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Preview for Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow on the Nintendo DS.
Taken from Nintendo Official Magazine 151 - March Special Edition 2005 (UK)

This issue can be found here in full:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/nintendoofficialmagazine.html

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Preview for Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow on the Nintendo DS. Taken from Nintendo Official Magazine 151 - March Special Edition 2005 (UK)

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[โ€“] ishambard@cupoftea.social 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

@OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games

This is one of my favourite Castlevania games to break. There are a bunch of pretty easy sequence breaks.

Using a knife style weapon that has the backstab special attack can activate switches behind walls/doors, allowing you to skip chunks of the map.

There is also the combination of using the succubus soul and the previously mentioned exploit to just straight-up glitch through walls ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

@ishambard@cupoftea.social

haha, I never knew that!

[โ€“] ishambard@cupoftea.social 1 points 3 days ago

@OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games

I'll get some footage to demonstrate it because it is hilarious.

Also, it makes Boss Rush super easy when you can just skip certain annoying bosses, allowing you to get the Rocket Propelled Grenade easily. The RPG isn't as good as it sounds sadly... But this is Castlevania, not Devil May Cry