49% of the map, Gebel killed and... GAME OVER... what?

[Suguru]

Why did I see game over screen right after the cutscene after I killed Gebel? Is this a bug or a stupid way to tell me - GO ELSEWHERE before finishing this boss...?

[Deathraven13]

It's a bad ending, there is more to do.

[BBQ Pit Boys]

Get the armor in the Dragon Tower,then go to the church.

[Derus]

I think it's the way to say to you that it was the bad ending you got there.

[Suguru]

Originally posted by nico.oni:

Originally posted by Suguru:

Here you go moron, like you don't know LITERALLY FROM THE BEGINNING THAT YOU'RE GONNA FIGHT HIM -_-

I mean, you're at 49% map completion and wondering why you didn't unlock the true ending yet, so maybe you're not that good at drawing conclusions yourself.

Maybe I didn't know there were more than 1 ending, so who's bad at getting conclusions right ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It's pretty werid that game let's me go in the direction of that boss and tell me I need to go somewhere else BEFORE actually letting me to him. It's obvious that I need to go somewhere else, so I didn't even mention it...

[Tourette's Guy]

You just got the "kill Richter Belmont" ending.

[HEld]

Originally posted by Suguru:

Originally posted by nico.oni:

I mean, you're at 49% map completion and wondering why you didn't unlock the true ending yet, so maybe you're not that good at drawing conclusions yourself.

Maybe I didn't know there were more than 1 ending, so who's bad at getting conclusions right ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It's pretty werid that game let's me go in the direction of that boss and tell me I need to go somewhere else BEFORE actually letting me to him. It's obvious that I need to go somewhere else, so I didn't even mention it...

haha he never played a castlevania

[Rin D. Pryde]

Hm, I'm kinda in the same place. What armor from the tower is that? And what church? x)

[Suguru]

What's a Castlevania?

[Rabble]

Originally posted by Suguru:

What's a Castlevania?

good bait.

[Algester]

long way to go pal

in short most castlevania games get endings via map completion rate how well you explored determines the ending you get typically top notch 80% completion is saying yes you are geared for the true ending

in short you missed a lot of stuff

TLDR;
you need to fight zangetsu 2 times in a single playthrough but to get to him is a roundabout (yes JoJo references) manner

after you beat the dragons, get your photo and gate pass, go fight the train boss, towards the secret sorcery labs, after going there warp back to town because its time to explore the further innards of the Cathedral and Lierve Ex Machina with your Reflection beam directional shard to fight Bloodless, after you fight her you will acquire Bloodsteal Shard this will enable you to suck all the blood in the pool near the entrance to access the waterways, from here you will need to head west to the desert area where you will acquire the "weighted boots" skill shard since you really have no way of navigating the water areas very well without the shard from the jellyfish monster there and the horse monster there after that the "rocket spear" shard will now be useless since you can now acquire the chests in the waterways, proceed left to the volcano area, after beating the boss and get the invert shard go back to the twin towers' boss area and remember the chest where the silver bromide was invert there to gain the aegis armor, go back to the literal entrance of the castle with the angel statue holding candles and invert there remember to have the aegis armor equip and your craftwork shard equiped, keep going up until you reach the oriental sorcery lab.

now complete the boss fight in the oriental sorcery lab and acquire Zangetsuto, now go back and fight Gabe this time your aim is not to murder a dying person, your goal is to wait for the moon to shine red and hit it with the zangetsuto.

if you are feeling cheesy and lazy to get the Aegis Armor BRING A LOT OF HEALING ITEMS, cause you will be walking on spikes invert in the castle entrance and have your craftwork shard read and survive

[Phoenix C64]

Originally posted by Suguru:

It's pretty werid that game let's me go in the direction of that boss and tell me I need to go somewhere else BEFORE actually letting me to him.

you're new to this kind of game, hum?

[@Ixxmantisxxl]

Originally posted by Suguru:

Originally posted by nico.oni:

I mean, you're at 49% map completion and wondering why you didn't unlock the true ending yet, so maybe you're not that good at drawing conclusions yourself.

Maybe I didn't know there were more than 1 ending, so who's bad at getting conclusions right ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It's pretty werid that game let's me go in the direction of that boss and tell me I need to go somewhere else BEFORE actually letting me to him. It's obvious that I need to go somewhere else, so I didn't even mention it...

Maybe you've never played a game like this. Who knows. But you know now.

[Ivory]

tbh with threads like this, nobody should give you an answer, explore

[Rin D. Pryde]

Originally posted by Ivory:

tbh with threads like this, nobody should give you an answer, explore

There is a clean difference between "logical" gameplay and "go who knows where who knows why and do who knows what" logic. I'm not arguing that this is somewhat of a series (creator) trademark, but it's not unfair to call this kind of game design outdated and obscure as well =)

[biodegradable]

Damn lol, instead of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ your pants over this guy asking a reasonable question, maybe just answer it. If this game is nonlinear, but then you get punished for doing things not in the order the game wants you to, it's not really his fault. The game ends and then you get a Game Over. What kind of game does that?