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Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon (Video Game)

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On the night of the full moon, demons called forth by evil alchemists emerge from a land beyond ours and ravage the earth, becoming a threat that spells the end of mankind as we know it. On this night, one man, a warrior from the east, arrives to exterminate the demon threat for the sake of both his friends and the survival of the human race. However, to destroy the demons once and for all, he must find solace and support in unusual allies...Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon is a Retraux 2D action-platforming game released for the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 4, Play Station Vita, Xbox One, and PC in 2018 by Inti Creates, one of the former developers of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. Curse of the Moon came to fruition as a stretch goal from the Kickstarter campaign that crowdfunded the original Bloodstained project, whereupon the stretch goal promised to release an 8-bit style spinoff title to the core Bloodstained game.The game draws heavy inspiration from the original Castlevania titles on the NES, especially Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse. As the warrior Zangetsu, you must travel across multiple stages to reach the heart of the demon threat, slaying monsters and enormous bosses alike in your quest. As you defeat massive bosses, you will encounter other adventurers who can be recruited on your quest, and their abilities will support you and give you access to paths and options that are not available to other characters. Choices made during the game will also decide which one of Multiple Endings you will receive.The four playable characters include:
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And Then John Was a Zombie: If playing with all allied characters, after slaying the initial final boss, Zangetsu gets corrupted and becomes the new dark emperor while trying to protect his allies. Miriam, Alfred, and Gebel must embark on a quest of their own in a new playthrough to try and save his soul.
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Main Character Final Boss: The main playable character, a demon hunter called Zangetsu, is possessed by the final boss at the end of the game. If the player had opted to recruit Miriam, Gebel and Alfred before then, a new campaign called Nightmare Mode will be unlocked. It consists of those three characters joining forces to break the curse, which culminates in a climactic final battle against their former friend.
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Creator Cameo
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Creator Cameo: The painting miniboss in Stage 7 depicts a stylized 8-bit portrait of Koji Igarashi, donning his signature cowboy hat.
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Fake Longevity: In order to unlock every scenario in Curse of the Moon 2, you need to play the entire game from start to finish no less than five times. The only things that change in each playthrough are your starting equipment, potential ally characters, and in certain cases stage access and difficulty, although each stage has a large bevy of branching paths that can be accessed with different combinations of characters to make each playthrough feel different.
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Early Game Hell: The early game is rather punishing due to Zangetsu having short range and not much in terms of special abilities. While largely depending on what ending you want to get (with Zangetsu not killing Miriam, Alfred, and Gebel, but also not recruiting them, leading to easily the most difficult playthrough), doing a playthrough with allies or killing them to get their powers tips things more into the player's favor.
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After Boss Recovery
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After Boss Recovery: Defeating a stage boss revives any incapacitated characters and restores all characters to full health. If your LIFE stock is less than 3 lives, the game will also restock you back to 3 lives.
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Power-Up Letdown
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Power Up Letdown: In Episode 2, you can try to gather three different colored swords to get the Zanmatou, and you're given quite the fanfare for unlocking it. However, doing that means you just Nerfed Zangetsu into his vanilla form, no more 3 hit combo, no more vertical jumping slash, no more superpowered subweapons. It's what you need to unlock the good ending, as its description is a weapon created to destroy evil without hurting what's good. Perfect for saving someone from the grip of a demon.
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Title Drop: The titular Curse of the Moon, which is both the name of the curse that Zangetsu is afflicted with and a time travel function that allows you to go back to a previous stage. Using the Curse of the Moon doesn't let you take allies or power-ups back with you, but allows you to change the fate of your allies if you want to see a different ending.
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Hard Mode Filler
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Hard Mode Filler: Episode 2 is all of the stages from Episode 1, but with tougher enemy placement and harder boss battles. And you're not allowed to use Dominique and her useful utilities. On the bright side, Robert and Hachi are available from the get-go. Episode EX, which is unlocked by failing to get the Zanmatou in Episode 2, is a similar go around, but with just the original bunch of allies from the first game and the Zanmatou given to you from the get-go.
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Multiple Endings
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Multiple Endings: Although not quite as expansive as the previous game, certain Episodes have them. In Episode 2: Defeat Mephisto with the Soul Eraser. Zangetsu refuses to strike down Dominique, resulting in the entire party getting attacked. With Robert and Hachi out of commission, Zangetsu restarts his journey alone. This unlocks Episode EX. Defeat Mephisto with the Zanmatou. Mephisto is destroyed and Dominique is saved, but she discovers that demons from the moon are preparing to attack Earth. When Zangetsu's old allies from their previous adventure arrive, the seven of them team up to save the world. This unlocks the Final Episode. In the Final Episode: Recruit at least one ally and defeat the True Final Boss. With the power of his friends, Zangetsu defeats Sariel, destroys the demon threat, and is freed from the Curse of the Moon. Although no one else may know of their deeds, they can rest knowing that Earth is safe once and for all. This unlocks Zangetsu Select. Defeat the True Final Boss alone. With all of his allies gathered, Zangetsu launches one final assault on Sariel, who is escaping into space. Hachi and Dominique launch Zangetsu into outer space to pursue Sariel, and with the help of his friends and a single slash of the Daizangetsutou, Zangetsu cleaves Sariel and the moon itself into two. This unlocks Single Mode.
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Violation of Common Sense
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Violation of Common Sense: Episode EX is locked behind the normal ending of Episode 2, not the good ending. You can't "un-obtain" the Zanmatou once you pick it up, so if you got the good ending first, better start a fresh save!
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Stealth Pun
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Stealth Pun: Gremory has one. During each of her attacks, the phase of the moon will change in its halo-looking thing. On a New Moon, she'll create an oversized red moon and throw it at you. She's creating a new moon.
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Ditto the Soul Eraser in Episode 1. Dominique will not allow you to move on to the next stage until you pick it up. If you try, she'll stop you and point it out, saying it could be useful.
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Aborted Arc: The Sequel Hook from the previous game is ignored completely.
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Astral Finale
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Astral Finale: In a surprise departure from its predecessor series, the final confrontation takes place on the moon.
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Mythology Gag: The Final Boss of Episode 2 and Episode EX is the save room from Ritual of the Night. Literally.
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Spiritual Successor
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Spiritual Successor: This game has been referred to by fans as "the Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse remake that never was". What makes it funny is that graphics-wise, it's pretty much an 8-bit game, unlike Super Castlevania IV or Castlevania Chronicles, which were indeed remakes.
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Bag of Spilling
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Bag of Spilling: Despite the Episodes taking place in chronological order, the heroes always lose every single power-up obtained in an Episode and start fresh at the beginning of the next Episode. The only exceptions are special Key Items that Zangetsu gets, namely his Sword upgrades.
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Background Boss
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Background Boss: Valefor and Gremory's second form stay in the background with their weak points (heads) high above, meaning that you'll have to do some climbing to take them down.
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Easter Egg: Some of the bosses' last ditch attacks can be countered by Ultimate Zangetsu's Charge Attack, bifurcating them. Seeing as they can't kill you, it's solely for style.
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The last level has a lot of Trial-and-Error Gameplay with instakills all over, in an unforgiving torrent of abuse. Extra lives are everywhere.
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Arrange Mode
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The Arrange Mode option that allows you to start the game with a fully-powered Zangetsu is called "Ultimate Mode", much like a previous Inti Creates series that has an unlockable feature of the same name.
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Awesome, but Impractical
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Awesome, but Impractical: Speed upgrades in the Unexpected Shmup Level are useful... to a point. Speed goes up to 10, and after collecting multiple upgrades, you'll start going a bit too fast. This can make the Flying Armor incredibly difficult to steer, since certain segments require precision movement and having too many speed upgrades will likely make you crash into a wall/moon rock and die.
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Check-Point Starvation
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A common problem in the previous game is that checkpoints were both unclear and rare, thus making it hard to tell how far back you go when you die and resulting in some Checkpoint Starvation. This game rectifies this by adding lamps that clearly indicate checkpoints and placing at least two or three per stage.
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Glass Cannon
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Glass Cannon: Zangetsu as the True Final Boss. He has several fast and tricky-to-dodge attacks that can rapidly wear you down, but his health isn't that high.
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Squishy Wizard
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Alfred is a Squishy Wizard with pathetic range that even Zangetsu can potentially outrange to some extent, and his gameplay is entirely based on his spells he can use as Subweapons. That said, if you're good with him, he can blast through stages easily, leaving a mountain of corpses in his wake.
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Boring, but Practical
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Boring, but Practical: It's possible to get an infinite number of lives by killing the endlessly respawning enemies, since they keep giving you points no matter how much you kill them. The only issue is that you get 100 points per kill, and you need 20,000 points for an extra life, making it a waste of time unless you're really bad (but refuse to play on casual) or are score attacking.
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Power-Up
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Power-Up: In addition to the standard life or weapon-restoring one and subweapons, there's two permament items late in the game: The Gauntlet (increases normal attack damage) in Stage 6 and Armor (take a bit less damage) in early Stage 7. The Gauntlet can be gotten through a mix of methods while the Armor requires better than normal jumping ability. This makes them the only items you can easily get on a "kill all allies" run.
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Foregone Conclusion
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Foregone Conclusion: Similar to how this trope was used in the first game (see above), the room directly before the final boss has 1-Ups that replenish every time you lose a life. And the room before that room has a secret area that always has Resurrection Anthems for Dominique. The last three rooms before fighting Gremory have enough high-value score drops to guarantee a 1-Up every time you lose a life, granting you infinite lives in a long-winded way.
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Schizo Tech: Not only are Mini-Mecha somehow existing in the 16th century, the heroes are somehow able to use Alchemical knowledge to build their own starship. This was at least somewhat justified in Ritual of the Night by creatures of the night having access to significantly more advanced tech, but in this case it's explicitly for Rule of Cool.
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Took a Level in Kindness: When recruiting his allies, Zangetsu was especially distrusting about their status as Shardbinder (Miriam), Alchemist (Alfred), and curse-progenitor (Gebel) and he even had the option to just kill them on the spot. However, in the end of the playthrough, he apparently grows fond enough to cover them from Gremory's final assault by his own instinct, getting himself possessed and inspiring the three to save his soul. On the other hand, even if he doesn't recruit anyone, sparing them all also results in them doing the same for him instead, and the ending text implies that Zangetsu attempts to learn to trust others more because of that. Gebel as well. His dialogue when recruited by Zangetsu makes him look more bitter and spiteful to mankind than the rest of the party members, not unlike his Ritual self. That said, in the Nightmare Mode, he ends up fighting with all his strength in order to put the corrupted Zangetsu to rest and bring peace to mankind.
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Weird Weather: The first stage's background features a sea of clouds blowing past rather quickly. Word of God is that the team really likes moving stages, but didn't want to repeat the Locomotive Level from Curse 1, so they added a moving parallax background to invoke the feeling of movement in an otherwise static level.
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Since Frostcalibur induces Literally Shattered Lives on any frozen non-boss enemy you hit, it can be used to one-shot anything in the game short of a boss. This also includes the aforementioned painting mini-boss.
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Advancing Boss of Doom: Stage 8 of Episode 1 prominently features Abaddon constantly pursuing the heroes throughout the stage in a ball of deadly flies. You can push the ball back with attacks, but if it catches up and consumes you, it's instant death.
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Bittersweet Ending: In Nightmare Mode, Miriam, Alfred, and Gebel fight the possessed Zangetsu in an attempt to free him from the curse, but are ultimately forced to kill him. This does, however, free Zangetsu's soul, and peace returns to the land.
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Desperation Attack: Almost all of the bosses will try to pull something off when their HP is depleted. These attacks tend to kill their users in the process, though. With one exception, they also can't actually kill you.
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Earn Your Fun
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Earn Your Fun: You can unlock Ultimate Zangetsu, infinite items, and infinite WEAPON Points for Boss Rush, but to do so you must clear it on Veteran difficulty with the default settings.
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Jump Physics: Much like the original Castlevania games, you can't change direction in midair once you've jumped. That said, Miriam can still jump over her own body height with ease, and everyone else doesn't have much problem leaping over the horrors that they find.
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Alternate Continuity
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Alternate Continuity: Originally meant to be a prequel, when Inti Creates left development on Ritual of the Night, Curse of the Moon was reworked into a standalone entry that is incompatible with Ritual's story.
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Four Is Death
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Four Is Death: The train cart right before the first boss has 4 4 4 4 on it.
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Infinity -1 Sword: The Zanmatō, which Nerfs Zangetsu back down to just one sword slice and normal sub-weapons, yet can kill Mephisto without harming Dominique. See also Sword of Plot Advancement below.
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Opening the Sandbox: Unlike the previous Episodes, which strictly railroad you through game progression, the Final Episode gives you absolute freedom in which stages you wish to tackle and what allies you want to pick up. It's also the first Episode where you can bring all allies into any stage as long as you've obtained them, allowing you to access special shortcuts that you saw but were unable to access in Episodes 1 and 2, including many of the Gebel and Hachi-exclusive routes.
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Shock and Awe: Andrealphus and Bathin both utilize electricity, albeit differently (Andrealphus uses atmospheric lightning, while Bathin generates his own electricity). Alfred also can utilize an electric spell that shoots towards enemies like a homing missile, which can be found in green lanterns.
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Denial of Diagonal Attack: Being a Retraux game, this is a given. Having said that, the game is nice enough to provide a few ways to overcome this, such as Anti-Air attacks (Gebel's basic attack, Miriam's triple knife, Zangetsu's chain whip) and Homing Projectiles (Alfred's Voltaic Rays).
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New Work, Recycled Graphics: The sequel reuses a large number of assets from the original game, as well as a handful of music tracks.
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Cliffhanger Copout: There is no mention of the city that Zangetsu was sent to in the Nightmare mode ending of the first game.
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Downer Ending: The bad ending of Episode 2 ends with Zangetsu wounding, but not killing the Final Boss, as he feared the Soul Eraser would take Dominique's life as well. This results in the boss using its Last Ditch Move, and while Zangetsu, Robert, and Hachi escape alive, Robert and Hachi are too injured to keep going, forcing Zangetsu to continue alone.
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Duel Boss: As the final boss fight of Nightmare Mode begins, Zangetsu wounds Alfred and Gebel, forcing them to sit most of the fight out and leaving only Miriam to play as. That said, Alfred and Gebel do help at points in the battle, but you can't switch to them, not even to Gebel in the Finish Him! phase.
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If you free the party members but leave them behind instead of recruiting OR killing them, they'll jump in and sacrifice themselves against the final boss, apparently dying, although the text implies they might have survived. Zangetsu survives and is moved to reconsider his priorities in life. Despite being the hardest ending to get, there are no unlocks for this.
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But Thou Must!: If you know how Episode 2 will end if you still have it at that point, then clearly you don't want to pick up the Soul Eraser during Episode 1, right? Well, too bad! Dominique won't let you leave until you take it. See Sword of Plot Advancement below.
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Unexpected Shmup Level: In the Final Episode, after gathering all the materials needed, Alfred constructs an alchemist-based battle plane that travels to the moon and fires weapons based on the playable characters' abilities. Cue a top-down plane shooter gameplay similar to Twinbee or Gradius/Life Force.
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All Your Powers Combined
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All Your Powers Combined: The Flying Armor uses all the Subweapons of Zangetsu and his allies as power-ups, such as firing talismans, triple knives, Drake Cannons, scythes, whirlwinds, and electric orbs, gaining Gebel's bats as options, and using Alfred's spells as temporary enhancements. Zangetsu absorbs the power of his allies to cleave Sariel into half.
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Broad Strokes
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Broad Strokes: The first game's events, as referenced in this game: Zangetsu is alive and well in the relative present day, he did not fight alone, and all three allies fought beside him and befriended him. This cannot be replicated within the first game itself, as he only survives with any of the three allies if at least one of the others was killed or ignored, otherwise he dies himself if he recruited all three.
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Purposefully Overpowered: Alfred's ultimate Subweapon, Voltaic Rays, deletes anything onscreen short of a boss when used and does absurd damage to bosses. However, you can only get it from green lamps, which are very rare and typically hidden in secret rooms or difficult-to-reach shortcuts, and it has a very high cost of 15 WEAPON Points, making it difficult to spam. However, if you collect enough WP upgrades, you shouldn't need to spam it, as anything you'd need to use it multiple times on will likely die before you run out.
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Genius Loci: Valefor is not the gentleman-in-tophat demon made of coins, but rather the entire treasure vault itself.
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Ultimate Mode does not have a unique story. Zangetsu has all three Soul Arts from the start, in addition to the aforementioned Charged Attack, but he can still choose to recruit/kill/ignore the party members exactly as in Normal Mode. There are achievements for these ending variations.
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Slippy-Slidey Ice World: Stage 4 is a town that's been frozen over, requisite ice physics included. Notably, Hachi's Powered Armor has the ability to walk on iced surfaces normally with Spider Limbs, making platforming significantly easier if you have him (and much harder when you don't).
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Fragile Speedster
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Fragile Speedster: Andrealphus is very fast and most of his attacks limit your own mobility, making landing hits on him hard. He is one of the bosses with the least health, though.
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Boss Rush: The Version 1.2.0 update added an unlockable Boss Rush mode on the main menu. You can play it with one or two players and supports Casual and Veteran playstyles. It also has unlockable Hard difficulty, with exclusive Hard variations of Abaddon, Mephisto, and Sariel, as well as unlockable Ultimate Zangetsu and options such as infinite items and WEAPON Points.
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Meaningful Background Event: A couple times, the level boss can be seen in the background. Furthermore, keep an eye on the Moon as you progress through each Episode, even Episode EX.
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Batman Can Breathe in Space: For whatever reason, Zangetsu & party has no problems breathing in space. Zangetsu heard about something called "oxygen" from Albert, but all he knows is that you need it to make fire. But the ending shot shows a roaring campfire, so does that mean there's oxygen on the moon?
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Sinister Scythe: Dark Emperor Zangetsu wields one. You can see it either when you achieve the Bad End, or when you fight him as the final boss of Nightmare Mode, including the end of the fight where he makes an enormous scythe to mow you down.
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Deflector Shields: Like the previous game, Alfred's Burning Sphere destroys most projectiles on contact. This also applies to the Flying Armor, as picking it up grants the ability to absorb a limited number of enemy bullets.
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Nintendo Hard: If you thought the first game was challenging, 2 is definitely out for blood.
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Sequel Hook: After being killed as the final boss in Nightmare Mode, Zangetsu's soul wakes up at the top of a building in a Cyberpunk-esque city revealed to be Gunvolt's world (the Sumeragi HQ is visible). Cue the words "The End...?"
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New Game Plus
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New Game Plus: Nightmare and Ultimate modes somewhat function as this in different ways: Nightmare mode has you start out with all 3 allies on their quest to stop corrupted Zangetsu, but bosses have more difficult patterns and enemies from the later half will find their way into earlier levels, particularly in paths not accessible in other modes. But on the upside, you are able to get an otherwise unavailable life-up in Stage 1. Ultimate mode starts you off as Zangetsu with not only all the Soul Arts obtained from killing the allies, but also a powerful charged slash. And you're able to play it normally, including the opportunity to recruit/ignore allies instead of killing them; however, the story remains unchanged. Boss Difficulty is the same as Nightmare.
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An Ice Person
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An Ice Person: Alfred's Frostcalibur is an ice sword that he fires forward, freezing any enemy it hits.
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Breath Weapon
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Breath Weapon: Valac can breathe fire, as well as fire visceral orbs that will explode if you attack them.
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Fisher King
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Fisher King: Turns out being a demon lord gives you some leeway on how you mold the castle. Gremory fashions her castle keep based on a corrupted church, complete with stained-glass windows, whereas Zangetsu turns his castle core into something akin to Shinto-style hell, complete with youkai — a locale reminiscent of Getsu Fuma Den.
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Human Ladder
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Human Ladder: In multiplayer, you can stand on the back of the other player and ride around on them while still being free to attack and dismount whenever desired. Since the game is balanced around single-player, you can exploit this heavily with certain combinations of characters. This is also how Zangetsu fights the True Final Boss on a solo run: by using the other characters to get to the boss, then jumping on Dominique's back as she uses her Spring Jump Subweapon to ascend to its weak point.
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Silliness Switch: In Boss Rush Mode, the 2P Zangetsu has goofy versions of Zangetsu's Subweapons that serve the same purposes, such as a prayer stick for the Ball-and-Chain, the coin of a maneki neko for the Void Charm, and a scarf for the Demon Essence.
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Balance Buff: Alfred's otherwise-unimpressive rod smack has gained a notable bonus effect of now having a chance to recover a WEAPON Point when it hits an enemy. Miriam's Scythe Subweapon recovers a WEAPON Point if she catches it on the way back. Gebel's Dash Attack in bat form now has the ability to Life Drain an enemy it hits.
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Real-Time Weapon Change: The four playable characters can be swapped between on the fly, allowing the player to near-instantly adapt to new gameplay situations.
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Guide Dang It!
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Guide Dang It!: The only hint in-game about the charged slash attack Zangetsu has in Ultimate mode is the final attack he performs on Gremory in the solo ending. Most players find out from remarks on YouTube videos. An unstated effect of certain attacks is "crushing" damage, which is able to pierce enemies with very high defenses that would otherwise repel other attacks and break steel blocks. The only attacks in the game that deal crushing damage are Miriam's Axe Subweapon and the aforementioned Charged Attack that Zangetsu gets from playing the game in Ultimate mode.
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Making a Splash: Focalor. His boss lair is also littered with ice stalactites that will also feature in his attacks.
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Marathon Boss: Fighting the True Final Boss as Zangetsu alone rewards you with a grueling multi-stage slugfest where you must destroy several skeletal rabbits in a row to get high enough to fight the actual boss.
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Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Normal lamps that drop WP and money are orange, Subweapon lamps are purple, Heart lamps are red, Voltaic Ray lamps are green, and Resurrection Anthem lamps are golden.
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Spared by the Adaptation
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Spared by the Adaptation: Gebel and Alfred both die in Ritual of the Night, while they live in this game.
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Your Soul Is Mine!: If you attack and kill the freed party members instead, you gain special abilities, called Soul Arts. Naturally, how often you do this affects the ending.
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Challenge Run: Going for The Very Definitely Final Dungeon in the Final Episode without picking up any allies gives a much more difficult Unexpected Shmup Level with a unique music track, an alternate form of the True Final Boss, and a special ending. Single Mode has you play through the entire game as a single character, and all upgrade items are removed. Zangetsu Select has the option to pick Static Zangetsu, where Zangetsu never gains any of the effects of sword upgrades for gameplay purposes.
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Token Evil Teammate: Gebel, the curse-progenitor, and the Big Bad of Ritual Of The Night, is a Villain Protagonist here. Actually, that's a lie. He's not evil at all.
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Cultural Translation: An interesting case in-game. When going into the 8th Stage in Nightmare Mode, you find that it's gone from the Western-styled gothic cathedrals and stained glass that one would expect to find in such a castle, and see that it's been replaced with an oriental-eseque hell, complete with the demons looking like oriental counterparts to the western demons seen until now. Furthermore, upon reaching the throne room, Zangetsu is seen sipping from a dish before shattering it. This is most likely a sake dish, which thematically fits with Dracula's smashing of his wine glass before beginning the fight.
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Ass-Kicking Pose: In the campfire scene before each episodes' final stages, the characters will engage in tough posturing before getting started.
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True Final Boss
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Defeat the True Final Boss alone. With all of his allies gathered, Zangetsu launches one final assault on Sariel, who is escaping into space. Hachi and Dominique launch Zangetsu into outer space to pursue Sariel, and with the help of his friends and a single slash of the Daizangetsutou, Zangetsu cleaves Sariel and the moon itself into two. This unlocks Single Mode.
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Ledge Bats: Being the Castlevania Spiritual Successor that it is, it wouldn't be complete without its own brand of Goddamned Bats. It also has Dullahammer Heads, the equivalent of Medusa Heads.
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Gainax Ending: The secret ending when you finish Ultimate Mode without recruiting anyone. With the help of his friends, Zangetsu cleaved Sariel just like he did to Gremory in Curse 1. By doing that, he cleaved the whole moon, the place where they're fighting. And that's it, cue credit roll, no need to worry about how the rest of the group are gonna survive getting cleaved with the moon or how long Zangetsu is going to stay in space without air.
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Gangplank Galleon
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Gangplank Galleon: Stage 5 is a haunted ship on the coast constantly under the deluge of a rainstorm. Once Andrealphus is defeated, the weather clears up and reveals the demon lord's castle in the background, implying you were sailing toward it throughout the stage.
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Bait-and-Switch
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Bait-and-Switch: For the first three levels of Episode 1, the bosses would prepare to do a Last Ditch Move like the bosses from the first game... only for your new party members (Dominique, Robert, and Hachi) to pull a Big Damn Heroes and annul the attack.
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Always a Bigger Fish
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Always a Bigger Fish: At the end of Episode 1, Abaddon is promptly Impaled with Extreme Prejudice by Mephisto's hand, killing him instantly.
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Denser and Wackier
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Denser and Wackier: The fourth hero to join the demon hunters is a dog driving a steam engine mecha. And in the final episode, a spaceship is built to travel to the moon that also has oxygen! The game is also much more humorous than the first entry, with the campfire scenes between levels tending to provide some goofy levity.
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Bloody Murder
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Bloody Murder: While not as extensively shown as in Ritual of the Night, Bloodless is still the same blood mistress that she is, including wearing a blood dress, dropping a blood bomb, and even causing Rain of Blood.
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Stationary Boss
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Stationary Boss: Aside from the aforementioned Valefor and Gremory in Background Boss above, there's also Glutton Train and Valac, who stay on one end of the screen instead of moving around like the rest of the bosses.
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Demonic Possession
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Dominique vowed to destroy Mephisto for the sake of her parents, and jumped at the opportunity when the Church caught wind of his appearance. However, Mephisto requires Demonic Possession to take form, and Taking the Bullet was part of her plan to give Mephisto form so Zangetsu could kill both of them. However, her experience with the group made her realize that she didn't want to die, and she expresses her gratitude to Zangetsu for saving her.
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Every 10,000 Points: The game awards an extra life at 20,000-point thresholds, signified by a unique jingle when you reach said threshold.
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Retraux
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Retraux: It almost practically emulates the NES style word-for-word. The character sprites match the Castlevania style closely enough that one could mistake them for actual NES Castlevania characters.
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Merging the Branches: In this game, both Zangetsu and all three original allies are alive and are explicitly stated to have fought alongside each other previously, which cannot happen in any route in the original game where Zangetsu survives. Specific details of any event that happened in the first Curse are also omitted entirely, with the opening scroll neglecting to mention the fates of either Zangetsu or his allies in their last adventure.
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Big Bad
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Big Bad: For all intents, Gremory is one. She serves as the Final Boss except in one mode, and said mode also happens because of her actions anyway.
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Sword of Plot Advancement
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Sword of Plot Advancement: The Zanmatō. There is no way to play the Final Episode without it. Either you start Episode EX with it, or you finish Episode 2 with it. Ditto the Soul Eraser in Episode 1. Dominique will not allow you to move on to the next stage until you pick it up. If you try, she'll stop you and point it out, saying it could be useful.
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Falling Chandelier of Doom: No chandelier is safe in the game; once you walk under one, expect it to fall.
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More Teeth than the Osmond Family
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More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Valac. In addition to having three heads, each with massive jaws and an underlayer of teeth on their "chins", its midsection is revealed to be a strung-together series of mouths, all of them with teeth the size of the player characters.
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Double Jump
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Double Jump: The "Blood Moon" Soul Art, obtained if Zangetsu kills Alfred instead of recruiting or just ignoring him. In Ultimate Mode, Zangetsu has it from the start, allowing you to have your cake (recruiting Alfred) and eating it too (having "Blood Moon")
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Difficult, but Awesome
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Difficult, but Awesome: Rapid changing characters to use their respective jumping abilities, such as jumping off a wall as Robert then using Hachi's hovering, can open up shortcuts much earlier than expected. Doing so requires very precise button pressing.
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Belated Happy Ending
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Belated Happy Ending: None of the player characters died (or stayed dead) from the first game, despite there not being an ending where this happens.
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Interface Spoiler
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Interface Spoiler: The save screen has spaces for all 4 characters. Averted for the collectable equipment; the amount is short for the size of the space, even with the extra health heart in Nightmare mode.
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Locomotive Level
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Locomotive Level: The second half of Stage 1 takes place in and on a moving train, and the boss is the engine.
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Taking the Bullet
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Taking the Bullet: Much like Zangetsu did at the end of the first game, it's Dominique who takes a dark magic shot to save her allies. Episode 2 is about Zangetsu, Robert, and Hachi going to save her.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: In the first four Stages, you can find shortcuts that can't be accessed at that point in the game, since you don't have the requisite party members and you can't take allies back in time with you with Curse of the Moon. This hints at Nightmare Mode, where you play the game again with all of the ally characters already in your possession. In the last room before you face Zangetsu in Nightmare mode, you only find subweapons for Miriam; breaking the subweapon lanterns with Alfred will make them drop large weapon jugs instead of his scrolls. This is because you don't get to control Alfred and Gebel in the ensuing fight. In addition to being a Shout-Out to Castlevania: Rondo of Blood, stage five on the ship foreshadows the opening scenes of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, which also takes place on a ship during a deluge, and it also uses a chiptune version of that area's music. The game hints at some of Ritual of the Night's major plot twists, primarily Gebel not being evil of his own free will and Gremory's role as a major villain. Crosses with Developer's Foresight if you enter Stage 8 without any allies, regardless of whether you killed them, ignored them, or some variation between the two. The stage's name changes from "Curse the Moon" to "Cleave the Moon", and as shown under Cutscene Power to the Max, that's exactly what Zangetsu does.
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Noblewoman's Laugh
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Noblewoman's Laugh: Bloodless gives one off before the fight with her.
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Recoil Boost
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Recoil Boost: Robert's Drake Cannon Subweapon pushes him back quite a bit when used. The game recommends using it during a jump for a bit of extra distance, but you can also use it while standing on ice to quickly gain velocity.
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One-Hit Kill
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One-Hit Kill: Like in Castlevania: Rondo of Blood, there's a possessed painting as a miniboss, whose only attack is swooping down on you while it's wreathed in energy. Let it connect, and your character becomes trapped in the painting for an instant death. Since Frostcalibur induces Literally Shattered Lives on any frozen non-boss enemy you hit, it can be used to one-shot anything in the game short of a boss. This also includes the aforementioned painting mini-boss. Gremory is implied to be charging an extreme version of her New Moon attack as her Last Ditch Move if you don't recruit any allies, but Zangetsu cleaves her in two before she can finish. You can't let her finish even if you want to, she just charges it for eternity until you either turn off the game, reset, or finally finish her. During the final part of the battle with Dark Emperor Zangetsu where he readies his giant scythe, if you fail to protect Alfred from the blue flames coming out of the skulls, Zangetsu will swing that scythe so hard that it kills your entire party. Luckily, you only lose a life instead of a full game over.
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Gratuitous Latin
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The subtitle for the Final Episode is "Cleave the Moon", much like the name of the last stage in the previous game if you didn't recruit any allies. Furthermore, attempting the final stage without recruiting allies changes the stage's name to "Luna Secare", meaning "cut the moon", and this time around, Zangetsu does exactly that.
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Dash Attack
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Gebel's Dash Attack in bat form now has the ability to Life Drain an enemy it hits.
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Infinity +1 Sword
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Infinity +1 Sword: The Daizangetsutō, which you only obtain if you depart for the Final Stage with no allies. It basically gives you back what the Zanmatō took away and unlocks a secret variation of the True Final Boss and a secret ending to go with it.
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Ascended Extra
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Ascended Extra: Zangetsu, who is a supporting character in Ritual of the Night, is bumped into the starring role in Curse of the Moon. Miriam, the heroine of Ritual of the Night, is instead relegated to a party member Zangetsu can recruit. Though she is the playable character for the final battle in Nightmare mode.
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Derivative Differentiation
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Derivative Differentiation: The new playable characters, Dominique, Robert, and Hachi, all have unique playstyles rather than being explicitly inspired by characters from Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, to set the game apart from its inspiration. The game also has co-op, something that Dracula's Curse didn't have.
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Jack of All Stats
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Jack of All Stats: Zangetsu, aside from having the largest health pool, meets this. While he's not as good as other characters in certain areas and he doesn't have any unique abilities that let him use shortcuts or easily get powerups like the other three, he's also not weak in any areas.
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Bling-Bling-BANG!
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Bling-Bling-BANG!: Valefor is a demon composed of gold coins and attacks you with mountains of coins, his fists, and gold-plated mooks. Except it's fake: after he's beaten everything turns into mounds of skulls.
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One-Way Trip: The ride to the moon is implied to be one. The shuttle made to go there is damaged, but not totalled, in the landing, and the ending naration never says that they return to Earth and explicitly notes no-one will ever know of their deeds. Either way, they're all content to stay by the campfire looking up at the Earth on the moon.
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Hard Levels, Easy Bosses: Episode EX. The routes that are now accessible thanks to having the prequel allies are actually more difficult than the shortcuts used by Dominique, Robert, and Hachi, oftentimes featuring much tougher enemies and very tricky platforming rooms. On the other hand, you can cheese the hell out of multiple bosses thanks to gaining access to the infamously broken Subweapon combos that the prequel allies have.
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Detonation Moon
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Detonation Moon: The Final Episode's secret ending has Zangetsu literally slash the entire moon into halves with a single stroke.
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Finish Him!
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Finish Him!: The two final bosses get this, both in needing you to manually finish them off, and the opportunity comes when they decide to stop screwing around and use their respective One-Hit Kill attacks. However, specific conditions must be met: Gremory requires you to come alone while Zangetsu requires you to play Nightmare Mode. The latter has a failure condition (let Alfred get hit even once) while the former is a glorified cutscene that nonetheless lets you deal the final blow yourself instead of just watching it happen.
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Color-Coded Characters
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Color-Coded Characters: Zangetsu is orange, Miriam is blue, Alfred is yellow, and Gebel is dark red.
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Genius Bruiser
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Genius Bruiser: Although a relatively subtle example, Bathin, the demon with a brutal combat style, descends upon the party while reading a book, and is fought in a library.
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Short-Range Shotgun
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Short-Range Shotgun: Gebel's bats act like this. They fly upward in an arc, and their range is extremely short for a ranged attack, but he can hit with up to three hits per attack.
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Invisible Block
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Related to the Invisible Block example, said hidden platform late in the normal mode's final stage is one to similar hidden things in a couple of Castlevania games' final stages, chiefly Super Castlevania IV.
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Good-Times Montage
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Good-Times Montage: During the normal ending of Episode 2, Zangetsu experiences a flashback of the party's bond with Dominique in a series of rapid-fire images of the campfire scenes, ultimately convincing him not to kill Mephisto with the Soul Eraser to keep her alive.
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Cutting the Knot: Discussed in the Final Episode, where Zangetsu asks Dominique why they didn't just get the Zanmatou from the outset instead of going through the adventure with the Soul Eraser before realizing that they needed the Zanmatou to keep Dominique alive. Dominique insists that they couldn't rely on finding the Zanmatou that easily, but Zangetsu points out that the Zanmatou was Hidden in Plain Sight in a very obvious side room. Dominique blames her bad eyesight.
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Character Title
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Character Title: The final level with a solo Zangetsu is one translation of his name. The Japanese version explicitly uses the same kanji as his name, even.
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Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Zangetsu clearly has reservations about his new allies, and only lets any of them live (if recruited) because they share a common goal. Depending on how you interacted with the other party members, either they or Zangetsu may end up sacrificing themselves at the end to save one another, despite Zangetsu's initial animosity.
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1-Up
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The last three rooms before fighting Gremory have enough high-value score drops to guarantee a 1-Up every time you lose a life, granting you infinite lives in a long-winded way.
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Continuing is Painful
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Continuing is Painful: Much like any classic arcade shooter, dying in the Flying Armor on Veteran difficulty causes you to lose all of your power-ups and leaves you with just the standard normal shot. You do spit out one upgrade and a Speed boost on death, but you better hope you can pick those up in time. Not helping matters is that the enemies quickly get tougher the farther you get in the stage.
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Harder Than Hard
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Harder Than Hard: The Version 1.3.0 update added Legend difficulty, which is an even more difficult mode than Veteran. In addition to enemies dealing more damage, there are more enemies in stages and enemies respawn if they move off-screen. There's also a time limit in every stage and you lose a life if any character dies.
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Scoring Points
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Scoring Points: Still very much a thing, although the game takes an unusual stance in not displaying quantifiable points, instead displaying your points as a gauge marking how far you are to the next 1-Up as opposed to Every 10,000 Points.
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Self-Destruct Mechanism: One of the parts for the Flying Armor is a self-destruct button. There's no explanation as to why it needs one.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: A type of gargoyle enemy in Stage 7 fires bouncing fireballs and bears quite a bit of a resemblance to Ridley. The Final Episode brings in mind Konami Wai Wai World, a platforming game where you go to various locales to recruit additional heroes (although in Curse's case, it's optional), then engage in an Unexpected Shmup Level near the end where the heroes take to the space to confront the final enemy.
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Last Ditch Move
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Gremory is implied to be charging an extreme version of her New Moon attack as her Last Ditch Move if you don't recruit any allies, but Zangetsu cleaves her in two before she can finish. You can't let her finish even if you want to, she just charges it for eternity until you either turn off the game, reset, or finally finish her.
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Playboy Bunny
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Playboy Bunny: Strangely enough, some of the enemies in the level "Tragedy of Slaughter" are playboy bunny girls. They attack by high jumping and kicking up miniature shock-waves made of hearts as they land. They even have their own death animation where instead of exploding into a burst of blood, they explode into a small burst of pink hearts. It's possible that they are Lilis, a type of Playboy Bunny-themed Succubus from Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.
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Lighter and Softer
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Lighter and Softer: None of the playable characters end up dead, with the sub-plot being learning how to get along with people with different opinions. And the Big Bad of Ritual is re-imagined as the moral compass!
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Heart Container
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Heart Container: In most stages, you can find special items that increase your health or weapon point capacity. However, you need the help of Miriam or Gebel's unique abilities to get most of them easily. Zangetsu on the "kill all allies" path can get two with creative use of abilities and a little luck, and Ultimate Zangetsu can dash double jump to get stage 3's.
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Developer's Foresight
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Crosses with Developer's Foresight if you enter Stage 8 without any allies, regardless of whether you killed them, ignored them, or some variation between the two. The stage's name changes from "Curse the Moon" to "Cleave the Moon", and as shown under Cutscene Power to the Max, that's exactly what Zangetsu does.
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Easy Levels, Hard Bosses
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Easy Levels, Hard Bosses: While the levels and bosses are more or less balanced normally, Ultimate and Nightmare difficulties qualify as this. Since you're going through the same levels you did before (with extra abilities in the former) and have a grasp of the level layout already, it shouldn't pose much of a challenge. The bosses, on the other hand, hit harder, have more HP, and sometimes modify their attacks, making them harder to dodge, meaning you'll struggle with ones that you couldn't already effortlessly clear.
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Tactical Suicide Boss
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Tactical Suicide Boss: Bloodless, the Evil Is Sexy red lady from the trailers who controls blood, appears as the level 6 boss. She would be almost unbeatable were it not for the fact that, for some weird reason, she summons floating umbrellas that you can use as platforms to reach her, and you can also use them as coverage from her bloody rain attack (it is the only way to avoid it, by the way). To add insult to the injury, the umbrellas can't even hurt you!
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Anti-Frustration Features: Did you lose one of your characters in the fight against the stage boss, and frustratingly when said boss was just that close to death? As long as the character in question wasn't the only one still alive in your party, when you make it back to the boss, some of the damage that was dealt in your previous attempt will remain. A common problem in the previous game is that checkpoints were both unclear and rare, thus making it hard to tell how far back you go when you die and resulting in some Checkpoint Starvation. This game rectifies this by adding lamps that clearly indicate checkpoints and placing at least two or three per stage. In multiplayer, both players have access to a special ability called Mascotify, which transforms them into an invincible box that hovers around the other player. You can use this to have the other player carry you through a difficult room without taking damage or worrying about losing a life, but if the player carrying you dies, you die as well. Much like the previous game, getting to the final checkpoint in Stage 8 gives you effectively unlimited lives, either through a respawning 1-UP or a respawning Anthem Subweapon for Dominique. The Unexpected Shmup Level gives you a more powerful normal shot to compensate for having less lives if you leave for The Very Definitely Final Dungeon with less party members. Compared to the first game, the upgrades are much easier to find; just follow the optimal path and they'll be there in plain sight. On the subject of upgrades, the Episode Final path has two in each stage, and you usually won't be able to get them both in one go. But once you get one, you can simply exit the stage and still have it (you don't even have to have beaten the stage first).
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Lethal Lava Land
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Lethal Lava Land: Stage 5 takes place in a volcano. The stage transitions for Stage 6 usually show the characters suffering from the intense heat (although Hachi pulls shaved ice out of Hammerspace in Episode 2).
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Have a Nice Death
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Have a Nice Death: In Nightmare Mode, if you fail to protect Alfred while he's completing his spell, then the death screen will be Zangetsu slicing through Miriam, Alfred, and Gebel with his massive scythe and then transforming into a non-humanoid skull-like horned demon, all within a blood-red background and every other sprite in black silhouette.
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Company Cross References
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Company Cross References: The enhanced sword attacks of the Soul Eraser and Daizangetsutō basically give Zangetsu the Z-Saber. Speaking of Inti's references to a previous series, Mephisto's Beam Spam attack is shot-for-shot Seraph Copy-X's own Beam Spam from Mega Man Zero, slowed down to account for a lack of a dash or wall climb in this game, except for the fact the orbs the lasers are shot from are colored red and blue… making them look a lot like Crea and Prea from Mega Man Zero 3. Dominique's Resurrection Anthem sub-weapon is based on the signature ability of "The Muse" Septima.
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Lightning Bruiser
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Lightning Bruiser: Bathin, both metaphorically and literally. Half of its attacks are electricity-based, while the other half involves it blitzing across the room at speeds too fast to see, smashing platforms that are the only safe haven when the floor is being electrocuted. Ultimate Zangetsu can dash and double jump* from the start, without first needing to kill Gebel and Alfred, respectively, and his Charged Attack deals massive damage in a large radius in front of and above him as well as having the largest health of the playable characters.
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Decoy Protagonist
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Decoy Protagonist: Zangetsu is the first playable character, but he's forced to become a demon himself at the end of the "recruit all allies" ending, and, when facing the final boss of Nightmare Mode, Miriam's the only playable character.
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Turns Red
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Turns Red: The mech enemies in Stage 7 do not like it when you use Frostcalibur on them. They will stay frozen for a second before breaking free with Invincible Iron and go berserk.
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Holy Hand Grenade
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Holy Hand Grenade: The blade of the Zanmatou is said to be able to rend foes of evil while leaving good spirits unharmed. This is the key to saving Dominique, as she won't be harmed by it when Zangetsu kills Mephisto.
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11th-Hour Superpower
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11th-Hour Superpower: If you leave for The Very Definitely Final Dungeon alone, Alfred will give Zangetsu an alchemically-reforged version of his original sword called the Daizangetsuto before departure, allowing him to regain the powers of the Soul Eraser.
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Expy
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Expy: The four playable characters almost completely match the given roles of the playable characters from Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse. Zangetsu has Grant Danasty's abilities (minus wall climbing), Miriam has Trevor Belmont's abilities and Grant's jump height, Alfred is basically Sypha Belnades, and Gebel is essentially Alucard. Zangetsu also draws inspiration from Getsu Fuma, as he is a red-clothed man wielding a short-ranged sword and in the sequel, gains his jumping rolling slash (though it also draws parallel to Ryu Hayabusa).
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Unexplained Recovery
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Unexplained Recovery: Despite quite explicitly dying at the end of the previous game's Nightmare Mode, Zangetsu is completely alive and well during this adventure with no mention of how he managed to cheat death.
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InfoDump
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Info Dump: Recruiting the three sequel allies in the Final Episode has them give a relatively lengthy backstory exposition for each of them and their connection to Zangetsu. Dominique vowed to destroy Mephisto for the sake of her parents, and jumped at the opportunity when the Church caught wind of his appearance. However, Mephisto requires Demonic Possession to take form, and Taking the Bullet was part of her plan to give Mephisto form so Zangetsu could kill both of them. However, her experience with the group made her realize that she didn't want to die, and she expresses her gratitude to Zangetsu for saving her. Robert was not quite the sour prude he's known for now when he was younger, but arriving home only to be met by a demon killing and eating his wife spurred sheer hatred within him, and he sought out Zangetsu as someone who shared the same hate and loathing that he did. Hachi has apparently followed Zangetsu ever since a fateful night's favor. Zangetsu also reveals that it was Robert who gave him the name "Hachi"; Zangetsu originally wanted to call him "Zangetsumaru", but "Hachi" stuck.
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Big Damn Heroes
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Big Damn Heroes: If you get the normal ending to episode 2, at the start of episode EX, The original trio of allies from the first game teleport in, find out what's going on, and join you giving you the Zanmatou, making what looked to be a bleak journey more hopeful.
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Mundane Utility: In Episode EX's campfire scene for Stage 5, the party uses Alfred's Frostcalibur to stave off the heat... until it melts. Similarly, Zangetsu uses the Zanmatou, a blade designed to annihilate the souls of evil, to carve an ice sculpture.
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Boss Remix
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Boss Remix: The True Final Boss battle theme against possessed Zangetsu is a remix of his character theme.
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Earn Your Happy Ending: Unlike either of its predecessors in the series, Curse ends on an unambiguously positive note. No characters are killed, the demons are vanquished, the world is saved, and Zangetsu finally ends his curse. To earn this ending, however, the player will need to play through the entire game three times with various challenges and sacrifices to make on each playthrough.
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Going for The Very Definitely Final Dungeon in the Final Episode without picking up any allies gives a much more difficult Unexpected Shmup Level with a unique music track, an alternate form of the True Final Boss, and a special ending.
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Weird Moon
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Weird Moon: Pay close attention to the Moon as you progress through each Episode, especially if you unlocked Episode EX before playing the Final Episode. You'll notice it progressively becomes bigger compared to previous Episodes.
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The Power of Friendship
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The Power of Friendship: During the final battle against the True Final Boss, you're limited to controlling one character, but the others will occasionally stand up and help you to get the chance to attack the boss. At the end of the final battle, Gebel and Miriam (you) will help Alfred to stave off the hungry souls attacking him, allowing him to complete the spell to defeat Zangetsu.
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Team Mom
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Dominique and Miriam: Both are the lone women and play the role of Team Mom during a crisis. They also both use shards, with Dominique's sub-weapon output looking like them in this installment and Miriam using them in Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.
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Weapon Specialization: Miriam uses a whip as her primary weapon. Much like the Vampire Killer of Castlevania, there's a slight delay before it actually attacks.
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One-Winged Angel
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One-Winged Angel: Subverted. The second phase of the final boss battle only sees her upgrade her lunar tiara and unfurl her wings instead of transforming into something else entirely. Dark Emperor Zangetsu also only transforms into a skeletal demon if he kills the heroes with his final scythe attack, meaning you never get to fight it.
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Video Game Cruelty Punishment: To gain special abilities for Zangetsu, you must kill your party members instead of letting them join. If you do it at the first opportunity (killing Miriam), the next stage will have a warning sign that you shouldn't be such a loner and allows you to go back in time to undo your action. Ignore it in favor of making Zangetsu a super-powerful One-Man Army, and... enjoy the worst ending, * (Zangetsu becomes the Dark Emperor with no one stopping him) you bastard! And even with his new abilities, he cannot get most life and weapon point extensions. Although Cruelty Is the Only Option if you want to unlock the Ultimate Mode.
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Cutscene Power to the Max: In-game, Alfred can only create one clone of himself and cast three thunderbolts at most, and he can only perform whichever he has equipped. In the Nightmare final boss fight, he finishes off the possessed Zangetsu by creating half a dozen different clones and having them all hit him with a thunderbolt at the same time, albeit after taking a good half minute to cast the spell. If Zangetsu fights Gremory alone, he closes the fight by performing a far larger and stronger version of his Ultimate mode Charged Attack by charging it for far longer than normal while Gremory is busy doing her own attack. "Cleave the Moon" indeed.
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