[Spoilers] Discussing Secrets in Ode to Castlevania

[Wesk Alber]

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Really weird oversight but hey, what can you do. Back to the normal topic now.

Alright, so some of you may know already that there are nearly 40 secrets to discover and I wanted to see if people are onto ideas/have already unlocked many? This seems to be secrets made specifically for big fans of Castlevania Lore.

I did a few runs. Through that, I have unlocked five characters.

Doing my final run as Dracula, I have unlocked;
You don't need his services if you can walk on water (Ferryman)
Bring bad luck to the Count's belligerent bosses (Graham)
Kill fleamen? I killed only 220 though, so must count all variants (Fleaman)
Give the deceiver a taste of her own medicine (Succubus)
Hold the stones that birthed your lineage and prove dominance over all your monstrous minions (Megalo Dracula)

I do not even know how I got most of these, as they were by accident. Theories;
Walk on water, but the fact that I was walking on water seems to be a bug, since I was able to go through EVERY wall from pure speed. Actual trigger idk.
I didn't do any runs with a character with negative luck, so not sure for that.
I did do a run with a reflect build with Richter, and Soul Steal for Soma. There is no Succubus enemy in the castle I've found though so idk
Dracula I simply killed every boss but one in a single run. There's a boss panel next to the top left room I never figured out how to activate. Walking over did nothing. Bug?

As for theories for other secrets:
A secret so big it won't pass through the castle doors, potentially never enter the castle at all?
Reconnect the youngest hunter.... Unlocks Young Maria. Her pets could be her guardians? So familiars/the birds and the Gemini card?
Make it feel at home unlocks Death. Bring Red Death? If castlevania characters only, idk
Go low and kill 3mil of those jokers unlocks a Cave Troll. Kill a specific enemy in Drac's basement area 3mil of?
Burn bright until the end... Assuming only castlevania characters are to be used, Charlotte and use only her starter weapon/evo. If all non-other-DLC characters are included, Avatar?

Any ideas people?

[Captain Hydrodus]

Originally posted by themazingness:

Originally posted by UmbreonMessiah:

I just 100% the DLC today. That final reward is a DOOZY.

Yeah, when I got to it I was like, Welp, time to take Sigma idle gold farming. Pretty awesome though.

Personally I use Sammy for cash farming

[Ragna]

Originally posted by Captain Hydrodus:

Originally posted by themazingness:

Yeah, when I got to it I was like, Welp, time to take Sigma idle gold farming. Pretty awesome though.

Personally I use Sammy for cash farming

This! I didn't even recognize the prize for it since my gold has been a bunch of 9s for a long time now.

[themazingness]

Originally posted by Captain Hydrodus:

Originally posted by themazingness:

Yeah, when I got to it I was like, Welp, time to take Sigma idle gold farming. Pretty awesome though.

Personally I use Sammy for cash farming

Good point. I'm just so used to Sigma. I almost never farm but the unlock cost called for it.

[Скуфья]

Originally posted by themazingness:

Good point. I'm just so used to Sigma. I almost never farm but the unlock cost called for it.

Literally me. But then I tried Sammy with some golden eggs included. Now I forgot about Sigma, because with Sammy I need less than a 30 sec to get 300kk gold :D

[Moonbane]

Noticed an interesting bit about Blue Moon Crescent Cornell. He appears to have the most starting amount out of all characters. Beginning with +4 amount, 1 comming from upgrades. I speculate that the basic Cornell will get an additional 3 amount from going werewolf once he have Trinum Custodem united.

But given the enormous amounts of projectiles from Trinum Custodem, Blue Moon Crescent Cornell is a top candidate for the beginning Arcana with +3 amount to starter weapons.

[Squeakie Toy]

Thank you all so much for compiling this, it's been a fantastic guide to checkbox off progress and put me right after interpreting some of the secret's hints terribly wrong myself!

If anyone has an answer handy, I am missing the 'Acquire all the... books?' secret (Right after the clock tower unlock and before Young Maria on my list)- however I can't figure out what I'm missing as the collection is filled and I've gotten our chaotic boy as well. Is this a 'its bugged on my end' or a 'You dolt you aren't thorough enough'?

[Ragna]

Originally posted by Squeakie Toy:

Thank you all so much for compiling this, it's been a fantastic guide to checkbox off progress and put me right after interpreting some of the secret's hints terribly wrong myself!

If anyone has an answer handy, I am missing the 'Acquire all the... books?' secret (Right after the clock tower unlock and before Young Maria on my list)- however I can't figure out what I'm missing as the collection is filled and I've gotten our chaotic boy as well. Is this a 'its bugged on my end' or a 'You dolt you aren't thorough enough'?

This is the same unlock condition as 'Pay a Coin for every book he keeps' for the Librarian meaning just buy everything once from him. This one is for a lot of the magic weapons/his inventory btw.
Just try buying everything from him to be sure but if you got the Librarian unlocked you should have this as well. So maybe it is bugged for you. Just weird that Chaos unlocked for you without it.

[Squeakie Toy]

Originally posted by Ragna:

Originally posted by Squeakie Toy:

Thank you all so much for compiling this, it's been a fantastic guide to checkbox off progress and put me right after interpreting some of the secret's hints terribly wrong myself!

If anyone has an answer handy, I am missing the 'Acquire all the... books?' secret (Right after the clock tower unlock and before Young Maria on my list)- however I can't figure out what I'm missing as the collection is filled and I've gotten our chaotic boy as well. Is this a 'its bugged on my end' or a 'You dolt you aren't thorough enough'?

This is the same unlock condition as 'Pay a Coin for every book he keeps' for the Librarian meaning just buy everything once from him. This one is for a lot of the magic weapons/his inventory btw.
Just try buying everything from him to be sure but if you got the Librarian unlocked you should have this as well. So maybe it is bugged for you. Just weird that Chaos unlocked for you without it.

Thanks!
I'll go through them all once again, I probably missed one somewhere or had one that semi-counted on a repeat of throne room event.

[Moonbane]

Made an interesting observation:
Despite the lack of mention on the skills, Trinum Custodem and the other werewolf skills counts as inflicting retalitory damage for the Divine Bloodline arcana. Without the arcana health does not increment.

[trleo]

So about Death
"Trigger the Death sequence with the Clock Tower in your inventory. Get all four clockwork weapons and union them to get the Clock Tower."

What does “Death sequence” mean? does it refer to when the white Death comes and kills you?

and about Sisters
what is the Sanctuary's timed ability?
and where are the boss versions of the Sisters found?

[Timijinn]

Originally posted by trleo:

So about Death
"Trigger the Death sequence with the Clock Tower in your inventory. Get all four clockwork weapons and union them to get the Clock Tower."

What does “Death sequence” mean? does it refer to when the white Death comes and kills you?

and about Sisters
what is the Sanctuary's timed ability?
and where are the boss versions of the Sisters found?

Death sequence means the fight in the throne room you do as Richter. Just get the 4 clockwork weapons, evolve them, go into the throne room, get through the dialogue and start the Death fight. You don't need to finish the sequence. You can quit potentially as soon you're able to start hitting Death.
Sanctuary is an evolved weapon that evolves from Refectio with a max leveled clover. It has a luck based ability that can proc. It needs to proc at the right moment to kill them.
The sisters are found in the Clock Tower.

[trleo]

Originally posted by Timijinn:

Originally posted by trleo:

So about Death
"Trigger the Death sequence with the Clock Tower in your inventory. Get all four clockwork weapons and union them to get the Clock Tower."

What does “Death sequence” mean? does it refer to when the white Death comes and kills you?

and about Sisters
what is the Sanctuary's timed ability?
and where are the boss versions of the Sisters found?

Death sequence means the fight in the throne room you do as Richter. Just get the 4 clockwork weapons, evolve them, go into the throne room, get through the dialogue and start the Death fight. You don't need to finish the sequence. You can quit potentially as soon you're able to start hitting Death.
Sanctuary is an evolved weapon that evolves from Refectio with a max leveled clover. It has a luck based ability that can proc. It needs to proc at the right moment to kill them.
The sisters are found in the Clock Tower.

I already got them, thanks!

[-★- sevenfoodsandwich -★-]

Cool trick to get 100k kills quickly.

Start on Hyper.

Pick Wicked Season - XII

Immediately run to the librarian(from the secret that spawns him beside the trouser merchant) and buy Sword Brothers, Troll Bomb, Hydro Storm, and Soul Steal. I usually buy spirit tornado too, but it might be even faster to reach the AFK part if you lock max weapons to 5 or less. Note that you can pick Cornell's weapons even when he has no available slots during level ups.

Head over to the room that infinitely spawns armors(the scaling here is much gentler based on gameplay time) and once everything is maxed out set random always and go make a drink.

Prioritise earning EXP, Pick-up Range, Cooldown, both Curse items and Karoma's Mana Passives(can pick this up on the way from clock tower portal)

Around the 10 min mark(5mins IRL) you should be done. Elizabeth took 8 hyper minutes, Olrox took 10. I did Death and Dracula normally so I have no times for these.

Cornell takes longer to set up, and has a much shorter cooldown than the Megalo candidates, so he might finish around 20+ hyper minutes if AFK. Walking in circles to pick up orbs will speed it up by activating skills on level up.

Other maps might be faster, but this method works in the new Castlevania map.

[(erk) WHATTTTT]

I can't seem to find the ferryman, i managed to get into the water, but don't see him at all

[Moonbane]

Originally posted by (erk) WHATTTTT:

I can't seem to find the ferryman, i managed to get into the water, but don't see him at all

I think you misunderstood the secret. You dont find the ferryman, just need to get into the water with sonic dash to qualify for unlocking them.