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A guide to obtaining the most uberest-est weapon of all time in
Castlevania: Curse of Darkness.
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--1.1.....March 19, 2006
--1.0.....December 10, 2005
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CONTENTS
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[DS0]....Intro - What Is the Death's Scythe?
[DS1]....FAQs
[DS2]....Explanation of Requirements & Total Materials Needed
[DS3]....Creating the Battle Axe
[DS4]....Creating the 7 Bladed Sword
[DS5]....Creating the Chauve-souris
[DS6]....Stealing Death's Pulse & Basic Death-Fighting Tips
[DS7]....Assembling Your New Uber Toy & What You Can Do With It
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Intro - What Is The Death's Scythe?
[DS0]
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The Death's Scythe, or just Death's Scythe, henceforth known as simply "DS"
is the traditional weapon of the mythical character the Grim Reaper, also
known as Death. According to myth, Death uses its scythe to reap the souls of
the dead and bring them to the Underworld. The Grim Reaper's role is not
unlike that of the Three Fates in Grecian mythology. In "Castlevania: Curse
of Darkness," Hector, the main character, can use DS simply to kick the
living podunks out of his enemies. The weapon is the most powerful in the
game with an ATK (attack bonus) of 120. To give an idea for those who don't
know, the wimpiest weapons in the game include the Deck Brush, Champion
Glove, Short Sword, Bamboo Sword and Bamboo Lance. None of them have an ATK
rating above 10, so it's easy to see why attempting to obtain a weapon with
an ATK rating 12 times higher is so desirable. Unfortunately, you cannot
obtain the scythe until after defeating the Grim Reaper (Death), but you can
go back and fight more normal enemies before taking on Dracula if you want.
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FAQs
[DS1]
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Q: Is it easy to create the DS?
A: Yes and no. Most of the materials required to make it are fairly easy to
acquire, it just takes a LONG time and a LOT of stealing and searching to
find everything.
Q: Is it worth creating?
A: Hell yeah! This weapon is da SCHIZZ-NO, BABAY!!! Plus it makes fighting
Dracula (the final boss) that much easier, since it has the highest ATK of
any other weapon.
Q: Does it look cool?
A: Yes! It's very hip and stylish, and all glowing purple and whatnot.
Hector looks like the MAN with it hanging on his back.
Q: Can I have a cookie?
A: Shut up.
Q: Make me.
A: Look. Either ask a question about the Death's Scythe, or I will kill you
in your sleep.
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Explanation of Requirements & Total Materials Needed
[DS2]
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In order to create the DS, you will need 4 main parts. Three weapons and 1
extremely rare material, of which there is only 1 and 1 way to get it in the
entire game. The three weapons needed are the: 7 Bladed Sword, Battle Axe and
Chauve-souris. The rare material needed is called "Death's Pulse," which you
can ONLY get by stealing from none other than Death himself (or itself,
considering Death probably doesn't have a gender). It also takes several
different materials to create each of the 3 weapons themselves. The creation
of each is explained below.
Another requirement, and just plain nice thing in general to have is an
ability called "Invincible Vase," which is a power only available to the
Innocent Devil Tiramisu, one of the final forms of the Infant Fairy. You will
need this when acquiring the final part of DS, Death's Pulse, which you can
only steal at a specific time, i.e. when he is doing a certain move. This is
explained in detail below. See Stealing Death's Pulse & Basic Death-Fighting
Tips.
Below is a list of the total amount of materials you will need to make the
DS. This list has replaced the lists for the individual master weapons from
the FAQ's first version. The first step is to check out the list below and
work on obtaining at least 2/3 of the materials before starting to build the
3 master weapons. You can print the list out, as I have included check boxes
to allow you to check off once you have obtained enough of the material.
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[X]  --  MATERIAL NAME    --  ## --  COMMONNESS  --  HOW TO OBTAIN
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[_]  --  Ancient Memory   --  3  --  COMMON      --  dropped by several
enemies
[_]  --  Aquamarine       --  2  --  UNCOMMON    --  steal from Fishmen
[_]  --  Beelzebub's Seal --  1  --  RARE        --  rarely dropped by
Unicorns
[_]  --  Bronze           --  22 --  COMMON      --  dropped by Skeletons
[_]  --  Carbon Steel     --  1  --  UNCOMMON    --  dropped by/stolen from
Sniper Orcs and Great
Armors
[_]  --  Ceramics         --  1  --  UNCOMMON    --  dropped by Rapid
Snipers and Skeleton
Troopers
[_]  --  Ceremonial Tool  --  4  --  COMMON      --  steal from Blaze
Masters and Vassagos
[_]  --  Damascus Steel   --  1  --  UNCOMMON    --  steal from Iron
Gladiators or find in
a treasure chest
[_]  --  Dark Crystal     --  2  --  UNCOMMON    --  steal from Evil Cores
[_]  --  Death's Pulse    --  1  --  SUPER RARE  --  steal from Death (see
Stealing Death's
Pulse & Basic
Death-Fighting Tips
for help)
[_]  --  Devil's Vein     --  1  --  SUPER RARE  --  steal from Isaac
(first fight)
[_]  --  Dragon Scale     --  1  --  UNCOMMON    --  steal from Skeleton
Riders
[_]  --  Ether            --  4  --  RARE        --  steal from Lizard
Shamen, find a couple
in different areas
[_]  --  Forgotten Memory --  1  --  RARE        --  dropped by Anduscias
and Unicorns
[_]  --  Holy Man's Vein  --  1  --  RARE        --  steal from Dead
Fencers
[_]  --  Knight's Vein    --  1  --  UNCOMMON    --  dropped by Phantom
Swords, Spectral
Swords and Dead
Fencers
[_]  --  Phlogiston       --  1  --  UNCOMMON    --  steal from Flame
Demons
[_]  --  Spirit of Fuji   --  4  --  UNCOMMON    --  steal from Lesser
Demons
[_]  --  Steel            --  3  --  COMMON      --  dropped by Bone
Soldiers, Dark
Warlocks and Great
Armors
[_]  --  White Steel      --  1  --  UNCOMMON    --  dropped by Ghouls and
White Gravials
[_]  --  Wild Memory      --  5  --  COMMON      --  dropped by Skeleton
Blazes, Fenrirs and
Zombies
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COMMON ====== This material is really easy to come by, i.e. it is dropped
often by enemies or it is very easy to steal. You will find tons of them.
UNCOMMON ==== This material is a little harder to find or steal but not too
much so. You will get a decent amount of these.
RARE ======== This material is very hard to find, and is hardly ever dropped
by enemies, or can only be stolen from hard-to-find enemies and at very
certain times.
SUPER RARE == This material is EXTREMELY hard to find, and only 1 or 2 of
them exist in the entire game. The only ones that fit into this category are
Death's Pulse (with 1 in the game) and Devil's Vein (with 2).
So without further adeu, let's start tackling the first of the 3 master
weapons, the Battle Axe.
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Creating the Battle Axe (#26)
[DS3]
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Now, start by making 3 Short Swords. To do this you simply will need 2 Bronze
per Short Sword, so you will need 6 total. Those are really easy to find as
normal skeletons will drop them, and you should already have quite a few.
Next, turn 2 of them into Ganos, by adding a Wild Memory to both of them. You
will now have 1 Short Sword and 2 Ganos. Next add a Knight's Vein to the
Short Sword to create a Zweihander (#12). Follow up adding a White Steel to
that and you will have yourself a Claymore (#14; it's not a bad sword
actually). Next, you will combine an Ancient Memory with a Wild Memory and
make a Bamboo Sword (#11; and don't use this in combat...EVER), and mix a
Steel and a Spirit of Fuji to that and get a Nodachi (#13). This sword is
pretty good too, faster but not quite as powerful as the Claymore. But if you
want to see a really cool looking and decently powerful sword, combine that
Nodachi and Claymore together with a Ceramics and say hello to the Dragon
Killer (#15). No, seriously, do it, even if you don't care about it, because
you will need it for the Battle Axe anyway. You will now have a Dragon Killer
and 2 Ganos.
So, let's go back to those axes. Add a Steel to 1 Gano and create a Mace
(#33) and follow up on that with a Carbon steel and a Holy Man's Vein. You
now have a Morgenstern (#35), which is a holy-ish mace, like what a Cleric
would use, for all you Dungeons & Dragons players. Set that aside and mix the
other Gano with an Ancient Memory to give yourself a Bullova (#23). Guess
what you do now? Combine that with the Morgenstern you just made and you have
a Bardiche (#24).
The last combination is that Bardiche, mixed with that Dragon Killer you made
earlier, and a Forgotten Memory (a rare material you can only get from
certain enemies; explained below). Guess what that makes? That's right! A
Battle Axe at last!!! Ya hoo, you are officially a quarter of the way there,
so give yourself a big hug and try out that sexy +70 ATK on some enemies!!
Smash! Kachunk! Bang! (ok, so i suck at onomatopoeias, sue me :P)
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Creating the 7 Bladed Sword (#9)
[DS4]
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The Battle Axe (incredibly powerful [highest ATK of the 3 DS weapons]) may be
fine and dandy, and your best friend against big and/or slow enemies, but on
the downside it is incredibly slow also. That's understandable considering
the size. But why don't we make a much quicker, and a little bit less
powerful weapon that still looks uber sweet. We will be making the 7 Bladed
Sword, which doesn't actually have 7 blades, but it does have 6 "spiney,
hookey" blades coming off the main blade (oddly enough, it resembles Corpsey's
hooky sword, if you know what that looks like). It also emits purply-blackish
dark misty crap from it which looks pretty sick. Ok, let's do it!
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Start again with the Short Swords. This time we will be needing 8 altogether,
and 1 will be turned into a Gano, so once again, Wild Memory + Short Sword =
Gano. So you'll have 1 Gano and 7 SS. Add that Gano and 1 SS with a Ceremonial
Tool and a Wild Memory to make the Ada sword (#3). Next you will need an
Ether and a Dragon Scale, both of which are fairly rare (how to get them
below). When you have 1 of each, they will go together with an Ancient Memory
and the Ada you just made, and you will have the Kris Naga sword (#6). After
that, you will need a Damascus Steel, which you can ONLY steal from 1 kind of
enemy I believe, other than that, I found 1 in a chest that you will need to
use the Devil-type ID's ability "Magic Circle" in order to get to. Again,
I'll explain that below, so don't fear. Anyway, after you find 1, that will
be added to the Kris Naga and create the Damascus Sword (#7). At this point,
you will have that Damascus Sword and 6 Short Swords which you will use in
just a second. First, you will need a Dark Crystal and a very hard to get
material called Beelzebub's Seal. Then you mix those with the Damascus Sword
and the 6 Short Swords and you will have the 7 Bladed Sword. It's not too bad,
with +50 ATK, and its much faster than the Battle Axe.
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Creating the Chauve-souris (#49)
[DS5]
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If swords and axes aren't your bag, maybe you like staves instead. Yes?
Alright then, let's make the super-duperest ultimate staff of all time. I
saved this for last because it takes a lot more uncommon and rare materials
to make and it'll probably end up being the last one you make, like me. This
special spear is also Isaac's favorite weapon, and he uses it the first time
you fight him. It has the same ATk as the 7 Bladed Sword (+50), but doesn't
have as many combos (7BS has 7 combos, CS has 4 or 5). Although, if you want
to upgrade your Devil-type ID to the third and final form, "The End," you will
need to kill 100 enemies with the Chauve-souris with your Devil ID out. A
great place to do this is in the Mortvaria Aquaduct, just south of the
passage to Baljhet Mountains. Look on the Aquaduct map and you will see 4
circle rooms connected by 4 straight passageways, right below the entrance
to the Mountains. This is a good place to do it. Enter into it and go around
in circles either CW or CCW, it doesn't really matter. The 3 good things of
this is because 1.] the enemies (mostly Fishmen and/or Lizardmen, but also a
couple armored knights) keep respawning each time you come back to the room,
2.] there are several of them per room and, 3.] most importantly, they should
all be really easy to kill if you are at a substantial level. All you do is
go around in circles and kill 8-10 of them in each room and before long, you
will have a beefed up Devil-type. Also, this is a good way to get the ability
"Invincible Vase" from your Tiramisu fairy, which like I stated above, you
will need in order to steal the Death's Pulse below. But first, you have to
make the staff, so anyway here is how to do it.
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Guess what? We wont need to make Short Swords this time! You've graduated up
to making Sasumata spears (#40) which are the base for this weapon. In order
to do that, you'll need a Ceremonial Tool and a Spirit of Fuji. And you will
be making 3 Sasumatas total. Once done, combine a Steel with one of them and
you have a Naginata (#42). Next, you'll need 2 Ethers and 2 Aquamarines. So
combine 1 of each with each of the 2 Sasumatas to make 2 Tridents (#44).
You're going to need yet 1 more Ether, a material called a Phlogiston, 1
Trident and the Naginata to make the Versatile Spear (#45). Finally, mix that
with the second Trident,a Dark Crystal and a SUPER RARE material called
Devil's Vein, of which there are only 2 in the whole game (read below
paragraph for how to obtain it). Once done, you will have the coolish
Chauve-souris spear!! And don't ask me how to pronounce it either, I don't
have a clue (those silly French people)!
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One way to get a Devil's Vein is stealing from Isaac the first time you fight
him. He will do a certain move where he will do a sort of uppercut with the
spear, which leaves the steal window open for a few seconds. Anyway, just
look for the purple target. Even if you don't get it the first time, you will
know exactly which move to look for. The other way is waiting towards the end,
when Dracula's Castle rises out of the water, if you go back into the Forest
of Jigramunt, go into a certain area in the northwest corner, according to
the map. If you remember the area that had a long, narrow pool of water off
to one side, that would be the right place to be. After Drac's castle rises,
the pool will be drained and you can go into it and open a chest for the
Devil's Vein. If you don't remember going there, just keep looking around in
the northwest corner area, and go in all unexplored areas. Sooner or later
you will find it.
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Stealing Death's Pulse & Basic Death-Fighting Tips
[DS6]
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NOTE: READ THE FOLLOWING SECTION ONCE BEFORE YOU FIGHT DEATH SO YOU WILL KNOW
WHAT HIS ATTACKS ARE, AND YOU WILL KNOW AT WHAT POINT YOU CAN STEAL DEATH'S
PULSE AT.
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Ah. This is it. The Death's Pulse is the final ingredient needed for the
ultra-bad-ass-uber-super-duper-kick-ass-mighty-mega-uhhhh....ultra....yeah
you get the idea, Death's Scythe. Unfortunately, of course there is only 1
way to get it and that's by stealing from Death himself (big surprise). This
is obviously the rarest material in the whole game, duh, cause there's only 1!
And of course, Konami had to make it nearly impossible to get also. So when
you make it to Death, continue reading and I will tell you how exactly to get
it.
Ok. So you have just beaten Isaac the second time (who is amazingly not very
hard, really), and now you are fighting the big bad Grim Reaper himself (or
itself...whatever). Wow, he looks pretty freaky you might say. Freaky-Deeky.
Yeah. Alright. So anyway, he has a total of 6 attacks I believe (and half of
them involve fire). BTW, for this fight, I really recommend using the 7
Bladed Sword over the other 2, but whatever you're comfortable with. Also,
you will want to start off with your best Battle ID: Corpsey if you have one.
If not, something on the Juggernaut side is ok too.
The Grim Reaper's first attack is where he throws a round, spinning fireball
thingy at you, it's slow and pretty easy to dodge. Right before it hits you,
just Double Step forwards (hold guard, press up and jump) and it will go right
through you. But don't stop yet; it will turn around and come back for another
pass at you. Just Double Step backwards or off to the side, depending on
which way its traveling. Basically, just remember that while Single or Double
Stepping, Hector is invincible, so use that whenever you are afraid of
getting hit. It's good to get this technique down, because Death will spam
this move.
Another move that he tends to spam, is one where he calls up 8 or 10 spinning
blades, which all seek you at the same time. Either Single Step left and right
to dodge these (read: DO NOT Double Step this attack, because Hector's
recovery time after flipping leaves him wide open to getting hit by one or
more of the subsequent blades), OR Perfect Guard them. This is trickier, as
you probably know, to get the timing down, and you wont want to try to PG all
of them for that reason. It's easier, and better to Perfect Guard 1 or 2, then
Single Step left or right, then PG another 1 or 2, etc...This tactic is better
than just trying to dodge, or just flat out guarding, IMO, because whenever
you Perfect Guard, you gain some hearts for your ID, which is great for your
fairy, cause it helps you stay alive longer.
If you get close to him, he will swing his scythe at you. Sometimes he will
swing once, other times twice. It seems to be random as far as I can tell.
Anyway, just double-jump it and if you are using the 7 Bladed Sword, you can
start a mid-air combo on him, which not only will hurt him some (duh!) but
also helps you stay suspended in-air until the purple stuff from the scythe
is gone. If you use 1 of the other 2 weapons, you will just do a downward
attack, and end up landing on or close to the scythe.
The fourth "attack," which is not really that bad, is just ever so often, he
will turn like transparent-red, and summon a giant hand (also transparent-red)
which will try to hit you randomly. This attack doesn't seem to do much
damage, and I don't know why they put it in. Anyway, just don't worry about
it.
The next one is called the Big Bang. I'm not sure if that's the official or
unofficial name, but we'll call it that. This move happens the first time
when you get Death down to half his life (i.e. no more blue). You will know
it by this: he will put his hands together and create a round fireball in
them. Now he will hold it for about 5 seconds, then rear back slowly and
throw it at the ground close to you. Now comes the "holy craaaap!" part. It
will create a massive ball of fire. Guess what? You don't want to be standing
inside it unless you are invincible. You are going to want to get off to one
side. Unless you have a Tiramisu fairy with the Invincible Vase ability,
which I'm pretty sure you need in order to steal Death's Pulse. I think you
can do it without, but that makes it EVEN harder than it normally is. So when
his blue life bar gets down to about 10%, switch from your Battle or whatever
fighting ID you have and get out your Tiramisu. If you don't have one or it
is dead, you are basically screwed.
Anyway, now you finish off his blue life
bar the rest of the way, and about that time, he will start the Big Bang. This
is important. When you first see him create the fireball, WAIT about 2
seconds, then cast the invincible ability on you and stand inside the huge
fireball. The timing on this is CRUCIAL. If you do it too early, your
invincibility will wear off before the fireball is done, and you will take
damage and get knocked back. But if you wait too long, the steal window will
not open (since Konami made it to where you can't steal while invincible).
Experiment to find the right timing; I can't say for sure because I didn't
have a stopwatch. You will want your invincibility to wear off at the same
time the huge fireball gets done, then the steal window will open. But this
is the next issue. The window only opens for about half a second!! So you
have to be quick with the Circle button, and you may also have to jump-steal
too, but sometimes not. Just keep trying, trust me, it will take a TON of
tries before you finally steal Death's Pulse successfully, and the most
annoying part is if you die or something, you'll have to get past Isaac all
over again! Unless you are just really awesome at games or just have the
greatest luck in the world, then you might be able to steal it the first or
second try, but this is very unlikely.
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Trevor Jones, villajones_rocks@hotmail.com
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Death's Pulse is a tricky item to retriece and by far the hardest there is
no doubt.  There are two extremely effective way of elluding death's pulse
and stealing from him but no matter how much you try, this will not be easy
and luck is always welcome.  To reach Death simply use any devil type and
use magic circle to simply run under Death as he throw's his scythe and
ranged attacks at you.  It is best if your devil type has a bit of energy or
it will run out before you reach him.  As for stealing Death's Pulse.  Get
Death under half health or so and wait until he makes a massive explosion
move.  Don't get caught in it as it does heavy damage. Get Tiramisu, a fairy
type devil, and use the invicible vase move which you can get by killing
enemies.  The timing for this is harder still.  You can't steal while
invicible so you have to time it so you outlast Death's "Big Bang" and still
be able to steal within that 1 second gap.  If you don't feel you can steal
from Death but really want to just finish the game kill him.  Then steal
from him if you decide to do the "Boss rush mode", which I'm sure you will.
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Once you finally get the Death's Pulse, you can immediately create Death's
Scythe if you want, but Death is obviously tolerant to Dark element...but
then again, the 7 Bladed Sword is Dark element also. So maybe it would be
good to use the DS anyway, cause it *does* have +120 ATK for God's sake.
Anyway, however you want, just finish him off and avoid his last attack,
which is he will call down 5 pillars of fire onto you, so just Single Step
to avoid them. At this point, he will mix up all his attacks. Either keep
your fairy out or summon your best fighting ID, its up to you.
After the fight, watch the cinema of Death crying like a 10 year old girl,
and continue on.
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Assembling Your New Uber Toy & What You Can Do With It
[DS7]
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Yay! You have completed Death's Scythe by making the 3 weapons and obtaining
the hard to get Death's Pulse! Let's celebrate!! Wooooooo-hooooooo!!
Ok, that's enough celebrating, because you still have 1 more fight to go:
Dracula!! But I'm not going into detail about this fight, other than just
using invincibility as much as you can, that's a nice power. Also healing
with either potions or your fairy when you get hurt. You know, the whole
staying-alive-using-whatever-means-despite-seemingly-insurmountable-odds
thing.
Anyway, you can go ahead use DS against Drac, but if you want to try it out
on normal enemies, register a Memorial Ticket at the save point after Death
(and save if you want) then go back to Julia's shop (just use a Magical
Ticket if you got one. if not, backtrack to before Isaac where you should
find a warp room), do any trading you want (selling useless items, stocking
up on Healing Potions, a Death Doll and Tickets, etc.), then you can do any
fighting you want in order to power level for your final fight. I recommend
going through the two towers (Eternity and Evermore) if you haven't already.
If you have, go ahead and do it again (every bit of experience helps). Hey,
with your new toy, the enemies *should* be pushovers, or at least, the ones
in the first tower. It's not like you are on a time limit, so spend as much
time power-leveling as you think you need. Don't worry at all about time,
Dracula will still be there when you get back. Plus there's no real point in
making an awesome weapon if you only get to use it for one boss fight! For
any secrets not mentioned in this FAQ (that you think you may have missed, or
just want to be sure you find them all), refer to other FAQs (not written by
me) which explain how to get every secret. If you haven't fought the optional
bosses Legion and Nuculais, go ahead and do it now. They are not that hard,
especially since you have a weapon of mass spankage.
They are located in Garibaldi Temple. Down in the southwest corner of the
map, you'll see a "+" (plus) sign, with 4 rooms around it. You may or may not
have been there before. Either way, go there and in the southwest of the 4
rooms (bottom-left), you'll see another room there. Go inside and straight
ahead from the door, you'll see a fenced wall, and in the center of that will
be a section of wall which looks cracked. No, you cannot break through the
crack no matter what you try. You will need to bust out your Devil ID and use
Magic Circle to get under it. Now, inside, fight the enemies that spawn, go
along the hallways going into the rooms on the right-hand side if you want,
and continue on until you reach an underground section in which a bunch of
skeletons will spawn. Bottom of that, you'll find a save point, so save if
you want, but don't register a Memorial Ticket if you already registered one
at the save point after Death. There's really no need at all to register here,
unless you just absolutely *NEED* to zip back to Julia and grab some potions
or something. Ok, now continue down the path, killing/evading the Evil Cores,
and come to a boss door.
This is where Legion and Nuculais hang out. As far as strategies, I'm not
going to go into that, so just look for a boss FAQ. But you should be able to
figure it out yourself, and since you saved it right before (you did, right?),
you can try as many times as needed. They really aren't that hard, and I
believe Nuculais is weak to Dark, because he's a giant made out of Light.
Lucky you now have a bad-ass Dark element weapon, huh?
Anyway, whenever you get completely done playing around with the little
enemies and leveling up, Mem-Ticket back to the save room after Death, or
warp back to the warp room in Drac's castle (the one i told you about that's
right before the Isaac fight) and take on the big man himself. He's pretty
hard so take all the healing items you can and prepare for a good fight.
Again, refer to a boss FAQ if you keep dying.
After you beat the game, I don't know if you can start a new game with the DS
and all the stuff you have acquired or not. But you can try to. Anyway, that's
it for this FAQ, hope you enjoyed making Death's Scythe like I did!
Thanks to Konami for making a great game.
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Death's Scythe Guide (c) shinobigarth, 2005.
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