Lemon plays Castlevania: Symphony of the Night : Part 9

As promised, we'll start exploring what we can of this joint.

Yet another double-handed weapon. Fun fact, the real-life Falchion is actually single handed. Guess things work a bit differently for vampires.

Looks familiar?

This is where we'll battle supersecretbosswhomightbericher. I'm afraid he'll have to wait.

Thank goodness all these Max Ups are here to tell us that we're near an important boss.

Interesting, I might give this a look.

I need to get round to Castlevania: Supercreepy of the Black. Although that would require hiring the cast to simply say "you're dead".

A room without a view.

Hardly a dogfight is it?

The neglected one of the forms gets its long awaited beef up.

We obviously won't get much of an effect right now. It will allow the mist to be more versatile. Now we've done what we can at the Castle Keep, we can finally finish Olrox's Quarters.

The pig's sty still doesn't live up to the sexy music.

This redundant considering how you gather MP when you walk.

I don't think a shape-shifting vampire was on Olrox's mind at the time.

I think these guys have an overdue parole.

Double-handed swords are like horny men trying to get with the local tease by this point.

Those friends you have who don't play the game, glance over to the screen and call them Vanilla Knights. I think they need to lay of that ice cream.

Does Olrox have feelings for a special someone?

Save Points come in to save the day. I was bored OK?

This game is getting really generous with me. Especially considering how my signature sub-weapon is cost effective.

Shortcut number: I lost count years ago.

YES! My favorite familiar in the game.

Was my avatar a dead giveaway?

Now we can finally perform the last spell in the game, Sword Brothers. This one is cool but you have to charge the /\ button in order to it, which can turn a battle with a boss to a grinding halt.

Speaking of bosses, we're about to battle the one which I'd consider as "Master Lemon's Big Beast" of the game. Basically the hardest boss in the game, I'll this cheesy line and complain when people laugh at me about it. Sounds like a fair deal.

The jokes I'm thinking of right now are endless. I need to grow up.

Here we go!

This first part is actually very easy considering how he's very slow and you can easily land hits on him at a tremendous rate.

After a few hits, he'll morph into his true form.

I managed to land in a Soul Steal before we could even see this guy for real.

Sword Familiar is going to be a godsend for this fight.

Here he is, Olrox's true form. And he looks like shit and spews shit at us.

Thankfully, he's a Mighty Glacier. Meaning Holy Water will be handy at stalling him.

Opportunities for bringing this big boy in will be few and far between from here on.

Here's why he's the toughest boss in the game: he'll start spewing fireballs at such a rapid rate that you'll have a hard time keeping up with him and there will be hardly any space for you to use your spells.

Finished yet?

I guess not.

I'd say that was a team effort. At least it wasn't as painful as in my first playthrough.

This will feel like a piss break after what we've been through.

The bat's triangle move awaits us.

Don't expect me to be using it that often. Not really, it can be handy on a few areas we'll be coming towards.

Now we're at his level, I might as well battle the boss awaiting us in the Abandoned Mine.

Cerberus, who appears to be in puppy form.

Hence why he jumped away from us.

Came crawling back for me to steal your soul eh?

Now this Cerberus would deserve to be called Fluffy.

This will at least allow me to be on full health for this next boss.

That's no Save Point.

You can tell that something evil is going on because of the dark colors.

No Alucard, don't subject yourself to Castlevania Judgement.

Oh, this is just to explore Alucard's oedipal side.

And Aluard, why do you always have to bring your toys when we have fun?

Time can be rewritten?

She could just give her name to the courts.

This must be quite scarring for the guy, I'd hate to see how it went when he was a sprog.

I'm guessing she had to say "yes Alucard" when greens were involved.

Alucard is such a good boy.

This must be what Dracula jerks off to every night.

Sure it's made of stone but it'll lead to your life of being sadomaso.

Foreshadowing.

Not even when drunk?

You know Alucard, you can just wake up.

That's a bit rude, what if it was your Mother?

So the people in the mob surrounding Lisa were DeviantArt users?

Alucard kicks ass, he won't let a pair of boobs distract him.

Why Miss Succubus, you're trying to seduce me.

She even gets a one off battle theme.

If you have the Sword Familiar, like me, this should be an easy match.

I wonder how many men have been on the receiving end of these.

Demon! Losing health is too good for you.

Succubus used Double Team!

Too bad Soul Steal makes these clever copies pointless.

Which one will he choose?

No, the red orbs aren't health. You'll be in for a surprise if you think such a thing.

Like the other bosses in the game, this one won't stick around for too long. And Darkling is a horrid attempt at flirting, Emocard or PrettyBoy are much better nicknames.