Crypt of the NecroDancer - All Cutscenes (Classic; Cadence, Melody, Aria) 

Yeah, this is basically the best nutshell for Crypt.

Make it a Florida Man article and it works just as well

Trinity TheTerrarian bard is from florida confirmed

except The nechrodancer had lived for over 3 centuries before those generation and than gave up on life than aria had the lute wanted to destroy it than gave it to the nechrodancer.

This is the best to understand the story of this game without playing it yourself

I mean, if we're being technical, he was already dead. UN dead

he caught a .45 to the head

"Cadence, I think I know how to defeat him. Follow me lead!" "WTF?! You're the one who got zombified by him!"

The victory is sweeter when you earn it through the pain.

I came back to destroy the Lute--

The torture, missedbeats, and confusion is the most horrifying route I ever done. It took me almost 2 years to finish Aria. I’m so relieved finally did it! Patience is key to master Aria.

Mom died and in dad

I CAME BACK TO DESTROY THE LUTE-

Images you can hear

It was a godsend when I found out you could disable cutscenes.

@@flygon8083 Huh? You can always just skip cutscenes

*cries in all zone aria*

*stand not for too long because the beat is still haunting me*

(Tesla Toil starts playing)

Was she born wearing that outfit? Did it grow with her? Is it part of her body?

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OMG LMAO

I can't even beat cadence. Any tips on zone 4?

@@alexwoogie462 Depends on what gives you the most trouble, but I highly reccommend separating enemies out as much as possible. Also, if nothing else gives you trouble, make the parrying knights your FIRST priority.

Ironically I finished cadence last month. Melody took me 3 days, and now I'm on aria

But thanks anyways =]

Took me a week to finish aria's zone 4, and then I dead zone 3 in a beat ! Keep trying !

I mean, I've done 10 bard All Zone runs while aware

I beat Cadence’s Necrodancer fight an hour ago and my blood was PUMPING, god, I’ve been trying to beat Zone 4 for the past couple days and finally finally managing it was so relieving

Tell me your secret!! Been trying for months...cant get to the third level without quaffing my potion...

Hey gg!

Seriously? I'm not gonna attempt Aria...it's truly unfair and a challenge that is not worth the trouble :/

@@RangingCatX5 it is really, really hard, but I'm sure you can do it. Try at least to play another character without to skip a beat, it will be a good start for your training

@@Alegriacaptions it reminds me of Celeste .. to get the deathless golden strawberry 1 mistake is needed to send you back to the start like this is the same thing

I too was crying... tears of joy because she F*CKING DIED OUTSIDE THE GAME.

be glad not every character has lore as than you'd have to play coda who has the negative effects of bolt, monk, and aria while also making enemies that don't normally drop gold, drop gold and making you start in zone 1 and moving to 4 like normal instead of aria's reverse

@@gamesandglory1648 AFAIK Coda's all zone has been succeeded and recorded without any cheat by less than 30 people. That's what the TV Tropes page says, at least. That's 0,006% of the COTN players.

@@Alegriacaptions I didn't know it was THAT rare but I knew it was rare considering just how hard coda is and the fact that to unlock them you need to play every single character in a row without dying.

@@gamesandglory1648 well that's for the official part, there are probably people who couldn't make themselves known. Also I have no idea when that number has been updated for the last time.

@@Alegriacaptions If you have the game on steam you can see how rare the achievements are which would tell you what percent of necrodancer players on steam have it. although it's probably a "secret" achievement which would mean to see what percent of players have done it you would need to do it.

that's sad

Senhor Aleatório No, it makes sense.

@@conormcgowan6748 no it's very sad. This game is cheaper than the zelda crossover. Anybody should play that first

@@nyx_3210 ikr even though cadence of hyrule is fun it is very shirt, I beat it in a day. Necrodancer has a way steeper difficulty curve and much more depth and weapon types.

@@demosthenes995 try playing as Yves

Yeah, unfortunately, this is about the extent of the context you get. Leaves a lot of things unanswered--but it also leaves a lot of room to come up with things!

What are your questions?

I’m confused as to why if melody and aria where both only alive because of the lute only aria died after the lute was destroyed

Yep but the worst everything else except the satisfaction the *PURE* satisfaction.

@@dexterbodford1125 coda

@@mrcakemarvelous1674 what? coda has no story and i guess it would be satifying to beat, but would it be worth it

@@dexterbodford1125 flexing reasons probably, I'm a mobile player so it's possibly impossible for me to beat coda.

HazmatBP well he predates the curse, considering how he can move out of beat to the music. Meanwhile, the others move to the rhythm because of octavian taking their hearts.

HazmatBP no, but they do look exactly the same

The monsters in the crypt were *REANIMATED* by the Necrodancer, so it wouldn't make sense that they attacked Bard if he really was Octavius

@@supersonic5644 No, what are you talking about? Octavian is the Necrodancer.

@@Multibe150 Of course they would attack him in a Bard run, since they predate him turning into the Necrodancer.

He might just use it to reduce the friction from his walking stick while he traveled.

Skylair It's in his bestiary art too, but that's a good point actually and I never considered it somehow

Well yeah it must’ve been a journey to get the Lute

(Uploader who's too lazy to switch accounts) I imagine he picked himself up and dragged himself to the crypt for his run because "welp, I gotta clean up everyone's mess because apparently no one listens to me" Then everyone managed to get home okay in the end and he made sure they all had something decent to eat, not that he was worried or anything.

Puro

PURA PURA

"Ugh, This child and Dorian are stupid. There are dangers in there but seems i am like a ghost. Lets see where is my bomb arsenal"

*Hyrule

cadence of zelda

Wait until you die to a missed beat after killing Death Metal with Aria in zone 4. You'll know what it mean to be REALLY sad.

Melody could have been with her mother the whole time playing the lute when she goes back to shrine

Thats what i think

@@Soashivito there is the final cutscene with the cadence and her mother and father as a full family after they leave the crypt, standing over aria's grave. this makes no sense because even if they both traveled together to destroy the lute (as you suggest), melody would have still died regardless of where she was once the lute was destroyed. there is no conceivable way that melody would live after passing on the lute considering that the lute was what was keeping her alive and with the lute's destruction, nothing is left to keep her alive and so she would die again. also its kind of dumb that aria is using the lute as she travels to the shrine but in game we can only use the dagger unlike her daughter who uses the lute as her weapon.

yeah seems like a plothole. I guess they did forget or simply did not want as much "drama" at the end of the game. That aria did not use the lute as a weapon could maybe be a hint that she is not as gifted as her daugther, in terms of playing the lute.

Afaik the zone 4 cutscene "I CaMe bAcK To dEsTrOy tHe lUtE" Was moved to 5, but the rest are unchanged

Let's not think about that Lets just say its a sequel to the original game

Elena Rocha She stole the lute from Octavian's dead body to heal the town from a plague but The town got greedy and wanted the lite for themselves. She returned to the crypt and revived him so he could help her destroy it but he betrayed her and killed her. The lute has a lot of power and magic.

The NecroDancer is a jerk mainly because the power from the lute slowly corrupted him, stripping him of his humanity.

The lute is important because it can make you immortal, cure diseases, and can even bring your humanity back (from what I heard from amplified).

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"Not meant for mortal hands", Power overload, Heal people and make immortal. You're a god with that thing.

The dagger is driven straight into her heart. If her heart beats without her doing anything, that just makes the wound worse, as it pumps blood out endlessly. Moving keeps her alive because it the knife shifts around preventing more blood loss. Or you could sum it up to “the game needs a very difficult character”.

Mostly for gameplay reasons, but they tried to tie it in lore wise with the fact she had a dagger driven through her chest to her heart when she is revived by Melody.

Honestly, the missed beat thing should've been on Melody instead of Aria since Melody has to keep playing to live. Gameplay-wise, it would've also made sense since Melody is the easiest of the three girls. I really don't get why there's such a huge difficulty spike going from Melody to Aria.

What I don’t understand is why doesn’t Aria use the Lute during her part? She’s the one that holds it in the Final Boss scenes, so why didn’t she use it during her way back up? Also Melody wouldn’t take damage because she technically IS playing the Lute. Basically she plays it while moving as well a standing still, which is why she can’t use any other weapon since she would have to drop the Lute. I don’t think she would stop playing when she misses a beat. Melody’s heartbeat doesn’t affect how she plays the Lute.

@@thenonexistentwatcher9001 I'm guessing Aria doesn't use the lute because she knows that the lute takes away your humanity and doesn't want to become like Octavian. Melody on the other hand only knows that her mother 'took that thing away for a reason', which she thinks is that people would kill them to get their hands on the lute, as seen in Melody's story.

I was confused as well, but I figure that being revived by the lute is a magical effect that is independent of its "curse". So once the lute is destroyed, the curse of being forced to play and drain your humanity is gone, but anyone who was reanimated still stay alive. A little too convenient but it is magic, so I guess why not?..

My guess is that the curse was passed from melody to aria when she used it to place it on the shrine which is why both where revived by it but only aria died after she stopped playing

Octavo is the villian of Cadence of Hyrule, Octavian is the Necrodancer, and Octavio is a sentient octopus with a flying DJ booth

Both became the necrodancer but are 2 different people

The lute in Cadence of Hyrule is Octavo's lute that he turned golden using the triforce

@@cookinaryy oh ok tthat makes sense

Aria is Melody's Mother which means she's Cadence's Grandmother because Melody is Cadence's mother.

Cadence: Gets the Lute and revives Melody. Melody (mother) : Must play and hold the Lute to live, goes to the Crypt to look for answers about the Lute but accidentally awakens Aria (grandmother) Aria: Takes the Lute and goes to destroy it. Although my question is why Aria couldn’t use it, but uses a dagger.

yeah seems like a plothole. I guess they did forget or simply did not want as much "drama" at the end of the game

I guess that the "plague" was caused by the lute, since we can see dorian has it after spending the 2 years in the crypt? Either that, or after being revived by the lute, the lute got destroyed and she doesn't have to keep playing anymore

​@@SpindashBlackaria was the only one who knew how to completely cure people with the lute, so probably she used it on melody before destroying it.

It should still be there, maybe you skipped it by accident?

Aria knew how to completely heal people with it, specifically the plague. She probably healed melody before destroying it

@@mrcakemarvelous1674 Then, why she did not heal herself too? Doesn't make much sense.

@@The_D_ray either because she could just barely survive with her heart wound or she just didn't want to keep going idk