The 10 Hardest Castlevania Bosses
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- Опубликовано: 25 янв 2022
- “Castlevania” is a series not for the faint of heart, and we don’t mean that in terms of “scary”. Konami’s famed action-platformer franchise is known for having its fair share of infuriating enemies, and the same could be said for its bosses. Our list includes Gravedorcus, St. Germain, Galamoth, Forgotten One, Dracula and more! Did any of these baddies give you trouble? Was there a tougher foe we forgot? Share with us in the comments below.
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"Galamoth's hard" *queue clip of player cheesing him using the beryl circlet*
Idk about hardest, but in Portrait of Ruin when you had to fight Dracula and Death at the same time was too awesome!!!
DRacula: "Soul Steal!" (consumes death) me: *WHAT*
My power... Use my power
It's not the hardest because you can have your partner aggro true drac and just hit death instead in the first phase due to having the same health pool.
Order of ecclesia Dracula on the other hand
@@DarkSymphony777 order of ecclesia dracula is actually quite easy. I had to try a few times but with the death ring and dominus back glyph you can do a LOT of damage to him. Especially with nitesco + blade union
@@remib2320 yes but try beating him without those things. Order has probably the single most broken ability in agony/ nictesco
But drac is fun as hell if you don't use them
Dracula's obviously the most iconic Castlevania boss, but I still feel that the Forgotten One from Lords of Shadow is, by far, the hardest in the franchise. No fight with Dracula comes close to that frustration.
Especially on the hardest difficulty mode
Both Forgotten Ones are worse than any Dracula fight. FO is tough in Lament of Innocence too.
Agree with this
I had a lot more trouble with the Satan fight than the Forgotten One.
Try it in Lament of Innocence, it's much harder
Nothing from Circle of Moon? Probably the hardest Metroidvania didn't even get screen time. Adramelech and the dual Zombie Dragon fight were incredibly hard. Nothing from Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse got no mentioned either considering the Evil Flame had you fight 3 bosses in 1 multiple times throughout the game. The Water Serpents after doing around 2/3's of their life run away, forcing you to platform & fight through enemies on a sub-stage with rising waters, and then re-engage the boss fight when you get to the end. Something tells me they actually didn't play all the Castlevania's by not even showing these games
In my opinion the Classicvanias and Igavania games should not be in one set. There is a dramatic gap between them in terms of difficulty level, which is due to the fact that in igavanias you can levelled up relatively easily while enemies don't making the game braindead easy after some point.
But I agree CotM is the most challenging Metroid-stylized Castlevania. They managed to find a sweet point between the arcadeish challenge from the older games and the leveling system from Igavanias.
Dracula's final form from Circle of the Moon always gave me a ton of issues.
Lord's of Shadow was fantastic and should have served as a great soft reboot, boy did Konami screw that up.
yeah, all that Alucard's plot to "Kill" satan was like? who the fuck wrote this, an 8 years of kid?
@@luisluna5835 pretty much. Satan’s involvement in the first game was just kind of thrown in there but was easily explained by the religious nature of the brotherhood. Lords of Shadow 2 just completely fell off the rails in the second half.
I agree 100%. Hardest Dracula for me by far. I probably just need to learn the pattern better
@@garvensman Its been years but i dont think i ever got the pattern down. I think i eventually had to abuse potions and the magic system.
I 100% agree with you about LoS. It had great and satisfying combat and the fights against Cornell, Carmilla, Olrox, and Brauner were all awesome. But the game is ruined by overly frequent tedious puzzles. And the fight against Satan is probably the worst boss ever. Haven’t played any LoS games except the first and I do not plan to play the others.
WM: Galamoth
Me: *laughs in Alucard Shield Rod*
I was hoping this video would focus more on specific bosses, rather than counting Death, Dracula, Doppelgangers and Belmonts as a single entry each.
Circle of the Moon final boss, anyone?
Hard to beat, cool design and awesome combat music. Could be my favourite boss fight in the entire Castlevania series.
Zombie dragons too
Yeah
Satan from Lords of Shadow 1. When he's stunned, he put up light and dark magic barriers where you have to time them right.
The forgotten one fight was so real that even i was feeling Gabriel's desperation and sorrow
I've finished the game a couple times, but can't recall this boss; where is he? (Maybe I just don't remember him?)
@@sithlord1051 he was in the second DLC for Lords of the Shadow named Ressurection.
The neatest trick against the Doppelgänger was in Portrait of Ruin in the Nest of Evil area, where if you unequip all your stuff and then head in, it’ll also have no weapons or heavy-hitting spells. Then, you re-equip your stuff and whale on him, no mercy!
PoR was my first Castlevania game... And Death made mu put it back on the shelf.
Years later, i beat him using the sacred technique "buy as much potions as you can"
dracula, at the end of the fight, yells out " I'll be back"!!, and means it.
I remember in HS Galamouth took me FOREVER to beat in SOTN. I kind of neglected the RPG element of the game. I played it again about a decade later (the right way) I beat him on my first attempt 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾.
I remember defeating him by finding a reasonably safe place from which I threw the Heaven Sword at him. A few hours of farming this sword was not in vain 😃
@@seva809 Good work. I forgot exactly what I used, but I feel like playing it again now 🤣🤣🤣
I beat galamoth unarmed, it was a challenge of mine that I set through the whole game, needless to say the fight took a very long time
I just use the alucard shield and the shield rod drain his health down to zero
I accidentally found out about the Crissgrim by farming in the Library and beat him with that along with leveling up strong enough to use mist magic for a long time. I kinda got depressed fighting him and not winning. I was like “whelp.. I’m not beating this game fully”. I totally neglected the RPG element of the game. That lighting attack was the only thing that kept killing me.
I beat Dracula on my first try, in Smash Ultimate's World of Light.
"Dracula - Does it even matter which one?"
Well, yes. For example, one of the two Castlevania games on the SNES have one of the easiest Dracula boss battles and the other has one of the hardest. I'm so glad that the prologue of Symphony of the night was not the SNES Dracula X battle, or else I would never have made it to the main game.
The easiest Dracula is Castlevania 3.
@@thomasffrench3639 Nah. Simon's Quest. He literally can't move if hit with fire....while you have flaming holy water and a fire whip.
@@se7enist forgot about that. Probably because I haven’t beat Simon’s Quest
@@thomasffrench3639 It's better than it's given credit for, but the criticism is also deserved. Definitely not a mandatory game, but it realistically is the first metroidvania castlevania game, despite SOTN taking the credit for it.
@@se7enist yeah I started to play it and I just couldn’t get into it. I will probably play it after I play the Metroidvanias.
And Dracula from Castlevania: Circle of the moon
Pan is harder than Black Armor. At least for me.
The Forgotten One was the hardest for me. It took so many tries for me to beat, so many hours. I tried to learn every single move and pattern of it. And when I beat it finally, I nearly got no damage at all. It was one my most satisfaying gaming moments.
The Forgotten One in "Lament of Innocence" was no slouch.
Blackmore and Eligor in "Order of Ecclesia" gave me trouble.
The solo fight against Stella in "Portrait of Ruin" was rough, mostly because it happens early in the game and you don't have as much time to build your levels.
Absolutely! I'd guess I haven't even played that many Castlevania games so far, but I myself regard the Forgotten One in Lament of Innocence as the hardest non-fighting-game boss I have ever faced. Well, I faced him on the toughest difficulty (@Crazy). However, I assume I just haven't fully understood yet how to evade all of his fire-breathing attacks in phase 3. Otherwise, he might not be that hard.
The hardest boss I ever faced in the Castlevania series, was the very source of Dracula's power in the series, the essence of Chaos itself in Aria Of Sorrow, it took me many tries back in the early 2000's on my GBA to defeat it, when I finally managed to do it I felt really accomplished and Im glad I stayed with the series ever since then ✌️
@metalridley6 It's the same thing with the Claihm Solais unless you're fighting Julius
0:26 Slyzer will be proud of this.
I hated Legion in Curse of Darkness. I remember that being the boss that I hated the most.
That boss theme fucking slapped though!
Thats the only good thing about it
1st phase I just use force gauntlet lmao, 2nd phase.......guess hector is now death ( Death's scythe makes nucalais _much_ easier to fight )
Headhunter in AoS' Julius Mode was hard asf.
man, the forgotten one from the lords of shadow made me cry from frustration, it was some hell of a fight
Dracula's final form in Castlevania 64 was a nightmare for me the first time I tried to vanquish him
Sounds amazing, because I currently play Castlevania 64. I love how challenging it is. Like the classic 2D Castlevanias.
I remember in highschool, the hardest one to beat was the one eyed monster. I could literally spend hours on it! Then, when I finished beating it? I'd get back to playing Castlevania.
My first time fighting Trevor in Curse of Darkness my main thoughts were HOW MANY HEARTS DOES THIS GUY HAVE DOES HE EVER RUN OUT?!
Hey, he’s _the legend_ after all, and Belmonts likes being the hardest bosses of every game
Aria of Sorrow? _An actually good decent challenge_ which is something I can’t say for other bosses
Portrait of Ruin? _don’t see any Morris_
Curse of darkness? _Broken jaw_
How bout Dracula in Rondo of Blood...with the platforming and cheap hits. How did that not get it's own spot on the list
Wasn't that Dracula X? Rondo was actually a bit easier on the Turbo CD. The SNES...port...ish..version was brutal.
I'm kind of surprised The Forgotten One from Lament of Innocence didn't get mentioned with the Lords of Shadow version. As for "Does is matter which (Dracula)?" Yes it does; while the Dracula fight in Adventure Rebirth is a tough endurance match, the SNES Dracula X fight with him is different than any other in that he has to power to instant kill you with the dozen or so pits in the throne room.
The shield rod combo makes Galamoth a joke, granted first time players might not be aware of it even though they should be able to get both the weapon and shield by the time they reach Galamoth
Dracula may be hard in some of his iterations, but in other's he's a pushover. Like in the prologue of Symphony of Night and the end game version, Rondo of Blood/Dracula X, and Order of Ecclesia
I like how in Lords Of Shadow, he used the line from Dracula in sotn/bloodlines/Dracula X: "Enough talk, have at you!"
The funny thing about #2 #1 , In Catlevania 2 both death and Dracula are early, Hell death you can just walk past him :), In Castlevania 1 if you have the firebomb (holy water) you can stun death before he can even get a sickle off, and slow down Dracula 2nd from. While there are vard Boss if you know the tricks, they and very easy at least in those games
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Why do I feel like you guys haven't played circle of the moon
Finished that one for the first time a couple months ago and the final Dracula fight was CRAZY difficult!!!
When they were talking about Death in the list, they should have excluded his appearance in Castlevania II: Simon's Quest because he was too easy and if you ignore him by strutting past him, it was not much of a fight.
Don't forget how easy Dracula is, too!
@@sithlord1051 That, too.
I will say they should ranl death higher than drac
The forgotten one, after that fight i felt so good. That boss made me so mad in the beginning. I was playing on the 2nd hardest difficulty too, knight i think its called or paladin idk
If you hit SON's Galamoth from the right spot he glitches and cannot harm you. I discovered it with with Richter.
I personally like all the fights with death, but also the puppet master. He’s so fun to smack in the face
How to beat the doppelgänger in symphony of the night: equip yourself with the clock and freeze time, and just keep stabbing him until he dies. You’ll defeat him in less than a minute, you’re welcome.
I agree, Dracula is a tough cookie, with the exception of SIMON’S QUEST.
8:10 he’s got the morpho knight move set
Symphony of the night and the version he uses materials to forge weapons (forgot its name) were my favorite castlevania games
The Forgotten One was the most inanely overpowered boss fight in the franchise's history. He did INSANE damage and his attacks were virtually impossible to avoid.
Eh, Menace is super easy. You can easily cheese the boss
In phase one where He's kneeling, keep the Persephone soul out at all times, doing this will suck up the poisonous gas, and it will grant you health.
For the rest of the boss, all you need to do is spam mandragora. It might take a while but it keeps you from getting close.
A fight in castlevania lament of innocence is the death fight, usually, death isn't the final boss, but LOI's death is no joke, dealing damage that hurts, and while his attacks aren't that strong, one attack is deadly, requiring a bit of timing. That is..
Death: DEADLY TEMPEST!
Seems like someone has yet to experience crazy mode...
@@zerwardzelaiine7622 oh, trust me, I'm planning on that fight
Galamoth? Mojo, you say you'll be close to death due to the lightning damage but if you just equip a lightning absorbing armor (as shown in the video) and you'll absorb it all. I get that the armor is weak on defense but since the biggest problem is the lightning, you'll be fine. If anything, the high amount of HP is the biggest hurdle at that point. Try not to strain your digits while pressing the attack button.
And there's always the shield rod + alucard shield strat
Without the holy water exploit, Death from the original Castlevania is harder than Drac. Dracula just takes patience and recognizing his patterns. Death has no pattern. He is an unruly RNG machine who has undoubtedly led to the destruction of many NES controllers.
Yep and also: you have to beat the end of that hard stage without getting hit because you really need to be at full health or you are in serious trouble.
With Dracula there is always(or almost always) check point just before him and you get hearts, cross and all kinds of stuff to help you in battle.
i played the games when they came out so I hardly remember their names but that optional boss deep down the dungeon in Lament of innocence was very tough.
The time reaper from Castlevania: Judgement
Hands down CLOS1 Forgotten One in Paladdin difficulty... with a maxed out game it took me several attempts... however i did a no upgrades run, no enhancements, just to spice up this one specific fight, but i have not been able to beat this boss without a few attack moves, a 10 minute fight in stage 1 became a 2 hours endeavor and still i didnt get to stage 2... try it, youre in for a treat!!!!!
Regarding Galamoth, i did find him hard to be the first time i faced him, however when i learned how to use the dark shield, medusa shield he was easier than Shaft... and when i found alucard shield, well shield rod was just too obvious... also after lv50 is hard to lvl up to lv99, so once you get to this stage ur nigh unkillable...
Death and Renon from Castlevania 64 was pretty tough.
It's basically the same fight. Renon is harder because he is faster and deal more damage. But he is optional
There is a few frustrating ones: Astarte from PoR. Order of Eccelsia was the shadow man.
His name is blackmore and the normal ignis glyph help a lot
#s 1-10 = Medusa Heads
This series would be 50% easier without the damn Medusa heads
Well the list good for the most part I have some nitpicks:
1.gravedorcus can be much easier if you have the ignis and grando glyphs the glyph union can deal huge damage while protect from the granades
2.menace is far from being hard while yes the hurtbox is tiny his attacks are very slow and telegraphed and with the enirys soul you can easily damage him and his small enemy swarm attack
3.dracula for the most part is easier than death the reason is the random sickle attack the sickles are hard to hit, appeared randomely while dracula is more telegraphed in most of his fight sure there some exapction like in circle of the moon and simon's quest but for the most part death is harder than dracula and one of thw hardest boss fights in gaming
Synphony's Doppelganger becomes really lame when you realize there's a trick to beat him easy
I wish you got a list for Castlevania best weapon
The metroidvania games like SOTN, the one game in GBA is gives me hardest fight of all boss is the Circle of the Moon. Is gives me rage quit.
Level with me, Ty. Is that Spyro trilogy retro review in the pipeline still, or are you unable to cash in on that promise? Completely understand if you can't, I'd just appreciate an update.
The black knight’s isnt hard by any means but his gimmick of sending a black pond against was a hell to pull through
Damn i hated that boss alot
I just want to say i beat them all and love all castlevania and games like it
Galamoth gave me soo much trouble as a kid
In my personal experience, Retro Count from Harmony of Despair is the toughest version of Dracula that I have faced. Be is hard to beat even with 6 players fighting him
forgotten one almost made me break the controler. didn't give it a second try.
I would change a few. I would swap the fish from order of ecclesia with the franstein, that guy have a ton of very damaging moves and even a instakill one. And the forgotten one I would swap with legion and nuculais, first part you're swarmed with exploding homunculus, second part you're squashed by suitless slenderman.
it took me FOREVER to beat death in the original as a 9 year old
for me, Shadowman is way harder than that fish in OoE, his attacks were fast, random and hard to predict. you can't avoid him except with jumping or crouching since he corners you.
and the only boss ever that i used a cheat against is the last Dracula in CoM. so much health and console was lagging af.
I'd switch forgotten one and death due to my experience with him in Lament of Innocence
Devil in Circle of the Moon is not a Boss but is really hard to beat
I was about to say, I do NOT remember fighting the Forgotten one in Lords of Shadow. I had no idea there was a secret boss for 100%ing the game.
He is a DLC boss, so it makes sense not to fight him in the main storyline
in SOTN doppelgangers can be frozen by the clock subweapon, so they are the easiest boss.
This is just my own personal experience but I never got into the DS games because I was never a fan of handheld gaming so it wasn't until years later that I played them on emulators that I was finally able to enjoy those amazing titles in the Castlevania franchise. If I had to guess I'd say that's probably why they never got the same recognition as SOTN.
All of the GBA games are on the Castlevania Advance Collection which means that you can play them on Switch, PS4, and Xbox One
I played “Bloodlines” recently, and man I’ve gotten worse at that game, even on easy mode haha! Dracula was so much more difficult than I remember!
You should have used clips of Count Dracula from Circle of the 🌙🌔 🌕 🌖🌙
Death from aria of sorrow. It took me FOREVER to get down! Idky but I had the hardest learning curve trying to beat that guy! Literally must've taken me like a dozen tries before I finally got the fight down.
GBA - Aria of Sorrow
DS - Dawn of Sorrow
@@arek.k8688 thanks ^^
I'm still waiting on a new Castlevania game! Come on developers, make a new game from my favorite franchise!
#1 shaft from rondo of blood, before you fight him you have to get through 5 bosses and only one gives you a chicken.
Doppelanger from Castlevania 3: it's your double with all your weapons, when you hit him you score one hit, when he hits you he takes 4 points of your life, he also corners you and touching him also damages you
Galamoth was the hardest boss in Symphony of the night...his health is so big it takes forever to kill him and on top of that his long range attacks... Idk why but I really liked Doppleganger
You just gotta use mablung (or shield rod) and alucard shield, or if you don't have it iron shield
@@ishzarkklyon9590 No I actually did mist form into a corner and kept stabbing him with my sword for like 5 minutes straight lol
@@madextreme2682 yeah but using what I said he lasts 2 mins tops
You can also use skull shield now that I think about it
there are more much pretty annoying bosses besides that. dragonzombie(COTM), dracula finalform(COTM) stage6 shaft's boss rush(ROB), paranoia(DOS) and lecarde sisters(POR).
Unless you missed "unleashing Dracula's power", Dracula is the least challenging in Order of Ecclesia (amongst all other Castlevania games)
when i see boss videos of old games i'm hoping this means a new game of the series has been anounced. so can anyone confirm? i would love a reboot in lords of shadow style
This list is a joke. Not only does the footage largely show the player stunting on the boss with little difficulty, many of these bosses can be beaten by 'grinding levels' or 'equipping a piece of gear that nullifies the most challenging attack the boss offers'. Wow. So difficult. I see they also list some bosses as multiple different forms from different games as a single entry; some of which are actually challenging, while some are a cake-walk. There's no criteria or actual evaluation here; what a miserable waste of time.
Menace, seriously? The most laughably easy final boss in the castlevania series if not all gaming history.
1. His attacks are predictable and easy to avoid.
2. With your limitless jump ability it's easy to reach and strike His vulnerable points.
3. At the endgame you should have lots of powerful weapons and spells to easily deal with those demon staple remover monsters he summons.
Idk if I'm the only one but that boss was never a challenge for me, even on 1st playthough.
The Forbidden One and Nuculais
I found out this year that galamoth is super easy. Get the lightning crown from the witches earlier in the floating catacombs. His spammy aoe lightning attack heals you now without knock back. There u always have max hp and can spam your own attack for a long time
Here I fought galamoth without such an item.
My first time.....rough. pretty sure I didnt even have all the treasures to fight drac yet so there was my pain and suffering playing the game....
I played most of Castlevania Games and I usually have more trouble with Death than Dracula, in some of the Classic games I can beat Dracula legit but I can't beat Death without going for the cheap holy water tricks.
*Shows one of the toughest boss's from Dracula X in the thumbnail
*Doesn't highlight or speak of it during actual video
Got me
Me personally I think hardest fight would be CoD legion/nucalais on crazy mode, with no death's scythe.....that was a thing that happened...
Question:
Castlevania is know for it's monster movie/books adaptations. Is "Menace" supposed to be a adaptation of Freddy Kruger from "Nightmare on Elm Street" movies?
Forget Dopleganger in portrait of ruin.
Must've sequence broke to skip the Zombie Dragons from CotM
No honorable mention of Legion? The Werewolf (especially in Dracula X and Chronicles)? Carmilla?
Soleil from Belmont's Revenge is a tough fight, though all the Gameboy ones are stupid hard. Dracula from Dracula X's shitty SNES port probably takes the cake, though. It's a Dracula fight... over a bottomless pit on columns barely two character's length wide. What could possibly go wrong?
In SoTN, the doppelgangers aren't hard if you have managed to perform the skip death glitch
In terms of the Metroidvania style games… the hardest one for me was order of ecclesia. That boss that was a shadow on the wall gave me nightmares.
I reccomend use the ingnis glyph on him it can deal a lot of damage
6:49 is this part really in Castlevania Chronicles? Upon doing some research to make sure, I think you guys are using footage from a fan made game. Though it does look good
Thank you! I thought I was taking crazy pills at that point in the video. I wonder what fan game the footage is from?
@@drneoseraph13 it's a 16-bit fan-made remake of Dracula's Curse
The Portrait of Ruin tag team was still very beatable though. Just fighting one or the other would have been way too easy at that point in the game, in my humble opinion.
I was lucky to have Crissaegrim to easily beat Galamoth.
6:49 im pretty sure that game Its NOT the castlevania Chronicles ..