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Welcome to my FAQ! Sorry for the crappy text art but its just so darn
hard to carefully manipulate the characters on the logo. Anyways, I just
wanted to congratulate you on purchasing, stealing, borrowing, or
trading for one of the best Playstation games of all time! Come on
Konami, make a new one just like this for the same system! I'll certainly
go for it!
Table of Contents
1. Background Information
2. Movelists
3. Walkthrough
4. Richter Belmont Tips
5. FAQ
6. Monster Listing/Weapons Listing/Armor Listings
7. Credits
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Movelists
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NOTE: For ALL moves listed for both characters, it is assumed that you DID
NOT change your control configurations.
Richter Belmont:
Super Attack:              |  Triangle(must have a special weapon)
Dash:                      |  F,F(hold second forward, release to stop)
Slide Attack:              |  D+X
360 Whip:                  |  Hold Square, then move directional arrow
Spear Thrust:              |  D,U+X(can be used infinitely and super jump)
Somersault Backflip:       |  X,X(quickly)
Menacing Whip:             |  U,UB,B,DB,D,DF,F+X/U,UF,F,DF,D,DB,B+X
Alucard's spells:
NOTE: All motions are in accordance to Alucard facing left or right, you DO
NOT change the motion when facing either way.
B = Left
F = Right
Dark Metamorphesis:        |  B,UB,U,UF,F+Square or Triangle
Hellfire:                  |  U,D,DF,F+Square or Triange
Summon Spirit:             |  B,F,D,U+Square or Triangle
Tetra Spirit:              |  U(charge for 2 sec.),UF,F,DF,D+Square
Soul Steal:                |  B,F,DF,D,DB,B,F+Square or Triangle
*Wolf Charge:               |  D,DF,F+Square
**Sword Brothers:            |  D,DF,F,UF,U(charge for 2 sec.),D+Square
***Wing Smash:                |  Hold X,U,UB,B,DB,D,DF,F+Release X
*Must be in wolf form.
**Must have sword card turned on.
***Must be in bat form.
NOTE: Once you have 50 MP, you can do these motions at anytime, actually you
can use any certain spell in the beginning of the game, once you
perform the spell it will be there in your menu("Spell") to remind you
how to do the motion for later reference.
Adrian Tepes Farenheit(Alucard):
Use special weapon:        |  U+Attack
Dash:                      |  Triangle
Super Jump:                |  D,U+X
Double Jump:               |  X,X(must have Leap Stone)
Spear Kick:                |  X, D/DF/DB+X
Wolf change:               |  R2(must have Soul of Wolf)
Bat change:                |  R1(must have Soul of Bat)
Mist change:               |  L1(must have Soul of Mist)
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Walkthrough
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You start off as Richter Belmont as you travel back to Transylvania in 1792.
Basically play through this scenario like normal, don't worry though, you
can't lose. Everytime you lose your vitality Maria will come in and pray for
you and you will refill your vitality. BUT, do as well as you can because it
will effect Alucard's stats later in the game. And try not to use the
"Triangle Move" which will also effect Alucard's stats later in the game.
Afterwards you will get a small prologue to the beginning of the game. It
tells of the story of how Richter Belmont successfully defeated Dracula and
it tells what happened as Richter misteriously disappeared from the face of
the earth. Dracula's Castle has now reappeared without any warning or clues
as Maria wanders into the castle to search for her brother.
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THE BEGINNING
Alucard's level: 1
Items: Life Max, Sunglasses, Leather Shield, Hide Cuirass, Cube of Zoe,
Short Sword, Resist Thunder, Cloth Cape, Knife, Basilard
Monsters: Bat, Zombie, Merman, Warg, Bone Scimitar
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Once you begin you will see Alucard run towards the castle gate before it
closes. Inside, continue to go forward as you will encounter a few monsters
on the way, destroy them for easy points to gain your levels. In the next
room, ignore the path at the top, you can hit the giant boulder to the right
to get a Pot Roast to recovery any lost HP you might have endured. Take this
time to go to the bottom of the room and just kill the Sahagins for some more
easy expierience, but DO NOT enter the water, water is very harmful for
Draculas, and considering that Alucard is half human and half dracula, its
best that you avoid doing so. You can earn a level or two, but afterwards
continue to the top right of the room. In this room, keep going towards the
right, in this room you will meet Death.
This conversation holds that Death does not want Alucard to enter further
into the castle, as Alucard refuses Death takes away ALL of his weapons and
armors and relics, and basically everything that he was wearing. Don't worry,
just keep going to the next room and just climb up and continue towards the
left and hit the next skeleton you see until he dies. Pick up the SHORT SWORD
and equip it in your inventory. To the top of the room you will find the CUBE
OF ZOE, which will allow you to obtain items from the various candles around
the place.
Next continue onto the top left and through the room to the Alchemy
Labratory. Go to the far left and destroy the skeletons and hit the switch on
the platform the skeleton was standing on and step on it. Then hit the golden
globe and it will drop the HIDE CUIRASS. Next go up and to the left and
destroy the alchemy flaming vase and pick up and equip the LEATHER SHIELD and
continue towards the top left through the doorway. In this room you will find
a Knife(which is your special weapon), then continue to the top left. In this
room destroy the skeleton and pick up the RESIST THUNDER by destroying the
vase. Continue on and in this next room, hit the switches that removes the
spikes on the floor(hit both switches).
Now move the box to the RIGHT set of spikes that you removed, now hit the
RIGHT spike switch again and it will create a path that will allow you to go
to the top right and lead to the CLOTH CAPE. Now go back to the box and spike
room and go to the left. In this room head down and to the left to the save
room, press up over the hexigonal figure to save your game. Head back out to
the room and go towards the top right, you can pick up the Axe if you want,
but its not neccessary to defeat the upcoming boss, but it will make it a bit
easier. Here at the top left room and a boss fight will start as you approach
the bottom right of the room.
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BOSS BATTLE: Slorga and Gaibon        HP: 200 each    EXP: 200 each
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This battle is pretty easy, stay to the bottom right and stay under the
ledge, just as long as Slorga can't reach you. Wait for Slorga to drop and
then hit him which will make Gaibon pick him back up. Repeat this until
Slorga is gone. Gaibon will be a bit tougher. Wait until he lands and then
throw him, press the "O" button to put out your shield and you can block his
fireballs, but you can also destroy them as well. Watch for Gaibon to turn
red, he will start to throw out giant fireballs. When he lands on the ground
get near him and duck and keep slashing as he fires the giant fireballs and
run around to avoid his fireballs when he fires them in the air. Afterwards
you will have gained two levels for defeating these two cronies.
After the battle you can pick up a LIFE MAX item which is dropped and it will
not only refill your HP but it will raise your maximum HP up another level.
Now continue towards the right and in this room destroy the monsters and
enter the middle room in the vertical path to save your game, then go to the
bottom and enter that room and make your way downwards through the lift and
it will stop to allow you to go to the middle room to pick up the SUNGLASSES.
Then head back out and go down and to the left, destroy the cannon to open up
the path back to the beginning of the game and pick up the BASILARD. Now
return to the room with the lift and go back up the lift all the way to the
room after the boos fight and head to the UPPER MOST room. In this room go
down or up, but you can go the downpath and pick up the POTION. Now head
towards the right room and towards the Marble Gallery.
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MARBLE GALLERY
Alucard's level: 6
Items: Spirit Orb
Monsters: Gaibon, Slorga, Bloody Zombie, Axe Knight, Bone Scimitar, Skeleton,
Spittle Bone, Ghost, Skelerang, Marionette, Diplocephalus, Flea
Man, Ctulhu, Medusa Head, Ghost, Ouija Table, Axe Knight, Slinger,
Plate Lord
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In here just destroy the Axe Knights and continue onwards to the right. Now
go down and continue to make your way downwards until you start to see
stained glass windows and, you will see a doorway to the bottom right,
however, go to the left and pick up the SPIRIT ORB, which will allow you to
see enemy damage. Which isn't neccessarily a useful relic in this game. Now
head towards the right doorway. Here just make it down through the vertical
path and you will see a giant Ball and Chain knight, he's pretty easy to
destroy and is A LOT WEAKER than he looks.
Destroy him and continue on through, you will also see a room that has ghosts
popping out everywhere. These suckers are easy to destroy, so destroy them to
get a lot of expierience points towards your next level. Continue on dowards,
you will find a giant flying beast, its VERY POWERFUL, use your special
weapon and attack it with your weapon as well. Now continue onwards towards
the room and step on the switch in which the rock will drop itself and the
wall will rise up. I know I know, that's all you came all this way here to
do.
But this will help you out later in the game, mainly shortcuts. Now head
back to the room to the right and go back to the stop of the Marble Gallery.
You should head back to the place where you saw a giant staircase on the
right, basically go back to the beginning of the Marble Gallery where you had
first entered. It shouldn't be hard because its not a maze. You will later
find a room with a lot of clocks, keep going until you reach the giant clock
on the wall. You will first meet with Maria, they introduce and she leaves.
Don't worry about the moving statue to the top left, you can't do anything
with that right now. For now, head towards the right. Keep going pass the
clock room and continue your way upwards and to the next room.
Keep going towards the right and in this next room you will have four ways to
choose from. Take the bottom right and keep going towards the right and you
will find a VERY LONG gold and stone colored hallway. You will notice a giant
eye staring at your from the background, don't worry about it though, you
will NEVER even encounter the giant eyeball. However, its just funny to watch
it move around though. Continue through to reach the Outer Wall.
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THE OUTER WALL
Alucard's level: 9
Items: Gladius, Life Max
Monsters: Skeleton Ape, Armor Lord, Sword Lord, Spear Guard, Medusa Head
Doppleganger10
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Now when you reach here, go up and take the top left path. Keep going and
keep going to the left and save your game. Now take the top right path and a
boss battle will ensue.
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BOSS BATTLE: Doppleganger10       HP: 120       EXP: 500
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This battle will be tough, but you must be patient and don't go into a fury
trying to attack yourself. You should jump over his little swords that he
throws at you. When he jumps at you, don't run but attack back and just swipe
at him. HE reacts like you, so your attack will bounce him back as well. You
axes will help out A LOT here, throw them so that it lands at him, which
makes it a lot easier to win this battle because it keeps him away and it
keeps him from throwing out his weapons at you. Other than that just be
patient and attack him if he jumps and avoid him when he turns into a bat.
After the battle you will get another LIFE MAX item which will increase your
maximum HP and refill your entire loss HP. In this next room pick up the
GLADIUS and equip the sword on. Now continue upwards towards the right and
into the next door(you can ignore the lift, mainly because you can't ride it
just yet) and to the long Library.
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THE LONG LIBRARY
Alucard's level: 10
Items: Bronze Cuirass, Uncurse(unlimited), Jewel of Open(buy), Faerie Scroll
Monsters: Thornweed, Corpseweed(evolve after Thronweed), Lesser Demon,
Duhron, Ectoplasm, Flea Man, Spell Book, Magic Tome, Flea Armor
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In here continue and take the left path and keep going and keep destroying
the monsters until you reach the room with the BRONZE CUIRASS. Equip it on
and make your way back to the beginning of the Long Library and go up. You
will encounter these flying balls of flesh, don't touch them or you'll be
cursed. Luckily there is an UNCURSE in the room, equip the UNCURSE and use it
like a weapon to uncurse yourself, you can keep re-entering this room and get
unlimited UNCURSEs. Now continue upwards and in this room, keep going to the
bottom left. You will eventually meet up with the Librarian and you can now
use all those money bags you've gotten for some valuable goodies.
FIRST YOU MUST BUY THE JEWEL OF OPEN, which is the valuable relic and it will
allow you to open the doors with the blue seal around them(like the one you
probably saw at the Marble Gallery). You can also sel any gems you might have
picked up, but you can NEVER sell back any items. Now return back and take
the top right portion of the hallway and you will find the FAERIE SCROLL,
which will display your opponent's name. Now just exit the Long Library and
come back later and back to the Outer Wall.
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RETURN TO THE OUTER WALL
Alucard's Level: 12
Items: Soul of Wolf
Monsters: Skeleton Ape, Armor Lord, Sword Lord, Spear Guard, Medusa Head
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Now go to the top of the Outer Wall and you will see a switch at the top
left, keep hitting it until the Elevator is activated. Now go back to the
lift you saw when you came in and ride it, then pick up the SOUL OF WOLF,
which will transform you into a wolf for later in the game. Now go all the
way to the top of the Outer Wall and save your game. Now enter the next area
in the door RIGHT BELOW THE SAVE ROOM and you will now be at the Clock Tower.
BUT, you should go back to the Marble Gallery and make your way back to the
room with where you saw for stiarcases in an X shape, you took the lower
right path remember? Now take the upper right path and you will see a blue
door, hit that switch inside the blue door and you will open up the pink
platforms you saw earlier. No go to the left after hitting the switch and go
down through the now open pink barricades and into the Underground Caverns.
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UNDERGROUND CAVERNS
Alucard's Level: 13
Items: Heart Max, Bandana, Life Max, Merman Statue, Shitake
Monsters: Fish Head, Bloody Zombie, Frozen Shade, Scylla, Killer Fish, Bone
Archer, Bat, Toad, Frog, Skeleton Ape, Scylla Wyrm
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Now continue down and watch for the Spear Guards, destroy them and take the
next available left that you see and inside is another HEART MAX, break the
wall to the left and then pick up the BANDANA and equip it on. Now go back to
the room you came in(the vertical Underground Caverns room), then go to the
right and save your game. Now drop straight down deeper into the caverns.
There is a save room to the right, now take the left. In here take the NEXT
AVAILABLE left that you see and it will lead to a LIFE MAX, enter back into
the vertical room and go down(if you go up, you'll just end back where you
went to get the HEART MAX and BANDANA) back into the the deeper parts of the
Caverns and to the left.
When you see a box in front of you, push it to the left wall, not only that
but will will drown the Spear Guards! You should watch their reaction, its
just funny. Now keep going to the left, and above all(no pun intended), STAY
ABOVE THE WATER! Its very harmful to Alucard as it will steadily drain his HP
away. Keep moving towards the left(ignore the board bridge for now) and you
will see a giant waterfall, avoid the water and keep moving towards the
bottom left. You will notice that its colder in here since there the water
has turned into ice.
Keep going to the left and you will eventually see an opening at the top,
head there and pick up the SHITAKE and continue onto the left, in this door
will lead to a LIFE MAX and hit the switch to open up the gate. Now GO BACK
TO THE UNDERGROUND CAVERNs and continue that path to the left and take a ride
with the Ferryman. It will lead you to the MERMAN STATUE relic, which will
allow you to summon the oarsman. Now head back and take the top path you took
earlier(where you took the SHITAKE) and you will be where you had started at
the beginning of the game. Keep going through and pass where you met Death
until you see a room with a Bloody Zombie, now take the bottom left room and
enter through and enter the key hole. Now you will be back at the Outer Wall.
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RE-RETURN TO THE OUTER WALL
Alucard's Level: 15
Items: None
Monsters: Skeleton Ape, Armor Lord, Sword Lord, Spear Guard, Medusa Head
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Return back to the Marble Gallery(go to the bottom of the Outer Wall).
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REVISIT TO UNDERGROUND CAVERNS VIA MARBLE GALLERY
Alucard's level: 15
Items: Library Card, Attack Potion
Monsters: *check monsters for Outer Wall and Marbel Gallery*
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Upon returning, you will see another pink barricade open to you. Go down to
pick up the LIBRARY CARD and the ATTACK POTION. Now continue and go take the
upper left and into the next pink barricade and enter through to the
Underground Caverns again.
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RETURN TO THE UNDERGROUND CAVERNS          Alucard's Level: 15
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Now take the straight path down, ALL THE WAY DOWN until you see the deeper
parts of the Underground Caverns. Drop straight down until you see a portion
of the structure that is partially turned ice. Hit the lower left part of
that structure until it crumbles and continue your down until you see the
Ferryman. He will take you across and make sure to pick up the HOLY SYMBOL,
which will allow you to walk through water without incurring any damage. Now
continue through and go to the bottom of the water and pick up the ELIXIR,
LIFE MAX, and KNUCKLE DUSTER in ther waters in this room. Now head back to
the left and up and take the doorway to the right, and this will ensue a boss
fight.
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BOSS BATTLE: Scylla Wyrm
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This battle is rediculously easy. Even easier than the first boss that you
had fought earlier. Stay away from the wyrm in the corner and keep slashing
and hacking and running away. Repeat and its mince meat.
After the battle continue on through to the the right. Keep going to the
right and pick up a SCMITAR and equip it and pick up the RESIST ICE in the
water as well. Now continue onwards to the top and to the right and destroy
the vase to pick up the POT ROAST and continue on back to the left. As the
music stops you know a boss is coming up.
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BOSS BATTLE: Scylla Wyrm(3)/Scylla
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This battle is easier than it looks. Attack the Wyrms first, you can also
destroy the projectiles before they come flying at you. After destroying the
Wyrms attack Scylla, you can stay in the floor that its standing on (the
tentacles CAN'T harm you) and just jump up and keep attacking it.
NOTE: This isn't really anythign important, but did you notice that the
Scylla Wyrm had came down on the room that you were previously in?
When you fought the Scylla Wyrm, Scylla was right on top of you!
After the battle pick up the LIFE MAX and continue onwards to the left
and pick up the CRYSTAL CLOAK. Now go back and save your game. Now take the
left and then go up and make your way back to the Marble Gallery(where you
came in earlier). Now when you reach the Marble Gallery, keep going up until
you can reach no farther left. Now go down the the bottom left(the right left
leads to a save room) and continue onward(like you did before) until you
reach the room where you had to step on the lever to move the wall. Now in
this room, take the bottom left room and enter through the key hole and you
should enter the Outer Wall(look at the symbol on top of the key hole, it
should look like a snake or a catipillar, sorry but its really hard to tell
exactly what it is).
Now when your at the Outer Wall, GO ALL THE WAY DOWN until you see Sword
Knight, destroy him and enter the room behind him, then hit the wall on the
left which will reveal a POT ROAST. NOW THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT: Wait here for
20 seconds and sooner or later a lift will bring you down to the bottom room
below, make sure to stay in the middle of the broken stone, DO NOT STAY ON
THE EDGES AND DO NOT TOUCH THE WALL. Afterwards you will be at a room down
below which contains JEWEL KNUCKLES and the MIRROR CUIRASS, you can equip the
JEWEL KNUCKLES if you want, the attack power is eight points higher but the
range is drastically decreased from your SCIMITAR. Equip the MIRROR CUIRASS,
now head back up, if you did not get the LIFE MAX earlier, then get it, which
is to the far right on the ledge from the Doppleganger10 bossroom, be careful
though, make a small jump because a high jump will cause you to fall down
below.
Now go back to the keyhole room and enter through to the key hole near the
Alchemy lab. When you reach the key hole, head out and take the top left and
to the Alchemy Lab and make it to the room JUST BEFORE THE ROOM YOU FOUGHT
Gaibon and Slorga. In this room just before the room where you had fought
Slorga and Gaibon, go around the top and land and take the doorway just above
the save room. Continue on past the blue door and you will meet up with
Maria again. This time Maria saids the castle isn't familiar to her, but
Alucard tells her that the castle takes on a lot of reincarnations. She says
her goodbyes and leaves where you came, now go and continue towards the
left and into the Royal Chapel.
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ROYAL CHAPEL
Alucard's Level: 15
Items: Knight Shield, Aquamarine, Silver Plate, Life Max, Potion, Cutlass
Monsters: Vandal Sword, Hunting Girl, Bone Halbred, Black Crow, Winged Guard,
Corner Guard, Bone Pillar, Blue Raven, Skelerang, Bat, Spectral
Sword
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There is a save room to the left, then after saving, make your way to the top
and destroy the vase to the left for the AQUAMARINE gem in which you can sell
it for some money. Now make your way to the right via the long golden
staircase, note that it will be a little tough destroying the enemies on the
staircase and watch how you destroy the enemies, hit the top one first
because the head will fall down at you. And when you encounter the giant
Spike, DO NOT TRY TO DESTROY IT, it will give you about 4000 EXP at this
point in the game but it has a lot of HP and will probably knock you out with
a hit or two.
Jump over the falling Spike and continue onwards to the right, at the end you
can pick up a KNIGHT SHIELD, but other than that you won't get far, be
careful when fighting the Spectral Sword though, it gives away a lot of
expierience but can cause a lot of damage if you are not careful. Not take
the top right doorway and ignore the door to the right when you enter the
next room, its a confession room and if you sit on either side of the chairs,
the spirits of the dead will probably make confessions or something, I don't
think there is a  significance to this portion of the game(maybe it'll come
back to me later) but if there is I'll remind you later.
Now continue to make your way up and you should begin to see a portion of one
of the belltower, and at some point you will find at the left side of the
Belltower is a room full of spikes, you can't enter through though. Continue
to make your way to the top of the tower and collect a LIFE MAX and and
SILVER PLATE. Equip it and then head on to the right and pass the hallyway to
the second  belltower and at the top is a ZIRCON gem. Afterwards continue to
the right and past the long hallway to the portrait room, you should hear the
music stop as you enter in here.
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BOSS BATTLE: Hippogryph
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This battle will be very easy, this boss will be pretty easy to defeat.
Attack him normally, when it hatches its eggs destroy them before they have a
chance to hatch and just basically stay at either side of the room and keep
attacking. When it veers back and you see blue flames blowing out of its
head, its about ready to let loose its fire breath, which does a small
portion of damage but nothing to serious.
After the battle Maria will come in and congratulate you. However she asks if
you have seen Richter, apparently neither of you has seen him before, so she
leaves. Now continue to the right pass the hallway and continue to the right
until you see a save room, save your game and continue on to the top of the
third bell tower. At the top pick up the POTION and the CUTLASS sword and
equip the CUTLASS sword and continue on. Now continue to the right pass the
door.
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CASTLE KEEP
Alucard's level: 16
Items: Tyrfing Sword, Turquoise, Leap Stone
Monsters: Flea Rider, Axe Knight
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When you enter here you will now enter the Castle Keep, but you will not see
the name appear like it usually does until you reach the far right. The door
in this room(the room with the two brown platforms going up and down) leads
to the key hole, just go to the keyhole but don't enter it, then go back to
the room with the lifts. In here take the top right to pick up the TYRFING
sword, don't bother equipping it though, just stick with your CUTLASS.
Now make your way to the left and continue going to the left and pick up the
LEAP STONE which lets you double jump and pick up the TURQUOISE gem. Now HEAD
BACK TO THE ROOM WITH THE BROWN LIFTS that you were in earlier. Head back to
the key hole room and take the room to the Outer Wall(the symbol IS NOT A
HORSE, its a catipillar or snake type of symbol). And go up and to the room
just before the save room at the very top and enter through to the left and
to the Clock Tower.
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THE CLOCK TOWER
Alucard's Level: 17
Items: Star Flail, Steel Helmet, Gold Plate, Life Max(2), Healing Mail,
Bwaka Knife, TNT, Shuriken, Heart Max
Monsters: Medusa Head, Phantom Skull, Skull Lord, Karasuman, Cloaked Knight,
Flail Guard, Spectral Sword, Harpy, Sword Lord
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Now take the top route and make your way to the left. BE CAREFUL in this
part, expect a few structures to crumble, jump up CONSTANTLY until you reach
the end, but you only need to watch for three crumbling structures. HOWEVER,
if you fall down you can reset the structure by GOING BACK TO THE OUTER WALL
AND RE-ENTERING. Here's a tip: You can use your Wolf after the first collapse
and then use the Wolf to make the jump to avoid fallin on the second
collpase, andyou can use the Wolf for the jump just prior to the third
collapse, but make sure you try to get as much running start as you can
before going and NOTE, THERE ARE TWO CONSECUTIVE BRIDGE COLLAPSES after the
first two bridge collapses, use the Wolf and time your jumps so you can reach
the other side, but to make things really easy you can use the double jump.
When you finally reach the Clock Tower, there will be a point where you need
to double jump, do so and continue to the left, the right leads back outside
but even if you have the double jump you can't get the items on top of the
posts you saw earlier. When you get to the next room, you will see flying
angels of some sort, destroy them and look for two gears on the side of the
wall that you can hit, hit the gears until you hear a click, then stop
hitting them. Continue to the bottom left and in this next room do the same
in the next room. There should be on in the water to the left and one at the
top right. Hit both those switches and the bottom left path should open.
In here pick up a STEEL HELM, GOLD PLATE, and the STAR FLAIL. Equip all of
them and continue back outside and to the TOP RIGHT of this room(where you
had hit the last two gears) and destroy the wall at the top right. It will
lead to another room which will eventually lead to a LIFE MAX and a HEART
MAX. Now make your way to the left and watch out when you destroy the Sword
Lords, a Vandal Sword will come after you, both are prtty easy to kill. Make
sure to knock the walls in this room too(even those on the staircases), you
will eventually find something of value, ala the HEALING MAIL. In the next
room you will find TNT, BWAKA KNIFE, and SHURIKEN. Now in this next room you
will have to face a boss.
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BOSS BATTLE: Karasuman
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This battle is one of the toughest battles you have fought yet. However, it
is a pretty easy battle. When you start just keep attacking him, watch for
him when he lands, he will start to gather birds and then take to the skies
and then release a whole bunch of birds. Get to the otherside of him when he
does this and then jump up and attack him. Just keep jumping and attacking
him and he will bounce away everytime until he is in the corner, then just
keep attacking and jumping attacking while he is in the corner and the battle
should be over.
After the battle you will recieve a LIFE MAX, now head to the left door which
leads back to the CASTLE KEEP.
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RETURN TO THE CASTLE KEEP
Alucard's level: 21
Items: Magicmissile, TNT, Boomerang, Shuriken, Flachion Sword
Monsters: Flea Rider, Axe Knight
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In here just step on the platform and the room will light up, wait for the
platform to lift you and then head towards the top right room to save your
game. Now go up and then to the right is a FALCHION sword, which is less
powerful than your STAR FLAIL but it has more reach and is a quicker weapon,
its up to you basically. You can take the left but you'll never reach the
platform, so your only way is downwards. You can now head back to the Chapel
to the bottom left and then go back past the bell towers and then you can
collect those other treasures in the long staircase going down, you have to
double jump to reach some of them, they are at the ledges above the
staircase.
You can pick up a BOOMERRANG, TNT, SHURIKEN, and the MAGICMISSILE. You may
notice that there are two vases that you can't reach, don't worry about them,
the items really won't have a serious impact on your game anyways. Now head
down and move across back to the Alchemy Lab, then go up and through your
first boss room and continue to make your way back to the Marble Gallery.
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A NEW JOURNEY LIES IN THE MARBLE GALLERY
Alucard's level: 22
Items: Heart Max, Alucart Mail, Alucart Shield, Alucart Sword
Monsters: Gaibon, Slorga, Bloody Zombie, Axe Knight, Bone Scimitar, Skeleton,
Spittle Bone, Ghost, Skelerang, Marionette, Diplocephalus, Flea
Man, Ctulhu, Medusa Head, Ghost, Ouija Table, Axe Knight, Slinger,
Plate Lord
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Continue to the right and you should make your way to the Giant Clock where
you had first met with Maria, use your Stop Watch(its a special weapon, if
you don't have it there is a Stop Watch to the far right, you can obtain it
by hitting candles, its in the fourth room past the Giant clock to the right,
and hit the second candle from the right of that fourth room and you should
recieve a Stop Watch). Now return back to the room with the Giant Clock and
use your Stop Watch. A statue at the top right should move out of the way
allowing you to get through. You can pick up the ALUCART SHIELD and a HEART
MAX.
The ALUCART shield is just a cheap rip off of the ALUCARD SHIELD you had
earlier in the game. Don't bother equipping it as it is an obvious fake(just
like the Excalipur to the Excalibur in FF5, you Final Fantasy fans should
know this). In the next room you will find the ALUCART SWORD and ALUCART
MAIL, they are obvious fakes as well. Now when you get back down, the statue
to the left should be open as well. Make your way to that area and continue
onward and you should find a LIFE MAX. Make your way to the door on the left.
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ORLOX'S QUARTERS
Alucard's level: 22
Items: Cheese, Onix, Broadsword
Monsters: Poltergeist
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This place will be pretty tough, just keep an eye out for things and you
don't have to destroy every monster, but then again they do give you a lofty
amount of expierience points. Now continue to make you way up until you are
in a room with the POLTERGEIST in the middle. On the bottom right of this
room, destroy the wall and continue through to pick up the ONIX gem, CHEESE,
and the BROADSWORD. You should still stick with the stronger weapon(STAR
FLAIL) but this sword does provide more reach though.
Now continue your way through to the top right(watch out in this next room
though, there are some rather tough enemies). Keep going to the right and
make your way until you see the key hole room with the goat symbol on top of
the key hole. Now leave and go back to the POLTERGEIST room and enter the
door on the left.
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COLLOSEUM
Alucard's level: 23
Items: Soul of a Mist, Life Max, Green Tea, Shield Rod, Library Card, Blood
Cloak, $1000 money bag
Monsters: Hunting Girl, Gravekeeper, Werewolf, Minotaurus, Blade Master,
Armor Lord, Bone Scimitar, Blade Soldier, Plate Lord, Axe Knight,
Owl Knight, Paranthropus, Bone Musket, Owl
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You will now be at the Colloseum(boy don't you love that uptempo beat that
this stage has? Sounds a bit 80's like but I like it!). Now continue going to
the left until you stop at a wall that only a MIST can pass through, go
upwards and you should see a large colleseum room. You will see several Blade
Masters(watch out they are tricky), in the middle of this room you will find
a hidden roof, you can destroy with the axe(it should be around both the
podium structures). Now continue to make your way to the left and then drop
down. You will see a path below you and to the left, take the bottom right
path to a boss. You will also pick up the LIBRARY CARD just prior to stopping
there.
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BOSS BATTLE: Werewolf and Minotaurus
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OH NO! Its Richter Belmont, has the Vampire Slayer turned evil? From the
looks of things he has. He sends two of his fiends after you, watch out
though, this can be your toughest battle yet. Attack the Werewolf first and
then watch for him to zoom towards you, jump when you anticipate it. Watch
for the Minotaur to use his giant flame attack, he will execute it after he
lands from jumping to the ceiling. Also watch for the Werewolf to spin at you
from the ceiling as well, you can double jump to avoid it and then attack
when he lands. You will have to do a lot of hit and run in this battle
though, so stay alert and attack when you have the chance.
After the battle Alucard knows for certain that was a Belmont and why is
Richter Belmont lord of the castle? After the battle pick up the LIFE MAX and
continue towards the right, go to the right and pick up the SOUL OF A MIST
relic, which will allow you to turn into a mist. Now step on the switch to
release open the path below and drop down until you stop at the red cage lift
and head to the right until you reach a save room. Save your game and then
head out and drop to the bottom and head to the right and pick up a HEART
MAX, note that there are four different special weapons in this room. You can
come back here to switch any special weapons that you may want while you are
in this stage.
Now make your way to the far left and pick up the BLOOD CLOAK, its pretty
useful but it comes at the expense of your defense, you can decide whether or
not your extra hearts is worth your declining defense. Now make your way back
to the red cage lift, move to the left(BE CAREFUL in this room, its quite
tough to get by and you will have to take a few hits) and destroy the
monsters in here as quickly as possible. Now continue towards the left until
you reach a save room. Now is the time to save your game, you can go to the
top and hit the switch to the left(which will open the path back to the Royal
Chapel).
After that head directly downwards and to the bottom left, in here there are
a lot of enemies(even the Musket Bone, which are pretty annoying) in here,
but the prizes are well worth it. You can pick up the SHIELD ROD and a $1000
bag at the end of this room. When you acquire you SHIELD ROD, equip a
shield(if you didn't already have one) and press the "Circle" and "Square"
button at the same time, this will create a special effect for Alucard which
can give him special attributes for a limited amount of time, this does take
up MP though(but your MP refills gradually on its own anyways) but if you
combine it with the right shield, the effects can be devastating, that is for
your opponent.
Now continue towards the fight and destroy the monsters, there is an Owl
Knight who is pretty tough but if you destroy the eagle you can attack him as
he looks over his fallen owl(Awwww! How cute! Oh well, his loss). This makes
killing the Owl Knight MUCH easier to kill. Now continue towards the right
side and you will find a room with a Grave Keeper. Kill him and pick up the
GREEN TEA. Now head back to the left and go up(you can save your game if you
wish) back to the Royal Chapel.
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RETURN TO THE ROYAL CHAPEL
Alucard's level: 23
Items: None
Monsters: *See monsters for Royal Chapel*
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If you go back to the confession room and sit on the chair, the people will
cover the themselves and try to attack you, the damage isn't anything to
worry about, but its just optional if you want to see it. Now make your way
up through the bell towers and back to the Castle Keep.
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CASTLE KEEP RE-VISITED
Alucard's level: 23
Items: None
Monsters: *Check monsters for Castle Keep*
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Now in here, keep going to the right until you reach the key hole room. In
here head to the Outer Wall(the symbol should look like a snake or
catipillar) and then head back to the Long Library. It should be below from
the door you came from(hit select and check your map).
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NEW DISCOVERIES LIE UNBOUND IN THE LONG LIBRARY
Alucard's level: 23
Items: Holy Rod, Stone Mask, Topaz Circlet, Frankfurter, Takemitsu, Onyx,
Faerie Card, Antivenom, Potion, Life Max
Monsters: *look up monsters for Long Library*
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Now head back up and go the same route you did when you went to the old
Librarian(go up then upleft) but instead of going to the old Librarian, use
your not so newly acquired double jump to reach the other platforms above the
old Librarian route, well actually you can only reach the middle route, and
when you reach here. Save your game and continue to the left. Make your way
past this room and continue onto the next room, which is pretty large. When
you enter here, destroy the enemies and then you reach farther up, double
jump and then use the Mist transformation to give yourself a slight boost to
reach the top.
Now go to the top right and inside pick up the STONE MASK and equip it if you
like. Now keep going to the right and push the library shelf and pick up the
TOPAZ CIRCLET and the HOLY ROD. The HOLY ROD is weaker than the SHIELD ROD,
but it can attack MUCH quicker. The choice is up to you, now head back
outside and before you head to the bottom try to cover all the missing
squares in this room(look on your map, you should see white lines marked
around the blue box). When you reach down here, you will encounter a tough
boss.
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BOSS BATTLE: Lesser Demon
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This battle shouldn't be tough actually, it will be tough if you allow it to
let out too many monsters. Just jump up and keep attacking the lesser demon,