Jiang Shi is mediocre at best. If you're Shanoa just use flight glyph and globus and he can't touch you. And shield glyph for blocking those electric balls. If you're Albus then just go ham on shooting and optical shot. But you have to dodge the electric balls throughout the fight which would be an issue if Albus didn't have the phase through everything ability. Overall mediocre.
Jiang Shi is really challenging first time, for one you arrive very bathered from the gauntlet, and if you didn't pay much attention to shields it will take a lot of work to dodge the electric balls that hit like a truck. As a boss, he does less things than the first boss. He jumps towards you for contact damage, after a while he'll make an electric ball and, provided you don't block that too quickly, he will begin summoning his pets which is a glyph you can steal and it adds some extra stuff to dodge if you do let him go through with it. There's only 2 extra things about him really, one is that he has a flinch for getting hit a certain number of times. This counter is not reset upon defeating him. And that you can refight him immediately after beating him by breaking the seal that gets placed on his face. He ends up being one of the better xp sources for the grind to level 255 on the casual side. As for Dracula, there is one additional attack that Dracula makes when you use Volaticus, basically a full screen fire pillar that forces you to dodge towards Dracula, making it a very precise positioning between being hit by the pillar and getting swatted by Dracula's cape attack. And you can also get some cheese on the first phase if you have the Moonwalkers allowing you to backdash through Dracula and getting some free hits in.
I remember when I played the game for the first time in 2010 and struggled so much with this boss as well as Giant Skeleton. That elevator finisher was absolutely satisfying.
Yeah crab suffers of repeating the fight over and over again. Works fine at the point of the game you encounter him where you don't feel very strong and has a very nice cinematic finish.
Feels really cathartic after being chased for the whole fight and just turning the crab into paste with the elevator drop. It kept pushing you into a corner, but once that elevator goes live, it's your turn for payback, with interest.
I always loved Albus saying "Its Showtime" and then all the blood splitting out of the crab til it gets crushed by the elevator, its so satisfying to watch
I think one thing that I really enjoyed about the Dracula fight in this game is that he has a few answers to what should of or in previous takes of the fight easy ways to deal with his attacks. If you ever got too close above him he would uppercut preventing you from just jump kicking him repeatedly and he would immediately respond to you using your flight glyph by setting the majority of the stage in fire. Also the final phase where Dracula tires of fighting and decides to just Demonic Megido then screen forces you to have to use the full glyph union of Dominance to kill him is a great ending to the fight. Yeah I think it's lots of replaying the fight over and over again that strained your love of the fight which you do admit it was one of your favorites before.
The only thing I wish Dracula had a counter to is when you go behind him. I see a lot of people use the speed glyph behind him and they get free damage.
Here's my scorcher take, Ecclessia has no bad bosses, and the only ones in Mediocre are the fish and Wallman. Aside from those 2 I think Ecclessia has the best boss roster in any CV game. Even the 'boring' ones have a lot going for them. While the crab is an issue for speedrunning it's a unique setup for a boss. And the Giant Skeleton just contorts itself in such odd ways it's so unique. I fell in love with most of these bosses while doing an all boss medals playthrough and most of them are super fair once you get the hang of it
@@Krasser_Crusader Do a couple test runs where you don't attack, just dodge, then when you feel comfortable dodging, then start doing actual attempts where you attack, that's how I went about some of these bosses, including Blackmore
@@DarkSymphony777 Yeah Nitesco is incredibly op I know. I personally used Luminato (the one with the two light Balls) so I can multi hit and focus on dodging
Also, I love Dracula's way of preventing you from going the other side during his attacks and have tons of anti-air attacks at his disposal, making Volaticus (the flight glyph) pretty useless and a very engaging fight. Especially during his second phase. All in all, excellent fight.
And yet it is still possible to jump over him if you time the jump just right: after he stops turning around and before he can whip you with his mantle. After you practice it for some time, you'll have no problem dealing with phase I at all
Honestly, I would rather fight Mr. Krabs 3 times in a row than to fight Eligor once. The Crab is slow, but at least it's straight foward, and has an epic and cinematic finish, it only becomes a problem if you play the game multiple times in a short period of time. Eligor on the other hand is just disrespectful, not only it wastes time by default, it's so easy to fall down and have even more time wasted, and since it's a lategame boss it deals a lot of damage. It's always the point in the game where I groan in pain and wish it could be skipped and the only boss fight in the game I have such a negative reaction. All the other bosses >>> Wallman and Crab >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Eligor
100% agreed, Eligor is a pain in the ass to deal with and its really frustrating, plus going under the legs is also a pain with a really tiny box of reaction and quick reflexes against the bows.
Eligor makes Dawn of Sorrow's final boss look tolerable in comparison. I love Order of Ecclesia and I think 90% of its bosses are pretty solid. But Eligor is one of the worst bosses I've had to endure not just in a Vania game but video games as a whole
Albus is always the hardest boss for me to medal when I play level 1. It feels so disrespectful when he shoots you once in the back of the head and then just stands there for a second like "haha I've wasted your time."
To be honest, I can follow your reasoning with these rankings just fine - except for Eligor. Personally, I think Eligor is terrible, mainly because the hitboxes of his model and the interactions while standing on his back are the epitome of jank. After hours of attempts, I refuse to give him an honest fight and just nuke him. Whenever I attempted to limit myself with him, it just turned into a mess of slopes, gropes, and nopes.
Albus used to be my favorite boss in the game but unfortunately it's too easy to cheese out the flame kick and because of that makes the fight a lot lamer. Barlowe on the other hand is for the most part lactose intolerant and that especially is why he's my favorite boss in the series, especially on hard mode where all but one attack is amped up.
I beat Order of Ecclesia for the first time a week ago, wasn't a massive fan overall but I thought the Dracula battle was one of the best boss fights I've ever fought, super well balanced and it improves on all the issues of previous Dracula battles too.
Random Fun Fact: you mentioned in the DoS video about Zephr and Jojo shoutout. Goliath is a Fist of the North Star shoutout. Its death is a direct reference to Raoh's own. All you needed was a speech "I have lived my life with no regrets!"
My scorcher take is that Eligor is actual trash lmao. There's so little room for error in that fight it's not even funny. I would have personally made a tier below "Bad" just for him, I hate him that much. Many of Death's attacks are also obnoxious as hell to dodge, every time I get to his fight I just use Death Ring and the Venus union to skip him. As for Dracula, downtime aside I actually really enjoy his fight, outside of the wolf attack and Destruction Ray. For the latter you can at least use Scutum to block it, but without it I don't have an idea how, especially when Dracula starts walking up to your ass again.
i agree with the Eligor part but with the Death part? lol its pretty easy to dodge, i managed to do a no-hit on it, the only attack that can be difficult to dodge is the spiral, but then most others are just crouching and now again, agreed with Dracula.
I was that stupid person who thought Boss Medals were given to you if you beat the boss in under a certain time and I got lucky with Wallman. It wasn’t until Giant Skeleton on a replay that figured out how Boss Medals were obtained.
I did love that Dracula is the final boss in a human form (making him 3d was so cool) and the additions they added that surprise old school players, like him denying jumping over you and far more fireballs. On my casual playthrough the wolves were actually the easiest pattern to get.
wow, yikes. Like... YIKES! in my mind, boss design is something that is a big reason Ecclesia is my favorite Castlevania game, period. calling upon the lightsaber or Dominus is a way to go about doing it, but i always thought that having boss medals was a show of the development team's confidence in how airtight the design is, and having downtime to breathe and think things through is something I always appreciated over Dawn's bosses, where I legit have trouble remembering stuff like Malphas, Bat Company, Zephyr, and Paranoia even exist. Abadon and Evil Soma are like... the two bosses I find remmeberable and feel like Gergoth is painfully mid for being such an "iconic" boss from Dawn. I do agree that crab is bad. I'd probably swap Eligor and Dracula easy, though.
shadow wolf man is how i found out about the medals kept gettin my ass beat so bad til i perfected it the best part was when i looked up what the medals were for since i didnt even realized i did it without gettin hit
Honestly even though this game has some bad bosses, I still think it's my favorite line up of bosses in Castlevania, I felt I had to actually learn the fights and it was satisfying to figure it out
The problem with rusalka I found is that you can abuse the water cannon attack by climbing onto the platforms and then dropping down. But I'm not sure if it renders the fight mediocre, it has good visuals and voiceclips and the trick aside relatively dynamic.
Interesting how these games have more memorable and challenging human enemy bosses (looking at you too, Zangetsu!) while the giant bosses are easy, which is also a theme with the Kingdom Hearts series
I think the first boss is probably the best one in the whole series... Sure it's easy. Sure it's predictable and kinda formulaic. But the design is great and the gameplay is smooth. The fact that is simple just means it serves it's purpose well as a first boss fight. It should have been at least Great.
You should specify that is for speed running. Honestly, Ecclesia has top notch boss de design, they are telegraphed but still are tough fights (you have any idea how rare that is). In Ecclesia there is no randomnes, has the best dificult/fairness balance I have ever seen in honestly, any game, if you take a hit, it is your fault, not random bullshit, the same way enemy placement is just art. You can't rate how good something is in something as niche as speedrunning.
this is so interesting, i hated blackmore as i've finished my first playthru recently (so much damage, so many attempts...), and dracula felt spectacular to me might be just my casual castlevania enjoyer point of view tho
I hated every castle boss on my first playthrough because they give almost no chance to learn, everything kills you in 3-4 hits (Screw you Eligor). Dracula is no different and without Dominus is not fun
I think phase 1 Drac's patterns are way too easy to justify his gigantic HP value. Add in the wait time between attacks and the HA HA HA and it really drags. It was the only time in the game I used the Death Ring just to get it over with quicker.
Nah, I like the Dracula fight. Sometimes we need a reminder of how bullshit he was in the old games. There’s also something satisfying about ducking in front of him and hitting him with a million axes which makes his fireball attack useless
Eligor is an awesome fight and so is Death. Blackmoore I find iffy. if only there was some way to hit the caster himself so melee would also work, it'd be ideal for me.
I stopped playing year ago because of those crab, i played at phone (emulator, no joystick) and i keep messed up with those magnes glyph and rage quit This year i tried to play again, be calmer and finally send those frickin crab to hell and continued playing until the end
I'm playing Ecclesia for the first time recently and beat Maneater last night. I thought the fight was terrible and unfair. If that's in Good tier, I'm scared.
Personally I hated Albus on hard mode due to how trivial and boring the cheese strategy is. Using one of the shield spells to block his bullets while spamming attacks at him and dodging whenever he does anything heavier than what the shield can block. And before I found this strategy the fight was insufferable on hard.
Ecclesia shields in general are pretty stupid, they invalidate so many boss attacks, including but not limited to: Man-eater projectiles Goliath ceiling rain Albus bullets Barlowe's Globus and Fire attack Eligor Crossbow bolts Deaths mini scythes *and* big scythes on the 6 scythe attack Dracula fireballs, his entire bat attack, and both Ray attacks. I ended up banning shields in the level 1 run which is how I ended up finding out how to not see destruction ray as stated in the video
Death is indeed quite fair. With Albus, his optical and max shots kill the mini schthes. With Shanoa? Lol melio scutum and other scutums or just rapidus fio.
Really disappointed with the bosses in this game. Although crab has a special place in my heart for being the boss I fought on the way to a music festival recently...had no idea I was meant to stand on the top bit so the guy next to me on the coach probably wondered why this game I was playing looked the same for 30 minutes
Huh. I always thought this game had the worst Death fight. My experience has always been that he's so easy it almost feels like my cartridge is bugged or glitched out. I remember the first time I fought him, I was in high school and I was playing OoE during lunch. The bell rang and I was able to walk to class, bust out my 3DS and I beat him my first try before the rest of the class even got back. And see, my experience in past Castlevania games was Death is usually one of the hardest fights. That plus Ecclesia is all around much harder than Dawn or Portrait, so I was expecting to get butchered over and over.
The fact you put (IMO) the best Dracula fight in the whole franchise near the bottom is just one more reason I will never speedrun any of these games. Just like how backdash canceling utterly ruins these games for me, I don't want to imagine what overplaying otherwise funny/interesting fights like the crab and Dracula would do to my appreciation of these games. (Back-dashing Shanoa: "I am the heroine Spazzoa! And I refuse to use my legs for any purpose but backflips! Beware, evil!")
I genuinely think the sand shark is the worst boss. All the waiting, all the precise triggers for locations and attacks, janky hitboxes and random debris...hes not fun in the speedrun, and hes hell in the casual playthrough. I hate him enough that i forgive the crab some of its transgressions. Eligor is another that can ruin casual play, just due to again, weird hitboxes and just how LONG it can take. Speedrun is "meh". I would cut some slack to the bug, just for being tutorial first boss, teaching magnes, etc... Saying this dracula sucks, though, shouldnt be a hot take. He kinda sucks a lot. Non-speedrun (non-dominus), everything in this game is just so damned spongey that dracula is the king of un-fun.
Castlevania order of ecclesia like that's Dark Souls with his theme not just the difficulty the feel and the look and enemies design it's like dark souls
Wallman was a disappointing meme tbh lmao. He should have been upstaged by a real boss imo. Like, keep him but just after beating him a new boss right next to his room.
Dracula's wolves are perfectly fine tbh. Just kill them with Melio Falcis. Yes, even in lvl 1 hard mode AFAIR. Do prove me wrong cuz it's been a while, but I never saw them as an issue. Meh, downtime? Yeah, deal actual damage. Imagine ranking it based on some randomizer. DRACULA IN MEDIOCRE? COAL+CAP+You take the L.
Some scorcher takes here! Also, I decided not to rank Jiang Shi because I'm a lot less familiar with that fight (never comes up in randos).
Jiang Shi is mediocre at best. If you're Shanoa just use flight glyph and globus and he can't touch you. And shield glyph for blocking those electric balls. If you're Albus then just go ham on shooting and optical shot. But you have to dodge the electric balls throughout the fight which would be an issue if Albus didn't have the phase through everything ability. Overall mediocre.
@@ishmumfaysal3367 you shouldn't listen to him 3:55
JupiterClimb would sell his own father for a 🍇 grape.
Jiang Shi is really challenging first time, for one you arrive very bathered from the gauntlet, and if you didn't pay much attention to shields it will take a lot of work to dodge the electric balls that hit like a truck.
As a boss, he does less things than the first boss. He jumps towards you for contact damage, after a while he'll make an electric ball and, provided you don't block that too quickly, he will begin summoning his pets which is a glyph you can steal and it adds some extra stuff to dodge if you do let him go through with it.
There's only 2 extra things about him really, one is that he has a flinch for getting hit a certain number of times. This counter is not reset upon defeating him.
And that you can refight him immediately after beating him by breaking the seal that gets placed on his face.
He ends up being one of the better xp sources for the grind to level 255 on the casual side.
As for Dracula, there is one additional attack that Dracula makes when you use Volaticus, basically a full screen fire pillar that forces you to dodge towards Dracula, making it a very precise positioning between being hit by the pillar and getting swatted by Dracula's cape attack.
And you can also get some cheese on the first phase if you have the Moonwalkers allowing you to backdash through Dracula and getting some free hits in.
I remember when I played the game for the first time in 2010 and struggled so much with this boss as well as Giant Skeleton. That elevator finisher was absolutely satisfying.
Although the Crab is bad, I love when Shanoa says, "Go to Hell!" when she pulls the switch. I think Albus says, "It's showtime!"
Yeah crab suffers of repeating the fight over and over again. Works fine at the point of the game you encounter him where you don't feel very strong and has a very nice cinematic finish.
Feels really cathartic after being chased for the whole fight and just turning the crab into paste with the elevator drop. It kept pushing you into a corner, but once that elevator goes live, it's your turn for payback, with interest.
I always loved Albus saying "Its Showtime" and then all the blood splitting out of the crab til it gets crushed by the elevator, its so satisfying to watch
And in Japanese too
Actually Albus says"is albus time!"
Before alb all over the crab
I think one thing that I really enjoyed about the Dracula fight in this game is that he has a few answers to what should of or in previous takes of the fight easy ways to deal with his attacks. If you ever got too close above him he would uppercut preventing you from just jump kicking him repeatedly and he would immediately respond to you using your flight glyph by setting the majority of the stage in fire.
Also the final phase where Dracula tires of fighting and decides to just Demonic Megido then screen forces you to have to use the full glyph union of Dominance to kill him is a great ending to the fight.
Yeah I think it's lots of replaying the fight over and over again that strained your love of the fight which you do admit it was one of your favorites before.
The only thing I wish Dracula had a counter to is when you go behind him. I see a lot of people use the speed glyph behind him and they get free damage.
Here's my scorcher take, Ecclessia has no bad bosses, and the only ones in Mediocre are the fish and Wallman. Aside from those 2 I think Ecclessia has the best boss roster in any CV game. Even the 'boring' ones have a lot going for them. While the crab is an issue for speedrunning it's a unique setup for a boss. And the Giant Skeleton just contorts itself in such odd ways it's so unique. I fell in love with most of these bosses while doing an all boss medals playthrough and most of them are super fair once you get the hang of it
Im not very skilled in this game I would say. I struggled very bad against Blackmoore. Could you give me some advice?
@@Krasser_Crusader Do a couple test runs where you don't attack, just dodge, then when you feel comfortable dodging, then start doing actual attempts where you attack, that's how I went about some of these bosses, including Blackmore
@@hobez64 Alright thanks man! My new copy of the Game arrived a few weeks ago so maybe ill finally finish all medals too 👍
@@Krasser_Crusader a good tip is to try and get nicctesco that spawn from the nova skeletons, blackmore is weak against fire/light which nictesco is
@@DarkSymphony777 Yeah Nitesco is incredibly op I know. I personally used Luminato (the one with the two light Balls) so I can multi hit and focus on dodging
Gravidorcus: "So we heard you like Rahab."
Everyone: 'Uh, actually...'
G: "Say no more."
At least you have more window to hit Gravedorcus, unlike Rahab, especially if you use the unmissable Vol Grando glyph
This video popped out of nowhere in my recommendations and I never played this game before
I am now playing the game
Also, I love Dracula's way of preventing you from going the other side during his attacks and have tons of anti-air attacks at his disposal, making Volaticus (the flight glyph) pretty useless and a very engaging fight. Especially during his second phase.
All in all, excellent fight.
And yet it is still possible to jump over him if you time the jump just right: after he stops turning around and before he can whip you with his mantle. After you practice it for some time, you'll have no problem dealing with phase I at all
At the same time, you can use Volaticus to force him to stop doing all of his dangerous phase two attacks. It's easy as fuck to loop Dracula.
the finisher of the crab fight makes everything worth it imo
Honestly, I would rather fight Mr. Krabs 3 times in a row than to fight Eligor once. The Crab is slow, but at least it's straight foward, and has an epic and cinematic finish, it only becomes a problem if you play the game multiple times in a short period of time.
Eligor on the other hand is just disrespectful, not only it wastes time by default, it's so easy to fall down and have even more time wasted, and since it's a lategame boss it deals a lot of damage. It's always the point in the game where I groan in pain and wish it could be skipped and the only boss fight in the game I have such a negative reaction.
All the other bosses >>> Wallman and Crab >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Eligor
100% agreed, Eligor is a pain in the ass to deal with and its really frustrating, plus going under the legs is also a pain with a really tiny box of reaction and quick reflexes against the bows.
Have fun with his medal, he's so intensely annoying to deal with that using Agony is the only way you're ever gonna win
Eligor is actually my favorite boss in the game
@@reginangel_officialhe only has 3000 hp though
Eligor makes Dawn of Sorrow's final boss look tolerable in comparison.
I love Order of Ecclesia and I think 90% of its bosses are pretty solid. But Eligor is one of the worst bosses I've had to endure not just in a Vania game but video games as a whole
Albus is always the hardest boss for me to medal when I play level 1. It feels so disrespectful when he shoots you once in the back of the head and then just stands there for a second like "haha I've wasted your time."
To be honest, I can follow your reasoning with these rankings just fine - except for Eligor.
Personally, I think Eligor is terrible, mainly because the hitboxes of his model and the interactions while standing on his back are the epitome of jank. After hours of attempts, I refuse to give him an honest fight and just nuke him. Whenever I attempted to limit myself with him, it just turned into a mess of slopes, gropes, and nopes.
Could swear Dracula was pulling out Rugal's Genocide Cutter in this game lol
Albus used to be my favorite boss in the game but unfortunately it's too easy to cheese out the flame kick and because of that makes the fight a lot lamer. Barlowe on the other hand is for the most part lactose intolerant and that especially is why he's my favorite boss in the series, especially on hard mode where all but one attack is amped up.
I beat Order of Ecclesia for the first time a week ago, wasn't a massive fan overall but I thought the Dracula battle was one of the best boss fights I've ever fought, super well balanced and it improves on all the issues of previous Dracula battles too.
Random Fun Fact: you mentioned in the DoS video about Zephr and Jojo shoutout. Goliath is a Fist of the North Star shoutout. Its death is a direct reference to Raoh's own. All you needed was a speech "I have lived my life with no regrets!"
My scorcher take is that Eligor is actual trash lmao. There's so little room for error in that fight it's not even funny. I would have personally made a tier below "Bad" just for him, I hate him that much.
Many of Death's attacks are also obnoxious as hell to dodge, every time I get to his fight I just use Death Ring and the Venus union to skip him.
As for Dracula, downtime aside I actually really enjoy his fight, outside of the wolf attack and Destruction Ray. For the latter you can at least use Scutum to block it, but without it I don't have an idea how, especially when Dracula starts walking up to your ass again.
i agree with the Eligor part
but with the Death part? lol its pretty easy to dodge, i managed to do a no-hit on it, the only attack that can be difficult to dodge is the spiral, but then most others are just crouching
and now again, agreed with Dracula.
I was that stupid person who thought Boss Medals were given to you if you beat the boss in under a certain time and I got lucky with Wallman. It wasn’t until Giant Skeleton on a replay that figured out how Boss Medals were obtained.
I did love that Dracula is the final boss in a human form (making him 3d was so cool) and the additions they added that surprise old school players, like him denying jumping over you and far more fireballs. On my casual playthrough the wolves were actually the easiest pattern to get.
Aaaaaah the crab, also known as "doubters paradise".
wow, yikes. Like... YIKES!
in my mind, boss design is something that is a big reason Ecclesia is my favorite Castlevania game, period. calling upon the lightsaber or Dominus is a way to go about doing it, but i always thought that having boss medals was a show of the development team's confidence in how airtight the design is, and having downtime to breathe and think things through is something I always appreciated over Dawn's bosses, where I legit have trouble remembering stuff like Malphas, Bat Company, Zephyr, and Paranoia even exist. Abadon and Evil Soma are like... the two bosses I find remmeberable and feel like Gergoth is painfully mid for being such an "iconic" boss from Dawn.
I do agree that crab is bad. I'd probably swap Eligor and Dracula easy, though.
Yeah but he said Dominus doesn't exist but it does.
And don't listen to him, he's lying!!
13:16 ok after that statement - you kind of have to do death tier list, because I am kind of intrigued
SHAAAW!
Amazing voice clip. People who only play with Japanes voices can't understand.
@@nicoloenricorimoldi7425 Yeah there are some gems in this game. The Barlow fight too
shadow wolf man is how i found out about the medals kept gettin my ass beat so bad til i perfected it the best part was when i looked up what the medals were for since i didnt even realized i did it without gettin hit
Honestly even though this game has some bad bosses, I still think it's my favorite line up of bosses in Castlevania, I felt I had to actually learn the fights and it was satisfying to figure it out
The problem with rusalka I found is that you can abuse the water cannon attack by climbing onto the platforms and then dropping down. But I'm not sure if it renders the fight mediocre, it has good visuals and voiceclips and the trick aside relatively dynamic.
First time playing the game, Giant skeleton was really hard and he's too aggressive he wants to kill you so bad lol
Barlowe is a good boss, and a funny one at that xD
Interesting how these games have more memorable and challenging human enemy bosses (looking at you too, Zangetsu!) while the giant bosses are easy, which is also a theme with the Kingdom Hearts series
Everybody gangsta until dracula starts walking
I think the first boss is probably the best one in the whole series...
Sure it's easy.
Sure it's predictable and kinda formulaic.
But the design is great and the gameplay is smooth. The fact that is simple just means it serves it's purpose well as a first boss fight. It should have been at least Great.
daaaaaang drac below gravidorcus? brutal
I honestly didn’t think the crab was too bad on my first play through, took less time than learning Giant Skeleton’s pattern
Funny axe go brrr
You should specify that is for speed running. Honestly, Ecclesia has top notch boss de design, they are telegraphed but still are tough fights (you have any idea how rare that is). In Ecclesia there is no randomnes, has the best dificult/fairness balance I have ever seen in honestly, any game, if you take a hit, it is your fault, not random bullshit, the same way enemy placement is just art. You can't rate how good something is in something as niche as speedrunning.
I agree with most of what he says except for Eligor and I am no speedrunner
this is so interesting, i hated blackmore as i've finished my first playthru recently (so much damage, so many attempts...), and dracula felt spectacular to me
might be just my casual castlevania enjoyer point of view tho
I hated every castle boss on my first playthrough because they give almost no chance to learn, everything kills you in 3-4 hits (Screw you Eligor). Dracula is no different and without Dominus is not fun
I think phase 1 Drac's patterns are way too easy to justify his gigantic HP value. Add in the wait time between attacks and the HA HA HA and it really drags. It was the only time in the game I used the Death Ring just to get it over with quicker.
Eligor was the bane of.my existance trying to clear hard lv1,so.many fails 😭
My picks for the best and worst would be the exact same. Hardmode Barlowe is sooo good. Meanwhile Brachyura is just a waste of time.
I just wonder why eligor was trapped in a room it can't even enter. Who summoned it. Is it killing you because it's hungry
missed opportunity for crab tier
Nah, I like the Dracula fight. Sometimes we need a reminder of how bullshit he was in the old games. There’s also something satisfying about ducking in front of him and hitting him with a million axes which makes his fireball attack useless
Do boss medals even do anything or are they just there to prove you beat a boss without getting hit?
But...I like giant enemy crab. He's not, however, made for speedrunning.
Eligor is an awesome fight and so is Death. Blackmoore I find iffy. if only there was some way to hit the caster himself so melee would also work, it'd be ideal for me.
I stopped playing year ago because of those crab, i played at phone (emulator, no joystick) and i keep messed up with those magnes glyph and rage quit
This year i tried to play again, be calmer and finally send those frickin crab to hell and continued playing until the end
Eligor have a cool second form in castlevania grimoire of souls is a cool and fun but the problem is a mobile game
I'm playing Ecclesia for the first time recently and beat Maneater last night. I thought the fight was terrible and unfair. If that's in Good tier, I'm scared.
maneater is easy, atleast if you have a glyph that pierces for extra damage (and hits weaknesses)
i just played castlevania the arcade game! hehehe on my emulator
Personally I hated Albus on hard mode due to how trivial and boring the cheese strategy is. Using one of the shield spells to block his bullets while spamming attacks at him and dodging whenever he does anything heavier than what the shield can block. And before I found this strategy the fight was insufferable on hard.
Ecclesia shields in general are pretty stupid, they invalidate so many boss attacks, including but not limited to:
Man-eater projectiles
Goliath ceiling rain
Albus bullets
Barlowe's Globus and Fire attack
Eligor Crossbow bolts
Deaths mini scythes *and* big scythes on the 6 scythe attack
Dracula fireballs, his entire bat attack, and both Ray attacks.
I ended up banning shields in the level 1 run which is how I ended up finding out how to not see destruction ray as stated in the video
Death is indeed quite fair. With Albus, his optical and max shots kill the mini schthes. With Shanoa? Lol melio scutum and other scutums or just rapidus fio.
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The crab… is bad.
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Really disappointed with the bosses in this game. Although crab has a special place in my heart for being the boss I fought on the way to a music festival recently...had no idea I was meant to stand on the top bit so the guy next to me on the coach probably wondered why this game I was playing looked the same for 30 minutes
Of course I'm excellent
Huh. I always thought this game had the worst Death fight. My experience has always been that he's so easy it almost feels like my cartridge is bugged or glitched out.
I remember the first time I fought him, I was in high school and I was playing OoE during lunch. The bell rang and I was able to walk to class, bust out my 3DS and I beat him my first try before the rest of the class even got back. And see, my experience in past Castlevania games was Death is usually one of the hardest fights. That plus Ecclesia is all around much harder than Dawn or Portrait, so I was expecting to get butchered over and over.
The crab fight fucks me up still though no lie
Yeah, I don't know what he's talking about. Death always seemed more aggressive and engaging in the other games to me. But I'm not a speedrunner.
Crab is fun the very first time you do. Then it is SO BORING every other time.
The fact you put (IMO) the best Dracula fight in the whole franchise near the bottom is just one more reason I will never speedrun any of these games.
Just like how backdash canceling utterly ruins these games for me, I don't want to imagine what overplaying otherwise funny/interesting fights like the crab and Dracula would do to my appreciation of these games.
(Back-dashing Shanoa: "I am the heroine Spazzoa! And I refuse to use my legs for any purpose but backflips! Beware, evil!")
I genuinely think the sand shark is the worst boss.
All the waiting, all the precise triggers for locations and attacks, janky hitboxes and random debris...hes not fun in the speedrun, and hes hell in the casual playthrough.
I hate him enough that i forgive the crab some of its transgressions.
Eligor is another that can ruin casual play, just due to again, weird hitboxes and just how LONG it can take. Speedrun is "meh".
I would cut some slack to the bug, just for being tutorial first boss, teaching magnes, etc...
Saying this dracula sucks, though, shouldnt be a hot take. He kinda sucks a lot. Non-speedrun (non-dominus), everything in this game is just so damned spongey that dracula is the king of un-fun.
I KNEW THAT BRACHYURA WAS GOING TO BE FIRST!!!!
Castlevania order of ecclesia like that's Dark Souls with his theme not just the difficulty the feel and the look and enemies design it's like dark souls
Blackmore is a goated fight.
Brachyira is a good boss.... it would have been great however if it could get killed normally, like, without the elevator.
Barlower is a better fight than Albus simply because of how many different and interesting way you have to dodge his stuff.
Athroverta should be good by definition.....
Wallman was a disappointing meme tbh lmao. He should have been upstaged by a real boss imo. Like, keep him but just after beating him a new boss right next to his room.
Dracula's wolves are perfectly fine tbh. Just kill them with Melio Falcis. Yes, even in lvl 1 hard mode AFAIR. Do prove me wrong cuz it's been a while, but I never saw them as an issue.
Meh, downtime? Yeah, deal actual damage.
Imagine ranking it based on some randomizer.
DRACULA IN MEDIOCRE? COAL+CAP+You take the L.