>introduce melee only weapon >it can actually softlock your game because a boss is out of reachThe weapon balance in this series has always been complete trash, but this was pure comedy.
theres no reason to use anything but the dagger in any of these games>inb4 scrubs need arrows to fight the red gargoyles
What a cruel addition. The sword's cool as fuck but I remember finding out the hard way as a kid that fighting that giant maggot fuck leaves you totally unable to kill it.
>softlockIf you can die, it's not a softlock. The timer can still reach zero, killing you.
>>10864064>The timer can still reach zero, killing you.i dont remember what game it was, but this saved me once when i was younger. until that moment i thought timers were pointless.
>>10863937The weapons are just another enemy.
>>10864064But if I have to die to progress, can I really say this game is any good?
>>10864064GnG has infinite continues and you respawn with the same weapon you died with. You have to restart the game.
>>10863937I've always got a chuckle out of how game designers would sometimes place a useless item right before a boss to fuck with sperg lords who are obsessed with grabbing every one they see. But completely cock blocking them for grabbing a giant golden phallus is inconceivably based.>>10864064Were you too retarded to read the file name, or are you retarded in another way(s)?
>>10863937what boss?
if its the giant grub/worm thing you can beat it with the sword. it happened to me and my friend we got knocked into the sword before the boss and it took us a while but we figured out how to beat it.
>>10864086This guy gets it
>>10864096You can just keep breaking chests until you get a different weapon.
>>10864096you respawn at the halfway thourgh the map checkpoint, you aren't locked out of grabbing a different weapon
>>10864248There's a version (or maybe a difficulty level) that saves you right at the stage 4 boss. And if you have the sword, you're stuck because you can't touch him.
>>10864351yes you can as i stated before >>10864116 its possible. figuring it out took longer than it took to beat the entire game twice through but i have done it.
>>10864360Well, explain how to do it. Everyone says if you play the US arcade version you get a checkpoint right before the stage 4 boss. If you have the sword, allegedly you're softlocked. If you found a way around it then you've got the ability to undo years of misinformation.
>>10864638Sorry. The GnG Executive Player Council has voted to keep this elite strategy out of the hands of the plebian masses.
>>10864638yeah im going to dig out my genesis and do it tomorrow cause it was over a decade ago so I dont remember how i did it. me and my buddy just spent hours trying to figure it out but we eventually got past that part. maybe i didnt and im just retarded but i swear we figured it out cause we didnt want to give up and restart.
>>10864654It's the guy whose uncle worked for Nintendo.
Challenge accepted.Everytime there is a thread like this it turns out that OP is a fag so I'm going to assume as much and give it a try later on
>>10863937>softlockIs this when somebody can’t progress and blames the game for it instead of their lack of skill?
>>10864091Definitely yes
>>10864638>allegedlyThat's what you get for trusting the Internet instead of thinking for yourself
>>10863937>softlockOnly if you are retarded and cant into chest order
>>10864064Ghouls has an overly generous amount of checkpoints, so upon dying you end up back at the boss fight with no chests to grab for a new weapon. Gameovers don't send you back further either because putting a coin in to continue just places you at the same checkpoint.
>>10864360I've seen you claim this before in a GNG thread, and you're full of shit cause you can never prove it.
>>10864226>>10864891You can't get any more chests once you reach that boss, there's zero opportunity.
Now someone has to prove it one way or the other Hopefully with a YouTube video
Tv tropes claims this is true
>>10865470Its a well known softlock. There's only one guy who claims its false because he thinks Ghouls has the best weapon spread of the series but he can't defend the sword softlock, so he claims its not a softlock and then never posts proof.
>>10863937>Trash tier.Sword, fire, axe.>Lost the dagger, guess I'll use this meanwhile tier.Spear, disc.>Dagger tier.Dagger.
>>10865483The American arcade and Genesis ports have more checkpoints than the Japanese version. The Japanese version only has one mid stage checkpoint on each level and bosses have more health. In trying to nerf the difficulty in the American version they introduced a softlock. The world version of the arcade board has the Japanese checkpoints but slower enemies that attack less often. Basically play the Japanese versions of Daimakaimura.
>>10865451this is the first time ive ever claimed that because its the first time ive seen it mentioned. im going to do it tonight when i have free time you fuckin retard
>>10865765You're not going to do it, because its impossible and you know it is. You can't hide behind anonymity when you claim shit that is this retarded and blatantly wrong.
>>10864654Damn the council!
>>10865504This guy daggers.
>can die>softlockZoomers are fucking retarded.
>>10864116Sure you did buddy>>10864360Sure you did buddy>>10864664>maybe i didnt and im just retardedYa think?
>>10865529B..But the international version is always harder because of rentals!But yeah, you are fucked with the sword, reset the game and spend 15 minutes to get back to the same point again with the daggers instead.
>>10864096Still don't have to do a hard reset. You can even let the game over timer run out. Nit a softlock.
>>10866326>boss is unbeatable>can't switch weapons because checkpoint is literally at the boss fight>even continuing from a game over won't take you back to a checkpoint before the bossIt literally is a softlock you retard. You have no choice but to restart the whole game.
>>10866418>game literally cannot progress without starting from the very beginning again>somehow this is not a softlock
>>10866418>Still do have to do a hard cope
Okay i am ready to get this figured out. Will report back
>>10866756k got the sword now to get to that boss
>>10866756>>10866773I foresee three possibilities:>larping faggot who is pretending to attempt to answer the question, only to disappoint everyone>actual retard who is going to waste hours trying to beat an unbeatable scenario>based retard who is going to prove the impossibleGl, hf, tntd.
>>10866756>>10866773
>>10866783But there's only one reality. A retarded redditard who's going to (already has) embarrass himself for some (You)s
>>10866756>>10866773Anon? It's been 30 minutes now.
>>10866783nope cant do it wasted enough time on it. me and my bud must have reset the console last time that happened to us. I will fully admit i was wrong. I beat the game like 15 years ago and I remember we were stuck there for a while but eventually did beat it we must have reset the console but I dont remember doing that. It was my mistake and I am sorry.>>10866812eat shit you fucking nigger I was mistaken I dont give a fuck about your yous.
can you even do it with the green discs? dont those slide along the ground once they hit it? or do they actually go through if you throw them down while jumping
>>10866843meh, we're all boomers. it happens.
>>10866790I wasnt lugging my massive TV out to try i have actually thought about wiring the other audio channel input onto that tv. cause its a good little TV
>>10865467I think that's the american version with retarded checkpoints, otherwise you are fine
>playing localized trashRetards
>>10866903american version has a code to enable the japanese version. I wanted to test this too and dying at the boss does send you back to the mid level checkpoint and not before the boss like the US version does.
>>10866843You literally spent the entire thread insisting you'd done it and then spent an hour of your "life" trying to prove it for the (You)s faggot
>>10866953i did it because i wanted to prove it could be done sorry my memory was wrong.
>>10866953Memory's a fickle thing, the dude did genuinely try and admitted when he was ultimately wrong. He was hardly a fag about it.
>>10866961im kinda disappointed in myself cause i always had a super autistic memory and am very good with names but it failed me this time haha
Can't you just kill the worm when it lunges above and not mind the greend shit? Or is the green shit the real boss all along?
>>10867374the orange hearts on the green bug are what you have to destroy.
>>10866464You don't need to press the reset button or turn the console off then on to continue playing. You can still run out the timer and get kicked to the title screen and then play the game. You aren't locked into a situation, only your stubbornness locks you in.
>softlockedOP has skill issue
>>10864091sounds like a skill issue to me anon
>>10867443That's like saying you can't get softlocked in a game that has a reset input such as L1+R1+Start+Select because you don't have to touch the console itself.>You aren't locked into a situationExcept you are, and the definition of a softlock is being locked into a state where the game cannot be progressed and you must start over. It has absolutely nothing to do with whether you're touching the power button or not.
You know, come to think of it: Would you be able to kill that boss with the torch/firewater? I never took it to that boss and I have no idea if the top of the worm you run on would be considered solid for that particular weapon.
>>10867915well I took a minute to go search for it on youtube and: Yeah, you can kill him with it.https://youtu.be/WiBwgCYhEqg?si=vF-PA-pB_TjveeeY&t=778
>>10867915i remember using the torch, yeah
