Decades after release, I finally played SOTN last night on the Vita. Got to a boss fight with a werewolf flying cat and some buff yellow dinosaur with a spear. First, the game is hard. I must admit I've never played a Castlevania game for more than half hour. So far the game hasn't hooked me yet. Not sure if it's the outdated interface or if I would enjoy the game more in the big screen rather than the Vita.
Why do you like this game?
There are oh so many ways to play the game. Levelling up might help, but really, for that boss there are many useful options:
* Learn how to do the fireball spell. The motion is kinda like a Hadoken: press up, then a quarter-circle from down to forward+attack. This will teleport Alucard and he then unleashes three fireballs. Now, you can improve this in two ways. First, you can direct your teleport by moving left or right after starting the animation. Try to position yourself on top of the boss (you have a ton of invincibility). Once you're in position, keep holding up before the spell comes out. This changes it to two huge fireballs. If you're positioned correctly, they will come out on top of the boss and do tons and tons of damage before they even start moving.
* Get the dagger subweapon and a bunch of hearts. You can spam it like crazy, just throw hundreds of daggers at them. You can easily finish off the bosses after a few fireballs.
* You can duck under Slogra's fireballs. Just beware of Gaibon throwing something at you from above.
* Also, you're not using Red Rust are you? That weapon is a newbie trap, it has horrible damage.
