How to get to the Grim Reaper - Let's Play Castlevania on the NES | The Basement [Ep 3]
32It's October - it's Halloween - let's play Castlevania on the NES in The Basement!
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In this episode (Ep 3), we brave the 5th area and get through the dreaded hallway leading to the Grim Reaper. Come downstairs and have a seat with us on the couch right here in The Basement!
SCOTT has a great walkthrough of Castlevania over at GameFAQs:
( http://www.gamefaqs.com/gba/921924-classic-nes-series-castlevania/faqs/28093 )
They start off on a bad note; the game gives you two hunchbacks to deal with. After you kill these guys, keep going to the right and dodge all the bones that are thrown at you. Kill the white skeleton and the hunchback that's standing there and go up the stairs. Kill another
stupid white skeleton and go to the left until you see some stairs.
After you go up them, you're going to have to kill two more white
skeletons that will be chuckin' bones at you the whole time. After you kill the one at the bottom, go over to the right and get that large heart in the candelabra. After this, go kill the other white skeleton and go to the right some more. You'll see some stairs, but don't go down them, there's a secret here. Walk past the stairs and up to the wall and just stand there for a few seconds, a 1-Up will appear. Go down and get it before it disappears.
You'll get to meet a new monster here; it's the red skeleton. Red
skeletons can't be killed by any means; they'll always keep coming
back. When you hit them once, they'll fall down for a couple of seconds before rising back from the dead to kill you. Anyway, there's going to be a few of them and some hunchbacks you're going to have to kill. This won't be hard, just bash your way through every one keeping in mind the tactics we talked about earlier to take care of henchman.
Now you get to meet another new enemy, the Axe-man. This guy is basically nothing more than a huge thing of armor that hits hard. He can throw his axe at you two different ways. Once, he can throw it at your feet, which can be negated by kneeling and then whipping it. Or he can throw it at your face, which can be negated by just ducking and waiting for it to pass overhead. After you kill this guy, move on and kill the other one.
The next area will just have a red skeleton that's hovering above you. Make your way past him and the next one and go down the stairs. When you get here, go to the right some to that place that looks like a pharmacy. Here, you're going to stand in the middle of the "shelves" and wait for a money bag to pop up. There are two more secrets that are close by.
After you get the money bag, you're going to have to face a swarm of Axe-men and Hunchbacks. If you have the fire water, this will be easy. Throw it at the Axe-men, making him unable to move and just beat him to death. If not, just dodge the red skeleton and make the Axe-men retreat like a big baby. Go up the stairs but stop when you get to the top. Turn around and jump up onto that ledge that's really high in the air. Make your way across the top of it and fall down onto another ledge. Kneel here and a money bag will appear. Fall off that ledge and skip those stairs and go into the corner and stand for a while. After around a few seconds, another money bag will appear! Now you can finally go back up the stairs. Make your way out of this section via big door.
Once the door closes behind you, you'll see a Dragon Skull Cannon. Take it out and move on. Make sure to get that boomerang that's in the candelabra below the staircase. Kill another Dragon Skull Cannon with the boomerang and go right, then up the stairs. This next part is one of the hardest in the entire game. There's going to be medusa heads flying across and, on top of that, Axe-men at all times. The boomerang will not work here; it'll just bounce right off his shield. Each hit here will take away four spaces of health. What a bunch of crap. Keep going and there will be an area with candles all around! Uh oh!
BOSS: Grim Reaper
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