castlevania: aria of sorrow**further help required**

[buster_broon]

i have finished it on 94.8% but where is teh rest of the castle as i cant find any more

i still have 1 more ability to find and i cant get by the waterfall in the lower section, when i play as julius i can get by the water fall but soma doesnt have teh same dodge ability as him

and even when i finish it with Julius i still have to find another 2 percent of the castle

i even notice in teh manual that on save 1 the screen has a picture of a skull underneath it - whats that??????? and under my timer with Julius it mentions boss with loads of zeros, what does that mean?????

please answer all my questions as its starting to annoy me now


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also i found a room which has black smoke coming from it but you cannot enter - how do you get into this room?????

i guess it has something to do with the vampire killing weapon as discussed in the game

got past the water fall - thanks now at 98.2%

[Tom Salter]

To get past the waterfall you need to use the Devil ability and the one that lets you walk on water.

Go around hitting every single wall to get the secret areas.

Remember to get the flying fish towards the bottom, where you see something fly past really quickly. Use the chronomage to slow time as it passes, then hit it.
Good luck!

[Magnakai]

Just to add to that, to get past the waterfall you need to use it from the very, very far left hand side of the screen, otherwise you won't be going fast enough to get through.
And, once you complete it, you can start again on hard.
I think there are some items that are only on hard.
Whether this affects your percentage or not... I don't know.

[buster_broon]

i have the devil ability - yeah

will let you know how i get on

didnt manage to get the chrono item though - just hit him and he died without giving anything up

[kotatsuneko]

spoiler alert!

when you have got the 3 books and killed the vampire killer geezer, sorted what looks like the end boss, then you can go to that smokey doorway and enter the twilight zone bit of the game, its a bit hard so youll want to level up and get some more spooky souls first, do that and youll get the rather nasty true boss to the game..

its worth saving before doing all this and getting the bad ending as it is very amusing..

did you get the lil worm btw? forgot its name but its a right bugger..