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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Let's Play! > Soma Cruz's Drac Race: Let's Play Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow Blind
 
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CzarChasm
Mar 14, 2009

I don't like it when you're watching me eat.

Omobono posted:

I do wonder how much how this was planned; that is, when exactly did Alucard realize Soma is Dracula's reincarnation?

I imagine everyone but Soma and Mina knew about the prophecy around Dracula's rebirth. Alucard knew it wouldn't be Julius or Yoko, so that just leaves Soma and Graham. He probably didn't assume anything about Soma until he absorbed that soul in the opening cutscene. Graham is an rear end in a top hat who wants to inherit Dracula's power specifically, so he might be a front runner. Graham knows about the prophecy and actively believes he's the reincarnation of Dracula, so Alucard and Yoko are probably watching him more closely.

Everyone probably believes that in the inevitable fight between the two potential candidates, the real Dracula would have to be the winner, so they just hang back and let the real dracula show his face.

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CzarChasm
Mar 14, 2009

I don't like it when you're watching me eat.

Shitenshi posted:

The only time Circle gets truly bullshit is how you don't know what a particular DSS card combo does until you actually do it, and considering some of these combos involve inputting a random set of buttons like a fighting game without telling you what exactly that is, yeah, annoying. And it can be kind of dumb when some certain late game enemies will use wide ranged projectile attacks that come from off screen. You can go into a new room, just business as usual, and BAM! You just got lasered out of nowhere.

Other than that, it's great. Tough, but fair. Considering how games back in the early-mid aughts were kinda getting easier on average, it really does feel like good old school NES/SNES gameplay without falling into some of the design quirks of Soulsborne type games. And I liked how the extra modes in that one could actually be punishing, even the ones where you're stronger than usual, unlike most Igavania's, where it's just steamrolling most of the opposition. Never did complete the Arena period, even in Fighter mode or whatever it's called.

On the plus side, if you know what you are doing there is a glitch in Circle.

You don't have to actually unlock the card to get the magic, you just need one combination of two cards. Press the button to activate the spell you do have, then while the animation is still happening, pause the game, and highlight any other combination. Then, when you unpause, you will have activated the combination you highlighted, regardless if you own any of the cards in the combo. OTOH, if you don't have the cards unlocked, you won't even have any idea of what you just combined.

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