CvRL2 – Sacred Whips [0.0.2]

CastlevaniaRL 2: Part 1: The Lady of Berkeley, is a traditional, top-down, turn-based roguelike, with fixed overworld and procedurally generated dungeons. It’s a retelling of the classic Castlevania 2 for the NES, in a format heavily inspired by ADoM. You can play online at https://slash.itch.io/cvrl2-the-lady-of-berkeley

Roam the countryside traveling between the towns, finding clues to destroy Dracula, and the mansions, where the relics of Dracula are found.

Originally made for 7DRL 2024. This is a minor patched version, fixing some gameplay bugs. The original submission has been placed here

Critical gameplay fixes

• Allow equipping weapons
• Fix the overabundance of healing items in the caverns and mansions
• Disable attack, jump and grab commands in the overworld
• Scale canvas to fill window [acquired from JSRL]
• Increase key repeat interval by 50ms to prevent double inputs [acquired from SpelunkyRL]
• Make trees opaque

Additional UX fixes

• Add missing g to grab instruction
• Fix door LoS bug
• Prompt to Press space on ambush
• Disable holy water effect
• Show “Press ?” help message after intro
• Remove inventory screen background
• Display icons for equipment
• Improve colors and characters for items
• Swap out Gecko’s music for Jorge Fuentes on Belmont’s Hold temporarily