A few years ago we gave jigsaw-doing relatives a jigsaw made from this photo of one of our kids, which only seemed fair because they really like doing jigsaws:
I've got siblings that enjoy jigsaws, they might get a bang out of that
How do you go about getting a jigsaw made out of a photo?
Honestly, I can't remember which service we used, sorry (the box it came in was mostly black, that's as far as my memory goes), but googling "photo to jigsaw puzzle" gets me a bunch of hits, none of which quite look familiar after that long. (I'm in Canada, so we use London Drugs for our start-of-the-easter-egg-hunt puzzles, but those just come in an envelope like prints, not in a box)
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Fuck off Dracula. Beat him finally in Circle of the Moon, which I never did as a kid. He has way too much health, and so his randomly flying around last form takes forever to kill. Used Cockatrice and Uranus to summon giant chickens to murder him.
Booted up Harmony of Dissonance and...it feels real squished and like they over-corrected on the complaints on the screen being too dark in Circle of the Moon? Like everything is weirdly bright and blocky. Didn't like it.
Booted up Aria of Sorrow. Never played this one, so I'm looking forward to biting into it. The style and look is really good. You can tell this was built years into the GBA's life.
Yeah, I beat that final fight in Circle of the Moon myself a few days ago. I have no idea how you're supposed to reliably get hits on Dracula's final form without Uranus summons, and I have no idea how anyone would ever find Uranus without a guide telling you to go back and farm the first boss room.
I kind of stalled out my recent play on farming... something, but when I finally beat it I think it was on the back of a huge pile of healing items. I don't think I ever really used the summons.
There's always the DSS glitch you can use to get any effect you want. If you wanna just say "screw the random drops".
If you have any 2 valid cards (an element and a form), you can do it. Simply select a valid pair, activate the magic, and go back to the menu while Nathan is still in the middle of the initial casting animation. Then you can go back to the DSS menu, and reposition your cards to any pair that you want. You're allowed to highlight cards you don't have yet; all that that does is prevent you from activating the magic. But since Nathan is already activating magic, when you return to the game, the spell will be whatever spell would be activated by the 2 cards you selected mid-cast.
And that's how you can use any spell without the cards they'd need. But you do have to go through the fairly tedious process of pausing mid-cast every time you want to activate a spell you don't own.
Fuck off Dracula. Beat him finally in Circle of the Moon, which I never did as a kid. He has way too much health, and so his randomly flying around last form takes forever to kill. Used Cockatrice and Uranus to summon giant chickens to murder him.
Booted up Harmony of Dissonance and...it feels real squished and like they over-corrected on the complaints on the screen being too dark in Circle of the Moon? Like everything is weirdly bright and blocky. Didn't like it.
Booted up Aria of Sorrow. Never played this one, so I'm looking forward to biting into it. The style and look is really good. You can tell this was built years into the GBA's life.
Yeah, I beat that final fight in Circle of the Moon myself a few days ago. I have no idea how you're supposed to reliably get hits on Dracula's final form without Uranus summons, and I have no idea how anyone would ever find Uranus without a guide telling you to go back and farm the first boss room.
Yeah, kid me died several times before figuring out a way to consistently dodge that charge. I remember trying to hide in the corner of the area, which then forces Drac to appear in front you facing away, but then he still hits you because he rears back before rushing forward. Then I tried a double jump in the corner and found well timed one right when he starts will keep ahead of his vertical tracking when he rears back. After that it was much easier getting some smacks in on his floating eye form.
For CotM's Dracula, I seem to recall the final movement upgrade ("yeet yourself into space") reliably dodging the charge. There's a reason that arena is four screens tall.
For damage, I remember using the Cross. Because my answer to everything was (and is, in my current playthrough) the Cross.
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Warlock82Never pet a burning dogRegistered Userregular
Geez, these collections really are somewhat necessary. I was checking pricecharting.com just to see what some of the GBA/DS cartridges cost, and they are off the charts. Just Castlevania Double Pack (which was $20 at release) and Order of Ecclesia complete in their boxes could net nearly $300 total. Yeesh. Make these games accessible!
It's all stupid ridiculous. Awhile back I was trying to buy some of the old GBA/DS Fire Emblem games and they were stupid expensive as well. Ended up just getting repro carts - not exactly legal but it's not like they're allowing me to actually give them money for the real thing... (also Fire Emblem 6, with a translation pack applied, playing off a cart, is sweet ).
Feels like a lot of older games have this issue. People just see $ signs and jack up the price to absurd amounts.
Geez, these collections really are somewhat necessary. I was checking pricecharting.com just to see what some of the GBA/DS cartridges cost, and they are off the charts. Just Castlevania Double Pack (which was $20 at release) and Order of Ecclesia complete in their boxes could net nearly $300 total. Yeesh. Make these games accessible!
It's all stupid ridiculous. Awhile back I was trying to buy some of the old GBA/DS Fire Emblem games and they were stupid expensive as well. Ended up just getting repro carts - not exactly legal but it's not like they're allowing me to actually give them money for the real thing... (also Fire Emblem 6, with a translation pack applied, playing off a cart, is sweet ).
Feels like a lot of older games have this issue. People just see $ signs and jack up the price to absurd amounts.
Maybe I should look through my DS games soon . . .
I have some other titles I know I could sell for a pretty penny but those are more understandable due to limited print runs due to a console nearing its end of life and issues that prevent creating ports to modern systems. None of those affect Castlevania titles though.
I've got siblings that enjoy jigsaws, they might get a bang out of that
How do you go about getting a jigsaw made out of a photo?
Honestly, I can't remember which service we used, sorry (the box it came in was mostly black, that's as far as my memory goes), but googling "photo to jigsaw puzzle" gets me a bunch of hits, none of which quite look familiar after that long. (I'm in Canada, so we use London Drugs for our start-of-the-easter-egg-hunt puzzles, but those just come in an envelope like prints, not in a box)
Shutterfly does them with not-so-terrible quality. Black boxes too, so maybe?
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Is the 5* unit here worth trying to get if you don't have Rosa? Not sure if I've ever been in a position where I found I've been lacking the heavyweight sniper archetype.
For CotM's Dracula, I seem to recall the final movement upgrade ("yeet yourself into space") reliably dodging the charge. There's a reason that arena is four screens tall.
For damage, I remember using the Cross. Because my answer to everything was (and is, in my current playthrough) the Cross.
Yeah the yeet is the easiest and best bet to dodge his charge.
And that's the thing, Dracula isn't hard really, just annoying with an overinflated health pool. So you can do the correct thing for multiple minutes, and then fuck up enough to just die. Cause I believe he has 1500 hp in the eye form, and you're whip is gonna do 30-50 damage a hit (depending on gear and level) and the cross boomerang isn't much better in terms of multiple hits at once.
Imagine combiningg an AoE Mage and a Supporter, but not doing either part well enough to be useful. Not enough CC to make any difference. Not enough damage to kill anything. While costing way more DP than they're worth.
Just started up Harmony of Dissonance, and I have two observations:
1) Gravity is Juste's Canadian girlfriend
2) I had to look this up online because they don't seem to tell you in-game or in the Advance Collection's "dashboard", but you can quick-swap your spellbooks without going into the menu. Holding down and pressing L+R at the same time toggles whether you're using the spellbook or the subweapon, and holding up and pressing L or R will cycle your spellbooks in the appropriate direction. Beats the hell out of pausing every time you run out of (or max out) one resource or the other.
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Yeah juste is by far the most mobile protagonist of the series. Just having free bidirectional dash alone makes him pretty badass.
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TBH, I hate hate HATE Juste. Alucard lite. Maybe it's the platform, but it's like an amateur tried to make Alucard, but were off by like 30% of everything.
The rest of the game is kind of shit too. But I consider it a little better than Circle of the Moon. CotM is obnoxious in the extremely low drop rates for everything. Plus, last time I played, you basically needed some cards to beat one of the later bosses, which basically forces you to grind for the drops (it's like 2 or 3 each of specific Action or Attribute cards), or have enough money that you can facetank the boss for a long time while doing minimal damage.
Just started up Harmony of Dissonance, and I have two observations:
1) Gravity is Juste's Canadian girlfriend 2) I had to look this up online because they don't seem to tell you in-game or in the Advance Collection's "dashboard", but you can quick-swap your spellbooks without going into the menu. Holding down and pressing L+R at the same time toggles whether you're using the spellbook or the subweapon, and holding up and pressing L or R will cycle your spellbooks in the appropriate direction. Beats the hell out of pausing every time you run out of (or max out) one resource or the other.
That's a fantastically useful shortcut! Unfortunately, I'll be filing this under "information that would've been much more useful to me 48 hours ago," since I'm closing in on the Dracula fight now.
So I just want to summarize a conversation from Harmony of Dissonance:
Death: Oh, it's you again.
Juste: What evil are you up to now, fiend?!
Death: Dude I'm just trying to figure out why this castle showed up.
Juste: You mean you aren't the one screwing with my friend's head?
Death: Nah, dude, I'm pretty sure that's because of those weird evil artifacts he's carrying around.
Juste: Oh, Dracula's remains?
Death: Ohhhh, Dracula's remains, that explains why there are two castles!.
Juste: Huh?
Death: Maxim has two spirits inside him now. His normal one, and an evil one from Dracula's remains.
Juste: What?
Death: And the evil spirit wants there to be a castle. So there are two castles.
Juste: I don't understand.
Death: God you're such a dipshit. I'm leaving.
The actual line was more flowery but Death was just hilariously curt with Juste after failing to get the exposition across multiple times. Bathos ahoy.
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Konami sale in Steam, the original Castlevania collection is $5. The new one obviously isn't on sale.
I've not really gotten into the pre-SotN Castlevanias (played Rondo of Blood on the PS4 collection, but found it a bit of a slog), are any of them the metroidvania type?
Konami sale in Steam, the original Castlevania collection is $5. The new one obviously isn't on sale.
I've not really gotten into the pre-SotN Castlevanias (played Rondo of Blood on the PS4 collection, but found it a bit of a slog), are any of them the metroidvania type?
Nope! Except for Castlevania 2, which is sort of a proto-Metroidvania except it also hates you.
Konami sale in Steam, the original Castlevania collection is $5. The new one obviously isn't on sale.
I've not really gotten into the pre-SotN Castlevanias (played Rondo of Blood on the PS4 collection, but found it a bit of a slog), are any of them the metroidvania type?
Nope! Except for Castlevania 2, which is sort of a proto-Metroidvania except it also hates you.
I remember the pre-Internet era when absolutely everyone, including professional game publications, were completely baffled as to how you got the different endings.
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edited April 19
There's so much cryptic bullshit in Simon's Quest... I dunno man. The fan-mod to *fix* it helps a little, but it doesn't change the grinding or backtracking issues.
I love the game, but I acknowledge that it is no bueno.
Getting a little lost in Harmony of Dissonance since they map is really not useful, then I realized that literally right behind me on a shelf was this:
Boy have I been wandering around in all the wrong places. And there are two virtually identical castles? I shouldn't be surprised, but I really had no memory of this.
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Yep. Much like SOTN, there are two castles. When you start using teleporters to get to new areas of the castle, you're also warping between the two castles. But you don't know that until it's revealed in the story, at which point the map screen reveals the two castles as separate maps. And you see that you've already gone through rooms in the other castle.
Yep. Much like SOTN, there are two castles. When you start using teleporters to get to new areas of the castle, you're also warping between the two castles. But you don't know that until it's revealed in the story, at which point the map screen reveals the two castles as separate maps. And you see that you've already gone through rooms in the other castle.
Konami sale in Steam, the original Castlevania collection is $5. The new one obviously isn't on sale.
I've not really gotten into the pre-SotN Castlevanias (played Rondo of Blood on the PS4 collection, but found it a bit of a slog), are any of them the metroidvania type?
Nope! Except for Castlevania 2, which is sort of a proto-Metroidvania except it also hates you.
I continue to wish for the Castlevania 2 remake that makes it a true, good Metroidvania that will never, ever happen
(I legit like CV2 a LOT but saying that game actively hates you is a true fact... also there are seriously only three bosses in the whole game... it's kind of a mess of a game, but one with a ton of potential)
Konami sale in Steam, the original Castlevania collection is $5. The new one obviously isn't on sale.
I've not really gotten into the pre-SotN Castlevanias (played Rondo of Blood on the PS4 collection, but found it a bit of a slog), are any of them the metroidvania type?
Nope! Except for Castlevania 2, which is sort of a proto-Metroidvania except it also hates you.
I continue to wish for the Castlevania 2 remake that makes it a true, good Metroidvania that will never, ever happen
(I legit like CV2 a LOT but saying that game actively hates you is a true fact... also there are legit only three bosses in the whole game)
There are a bunch of fan remakes around that you could probably find by doing a quick search. Some have attempted to streamline the story and make it make more sense, as well as remove some of the jank.
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Konami sale in Steam, the original Castlevania collection is $5. The new one obviously isn't on sale.
I've not really gotten into the pre-SotN Castlevanias (played Rondo of Blood on the PS4 collection, but found it a bit of a slog), are any of them the metroidvania type?
Nope! Except for Castlevania 2, which is sort of a proto-Metroidvania except it also hates you.
I continue to wish for the Castlevania 2 remake that makes it a true, good Metroidvania that will never, ever happen
(I legit like CV2 a LOT but saying that game actively hates you is a true fact... also there are legit only three bosses in the whole game)
There are a bunch of fan remakes around that you could probably find by doing a quick search. Some have attempted to streamline the story and make it make more sense, as well as remove some of the jank.
Yeah, I've seen like the rom hacks that fix some of that stuff, but I'm not aware of like a true remake (like, SotN quality graphics and stuff). But maybe there is something out there?
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Honestly, I can't remember which service we used, sorry (the box it came in was mostly black, that's as far as my memory goes), but googling "photo to jigsaw puzzle" gets me a bunch of hits, none of which quite look familiar after that long. (I'm in Canada, so we use London Drugs for our start-of-the-easter-egg-hunt puzzles, but those just come in an envelope like prints, not in a box)
I kind of stalled out my recent play on farming... something, but when I finally beat it I think it was on the back of a huge pile of healing items. I don't think I ever really used the summons.
And that's how you can use any spell without the cards they'd need. But you do have to go through the fairly tedious process of pausing mid-cast every time you want to activate a spell you don't own.
Yeah, kid me died several times before figuring out a way to consistently dodge that charge. I remember trying to hide in the corner of the area, which then forces Drac to appear in front you facing away, but then he still hits you because he rears back before rushing forward. Then I tried a double jump in the corner and found well timed one right when he starts will keep ahead of his vertical tracking when he rears back. After that it was much easier getting some smacks in on his floating eye form.
For damage, I remember using the Cross. Because my answer to everything was (and is, in my current playthrough) the Cross.
I'm "kupiyupaekio" on Discord.
It's all stupid ridiculous. Awhile back I was trying to buy some of the old GBA/DS Fire Emblem games and they were stupid expensive as well. Ended up just getting repro carts - not exactly legal but it's not like they're allowing me to actually give them money for the real thing... (also Fire Emblem 6, with a translation pack applied, playing off a cart, is sweet
Feels like a lot of older games have this issue. People just see $ signs and jack up the price to absurd amounts.
Maybe I should look through my DS games soon . . .
I have some other titles I know I could sell for a pretty penny but those are more understandable due to limited print runs due to a console nearing its end of life and issues that prevent creating ports to modern systems. None of those affect Castlevania titles though.
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Shutterfly does them with not-so-terrible quality. Black boxes too, so maybe?
Yep.
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Toddifons is the same archetype as Rosa but only has a bonus against Sarkaz. Probably not priority unless waifu.
Yeah the yeet is the easiest and best bet to dodge his charge.
And that's the thing, Dracula isn't hard really, just annoying with an overinflated health pool. So you can do the correct thing for multiple minutes, and then fuck up enough to just die. Cause I believe he has 1500 hp in the eye form, and you're whip is gonna do 30-50 damage a hit (depending on gear and level) and the cross boomerang isn't much better in terms of multiple hits at once.
// Switch: SW-5306-0651-6424 //
1) Gravity is Juste's Canadian girlfriend
2) I had to look this up online because they don't seem to tell you in-game or in the Advance Collection's "dashboard", but you can quick-swap your spellbooks without going into the menu. Holding down and pressing L+R at the same time toggles whether you're using the spellbook or the subweapon, and holding up and pressing L or R will cycle your spellbooks in the appropriate direction. Beats the hell out of pausing every time you run out of (or max out) one resource or the other.
I'm "kupiyupaekio" on Discord.
The rest of the game is kind of shit too. But I consider it a little better than Circle of the Moon. CotM is obnoxious in the extremely low drop rates for everything. Plus, last time I played, you basically needed some cards to beat one of the later bosses, which basically forces you to grind for the drops (it's like 2 or 3 each of specific Action or Attribute cards), or have enough money that you can facetank the boss for a long time while doing minimal damage.
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That's a fantastically useful shortcut! Unfortunately, I'll be filing this under "information that would've been much more useful to me 48 hours ago," since I'm closing in on the Dracula fight now.
Juste: What evil are you up to now, fiend?!
Death: Dude I'm just trying to figure out why this castle showed up.
Juste: You mean you aren't the one screwing with my friend's head?
Death: Nah, dude, I'm pretty sure that's because of those weird evil artifacts he's carrying around.
Juste: Oh, Dracula's remains?
Death: Ohhhh, Dracula's remains, that explains why there are two castles!.
Juste: Huh?
Death: Maxim has two spirits inside him now. His normal one, and an evil one from Dracula's remains.
Juste: What?
Death: And the evil spirit wants there to be a castle. So there are two castles.
Juste: I don't understand.
Death: God you're such a dipshit. I'm leaving.
The actual line was more flowery but Death was just hilariously curt with Juste after failing to get the exposition across multiple times. Bathos ahoy.
I'm "kupiyupaekio" on Discord.
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Nope! Except for Castlevania 2, which is sort of a proto-Metroidvania except it also hates you.
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I remember the pre-Internet era when absolutely everyone, including professional game publications, were completely baffled as to how you got the different endings.
I love the game, but I acknowledge that it is no bueno.
Boy have I been wandering around in all the wrong places. And there are two virtually identical castles? I shouldn't be surprised, but I really had no memory of this.
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Or until you read this thread and get it spoiled
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I continue to wish for the Castlevania 2 remake that makes it a true, good Metroidvania that will never, ever happen
(I legit like CV2 a LOT but saying that game actively hates you is a true fact... also there are seriously only three bosses in the whole game... it's kind of a mess of a game, but one with a ton of potential)
There are a bunch of fan remakes around that you could probably find by doing a quick search. Some have attempted to streamline the story and make it make more sense, as well as remove some of the jank.
Yeah, I've seen like the rom hacks that fix some of that stuff, but I'm not aware of like a true remake (like, SotN quality graphics and stuff). But maybe there is something out there?