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Walk to the right - using the right side of the directional pad on your
Game Boy Advance to find - scrap metal! Boy, Castlevania sure is a shit-hole
lately! Hey, Dracula, ever hear of cleaning up after yourself? Sheesh! Ah, the game's first puzzle - how to traverse the pile... I'll give you a hint - it will take a great *leap* of faith in order to *jump* over this obstacle! Why don't you *hop* over to the next scene! (p.s. Buttons on your Game Boy Advance make your character do things!) |
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Oh no! It's one of those giant mechs predominant in vampire lore! Yikes! And he's chasing you! Run away like the coward you are! |
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Cross this drawbridge, and the denizens of the castle wisely close the drawbridge so the giant mech can't get you, and will trip and fall in the moat. Dracula really needs to learn basic economics. If you buy or build a giant guard robot, don't have it stupidly walk into a moat. Damn Soviet-era mechs! |
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And it explodes in a flurry of crappy fire effects. You just defeated your first enemy, you clever bastard! Good job! |
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Proceed further into the castle, and you'll meet... uh... that... thing! It looks like a giant weight-lifting sperm of some sort. Get ready for it to burst through that curtain!!!... even though it won't. No really, it just stays there. Sigh. |
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Later in the castle you'll meet... a purple knight! Purple knights were common in medival times, wielding spears, pursuing interests in interior decoration, and protesting that fine ministrel, Eminem. Use your whip to defeat him. He likes it. |
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This is a save point, which you can tell from its polyhedronal shape - common to most save points in vampire castles. This lets you save your game, so if Juste dies, you can start from there. You'd think Dracula would've removed these first. But after that giant mech incident it's clear that's he's not as bright as the days when Gary Oldman portrayed him. |
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Get a giant heart, and your heart max goes up. Now you can collect more hearts. Hearts allow you to do things like throw axes and daggers. And not real hearts, but those cartoony Valentine's day hearts. Using a dagger costs one heart, and using a bible (or a book with a cross on it) costs ten hearts. Makes sense to me! |
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Press start to go to this status screen. According to this, my status is "GOOD", which is odd because I felt a little pekid that day. |
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You'll notice too, that if you jump, you'll see after-images of Juste follow him. Actually, that's prevalent throughout the game. No, I don't know why, either. You'd think if you wanted to sneak around a castle, you wouldn't want giant blue holograms of yourself following you around. |