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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997)

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Ever wanted to fight Dracula's final form in the game as Richter, just to find out that he is inaccessible in Maria and Richter modes? Abusing a very simple oversight in the game, you can force the game to load the final fight with Dracula as Richter (sadly, it doesn't work for Maria). By doing a backflip and landing just on the edge of the left platform, you should be able to slide down after landing on the edge and just walk to the left towards the wall to trigger the map change to be taken to the final boss arena. What happens is that the game always has the Dracula arena trigger always positioned on the left side of the arena, which gets pushed further to the left if you fall down into the Shaft boss battle without doing the trick (it also happens if you do the trick but walk to the right instead of left, which fixes the camera and the trigger).
Dracula, as a final boss, is extremely difficult. With the catacombs' boss being the strongest in the game for many reasons, at the very least that one had a very open weakness with the dagger sub-weapon's item crash. In Dracula's final fight, the only good exploit is to abuse the axe sub-weapon's item crash, which conveniently deals damage per frame or two when the enemy is inside the rotating axes during their screen time. Otherwise, the boss is almost unbeatable, even if you get every single health potion you can get in the game as Richter. The axe is the only sub-weapon with a potent item crash that can deal enough damage to defeat the boss... Ironic, considering that arguably the easiest boss in probably all of gaming (not really, but he is definitely up there) also has a counterpart in the same game that is so difficult that there is most likely only one way to defeat him quickly without wasting your time whipping him down with low damage hits and avoiding all of the mindlessly difficult attacks he has every twenty seconds or so.

Game: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (Richter Mode - Dracula Final Boss) [Played through Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles]

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