The palace in Super Castlevania IV is just so adsfggjklsdfgsdfsdsdfg god, the layout is the weirdest shit ever, and the SNES Mode 7 shenanigans that Konami got up to make the whole thing seem SUPER genius-loci creature-of-chaos (even though that predates SotN’s statement that the castle works that way).
Simon has to be going,”You open doors for me. And then you drop the floor AND ME WITH IT into the sub-basement. AND NOW YOU’RE GIVING ME STAIRS. WOULD YOU MIND TRYING, AT LEAST A LITTLE, TO MAKE SENSE?”
Ad then he gets chased up a tower by an angryass giant gear thing.











