The Muramasa was intended to be the secret bonus sword for the game. The damage for the weapon actually gets saved into memory on the PS1. If you reload the file you have it at 999 on and then go back to title and start a new file that's a replay, when you get the weapon it will retain its level from your main file.
4:42 Watchng that Medusa shield drop and disappear was heartbreaking because of how rare it is. Seriously it was the last item I needed for 100 percent item completion.
VuryViA 2077 Honestly everyone most likely has that ONE item that just will not drop. When I first played the game as a kid it was the Heaven Sword. You can't imagine my dismay when I found out that you needed two of them to do the special attack.
You're not telling me you got the Crissaegrim before the Medusa shield, aren't you? Even with Ring of Arcana and the best spot to slash a Schmoo over and over again it takes way longer than getting the Medusa shield. The Rune sword also takes a lot of time because you have more walking time between a Dodo Bird and refreshing the room. Also hate getting the Dracula's tunic because my controller is too old to do 20 smooth gravity jumps in a row 😭
@@RondoOfBloodX Well, sometimes Alucard is very lucky but even with a lower drop rate than the Crissaegrim, I always find the Medusa shield quite fast. It's more slashes per minute because Medusa heads are plenty on screen. At least very easy with the duplicator ^^
I wonder, though, in real time DPS, if the Muramasa or the sword that has damage based on map completion is better? What is the damage, per swing, of a Crissaegrim? Also, I would argue that with unlimited items, the flame star is the best.
Shield rod + Alucard Shield. No grinding needed, fixed damage, recover HP per hit. Crissaegrim or however you spell it (prefer the new name Valmanway) is fine but it's also a rare drop (therefore long grinding depending on your luck), and my favourite rare drop will always be the Fist of Tulkas.
Just to let you guys know, I was able to use an Excel spreadsheet to do the math. For each attack point, it will increase by 2 from the previous required amount, as the formula 2(x)+12 implies. To get it from 1 Attack to 2 attack, for example, you would need 14 blood splatters, and to get from 2 to 3, you would need 16. By running the numbers, getting from 998 to 999 attack takes 2008 blood splatters. Assuming we go from 1 attack to 999 attack, we would need 1,008,978 blood splatters total. Now, this number isn't perfect. Muramasa initially lowers your attack by 5, meaning that Alucard would need a base 6 attack to be able to do this. This also doesn't factor in attack boosts from level ups or equipment (which may not be a thing, I'm only familiar with the DS Castlevanias, sadly), meaning that the number could further be changed, though only by a bit. Let's assume that the Alucard at 1:00 is fairly standard. Alucard's base attack is 75. The 117 is the result of a +42 from Alucard Sword in his right-hand, meaning the Muramasa would need to grant +924 attack to buff Alucard up to 999 Attack. Removing the values to go from 1 to 75, we get that this Alucard would need 1,002,378 splatters.
Well, enemies that bleed will bleed when struck with a cutting weapon (which is basically anything with a blade), even if Alucard's attack power is zero. There’s actually a sword in SotN called the Tyrfing (or something like that) which reduces Alucard's attack power by thirty, basically making normal attacks completely ineffectual while it’s equipped in the early game. Thankfully, it’s a one-handed sword and can be unequipped at any time. Still, it'd make for a nice challenge run.
Very nice! Also I don’t believe many folks know, that you can still increase the Muramasa past 999. You’ll see it’s actual level when you're poisoned or using STR reducing equipment.
@@mtgmeansmagic4758 I was wondering if that was the case. Does that mean if we grind the Muramasa enough, its strength will eventually all disappear, either becoming 0 or some negative number?
@@mtgmeansmagic4758 OK, I just confirmed first-hand that the information you gave is fake: Once you hit 999 ATK, it doesn't matter if you grinded the Muramasa any further or not, because even when poisoned, the game shows your strength as 999 ATK in the menu, and the damage you do to enemies is still (your ATK - enemy DEF) / 2, rounding down the result. That means enemies with zero DEF will take 999 damage from you or, if you are poisoned, 499. Even if you leveled the Muramasa up to, say, A TRILLION BLOOD HEALS, you'll still do 999 damage when normal and 499 when poisoned.
Most broken combo is Alucard Shield and either the Shield Rod or Mablung Sword. Nothing stands in your way, you have brief invincibility after each hit with the shield, you gain hearts and HP each hit (even on indestructible enemies like Stone Skulls or even breakable walls and candles). You can kill Galgamoth in no time flat, not to mention Dracula.
One thing I have noticed is that everyone seems to forget that if you equip bloodstone while living Muramasa the bloodstone doubles the blood heal and essentially the blood consumption of muramasa thus cutting leveling time in half as a die hard SoTN fan I have tried the method multiple times and have found the it took me half the time to lvl Muramasa to 300 atk power with the bloodstone equipped than with out
The in game timer caps out at 99:59:59. The Huge Demon clock ticks in sync with the in game timer. And so at 100 hours play time, comes to a stop. And from that point in time, the pathways from that room will never open again. Effectively sealing an entire section of this demonic castle, never to be seen again. There's a very deep, haunting thought.
some versions go by the a 'real life clock' as set in the consoles menu.. i don't remember what they did on the original PS1 but this is how it is done with the XBLA version (which emulates the ps1 version)
To think that SotN is still surpricing me yet again! That game is an amazing little pile of secrets! First i didn't know about the inverted castle, so i had to replay the game. Then i didn't know about the bestiary and drops, so i had to play again and grind like hell. Same time i discovered weapon special attacks and the Shield Rod. Then the Richard mode, the hard mode. Then i had to replay as the Dreamcast version for the new area and Maria mode (new music was amazing too). -new to me at the time- And yet again, there was YET another thing i didn't know about the game. Bless IGA, bless Bloodstained, bless his team and bless his soul. And fuck Konami.
thanks for being such a rad castlevania fan. you shared your personal passion of what many know but repeatedly love to be reminded about how wonderful CV is. keep it up.
While I don't intend to have any attacks THIS overpowered in my SOTN engine, I am conceptualizing something involving absorbing blood using dark metamorphosis and using it to increase attack power somehow (to some extent). I have a # of ideas I intend to test but I won't know which one I'm going with until I have done some extensive ones. But I'm digressing; this vid reminds me of exactly why I chose to remake the game. It's amazing how many unique little things the programmers included in this game. From things as subtle as slightly different armor on the various skeleton variants, to using 3d effects on some weapons, to unique little touches like powering up this sword. You can just tell that a LOT of love was put into this game.
I remember an interview of Bloodstained where IGA said that he loves to let his team freely play around with different little ideas/mechanics for a game. Pretty sure the different cool stuff the game has was a huge collaboration of the whole team.
big boss actually Gabriel belmont is Dracula in the rebooted Timeline. Symphony of the Night is the original timeline. And the vampire killer is an evolved whip of alchemy from Leon Belmont (see castlevania lament of innocence) and his childhood friend, Mattias Cronqvist, is what turns into Dracula from the power of the Crimson stone.
You forgot one thing: You can "transfer" muramasa atk stats to the new game file. Simply load up the file you wish to copy the atk power from, then soft reset (start + select, I think). Then create New Game. Bam. Done. As soon as you get Muramasa, its attack is powerful. Dunno about PSP version (Dracula X Chronicles) since there's no soft reset.
This is defenitely better than megaman x (even tho that game was one of the best before castlevania symphony of the night existed) (megaman x 1993 and castlevania symphony of the night 1997)
I like to use osafune katana, you don't need to farm for it and its special gives you s while also having nice dmg, and it's spamable if you're skilled enough (and doesn't use mana so no worry about it running out)
No, even theoretically, he's wrong. The following has quite greater damage output over time: 2 Crissaegrims + 2 Rings of Arcana + Dragon Helm (lowers DEF) + STR-increasing Relic + 99 Base STR. A 999 Muramasa pales in comparison to that setup. Tested personally. Also worthy of mention is that none of the above, except for the Dragon Helm, will help Muramasa do any further damage, as the ATK stat is already maxed.
When i attempted to get the sword to 999, I used the dark octopus room. The methodology behind making the most of your time there didnt actually rely on using the sword, much rather having it equipped while you used dagger sub weapon with no attack boosts equipped. Each time the dagger hit, the octopus shed blood, therefore strengthing the sword. Having minimal attack strength meant you could milk the octopus for all it was worth. I think I reached about 400- 500ish alone on this method. Ofcourse, using this method involved either having the blood cloak or duplicator + heart refresher for the heart regain. I went blood cloak with dark metamorphosis/soul steal for the hp regains.
UA-cam videos like yours are a Synergy of Gamefaqs and those Those Tips, Tricks, and Cheats videos that were released on VHS in the Late 80's and 90's for NES Games. Troubleshooting is this Video's Strength. Formulas are Trial & Error with Effort tempered by Patience for SOTN. Speaking of Glitch Labyrinths from the Past The Guardian Legend made by Borderbund Software-Compile for the NES is of equivalent Mystery, Enigma Strangeness with Password Glitches that open up Alternate Labyrinth Maps.
hes the real boss of that game. Like really, He have even more hp than dracula and his attacks are even more op. iof you dont have one specific circlet, that is.
jose william cuellar valencia I defeated Galamoth years ago without using any special attack (like shield rod plus alucard shield) but I still can't repeat that.
Now you have one last challenge. The worst challenge of them all. Stats in this game increase at random during a level up, but there is a chance that every stat can increase by 1, even rarer is having the stats increase by 1 and have magic increase by 2. The goal of this challenge is getting Alucard with the maximum possible stats in the game. You must ensure that at every level up you at the very least gain +1 to all stats so that by the later levels all stats will be 99. This is gonna be my second and final challenge after I get the muramasa to max level.
100% do-able. Save b4 a lvl, then as long as you get at least 1 point in each stat, save. Even tougher is doing this, AND getting your max increase in HP and MP at the same time.
@@mtgmeansmagic4758 And don't forget to begin the game on a second playthrough, so you can skip all the Dracula text as Richter, and beat the fight superquickly. That + a few other conditions allowed Alucard to have even more HP and/or MP and/or Heart. I don't remember the details, but that was a thing. I think it was also a thing to reset the map to max out Walk Armor defenses, and I heard of something like turning off the console when saving in a specific way to make all items you picked up since last save to reappear in the castle (like HP raisers). Never went this far, and I dunno if that works on the Saturn or PSP. But it's one way of getting things beyond normal without hacking/emulating/cheating (as in, no external software playing any role). This game is full of dirty little secrets like that. One can also go explore the castle way beyond its bounds, but I"m not very knowledgeable about that. But some people really are.
Ok, so months later, I'm taking the challenge. And I can say, having first-hand experience: as hard as it is to get +1 on all 4 stats AND get +5MP (as opposed to +4MP) each level is, this is a BABY challenge compared to maxing the Muramasa. The amount of grinding in each task is not even worthy of comparison. In less than a day, I got 25 level ups that way. But the Muramasa cannot be maxed, even manually, at such a speed, no matter what you do. (You can technically max Muramasa in about a week, IF you play like a lifeless motherfucker, pausing the game only to sleep, shower, eat etc..) You also don't need +1 of the 4 main stats EACH level, because they don't start at 1 or 0, Luck Mode aside. But yes, you'll still need it for the vast majority of the levels. It's cool to do all this and reach those points!
Crissaegrim broke sotn, is like walking around with a blender at full speed. If they had made the sword stationary or add the vortex as a special move of the sword it would have given a chance to the other weapons in the game. I personally like the rune sword and heaven sword duo, also sword of dawn was fun too. The one I used to finish the game for the first time was the upgraded firebrand, then I found out about Muramasa powering up and the secret move that teleports you behind the opponent.
I hate this grinding. I REALLY HATE MURAMASA GRINDING! Sure a fully powered Muramasa is one of those overpowered weapons that can destroy the strongest enemies(Especially "Guardian") in one hit and destroy bosses in seconds, but the process of giving it a 999 Attack Point IS A MISERABLE WASTE OF TIME SINCE IT TAKE ONE FUCKING MILLION BLOOD HEALS TO REACH 999! It is impractical without a turbo controller which I'm not lucky to have. It took me around a couple of weeks to finally get Muramasa to full power. In my estimate, my time for my usual playthrough of the game is 6 to 7 in-game hours(Around 5 when doing the Death Skip Glitch and being so lucky at enemy item drops) and my enemy kill count is usually around 6000 to 7000(Less than 6000 when being so lucky at enemy item drops). But when doing the Muramasa grinding, IT TOOK ME AROUND 72 IN-GAME HOURS AND KILLED AROUND 48000 DARK OCTOPUSES WHICH IS MORE THAN ANY USUAL ENEMIES I'VE DEFEATED! I followed the instructions the internet for the supposed fastest method of grinding, BUT IT STILL WAY TOO TEDIOUS, BORING, AND PAINFUL TO MY FINGERS & ESPECIALLY MY THUMB! Because the last 200 points take more forever than usual. That process is just godawful. Using the Knife Subweapon at point-blank range using the equipment set up is awkward, the annoying patterns of Dark Octopuses' Ink attacks despite it's movement being slow, the slope that make it hard to aim the Knife against those enemies that's below you, knockback since I'm playing in Luck Mode, having to use Heart Refresh everytime I run out of the Heart Meter, accidentally using the sword since holding Up and spamming the attack button was never a good idea for Subweapons, and at one point I've accidentally quit the game which force me to start from the last save room ALL OVER AGAIN! It took me alot of breaks just to rest up my fingers & thumbs just to get the work finished & I've already maxed out the levels of the Familiar(Though those that's specialized in attack makes grinding more annoying than usual). This is one of the worst grinding I've ever done in a good game. It's just as bad as DS Castlevania games' grinding(Dawn of Sorrow's Soul Farming, Portrait of Ruin's Subweapon grinding, and Order of Ecclesia's Attribute grinding.), Mega Man 11's grinding to unlock new items, Mega Man Zero & ZX series' farming for E-Crystals, Pokemon games' usual level grinding especially in past games, 3DS Kirby games' RNG Keychain & Sticker grinding, Mario Odyssey's Coin Farming, Zelda Minish Cap's grinding for items, AND DON'T GET ME STARTED ON SUPER SMASH BROS ULTIMATE'S HORRIBIFUCKUS CHARACTER UNLOCKING METHOD! It is one of those things that I never want to do ever again in subsequent playthroughs. When I'm playing Symphony of the Night, I rather use Crissaegrim for the rest of Inverted Castle just to beat the game really easily. Sadly unlike Aria of Sorrow and beyond, there's no New Game Plus just like that underwhelming Circle of the Moon & and the underrated Harmony of Dissonance meaning that I can't play through the game with all items. While it makes sense since it's the first Metroidvania-styled game of the franchise, it also means that I had to be careful not to erase the save file whatsoever. I rather keep that file just for bragging rights. And I copied the file since if I want to have fun using the fully powered Muramasa, I rather copied the file again just to go with that file instead of wasting 2 weeks just to grind that overrated sword. Sure half of my game is already completed, but I rather just get a move on. Also, the fact that it is ineffective against the Mummy boss just to show that Crissaegrim is a much better overpowered weapon. At least with Crissaegrim, it's easy to get from Schmoo and no need for grinding to get it fully powered. Sure it's far weaker than a fully powered Muramasa which is why it has a bit more trouble dealing with "Guardians" without temporary buffs from Attack Potion & Strength Potion, but at least I can attack while moving, 4 hits per swing, zero recovery time, can equip 2 of them at a same time, and with 2 Ring of Vardas, it can destroy bosses a bit more faster than a fully powered Muramasa. All the more reason why Crissaegrim is the true overpowered weapon of the game. I bet Koji Igarashi & Konami knew that Muramasa grinding was just outright tedious for the wrong reason that in the Sorrow series, Muramasa has been nerfed to a usually strong katana but with none of the Blood Heal grinding whatsoever. Heck, Grand Isayoi from Bloodstained Ritual of Night which was inspired by SotN's Muramasa has far less grinding as it's maximum Attack Point limit is a mere 58 instead compared to SotN's 999 Attack Point. Even after Koji Igarashi leaving Konami(Since that company is a Laughing Stock of Japanese video game industry), he knows that the SotN's Muramasa grinding was one of the worst design system in a weapon that it's no wonder why Grand Isayoi feels like the Lite version of SotN's Muramasa. NEVER AGAIN WILL I EVER DO THAT GODAWFUL GRINDING!
With finding out the amount to level up the muramasa, you can graph it, thanks to the formula being based on y=mx+b, where M is the slope and B being what y is when x is zero, aka the y-intercept.
Scrolled down to read the comments and everybody talking about how crissaegrim is better, man the point of the fucking video it's maxing the muramasa, not farming crissaegrim or comparing it, of course in terms of praticity the crissaegrim will always be better cuz it's a much shorter way of becoming op soon in the game, almost none of the people ho watched this video ever used the muramasa or tried to max it out to see how much strong it can be, that's why this guy invested time making this video
@@jonasnathanielbriones7407 Scarecrow in the Reverse Library, has apparently far better odds at dropping than with Vandal Sword. Vandal Sword is only interesting if you REALLY want Muramasa before entering the inverted castle.
I enjoyed this video, what a cool game, and the way you made it happen, there's always a way to force compatibility. Sometimes we gotta create on our own, and make it possible.
dude i've finished that game so many times and just now i realize you can level up certain weapons thanks for that. oh and by the way i think you look like the scout from team fortress 2 wich is awesome.
I have achieved level 913 today. I've been busting octopuses for weeks. I did it on ps4 Requiem version without a turbo controller. With two rings of varda, dracula tunic and a dragon helm it gives additional 87 points, so I have a 999 level muramasa at my disposal. The total time I've spent on grinding the blade is approx. 50 hours. I coul have done it a little faster if I had known how to decrease int. meter in order to make subweapon weaker earlier.
@@ryuujikohsinskishinigami4384 I think if you equip two rings of varda you'll be able to kill any enemy in the game besides bosses. I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to transfer the sword level to a new game
I did the ACTUAL grind on PS3 with an arcade stick button taped down for about a week or 2 dont remember. Once you get it will keep its power in a new save. I ❤️ this game
Cryptid and Mythological Bestiary & Weapon Library Master-Archive of Neo-Alexandria in 2d with accents of Polygons is SOTN part of a Trilogy-Trinity that included Akumajo Dracula X(PC-Engine FX) and Dracula X for Snes/Super Famicom. High Watermarks of Konami's Gothic-Occult Gospel is SOTN on both PS and Saturn.
The game is awesome but I still felt it needed more challenge. I tried the punch only gameplay and while the first zones are difficult you breeze through the game after leveling up around level 40-50 if I recall correctly so using blades like muramasa and crissaegrim makes it super easy even if you are low level
Another fun challenge that is just for the hell of it is the Unequipped run. You unequip all armor and weapons at the beginning of the game and do not equip anything for the whole game. This includes potions, food, and familiars. You must rely on your magic alone and martial arts to save you and beat the game. Myself and a good friend of mine have both done this challenge.
Crissaegrim all the way. Also, to get into areas you have permanently locked, do the "Double Heart Refresh" trick. Once you beat the game and have the Duplicator, put a Heart Refresh in each hand. Jump towards a doorway, but then alternate heart refreshes one after the other as Alucard sinks past the side of the door and into the floor. It takes awhile, but after MONTHS (years) of doing this, i had my map screens almost completely full, as well as entered a glitch 3rd and 4th castle, awkward versions of the 1st and 2nd. WARNING. Years of your life may pass if you get into doing the DHR trick. I mean it.
Watched first minute and a half, then realized if you thought it was difficult to do, then you hadn't used the dark octopus room. Doesn't take a month, more like a week if you can take the repetition like I can. i made a minigame of it on the real PSX. First 90 minutes I had close to 200 attack. trick is to hit two octopi at the same time to double up the absorption.
The best part about the octopi is that you can bleed without killing. So... I think you can feasibly be on level 19 if you avoid enough enemies. 200 attack is good enough to trash nearly anything.
I believe this man, I've done things like this too back in the ps1 days where we didn't have emulators. That's the real grind, fast forward reallllly helps.
@Joey Turkey His/Her point is valid, because with a game this popular, people WILL have done this, whoever they are, no matter if they speak it up or keep it to themselves. On top of that fact, the same way "there is no reason for anyone to ever believe" him/her, there's also no reason for anyone not to ever believe him/her. Anyone could lie and anyone could speak the truth. Also, why did you start the sentence with "fortunately"? Didn't you mean "unfortunately"? What sort of piece of shit are you?
Hey guys. He forgot the dark octopus in the reverse underground caverns. That's actually much better than merman, well once you get the sword to about 230-250 because then the octos go down with one hit
The problem with this game is that it was just too damn easy, even if you limited leveling and equipment. Bosses needed more HP and Dracula himself needed more forms. The lure of SoTN was obviously the item grinding and figuring out the really odd combos - shield rod im looking at you. Past that though, you had an easy romp with over half the items just being filler Thank christ later entries upped the difficulty a bit, especially Order of Ecclesia. Hopefully IGA will come through with Bloodstained.
i love SotN with all my heart but OoE and DoS are still my favorites. Ecclesia was one of the first games i ever really felt "skilled" at (and flying was dope asf)
@@bishop6881 Yeeeah boi, OoE is THE best Castlevania ( gameplay wise ) in my opinion. It was for sure the one I felt was the most difficult. It took me a little while to get past the crab boss that chases you up the tower.
I dunno, after SotN, I couldn't get into any GBA or DS Castlevania. They all always struck me as INCREDIBLY toned-down versions of SotN (music-wise, graphics-wise, presentation-wise, storywise and, to a degree, gameplaywise). Whenever I touched any of the 6, I always felt like putting them down and going back to SotN instead...
Shield rod + AlucarD shield (not alucart shield). Hold the shield button and just walk into things. Drains MP quickly so adjust armor and potions for that. Most everything including Galamoth goes nite nite pretty quick with this method.
There's a room in the inverted castle with octopi or whatever - you equip the dagger and make your int 1 with gear so that your daggers do 1 damage and you run left to right killing them with daggers
I found that simply maxing out the Muramasa in the Medusa Head room (in the Reverse Castle), then "transfer the Muramasa kills" to a new file (method depends on which console you're using) was MUCH simpler. Specifically: I just blitz through the normal castle, then kill enough Scarecrows to pick up Muramasa, then go to the Medusa room, then put weight on my button -- in my case, space bar, then go do something else (required several days, even with speed-up emulator thing). Boom, maxed Muramasa. Then I just started a new game, and transferred the Muramasa kills by soft reset (there are guides online for that). Boom.
Gener Bedoya its actually the crissaegrim from the schmoo enemi from the reverse library in the reverse castle after you earned the holy glasses from maria
Now I really need to play castlevania sotn plus the word Muramasa made me think of the old man from ninja gaiden that sales you things or upgrade your weapons.
The Muramasa was intended to be the secret bonus sword for the game. The damage for the weapon actually gets saved into memory on the PS1. If you reload the file you have it at 999 on and then go back to title and start a new file that's a replay, when you get the weapon it will retain its level from your main file.
Isso funciona no Requiem?
So Muramasa % is actually real
dracula, the lord of darkness.... defeated by a bunch of canned merman....
ROFL
and a duplicator
And a monster vial 1
Or 2
On the left and right hand maybe
When he let that Medusa head drop just dissappear I almost cried a bit
Yeah broke my heart too.
I was looking for that comment
Cool video sotn is my favorite game ever
Yeah bro , it was medusa shield
If he was grinding upnthe Muramasa he probably already had a lot of them
4:42 Watchng that Medusa shield drop and disappear was heartbreaking because of how rare it is. Seriously it was the last item I needed for 100 percent item completion.
VuryViA 2077 Honestly everyone most likely has that ONE item that just will not drop. When I first played the game as a kid it was the Heaven Sword. You can't imagine my dismay when I found out that you needed two of them to do the special attack.
You're not telling me you got the Crissaegrim before the Medusa shield, aren't you? Even with Ring of Arcana and the best spot to slash a Schmoo over and over again it takes way longer than getting the Medusa shield. The Rune sword also takes a lot of time because you have more walking time between a Dodo Bird and refreshing the room. Also hate getting the Dracula's tunic because my controller is too old to do 20 smooth gravity jumps in a row 😭
@@Thorium_Th Actually the Crissaegrim dropped fairly quick for me. Only took about 10 or so minutes.
@@RondoOfBloodX Well, sometimes Alucard is very lucky but even with a lower drop rate than the Crissaegrim, I always find the Medusa shield quite fast. It's more slashes per minute because Medusa heads are plenty on screen. At least very easy with the duplicator ^^
Got it at 30-40ish % normal castle completion
The Crissaegrim will always be king and doesn't need stupidly long grinding.
I wonder, though, in real time DPS, if the Muramasa or the sword that has damage based on map completion is better? What is the damage, per swing, of a Crissaegrim?
Also, I would argue that with unlimited items, the flame star is the best.
Shield rod + Alucard Shield. No grinding needed, fixed damage, recover HP per hit.
Crissaegrim or however you spell it (prefer the new name Valmanway) is fine but it's also a rare drop (therefore long grinding depending on your luck), and my favourite rare drop will always be the Fist of Tulkas.
true after you acquire the Crissaegrim every other sword maybe minus the shield rod is almost obsolete
its 36x4 per button press with no recovery time so it has continuous attack,its a bit broken
You can count how fuckin long it takes to get the criss as grinding.
Just to let you guys know, I was able to use an Excel spreadsheet to do the math. For each attack point, it will increase by 2 from the previous required amount, as the formula 2(x)+12 implies. To get it from 1 Attack to 2 attack, for example, you would need 14 blood splatters, and to get from 2 to 3, you would need 16.
By running the numbers, getting from 998 to 999 attack takes 2008 blood splatters. Assuming we go from 1 attack to 999 attack, we would need 1,008,978 blood splatters total.
Now, this number isn't perfect. Muramasa initially lowers your attack by 5, meaning that Alucard would need a base 6 attack to be able to do this. This also doesn't factor in attack boosts from level ups or equipment (which may not be a thing, I'm only familiar with the DS Castlevanias, sadly), meaning that the number could further be changed, though only by a bit.
Let's assume that the Alucard at 1:00 is fairly standard. Alucard's base attack is 75. The 117 is the result of a +42 from Alucard Sword in his right-hand, meaning the Muramasa would need to grant +924 attack to buff Alucard up to 999 Attack. Removing the values to go from 1 to 75, we get that this Alucard would need 1,002,378 splatters.
Well, enemies that bleed will bleed when struck with a cutting weapon (which is basically anything with a blade), even if Alucard's attack power is zero.
There’s actually a sword in SotN called the Tyrfing (or something like that) which reduces Alucard's attack power by thirty, basically making normal attacks completely ineffectual while it’s equipped in the early game.
Thankfully, it’s a one-handed sword and can be unequipped at any time. Still, it'd make for a nice challenge run.
Very nice! Also I don’t believe many folks know, that you can still increase the Muramasa past 999. You’ll see it’s actual level when you're poisoned or using STR reducing equipment.
thanks dude, my hopes are refreshed now that i know i need 6 thousand less bloodsplaters.............
@@mtgmeansmagic4758 I was wondering if that was the case. Does that mean if we grind the Muramasa enough, its strength will eventually all disappear, either becoming 0 or some negative number?
@@mtgmeansmagic4758 OK, I just confirmed first-hand that the information you gave is fake: Once you hit 999 ATK, it doesn't matter if you grinded the Muramasa any further or not, because even when poisoned, the game shows your strength as 999 ATK in the menu, and the damage you do to enemies is still (your ATK - enemy DEF) / 2, rounding down the result. That means enemies with zero DEF will take 999 damage from you or, if you are poisoned, 499. Even if you leveled the Muramasa up to, say, A TRILLION BLOOD HEALS, you'll still do 999 damage when normal and 499 when poisoned.
Most broken combo is Alucard Shield and either the Shield Rod or Mablung Sword. Nothing stands in your way, you have brief invincibility after each hit with the shield, you gain hearts and HP each hit (even on indestructible enemies like Stone Skulls or even breakable walls and candles). You can kill Galgamoth in no time flat, not to mention Dracula.
I need to try this...
@@lenyscollectionchannel1591 Just as a heads up, you also lose MP while the shield is out, whether you hit anything or not. So, keep an eye on you MP.
@@Craxin01 Use a Duplicator and a Mana Prism if you run out. (You need to beat the game to buy a Duplicator.) Infinite mana, infinite invincibility.
@@PlanetOfTheApes999 you don’t need to beat the game. Can use the fairy card glitch in the library to oversell gems to get the duplicator.
@@Uneke if you don't beat the game, it won't be for sale.
One thing I have noticed is that everyone seems to forget that if you equip bloodstone while living Muramasa the bloodstone doubles the blood heal and essentially the blood consumption of muramasa thus cutting leveling time in half as a die hard SoTN fan I have tried the method multiple times and have found the it took me half the time to lvl Muramasa to 300 atk power with the bloodstone equipped than with out
Everyone seems to like the Crissaegrim, but my favorite was always Soul Steal :D
Then you’d like alucard shield/ shield rod.
The in game timer caps out at 99:59:59. The Huge Demon clock ticks in sync with the in game timer. And so at 100 hours play time, comes to a stop. And from that point in time, the pathways from that room will never open again. Effectively sealing an entire section of this demonic castle, never to be seen again.
There's a very deep, haunting thought.
yeah i remember as a kid having that locked off and i was so confused on how to enter it.
some versions go by the a 'real life clock' as set in the consoles menu.. i don't remember what they did on the original PS1 but this is how it is done with the XBLA version (which emulates the ps1 version)
To think that SotN is still surpricing me yet again! That game is an amazing little pile of secrets!
First i didn't know about the inverted castle, so i had to replay the game.
Then i didn't know about the bestiary and drops, so i had to play again and grind like hell. Same time i discovered weapon special attacks and the Shield Rod.
Then the Richard mode, the hard mode.
Then i had to replay as the Dreamcast version for the new area and Maria mode (new music was amazing too). -new to me at the time-
And yet again, there was YET another thing i didn't know about the game.
Bless IGA, bless Bloodstained, bless his team and bless his soul.
And fuck Konami.
Azz-Rushman not dreamcast sega saturn was the sega system it was on jsuk
_amazing little pile of secrets_ - Yup, that's worth a Like XD
Who the fuck is Richard?
But you're still a miserable pile of secrets!
Good ol Richard Belmont
So basically walk armour, mura sword, and two rings of varda makes you god?
Yep
Power of sire and duplicator makes you God
CrisLP you are wrong Bat pentagram with strength and attack potion with duplicator and dragon helm plus dracula tunic makes tou god with items
@@ryuujikohsinskishinigami4384 power of sire is easy to get and oneshots literally everyone so
This game is my favorite of all time! I usually complete it at least 3 times a year! And I'm still learning new things!
thanks for being such a rad castlevania fan. you shared your personal passion of what many know but repeatedly love to be reminded about how wonderful CV is. keep it up.
SOTN and DIABLO II LoD always fascinates.. Simple games yet still full of secrets after all those years.
This game deserves a remake or remade
Cesar Burgos you called it
no, this is a masterpiece as it is.
Im implying that they made it available on ps4. Graphics arent that much better and they dubbed the voices.
Maybe only some extras, new game +, boss rush, hard mode, etc
It has now.
While I don't intend to have any attacks THIS overpowered in my SOTN engine, I am conceptualizing something involving absorbing blood using dark metamorphosis and using it to increase attack power somehow (to some extent).
I have a # of ideas I intend to test but I won't know which one I'm going with until I have done some extensive ones. But I'm digressing; this vid reminds me of exactly why I chose to remake the game. It's amazing how many unique little things the programmers included in this game. From things as subtle as slightly different armor on the various skeleton variants, to using 3d effects on some weapons, to unique little touches like powering up this sword. You can just tell that a LOT of love was put into this game.
The Esco What is the engine called?
The Esco What is the engine called?
sotnhacked.wordpress.com
The Esco I didn't even know you were still alive
I remember an interview of Bloodstained where IGA said that he loves to let his team freely play around with different little ideas/mechanics for a game.
Pretty sure the different cool stuff the game has was a huge collaboration of the whole team.
Or just get two crissaegrim's and nothing stands In your way 😈
even one single Crissaegrim eats Guardians for breakfast, even if one hit deals only 30 damage
Why not? You can swing both at the same time.
HECK YEAH CRISSAGRIM AND IT'S MADE FROM A FRAGMENT OF DRACULA'S (OR OTHERWISE KNOWN AS GABRIEL BELMONT) VAMPIRE KILLER WHIP
big boss actually Gabriel belmont is Dracula in the rebooted Timeline. Symphony of the Night is the original timeline. And the vampire killer is an evolved whip of alchemy from Leon Belmont (see castlevania lament of innocence) and his childhood friend, Mattias Cronqvist, is what turns into Dracula from the power of the Crimson stone.
Or just dont cause you cant shielddash with 2 crissaegrims
I was waiting for the 1 hit to galamoth😂😂
You forgot one thing: You can "transfer" muramasa atk stats to the new game file. Simply load up the file you wish to copy the atk power from, then soft reset (start + select, I think). Then create New Game. Bam. Done. As soon as you get Muramasa, its attack is powerful. Dunno about PSP version (Dracula X Chronicles) since there's no soft reset.
What about the Saturn version?
@@RedHairdo Don't know. But my guess is that it works.
SOTN IS STILL ONE OF THE BEST GAMES MADE AND ONE OF MY TOP 5 ALL TIME FAV GAMES EVER!!
This is defenitely better than megaman x (even tho that game was one of the best before castlevania symphony of the night existed) (megaman x 1993 and castlevania symphony of the night 1997)
Dunno if maxed muramasa is enough, maybe you shoud use shield rod+Alucard Shield too, just to make sure.
Only 2 hands possible. If Alucard ever grows more arms, it'll be a combination worth testing.
borot man Shield rod is not 2 handed
I like to use osafune katana, you don't need to farm for it and its special gives you s while also having nice dmg, and it's spamable if you're skilled enough (and doesn't use mana so no worry about it running out)
@@AndyTrampke no its a one hand weapon
@@albaneedge i like the crismgram and rune sword 🤗
Never played SOTN but I seriously respect the work you've put into achieving your goal your own way. That's some serious dedication.
The best soundtrack on gaming history!
Your dedication is appreciated.
Theoretically, you are right; but for normal player, Crissaegrim is way easier and less time consuming.
No, even theoretically, he's wrong. The following has quite greater damage output over time:
2 Crissaegrims + 2 Rings of Arcana + Dragon Helm (lowers DEF) + STR-increasing Relic + 99 Base STR.
A 999 Muramasa pales in comparison to that setup. Tested personally. Also worthy of mention is that none of the above, except for the Dragon Helm, will help Muramasa do any further damage, as the ATK stat is already maxed.
crissaegrim is multi hit. and muramasa is a single hit as i remember.
@@tendousouji14344 No, it’s blood fury hits multiple times.
Loved the SFA3 sound effects. I played that on PS1 around the time of SoTN. Ahh memories..
Hey, cool vid, man! I'm definitely sharing this with other SotN fans I know.
When i attempted to get the sword to 999, I used the dark octopus room. The methodology behind making the most of your time there didnt actually rely on using the sword, much rather having it equipped while you used dagger sub weapon with no attack boosts equipped. Each time the dagger hit, the octopus shed blood, therefore strengthing the sword. Having minimal attack strength meant you could milk the octopus for all it was worth. I think I reached about 400- 500ish alone on this method. Ofcourse, using this method involved either having the blood cloak or duplicator + heart refresher for the heart regain. I went blood cloak with dark metamorphosis/soul steal for the hp regains.
completely true. i used the same method, dagger and blood cloak, which is by far the easiest.
@@maxbrickey9722 i did my muramasa 600+ and im think too far to get the max out 999
Thanks 👍
That was very entertaining!
Wow, thank you very much!
Yeah awesome, what is the intro scree from? Looks very castlevania HD-ish! Wouldnt that be good eh!
UA-cam videos like yours are a Synergy of Gamefaqs and those Those Tips, Tricks, and Cheats videos that were released on VHS in the Late 80's and 90's for NES Games.
Troubleshooting is this Video's Strength.
Formulas are Trial & Error with Effort tempered by Patience for SOTN.
Speaking of Glitch Labyrinths from the Past The Guardian Legend made by Borderbund Software-Compile for the NES is of equivalent Mystery, Enigma Strangeness with Password Glitches that open up Alternate Labyrinth Maps.
Are you the Scout from Team Fortress 2?
He said yeah
Galamord endured 7 hits from his super sword, wow.
jose william cuellar valencia hahahaha I know right???? Such a beast
hes the real boss of that game.
Like really,
He have even more hp than dracula and his attacks are even more op.
iof you dont have one specific circlet, that is.
jose william cuellar valencia I defeated Galamoth years ago without using any special attack (like shield rod plus alucard shield) but I still can't repeat that.
@@rickyb2294 I did it with Richter with the dagger item crash.
Topaz circlet the real savior of the night
Those Street Fighter Alpha 3 announcer quips were a nice touch. :D
Really sucks you don't have that many subs, your videos are pretty good quality, I subbed, hope it helps.
You should also make some more videos, I would be glad to see more.
Farming for Gods Garb drives me nuts but I have to have all items, that's the fun of it
Me all items possible 99 and the duplicator and diamonds 99 as well
You might think im crazy bu im not
Now you have one last challenge. The worst challenge of them all. Stats in this game increase at random during a level up, but there is a chance that every stat can increase by 1, even rarer is having the stats increase by 1 and have magic increase by 2. The goal of this challenge is getting Alucard with the maximum possible stats in the game. You must ensure that at every level up you at the very least gain +1 to all stats so that by the later levels all stats will be 99. This is gonna be my second and final challenge after I get the muramasa to max level.
100% do-able. Save b4 a lvl, then as long as you get at least 1 point in each stat, save. Even tougher is doing this, AND getting your max increase in HP and MP at the same time.
@@mtgmeansmagic4758 And don't forget to begin the game on a second playthrough, so you can skip all the Dracula text as Richter, and beat the fight superquickly. That + a few other conditions allowed Alucard to have even more HP and/or MP and/or Heart. I don't remember the details, but that was a thing.
I think it was also a thing to reset the map to max out Walk Armor defenses, and I heard of something like turning off the console when saving in a specific way to make all items you picked up since last save to reappear in the castle (like HP raisers). Never went this far, and I dunno if that works on the Saturn or PSP. But it's one way of getting things beyond normal without hacking/emulating/cheating (as in, no external software playing any role).
This game is full of dirty little secrets like that. One can also go explore the castle way beyond its bounds, but I"m not very knowledgeable about that. But some people really are.
Ok, so months later, I'm taking the challenge. And I can say, having first-hand experience: as hard as it is to get +1 on all 4 stats AND get +5MP (as opposed to +4MP) each level is, this is a BABY challenge compared to maxing the Muramasa. The amount of grinding in each task is not even worthy of comparison. In less than a day, I got 25 level ups that way. But the Muramasa cannot be maxed, even manually, at such a speed, no matter what you do. (You can technically max Muramasa in about a week, IF you play like a lifeless motherfucker, pausing the game only to sleep, shower, eat etc..)
You also don't need +1 of the 4 main stats EACH level, because they don't start at 1 or 0, Luck Mode aside. But yes, you'll still need it for the vast majority of the levels.
It's cool to do all this and reach those points!
Man, there's something oddly old-school UA-cam about this video. I like it a lot. Shine on!
This game never gets old, im still playing this right now and trying different things, (sigh)
Crissaegrim broke sotn, is like walking around with a blender at full speed. If they had made the sword stationary or add the vortex as a special move of the sword it would have given a chance to the other weapons in the game. I personally like the rune sword and heaven sword duo, also sword of dawn was fun too. The one I used to finish the game for the first time was the upgraded firebrand, then I found out about Muramasa powering up and the secret move that teleports you behind the opponent.
I hate this grinding. I REALLY HATE MURAMASA GRINDING! Sure a fully powered Muramasa is one of those overpowered weapons that can destroy the strongest enemies(Especially "Guardian") in one hit and destroy bosses in seconds, but the process of giving it a 999 Attack Point IS A MISERABLE WASTE OF TIME SINCE IT TAKE ONE FUCKING MILLION BLOOD HEALS TO REACH 999! It is impractical without a turbo controller which I'm not lucky to have. It took me around a couple of weeks to finally get Muramasa to full power. In my estimate, my time for my usual playthrough of the game is 6 to 7 in-game hours(Around 5 when doing the Death Skip Glitch and being so lucky at enemy item drops) and my enemy kill count is usually around 6000 to 7000(Less than 6000 when being so lucky at enemy item drops). But when doing the Muramasa grinding, IT TOOK ME AROUND 72 IN-GAME HOURS AND KILLED AROUND 48000 DARK OCTOPUSES WHICH IS MORE THAN ANY USUAL ENEMIES I'VE DEFEATED! I followed the instructions the internet for the supposed fastest method of grinding, BUT IT STILL WAY TOO TEDIOUS, BORING, AND PAINFUL TO MY FINGERS & ESPECIALLY MY THUMB! Because the last 200 points take more forever than usual. That process is just godawful. Using the Knife Subweapon at point-blank range using the equipment set up is awkward, the annoying patterns of Dark Octopuses' Ink attacks despite it's movement being slow, the slope that make it hard to aim the Knife against those enemies that's below you, knockback since I'm playing in Luck Mode, having to use Heart Refresh everytime I run out of the Heart Meter, accidentally using the sword since holding Up and spamming the attack button was never a good idea for Subweapons, and at one point I've accidentally quit the game which force me to start from the last save room ALL OVER AGAIN! It took me alot of breaks just to rest up my fingers & thumbs just to get the work finished & I've already maxed out the levels of the Familiar(Though those that's specialized in attack makes grinding more annoying than usual). This is one of the worst grinding I've ever done in a good game. It's just as bad as DS Castlevania games' grinding(Dawn of Sorrow's Soul Farming, Portrait of Ruin's Subweapon grinding, and Order of Ecclesia's Attribute grinding.), Mega Man 11's grinding to unlock new items, Mega Man Zero & ZX series' farming for E-Crystals, Pokemon games' usual level grinding especially in past games, 3DS Kirby games' RNG Keychain & Sticker grinding, Mario Odyssey's Coin Farming, Zelda Minish Cap's grinding for items, AND DON'T GET ME STARTED ON SUPER SMASH BROS ULTIMATE'S HORRIBIFUCKUS CHARACTER UNLOCKING METHOD! It is one of those things that I never want to do ever again in subsequent playthroughs. When I'm playing Symphony of the Night, I rather use Crissaegrim for the rest of Inverted Castle just to beat the game really easily. Sadly unlike Aria of Sorrow and beyond, there's no New Game Plus just like that underwhelming Circle of the Moon & and the underrated Harmony of Dissonance meaning that I can't play through the game with all items. While it makes sense since it's the first Metroidvania-styled game of the franchise, it also means that I had to be careful not to erase the save file whatsoever. I rather keep that file just for bragging rights. And I copied the file since if I want to have fun using the fully powered Muramasa, I rather copied the file again just to go with that file instead of wasting 2 weeks just to grind that overrated sword. Sure half of my game is already completed, but I rather just get a move on. Also, the fact that it is ineffective against the Mummy boss just to show that Crissaegrim is a much better overpowered weapon. At least with Crissaegrim, it's easy to get from Schmoo and no need for grinding to get it fully powered. Sure it's far weaker than a fully powered Muramasa which is why it has a bit more trouble dealing with "Guardians" without temporary buffs from Attack Potion & Strength Potion, but at least I can attack while moving, 4 hits per swing, zero recovery time, can equip 2 of them at a same time, and with 2 Ring of Vardas, it can destroy bosses a bit more faster than a fully powered Muramasa. All the more reason why Crissaegrim is the true overpowered weapon of the game. I bet Koji Igarashi & Konami knew that Muramasa grinding was just outright tedious for the wrong reason that in the Sorrow series, Muramasa has been nerfed to a usually strong katana but with none of the Blood Heal grinding whatsoever. Heck, Grand Isayoi from Bloodstained Ritual of Night which was inspired by SotN's Muramasa has far less grinding as it's maximum Attack Point limit is a mere 58 instead compared to SotN's 999 Attack Point. Even after Koji Igarashi leaving Konami(Since that company is a Laughing Stock of Japanese video game industry), he knows that the SotN's Muramasa grinding was one of the worst design system in a weapon that it's no wonder why Grand Isayoi feels like the Lite version of SotN's Muramasa. NEVER AGAIN WILL I EVER DO THAT GODAWFUL GRINDING!
I love the long and detailed explanation, especially in reference to all these other rpg and metroidvania games.
Ah...Street Fighter Alpha 3. Another PSX masterpiece. You, fine sir, are truly a man of culture.
Nobody seems to like the mourneblade yet it keeps you alive and well with a decent attack.
André Gimenez i do tho thanks
Too many weapons in the game
I remember maxing that sword out back in 2006. Took about a month and a half.
Yep that’s about right. Dark Octopus are the best imo
This is the best i've ever seen. Love it. If you run for president someday, you have my vote.
With finding out the amount to level up the muramasa, you can graph it, thanks to the formula being based on y=mx+b, where M is the slope and B being what y is when x is zero, aka the y-intercept.
Scrolled down to read the comments and everybody talking about how crissaegrim is better, man the point of the fucking video it's maxing the muramasa, not farming crissaegrim or comparing it, of course in terms of praticity the crissaegrim will always be better cuz it's a much shorter way of becoming op soon in the game, almost none of the people ho watched this video ever used the muramasa or tried to max it out to see how much strong it can be, that's why this guy invested time making this video
Btw where can I found the Muramasa?
@@jonasnathanielbriones7407 vandel sword in the clock towers brother.... MASSIVE FARMING. SO GET READY.
@@jonasnathanielbriones7407 Scarecrow in the Reverse Library, has apparently far better odds at dropping than with Vandal Sword. Vandal Sword is only interesting if you REALLY want Muramasa before entering the inverted castle.
I dig the editing on this, good comedic timing!
i ♡ the female narrator's voice; it is so soothing.
I enjoyed this video, what a cool game, and the way you made it happen, there's always a way to force compatibility.
Sometimes we gotta create on our own, and make it possible.
I can beat Dracula without hitting a single attack button. I just let the sword familiar beat him to death.
I think I still have my Dex Drive around here somewhere. Was pretty amazing when it came out.
Omg there was so much love put into maxing out the muramasa
dude i've finished that game so many times and just now i realize you can level up certain weapons thanks for that.
oh and by the way i think you look like the scout from team fortress 2 wich is awesome.
I have achieved level 913 today. I've been busting octopuses for weeks. I did it on ps4 Requiem version without a turbo controller. With two rings of varda, dracula tunic and a dragon helm it gives additional 87 points, so I have a 999 level muramasa at my disposal. The total time I've spent on grinding the blade is approx. 50 hours. I coul have done it a little faster if I had known how to decrease int. meter in order to make subweapon weaker earlier.
TheTankill thats amazing im pretty jealous but not at the same time mine is only like 60 something because i didn't grind it to far
@@ryuujikohsinskishinigami4384 I think if you equip two rings of varda you'll be able to kill any enemy in the game besides bosses. I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to transfer the sword level to a new game
Castlevania fan: I'm not maxing out Muramasa.
Castlevania fan that's also into Metal Gear: You deny your weapon it's purpose!
I did the ACTUAL grind on PS3 with an arcade stick button taped down for about a week or 2 dont remember. Once you get it will keep its power in a new save. I ❤️ this game
Bruh that was amazing! Great job!
Your videos rock!!!! I love the commentary and cut scenes lol. Great stuff! Subscribed
This was awesome, man. One of my fav games and I've always thought crissaegram was the one to rule them all ;) subbed
CRISSAGRIM IS THE HAND OF GOD
Wait what? the Muramasa gained increasing attack power somehow?
Daaaaaaamn. I had it and never knew that.
What a rich, cryptic, esoteric piece of complexity this piece of code represents.
Cryptid and Mythological Bestiary & Weapon Library Master-Archive of Neo-Alexandria in 2d with accents of Polygons is SOTN part of a Trilogy-Trinity that included Akumajo Dracula X(PC-Engine FX) and Dracula X for Snes/Super Famicom.
High Watermarks of Konami's Gothic-Occult Gospel is SOTN on both PS and Saturn.
Cool man. Thanks for the effort and tips 👍
04:52 ; "Constantly spawning enemies that spew gallons of delicious blood?"... The finesse @ this moment is as humbling as it is overwhelming.
So this is where lil Dewey is now
Just use daggers on the octopuses and it will cut that time in half. Also, make you're using the blood cloak.
I always wondered how long it would take, thanks for the video!
Noyce! I hope you continue to make more videos like this one.
The game is awesome but I still felt it needed more challenge. I tried the punch only gameplay and while the first zones are difficult you breeze through the game after leveling up around level 40-50 if I recall correctly so using blades like muramasa and crissaegrim makes it super easy even if you are low level
my ears are loving this..audio
Another fun challenge that is just for the hell of it is the Unequipped run. You unequip all armor and weapons at the beginning of the game and do not equip anything for the whole game. This includes potions, food, and familiars. You must rely on your magic alone and martial arts to save you and beat the game. Myself and a good friend of mine have both done this challenge.
The clock in the middle of the castle shows IIII instead of IV in roman.
That's actually standard practice for clocks. Seriously, find a Roman numeral clock and look at the four, it's always IIII for whatever reason.
I thought Roman numeral clocks only show III, VI, IX and XII.
Crissaegrim all the way. Also, to get into areas you have permanently locked, do the "Double Heart Refresh" trick. Once you beat the game and have the Duplicator, put a Heart Refresh in each hand. Jump towards a doorway, but then alternate heart refreshes one after the other as Alucard sinks past the side of the door and into the floor. It takes awhile, but after MONTHS (years) of doing this, i had my map screens almost completely full, as well as entered a glitch 3rd and 4th castle, awkward versions of the 1st and 2nd. WARNING. Years of your life may pass if you get into doing the DHR trick. I mean it.
It amuses me that Shield Rod trick kills Drac faster than maxed Muramasa.
Watched first minute and a half, then realized if you thought it was difficult to do, then you hadn't used the dark octopus room. Doesn't take a month, more like a week if you can take the repetition like I can. i made a minigame of it on the real PSX. First 90 minutes I had close to 200 attack. trick is to hit two octopi at the same time to double up the absorption.
The best part about the octopi is that you can bleed without killing. So... I think you can feasibly be on level 19 if you avoid enough enemies. 200 attack is good enough to trash nearly anything.
this channel would be huge if it had more videos
I farmed Muramasa using Dark Octopus, they explode into blood when you kill them. Did this on a real PS1...
Yeah, how are we supposed to believe that a guy played a popular videogame? Clearly fake news. Sad!
Learn what the phrase "straw man" means before trying to use it as an all-purpose shield for statements you can't back up.
@Joey Turkey He didn't say that he farmed it to the max, he just farmed it. Never specified how much.
I believe this man, I've done things like this too back in the ps1 days where we didn't have emulators. That's the real grind, fast forward reallllly helps.
@Joey Turkey His/Her point is valid, because with a game this popular, people WILL have done this, whoever they are, no matter if they speak it up or keep it to themselves.
On top of that fact, the same way "there is no reason for anyone to ever believe" him/her, there's also no reason for anyone not to ever believe him/her. Anyone could lie and anyone could speak the truth.
Also, why did you start the sentence with "fortunately"? Didn't you mean "unfortunately"? What sort of piece of shit are you?
holy shit dude. you earned my subscription
Hey guys. He forgot the dark octopus in the reverse underground caverns. That's actually much better than merman, well once you get the sword to about 230-250 because then the octos go down with one hit
XYou’re supposed to use the throwing daggers not the sword
But still Crissaegrim is the best cause you can use it while moving. Countless slices dices enemies 😉
With a maxed out Crissaegrim I killed the Dracula V2 in 1,23 seconds. 😅
I forget, where do you find that? It IS the best weapon.
@@gunsrtheanswer reverse library, kill the schmoo headless flying minster until it drops
@@LefterisEl right on , thanks
You are a mad man. Thank you for doing this so that I don't have to.
The problem with this game is that it was just too damn easy, even if you limited leveling and equipment. Bosses needed more HP and Dracula himself needed more forms. The lure of SoTN was obviously the item grinding and figuring out the really odd combos - shield rod im looking at you. Past that though, you had an easy romp with over half the items just being filler
Thank christ later entries upped the difficulty a bit, especially Order of Ecclesia. Hopefully IGA will come through with Bloodstained.
i love SotN with all my heart but OoE and DoS are still my favorites. Ecclesia was one of the first games i ever really felt "skilled" at (and flying was dope asf)
@@bishop6881 Yeeeah boi, OoE is THE best Castlevania ( gameplay wise ) in my opinion. It was for sure the one I felt was the most difficult. It took me a little while to get past the crab boss that chases you up the tower.
I dunno, after SotN, I couldn't get into any GBA or DS Castlevania. They all always struck me as INCREDIBLY toned-down versions of SotN (music-wise, graphics-wise, presentation-wise, storywise and, to a degree, gameplaywise). Whenever I touched any of the 6, I always felt like putting them down and going back to SotN instead...
Corey in the house!
Shield rod + AlucarD shield (not alucart shield). Hold the shield button and just walk into things. Drains MP quickly so adjust armor and potions for that. Most everything including Galamoth goes nite nite pretty quick with this method.
Loved the video! Very nicely edited and commented! Keep up the good work (if you ever come back!)
Of course Galamoth with his insane health pool still tanks several hits.
Bro this video needs a remake.
The Legendary Crissaegrim
2x Crissaegrim and (ares ring 24)you will kill everything without stop walking .you did a serious grind
In the place where you get the crystal cloak but in the upside down castle it powers up relatively quickly
There's a room in the inverted castle with octopi or whatever - you equip the dagger and make your int 1 with gear so that your daggers do 1 damage and you run left to right killing them with daggers
This is why good balancing is important to games.
I found that simply maxing out the Muramasa in the Medusa Head room (in the Reverse Castle), then "transfer the Muramasa kills" to a new file (method depends on which console you're using) was MUCH simpler. Specifically:
I just blitz through the normal castle, then kill enough Scarecrows to pick up Muramasa, then go to the Medusa room, then put weight on my button -- in my case, space bar, then go do something else (required several days, even with speed-up emulator thing). Boom, maxed Muramasa.
Then I just started a new game, and transferred the Muramasa kills by soft reset (there are guides online for that). Boom.
Michael Song ua-cam.com/video/y41ri4FjjbU/v-deo.html is this what this guy did?
@@1985WUCT Looks like it. But it seems he didn't max out the Muramasa (instead of 999, he did it to ~930).
I miss this epic game. The best soundtrack. Favorite sword? Signatured Alucard sword 😂
Gener Bedoya its actually the crissaegrim from the schmoo enemi from the reverse library in the reverse castle after you earned the holy glasses from maria
And I thought I'd done it all... Great vid!
Now I really need to play castlevania sotn plus the word Muramasa made me think of the old man from ninja gaiden that sales you things or upgrade your weapons.
Using shield rod to puff Alucards shield and keep it up + spamming Crissaegrim = True phenomenal cosmic power
Awesome. I hope modders will add a new game plus and boss rush mode
Masamune is my favorite sword I dident know muramasa did stuff, I thought it just sat in your inventory and sucked now I know better!!!