Maxing the Muramasa in SOTN - Hoverview 

The Muramasa was intended to be the secret bonus sword for the game. The damage for the weapon actually gets saved into memory on the PS1. If you reload the file you have it at 999 on and then go back to title and start a new file that's a replay, when you get the weapon it will retain its level from your main file.

When he let that Medusa head drop just dissappear I almost cried a bit

dracula, the lord of darkness.... defeated by a bunch of canned merman....

4:42 Watchng that Medusa shield drop and disappear was heartbreaking because of how rare it is. Seriously it was the last item I needed for 100 percent item completion.

The Crissaegrim will always be king and doesn't need stupidly long grinding.

Just to let you guys know, I was able to use an Excel spreadsheet to do the math. For each attack point, it will increase by 2 from the previous required amount, as the formula 2(x)+12 implies. To get it from 1 Attack to 2 attack, for example, you would need 14 blood splatters, and to get from 2 to 3, you would need 16. By running the numbers, getting from 998 to 999 attack takes 2008 blood splatters. Assuming we go from 1 attack to 999 attack, we would need 1,008,978 blood splatters total. Now, this number isn't perfect. Muramasa initially lowers your attack by 5, meaning that Alucard would need a base 6 attack to be able to do this. This also doesn't factor in attack boosts from level ups or equipment (which may not be a thing, I'm only familiar with the DS Castlevanias, sadly), meaning that the number could further be changed, though only by a bit. Let's assume that the Alucard at 1:00 is fairly standard. Alucard's base attack is 75. The 117 is the result of a +42 from Alucard Sword in his right-hand, meaning the Muramasa would need to grant +924 attack to buff Alucard up to 999 Attack. Removing the values to go from 1 to 75, we get that this Alucard would need 1,002,378 splatters.

Most broken combo is Alucard Shield and either the Shield Rod or Mablung Sword. Nothing stands in your way, you have brief invincibility after each hit with the shield, you gain hearts and HP each hit (even on indestructible enemies like Stone Skulls or even breakable walls and candles). You can kill Galgamoth in no time flat, not to mention Dracula.

The in game timer caps out at 99:59:59. The Huge Demon clock ticks in sync with the in game timer. And so at 100 hours play time, comes to a stop. And from that point in time, the pathways from that room will never open again. Effectively sealing an entire section of this demonic castle, never to be seen again. There's a very deep, haunting thought.

One thing I have noticed is that everyone seems to forget that if you equip bloodstone while living Muramasa the bloodstone doubles the blood heal and essentially the blood consumption of muramasa thus cutting leveling time in half as a die hard SoTN fan I have tried the method multiple times and have found the it took me half the time to lvl Muramasa to 300 atk power with the bloodstone equipped than with out

So basically walk armour, mura sword, and two rings of varda makes you god?

Everyone seems to like the Crissaegrim, but my favorite was always Soul Steal :D

I was waiting for the 1 hit to galamoth😂😂

SOTN and DIABLO II LoD always fascinates.. Simple games yet still full of secrets after all those years.

This game deserves a remake or remade

Or just get two crissaegrim's and nothing stands In your way 😈

This game is my favorite of all time! I usually complete it at least 3 times a year! And I'm still learning new things!

To think that SotN is still surpricing me yet again! That game is an amazing little pile of secrets! First i didn't know about the inverted castle, so i had to replay the game. Then i didn't know about the bestiary and drops, so i had to play again and grind like hell. Same time i discovered weapon special attacks and the Shield Rod. Then the Richard mode, the hard mode. Then i had to replay as the Dreamcast version for the new area and Maria mode (new music was amazing too). -new to me at the time- And yet again, there was YET another thing i didn't know about the game. Bless IGA, bless Bloodstained, bless his team and bless his soul. And fuck Konami.

Dunno if maxed muramasa is enough, maybe you shoud use shield rod+Alucard Shield too, just to make sure.

You forgot one thing: You can "transfer" muramasa atk stats to the new game file. Simply load up the file you wish to copy the atk power from, then soft reset (start + select, I think). Then create New Game. Bam. Done. As soon as you get Muramasa, its attack is powerful. Dunno about PSP version (Dracula X Chronicles) since there's no soft reset.

Are you the Scout from Team Fortress 2?

While I don't intend to have any attacks THIS overpowered in my SOTN engine, I am conceptualizing something involving absorbing blood using dark metamorphosis and using it to increase attack power somehow (to some extent). I have a # of ideas I intend to test but I won't know which one I'm going with until I have done some extensive ones. But I'm digressing; this vid reminds me of exactly why I chose to remake the game. It's amazing how many unique little things the programmers included in this game. From things as subtle as slightly different armor on the various skeleton variants, to using 3d effects on some weapons, to unique little touches like powering up this sword. You can just tell that a LOT of love was put into this game.

Galamord endured 7 hits from his super sword, wow.

thanks for being such a rad castlevania fan. you shared your personal passion of what many know but repeatedly love to be reminded about how wonderful CV is. keep it up.

The best soundtrack on gaming history!

SOTN IS STILL ONE OF THE BEST GAMES MADE AND ONE OF MY TOP 5 ALL TIME FAV GAMES EVER!!

Theoretically, you are right; but for normal player, Crissaegrim is way easier and less time consuming.

I hate this grinding. I REALLY HATE MURAMASA GRINDING! Sure a fully powered Muramasa is one of those overpowered weapons that can destroy the strongest enemies(Especially "Guardian") in one hit and destroy bosses in seconds, but the process of giving it a 999 Attack Point IS A MISERABLE WASTE OF TIME SINCE IT TAKE ONE FUCKING MILLION BLOOD HEALS TO REACH 999! It is impractical without a turbo controller which I'm not lucky to have. It took me around a couple of weeks to finally get Muramasa to full power. In my estimate, my time for my usual playthrough of the game is 6 to 7 in-game hours(Around 5 when doing the Death Skip Glitch and being so lucky at enemy item drops) and my enemy kill count is usually around 6000 to 7000(Less than 6000 when being so lucky at enemy item drops). But when doing the Muramasa grinding, IT TOOK ME AROUND 72 IN-GAME HOURS AND KILLED AROUND 48000 DARK OCTOPUSES WHICH IS MORE THAN ANY USUAL ENEMIES I'VE DEFEATED! I followed the instructions the internet for the supposed fastest method of grinding, BUT IT STILL WAY TOO TEDIOUS, BORING, AND PAINFUL TO MY FINGERS & ESPECIALLY MY THUMB! Because the last 200 points take more forever than usual. That process is just godawful. Using the Knife Subweapon at point-blank range using the equipment set up is awkward, the annoying patterns of Dark Octopuses' Ink attacks despite it's movement being slow, the slope that make it hard to aim the Knife against those enemies that's below you, knockback since I'm playing in Luck Mode, having to use Heart Refresh everytime I run out of the Heart Meter, accidentally using the sword since holding Up and spamming the attack button was never a good idea for Subweapons, and at one point I've accidentally quit the game which force me to start from the last save room ALL OVER AGAIN! It took me alot of breaks just to rest up my fingers & thumbs just to get the work finished & I've already maxed out the levels of the Familiar(Though those that's specialized in attack makes grinding more annoying than usual). This is one of the worst grinding I've ever done in a good game. It's just as bad as DS Castlevania games' grinding(Dawn of Sorrow's Soul Farming, Portrait of Ruin's Subweapon grinding, and Order of Ecclesia's Attribute grinding.), Mega Man 11's grinding to unlock new items, Mega Man Zero & ZX series' farming for E-Crystals, Pokemon games' usual level grinding especially in past games, 3DS Kirby games' RNG Keychain & Sticker grinding, Mario Odyssey's Coin Farming, Zelda Minish Cap's grinding for items, AND DON'T GET ME STARTED ON SUPER SMASH BROS ULTIMATE'S HORRIBIFUCKUS CHARACTER UNLOCKING METHOD! It is one of those things that I never want to do ever again in subsequent playthroughs. When I'm playing Symphony of the Night, I rather use Crissaegrim for the rest of Inverted Castle just to beat the game really easily. Sadly unlike Aria of Sorrow and beyond, there's no New Game Plus just like that underwhelming Circle of the Moon & and the underrated Harmony of Dissonance meaning that I can't play through the game with all items. While it makes sense since it's the first Metroidvania-styled game of the franchise, it also means that I had to be careful not to erase the save file whatsoever. I rather keep that file just for bragging rights. And I copied the file since if I want to have fun using the fully powered Muramasa, I rather copied the file again just to go with that file instead of wasting 2 weeks just to grind that overrated sword. Sure half of my game is already completed, but I rather just get a move on. Also, the fact that it is ineffective against the Mummy boss just to show that Crissaegrim is a much better overpowered weapon. At least with Crissaegrim, it's easy to get from Schmoo and no need for grinding to get it fully powered. Sure it's far weaker than a fully powered Muramasa which is why it has a bit more trouble dealing with "Guardians" without temporary buffs from Attack Potion & Strength Potion, but at least I can attack while moving, 4 hits per swing, zero recovery time, can equip 2 of them at a same time, and with 2 Ring of Vardas, it can destroy bosses a bit more faster than a fully powered Muramasa. All the more reason why Crissaegrim is the true overpowered weapon of the game. I bet Koji Igarashi & Konami knew that Muramasa grinding was just outright tedious for the wrong reason that in the Sorrow series, Muramasa has been nerfed to a usually strong katana but with none of the Blood Heal grinding whatsoever. Heck, Grand Isayoi from Bloodstained Ritual of Night which was inspired by SotN's Muramasa has far less grinding as it's maximum Attack Point limit is a mere 58 instead compared to SotN's 999 Attack Point. Even after Koji Igarashi leaving Konami(Since that company is a Laughing Stock of Japanese video game industry), he knows that the SotN's Muramasa grinding was one of the worst design system in a weapon that it's no wonder why Grand Isayoi feels like the Lite version of SotN's Muramasa. NEVER AGAIN WILL I EVER DO THAT GODAWFUL GRINDING!

Those Street Fighter Alpha 3 announcer quips were a nice touch. :D

When i attempted to get the sword to 999, I used the dark octopus room. The methodology behind making the most of your time there didnt actually rely on using the sword, much rather having it equipped while you used dagger sub weapon with no attack boosts equipped. Each time the dagger hit, the octopus shed blood, therefore strengthing the sword. Having minimal attack strength meant you could milk the octopus for all it was worth. I think I reached about 400- 500ish alone on this method. Ofcourse, using this method involved either having the blood cloak or duplicator + heart refresher for the heart regain. I went blood cloak with dark metamorphosis/soul steal for the hp regains.

That was very entertaining!

Your dedication is appreciated.

Hey, cool vid, man! I'm definitely sharing this with other SotN fans I know.

Never played SOTN but I seriously respect the work you've put into achieving your goal your own way. That's some serious dedication.

Farming for Gods Garb drives me nuts but I have to have all items, that's the fun of it

Loved the SFA3 sound effects. I played that on PS1 around the time of SoTN. Ahh memories..

Now you have one last challenge. The worst challenge of them all. Stats in this game increase at random during a level up, but there is a chance that every stat can increase by 1, even rarer is having the stats increase by 1 and have magic increase by 2. The goal of this challenge is getting Alucard with the maximum possible stats in the game. You must ensure that at every level up you at the very least gain +1 to all stats so that by the later levels all stats will be 99. This is gonna be my second and final challenge after I get the muramasa to max level.

Castlevania fan: I'm not maxing out Muramasa. Castlevania fan that's also into Metal Gear: You deny your weapon it's purpose!

Ah...Street Fighter Alpha 3. Another PSX masterpiece. You, fine sir, are truly a man of culture.

This game never gets old, im still playing this right now and trying different things, (sigh)

Wait what? the Muramasa gained increasing attack power somehow? Daaaaaaamn. I had it and never knew that.

Really sucks you don't have that many subs, your videos are pretty good quality, I subbed, hope it helps.

SOTN is the best game made other than super Mario bros 3. I still play SOTN to this day I have learned so much about spells and weapons from people like you and was able to beat it a few years ago

So this is where lil Dewey is now

I have achieved level 913 today. I've been busting octopuses for weeks. I did it on ps4 Requiem version without a turbo controller. With two rings of varda, dracula tunic and a dragon helm it gives additional 87 points, so I have a 999 level muramasa at my disposal. The total time I've spent on grinding the blade is approx. 50 hours. I coul have done it a little faster if I had known how to decrease int. meter in order to make subweapon weaker earlier.

Crissaegrim broke sotn, is like walking around with a blender at full speed. If they had made the sword stationary or add the vortex as a special move of the sword it would have given a chance to the other weapons in the game. I personally like the rune sword and heaven sword duo, also sword of dawn was fun too. The one I used to finish the game for the first time was the upgraded firebrand, then I found out about Muramasa powering up and the secret move that teleports you behind the opponent.

Man, there's something oddly old-school RU-vid about this video. I like it a lot. Shine on!

Nobody seems to like the mourneblade yet it keeps you alive and well with a decent attack.

With finding out the amount to level up the muramasa, you can graph it, thanks to the formula being based on y=mx+b, where M is the slope and B being what y is when x is zero, aka the y-intercept.

I remember maxing that sword out back in 2006. Took about a month and a half.

I can beat Dracula without hitting a single attack button. I just let the sword familiar beat him to death.

What a rich, cryptic, esoteric piece of complexity this piece of code represents.

my ears are loving this..audio

Bro this video needs a remake.

04:52 ; "Constantly spawning enemies that spew gallons of delicious blood?"... The finesse @ this moment is as humbling as it is overwhelming.

It amuses me that Shield Rod trick kills Drac faster than maxed Muramasa.

The Legendary Crissaegrim

The clock in the middle of the castle shows IIII instead of IV in roman.

Just use daggers on the octopuses and it will cut that time in half. Also, make you're using the blood cloak.

Scrolled down to read the comments and everybody talking about how crissaegrim is better, man the point of the fucking video it's maxing the muramasa, not farming crissaegrim or comparing it, of course in terms of praticity the crissaegrim will always be better cuz it's a much shorter way of becoming op soon in the game, almost none of the people ho watched this video ever used the muramasa or tried to max it out to see how much strong it can be, that's why this guy invested time making this video

Of course Galamoth with his insane health pool still tanks several hits.

The game is awesome but I still felt it needed more challenge. I tried the punch only gameplay and while the first zones are difficult you breeze through the game after leveling up around level 40-50 if I recall correctly so using blades like muramasa and crissaegrim makes it super easy even if you are low level

i ♡ the female narrator's voice; it is so soothing.

I did the ACTUAL grind on PS3 with an arcade stick button taped down for about a week or 2 dont remember. Once you get it will keep its power in a new save. I ❤️ this game

I dig the editing on this, good comedic timing!

This is the best i've ever seen. Love it. If you run for president someday, you have my vote.

I think I still have my Dex Drive around here somewhere. Was pretty amazing when it came out.

Bruh that was amazing! Great job!

Another fun challenge that is just for the hell of it is the Unequipped run. You unequip all armor and weapons at the beginning of the game and do not equip anything for the whole game. This includes potions, food, and familiars. You must rely on your magic alone and martial arts to save you and beat the game. Myself and a good friend of mine have both done this challenge.

Omg there was so much love put into maxing out the muramasa

I enjoyed this video, what a cool game, and the way you made it happen, there's always a way to force compatibility. Sometimes we gotta create on our own, and make it possible.

The problem with this game is that it was just too damn easy, even if you limited leveling and equipment. Bosses needed more HP and Dracula himself needed more forms. The lure of SoTN was obviously the item grinding and figuring out the really odd combos - shield rod im looking at you. Past that though, you had an easy romp with over half the items just being filler Thank christ later entries upped the difficulty a bit, especially Order of Ecclesia. Hopefully IGA will come through with Bloodstained.

CRISSAGRIM IS THE HAND OF GOD

Farewell will not meet again...

Your videos rock!!!! I love the commentary and cut scenes lol. Great stuff! Subscribed

This was awesome, man. One of my fav games and I've always thought crissaegram was the one to rule them all ;) subbed

This is why good balancing is important to games.

dude i've finished that game so many times and just now i realize you can level up certain weapons thanks for that. oh and by the way i think you look like the scout from team fortress 2 wich is awesome.

this channel would be huge if it had more videos

Hey guys. He forgot the dark octopus in the reverse underground caverns. That's actually much better than merman, well once you get the sword to about 230-250 because then the octos go down with one hit

Cool man. Thanks for the effort and tips 👍

I farmed Muramasa using Dark Octopus, they explode into blood when you kill them. Did this on a real PS1...

That's a nice shirt what prison are you in?

People that use the Crissagrim don't know how to fully appreciate this game.

Cryptid and Mythological Bestiary & Weapon Library Master-Archive of Neo-Alexandria in 2d with accents of Polygons is SOTN part of a Trilogy-Trinity that included Akumajo Dracula X(PC-Engine FX) and Dracula X for Snes/Super Famicom. High Watermarks of Konami's Gothic-Occult Gospel is SOTN on both PS and Saturn.

Iron shield and shield rod, come at me bro

I was surprised to realize how much math can really be involved in video games

Using shield rod to puff Alucards shield and keep it up + spamming Crissaegrim = True phenomenal cosmic power

I found that simply maxing out the Muramasa in the Medusa Head room (in the Reverse Castle), then "transfer the Muramasa kills" to a new file (method depends on which console you're using) was MUCH simpler. Specifically: I just blitz through the normal castle, then kill enough Scarecrows to pick up Muramasa, then go to the Medusa room, then put weight on my button -- in my case, space bar, then go do something else (required several days, even with speed-up emulator thing). Boom, maxed Muramasa. Then I just started a new game, and transferred the Muramasa kills by soft reset (there are guides online for that). Boom.

Noyce! I hope you continue to make more videos like this one.

I always wondered how long it would take, thanks for the video!

The Crissaegrim by itself is overkill already, this...

There's a room in the inverted castle with octopi or whatever - you equip the dagger and make your int 1 with gear so that your daggers do 1 damage and you run left to right killing them with daggers

gotta love that alpha 3 announcer.

HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER!!!!!

I did it with the creatures that drop the Nauglir thing above those octopuses . Well got it up to 700 +

2x Crissaegrim and (ares ring 24)you will kill everything without stop walking .you did a serious grind

Corey in the house!

@ 3:48 What Game???? It's something I played quite frequently!! Damn!

Galamoth went down so quickly without the Beryl Circlet

Watched first minute and a half, then realized if you thought it was difficult to do, then you hadn't used the dark octopus room. Doesn't take a month, more like a week if you can take the repetition like I can. i made a minigame of it on the real PSX. First 90 minutes I had close to 200 attack. trick is to hit two octopi at the same time to double up the absorption.