Okay so I beat three bosses today and then, whoops, turns out that I completely forgot to get this Galamoth soul shit like two minutes away from where I already was once.
So I spend something between twenty minutes and an hour (I was so pissed I don't know, realy) franticly trying to find my way back.Because, if you've ever played Aria of Sorrow, you know how overly complex and cryptic the castle is.
And you know why ? Because I'm using a walkthrough just so I don't bone myself and know where the vital shit is but the one I've been using, well, it's not the most detailed.
Here's the description the guy uses for where to find the Galamoth soul :
Go back and jump over the platforms and then go left to get a High Mind Up (I
think… e-mail me if I'm wrong). Go back down, and then all the way right to
get the Galamoth soul. Go back to the room with the platforms and go up, then
go left to get a High Potion. Go right to get a Gold Ring. Go back to the room
Yoko was and go left to enter The Arena.
I especialy like the "room with platforms" bit.
Yeah, there's about six different platforms in every third room, care to be a bit more specific ?
Worse yet he doesn't actualy tell you why you can suddenly pass by the Chronomage (an annoying rabbit who kept warping you back in time before you entered the room he was in) thanks to the Galamoth.
I don't wanna harp on the guy, but his descriptions often forced me to go around and try to come across what I was suposed to by sheer accident. I remember just finding the way to the "Floating Garden" was a bitch and I was utterly stumped when I accidentaly got there.
The person just immediately describes where you go, often not informing you if the direction he is giving as simply "go right" means going across one room or three, and often his incredibly vague hints can be aplied to multiple rooms close by each other.
I then switched to this guy, and I think you can agree he does a better job:
After that, head into the doorway to the right and keep going until you
reach a room with platforms leading up a tube. First hop up the
platforms, and up there, you can take two doorways. The left leads to a
chamber with an easy [HIGH POTION], the right leads to a corridor with
Cagnazzos guarding a on a pedestal. Once you've snagged
both, go back down and into the right doorway, then from there you have
got to cut through the throng of Rippers who chuck showers of knives!
At the end is a chamber containing a candlelabra; smash it for the
[GALAMOTH] ability soul!
Granted it takes a little bit of thought and conection, yet it's stil logicly correct and not misleading.
Now the REAL kicker is this whole backtracking quest originated when I couldn't pass the Chronomage, nor find the soul in any of the three soul categories that I posses.
Well guess what: even if you got this type of soul, it's automaticly always equiped and you never see it on any list in your inventory as far as I know.
But anyway, after that lengthy bit which threatened to decimate the already criticaly endangered hair population on my head, I managed to work my way through the Arena (btw: I only went for one of the items in the bonus rooms with the elevator, because conveyor belts leading to spikes, with endlessly spawning Medusa heads turning you into stone on contact flying around, with several valkyries and an Arc Demon (ginormous Summoned Skull like demon thing shooting lasers), and all for a sword that is inferior to the 12 000 dollar Ascalon I got earlier, and then having to go through that pandemonium again in reverse ? No way !) and then the Top Floor (which I'm prety sure seems to be situated somewhere in the bottom to mid regions) , managing to finaly beat the Succubus soul out of a, well, Succubus (it's crucial so you can play as Dracula and fight two more bosses after the regular "end boss"), I go up to Graham, who is normaly the final boss and…...it's realy funny when I can easily point out like three Bosses harder then this, like Balore for example. Because the last boss is.....a kinda......this
And at first you'd think it's hard, but then you realise "Holy Shit, he's not actualy using those arms to stomp me ?" ? Yeah, he won't even touch you if you're crouching. Plus every time you hit the indestructible hands, or the destructible skull laser ring at the top, you get back 5 health.
I actualy got back like 300 HP on this thing no problem. Maybe it's harder on the higher difficulty settings (if there are any, not gonna reset the game now to find out).
Anyways, now I'm Dracula, and I gotta beat Julius Belmont and some Chaos dude.
I wonder, does the girl in the front of the house stil fully heal me for nothing ?
Any-ways, I realy like this game, only thing I realy dislike is the character art used during dialogue. Colours look washed out and the art style somehow looks completely out of place here.
The Real Fighters!
