this game just really pissed me off. i'd been playing through the game without using a guide, but by the end i was still missing some stuff that i couldn't find, so i consulted gamefaqs.
it was there that i found out about legion.
legion is a boss that only appears once in the game. now, the game has a soul system - for those not familiar with it, defeating enemies sometimes gets you their soul, which grants certain abilities. one-shot bosses give you their soul whatever happens - other bosses reappear somewhere in the castle, so if you miss the soul you can go and get it.
the exception to this is legion. if you don't kill legion in a certain way (which, not having read a guide, i was obviously not aware of) you don't get its soul. ever. this means i can't get 100% of the souls in the game.
without 100% of the souls, it's impossible to open up a certain area of the castle and get a certain item. this, in turn, makes it much (much) harder to get another item by completing the boss rush in a certain time. for the obsessive in me (who makes an appearance whenever i play a castlevania game) this is unbearable.
so, yeah. fuck you igarashi, fuck you konami. i'm almost tempted to buy an action replay just so i can get that damn soul.
stop whining and replay the game.
it's a dumb move of theirs perhaps but it does add replay value.
it's not replay value when you have to replay the game in exactly the same way just to get one tiny thing you didn't realise you missed the first time around. that's just shitty design.
You know choosing the bat on the file select screen starts a new game with your old souls and items, right? Replaying the game for one soul is a lot easier than replaying it for all of them.
Symphony of the Night. End of thread.