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* BattleStrip: [[spoiler:Moura strips off her dress before turning into [[OneWingedAngel a snake woman]].]]


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* HiddenElfVillage: the Gamusin people. You need a special item to find them.
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The year is AD 1081 and many wars have caused an untold number of casualties. Witch Moura's love was one of these: a devil hears her sorrow and uses her tears as a magic key to open a portal to the other side, flooding the Spanish region of Castile with monsters, demons and undead. The protagonist Don Ramiro, along with three other companions (Mendoza, Quesada and Don Diego), is asked by the King of Spain to put an end to this nightmare, starting from the cursed village of Tolomera del Rey to the enchanted forest where Moura's hideout is set.

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The year is AD 1081 and many wars have caused an untold number of casualties. Witch Moura's love was one of these: a devil hears her sorrow and uses her tears as a magic key to open a portal to the other side, [[{{Hell}} The Realm of Pain]], flooding the Spanish region of Castile with monsters, demons and undead. The protagonist Don Ramiro, along with three other companions (Mendoza, Quesada and Don Diego), is asked by the King of Spain to put an end to this nightmare, starting from the cursed village of Tolomera del Rey to the enchanted forest where Moura's hideout is set.



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* SpikeBallsOfDoomSpikeBallsOfDoom: found especially in stage four.
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* BlackoutBasement: the second half of the fourth stage, a series of caves, is completely dark. A small winged creature offers to light the way with a torch, and he does. However...


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** Also, the DescendingCeiling in stage four.
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* BossArenaUrgency: just before the showdown with Moura, Don Ramiro has to destroy a giant cauldron that drops corrosive green globs. The globs melt away tiles of the floor if they drop on them, so it's possible for the player to die after having defeated the enemy if too much of the floor is destroyed and Don Ramiro falls into the acid below.



** The last named mid-boss is a [[TheGrimReaper Grim reaper]] (sort of) that attacks by spamming flying sickles. ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}, anyone?

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** The last named mid-boss is a [[TheGrimReaper Grim reaper]] (sort of) that attacks by spamming flying sickles. ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}, ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'', anyone?

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* DarkerAndEdgier (and also BloodierAndGorier): compared to Locomalito's earlier titles. Here the mood is dark and somber, there's blood and dead bodies everywhere, [[spoiler:Don Ramiro loses all of his companions and eventually is forced to fight two of them]], you get the picture.

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* DarkerAndEdgier (and also BloodierAndGorier): compared to Locomalito's earlier titles. Here the mood is dark and somber, there's blood and dead bodies everywhere, Satanic imagery, [[spoiler:Don Ramiro loses all of his companions and eventually is forced to fight two of them]], you get the picture.


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* NintendoHard: it's modeled after Ghosts 'n Goblins, did you expect it to be easy?


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** The last named mid-boss is a [[TheGrimReaper Grim reaper]] (sort of) that attacks by spamming flying sickles. ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}, anyone?
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* MultipleEndings: There are three: a bad ending for beating the game after having used more than four continues, a normal ending for beating the game having used fewer than four continues [[spoiler: but not having gotten all five of Moura's tears, and a good ending for getting all five of Moura's tears and beating the final boss in the Realm of Pain while using less than four continues.]]

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* MultipleEndings: There are three: a four: [[spoiler: A bad ending for beating the game after having used more than four continues, a normal ending for beating the game having used fewer than four continues [[spoiler: but not having gotten without finding all five of Moura's tears, and a good no matter your amount of continues used. A not so bad ending for getting all five of Moura's tears and beating the final boss in the Realm of Pain while after having used more then four continues. A good ending for doing so without using less more than four continues.continues. And finally a perfect ending where the game must be cleared without using a single continue, while also achieving several obscure goals such as invoking the lady of the lake, saving the Amadis from flames, and finding the Gamusin people.]]
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It\'s not a guillotine, it\'s an actual gallows.


* GallowsHumour: Almost literally. In the first stage, there's a section with a beheaded zombie looking for his head among a pile of them under a guillotine.

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* GallowsHumour: Almost literally. In the first stage, there's a section with a beheaded zombie looking for his head among a pile of them under at a guillotine.gallows.
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* ContinuingIsPainful: If you die, you are kicked back to the beginning of the segment you're currently in, with no support item and your weapon reset to the dagger. Choosing to continue after losing all your lives will reset your score. [[spoiler:And if you continue more than four times, you will be locked into the bad ending.]]

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* ContinuingIsPainful: If you die, you are kicked back to the beginning of the segment you're currently in, with no support item and your weapon reset to the dagger. Choosing to continue after losing all your lives will reset your score.score to zero. [[spoiler:And if you continue more than four times, you will be locked into the bad ending.]]
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* ContinuingIsPainful: If you die, you are kicked back to the beginning of the segment you're currently in, with no support item and your weapon reset to the dagger. Choosing to continue after losing all your lives will reset your score. [[spoiler:And if you continue more than four times, you will be locked into the bad ending.]]


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* SpikesOfDoom: Touch a spiked floor or ceiling and you die, no matter your hit points.
* SuperDrowningSkills: If Don Ramiro falls into the water, he will sink like a brick and drown.
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** (Final stage spoilers!) [[spoiler:During the final boss battle, the demons that sit at Luzfarel's table and fight you before him look like much larger [[VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins Red Arremers]].]]
* ShownTheirWork: Almost all of the enemies and bosses are creatures from Spanish myth. A bit of ArtisticLicense has been applied here and there, but they are pretty accurate.

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** The game's composer, Gryzor87, made the soundtrack by emulation of the YM2203 sound chip, used in various arcade games of old, for a more authentic sound.

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** The game's composer, Gryzor87, made the soundtrack by emulation of the YM2203 [=YM2203=] sound chip, used in various arcade games of old, for a more authentic sound.


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* ShoutOut: One boss is a mechanical DonQuixote.
** The growing flowers in stage 5 are similar to the growing vines found on the jungle planet in ''Hydorah''.
** The human-faced giant flies are similar to the insect enemies in ''LAbbayeDesMorts'', another game by Locomalito.
** There are giant stone faces that spit homing energy rings, just like the Moai heads in ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}}'' (and [[AllThereInTheManual the manual]] implies this reference as well, saying that they were seen on Easter Island).
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* FullFrontalAssault / GettingCrapPastTheRadar: the beheaded zombies in the first stage running after Don Ramiro are naked and have a visible, if small, penis.


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** The game's composer, Gryzor87, made the soundtrack by emulation of the YM2203 sound chip, used in various arcade games of old, for a more authentic sound.
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* [[spoiler:DegradedBoss: The beheaded knight and the giant maggot/snake/whatever demon, in the Realm of Pain.]]

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* [[spoiler:DegradedBoss: The beheaded knight and Zarrampla the giant maggot/snake/whatever demon, in the Realm of Pain.]]

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* AsteroidsMonster: giant fireflies that explode into smaller versions of them.



* HeyItsThatSound: some sound effects are recycled from ''Hydorah''.



* InexplicableTreasureChests: it's a Ghosts 'N' Goblins homage after all.

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* InexplicableTreasureChests: it's a Ghosts 'N' Goblins homage after all. Sometimes, they're brought in by fairies.



* MutuallyExclusivePowerups: the four different weapons (sword, axe, sickle and spiked flail) and the support items (shield, fairy, and key [[spoiler: and also the crystal ball that lets you see the Gamusin people.]])

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* MutuallyExclusivePowerups: the four different weapons (sword, axe, sickle and spiked flail) and the support items (shield, fairy, boots and key [[spoiler: and also the crystal ball that lets you see the Gamusin people.]])

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* AlwaysNight: to better convey the darker mood of the game.



* GiantMook: The cycloptic cave troll in stage 4.



** [[spoiler:Moura turns into a snake-woman after having been defeated the first time.]]

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** [[spoiler:Moura turns into [[spoiler:In the Enchanted Forest, Don Ramiro finds a snake-woman zombified Mendoza and has to defeat him, and right after having been defeated the first time.he dies a zombified Don Diego bursts in and attacks Don Ramiro with arrows.]]
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* MultipleEndings: There are three: a bad ending for beating the game after having used more than four continues, a normal ending for beating the game having used fewer than four continues [[spoiler: but not having gotten all five of Moura's tears, and a good ending for beating the game having used less than four continues and getting all five of Moura's tears.]]

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* MultipleEndings: There are three: a bad ending for beating the game after having used more than four continues, a normal ending for beating the game having used fewer than four continues [[spoiler: but not having gotten all five of Moura's tears, and a good ending for beating the game having used less than four continues and getting all five of Moura's tears.tears and beating the final boss in the Realm of Pain while using less than four continues.]]
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* [[spoiler:DegradedBoss: The beheaded knight and the giant maggot/snake/whatever demon, in the Realm of Pain.]]

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* GallowsHumour: A beheaded zombie looking for his head among a pile of them under a guillotine.

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* GallowsHumour: A Almost literally. In the first stage, there's a section with a beheaded zombie looking for his head among a pile of them under a guillotine.


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* MultipleEndings: There are three: a bad ending for beating the game after having used more than four continues, a normal ending for beating the game having used fewer than four continues [[spoiler: but not having gotten all five of Moura's tears, and a good ending for beating the game having used less than four continues and getting all five of Moura's tears.]]
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* MutuallyExclusivePowerups: the four different weapons (sword, axe, sickle and spiked flail) and the support items (shield, fairy, and key [[spoiler: and also the crystal ball that lets you see the Gamusin people.]]0

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* MutuallyExclusivePowerups: the four different weapons (sword, axe, sickle and spiked flail) and the support items (shield, fairy, and key [[spoiler: and also the crystal ball that lets you see the Gamusin people.]]0]])
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* MutuallyExclusivePowerups: the four different weapons (sword, axe, sickle and spiked flail) and the support items (shield, fairy, and key [[spoiler: and also the crystal ball that lets you see the Gamusin people.]]

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* MutuallyExclusivePowerups: the four different weapons (sword, axe, sickle and spiked flail) and the support items (shield, fairy, and key [[spoiler: and also the crystal ball that lets you see the Gamusin people.]]]]0
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* [[spoiler:FightingYourFriend: One of the boss fights is against Mendoza and Don Diego, who were apparently turned into zombies offscreen.]]

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* [[spoiler:FightingYourFriend: [[spoiler:FightingYourFriend / TragicMonster: One of the boss fights is against Mendoza and Don Diego, who were apparently turned into zombies offscreen.]]

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* [[spoiler:FightingYourFriend: One of the boss fights is against Mendoza and Don Diego, who were apparently turned into zombies offscreen.]]



* MineralMacGuffin: Moura's crystallized tears.
* MutuallyExclusivePowerups
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Moura becomes a snake-woman]]

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* MineralMacGuffin: Moura's crystallized tears.
tears. There are five of them, as shown in the intro sequence. [[spoiler: Getting all five allows you to enter the Realm of Pain after defeating Moura/Moura Snake and fight the true final boss, Luzfarel.]]
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MutuallyExclusivePowerups: the four different weapons (sword, axe, sickle and spiked flail) and the support items (shield, fairy, and key [[spoiler: and also the crystal ball that lets you see the Gamusin people.]]
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Moura becomes a snake-woman]]snake-woman, and Luzfarel's Evil Heart comes to life and attacks you after he's slain.]]



** [[spoiler:Moura turns into a snake-woman after having been defeated a first time]]
* ShieldsAreUseless: Don Ramiro carries a shield on him all the time, but he can use it only when he picks up the appropriate power-up.

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** [[spoiler:Moura turns into a snake-woman after having been defeated a the first time]]
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* ShieldsAreUseless: Don Ramiro carries a shield on him all the time, but he can use it only when he picks up the appropriate power-up.power-up, at which point it'll shield him from a single attack before being discarded.


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* [[spoiler:TrueFinalBoss: The demon Luzfarel - followed quickly by his Evil Heart, which attacks you after he's slain.]]
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* DarkerAndEdgier (and also BloodierAndGorier): compared to Locomalito's earlier titles. Here the mood is dark and somber, there's blood and dead bodies everywhere, [[spoiler:Don Ramiro loses all of his companions and eventually is forced to fight two of them]], you get the picture.



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-> FOR GOD AND CASTILE!

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->''An arcade adventure of chivalry and terror''

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->''An arcade adventure of chivalry and terror''horror''


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* BubblegloopSwamp: stage four, the Swamp of Malaventura.


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* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Moura becomes a snake-woman]]
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->''An arcade adventure of chivalry and terror''
->(description on the official box art)


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* SequentialBoss: At the end of stage four Don Ramiro fights [[WolfpackBoss a bunch of small ghosts]], then a big one that teleports all over the place.
** [[spoiler:Moura turns into a snake-woman after having been defeated a first time]]
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* FairyCompanion: one of the various power-ups.


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* InexplicableTreasureChests: it's a Ghosts 'N' Goblins homage after all.


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* RibcageRidge: found in stage four.
* ShieldsAreUseless: Don Ramiro carries a shield on him all the time, but he can use it only when he picks up the appropriate power-up.

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* TheBigGuy: Mendoza.



* ForeignLanguageTitle: the game is written in English and the title is Spanish, meaning "Damn Castile" or "Cursed Castile"; however, Locomalito is Spanish, so the title is not foreign to ''them''...



* {{Homage}}: the entire game is a homage to the ''GhostsNGoblins'' series, right down to Don Ramiro being a mix of knight Sir Arthur and Spanish folk hero ElCid.



* HarpingOnAboutHarpies: stage 2 is the harpies' nest, but they can be found in other stages too.
* {{Homage}}: the entire game is a homage to the ''GhostsNGoblins'' series, right down to Don Ramiro being a mix of knight Sir Arthur and Spanish folk hero ElCid.



* {{Retraux}}: aside from the obvious, the game includes a fake arcade booting screen and a filter that puts scanlines on the graphics and other touches such as cracks and smudges, as if it were an actual coin-op screen!

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* MutuallyExclusivePowerups
* {{Retraux}}: aside from the obvious, the game includes a fake arcade booting screen and a filter that puts scanlines on the graphics and other touches such as cracks and smudges, as if it were an actual coin-op screen!screen!
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* TheFaceless: Quesada is never seen without his helmet.
* GallowsHumour: A beheaded zombie looking for his head among a pile of them under a guillotine.


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* GiantFlyer: the Two-Headed Vulture.
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The year is AD 1081 and many wars have caused an untold number of casualties. Witch Moura's love was one of these: a devil hears her sorrow and uses her tears as a magic key to open a portal to the other side, flooding the Spanish region of Castile with monsters, demons and undead. The protagonist Don Ramiro, along with three other companions (Mendoza, Quesada and Don Diego), is asked by the King of Spain to put an end to this nightmare, starting from the cursed village of Tolomera del Rey to the enchanted forest where Moura's hideout is set.

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The year is AD 1081 and many wars have caused an untold number of casualties. Witch Moura's love was one of these: a devil hears her sorrow and uses her tears as a magic key to open a portal to the other side, flooding the Spanish region of Castile with monsters, demons and undead. The protagonist Don Ramiro, along with three other companions (Mendoza, Quesada and Don Diego), is asked by the King of Spain to put an end to this nightmare, starting from the cursed village of Tolomera del Rey to the enchanted forest where Moura's hideout is set.set.

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!''Maldita Castilla'' contains examples of:

* AnimatedArmor: a very common enemy type.
* DemBones: dancing skeletons that explode into bones when hit.
* {{Homage}}: the entire game is a homage to the ''GhostsNGoblins'' series, right down to Don Ramiro being a mix of knight Sir Arthur and Spanish folk hero ElCid.
* MineralMacGuffin: Moura's crystallized tears.
* {{Retraux}}: aside from the obvious, the game includes a fake arcade booting screen and a filter that puts scanlines on the graphics and other touches such as cracks and smudges, as if it were an actual coin-op screen!
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'''Maldita Castilla''' is Spanish developer Locomalito's latest (December 2012) output and their biggest project to date after their MagnumOpus ''{{Hydorah}}''. It is intended to be a throwback to the arcade age of action-platformers such as GhostsNGoblins, {{Castlevania}}, {{Rygar}} and so on.

The year is AD 1081 and many wars have caused an untold number of casualties. Witch Moura's love was one of these: a devil hears her sorrow and uses her tears as a magic key to open a portal to the other side, flooding the Spanish region of Castile with monsters, demons and undead. The protagonist Don Ramiro, along with three other companions (Mendoza, Quesada and Don Diego), is asked by the King of Spain to put an end to this nightmare, starting from the cursed village of Tolomera del Rey to the enchanted forest where Moura's hideout is set.

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