Subj : Re: Retrogame of the month: Castlevania
To   : deepthaw
From : Zero Reader
Date : Sat Oct 07 2017 13:57:03

On 10/07/17, deepthaw said the following...
 
 de> But that stuff like crouching with a crystal at a dead end so a tornado
 de> can take you away? Randomly dropping garlic in a graveyard? How did I
 de> figure out as much of it as I did?

Yep, those were the biggest leaps of logic in the whole game. There were no
clues (that made sense) that could lead anyone to perform those actions. I
think most people had a guide of some sort to get them through. 

And so let's say you had all of Dracula's body parts, there was really no
direction on how to then get to Dracula's castle and slay him. If memory
serves me right, you would begin the game and walk to the left as far as you
could go, then use the tornado (?) and you'd be transported to another zone,
and then you would walk right until you arrived at the castle, use the holy
water to break through the bricks and make your way down, and the final
battle was insanely easy because you could lock him down with holy water and
just whip him repeatedly.

Remember the diamond weapon? That was weird... get a bunch of those bouncing
around and it was do the job on Dracula also!

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