Why can you only enter the Castlevania DLC once per run?

[Spiked Wall Man]

I see the warning about only being able to play the Castlevania DLC once per run. Why? What's the reasoning behind not letting us play the whole story in a single run?

[Tsuki Zero]

I wonder the same thing... I assume it's because the RNG is only set to scale that area once per run.

[Hox]

Who knows, but it's a frustrating design decision.

[nuvalewa]

It's annoying, yeah.

[Micha@KCD2HYPE]

wooow what? 4 real? :/

[leqesai]

This is because there are two versions of Dracula's Castle. If you enter from the prison Dracula will not be messing with you and you can fight Death. If you enter via the clock tower then you'll be in the version of the castle that includes all the weird stuff (dracula attacking you randomly, screen flipping upside down etc.). My guess is they didn't want to have players run through a mostly similar level twice in one run. Also it is reflective of the two separate castles in SOTN.

[Tryyton]

Originally posted by leqesai:

This is because there are two versions of Dracula's Castle. If you enter from the prison Dracula will not be messing with you and you can fight Death. If you enter via the clock tower then you'll be in the version of the castle that includes all the weird stuff (dracula attacking you randomly, screen flipping upside down etc.). My guess is they didn't want to have players run through a mostly similar level twice in one run. Also it is reflective of the two separate castles in SOTN.

[Spiked Wall Man]

Originally posted by leqesai:

This is because there are two versions of Dracula's Castle. If you enter from the prison Dracula will not be messing with you and you can fight Death. If you enter via the clock tower then you'll be in the version of the castle that includes all the weird stuff (dracula attacking you randomly, screen flipping upside down etc.). My guess is they didn't want to have players run through a mostly similar level twice in one run. Also it is reflective of the two separate castles in SOTN.

I mean, I get it, but fighting Death but not being able to fight Dracula (or vice-versa) just feels wrong. If players want to play the castle twice, the devs should just let them do it. It's not really like it offers an unfair advantage or anything.

[Yarott]

It's sorta like Ghost and Goblins, where you have to do a whole run again, because you missed some things in a certain order to fight the real boss. Or, like in the previous CV games, rather than having some specific items equipped to find the real path forward to thw true final boss... you just need to be patient in taking the long way around to do te same.

Dead Cells is baaically a classicvania game with snappy gameplay from most moderm action metroidvanias. All this backtracking is par of the course in this genre, so it's not aomething to cry over. Plus... the average run with this game is, at most, half an hour on a slow average, to a whole hour long on a touristic leisure pace to whichever final boss path you took, (if you have the other DLC installed.)

[skald]

Guess what, you can enter ANY level only once per run, duh

[Tryyton]

you just have to decide what you want from the castle. if you want to fight death, enter from prison, if you want to fight dracula, enter after the clock tower...

Originally posted by skald:

Guess what, you can enter ANY level only once per run, duh

i was surprised when i read the info about the castle the first time. i was like...but you can enter every level just once... but it is the only one now that can be entered from different areas.

to farm skins and stuff, the early exit might be better at first.

[Novaturien]

Complaining that a game that makes you do multiple runs is making you do multiple runs.

[Tryyton]

i don't get where the issue is... all levels can only be entered once. just live with it, because this will not be changed!

[Novaturien]

Originally posted by Astral:

The way the developers did this was incredibly dumb. They could have just had Alucard appear and pull a "your princess (Dracula) is in another castle" right after the Death fight, gave players a portal to the inverted castle or whatever it's supposed to be, and everyone would have been happy.

Did you REALLY want to finish the main dlc content in one run?

[Spiked Wall Man]

Originally posted by Astral:

They could have just had Alucard appear and pull a "your princess (Dracula) is in another castle" right after the Death fight, gave players a portal to the inverted castle or whatever it's supposed to be

I was just getting ready to post exactly this.

Originally posted by Tryyton:

i don't get where the issue is... all levels can only be entered once. just live with it, because this will not be changed!

But it's not the same level. One of them leads you to a fight with Death, and the other one has a special miniboss and leads you to a fight with Dracula. They even show up on different parts of the world map. So they are not the same at all by the game's own admission.

Originally posted by Novaturien:

Did you REALLY want to finish the main dlc content in one run?

Sure. Why not? You can do that with the Queen and the Sea DLC path.

[Tryyton]

i know it is different... but still...
just choose one.

all other dlc can be finished like the queen levels... just not this one. but CV also got the richter level. it is different, and i really don't mind that i have to decide when i go to the castle or which version i want.

it will not change, so either accept it or refund...