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Top 5 Hardest Castlevania Bosses

Top 5 Hardest Castlevania Bosses
Neil takes us through his top five hardest and most
annoying bosses from the Castlevania series.

By Neil Hetherington

Dracula - Castlevania
(NES)

attacks due to this boss
punishing your slightest mistake;
AH, this is un-fucking-real, coupled with random fireballs or
I know old console games laserbeams you were literally in
were harder than what we a world of hurt.
gamers have to encounter now
but Dracula is a top class Charlie Slogra
Super
Uniform November Tango with Castlevania IV (SNES)
several master’s degrees from
the University of Bastard.
Take one part Ridley (Metroid)
I can safely say that I have and six parts random jumpy
died more times to this boss bullshit. Mix in a bowl thoroughly,
than I have died in every other bake at 180 degrees Celsius and
Castlevania game to date. He the result is this boss which I
is a complete and utter horse’s had numerous rage inducing
phallus.
moments with.
With his trident that can shoot
Blackmore - Order of fireballs, jumps with flame trails
Ecclesia (NDS)
and even his beak of death, this
boss was a thorn in my side for
This guy was a pain in the ass, many, many attempts.
having hard-to-predict attack
patterns and damage values Dracula/Deathcombo
higher than a freight train. - Portrait of Ruin (NDS)
You had to have exceptional
execution with your moves and Holy shitballs this fight was

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insane. You’re constantly under
a barrage of fireballs from a
teleporting Dracula as well as
being chased by Death around
the screen. Not only do you
have to deal with this but you
also have to face Dracula’s final
form if you survive fireball hell
in the previous phase. I’m sure
the developers sat around the
table and asked what kind of
encounter would the players
really hate, then implemented it!

Dracula - Dracula X
(SNES)
Okay, I’m sure the devs were
taking the piss when they were
tuning this encounter. He has
an incredibly high health pool,
meaning you have to hit him in
a numerical total that matches a
small country’s population and
then to top it all off, he transforms
into a demon where his attacks
are almost impossible to dodge.
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