[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?

[Treasure "Hato" Clint]

Adding everything I've found thus far for those that are curious:

Young Maria: Evolve both Birds into Vandalier and have Gemini active at the same time as all four Familiars on Maria.
Familiar/Innocent Devil: Get Familiar Forge twice as Julia Updated with newer information
Blue Crescent Moon Cornell: I'm not sure if you need his transformation, but you absolutely need 100000 kills in one run since he's basically a Megalo.
Ferryman: Clip onto the water outside of the castle, specifically the bit north of the entrance. Several people have mentioned you need the upgraded version of Nathan's starting weapon, just a heads up.
Master Librarian: Buy everything in his store once.
Hammer: Have 6 Castlevania weapons from the Coat of Arms fully upgraded.
Wind: Trigger Eric's near-death ability three times in one game. Thanks for the tip, Ragna!
Sisters (and PoR Duo): Sanctuary's timed ability needs to hit the boss versions of the Sisters, unlocking them.
Brauner: Drain his paintings, which spawn in at around 24 minutes and 26-28 minutes, using the Blood Astronomia arcana. Thank you so much, Meta!
Soleil: The same as Sisters, actually. Sanctuary and cure his ass.
Dario: Win a run without using anything but the basic fire spell. Just go to the no enemies moving map and idle there.
Dmitri: Kill Menace with Celia. You need to kill Menace in general to get full castle exploration, but it's in the sewers part of the castle if you need a reminder.
Celia: Have both Light and Dark glyphs maxed out at the same time.
Graham: Beat every boss. Might need to be in one run? Specifically, the ones before Pile of Secrets.
Joachim: Kill Joachim with Sara. Joachim can be found in a hidden icy alcove in the blue caves, after acquiring the Pile of Secrets.
Walter: Kill Walter with Rinaldo. Walter spawns to the east of the first passive-picker once you've acquired the Pile of Secrets.
Carmilla CURRENTLY BUGGED: Kill her with the upgraded Hex spell. Current assumption is that you need to use the upgraded Vampire Killer instead once it's fixed. She spawns in the 3x3 grid of bridges right before the clock tower after you've acquired the Pile of Secrets.
Olrox: Kill Olrox with Dark Rift. Olrox spawns in the fancy hall area in the east after acquiring the Pile of Secrets. Same area as Eligor, if that's any help. Thanks, Flitz and Ragna!
Cave Troll: Fairly certain it's just a kill count, so kill lots. Not that you can check it, because Cave Troll isn't in the bestiary.
Fleaman: Kill count. Probably the one you'll unlock at the same time as the secrets? At least I got it then.
Axe Armor: Kill an amount of Axe Armors with the upgraded Discus. There's a brown room in the chapel-like area which has almost infinitely spawning axe armors. Go farm there. Thanks Flitz!
Frozenshade: Kill an amount with the upgraded Rock spell. Unsure specific amount, but Joachim's room spawns a ton so just go to town. Thanks Flitz!
Succubus: Kill her with the upgraded version of Hex. She spawns in the same room as one of Dracula's glyphs. You'd be hard pressed to miss this spawn.
Keremet: Kill Keremet with the PoR duo. Might work with sisters too. It spawns in the top left part of the castle, a little to the east of the door leading to Beelzebub.
Alamaric Sniper: Killcount based unlock, kill enough of these with the upgraded Discus. Updated, thanks EzkaTKoB!
Blackmore: Kill Blackmore with Barlowe. You'd need to find him to get this far regardless, but he's in the area where Julius' coffin was. To the west of Paranoia.
Malphas: Kill Malphas with Quincy. In case you missed it, Malphas spawns at 25 minutes.
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.
Galamoth: Kill Galamoth with the Power of Sire. Easily accomplished with Dracula, the Dominus picker and the magnet Arcana to pick up the other two pieces He's found in the maze-like area with the Mummy Man after the Pile of Secrets is acquired
Megalo Elizabeth, Olrox, Dracula, Death: Usual Megalo requirement, AKA kill 100000 enemies in one run. Obviously, get the relic to let them transform first.

Thanks to everyone who helped! The final reward is dope!

[Galactic hatkid]

for the young Maria unlock, how do you get eleven familiar crystals with her? since she doesn't gain more then her four mythological familiars.

[Moonbane]

Messaggio originale di Ernivus Garveno:

If anyone has a surefire way to unlock Hammer please let me know, I'm on an almost 100 minute run, begging for candybox luck to try and make it reasonable but RNG has never been a friend of mine.

Sounds like youve accidentally sealed it.

[Treasure "Hato" Clint]

Messaggio originale di Ernivus Garveno:

If anyone has a surefire way to unlock Hammer please let me know, I'm on an almost 100 minute run, begging for candybox luck to try and make it reasonable but RNG has never been a friend of mine.

I don't got a surefire way unfortunately. Best idea I've got is start with Quincy since he has Troll Bomb as a passive, which means you only need to buy three items from the Librarian. From there you just need like, two candyboxes?

[Lawless D. Joseph]

Messaggio originale di Moonbane:

Where exactly is pile of secrets?

you beat the boss left sided door after you pass the doppelganger part most left sided room

[Lawless D. Joseph]

Messaggio originale di Treasure "Hato" Clint:

Adding everything I've found thus far for those that are curious:

Ferryman: Clip onto the water outside of the castle, specifically the bit north of the entrance. I did it by using Germain and lots of speed, though I had also been able to clip during a run with Dracula once he transformed.
Master Librarian: Buy everything in his store once
Hammer: I couldn't hear the tune upon unlock, but I acquired him by having all 12 castlevania Coat of Arms weapons in a single run. so the 8 standard weapons and the 4 that you can buy from the librarian. THE EIGHT STANDARD WEAPONS ALSO NEED TO BE UPGRADED.
Sisters (and PoR Duo): Sanctuary's timed ability needs to hit the boss versions of the Sisters, unlocking them
Soleil: The same as above, actually.
Dario: Win a run without using anything but the fire spell. Just go to the no enemies moving map and its an ezpz
Dmitri: Kill Menace with Celia
Celia: Have both Light and Dark glyphs maxed out at the same time
Graham: Beat every boss. Might need to be in one run? Specifically, the ones before Pile of Secrets.
Joachim: Kill Joachim with Sara
Walter: Kill Walter with Rinaldo
Cave Troll: Fairly certain it's just a kill count, so kill lots. Not that you can check it, because Cave Troll isn't in the bestiary.
Fleaman: Kill count. Probably the one you'll unlock at the same time as the secrets? At least I got it then.
Keremet: Kill Keremet with the PoR duo. Might work with sisters too.
Alamaric Sniper: While I don't have a SPECIFIC way to do so, I unlocked it during the run I gathered everything for Hammer. My presumption is kill enough of the Snipers with the Revolver, or just crits. Either way, head to the chapel part of the map and kill lots. Probably gonna get you your reward.
Blackmore: Kill Blackmore with Barlowe
Malphas: Kill Malphas with Quincy
Death: Trigger the Death sequence with the Clock Tower in your inventory.

If I discover any others and confirm them, will add them.

by death sequence you mean the richter one or just regular 30 min mark?

[Treasure "Hato" Clint]

Messaggio originale di Lawless D. Joseph:

by death sequence you mean the richter one or just regular 30 min mark?

Richter. Since, y'know, the Reaper isn't Death.

[Lawless D. Joseph]

Messaggio originale di Treasure "Hato" Clint:

Messaggio originale di Lawless D. Joseph:

by death sequence you mean the richter one or just regular 30 min mark?

Richter. Since, y'know, the Reaper isn't Death.

thought so but wanted to make clear, thanks, im actually trynna figure carmilla, currently trying simons evolved whip since vampire killer did not gave me her

[shadg]

Messaggio originale di Treasure "Hato" Clint:

Joachim:

Where do you find this boss?

[Treasure "Hato" Clint]

Messaggio originale di shadg:

Messaggio originale di Treasure "Hato" Clint:

Joachim:

Where do you find this boss?

The caves that you unlock post-Richter have him in a hidden room, but he only spawns after you get the Pile of Secrets. Most of the 'defeat x to unlock' bosses are locked behind that relic.

[Ragna]

Wind: Trigger Eric Lacarde near death thing 3 times (I did in the same run just to be sure). Doable in a few minutes; I did it by triggering it healing to full and triggering it again
For the pairs (C/J, J/C, S/L, L/S) as well as Soleil: Kill them with Sanctuary only. S&L are in the Clocktower, Soleil is directly south of Silver Ring. The sanctuary trigger kills them instantly
Ferryman: Needed to use the Rapidus Fio (evolved green shoe) and walk on the water in front of the castle, just doing by speed without the weapon did not unlock it for me
Pick up all the Books/ Pay him for every book: Buy everything from the Librarian. Nothing to do with the tome drops from bosses.
Librarian: Kill the tree boss near the forest entrance.

[Selnathorn]

Has anyone an idea for the Axe Armor? I tried to beat them with the bible+ evo, the curved knife+evo, discus+evo. I haven't tried the scythes, the endo gears or the cross yet.

[Flitz]

I'm just missing Familiar, Innocent Devil, Brauner and Axe Armour now. So close and yet so far

[Lawless D. Joseph]

Messaggio originale di Flitz:

I'm just missing Familiar, Innocent Devil, Brauner and Axe Armour now. So close and yet so far

dude gimme a heads up on carmilla i keep missing it going over and over against her lol

[Ragna]

Messaggio originale di Flitz:

I'm just missing Familiar, Innocent Devil, Brauner and Axe Armour now. So close and yet so far

Would really appreciate if you'd share some insight, for example the sniper thing or the 'entrust them to the gentlest soul', the spinning one, blue moon etc
Just anything and everything you remember