@Background Pony #AEFF
I wish. I would love to have inspired something like that XD

@Background Pony #AEFF
Nah, that predates this pic by a few years.

And that’s how Ponyvania fangame was made…?

@iSunset Shimmer  
I’ve never played PoR, but I love Charlotte (mainly for her Heal spell and faster-than-average MP regeneration) in HD.

@ShimmeringStallion  
Chock up another one. Jonathon and Charlotte are best vampire hunters.  
Charlotte is also my main in Harmony of Despair.

Not even ponies can make medusa heads bearable.

@Solitude  
Ha, I remember that! I once managed to get that on a random occasion.

@Badumsquish  

 
… m… my niggz… I thought I was the only one…
 
 

 
_{I actually DID start crying after reading that there was someone else whose favorite Castlevania game was Portrait of Ruin… I’ve been so ALONE…}

 
…I think that about sums up any and everyone’s feelings on the medusa heads.

@ShimmeringStallion  
So far my favorite is Portrait of Ruin. It’s like SOTN, but they upped the difficulty to where it’s fair (but not ball-gratingly annoying). Like if you’re going to die, it’s going to be from getting your ass beaten by enemies rather than a deft punt onto some spikes or some shit. The bosses are nasty though.
 
@Parallel Black  

@atalarikt  
Well the game’s prone to things that can cause sequence-breaking, but in doing so, can make it much more difficult as a result.

Hey, I just realized that this is your 300th image on the site! Congrats!

One little secret from SotN.  

@ShimmeringStallion  
Yeah, I remember just how easy that game is, yet at the same time, you should beware of where you’re going.

@Badumsquish  
To be fair with Symph, you’re far more in danger of getting lost in that one, than dying from something malicious killing you…
 
Though I recall some areas being particularly annoying to traverse due to spikes surrounding certain areas; I personally loved finding secret areas.

I’ve only played two or three of them, the one I most remember being Circle of the Moon on the GBA.

@Zebasiz  
@atalarikt  
@Background Pony #AB34  
Adding to that, they also come in pairs or sometimes even three or four at a time on the screen, are small so they’re hard to hit, and never stop coming until you leave the area. Also they tend to pop up in areas with nasty platforms like the Clocktower (where there’s tons of massive moving gears and spikes) or the GOD FRIGGING DAMNED BURNED PARADISE FROM PORTRAIT OF RUIN where all the gravity is screwed up, and there’s also usually other enemies in the area for them to knock you into as well.
 
If I were to make a top 10 list of the things I hate about Castlevania, it would be  

I dub thee Maredusa.

@Zebasiz  
Basically they fly at you in a arc-like motion. You touch them, you get damaged and get knocked-back. This is specially bad if they knock you into a bottomless pit or spiked floors and losing a life in the earlier games. They still knock you back in the later games and it’s hard if they knock you into spikes or some floor hazard.
 
The yellow ones not just damage you but they turn you to stone. When you’re stone any damage you take is extra, even worse if you hit a floor hazard.

@Zebasiz  
The normal blue ones are really annoying (borderline agonizing), but they don’t turn you into a stone. The yellow ones do, and therefore, are far more annoying than the blue ones.

@ShimmeringStallion  
I’ll second that request!
 
As an aside: I never played any of the Castlevania games. So what do the Medusa heads do? And what’s so bad about the yellow ones?

“Also, say Hi to my INFINITE SISTERS!!!”
 
… And now I want to see GMHAA being surrounded and cuddled by, like, nine of these things, on a bed.
 
… So basically, that Cutelings image, with no bedsheet… just a lot of warm, cuddly, snug, BLUE (no yellows allowed!) Medusa Heads.
 
… with Kalianne peeking over the edge of the bed, angry and jealous… with puffed cheeks.

Turns out Cuddlhu was actually a Medusa Head all along.

Someone’s been playing Ponyvania, I see.

Ha ha, you landed on a spike bed. >:D