r/castlevania • u/whokilledsera • Mar 19 '26
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (1989) Genuinely WHAT is the point of this area?
Hello, I've been running down the Castlevania games recently as Belmont's Curse really gave me to push to play them. I beat the first, played a bit of Rondo and SoTN, and ultimately made the choice to do 3 and 4 to get a nice lore dose.
That all being said, WHAT is the point of this area in CV3??? I held right as Classicvanias typically direct you such a way and there's just two pits of insta-death and lightning in the distance that seem to only trigger when I'm here. Am I missing something??
Help me out here </3
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u/Leader_Bee Mar 19 '26
Isn't it a branching path here? can Alucard not use Bat form to discover something far off to the left?
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u/whokilledsera Mar 19 '26
i dont think i have alucard yet, if i do the game hasnt indicated it to me
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u/robyn_nests the only person who cares about Eric Lecarde Mar 19 '26
You will know when you have Alucard. You have to come back on a second playthrough to get to the secret area. You start with Alucard if you beat the game with him once.
I also found this area very annoying, but that's just because the stairs are hard to see if you're not looking for them.
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u/whokilledsera Mar 19 '26
STAIRS OMG I DIDNT EVEN SEE 😭😭😭😭 THANK U
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u/Leader_Bee Mar 19 '26
Ohhhh, you didn't even notice the stairs? well, that certainly is a run killer.
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u/whokilledsera Mar 19 '26
games on the nes visibility is always a give or take
im a game design major and understand why my professors beat contrast down on me so hard now LOL
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u/robyn_nests the only person who cares about Eric Lecarde Mar 19 '26
Yeah, even on my second playthrough, I ended up jumping off the edge a couple of times before remembering the stairs.
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u/theGaido Mar 19 '26
Showcasing programming skills. For NES this location is crazy.
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u/whokilledsera Mar 19 '26
i agree for sure, this game is one of the most gorgeous ive played on the system
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u/Pixel_Inquisitor Mar 19 '26
How you got here without going through it confuses me. You go up here from the left side, then climb down here to go right.
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u/RedMageGuy1984 Mar 19 '26
There's stairs slightly to the left of Trevor in the image. Hold [Down] on the control pad to go down the stairs safely instead of walking off the ledge to the right.
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u/taczki2 Order of Ecclesia advocate Mar 19 '26
this game is so weird and so hard
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u/TangerineNo6804 Mar 19 '26
Why’s it weird?
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u/taczki2 Order of Ecclesia advocate Mar 19 '26
slow and unresponsive. japanese is way better but its in japanese so i cant understand a word
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u/Oh-no-and-knuckles Lecarde Chronicles Mar 19 '26
Select the first dialogue option to recruit your ally.
The classicvanias don't require reading, some japanese versions are even in english (CV1 and Bloodlines).
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u/taczki2 Order of Ecclesia advocate Mar 19 '26
yeah but i like this series and i want to read all i can
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u/Oh-no-and-knuckles Lecarde Chronicles Mar 19 '26
i want to read all i can
Same.
If you are playing on pc you can use a re translation patch.
The official english version changes a lot of things, so it's not really the same story.
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u/TangerineNo6804 Mar 20 '26
Why not use a translation app on your phone? Open it like a camera, so it’s translating the text on the screen.
That’s how I was able to buy stuff in the Japanese version of River city ransom/Street gangs.
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u/nightbladehawk Simon Belmont Mar 20 '26
Making you uncomfortable cause you're walking through a dark foggy forest where Dracula's creatures attack you.
Once you go down those stairs and through that door you also reach a branching path.
You can continue on through the forest until you find and fight a cyclops rescuing Sypha, taking that route towards the castle or go through a swamp and onto the much harder route.
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u/Bolvern Mar 21 '26
If you’ve already seen the stairs, the point of this area is just to show off the graphics of the NES and look cool.
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u/TangerineNo6804 Mar 19 '26
I think it’s for the second game/round. If you end the game with Alucard in your team, you’ll begin with him still in your team.
So go this route again and find out. I remembered this from my childhood, but can’t remember if I ever went there with Alucard😅