One of the Greatest VG Weapons: The Castlevania Whip

[Music] [Music] die monster you don't belong in this world mankind ill needs a savior such as you what a horrible night to have a curse can you imagine how good of a weapon this would be if it'd work in real life the same way as it does and the Castlevania games I mean the frickin vampire killer in this case a improvised prop but you know if this worked the same way I mean all the range you have with it and as you whip with it it passes right through multiple enemies you know if there were like three creepy Bob standing there this would go through all of them and hurt each one the same way and you can roll it up you can make it pretty compact it's easy to carry and it's especially effective against the undead what more could you wish for so obviously today I'm totally gonna geek out super Castlevania for my all-time favorite games it was the first game then I got on the Super Nintendo as a kid aside from Super Mario World obviously and it blew me away if you keep in mind before that I haven't got Terry 2600 and the music the atmosphere everything you do the perfect tight responsive controls a Simon Belmont being able to whip in all directions and I don't know what it is with every Valmont after Simon they just don't have the mastery over the whip that he does however in real life not quite so fantastic now flexible weapons exist in various martial arts you have that in different Chinese martial arts styles things you can kind of call chain whips even though they don't have chain links like this but it's kind of longer sections that are connected with rings and you can have a different number of sections I think was between 7 & 9 maybe more and there's a pretty interesting impressive demonstrations with those the rope dart also goes along those lines that's all that flexible weapons are very difficult to use effectively they require a lot of practice and skill it can be difficult to control they bounce around a wrap around things and all of that the way it's shown in the game where the whip just extends straight forward like that that's a little difficult I want interesting thing I found while messing around with it you can make it a little more controlled if you start out with it coiled up like this and then release it it seems quite a bit more accurate that way but of course you have to coil it up every time before a swing if you want to do that and it's the house the issue that it can bounce off the target and go right back at you now you can't strike with it fairly effectively the only problem is you have to be at the exact right distance so that the weight at the end it's like that and doesn't go above and you know wrap around the body and because that that would make it lose a lot of a lot of power and then it just kind of wraps around your body and just kind of lightly taps you on the back which is not that effective so here and again I struck it more with the chain rather than the end now some of the chain whoops depending on the game don't really seem to have a weight at the end well some have like a spiked ball good morning star basically others just seem to be just a chain it was just a chain and forget about it I mean a chain can still be effective if it's a large chain with heavy links that is shorter so if it was say like this and I strike yeah it has a lot more oomph that would be way better even better a weight at the end of a short chain like this I can use quite effectively and that will definitely hurt now I don't think it would be necessarily as effective say a mace because with a mace you have you have two solid shaft yeah McGill make your jokes that can really transfer all the force if you strike something let's say let's say this is my mace let's break something I can really put my body weight into it I can rotate into it I can drive it with the power of my legs and my core and this since it doesn't have give this will read transfer the energy into the target where I want with a flexible chain on the other hand there is no follow-through it just hits and then it bounces right back right back at me as you just saw so that's what makes it dangerous don't get me wrong you can definitely make this work and there are people who are very skilled with flexible weapons no doubt about it it's just that they have some drawbacks and challenges compared to rigid weapons and they don't have as many advantages to compensate for them in my opinion at least now you can kind of use whip techniques like that I think I broke his face it's going to pass from behind my head past my head hopefully but it may very well hit me in the back of the head on the way so yeah it's it's a difficult now somebody who has trained things like the 9th section whip or other flexible weapons over many years probably doesn't have a lot of issues some of them can do tricks like shoot it out by basically kicking it with a foot things like that there are a lot of neat tricks but there's still some drawbacks of this now of course as a weapon also you can you can't use it defensively basically you cannot parry really I mean if you tried to catch an opponent's sword with a chain like this forget it this will just blow right through the chain will collapse and you just don't have the structural integrity to really do that and you can't deflect you can't parry in any way so you do definitely have the advantage of reach you can be all the way over here but it all needs to be perfect and precise plus of course if the opponent moves they step forward it will just it won't hit them right at the end but it will just wrap around them where it's much less effective but of course overanalyzing like this does not diminish my appreciation for the Castlevania games at all it's all about a gameplay and the atmosphere and the perfect controls they're just fantastic games if you've never played them by all means do so that's about it thanks for watching and have a good one folks and don't forget all of you are just miserable little piles of secrets [Music] are you you couldn't keep angrily squeaking at me they are so angry can you hear that this is absolutely adorable is this angry squirrel but while you throwing [ __ ] at me now to this super angry girl that's getting around the trees it just keeps angrily chirping at me throwing stuff around this dude there's the other one guys what are you doing you you're gonna die of cute poisoning huh are you probably coming up to me now hey can you stop throwing [ __ ] from the tree up there cheep-cheep oh my goodness says the valiant squirrel against a sword guy you still there what are you doing remove little guy I'm totally gonna die off kid poisoning thank really it's just your thing is that your shtick this is your tree sorry little guy but I'm gonna have to do some recording here is the angriest girl you've ever heard [Music] you

Channel: Skallagrim

Views: 191,994

Rating: 4.9415207 out of 5

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Id: siErCK7qcb8

Length: 11min 27sec (687 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 08 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/DeadCrow91]

My two cents are pretty similar, the whip and other weapons of the same style aren't in his wheelhouse. In the show it almost looks like Trevor is using rope dart and chain whip techniques from eastern martial arts. I could be wrong but then I just started looking into rope darts

[u/lukaerd]

As with anything that's fantasy, he'll shit on it.

[u/jherazob]

OK, let's break it down in pieces:

First, it's absolutely clear that he's one of us, he was geeking out a lot, and it's clear that Super Castlevania IV was one of his favorite games.

Second, the IRL weapon usage. As some of the comments on YT mentioned, for one his prop version is too long (much longer than the VG version and i think even longer than the one on the TV series), and for another he has poor technique, he keeps applying a sword mindset to the weapon, thinking of straight strikes and blocks, the one moment he got some usage of it was when he used some whip techniques. Hell, Trevor did a downright outstanding job of wielding it in the Netflix series, always using it's momentum to propel it and keeping it always going (even if his skill levels with it were frankly superhuman). And in Japan, where similar weapons were used historically (the most similar one i guess would be the kusarifundo), it wasn't simply used to strike, the chain was there for a reason, to trap the enemy leaving them vulnerable to be finished off (which wouldn't make much sense in the games against the undead, but hey, IRL usage and all).

Third, that squirrel was a Dracula minion, obviously.