Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin: Difference between revisions

* [[Adam Smith Hates Your Guts]]: Vincent is ''incredibly'' ungrateful for Charlotte rescuing him from vampirism. It doesn't even affect the ending, let alone reduce his prices for items.

** Actually, no. There ''is'' a minor change in the ending (Vincent says something along the lines of "I haven't been cured yet!" instead of "Hey! I'm right here!")

* [[And Now for Something Completely Different]]: The basic exploratory nature of the [[Metroidvania]] titles remains the same, except that now you can enter paintings with their own mini-world levels in them. Some of the paintings depict settings that just don't normally occur in Castlevania, such as a massive underground pyramid full of Egyptian mummies, a twisted war-torn carnival of the damned, or an early 20th Century European city.

* [[Art Attacker]]: Brauner. When you fight him, he paints on an easel with blood, making a pattern on the screen that damages you when you touch it. He also uses [[Art Initiates Life]] to summon monsters by painting them.

* [[Black Magician Girl]]: Charlotte and Loretta.

* [[Bloody Murder]]: <s>"The Art of Blood!"</s> [[Engrish|"Blood Art Technique!"]]

* [[Boobs of Steel]]: Stella has the biggest boobs of the game, and she's also the strongest female character (and the only female in the storyline who uses physical attacks a lot).

* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: {{spoiler|Stella and Loretta}}.

* [[Dual Boss]]: In a series first, {{spoiler|Death and Dracula fight together for the [[Final Boss]] battle.}}

** Don't forget Stella and Loretta.

** Also in Nest of Evil, the first room on one of the lower floors has two of the Frankenstein's monsters you fight in Dark Academy.

* [[Duel Boss]]: The Whips Memory, AKA {{spoiler|Richter Belmont}}.

* [[Panty Shot]]: Vacuum+Charlotte=Fun. Actually, Charlotte gets a lot, start with her crouch pose and work your way up from there.

** You can get even by casting Tempest near the said enemies to blow up their skirts in turn.

* [[Pimped-Out Dress]]: The vampire sisters wear fancy dresses. Charlotte gets several as armor, although they don't show up on her sprites.

* [[Pink Means Feminine]]: Stella's dress is this with some blue.

* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: The monk-turned-shopkeeper Vincent Dorin tries to fill this role. Let's put it this way: he is bitten by a vampire and slowly succumbs to a similar fate, and it is ''played for laughs''.

* [[Portal Picture]]: Each portrait leads to a different world.

* [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!]]: Brauner, when he {{spoiler|does his turn-into-a-portrait-and-attempt-to-ram-into-you attack}}.

* [[Purple Is Powerful]]: Brauner wears a purple suit. Death's robe is also purple shaded.

* [[Puzzle Boss]]: The Dullahan does massive damage (4 hits and you are dead) to your level 7 or so characters with their minimal equipment, and it is unrealistic to dodge EVERYTHING he throws. The solution? {{spoiler|He'll never use his most damaging attack if you focus your attacks on his head.}}

* [[Random Drop]]: Money, spells and subweapons can be got from the corpses (or, seeing they're undead, "recorpses") of your enemies.

** [[Rare Random Drop]]: have fun getting the drop from the Peeping Eye, an object that lets you see breakable walls. It starts at 0.69% of chance. Be ready to get Luck boosting items if you want it.

** One of the most useful weapons in the game is Nebula, a chain whip that homes on enemies and can form a protective shield with its special attack. Nebula. Chain. Nebula... Chain... [[Saint Seiya|Nope, doesn't ring a bell!]]

** The Knee Strike was "inspired by [[Double Dragon|legendary]] [[Street Fighter|martial artists]]."

** The three award items, [[Gradius|Vic Viper]], [[Twinbee]], and Konami Man, are references to ''[[The Goonies (video game)|The Goonies]]'' video game for the Famicom. The description for these items are "5000 points", which is the amount the player receives if he/she catches the item before it disappears.

** The description for the fedora says it [[Indiana Jones|just feels right with a whip]]. The leather whip's description as being for a warrior with panache could plausibly be a reference to the same.

*** In other words, Charlotte is a [[Gradius|Vic Viper]]; the colors of her costume also resemble that of the starfighter.

*** If so... then Jonathan is a [[Gradius|Lord British or a Super Cobra]].

** On top of that, in the final boss battle, {{spoiler|Death offers up his power to enhance the "not fully resurrected" Dracula. Dracula absorbs this power with a cry of "[[Castlevania: Symphony of the Night|Soul Steal!!]]"}}

** Not a Konami game, but still. The Axe Bomber is pound-for-pound the Cross Bomber, one of Neptuneman's finishers in [[Kinnikuman]].

** The Stellar Sword, once owned by [[Harmony of Dissonance|Maxim]], which is one of the last quest rewards. It's pretty good!

* [[Sweet Dreams Fuel]]: Charlotte's wedding dress and engagement ring, especially if paired up with Jon's tuxedo suit... You know what it means...

** In fact, Jon and Charlotte's adventure as an opposite-sex duet (also a reason that this Castlevania game is [[Lighter and Softer]]) already gives both a hint and a feel of romance - especially given that they are close childhood friends.

* [[Sword and Sorcerer]]: Two pairs of this actually; Johnathan and Stella as fighters and Charlotte and Loretta as witches.

** Also the dodo, the giant ghost, and the king ghoul, all required for sidequests. The dodo behaves exactly the same as it did in Symphony.

* [[Victor Gains Loser's Powers]]: Defeating the enemies may grant you with new subweapons for Jonathan and new spells for Charlotte.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: The vampire sisters have purple hair.

* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: The barrier at the top of the castle should be a giveaway that {{spoiler|Brauner isn't the [[Final Boss]].}}

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