Super Castlevania IV - Slogra, Gaibon & Death

[redbones01]

this castlevania had the best setting in terms of eerie atmosphere.

[danskywalker88]

nice gameplay :D watch mine of castlevania 3 if u want ^^

[Vistico93]

Too bad Death wasn't done in true Castlevania fashion and the scythes flying out of him as he dies could still hurt you. Hated that the game gave so many pork chops or really any at all between battles.

[rokninja]

This is still one of my top five end-game sequences of all time. That music change and the torches lighting up is still chilling to this day.

[Linkenfant]

@rokninja Agreed. Those are the reasons I made this video :)

[cbohar84]

The Grim Reaper is a bitch to beat in every game of the series

[dragonvania]

this is the best castlevania of all

[forlorndivinity]

I love the chilling effect the music and the torches give when you start to enter the corridor.

[TheSkunkCat]

I remember playing this before the Castletroids. Much as I love the Castletroids, the old ones where still awesome platformers, and I love them as well.

Slogra was a pain when I didn't quite know how to handle him, but when I figured it out he was amusingly easy.

[hare122275]

Too sweet. Very fond memories here.

[Anemite]

amazing how these 2 bosses go from being super bosses (heck gaibon can shake the castle with his power) to be regular enemies

[MegaAstroFan18]

I'd like to see Slogra and Gaibon fuse.

[EvilBossGamer]

blood lines was better out of all of em

[aqula]

Slogra....FUCK YOU

[TheShadowtail1126]

I love this game. best ever

[TheTragicLoner]

Don't remember Gaibon having that spike drop attack.

[supajasiu]

I don't get it, in my Cstelvania it takes 2 hits with a whip to eat 1 health bar off of death, is this some sort of wierd glitch?

[EddieEddieEddie90]

for me, i think death was easier than slogra :/

[lwc888]

At death, you can hold your whip high in defense mode and most of the sickles can't hurt you (depending on angle). THen whip him when he's above you or going into the "sucking mode." It helps to stand in the lower left corner.

[kodeetheregulator]

i simply CANNOT beat slogra

[MotherPunker970]

which one is slogra and which one is gaibon?i know that skelet guy put me in a lot of pain figuring out a strategy against him,and when doors opened,i was like WTF theres MORE???death and fly guy were pretty easy,but dracula...shit...

[samael316]

@MotherPunker970 Slogra is the skeleton one, Gaibon is the demon look a like... :D

[elandvari]

Another difference with JP version, the US version has slowdowns in water level and also the skeleton exploding animation on first stage. And it's not the emulator, it's like that with the cartridge.

[csakesz182]

death is a tough son of a bitch, i can't beat him!

[alexiscool33]

The avgn says that this is the best castlevania game of all

[KarasawaL30]

Lmao. You were trying to sequence break at 2:30 weren't you?

[Linkenfant]

@KarasawaL30 I'm always trying to sequence break in any game, since it is really fun :)

[Kev95682]

Death was harder than Dracula.

[boltorn]

I remember when beating Death for the first time as a kid, and you enter the enterance with the lights turning on and that shit.. my mouth was like this: :O .. it was so awsome

[blueslystone]

Gotta admit this is pretty damn epic, especially given the limited technology of the SNES.

[uchihatheitachi]

I just bet the game on my PC using Emulator and it was soo awesome! i always wanet to play Super Castlevania 4! best Castlevania Game ever!

[psychicsandwich7]

one of the most epic boss gauntlets ever.

[KidKarnage187]

that first boss got waxed

[sexypadri]

thanks for the password

[Linkenfant]

@sexypadri you're welcome :)

[schildno5]

I love the Grim Reaper's sound effects! That alone is scary.

[christiangoth84]

Gotta love that music at the end.

[Khelevandros]

@christiangoth84

Yeah it's my favorite theme in all of Castlevania. No other song in the series gives the same spooked out feeling this one does.

Room of Close Associates theme is awesome too, fun to have em both in one vid as well as 3 bosses XD

[hentaiseeker]

For anyone that doubts me just check out my zsnes video on zophar. The archive is called "castle4_yoshi". When I had 1 life bar and spammed whip it's lunge couldn't hit me. You can also see Death being denied hits.

[whostolecarlosrox]

I love how dark the sped up organ is.

[VectorVsSonic]

Epic Music!

Slogra and Grim are hard as shit :-D

[wrs6565]

The hell with gargoyles--I'd be worried about nosebleeds or my ears popping if Gaibon's chamber is really that freaking high up in the sky!

Slogra has nice carpeting.

The music in Block B-3 absolutely terrified me the first time I reached the level. Thrash harpsichord!!

I have never, ever been anything less of a pussy when fighting Death in CV4--I ALWAYS hide behind the block.

Death in CV1--you CAN'T hide from him!! Hardest boss ever!

[MikkiMassive]

Sure, but you can spam his ass back to hell if you keep throwing holy water when he comes down at the start of the fight. Cheap as hell, but works wonders.

[STUDIOANIMOSITY]

MikkiMassive you are thinking of Castlevania 1? and the cheap fight death trick

[DragoonTheBurninator]

Slogra is probably the hardest of the three

[JohnnyPeachfuzz]

I second that.

[31Moth13]

No way! Death is way harder.

[JohnnyPeachfuzz]

Unless you're a moron who doesn't know how to brandish the whip, Death is a cinch.

[JohnnyPeachfuzz]

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you a moron who doesn't know how to brandish the whip. Give him a big hand.

[hentaiseeker]

@ValentinossII

Death IS a cakewalk. The cheesiest way to do it without subweapons is to hold the whip up and stand just right of that stone that floats in the air. Death can NEVER hit you at this position. If you only moved to hit him when he threw the scythe you should never get hit as long as you jump correctly.

[FlameAdder]

It doesn't work that way. Cry moar, faggot.

[ForsetiLover]

SO thats how you beat him...stupid Slogra kicked my ass so many times

[juanma9112]

OMG! all of these guys are Mini bosses in Simphony of The Night O.o

[MexxxicoSyndrome]

O.O

Slogra is a normal enemy in Dawn of Sorrow

[JBHutto]

They're all bosses, just Slogra and Gaibon are teamed up.

[CYCLOPSONE]

The coolest part after defeating Death was walking down the hallway and watching the torches igniting. The music playing was absolutely fitting.

[evenmorebetter]

Akumajou means "demon castle" in and of itself, so it's just "Akumajou Dracula." I'm playing through it on Virtual Console now for the first time since I sold my SNES years ago. I do like the US font and whip samples better, but level 8 woulda been infinitely creepier with blood, and I do wish that our title screen (even just the logo!) looked that cool.

[ColonelFatso]

Hmm... I prefer the American whip sounds.

Text differences are utterly meaningless.

Blood might have been cool but they made their changes in a professional manner so I don't care.

I don't think the passwords are 100% unique to name, unless they generate the password on the spot by a set of predefined rules every time a name is entered. Otherwise they'd run out of space on the cartridge just for passwords!

[EMSkrabs]

i realy think thats the coolest looking death i have ever seen from any castlevania game i get a warm feeling inside everytime i play this classic game. go super castlevania 4 ps. the best game soundtrack ever

[Hakuromatsu]

@EMSkrabs Second-coolest looking, behind his second form in Rondo of Blood...but "Room of Close Associates" is much better than RoB's boss theme.

[ArtificialSoul]

Slogra is the coolest boss!

[Zezimateh1st]

i dunno i saw the beta version and it looked a lot like this

[Linkenfant]

Well maybe because of the slightly different color for the green text on the top of the screen =) Nothing else changes in japanese version, except for uncensored things such as blood on title screen and Frankeisntein level, and some other stuff =p

[Zezimateh1st]

is this beta version?¡

[Linkenfant]

Nope, why ? This is the japanese version :)

[theultimategod]

Does Anyone Know The Name Of The Song That Plays For These Boss Battles? Is There Any Remix Or Metal Versions Of It Out There?

[galti111]

@theultimategod It's called The Room of Close Associates. I don't know if any remixes have been done of it.

[uremifasolasiutut]

Basically the Slogra battle in the second time through the game comes down to luck; sometimes he lunges at you like a demon possessed, other times he'll only do it once in a while. If it is the former, you're screwed as there is no way to avoid it indefinitely.

I'd like to see someone try and kill him on the second playthrough with just the leather whip...

Will any brave vampire killer accept this task?

[hentaiseeker]

@uremifasolasiutut

It is still no harder. Leather whip has longer range than his lunge. As long as you spam whips it can't ever reach you unless you are too slow during the retreats between the jumps.

[Xirus5]

wonder how it would be like to stand in that room "2.30" in real life.. looks fucking creepy

[CEDELL29]

2:34--One of the coolest boss entrances EVER.

[capricorn3zz]

great job man¡¡¡

[xXbelmontXx]

This game is awesome but a bit too easy compared to some other CV games , i can beat it without dying once...

[2daynan]

really?? i think its fuckin hard

[Altmanniac]

Good work, I could have never done that so easily.

[Linkenfant]

Thanks for reading the description before posting comments :)