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Of course, being a whip-bearing career Vampire killer and being a bookish young witch are two very different things, and so you have to analyse a situation as to whether it be Jonathan's whip-twirling heroics or Charlotte's lethal magic that be used for certain areas. Generally speaking: | Of course, being a whip-bearing career Vampire killer and being a bookish young witch are two very different things, and so you have to analyse a situation as to whether it be Jonathan's whip-twirling heroics or Charlotte's lethal magic that be used for certain areas. Generally speaking: | ||
* Jonathan is very good at simple hack-and-slash enemies where brawn is the main attribute of the foe. | * Jonathan is very good at simple hack-and-slash enemies where brawn is the main attribute of the foe. | ||
* Charlotte, meanwhile, is better for the | * Charlotte, meanwhile, is better for the amorphous-glob type enemies, where it takes more than 3 swipes of Jonathan's weapons to kill, or if the enemies are flying. Usually, it's best to use her magic, as her strength attributes will always be significantly lower than Jonathans' (what do you expect, she attacks with a ''book''). | ||
===Statistics and Levels=== | ===Statistics and Levels=== | ||
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===Getting Things in Portrait of Ruin=== | ===Getting Things in Portrait of Ruin=== | ||
# '''Money''' (Gold!) | # '''Money''' (Gold!) | ||
#* This one is relatively easy. In every level, there are things such as | #* This one is relatively easy. In every level, there are things such as lamp posts in City of Haze, or torches in Dark Academy that can be broken. It is surprising the amount of stuff you can break in Portrait of Ruin, and you can get gold from it. | ||
#* The amount of money you get from a breakable object varies. To tell how much money you get, a blue coin means you get a measly 1 gold, a bronze coin means you get 10 gold, silver means you get 50 gold, and a gold coin gives you 100! | #* The amount of money you get from a breakable object varies. To tell how much money you get, a blue coin means you get a measly 1 gold, a bronze coin means you get 10 gold, silver means you get 50 gold, and a gold coin gives you 100! | ||
#* There are a few moneybags spread throughout the game, but these are few and far between, so don't rely upon them. | #* There are a few moneybags spread throughout the game, but these are few and far between, so don't rely upon them. | ||
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#* Enemies often drop equipment. For example, the Minotaur drops the axe the 'Bullova' and the 'Hercules Ring' if you are patient enough to kill them over and over again. Once you have one, you can sell the spares for some extra gold and you have a relatively powerful axe in Jonathan's hands. | #* Enemies often drop equipment. For example, the Minotaur drops the axe the 'Bullova' and the 'Hercules Ring' if you are patient enough to kill them over and over again. Once you have one, you can sell the spares for some extra gold and you have a relatively powerful axe in Jonathan's hands. | ||
===There & Back Again - | ===There & Back Again - Traveling Around=== | ||
* You soon realise that Dracula's Castle and the various portraits are, to put it mildly, huge. It would take a lot of time just to get from the Tower of Death back to Wind and Vincent, so there is a Warp System. | * You soon realise that Dracula's Castle and the various portraits are, to put it mildly, huge. It would take a lot of time just to get from the Tower of Death back to Wind and Vincent, so there is a Warp System. | ||
* Warp points are those large, floaty, green-coloured monuments you see on the first screen once you enter a portrait that takes you from Dracula's castle to the City of Haze. You use them to travel around, but you have to find them first. There usually isn't one far from the entrance to a level. On the map, warp points are marked out in blue. | * Warp points are those large, floaty, green-coloured monuments you see on the first screen once you enter a portrait that takes you from Dracula's castle to the City of Haze. You use them to travel around, but you have to find them first. There usually isn't one far from the entrance to a level. On the map, warp points are marked out in blue. | ||