Castlevania III (English FC Hack): Block 3: Forest of Darkness (Meeting Sypha)

After leaving the Clock Tower, Trevor now travels through the Forest of Darkness and in its interesting graphical effects with Grant on his side, though this would not last. At the very end, you will fight against a Cyclops as his Block's boss. Beware of his formidable mallet, as he will try to smash you with it. Obviously, you have to strike him in his head, or more specifically, his one giant eye, to defeat him. If you have Grant, you can cheese this boss by sitting on one of the platforms and just spamming daggers at the Cyclops... assuming you're playing the Japanese version of this game, that is... ---------- The fight against the Cyclops takes place in front of a few statues. One of them (in fact, the only one that doesn't look damage comes to life, and releases a good witch known as Sypha Belnades. We all know her as a woman already, but I don't think that's in the script by this point of the game. You, as Trevor, can choose to team up with Sypha, but you can only have one partner at a time. Thus, I make Grant leave for the rest of the game. There's also a third familiar partner in this game, but at this point, I won't be able to reach him, so Sypha will tag alongside Trevor for this rest of this playthrough. I'll have to make a second playthrough to cover that and any levels I will inevitably miss going forward. Also, though, notice how there were alternating paths in the MIDDLE of this stage. If I went down to the lower path, I would not have eventually reached Sypha as Block 3 would've just ended right there.