Talk:Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (handheld)

Bosses
If anyone has played this game, please confirm my best guesses on what images to use for the bosses for this game.

Boss 1: The manual says that Medusa is the 1st boss of the game. I don't see any images of Medusa on the manual. I looked at the image that shows all of the in-game images lit up, but don't see any icons of a woman with snakes for hair. I see a bunch of Medusa Heads though. My best guess is that it is the woman in the lower left corner, but that also looks like Succubus/Sypha. I'm using that image for Medusa's image for now, because it "at least" has a bunch of Medusa heads in it. I wonder if the manual is completely wrong and the first boss is someone else entirely. Please let me know which images are used for the 1st boss of the game (the one before you get the Jeweled Sword).

Boss 2: The manual says the 2nd boss in the Hippogryph, but the image near stage 1 shows a creature that looks like Gaibon (Hippogryphs don't have human legs). I'm assuming this was a mistake by the people who made the manual and they should have said Gaibon was the second boss.

Boss 3: The manual says that the "alluring Succubus" is the third boss. Next to that, they have an image of what appears to be Fake Sypha. The manual says that Salem Witches are in it, and since there's in-game images of what clearly are Salem witches, I have to assume that the "Fake Sypha" is really the third boss. This "Fake Sypha" might just be another type of witch that didn't get mentioned in the game, and might not even be the third boss for all I know. For now, I'm going with "the Succubus is fighting in the guise of Alucard's old comrad Sypha", since that kind of makes sense that she would do that and it reconciles the problem. But please let me know which images are used for the third boss.

Out of curiosity, was this game released in Japan too? Maybe all these errors are due to localization issues? Or the guys who made the manual just didn't talk to the guys who made the game?

--Reinhart77 19:22, 15 March 2009 (UTC)