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The stone status will double the damage inflicted to both, player and enemies. An enemy will be petrified if it has stone elemental weakness and has been hit with a stone elemental attack. A petrified enemy can't cure the status itself. If an attack inflicts petrify status, the damage is always 2. Due to [[In-Game Formula|damage calculation formula]], an enemy's stone elemental tolerance is redundant. |
The stone status will double the damage inflicted to both, player and enemies. An enemy will be petrified if it has stone elemental weakness and has been hit with a stone elemental attack. A petrified enemy can't cure the status itself. If an attack inflicts petrify status, the damage is always 2. Due to [[In-Game Formula|damage calculation formula]], an enemy's stone elemental tolerance is redundant. |
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Revision as of 06:56, 28 July 2018
Juste being turned to stone by a Slime in Harmony of Dissonance.
Stone, also known as Petrify, is one of the basic status modifiers found in the Castlevania series.
Description
Once being hit by a Stone-based attack, the player will remain in a "petrified" state and thus unable to move. The real danger of being put in this state is not actually being damaged by the attack, but to remain paralyzed while other enemies can still continue damaging them. An even more dangerous situation presents if the player is petrified over a spike-filled area, which will end up inflicting heavy damage at a constant rate. It should also be noted that taking damage from enemies will not get rid of the petrification status (except in Circle of the Moon).
In most games, the player requires to rapidly move the directional pad or wiggle the joystick in various directions and tap the buttons in order to slowly break through the stone and be able to move again.
In some games, the player is able to obtain weapons, items, and/or abilities which will allow them to turn enemies to stone, which certain enemies are significantly weak to. Oftentimes, these enemies receive twice as much damage as normal once petrified. Enemies are not able to escape from their petrified status in any way.
Starting from Symphony of the Night, players are also able to find items to remove the "stone" effect. These are usually dropped by the very same enemies that inflict the status in the first place.
In most games, being petrified has a very similar effect as being Frozen or Paralyzed.
Various enemies throughout the series series may recur to this ability (Gold Medusa, Cockatrice, Basilisk, Stone Rose, Catoblepas, Gorgon, etc.), but perhaps the most prominent of them all is Medusa, a gorgon cursed to turn to stone all living beings who were unfortunate to fall upon her gaze.
Game specific information
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
- Main article: Stone/Symphony of the Night
If Alucard takes any damage while petrified, he will suffer damage roughly equal to touching spikes. This makes petrification very dangerous at higher levels; the more HP Alucard has, the higher the damage he suffers.
Gargoyle statue of Alucard from Symphony of the Night
If Alucard equips the Medusa Shield, he will be impervious to being petrified and he will also gain the ability to briefly summon a Medusa Head familiar (by combining it with the Shield Rod) which will fire two homing beams from her eyes. However, this attack only deals damage and does not petrify. Alucard may also choose to be assisted by the Faerie Familiar, who is the only one capable to remove the Stone status from him by the use of a Hammer.
Medusa will attack with a petrifying beam coming from her eyes. When she dies, the tables will turn and it will be her who will end up turning to stone.
Various enemies in this game have the ability to turn Alucard to stone, but an interesting peculiarity of this status is that sometimes he will be turned into a big gargoyle statue. While there seems to be no rhyme or reason as to when it will exactly happen, Alucard does become immune to damage while in this state.
The only enemies vulnerable to this status are Doppleganger10 and Doppleganger40.
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
- Main article: Stone/Circle of the Moon
Most of the DSS combinations that include the Cockatrice attribute card will grant Nathan the ability to turn enemies to stone in one way or another. Making use of these powers, Nathan can step on such petrified enemies, in a manner of platforms, to reach areas that were not intended to be explored at that point in the game.
Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
Being petrified on this game is especially dangerous, as the game won't provide any invincibility window of time after each attack. Juste's HP can be reduced greatly in a manner of seconds. To worsen the situation, no items may be used while petrified, forcing the player to break out of the status if Juste is to be healed.
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
- Main article: Stone/Aria of Sorrow
The stone status will double the damage inflicted to both, player and enemies. An enemy will be petrified if it has stone elemental weakness and has been hit with a stone elemental attack. A petrified enemy can't cure the status itself. If an attack inflicts petrify status, the damage is always 2. Due to damage calculation formula, an enemy's stone elemental tolerance is redundant.
Trivia
- It seems that the term "Petrify" was most likely made popular by the gaming community. The official name for this status is "Stone".