Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Chapter 8 is the last of the vampires, finishing up with the vampire Lord of Shadow.
Stage 1 0:20
Stage 2 9:38
Stage 3 17:32
Stage 4 28:38
Some thoughts and tips -
- I had a really hard time with the fight at the beginning of stage 1, so I'm pretty sure I just restarted and tried again. As usual, Holy Water works well against vampires, and the skeletons' attacks are pretty easy to Perfect Block. I tried to backtrack for the health font after the fight, but couldn't. Since there's a magic font in the battle area, don't be shy about using your magic, especially your Light Magic, if your health starts to run low.
- I hate Gremlins in this game. The trial challenge is to kill ten with your daggers, and only ten spawn in the gated area. Turn on your Shadow Magic and throw daggers to kill them - they'll die in one hit, and it keeps you out of danger to do it this way.
- The second stage is a 3D platforming, and it's just as annoying as it sounds. The trial challenge is to reach the top in less than five minutes, and this includes fighting the boss, so best to do it on Squire difficulty. I remember doing this stage on the Xbox 360 version after I had the Seraph Shoulders and making a lot of tricky jumps.
- Olrox is a relatively easy boss battle - the trial challenge is to keep your focus maxed for 60 or more seconds, which I had no trouble with on Squire. Even on Paladin it wasn't hard, but when the battle paused for Olrox to drain blood from the Iron Maidens, the Focus Meter would reset.
- When fighting Olrox - he'll eventually open an iron maiden to drain the blood of a lycan inside - after he does and he disappears - kill the lycan so he can't drain blood from it anymore and get his health back! He'll do this several times in the fight, making it an endurance match.
- Carmilla will summon a total of ten vampire warriors, and the trial challenge is to have her kill ten with her lightning magic. Really it amounts to you running in a circle around her so that her lightning hits them, but as it's tedious and time consuming, I didn't bother with it while I was practicing the stage.
- I love monster vampires - and I like that Carmilla starts as a darkly seductive human vampire before revealing her true form.
Chapter 8 is the last of the vampires, finishing up with the vampire Lord of Shadow.
Stage 1 0:20
Stage 2 9:38
Stage 3 17:32
Stage 4 28:38
Some thoughts and tips -
- I had a really hard time with the fight at the beginning of stage 1, so I'm pretty sure I just restarted and tried again. As usual, Holy Water works well against vampires, and the skeletons' attacks are pretty easy to Perfect Block. I tried to backtrack for the health font after the fight, but couldn't. Since there's a magic font in the battle area, don't be shy about using your magic, especially your Light Magic, if your health starts to run low.
- I hate Gremlins in this game. The trial challenge is to kill ten with your daggers, and only ten spawn in the gated area. Turn on your Shadow Magic and throw daggers to kill them - they'll die in one hit, and it keeps you out of danger to do it this way.
- The second stage is a 3D platforming, and it's just as annoying as it sounds. The trial challenge is to reach the top in less than five minutes, and this includes fighting the boss, so best to do it on Squire difficulty. I remember doing this stage on the Xbox 360 version after I had the Seraph Shoulders and making a lot of tricky jumps.
- Olrox is a relatively easy boss battle - the trial challenge is to keep your focus maxed for 60 or more seconds, which I had no trouble with on Squire. Even on Paladin it wasn't hard, but when the battle paused for Olrox to drain blood from the Iron Maidens, the Focus Meter would reset.
- When fighting Olrox - he'll eventually open an iron maiden to drain the blood of a lycan inside - after he does and he disappears - kill the lycan so he can't drain blood from it anymore and get his health back! He'll do this several times in the fight, making it an endurance match.
- Carmilla will summon a total of ten vampire warriors, and the trial challenge is to have her kill ten with her lightning magic. Really it amounts to you running in a circle around her so that her lightning hits them, but as it's tedious and time consuming, I didn't bother with it while I was practicing the stage.
- I love monster vampires - and I like that Carmilla starts as a darkly seductive human vampire before revealing her true form.
