If anybody gets paid for this, it darn well better be me. Whoever made that screenshot apparently used an emulator and turned off a background to get that. He can also use special weapons--such as axes, crosses, holy water, and daggers--which are found by whipping candles or similar objects. Anyway, go ahead and set today's time and date. If you took the low route, mind the gap where the large snake creature likes to pop up and take a bite out of jumping vampire killers. Granted, it was an incredibly powerful machine in its day, but the original is now almost 25 years old.
You can try to fight it off if you'd like, but it is quite fast and does not die easily. Stage 3: Again, not much going on here. Stage 12: The spike traps near the beginning are reminiscient of a similar part of Block 2 from the original Castlevania. Try to get just within whipping distance of Dracula when he starts to teleport in, then when he opens his cape, jump towards him and whip. There's still one more bat, but defeating it or Pocketwatching by it won't be too difficult.
It also changes the player sprite to have flowing magenta hair, provides a difficulty option, and kills the knock-back effect when you get hit by something - overall, this is the mode for people that don't want the sheer difficulty of the original game. You can use this to your advantage; grab the Dagger earlier in the level and keep kneeling throughout the battle. The extras in the game seem to be as hastily incorporated as other parts of the game. Fortunately you can whip the floor at the stepdown right before Medusa for some much needed Meat. Note: you will get this automatically in the Japanese version if you select Original Mode. Simon Belmont has a new sprite complete with leather armor and red hair, though his animation isn't quite up to par with Alucard's animation in Symphony of the Night. Low range, but it'll do decent damage to anything dumb enough to stay in it's flame though.
Super Cheats is an unofficial resource with submissions provided by members of the public. I started this form with 1 bar and got him down to 7 before he finally hit me. Nothing you've probably not already seen if you own the Sega Saturn version though. This restores 6 blocks of your health, and you can keep using it if you have enough hearts. At about the end of your ride you'll have to leap accross a few platforms to get to a new raft.
If you were playing Original however, just like Castlevania, you get to restart on Block 1, except this time the game is even harder. A So does everyone else's who owns the Japanese version. The original art from the X68000 holds up really nicely in this one. The Holy Water works wonders on it, though. He likes to float around, flooding the screen with sickles. This will give you four new items.
You'll be harder to hit that way. You'll have to sink under the steps to get to it though. Once you get past the stairwells and Axe Armors, you can whip the top right block for some Meat. At that point, a Double Shot can be found in any candle that would normally be a Heart. If you're reading this, please e-mail me so I can give you credit. But none of these additions successfully mask the fact that you're indeed playing an 8-year-old game, because it certainly shows in both the gameplay and graphics.
Try to stay as far away as possible while throwing Crosses at both the Werewolf and its stone chunks if you have the Hearts to spare. A few changes have been made to the visuals in the arrange mode. Its weak point is its head, so aim for that with whatever you may have the Axe would be pretty useful here, and crosses are always good. Bone Pillars are always good for this, if you have a Cross and wait for them to fire a few fireballs your way before you chuck a Cross at them. Q My music skips during Block 2 of Arrange! For best results position yourself so that your enemy is at the boomerang's maximum distance, so that it will get hit several times when the boomerang stops and starts to return. It was also extremely difficult.
Also, she will periodically jump high in the air and toss out snakes. For what it's worth, the time and date will be saved to the memory card, but obviously it'll be off the next time you play the game. He'll jump around and throw some fireballs at you, but quite frankly you'll be doing far more damage to him than he's doing to you. Every time you strike it it will turn into a flock of bats; you can kill off some of these bats if you like, but there's no point since extra bats will fly in to replace any you kill, and eventually the whole lot will reform the Darkwing Bat again. The second one will drop, setting the room on fire.
It is set by default to May 24, 2001 the game's release date in Japan. On the third screen however you may have gotten there beware of the chandeliers. There's also a time attack mode where you can see how fast it takes you to get through various levels. The Konami Code makes a comeback as well, but I've devoted a whole section to it later on. I loved Castlevania 1-4 2 is by far my favorite, though I know many people seem to hate it , and Chronicles really focuses on that same style.