Dracula's curse is slowly killing Simon Belmont, and lifting it means finding the vampire's scattered remains: his rib, heart, eyeball, nail and ring, hidden in mansions across Transylvania. Konami released Simon's Quest on the Famicom Disk System in 1987 and on NES cartridge in North America in 1988, trading the first game's linear stages for an open world with towns, merchants, experience levels and a day-night cycle in which monsters grow tougher after dark.
It is remembered as much for its frustrations as for its ideas. Townspeople give cryptic, sometimes misleading clues, many made worse by translation, and the line "What a horrible night to have a curse" became well known. Progress can require crouching in an unremarkable spot with a specific crystal equipped. Still, its exploration and character growth anticipated later games such as Symphony of the Night. The NES version uses passwords, and three endings depend on how long you take.
Tips for Castlevania II: Simon's Quest
Buy the holy water early; it breaks false floor blocks and blocks hiding passages.
Carry laurels, bought in towns, for brief invincibility in poisonous marshes and dangerous rooms.
Use a guide for the key crystal-kneeling spots, since the in-game hints are often wrong or unclear.
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