CrazyCapnMorgan said:
I wonder if he ever found the Crissaegrim sword in the upside down castle library...if he did, then I imagine he would've said that that weapon could make the poison cloud transformation seem like sheer and utter nonsense, except for reaching places that would normally have made life slightly difficult for Alucard.
I'm guessing not, that sword is so freakishly overpowered it's absurd. Four huge (long range and covers a good vertical range too) & high-speed slashes (that don't stop you from moving) per button press on a sword with a reasonably high damage output....
for each swing; not only that, you can dual-wield it. Two Crissaegrims plus two Rings of Varda (the game made great use of names from
The Simarillion) plus button-mashing equals the final boss being dead in a matter of a couple seconds.
Either way, it's fairly clear Yahtzee didn't spend the time needed to acquire many (if any) of the absurdly overpowered items you can get late in the game; that particular flaw would've almost certainly been mentioned in his review. Most of them are random drops (nothing too absurd for rarity, usually), but there's a good chance he would acquire at least one going through the Inverted Castle. That being said, the sheer variety of fun weapons you can get in the game is mind-boggling; many of the late-game & horrifically overpowered ones have some incredibly fun effects (including hidden moves; for example, you can pull a variation of the Hadouken using the Fist of Tulkas using the same button combination), they just have the unfortunate tendency to suck a lot of challenge (not that there's a lot to begin with) out of the game.
Don't get me wrong, I love
Symphony of the Night.... but damn, it didn't just have one broken weapon; it had the entire bloody armoury!