November 2017 Game of the Month: Kid Dracula

[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.

[meleu]

@livefastcyyoung said in November Game of the Month: Kid Dracula:

The difficulty ramps up on stage 4, which is an ice stage(CURSE THE PERSON WHO EVER INVENTED ICE STAGES IN PLATFORMERS).

I have a tip for ice stages in platformers (including Kid Dracula): small jumps! If you are sliding on ice, just perform a small jump and you'll stop sliding!. ;-)

[A Former User]

THE SLOWDOWN ON LVL 7 IS THE MOST FRUSTRATING THING EVER GAHHHHHHHH

[lilbud]

@livefastcyyoung Did you turn on overclocking in the retroarch menu?

[PokeEngineer]

@livefastcyyoung

Well, that's the sad part about retro consoles... Extremely limited resources means lots 'o lag.

[lilbud]

Something I found

On the King Tut boss, use the homing attack and constantly fire it, the boss will have no time to fire the bubbles which knock you off of the platforms

[lilbud]

Just beat the game. I didn't get the No Passwords or Continues (died once) but maybe this will suffice

Beat him with only one heart

[meleu]

@lilbud The Kid Dracula's achievements set was made by a very talented and meticulous cheevos developer. Probably she protected some cheevos against save/load states (which looks fair enough for me).

[lilbud]

@meleu Yeah, kinda abused savestates in my run. But I did beat the game with no help (cheats, hacks, etc.)

[cyperghost]

@lilbud
But it was the toughness (or even spirit) of the games in those days.
Like a memory puzzle to remeber the levels one by one....

So a typcial jump'n'run in these days gots not a straight level toughness development.

Think about a game with 5 levels....
So level 1 was very easy to master to make the game just enjoyable.
Level 2 was a bit more difficult to master and level 3 was really really tough.
After you mastered level 3 level 4 and 5 were not soooo difficult. It was harder to just overcome level 3 with all lives and continous ....

You can give Probotector/Contra on the GameBoy system a test or "Super Mario Land" ond the same system. Kirby's Dreamland is also a good example for this ;)

To be short: Using emu-savestates is a way of "cheating" and this is punished by a disabled hardcore mode in RA-system :)

I also use emu-savestates not because I'm bungling ... it's just a matter of investment-time.

[lilbud]

@cyperghost said in November Game of the Month: Kid Dracula:

You can give Probotector/Contra on the GameBoy system a test or "Super Mario Land" ond the same system. Kirby's Dreamland is also a good example for this ;)

I found Contra somewhat easy and enjoyable. As well as Kirby's Dreamland. They we're both pretty easy.

To be short: Using emu-savestates is a way of "cheating" and this is punished by a disabled hardcore mode in RA-system :)

Well then call me a cheater, I've used savestates on almost every game I have played, mainly just to get through the game without having a controller in my wall.

Only ever beat one game with no savestates for the most part, Aladdin (SNES)