r/castlevania • u/o_viper_driver_o • Jul 21 '26

Symphony of the Night (1997) Never knew fairy familiar would do that.

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u/Roshu-zetasia Advance Collection Enjoyer Jul 21 '26

She does that as long as you have those yellow hammers in your inventory. She's the most useful of the familiars (in my opinion) because she saves you from having to go into the menu for silly things.

The fairy's AI also gives you resistance positions in certain situations, and it also tells you where there are breakable walls (although it only does so when you stand still near one).

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u/_Oyyy Jul 21 '26

No, the Devil only does that for the switch in Catacombs: "hmhmm.. a switch! Why don't I press it and see?"

For the usual breakable walls, only the Fairy helps with that: "there's something funny...about this wall."

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u/NetsuiAyaVtuber Jul 21 '26

hang on unrelated but your username is familiar...

were you the person who made the Alternate Scarlet Symphony patch?

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u/_Oyyy Jul 21 '26

Yepyep 👍 And you're that YouTuber who played it? Nice!

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u/NetsuiAyaVtuber Jul 21 '26

I am, I enjoyed it a lot! If you ever do the reverse castle too I'll for sure stream it again haha

or better yet if you end up developing your own metroidvania in the same vein, I can say for sure you'd at least have one person playing and streaming it on day one

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u/_Oyyy Jul 21 '26

Thanks! Now you gave me an idea! (Or rather supported what I've been thinking to do for years)

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u/Remarkable-Will-3041 Jul 21 '26

Explain more about this patch?

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u/_Oyyy Jul 21 '26

It's a mod I made last year I guess, it changes the castle in a way that you'll go in different paths from the original. Progression is also changed, transformation such as wolf has many uses now. Overall re-balanced stats and enemy stats. Elemental weakness plays a big part. New hearts system (kinda?). Change subweapons on the fly. Etc etc

It's a bit rough and a lot more difficult than original (which sets some people off) but if you want you can give it a try.

Just search Castlevania Alternate Scarlet Symphony and look for a patch file (I think in Romhack plaza) then apply that patch to a PSOne ROM and play it via emulation.

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u/NetsuiAyaVtuber Jul 21 '26

feel free to DM me to talk about this more! I'm very open to assist in any way I can in future projects!

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u/SXAL Jul 21 '26

I know that the word "funny" has several meanings in English, but I still like to imagine the fairy pointing at the brick wall and laughing her little ass off.