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You now prossess Dracula’s heart (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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[–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

It got a lot of hate from me because the text lied. Blame bad translation or just bad game design. I had to wait until Gamefaq existed before I was able to solve the garlic puzzle.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    Way I heard it, some of the characters were meant to straight up lie to you.

    Vampires are known to be seductive. The Dracula in Castlevania is no exception. It makes sense that he has some agents in the various towns who feed misinformation to the Belmonts and their allies, and report back to the Count.

    Back then though, I think we were supposed to consider games more trustworthy. We didn't expect the game to lie to us. The unreliable narrator has become a lot more popular over the years. Imagine, for example, saying you hate Portal because GLaDOS lies to you. "But I was promised cake!" Same thing. Only we didn't expect it then.

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