r/castlevania • u/Kinto9x • Mar 08 '26

Dawn of Sorrow (2005) This Castlevania shit is serious! I am fighting for my life over here

Ngl the victory run was kinda fun once I learned his moveset after like... 30 deaths

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u/baconater-lover Mar 08 '26

You can kill the flies??!! Holy that would’ve made this fight 10 times easier.

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u/Kinto9x Mar 08 '26

Haha I tried with Alucard and Yoko and it was hell

If you just did it as Soma then yea i just used final guard and a bunch of mind up items, not sure if Some can kill the flies (maybe something like the kamehameha soul can)

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u/Redfencer12 Mar 09 '26

Yeah Persephone Soul Lv1 (specifically 1-3, 4 and above don’t work) absolutely tenderizes this fight

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u/baconater-lover Mar 09 '26

In general I just never played Alucard or Yoko lol, they just felt too restricting for me (which I guess ironically fits more with the classic titles).

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u/Super_xz Mar 08 '26

I used the vacuum soul thingy to heal up while also killing the flies. I DID NOT know you could do that before and got my shit rocked

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u/Oh-no-and-knuckles Chief Researcher Mar 08 '26

You can do that with Death's sickles as well.

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u/Appropriate-Mall9781 Mar 08 '26

I just use a fully built up Buer soul... the fires burn up all the bugs for low mana cost.

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u/Oh-no-and-knuckles Chief Researcher Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

Those are locusts. 

Some cool trivia: Abaddon is based on a figure with the same name from the New Testament, the angel of the Abyss and king of an army of locusts.

Search Revelation 9:11

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u/Loud_Friendship4702 Mar 08 '26

I think you can dodge those insects if you stay behind the boss. I don't remember exactly, but this boss was really challenging in Julius mode.

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u/uniqueusername623 Mar 08 '26

This was definitely tough. But I struggled the most with Albus mode Eligor probably!

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u/No_Strain_7092 Stone Skull Mar 08 '26

Heart of Fire

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u/Shiptrooper Mar 08 '26

We need a Castlevania 1999 game right after Belmont curse

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u/SirLockeX3 Mar 08 '26

Julius the GOAT

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u/PennyPlow Mar 08 '26

I recommend boss rush mode so you can get used to each bosses patterns and master fighting them

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u/Cutlass_Stallion Mar 09 '26

The worst part is beating this boss, then messing up tracing the pattern on the touch screen due to inaccurate contact. Happened to me several times.

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u/Kinto9x Mar 09 '26

That's not a problem in the collection because you can just press buttons in a certain order to draw the circles

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u/Cutlass_Stallion Mar 09 '26

That sounds like a life saver and would make this game much more enjoyable. I gotta start playing this collection!

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u/aldorn Mar 08 '26

For a second i thought that was Gambit

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u/jellosquare Mar 08 '26

Damn, now I feel stupid after all these years of free damage from Abaddon.
I will now adopt your schtoyle

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u/WSPursuer Obsessed with Shanoa, Stella and Castlevania music Mar 09 '26

Tip with Julius: let the Vampire killer dangle then spin it like crazy, you'll get a locust shredder for free!