on for its completions they probably thought that giving a little more than 100% would be enough to say "yeah, congrats you beat the game" Then double that for the Inverted Castle.
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:Question..why 200.6%?
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:Question..why 200.6%? I think there's one room in the inverted castle that is not in the normal one.
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RC Cola posted:Ugh. My ps3 is back with my wife in Illinois and I sold my vita a long time ago. Rip
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I just want to point out that during the upside down library, everyone watching the video held their breath every time you killed a Schmoo. They drop a certain little sword called Crissaegrim. It's so notoriously broken that Nintendo actually gives it a nod in Smash Bros Ultimate, where Alucard's assist trophy has it equipped instead of just the Alucard sword
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Sep 19, 2018 21:43
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FeyerbrandX posted:I don't think its come up yet (since there isn't any evidence from the last couple videos), but Yorkshire, my expectations are loading up on when you'll share the biggest secret of the game. Since I still don't remember this coming up. I tried to be cute with that. Just push any d-pad direction when "Now Loading" is on screen.
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 Episode 39 - The Perfect Way For This to End And that my friends is all she wrote! As the (hopefully unobtrusive) segment at the end notes, we'll be coming back for our next LP, Mega Man 11 with an introduction on October 5th and a formal start to the proceedings on October the 8th. In the mean time, I'll be upgrading the OP ahead of archive and hopefully discussing a bunch more spoilers with you! And if it isn't too cheeky to ask, rate the thread so I know if I'm a horrible failure or not! Thanks so much for following along and hopefully Tea and I will see you in our next thread.
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voted 5 for Bishounen Senshi Sailor Vampire srsly, cool LP and I look forward to more megamen
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I give this LP a solid 188.4% out of uh.. 5?
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The version of the game included with Dracula X Chronicles also has a Maria mode, and it's not the same as the Maria mode in the Saturn version. In the Saturn version, Maria played practiaclly identically to Richter; she had all the same sub-weapons and most if not all of the same fighting game moves, although I don't know if she had Richter's Item Crashes. The DXC version of Maria has unique sub-weapons and Item Crashes based on her moveset in Rondo of Blood, where she had abilities based upon the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations (Tiger, Dragon, Turtle, and Phoenix). The icon on your save file after dying to the bird is Konami Man, the protagonist of another (Japan-only) Konami game for the NES.
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SatansOnion posted:voted 5 for Bishounen Senshi Sailor Vampire  Bat friend being a long term friend was also one of the best results of the spoiler policy.
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Richter and Julius are pretty tough, but I'd say that Juste is tougher. Besides being a total badass, I don't think anyone else has managed to help shake off someone else being turned into Dracula, Xehanort style, by talking about all the times they bro'd out together.
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Commander Keene posted:The version of the game included with Dracula X Chronicles also has a Maria mode, and it's not the same as the Maria mode in the Saturn version. In the Saturn version, Maria played practiaclly identically to Richter; she had all the same sub-weapons and most if not all of the same fighting game moves, although I don't know if she had Richter's Item Crashes. The DXC version of Maria has unique sub-weapons and Item Crashes based on her moveset in Rondo of Blood, where she had abilities based upon the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations (Tiger, Dragon, Turtle, and Phoenix). She didn't have the Item Crashes in the Saturn version, but she had 7 special spells she could do with button combinations, making her notably stronger than her DXC version as far as I know. Wiki link to the spells. She also did have fairly different movement options, like a triple jump.
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Cyflan posted:She didn't have the Item Crashes in the Saturn version, but she had 7 special spells she could do with button combinations, making her notably stronger than her DXC version as far as I know. One of the things I've really been enjoying after I finished is watching speed runs on Richter/Maria mode. They seems absolutely hilarious.
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Ok you guys are fun but I had to stop watching halfway through episode 5 because of nat’s constant purposefully annoying stuborness. Him reaching like 9 health even though he had a potion to use and then letting it get to 1 and him trying to jump up one of those red skeleton lifts like 7 times taking hits the whole time even though he knew from an early episode it wouldn’t work were making me pull my hair out
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Sep 20, 2018 19:46
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You played the game like that clip from the simpsons where Bart keeps grabbing the electric cupcake thinking he’s eventually going to get it lol
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Sep 20, 2018 19:48
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Actually all of that was hilarious.
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Sep 20, 2018 19:54
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Aesop Poprock posted:You played the game like that clip from the simpsons where Bart keeps grabbing the electric cupcake thinking he’s eventually going to get it lol In one way that gets better. I get more used to the items and abilities I have over time and use them more frequently and cautiously. On the other hand lord knows if I've my mind set on something I will try to do it regardless of sense.
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Natural 20 posted:In one way that gets better. I get more used to the items and abilities I have over time and use them more frequently and cautiously. Yeah,you not exploring the old castle was kinda infuriating. I forgot what's inside that clocktower portcullis,Nat! How will I find out now????
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What made me the angriest is when Nat decided not to get a Muramasa drop and then go kill a billion mermen and/or dark octopuses to turn it into a good weapon.
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Zanzibar Ham posted:What made me the angriest is when Nat decided not to get a Muramasa drop and then go kill a billion mermen and/or dark octopuses to turn it into a good weapon. ...That's actually pretty gruesome when you think about it, huh.
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The ol Criss is the more powerful option. But I've always been more fond of the sweet punch fist the lion drops in the library. Because that has a literal Hadoken, AND a machinegun punch.Jack-Off Lantern posted:Yeah,you not exploring the old castle was kinda infuriating. I forgot what's inside that clocktower portcullis,Nat!  Gold plate, Steel helmet, and the Star Flail which... Isn't as cool as it sounds. A bunch of mediocre gear that could already be out of date by the time you take on the clock tower. (The diamond plate is on clear display in the library shop, for example.) You'd figure for a semi-secret it would at least be stronger than the ice mail sitting out in the open next to the shaman shield in the clock tower for once you get the vertical oomph to grab those. Reverse tower's version has a life apple, Diamond, and the Sun Stone. The last of which is a nice +5 to everything, but only for what the game clock considers daytime. Which is nice but see "By the time you get it..." because even Nat was loaded up on cool toys by then. The most hilarious "I'm glad they didn't remember" to me was never backtracking to the east tower of the first castle to use Mist. Mirror armor is some of the weakest in the game, but hey immunity to petrify would have deprived us of the traditional ire towards medusa heads. Section Z fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Sep 21, 2018 |
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Section Z posted:Which is nice but see "By the time you get it..." because even Nat was loaded up on cool toys by then.
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I was really hoping the Medusa Shield would drop. Not only is the Shield Rod spell (eye lasers) hilariously awesome, he just might have figured out that it damages enemies on contact - which probably would have taught him that that is a thing he could do, and give him a hint for the Alucard Shield.
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On one hand the Shield Rod/Alucard Shield combo is the most overpowered bullshit you'll ever see, but on the other hand it's kinda hilarious in its brokenness, so I almost wish they'd figured that one out.
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One of the major reasons I made the choice to never go back was because I didn't really feel like it would make for entertaining viewing. I already felt a little bad that I was killing everything in the reverse castle with such ease that I didn't want to both make the game easier and extend the playthrough meaning everyone had to watch more of that.
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Natural 20 posted:One of the major reasons I made the choice to never go back was because I didn't really feel like it would make for entertaining viewing.
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Section Z posted:The only reason I regret you never going back to the proper library is that you never bought the cape with a color change menu. Batucard could have been SO HANDSOME for Bat Friend.
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Section Z posted:The only reason I regret you never going back to the proper library is that you never bought the cape with a color change menu. I maintain the reverse library should have had another shop.
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Natural 20 posted:I maintain the reverse library should have had another shop. Only if the shopkeeper and the UI were upside down, and one item was priced at 5,318,008. or at least 58,008.
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FeyerbrandX posted:Only if the shopkeeper and the UI were upside down, and one item was priced at 5,318,008. or at least 58,008.
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Of a final note, now that spoilers are gone, this video is great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxJZtm-MVEI It's one of the well-known speedrunners of Castlevania games breaking SotN alongside Koji Igarashi, one of the most well-known figures who worked on SotN. The results are pretty amazing and you get to see exactly how broken SotN really is if you try hard enough.
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Natural 20 posted:In one way that gets better. I get more used to the items and abilities I have over time and use them more frequently and cautiously. To be fair I have honestly never played or even watched the game and watching you play it got me to buy it and I’m having a blast. Is the clock item kind of a cheat though cause I got that early on (I’m still really early on) and I froze my clone enemy twice when he tried the dive strike and he was gone in two turns. I kind of like being a vampire time wizard regardless Also are those weird howling doggy skull things that never stop respawning in that one room basically a grinding paradise cause they barely hurt you even if they hit you and they drop like $400 sometimes. I went through 3 levels just bouncing around fighting them
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AncientSpark posted:Of a final note, now that spoilers are gone, this video is great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxJZtm-MVEI This is the best thing.  Though really it's also kind of like setting fire to an artist's painting while they watch. Or possibly butchering their pet.
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Black Robe posted:.Though really it's also kind of like setting fire to an artist's painting while they watch. Or possibly butchering their pet. Is it though? In order to discover these sort of glitches, the speed runners have played countless hours of the game, and care enough about the game to want to be the fastest in the world at beating it. I'd say it's more along the lines of the Lit teacher going through and deriving a books worth of metaphor and allegory from "The sky was blue" when the writer just meant the sky was blue. The runners are bringing entirely new ways to play that might not be the intended way, but still result in people enjoying the art that the creators made.
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