Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

[Heroine of the Dragon]

Have you played Castlevania: Symphony of the Night?
What are the best and worst weapons in the game?

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night begins during the ending of the previous game in the series, Castlevania: Rondo of Blood, where Richter Belmont confronts and defeats Count Dracula. Four years later, in 1796, Richter goes missing and Dracula's castle reappears. Alucard arrives at the castle to destroy it, meeting Maria Renard, who once fought alongside Richter and is searching for him. Alucard meets Richter, who claims to be the new lord of the castle. Convinced that Richter is under somebody else's control, Maria urges Alucard not to hurt him and gives him the Holy Glasses, which allows him to see past illusions. In the castle's keep, Alucard confronts Richter and learns that he plans to resurrect Dracula, so the two can fight for an eternity. During a fight, Alucard breaks the spell controlling Richter, and Dracula's servant Shaft appears and tells them that Dracula will still be resurrected soon.

Alucard leaves Richter and Maria to confront Shaft, venturing into an upside-down duplicate of the castle to seek him out. Shaft reveals he planned to end the threat of the Belmont clan by controlling one of them and forcing the clan to fight one another. After defeating Shaft, Alucard faces his father, who vows to bring an end to humankind because Alucard's mother Lisa was executed as a witch. Alucard refuses to join his father in his revenge, and he defeats him. Alucard tells Dracula that he has been thwarted many times because he lost the ability to love after Lisa's death, and that Lisa's final words were of eternal love for him and a plea not to hate or at least harm humanity. Before Dracula dies, he asks for Lisa's forgiveness and bids his son farewell.

After escaping the collapsing castle, Alucard rejoins Maria and Richter. Maria is relieved that he escaped, while Richter blames himself as the reason for Alucard's fight with his father. Alucard tells Richter, "the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing", (a quote attributed to Edmund Burke) and resolves to disappear from the world because of his cursed bloodline. Depending on how much of the castle the player has explored, Maria either chases Alucard in the hope of changing his mind, or resigns herself to Alucard's fate and leaves with Richter.

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlevan ... _the_Night

[I REALLY HATE POKEMON!]

I did play it, I think it's overrated but still quite good. Once they flip the castle it kinda sucks, but it's great up until then. I didn't really have a favorite weapon, I can barely recall which ones there were actually.

[Luther]

I overall quite enjoyed this... aside from the upside down castle. It's not so much having to do another half of the game, it's more so that traversing an upside down castle is really annoying... I do like the idea of having an open ended castle to explore, just wish it wasn't upside down P:

I think my go-to weapon was usually the Shield Rod. I forget what shield I usually used it with, but it was the one that sent spinning swords ahead of you. Also, I might consider doing another playthrough of it sometime, using only fist weapons. Because punching is funny.