Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse -- Stage 6, Syfa (1/2)

[Overhazard]

Wow, does the ice spell freeze all on-screen enemies? It also looks like the fact that your character disappears can become a big pain.

(Also, is the phrase "squishy wizard/scientist" really all that prevalent? Or did you take it from TV Tropes again?)

[YuuGiJoou]

The Ice spell only freezes enemies that the projectiles touch...or that happen to be standing in water that happens to be struck by them.

The "disappearing" is just because YouTube doesn't show the alternating frames of the flashing player invulnerability, either making them appear to be invisible or completely visible. Is that what you're talking about?

(Stop pointing out my dependency upon that contemptible wiki! I'm like a recovering tropaholic, all right? ^_^)

[Overhazard]

Oh, okay. So you can still see your character. No wonder it looked like you never had a problem with it. I thought it was that you've played this game so much that you could tell where Trevor, Grant, Syfa, or Alucard could be while invisible.

I noticed that sometimes, Syfa fired AWAY from the enemy and still froze them anyway. The best example in this video is that guy about halfway through the stage who throws axes at you.

[YuuGiJoou]

Yeah, it's mostly a hazard of older games, where the most "advanced" means of showing that somebody is taking damage is to alternate between being visible and invisible so quickly that they appear to be translucent...but YouTube doesn't exactly update frames quickly enough for that, so after uploading them, the effect is basically lost.

Syfa's ice magic is omnidirectional...there is no "away," since the projectiles are fired in an overhead arc from three to nine o'clock from player perspective.