RetroPlay - Castlevania: SOTN - Walkthrough Part 15: Forbidden Library

RetroPlay: Game Walkthroughs
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
by: OmegaSion
In this segment Alucard makes his way through the Forbidden Library. Once he explores the Library, he returns to the Reverse Outter Wall and takes on The Creature for the Tooth of Vlad relic.
This is really where you begin to see how the difficulty of the inverted castle is ramped up a lot compared to the normal castle.
The Library holds a bunch of equipment drops that are extremely powerful, and I will be returning to it off-screen after segment 16 to get a few of them.
The next segment, we'll be finishing up the exploration of the Reverse Outter wall, entering the Black Marble Gallery, and heading into the Reverse Underground Caverns.

[@dehemhhgrdese3517]

The soundtrack in this place is so beautiful

[@jimhuffman9434]

If you don't already know, it's called *Lost Painting*

[@patmalloy3569]

Its so awesome that they actually out effort into the inverted castle. New monsters, different items, etc.

[@dydx09]

Man the music in this game is fucking awesome.

[@dydx09]

I'm so glad the developers didn't use the same musical theme for the entire inverted castle; this idea would have really pissed me off. Fortunately, the underground cavern theme is still there in the library, and if memory serves, the reverse catacombs had its own theme as well. Playing the same music for the ENTIRE inverted castle would have driven me away very quickly. It would be like an infinite loop Windows error.

[@h.m.morgan1992]

Lion, Scarecrow, Tin man, those are references to the wizard of oz!!!

[@MasterLynch21]

I never knew this

[@jimhuffman9434]

Dracula used to read The Wizard of Oz?

[@h.m.morgan1992]

@@jimhuffman9434 possibly. LOL!!!

[@puisihatiku]

Ahhh, brings back memories :)

[@OmegaSion]

The outter wall has a chance of having different weather every time you go through a CD Loading Room to reach it. It can be foggy like this, raining, or cloudy with a full moon in the background.

[@jimhuffman9434]

1:22 The Not-So-Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz

[@firewalker117]

what did you get all MLG all of a sudden you are freakin awesome here.

[@macklotus6155]

I just realized that the enemies in the forbidden library is inspired by the wizard of Oz the tinman the scarecrow and the lion

[@OmegaSion]

Yeah, the Scmoos drop the Crissagrim, which is the best weapon in the game.

[@infinitecanadian]

Why don’t you upgrade your weapons and armour?

[@firewalker117]

don't the schmoo drop the best sword in the game