Impossible to unlock some characters???

[🄽🄰🄼🄴🄻🄴🅂🅂]

I'm going to put the text in spoiler just in case.

I want to unlock several characters, but:

1. The first requirement is to defeat Dracula.

2. So, I have to unlock Ritcher Belmont, and to unlock him, I need to unlock Maria Renard.

3. Then, to unlock Maria, I need to complete any stage with both Shanoa and Jules.

4. And to unlock Shanoa, I need to evolve the Iron Ball and the Javelin.

5. BUT to unlock the Iron Ball, I have to unlock first John, a character that required the initial weapon of Julia, a character that can be unlocked only after killing Dracula.

Seriously, what the... I don't get it. Or the wiki is wrong or this is a scenario where the "cheats" to unlock characters are needed.

[Neon Triangle]

The Unlocks menu does a decent job of spelling out the (honestly convoluted) unlock chain for the Castlevania DLC characters. Most of the character unlocks just require you to evolve the weapons, while others require you to do some kind of objective (unlock more of the castle by killing bosses, or kill a specific boss as a specific character, etc.).

The easiest objectives are the weapon evolutions, since only a few of them require the Parm Aegis or Karoma's Mana (nothing in the Castlevania DLC needs Tarrona's Box). If you don't want to use a guide for the answers, just go to the Moongolow map, enable Endless mode, and get all the accessories there for evolutions.

Nothing apart from two gimmick characters requires a cheat to unlock (the game will directly tell you the code for those two characters when you get to that point), so you should be able to unlock everything just by following the info on the Unlocks menu.

EDIT: User below me just reminded me that some bosses drop spell books on death, which is required for some character unlocks. Considering people have started fights with me over less severe errors, it felt proper to make this correction.

[Swindon]

Gale force drops from Abaddon in the clock tower section, beat him, pick it up and evolve it for the list requirement for john

[wafflekitty]

Originally posted by Swindon:

Gale force drops from Abaddon in the clock tower section, beat him, pick it up and evolve it for the list requirement for john

Gale Force drops from Zephyr, not Abaddon.

[Moonbane]

Never needed cheats, OP is overlooking something. Most likely the stagedropped items. Such as all of the spellbooks.

[CyanDoomdragon]

The initial weapon of Julia (Gale Force, the light green book) also drops from Zephyr halfway up the middle of the clock tower.

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Thanks for the replies, guys.

Yeah, my bad. I didn't know some bosses drop the weapons. Even using the new Castlevania characters with 0 golden eggs, sometimes I can't see what is on the screen.

[Moonbane]

Originally posted by 🄽🄰🄼🄴🄻🄴🅂🅂:

Thanks for the replies, guys.

Yeah, my bad. I didn't know some bosses drop the weapons. Even using the new Castlevania characters with 0 golden eggs, sometimes I can't see what is on the screen.

Its a good idea to enable guides with direction arrows.