Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin - Pikasprey

Pikasprey looks at the second Castlevania on the DS. Was it able to bring enough new ideas after following up the Sorrow games?

[Ecko_Effect]

You know what’s funny? The doppelgänger copies your equipment the moment you enter its chamber, so if you unequip everything, the boss will only have unarmed attacks.

[gizoginjr]

Excuse you, the only sub-weapon worth mastering is the paper airplane.

[felixfischer]

Hello Pikasprey!

You most likely will not read this comment, but if you will, I would like to express my appreciation and gratitude towards you for staying true to your style, and rocking it like a king. I love your content, and I'm glad you're finally beginning to get all the recognition and attention you deserve. Also I would like to express my gratitude for indirectly motivating me to make my own content. You are my muse.

Much love!

[Aster_Iris]

Fingers crossed for Order of Ecclesia next year!

[willworkforfood]

10:20 The nations of fools makes more sense when you remember that the game is set in 1944 in the middle of world war 2. Bruaners backstory also mentions how he is driven by revenge after his two real daughters died in WW1. A ruined city that revolves and gravitates towards a tentacle monster protected by a mass of bodies, that uses said bodies like disposable cannon fodder. Given how much experience Bruaner has with war, I wonder what kind of statement he was making when he drew that world?

[Drewiker]

CHARLOTTE! JOHNATHAN! CHARLOTTE! JOHNATHAN!

[therealdoc]

31:35 I definitely did. I farmed old axe armors for *something* when I was a kid, probably trying to master something and I fondly remember playing that bonus mode.

[philipdraco]

17:57
Small correction, The sub weapons just need to HIT the monster once at any point in the fight. Once the monster dies, the last used sub-weapon gets points, so you don't have to use them as the final hit.

I think the best way to level weapons is the room under the second warp in dark academy (One of the last four paintings). There's two minotaurs near the door that can be dispatched quickly, are worth 10 points each, and can drop an ax worth $10, 000.


I hope this helps in future runs! :D

[KainYusanagi]

Hey Pikasprey, the reason Death has 4444 HP is because "4" is "shi" in Japanese, and that sounds like their word for "death". So his HP is "deathdeathdeathdeath".

[JoeCoolMaveric]

10:23
This is kind of a stretch, but I always got the impression that this was a twisted version of a bombed out city. Like many British and German cities because the game is set during World War II.

[storymaster]

i love how you can cheese the nest of evil and the hardest bosses by using the ancient armor. also beating richter using pies and beating the doppleganger by just unequipping everything on you thus making it powerless.

[Notexisting]

I've missed you talking about castlevania!! Good to see you back at it!

[RolandTheJabberwocky]

23:07 I just used Jonathan's stone wall ability and stuck charlette all the way against the door. The sisters can't hit her and if they start to get you low pop a couple potions. Super easy if you do it that way.

[MatthewRichardson]

I loved the DS titles. Picked up every single one. One thing they improved over dawn of sorrow was more than 3 save slots.

[Vavane]

IIRC skills points are earned for a skill even if it doesn't deal the finishing blow.

[JB-bcry]

Hmmm, a tale of a youth named Jonathan going on a quest with his waifu to defeat a powerful vampire that can transform humans into his monster servants...
Where have I heard that one before....

[Miicrowahvei]

I love Portrait of Ruin. It's the first Metroidvania I completed and the one that got me hooked.

[eggsack]

My absolute favorite Castlevania game and one of my favorite games of all time in general..

[Caraviaggio]

I was waiting so hard for a video tonight and the universe has blessed me with one of your videos... so happy

[HowlingWraith]

I’m always excited whenever you have a new Castlevania video. Your videos are actually the reason I picked up the series myself. Thanks for introducing me to what is now one of my favorite game series.