boots that raise you up by 1 pixel, a food item you have to catch in your mouth after throwing it, a gauntlet of Spear Guards in a watery pit that you can drown by plugging up a leaky crack with a wooden crate. effort and development time spent on making stuff because "lol, lmao"

Just a few of the things that make Symphony of the Night one of the greatest games ever

there's just something so soothing about a game that came off of a series of notoriously difficult platforming combat and went off on a direction of exploration that allows you to sit in a confessional and sometimes get grape juice after confessing your sins to the ghost priest. you can check on with the bird nesting under the room with the telescope and eventually see it's babies, alucard is interested in this, just gems upon gems.