Castlevania Dracula X Final Boss Battle - SNES

Final fight against Dracula in Castlevania Dracula X on SNES.

[@communistrecords]

Holy crap how tall is dracula? He could be the greatest basket ball player ever.

[@Shaunmizer]

7ft so yea he can

[@Linklex7]

That's pretty damn good considering this is the hardest Dracula fight in Castlevania history (even harder than Rondo of Blood's). Mad props

[@deeppurplefan9648]

It doesn't look too hard once you get used to the jumping control and Dracula's pattern but I agree thatcthis might be the hardest dracula

[@saidbrizzo2187]

Well is not like dracula's bossfights are Hard anyways

[@niespeludo]

For those people looking for "an easy way" or tips to beat this boss there's basically 2 major tips: 1) Pick the Axe, don't even doubt it, pick it 2) The secret to this boss is something not many people realize until someone tells them - You get NO KNOCKBACK if you're attacked while crouching. This is FUNDAMENTAL for this fight if you don't want to die an easy death and you aren't looking for a perfect run.

[@BawesomeBurf]

Exactly!!! I stumbled upon that by accident when I played through it last year. Saved me lots of frustration.

[@fucdisdeath]

That isn't true I stay crouched and still get the knockback.. however that strategy got me the farthest in this bossfight

[@Kev95682]

What is a man? *Smashes down wine glass* A miserable little pile of secrets! But enough talk... Have at you!

[@EricToTheScionti]

Dude I love the consistency of the music throughout the games, this final battle here with the opening of SoTn have the same music, and thats just one example, its fucking sick. I love throwbacks lol

[@NeroMaddox]

I literally just beat this game for the first time myself. Thanks for this video. I decided to use the axe because of watching this.

[@GlennMagusHarvey]

"Dance of Illusions"/"Illusionary Dance" has been used in this game, Rondo of Blood, Symphony of the Night, Castlevania 64, Circle of the Moon, Dawn of Sorrow, and maybe a few more that I don't remember off the top of my head. It's like become Dracula's characteristic battle music.

[@Gzone51]

dracula sounds like the count from sesime street when he laughs like that

[@chrisjackson2767]

I miss the old endings in games like this that sums it all up real quick like. This Belmont kicks Dracula's ass then go home and gets laid awesome.

[@Argonisgema]

+Chris Jackson Back in those days that was pretty much all that was needed .

[@RunaroundStar]

Dracula: Generation after generation the Belmonts always defeat me sigh*. Death: Hurrh.. Dracula: I always disappear and there they are with a whip in my face. Death: Hurrh.. Dracula: I wish there were less boomerangs in my candlesticks. Death: Hurrh.. Dracula: I wish I had someone to talk to...Just this skeleton. Say something else. Death: ..Arhurhh.. Dracula: Sigh* What I really need is some advice, I need to learn to dodge those boomerangs. Evil Anonymous Space Rabbit Pilot: DO A BARREL ROLL!

[@ChauNyan]

The avgn is like impossibru.

[@raphaelburnett3062]

Dracula always got some insurance for when you defeat his 1st form

[@SuperDarksword]

Damn the axe is my new favorite sub weapon!

[@Dranikos]

The REAL Dracula X (Rondo Of Blood) DID have Voice Acting (Mainly cause it was on the Famicon PC Drive, which wasn't released Stateside)

[@Jamie238]

I remember beating this game years back. Always loved the music to this boss, so fucking epic!!!!

[@metroidmaniac67]

Should I download this game off of the wii's virtual console?

[@MerkhVision]

Yes! Definately, its a lot of fun!

[@GlennMagusHarvey]

Actually, the music was rather nice, in my opinion. Also, this is probably one of the most difficult Dracula battles.

[@Sigloxx]

Man, I love this game!

[@Jshaw71]

great skills there, made it look awfully easy castlevainia's one of the best game evers, thanks for the video...

[@menslady125eif2590]

Dang, those axes did a number on the Drac-ster! What, are they soaked in holy water?

[@oz968]

Oldest video on KZbin! These comments are gold!!

[@yousif4]

He did lost many hearts, there is no visible number during battle for some reason, but check 2:15 his hearts actually droped down from 40 to 5! Dracula is harder than he looks, but what we see here is like the best timing possible for hits. And axe should be Belmonts new legendary item not whip :P Well played!!

[@lukas2.036]

Is funny that Dracula's first form have a very small hitbox while the last form's whole body is a hitbox

[@BaronOfBacon]

Never have more dramatic words ever been spoke.

[@NukeA6]

I never knew the axes were so effective. I usually use crosses.

[@Masamune-]

Crosses make the second phase much easier, but Axes trivialise the first section!

[@RunMan327]

I like how Dracula is nine feet tall. Maybe he should join one of those European basketball leagues and ditch world conquest?

[@Mechadyne_0]

Well played, albeit a little cheap, but w/e. I beat him with the whip and the cross. I picked up the Dracula X Chronicles recently. I demolished it, and it's still frickin' amazing to play. They added a third form to Dracula if you complete certain objectives of the game. But the battle is easier, there are no pits in the level, and it's basically the once from Symphony of the Night with a third form tacked on. No complaints here, it was frickin' awesome!

[@Firebot]

It's not glitched, it's the byproduct of a 60 fps video cut to 30 fps by KZbin. Almost all flickering graphics uploaded either show as solid or as nothing.

[@newartmov]

Holy fucking balls.... the AXE?!?!?! HAHAHAHAHA

[@kevin15man]

i like this song man its the one of the beast songs in castlevania dracula X

[@scorpula441]

this theme music is very catchy.=)

[@GlennMagusHarvey]

No, there's this graphical thing where they felt the need to make the hearts count flash continuously, and I can only assume that the recording device exactly captured frames when it wasn't on-screen.

[@GlennMagusHarvey]

He's not very intimidating, but with how hard it is to control Richter, added to the knockback of Dracula's attacks, he's actually pretty damn hard. I must have fought this guy over a hundred times, and out of those, Dracula has legitimately killed Richter once, and I've legitimately killed him a few times; all those other times ended in Richter falling into a hole.

[@gillianseed909]

Dracula saved tons of money by switching his ghostly carriage services to Geico... I'd chuckle it up a bunch too if I had such luck!

[@Panamaniax507]

does richter even run in this game? or have any of his fancy moves like in SOTN or portrait of the ruin

[@multicoloredwiz]

well done, you're very patient and smart, i like how you played it.

[@rehmsmeyer]

I have this on my laptop and wow... Probably the easiest Dracula I've seen. Granted, if the fireballs hit you they would probably one-shot you down the hole, but you shouldn't be able to destroy them with the whip. Might make it a little more difficult.

[@silvervirus22]

Very impressive

[@enannoter]

if some one wants to know the song is called dance of illusions or illusionary dance i think

[@Firebot]

The problem with the 2nd form is that any hit pretty much knocks you off the pillar and to your death, and his beam will hit you unless you are on the lowest platform. IMO this makes him the hardest Dracula reincarnation in a Castlevania game.

[@MegidramonX]

@CERPAS4 Kinda. This is the heavily altered port of it, called "Dracula X".

[@sexypadri]

I hate when the 2nd dracula kicks me into the pit with a fireball and I was winning nice xD

[@SrLanBelmont]

CONGRATULATIONS!

[@GlennMagusHarvey]

I'm pretty sure it's in this game's "twin", Rondo of Blood, where the lava balls were introduced. The fireballs are since Cv1. But yeah, you're right; Dracula does like use these same attacks in like every freaking game.

[@kuchiake]

mhmm, also, in castlevania judgement, i believe, they say that dracula does not wish to come back to life, he is brought back by the malice, hatred, and sin of the human race. he sorta reminds me of davy jones from pirates of the carribean.

[@Deathgaze1]

nice work man. that's a tough game to beat

[@inyourface48]

He look a little like ryu at the end there???

[@dankydont]

If you look at the time when I commented this, it is the time I just now beat the game.

[@GlennMagusHarvey]

Same here. I actually made a save state right before his chamber, just so I could fight him repeatedly, and I've done so like 100 or more times now and I still suck at beating him.

[@earlfloyd4076]

The best Dracula sprite imo.

[@MrBeaglenuts]

Ok well i must admit no dmg taking at all on Dracula X? very nice battle i never thought i woulda see that on Dracula X once again good job!

[@LochSNESmonster]

Nice! You play the games and AVGN will do the commentary from now on

[@DiamondLongplays]

hahaha oh man that must have been god awful, I was nervous as hell that I was gonna do the same due to the awkward jump controls

[@ArhimondEx]

This music rules!

[@ArhimondEx]

also apparently this is my very first comment on youtube. shockingly, this one isn't embarassing unlike some others.

[@AlexSam007]

yeah! castlevania...dracula's theme is my favorite

[@aragax]

hahaha that is the best laugh ever

[@MindColosseum]

The AVGN leaves his mark on youtube commenters everywhere.

[@brutalhits]

@Firebot Actually I think it's 29,97 FPS that gets cut in half but ok.

[@mrnuage]

Actually the PC-Engine even with his super cd-rom add-on wasn't as powerful as the SNES was. The PC-Engine version was superior thanks to the CD-ROM. It allowed FMV, voice acting, cd quality music. The controls were also superior on the PC-Engine and it had the original storyline.

[@Panamaniax507]

lol yea portrait of the ruin's dracula fight does make all the dracula fights look like no big deal

[@irregularzero9537]

I beat it on emulator and had to Save state it so I could finally suceed, I guess I've tried it at least 60 times before to beat him once. But when I take the time to look at the fight I notice that Dracula is one happy bastard, even when he transform he can't help but laugh.

[@castlevaniacrazy5]

`love the music mate

[@kuchiake]

in this and symphony of the night, they make dracula out to be more of a missguided person rather than an actual villain. its more obvious in symphony but it also seems to be true in this one

[@BHSoren]

Damn, you made it look easy. Hah, nice.

[@glock16]

in rondo is easy but that dracula´s form and that stage is crazy

[@CEDELL29]

I actually like this version of Dance of Illusions out of all the versions(yes even better than SotN). I actually recorded myself playing this game many years ago and play it from time time just to hear Dance of Illusions.

[@SirBonarama5]

did avgn not see this platform?

[@mred69us]

i was wondering what happened between this game and rondo of blood, which is the real game story wise

[@KoruKinshi]

Well played, good sir. Using the axe is a clever way of doing things. Normally I use the cross.

[@NickyCrispy]

o noes, a devil wearing a speedo

[@Ferrari1945]

Castlevania 4 is the best SNES game ever.

[@CEDELL29]

I agree. He was challenging in Curse of Darkness IMO.

[@Roge9]

good music for snes

[@NeoEveryhobby]

there are harder dracula fights,but he´s no pushover here

[@anisifrani875]

He's getting hurt as well as he laughs....auto sadism

[@Fayejealousy]

lol the girl on the right, at the end credits looks funny

[@Conan_the_Based]

Perhaps the same could be said of ALL religions.

[@jiaweizheng1990]

which is harder This or Contra

[@NeoMasamune2too]

Yeah this was a tough battle for me at first because all it takes is one mistake and you could get knocked off the pillars. I beat the game several times btw using the same method.

[@scorpula441]

I agree with xxxinforcerxx..this music is freakin awesome...and the game too

[@menslady125eif2590]

Cool!

[@devilsweat138]

this is Vampires kiss? I played this, its like the european version of rondo of blood. this game was fucking hard

[@Laveticus]

At 1:18, go Dracula! Don't take that cheap shit from him! Hey, I have an idea buddy, try beating him with crosses instead. Way more challenging. This is why I'm against using axes. Love his alternate form in this one. My fav cause I love how he looks like an actual devil instead of some beast. By the way, a warning for anybody who's a fan. Don't watch the end cause it's a spoiler for the ending :(

[@macm78theofficialchannel60]

You need best ending to save maria renard and annette. But it only appears to save maria and annette is dracula and death hands to death.

[@samuraichamploo07]

pretty good version of "dance of illusion".

[@NukeA6]

Dracula is not as easy as he appears in this video. One hit from him could send Richter into one of those pits.

[@NickyCrispy]

hells yea!

[@Hebervastv]

Hey,Moshimaru is singing the final theme at 2:17

[@altykun]

I actually came up with a REALLY RETARDED way to beat this version of Dracula. Get at least 40-50 hearts and the clock subweapon. For the first part you've got to rely on your own skill and patience, but when he goes Devil mode, just Item Crash twice and he goes down like a bitch.

[@JohnLucPicard98]

One of the rare cases the North American version of a game is harder than the Japanese. Granted Dracula x is a remake of rondo of blood.

[@johneymute]

i was dissappointed once i defeated dracula,as i soon discoered how eay it actualy is,you just got to stand on the lower pilar, doge drcula's fire,trow axes on him,even the avgn could beat it once he figured the trick.

[@Chr0niteVID]

You don't lose hearts when throwing axes...Wtf?

[@altykun]

It only looks easy because of the axe and alot of (infinite?) hearts. Trying to kill him with anything else becomes incredibly difficult, considering those retarded chasms. For a really fun fight, save up your hearts and collect the clock instead. Then beat his first form with a mix of luck, skill, and iron patience. When he goes all Devil Dracula on you, just stand RIGHT UNDER HIM and item crash like twice. GAME.

[@Dranikos]

The Dracula X released in the US was an incomplete and butchered form of Rondo of Blood. To my knowledge there was no voice acting, and the gameplay quality wasn't as good.

[@DMPhobos]

damm, dracula laughs like an idiot in the snes version

[@Laveticus]

I don't see why? He totally took the easy route. You should watch mine. I only use the whip.

[@CalmedNutHead]

slowest fucking walk

[@monkeybash3000]

Super castlevania 4 kicked ass, but with rondo of blood you're lot missing anything...

[@Sidecutt3]

Rondo of Blood is just way better version of this game, try it out :)

[@Mr_x_19922]

Rondo of blood is not a "version" of this game, rondo of blood is completely different

[@Sidecutt3]

I know that they are different games and have beaten both of them. Rondo of Blood is so similar in many ways that it feels like an well updated version of Dracula X. It feels like thay wanted to port the game for super nintendo but ended up adding and changing some stuff just to make a "new" game for it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlevania:_Rondo_of_Blood#Versions_and_re-releases

[@Mr_x_19922]

Dude, you are talking with a Castlevania fan, i finished castlevania 3, wich is more difficult than rondo of blood and dracula x, i also finished 1,2, symphony of the night, and castlevania 4, i am at the last levels of rondo of blood and in the final level of dracula x, the gameplay mechanics are similar, but apart from that, the games are totally different, i saw the worst mechanics in a castlevania game in dracula x, greetings

[@Hayao]

***** No, this is a different game from Rondo of Blood, and IMO, a better one.

[@NeoMasamune2]

Ha! I haven't played this in a while. I see that you use the axe weapon too...its best for taking advantage of drac's weakspot which is his head..