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Why a whip?
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it looks cool
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It is a magical whip to defeat magical Dracula. Non-magical weapons don’t work as well.
But it’s not like anyone has tried nukes.
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>Non-magical weapons don’t work as well
but can they do it? if it’s only a matter of dealing enough damage then nukes would probably work just fine, provided you manage to actually hit him. -
>Non-magical weapons don’t work as well
Within Castlevania canon Quincy Morris killed Dracula with a stake in the heart
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in SotN you could conceivably knife Dracula to death
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>Non-magical weapons don’t work as well
Within Castlevania canon Quincy Morris killed Dracula with a stake in the heart
Several characters in the series also fight monsters with normal weapons (as do the protagonists of SotN, AoS, DoS and PoR with most available weapons).
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>But it’s not like anyone has tried nukes.
Could have happened. We know literally nothing about the vampire war of 1999.
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Those things hurt like hell. Plus he puts a fucking spiked ball at the end of it when it’s upgraded.
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supposedly the dev though Indiana Jones was cool
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BDSM
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they hurt like hell
also it’s a blessed whip passed down through generations -
It has a weighted tip, making it more like a really long flail than a whip.
Unbelievably difficult to wield but the Belmonts are just cool like that. -
It has a morning star on the end in most versions.
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>many many games with whip wielding character
>Never ever used as a mobility tool to move around the castle-
Didn’t Bloodlines do this? I remember swinging.
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I remember Julius could swing with his whip in Harmony of Despair.
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Super Castlevania 4 and Bloodlines use it for mobility, the former more so than the latter.
Lords of Shadow 1 as well.-
>Lords of Shadow
Not a castlevania game,let’s be honest
You can’t just put a few name in and pretend people to be retarded and fall for it
I did,nice game,but not a Castlevania-
If I can pretend Dawn of Sorrow doesn’t exist, I sure as hell can say that LoS is a Castlevania game
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It’s litterally a totally different game,they just had little faith in it and decided "if we write "castlevania" someone may buy it"
>If I can pretend Dawn of Sorrow doesn’t exist
lol a couple of anime mugshots and a minigame you need to do few times in the whole game doesn’t make the game much worse,I don’t get you
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4 used it as a mandatory platforming tool
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Indiana Jones games usually use the whip to swing over pits or climb over obstacles.
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>Doesn’t seem very practical in fighting monsters and vampires
Worked for Jesus.-
underrated post
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>extremely effective in skilled hands
>allows you to avoid melee combat
>looks cool
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The genesis of Castlemania boils down to Indiana Jones + Conan + Universal Monsters
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Its only impractical if you suck with it. Of course if you’re close quarters you’re screwed.
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It’s a magical whip that makes bastards explode.
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The creator liked Indiana Jones, confirmed in an interview. That’s pretty much the only reason.
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It’s based on Jesus using a whip to clear out the garden gnomes in his temple. (((Dracula))) is basically the king of the garden gnomes.
>confirmed in an interview
Yeah, and Anno ‘confirmed’ that all the Christian symbolism in Eva was just ’cause it looked cool. Read between the lines. -
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>Castlevania was directed and programmed by Hitoshi Akamatsu for the Family Computer Disk System in 1986.[64][1] The game’s staff roll features names taken from famous horror movie icons, with Akamatsu being credited as ‘Trans Fishers’, a reference to film director Terence Fisher.[65] This is possibly because Konami did not allow the use of real names at the time in order to prevent other companies from hiring people who worked for them.[65][66] An admirer of cinema, Akamatsu approached projects with a "film director’s eye", and said the visuals and music for Castlevania were "made by people who consciously wanted to do something cinematic".[1] The protagonist Simon Belmont uses a whip because Akamatsu liked Raiders of the Lost Ark, and it also matched the world he wanted to create.[1]
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>Hitoshi Akamatsu, the creator of the legendary Castlevania, was my boss when I first joined the gaming industry. 1 I asked him then, “Why do the Belmonts fight with whips?” He replied, “It matched the world of the game I wanted to create, and as far as weapons go, whips are great at repelling enemies. Also… because I love Raiders of the Lost Ark! (laughs)” He told me a lot of the developers at Konami back then were really into Western movies, too.
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That is exactly the point. The devs wanted a non-standard weapon because swords’n’shit were overrated and overused at the time.
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Kokoro is the best Belmont, prove me wrong.
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i’m replaying SOTN right now and it’s so damn good
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>Hitoshi Akamatsu, the creator of the legendary Castlevania, was my boss when I first joined the gaming industry. I asked him then, “Why do the Belmonts fight with whips?” He replied, “It matched the world of the game I wanted to create, and as far as weapons go, whips are great at repelling enemies. Also… because I love Raiders of the Lost Ark! (laughs)” He told me a lot of the developers at Konami back then were really into Western movies, too.
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>whips are great at repelling (((enemies)))
This is where you’re supposed to read in between the lines.-
obsessed.
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Seething.
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I’m getting filtered in Circle of the Moon. Please help.
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weird dog
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The sewers area and Adramelech are the true filters of the game. Be patient and focus more on dodging than attacking.
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slide under the bubbles
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He clearly has a sword too
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Contrary to popular belief, it wasn’t this game that killed Castlevania, it was the proto-Treasure staff involved on Castlevania 4’s team that did, by fucking with and dumbing down the core 8-bit Castlevania gameplay which Akamatsu had envisioned for the series as seen in great CVs such as 1 and 3. If Treasure had respected his wishes and stayed true to authentic Castlevania gameplay, the series would have never lost its way, degenerating over the years after the snowball started rolling with 4.
In summary: Fuck Trashure for ruining Castlevania.
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Treasure worked on 4? No wonder that game is so awesome.
Yes. Instead of going bigger and badder all the time they instead stripped everything back down to the essentials for that game. It’s great.
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>Treasure worked on 4? No wonder that game is so awesome.
Stfu Treasuredrone. 4 is the easiest, gimmickiest, most boring, most laggy Classicvania of all time, fuck that game.
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If I like Classicvania and am not really fond of Metroidvanias, will I like OoE? I see people comparing it to Classicvania a lot.
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no. if you want non-linear ‘vania done right, play pic related.
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Don’t think so, the level design and general progression is more reminiscent of the older games, CV3 in particular, but it’s stll a metroidvania at heart, just with less bloat in terms of equipment and abilities.
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IIRC in multiple interviews a dude mentioned the Indiana Jones thing. But in a few he also mentioned the punishing aspect of a whip. Belmonts want Dracula to feel the holy bite.
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