Prologue - Castle Siege | The Main Campaign - walkthrough Castlevania: LoS 2 Guide

The beginning of the game - you will learn all the basic game mechanics here.

This mission can be treated as a tutorial, because you will learn all the basic game mechanics here. For this mission only, you will have an unlimited supply of Void and Chaos Magic, so use them to your heart's content. Also, there aren't any items to collect during this mission.

This stage starts in the throne room - get near the gate in front of your starting position, to activate a cutscene, after which you will encounter your first enemies. If you have any trouble understanding the defensive maneuvers (block, synchronized block and dodge), use the Tips section in this guide. After the fight, Dracula will force his way through the collapsed gate.

Metal fence that you much climb in order to get to the other side.

After leaving the throne room, jump onto the metal fence, to the left of precipice, to start climbing. There should be an on-screen information about the button responsible for showing you the climbing route - remember it and use it frequently, as it will show you hidden passages from time to time. Jump down at the other side and another cutscene will initiate.

Boss - Paladin, round 1

Paladin - first round.

Basically, just as the rest of the mission, this boss fight is for training purposes - this is further emphasized by the fact that during this fight (and the whole first mission) you will have an constant, unlimited supply of Void and Chaos Magic and access to most of the skills. It will allow you to deal large amount of damage while being able to endlessly heal yourself by using Void Magic.

Attack the boss all the time, while trying to block (using synchronized block, if possible) his normal attacks and dodging his unblockable ones (remember, there will be a red flash before those kind of attacks). When his health drops to about 2/3, the battle will be interrupted by a cutscene.

You will find yourself standing on top of Brotherhood's siege machine, where you will face a few waves of regular soldiers. Deal with them and prepare for another scene, during which you will have to jump at the right moment.

Provoke the enemy to attack the hinges.

After a while, the action will "become vertical" - your job is to climb the robot's arm. After reaching the top, yellow hinge-like points will be shown to you, which must be destroyed if you want to continue your journey. To do so, you have to provoke the Paladin to shoot them with his bow. Hang on the yellow point until a yellow mark from Paladin's bow will appear on top of you - all you have to do now is to just jump over to other foothold and the hinge will be destroyed. Repeat the process again and climb up afterwards.

Watch out while climbing - getting hit by some mechanisms will drop you down.

During the climbing you need to watch out for different mechanisms along the way - if you run into some gear or other rotating mechanism, you will be dropped down and brought back to a save point. After a while you will return on solid ground, where you will encounter some more soldiers and 3 additional hinges to destroy. Use the same method as earlier - stand on top of the yellow point and after a mark from Paladin's bow appear on top of you, dodge to the side. After destroying all 3 of them, press the indicated button to tear out a fragment blocking your way and push forward.

Continue climbing until you get to a gear wheel - hold onto it until you get to a place where you can jump to the left side, and continue your journey upwards to get to a place with another (last) 3 hinges to destroy. Tear out the blocking fragment to activate a cutscene, which will lead you to another boss fight.

Boss - Paladin, round 2

Final encounter with the Paladin.

This encounter is very similar to the first round you fought with the Paladin. The only difference is that, from time to time, the enemy will use one of his ranged attacks:

• By throwing a cutting edge at you, which will travel horizontally - to dodge it, you have to jump over it at the right moment. It moves slowly the first time he throws it, but it will travel a lot faster from now on. Don't try blocking it or jumping sideways, because you will be hit.
• By throwing a cutting edge at you, which will travel vertically - to dodge it, you have to jump sideways. Don't try to block or jump over it, because it's impossible to do so.
• By shooting his bow in the air - after a while yellow marks will start appearing on the ground, exploding few seconds after. It's easy to avoid taking damage, because all you have to do is to keep yourself away from the yellow marks on the ground.

Again, attack him all the time, avoid getting hit by his ranged attacks, block normal and dodge unblockable attacks and after a short while the fight will end and a long series of cutscenes will begin.

Awakening

Follow the boy.

After defeating the Paladin, you will have to sit through a long series of cutscenes in which you will find out that your character, Dracula, is not a badass anymore. After regaining control, you will find yourself on the streets to notice, that a lot of time passed from the last battle. Go to the left and follow the boy observing you (in this location there aren't any items to collect, so ignore all the other things).

Soon, you will encounter a new enemy and a "battle" will begin. Don't try very hard, as this is a fight that you must lose, regardless of how hard you try not to. After a short while someone will come to your aid and the screen will black out. After regaining consciousness locate the two humans in your vicinity and feed upon one of them, to regain a portion of your former power.