Your Most Memorable Challenges?

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#1 CyberDragon10K
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I wanted to turn some of the negative energy I've seen into something positive, so here's my thread: What is the most memorable challenge you've done in a Castlevania game recently (that you remember)? ^^

Personally, my Hard Level 1 Cap New Game in Portrait of Ruin made me look at the game a lot differently, and made me consider some weird options I might've never thought of in the Normal game. Being my most recent completion, it's definitely a memorable one. :]

Then there was that time I played through Castlevania: The Adventure a while back. Level 3 and the last level were fun; if it wasn't spiked floors/walls chasing you, then the 3 sides of the room would be lined with spikes (I swear, Dracula's architect was smoking crack in that game :S)... yummy. :9

Anyone got similar things to share? O=
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Ohhh yes plenty to share!

~Nest of Evil in Portrait of Ruin.....I spent soooooo long on that section, died so many times, and really don't want to see a Golden Skeleton again :P Well, at least not leveled up properly...

~Being that the Clocktower was mentioned, that really has always been the most challenging section for me in any CV game if it comes with spikes and medusa heads.  I'm always cringing..I've hated that part of the castle since CV 1. At least they don't have eagles anymore :roll:

~Dracula X.  Hands down, the most challenging game for me.  Talk about an ego blow.  The entire game was a challenge, and honestly *don't shun me*, I haven't completed it straight through without some kind of password help. Ugh.

~I did a lot of the underground waterway in Circle of the Moon WITHOUT the cleansing item.  What an idiot. :P

~Bosses: Beezebub and Galamonth in SotN, the Forgotten One in LoI, Death in CV1.

~Trying to finish Simon's Quest "on time".

~Trying to figure out where the hell to go in Harmony of Dissonance

~ Last but not least, my most embarrassing challenge.  I have the HARDEST time getting through the waterway in the first Castlevania.  It's awful and I should be beaten with a stick.  Either a bat/fishman throws me in the water almost every time. :cry:  

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I was pretty happy when I beat the werewolf in original mode in Chronicles.

Beating Castlevania 1 & 3 for the first time was exiting.

Discovering the upside down castle in Symphony.

Beating Dracula X with the best ending made my day.

The ultimate weight off my shoulders had to be beating The Adventure for the Gameboy.  I discoverd after I beat it that there was a secret room in the last level that had a heart (for refilling health) and a weapon upgrade in it that would have made it so much easier. Oh well.
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~Trying to figure out where the hell to go in Harmony of DissonanceSyrinx61

Rachel just named one of mine,running around the castle wondering if I can undo the Portal mistake that doesn't reverse itself and only serves to get me stuck.:twisted:

Another would be beating the Tower of Eternity in Curse of Darkness just to be annihilated at the top floor of the Tower of Evermore!! Very memorable indeed.

Defeating Dracula for the first time in CoD and then hearing some guy sing during the credits.How happy I was about defeating Dracula was a very memorable moment.

Defeating Death after barely surviving Isaac in CoD was a huge challenge and I still say it's highly unfair.

Fighting Legion in CoD with the Warhammer was a challenge.The warhammer is way too slow against him,but I wqas determined to do it.

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Death on CV1 Dracula on any CV game
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Ohhh yes plenty to share!

~Nest of Evil in Portrait of Ruin.....I spent soooooo long on that section, died so many times, and really don't want to see a Golden Skeleton again :P Well, at least not leveled up properly...

~Being that the Clocktower was mentioned, that really has always been the most challenging section for me in any CV game if it comes with spikes and medusa heads. I'm always cringing..I've hated that part of the castle since CV 1. At least they don't have eagles anymore :roll:

~Dracula X. Hands down, the most challenging game for me. Talk about an ego blow. The entire game was a challenge, and honestly *don't shun me*, I haven't completed it straight through without some kind of password help. Ugh.

~I did a lot of the underground waterway in Circle of the Moon WITHOUT the cleansing item. What an idiot. :P

~Bosses: Beezebub and Galamonth in SotN, the Forgotten One in LoI, Death in CV1.

~Trying to finish Simon's Quest "on time".

~Trying to figure out where the hell to go in Harmony of Dissonance

~ Last but not least, my most embarrassing challenge. I have the HARDEST time getting through the waterway in the first Castlevania. It's awful and I should be beaten with a stick. Either a bat/fishman throws me in the water almost every time. :cry:Syrinx61


1. Good ol' Nest of Evil... another reason why we hate it? Two Creatures. 'Nuff said. XD

2. Oh good grief, I remember those damn Eagle/Hunchback combos in the Clock Tower... freaking little buggers jump THROUGH the walls - WTF? oO;;

3. It had the control scheme of the classic NES Castlevanias, and the presentation of something sub-CV4. I've yet to play that game seriously... although I have finished it using state saves just to look at the general layout of the game. :/

4. I imagine a constant poison/damage effect from the water must've been annoying... ^^;;

5. Forgotten One on @Crazy Mode is much more difficult, but my first time against it on Normal was pretty hairy too. The sheer amount of maggots that Curse, Stone AND Poison on contact in @Crazy make it nearly impossible to speed through the first part though. ==b

Admittedly, I've only ever beat CV1 Death with the Holy Water cheese tactic... >>

6. Yet another thing on my Castlevania "to do" list. :/

7. LOL... seriously... that made me laugh. About the 5th or 6th time I've physically typed that acronym too since I got on the intarweb. XP

8. Wow... that isn't normally a challenge area... I've died a few times trying to get through, but it's usually not that bad. Frankie and Igor become real deadbeats if I miss the Holy Water in the waterway though... >:[

I was pretty happy when I beat the werewolf in original mode in Chronicles.

Beating Castlevania 1 & 3 for the first time was exiting.

Discovering the upside down castle in Symphony.

Beating Dracula X with the best ending made my day.

The ultimate weight off my shoulders had to be beating The Adventure for the Gameboy. I discoverd after I beat it that there was a secret room in the last level that had a heart (for refilling health) and a weapon upgrade in it that would have made it so much easier. Oh well.ainge


1. She-wolf truly is a *****, no matter what difficulty you're playing it on. Congrats for beating her on Original Mode. I'm going to play Hard Arranged before jumping in head first though, just see if there's a noticeable difference. :]

5. Haha... I hear ya. One of my most embarassing moments in Level 4 was when I was on a moving platform trying to get myself onto the higher levels. I stood too close to the edge of the platform and ended up impaled in the spiked wall: Go me. XD

Another would be beating the Tower of Eternity in Curse of Darkness just to be annihilated at the top floor of the Tower of Evermore!! Very memorable indeed.

Defeating Dracula for the first time in CoD and then hearing some guy sing during the credits.How happy I was about defeating Dracula was a very memorable moment.

Defeating Death after barely surviving Isaac in CoD was a huge challenge and I still say it's highly unfair.

Fighting Legion in CoD with the Warhammer was a challenge.The warhammer is way too slow against him,but I wqas determined to do it.Scorpinox1989

3. Agreed. What's worse is trying to steal from the guy on @Crazy Mode... Perfect Guarding the 11-13 hits of his big bang kamehameha is a lot more reliable than using Tiramisu's Invincibility Jar and toggling it off at a precise time though. :S

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Figureing out where the hell I need to go next in Circle of the Moon

Figureing out where the hell I need to go next in AoS and DoS

Defeating Geroth with the blank book in PoR

Beelzebub in SoN

 Realizing that stupid fairy used up all my potions in SoN

Everything about Castlevania 2 simons quest, I didn't like that one to much

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beating bloodlines which is a very hard cv game
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beating bloodlines which is a very hard cv gamealucard1137
yea, that one was tricky, but it's one of my favourites
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The first time I played Castlevania and when I finaly defeted Galamoth in SotN.
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Just completed my Sisters Hard Mode Level 1 Cap game a while ago by clearing the Nest of Evil (almost). Couldn't kill the dual Creatures since they're too much of a *****, but I felt good after wasting the 9 Old Axe Armors without getting hit: Boo-yah. >:]
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Beezebub owned me like 50 times and I got so pissed my blood pressure rose. I also remember beating the underground waterway without cleansing in CoTM. In Dracula X Dracula owned me like 100 times at the end...
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My recent challenge is trying to beat Death in Aria of Sorrow. :twisted:

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Beezebub owned me like 50 times and I got so pissed my blood pressure rose. I also remember beating the underground waterway without cleansing in CoTM. In Dracula X Dracula owned me like 100 times at the end...MastirOfPuppets

AHHH! Someone else who didn't get the cleansing item either! I feel much better now. :oops:  Congrats at least you got to the end of Drac X....I'm still floored with that game's difficulty.

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beating the boss battle mode in AOS and gettin the sword thats's just like the crissaeggrim and oops.. i forgot that sword's name!!! :lol: Anywayz howya been Rach?
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beating the boss battle mode in AOS and gettin the sword thats's just like the crissaeggrim and oops.. i forgot that sword's name!!! :lol: Anywayz howya been Rach?bigboss_johndoe
Is the Crissagrim really that rare??? I ask because it didn't take to long for it to get dropped for me.
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getting 10 Ghost dancers souls without any luck to begin with. :/
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Figureing out where the hell I need to go next in Circle of the Moon

Figureing out where the hell I need to go next in AoS and DoS

Defeating Geroth with the blank book in PoR

Beelzebub in SoN

Realizing that stupid fairy used up all my potions in SoN

Everything about Castlevania 2 simons quest, I didn't like that one to much

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you know you only had to deliver the final blow with the blank book right? :?

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Off the top of my head.... fighting 25 Metal Gear Rays on European Extreme Mode in Metal Gear Solid 2. THAT. WAS. SOLID.
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Off the top of my head.... fighting 25 Metal Gear Rays on European Extreme Mode in Metal Gear Solid 2. THAT. WAS. SOLID.Soul_Of_Snake

Just a useful reminder that we're talking about Castlevania Challenges. :wink:

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[QUOTE="Soul_Of_Snake"]Off the top of my head.... fighting 25 Metal Gear Rays on European Extreme Mode in Metal Gear Solid 2. THAT. WAS. SOLID.Scorpinox1989

Just a useful reminder that we're talking about Castlevania Challenges. :wink:

Oh. Right. Oops.
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I've just beaten the final bosses of Portrait of Ruin with Richter & Maria on Hard Mode Level 1 Cap: Damn, I feel good... although my arms are sore... XD
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I've just beaten the final bosses of Portrait of Ruin with Richter & Maria on Hard Mode Level 1 Cap: Damn, I feel good... although my arms are sore... XDCyberDragon10K
congrats!
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I finally beat Death and I got out of the Clocktower in Aria of Sorrow. :D
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oh dear god.... finding the 60 poe souls on zelda twinlight princess .... i had 46... and even with the faqs is giving me a headache.. :lol: :lol:
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I, too, did not get the cleansing item for the waterway in CotM. I kept dying, and I was like, "There's no way in hell that you can beat this without some sort of magic." Boy, did I get a slap in the head when I got the cleansing item.

My memorable moments:

- getting EVERY SOUL in DoS (and some I had to get a soul twice due to weapon upgrade...that damn Iron Golum!!)
- getting to Level 99 in DoS...boy did THAT take forever!
- picking up Castlevania: The Adventure (many years ago!), and sadly never beat the game, and then I picked up CV: Circle of the Moon, and fell in love again.

- playing 4 CV in a row, within a month. That's: Circle of the Moon, Harmony of Dissonance, Aria of Sorrow, and Dawn of Sorrow.

I haven't seriously played any console games (I've tried Castlevania for NES, but that's a bi***!), and I have Portrait of Ruin, played only a little bit of it, had to put it down...will pick it up sometime soon.


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oops.. forgot this was about CV.. :lol: sory was in zelda mode... now that i`m in CV mode... bloody stage 3 in Super Castlevania IV .... also it took forever to get all the cards in CotM :? but i did it :D:D:D::D:D
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... WHY... ARE... THOSE FAKES... SO... HARD?!?! :x

It's so uncharacteristically odd for Trevor, Grant, and Sypha to be difficult that my Level 1 Richter game has come to a grinding halt! ==b

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*Frustrationz*

*Plays Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time to relieve frustrationz*

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hmm... years ago i remember in castlevania 64, i was lost in some cave with a bunch of spiders for the longest time... i got so bored running around not knowing what to do i quit, and didnt play and beat it till probably months later

i remember being pretty happy when i beat dracula in COTM in magician mode... it took me more than a few tries, becuase 1 hit and i was dead, but i finally got it and it was a lot of fun... i think i used a mixture of the cockatrice DSS summon and some invicibly thing

and most recently, i gave a go at HODissonance's boss rush mode on hard, seeing that i had never beaten it before. well.. i managed to die at the same boss i did last time. only i did it about 8 seconds faster now lol. apparently my castlevania skills havent improved much in 5 years

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and most recently, i gave a go at HODissonance's boss rush mode on hard, seeing that i had never beaten it before. well.. i managed to die at the same boss i did last time. only i did it about 8 seconds faster now lol. apparently my castlevania skills havent improved much in 5 yearskappareign

i know what you mean.. i ahve never been able to beat that on hard... i manage to die on the same way some how :lol: i have not try in while thus :? and still on the skeletons warrior :evil:

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[QUOTE="kappareign"]and most recently, i gave a go at HODissonance's boss rush mode on hard, seeing that i had never beaten it before. well.. i managed to die at the same boss i did last time. only i did it about 8 seconds faster now lol. apparently my castlevania skills havent improved much in 5 yearschang_1910

i know what you mean.. i ahve never been able to beat that on hard... i manage to die on the same way some how :lol: i have not try in while thus :? and still on the skeletons warrior :evil:



I don't think I've ever done it very fast before, but I have beaten it on hard mode. The bosses have fairly predictable patterns, but they do tons of damage, so I just take it slow and try not to get nervous.
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yeah, i get to death on the boss rush and then die... cuz hes got 2 forms in a row there. but come to think of it ive only ever attempted beating it like... twice. lol. because i only have 2 records. ive just been busy with other CV things

anyway, i remembered some other challenges. when i was like... 8 or something, i had belmonts revenge for gameboy. and there was this stupid little jumpy guy that threw knives at you non-stop. i dont remember which castle he was in... but when i was so young ugh i hated that guy. he wasnt even a boss :?

and then i remember in castlevania 64, you had to take this nitro to blow up a wall or something. and if you jumped or got hit, you died. so i just remember that was a ****

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yeah, i get to death on the boss rush and then die... cuz hes got 2 forms in a row there. but come to think of it ive only ever attempted beating it like... twice. lol. because i only have 2 records. ive just been busy with other CV things

anyway, i remembered some other challenges. when i was like... 8 or something, i had belmonts revenge for gameboy. and there was this stupid little jumpy guy that threw knives at you non-stop. i dont remember which castle he was in... but when i was so young ugh i hated that guy. he wasnt even a boss :?

and then i remember in castlevania 64, you had to take this nitro to blow up a wall or something. and if you jumped or got hit, you died. so i just remember that was a ****

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that happen to me with death ..is so annoying.... almost done..wait no... death :lol: the flea men? u mean..no he does not throw knives, does he?? if so.. i hate the bloody guy on everysingle CV Now: my most memorable challenge..well i have a new winner: "Getting the rare drop item from the skeleton warrior in CV LoI" i had to equip 2 coins of happinnes, one racoon and even so i had to kill 319 skeleton warriors to get it... 319!!! 319!!!! i`ll post the pic on the thread stats as proof of a complete encyclopedia.. bc after that u can bet i have eversingle one :lol: :lol: