[Herbarius]

shadow460, on Wed Oct 21, 2009 7:32 AM, said:

I managed to roll it

Congratulations!


I guess that means 11 pts for you this week - your tips are really very solid and helpful. One minor complaint, though:
Please stop calling the boomerang "the cross" it's confusing as there's already a cross (which clears the screen of enemies)

[shadow460]

I think the item that clears the screen is actually a rosary. I've seen a few of them in real life, and that items does look similar.
I just use the term "cross" because that's what its called in DXC and SotN.

[gdement]

Herbarius, on Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:55 PM, said:

One minor complaint, though:
Please stop calling the boomerang "the cross" it's confusing as there's already a cross (which clears the screen of enemies)

Ah - so that's what he meant! I was wondering what the cross was.

[shadow460]

It certainly doesn't look like a cross to me, but that's what they called it. I've never seen a cross sit kinda sideways with all four parts the same length. Then again, the pentagrams in SotN don't look like pentagrams, either. They are actually hexagrams with six points on the star instead of five.
Use the cross item crash in Rondo of Blood or DXC, though, and what appears does look more convincing.

This post has been edited by shadow460: Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:37 PM

[shadow460]

Final score: 1,292,420. Progress: Died halfway through the third castle at the Mummies. The Stage counter says 47. I never got hung up on anything here. I think the most times it took me to defeat any boss was four, and that was Death on the first go around.
This is the second HSC I have rolled this week (Megamania was the first). This is also my best performance with Castlevania--ever.

After you take that long plunge, cross the water, and then pass the outside area with the birds, bats, and flea men, that's where the difficulty maxes out. The next two levels are exactly like they are in the first caslte.

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[vdub_bobby]

Nice score! Wow!

We'll end this round in about 6 hours or so, and then play another appropriately themed game...

[shadow460]

I don't have very many NES games, let alone ones that I'm good at.

Here's the short list of what I'm really spectacular at:
Castlevania 1
SMB 2 US version
Super Sprint
Skull & Crossbones
Wizards & Warriors
Willow
RoboCop
Ghostbusters II
Burai Fighter
Duck Hunt

I can back up any and all smack that I talk on any of those. The other gazillion NES games? Well...those are another matter entirely...

I can hold my own with several others, including Rad Racer, SMB 1, and Hogan's Alley, but I probably would not win the HSC week on them.

[gdement]

I made another try last night, but had a terrible game. This is the Castlevania I remember.
I died *twice* on the 2nd level. One was a classic medusa-head-knocks-me-into-pit maneuver. Oh how I used to lose my temper at that exact spot...
Then I died 2 or 3 more times on the 3rd level, ending my game.

I don't remember why, but I got to the mummies with 1 hp left and no way to hit them from above. So I died.
Starting a new guy at the end of level 3 sucks. It's very hard to deal with the fireball statue things without a long whip. I got back to the boss another time but didn't have enough health or weapon to win.

[Herbarius]

gdement, on Fri Oct 23, 2009 4:09 AM, said:

I made another try last night, but had a terrible game. This is the Castlevania I remember.
I died *twice* on the 2nd level. One was a classic medusa-head-knocks-me-into-pit maneuver. Oh how I used to lose my temper at that exact spot...
Then I died 2 or 3 more times on the 3rd level, ending my game.

I don't remember why, but I got to the mummies with 1 hp left and no way to hit them from above. So I died.
Starting a new guy at the end of level 3 sucks. It's very hard to deal with the fireball statue things without a long whip. I got back to the boss another time but didn't have enough health or weapon to win.

I know exactly what you're talking about.

I tried to get a better score as well, but somehow I didn't even manage to reach my old highscore again. And it took me like a dozen tries - and also some extensive pauses because the frustration was going to kill me - to even get back to being able to beat the Mummies.

So my score is final, too.

But I guess I'm now hooked on Castlevania

This post has been edited by Herbarius: Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:13 PM

[vdub_bobby]

So I felt awful last night and couldn't muster the energy to log on and close things up, but we're done.....now! Hope you had fun playing this classic!