November 2017 Game of the Month: Kid Dracula

[meleu]

C'mon people, let's vote for Kid Dracula!!!

[lilbud]

@meleu I've actually never played Kid Dracula before, only seen it in videos.

Hell, I didn't know there was an NES Version until now

[SgtJimmyRustles]

Never even heard of Kid Dracula. I went with Donkey Kong 94.

[Brigane]

@meleu Let's say that Kid Dracula is the winner, what challenge(s) do you have in mind?

[lilbud]

@meleu Would we play the famicom version or the game boy version?

[meleu]

@brigane said in November Game of the Month:

@meleu Let's say that Kid Dracula is the winner, what challenge(s) do you have in mind?

I have this one in mind: http://retroachievements.org/Achievement/53780

Not really tough. Just to have something... ;)

@lilbud said in November Game of the Month:

@meleu Would we play the famicom version or the game boy version?

The NES/Famicom version. There's a translation hack here: http://www.romhacking.net/translations/169/

[lilbud]

@meleu So there is a charge attack? Like Metroid's Charge Beam?

Also

[A Former User]

I put my vote in for Kid Dracula.

[A Former User]

Just made it to stage 6 without using a charge attack and picked up the cheevos for the first 5 stages for not using it.

Going to make it my personal challenge to get all cheevos for this game this month.

[meleu]

@lilbud said in November Game of the Month:

So there is a charge attack? Like Metroid's Charge Beam?

yep. Like the Mega Man 4 charged arm cannon too.

@livefastcyyoung said in November Game of the Month:

Going to make it my personal challenge to get all cheevos for this game this month.

same here. Let's go!!

[A Former User]

I really need to change my binding for reset. Already today, several times I've been charging an attack, only to hit select to change my weapon and have it reset my game. -_-

[meleu]

@livefastcyyoung said in November Game of the Month:

I really need to change my binding for reset.

hehe... I changed it almost 2 years ago. Also, when I got a 8bitdo Zero I removed the quit retroarch from Select+Start. The controller is to tiny and sometimes I wanted to press select and ended up pressing select+start, ruining my progress...

[meleu]

@brigane said in November Game of the Month:

@meleu Let's say that Kid Dracula is the winner, what challenge(s) do you have in mind?

This would be a challenging achievement: Get through the metro tunnel staying on right half of the screen (Stage 5)

I'm having problems to get that one.

[lilbud]

@meleu Call me boring, but I think we should just use this achievement.

http://retroachievements.org/Achievement/53755

Seems easy enough, just beat the game without passwords.

[meleu]

@lilbud what about this one: Finish the game without using passwords or continues.

It's really easy to get many many lives (30+) in those minigames, then beating the game with no passwords or continues sounds like a balanced challenge, don't you agree?

[lilbud]

@meleu Sure, that one sounds good.

Also, I'll close the voting at 10am EST today

[lilbud]

@meleu The OP has been updated, this months game is Kid Dracula

[A Former User]

@meleu I am struggling with that one myself. I can't quite figure it out.

[meleu]

I didn't beat the game yet, but here are some tips for achievements hunting:

• The enemies only give coins when defeated with charged atacks. Then if you want to get the achievements for not using charged attacks, follow the tip below and later (after beating the game) play the stage 1 again without using charged atacks.

• Farm as many coins as your patience permits in stage 1. It will be useful to acumulate lives in the minigames after clearing each stage. If you collect ~100 coins, you can get ~20 lives in the minigame (believe me, you'll need many lives on stage 7).

• If you die before any checkpoint in the stage, starting from the beginning of the stage on the next life, you can still get the "clear the stage X without losing a life".

• The bosses aren't that hard. It's a bit easy to memorize their movements. Then if you have many lives and want to get the damageless achievements, you can let Kid Dracula die and then try again.

That's what I've got so far. Maybe @LiveFastCyYoung has something else to share?

[A Former User]

Definitely stock up on coins in stage 1. The best place to do this is the room where you pick up the extra heart. Stay to the right of where you get the heart and just go back and forth, grinding on bats, zombies, and those floating / jumping guys.

If you need coins again, stage 3 is the place to do it. You can grind a lot of coins on the little swimming guys doing the backstroke rather easily.

The first 3 stages of this game are a breeze. The difficulty ramps up on stage 4, which is an ice stage(CURSE THE PERSON WHO EVER INVENTED ICE STAGES IN PLATFORMERS).

This is an overall tip: DO NOT JUMP UNTIL YOU'VE TRULY REACHED THE END OF THE PLATFORM. You will short jump yourself, minimum, 3 times while playing. Kid Dracula is a bit fatter than we'd all like him to be. His jumping range is limited.