Castlevania: OoE - Dark Lady Shanoa Challenge
Mar 12, 2022 0:48:29 GMT
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Post by abbacchio on Mar 12, 2022 0:48:29 GMT
EDIT: changed the download to an xdelta patch, to avoid any issues with distributing roms.
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Inspired by the Dark Lord Soma mod, I decided to create something similarly simple and cool in OoE, except it ended up turning into more of a masochistic challenge (to me, at least, I'm sure some amazing players will find it easy!).
What this does/rules of the challenge:
-Shanoa's sprite is replaced with a recolor of the Arma Chiroptera lady made to look more like a Succubus. And Refectio now has a red aura instead of blue.
-You get Bat Kick, Dominus Anger, Dominus Hatred and Refectio (plus an Emperor Ring that can be reacquired if you reenter the room) right at the start. You're normally only allowed to use Dominus Anger and Hatred as arm glyphs (anything goes in the R slot, except Arma stuff, cause it would ruin the challenge).
-You can exceptionally use Bat Kick against enemies that are way too strong against Dark glyphs to the point you're doing single digit damage with Dominus stuff (or insanely low damage proportional to a boss' HP). And you can also use it for convenience (breaking walls, glyph statues, candles, **killing infinitely respawning enemies**, attacking at a point when using a Dominus glyph would kill you and so on, I'll leave it at your discretion).
-You can also use another Dark element glyph for the strict purpose of training your Dark attribute, if you want to do that.
-Dominus Anger, Dominus Hatred and Refectio cost only 1 mp, but all the Dominus glyphs still do damage to you, of course.
-I used the DSvania Randomizer to quickly add some convenience, such as: open world, the Queen of Hearts added to Wygol Village to simulate getting it via connecting to Castlevania Judgement, every mode available from the start, faster attribute levelling and a few other things.
-I **suggest** playing on Hard Mode Lv1 (so you won't get more HP by levelling up) and not getting any HP Max Ups, so that the Dominus glyphs do only 21 damage to you, which can be reasonably recovered with Refectio + 2x Emperor Ring (+3/tick).
That's it! Pretty simple, but also pretty hard (I sure as hell haven't completed it yet lmao, but I'm trying).
With that said, here's the download link (it's for the US version of the game, use xdelta to patch it)..
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EDIT: I forgot about the "failed" glyph union you can do with the Dominus glyphs (which, as it turns out, is pretty useful for this challenge) and, for the life of me, I can't figure why it's the ONLY glyph union that broke (it's shooting from Shanoa's back??), so I've replaced the animation with the similarly fast one from Confedere (damage and properties remain the same as before, though the collision changes slightly making it much better, so I've upped the cost a lot, especially cause it doesn't cost hp to use and you get a free Queen of Hearts in Wygol Village). I've also reduced the Dominus Hatred cost to 1 mp as well (damage to Shanoa, again, remains the same).
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And here's a screenshot just to show the recolored sprite (NSFW PIXELS OMG lol):
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Inspired by the Dark Lord Soma mod, I decided to create something similarly simple and cool in OoE, except it ended up turning into more of a masochistic challenge (to me, at least, I'm sure some amazing players will find it easy!).
What this does/rules of the challenge:
-Shanoa's sprite is replaced with a recolor of the Arma Chiroptera lady made to look more like a Succubus. And Refectio now has a red aura instead of blue.
-You get Bat Kick, Dominus Anger, Dominus Hatred and Refectio (plus an Emperor Ring that can be reacquired if you reenter the room) right at the start. You're normally only allowed to use Dominus Anger and Hatred as arm glyphs (anything goes in the R slot, except Arma stuff, cause it would ruin the challenge).
-You can exceptionally use Bat Kick against enemies that are way too strong against Dark glyphs to the point you're doing single digit damage with Dominus stuff (or insanely low damage proportional to a boss' HP). And you can also use it for convenience (breaking walls, glyph statues, candles, **killing infinitely respawning enemies**, attacking at a point when using a Dominus glyph would kill you and so on, I'll leave it at your discretion).
-You can also use another Dark element glyph for the strict purpose of training your Dark attribute, if you want to do that.
-Dominus Anger, Dominus Hatred and Refectio cost only 1 mp, but all the Dominus glyphs still do damage to you, of course.
-I used the DSvania Randomizer to quickly add some convenience, such as: open world, the Queen of Hearts added to Wygol Village to simulate getting it via connecting to Castlevania Judgement, every mode available from the start, faster attribute levelling and a few other things.
-I **suggest** playing on Hard Mode Lv1 (so you won't get more HP by levelling up) and not getting any HP Max Ups, so that the Dominus glyphs do only 21 damage to you, which can be reasonably recovered with Refectio + 2x Emperor Ring (+3/tick).
That's it! Pretty simple, but also pretty hard (I sure as hell haven't completed it yet lmao, but I'm trying).
With that said, here's the download link (it's for the US version of the game, use xdelta to patch it)..
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EDIT: I forgot about the "failed" glyph union you can do with the Dominus glyphs (which, as it turns out, is pretty useful for this challenge) and, for the life of me, I can't figure why it's the ONLY glyph union that broke (it's shooting from Shanoa's back??), so I've replaced the animation with the similarly fast one from Confedere (damage and properties remain the same as before, though the collision changes slightly making it much better, so I've upped the cost a lot, especially cause it doesn't cost hp to use and you get a free Queen of Hearts in Wygol Village). I've also reduced the Dominus Hatred cost to 1 mp as well (damage to Shanoa, again, remains the same).
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And here's a screenshot just to show the recolored sprite (NSFW PIXELS OMG lol):