Carls493 | Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance: Part 5: The Golem that Lurks Underground @Carls493 | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
I just recently entered into Castle B of this game.
It feels like a callback to the Inverted Castle of Symphony of the Night, except not as dramatic as the general layout of the entire castle is more or less the same. It's the placement of enemies, bosses, items, and other interactable things that have changed.
HOWEVER~! This alternative castle isn't entirely processed by Juste, yet, and as such, some features will still be missing for you to check out until he fully realizes his situation later on.
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All of my time in this part takes place in the Luminous Cavern.
Watch out for the Man-eater plants here that can inflict Poison on Juste.
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The empty room I go into here is a Shop Room. Each one has some kind of requirement you need to fulfill before you a shop will actually be there.
The hint will be at the bottom-right. This room's hint is "L13579". It's referring to the lowest digit of your current level. I didn't know that at the time, but either way, I couldn't use this shop because Juste's level had an even number in the ones digit.
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The boss that I find here in the Luminous Cavern is the Golem. It can cause rocks to fall from above and swing a wrecking ball for an arm at you.
Even after beating it enough times, it'll just reveal a red core that can spit out a nasty flow of rocks. Hit this core enough times to finally beat this boss for sure.
No reward for that besides a Full Heal, but you do get to explore more of the cave.
Go through that path, including a portion where you can ride a giant elevator against a blood flood, and you'll eventually reach the Yellow Stone.
There are a few stones that change the elemental damage of Juste's Whip. This will make it more effective against some enemies but less so against others.
After all of this, I begin considering going somewhere else to continue through the game, because it felt like I hit a dead end with the Luminous Cavern right now, let alone the Castle B version of it.
I just recently entered into Castle B of this game.
It feels like a callback to the Inverted Castle of Symphony of the Night, except not as dramatic as the general layout of the entire castle is more or less the same. It's the placement of enemies, bosses, items, and other interactable things that have changed.
HOWEVER~! This alternative castle isn't entirely processed by Juste, yet, and as such, some features will still be missing for you to check out until he fully realizes his situation later on.
----------
All of my time in this part takes place in the Luminous Cavern.
Watch out for the Man-eater plants here that can inflict Poison on Juste.
----------
The empty room I go into here is a Shop Room. Each one has some kind of requirement you need to fulfill before you a shop will actually be there.
The hint will be at the bottom-right. This room's hint is "L13579". It's referring to the lowest digit of your current level. I didn't know that at the time, but either way, I couldn't use this shop because Juste's level had an even number in the ones digit.
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The boss that I find here in the Luminous Cavern is the Golem. It can cause rocks to fall from above and swing a wrecking ball for an arm at you.
Even after beating it enough times, it'll just reveal a red core that can spit out a nasty flow of rocks. Hit this core enough times to finally beat this boss for sure.
No reward for that besides a Full Heal, but you do get to explore more of the cave.
Go through that path, including a portion where you can ride a giant elevator against a blood flood, and you'll eventually reach the Yellow Stone.
There are a few stones that change the elemental damage of Juste's Whip. This will make it more effective against some enemies but less so against others.
After all of this, I begin considering going somewhere else to continue through the game, because it felt like I hit a dead end with the Luminous Cavern right now, let alone the Castle B version of it.
