Holy Sack of shit balls. Did Castlevania: SOTN have a secert ending??

Given the release date of the Saturn version (later than the PSX versions), it was certainly possible that the dialog was setup for Maria's version, which they were going to do some type of ending. However, Maria was cut out as a playable character from the PSX version (but she is in the Saturn versions, although there is no ending or dialogue).

And for those curious, the Japanese dialog from the game is actually in the game. Get a PSF ripper and you'll find it. The only real changes are in the text. There's more changes between the Saturn and PSX versions than there are between US and Jap versions.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Of course they would be. Nothing else makes logical sense.

And as for the voice, I don't think it was Shaft technically. I think it was Shaft through Richter, hence the odd voice, since we're not suppose to know Shaft exists unless Richter is defeated properly.

Though frankly, how did that guy come back from the dead after Rondo of Blood? Oh wait, this is Castlevania we're talking about here. ^^;;

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Clearly another ending was planned, but never got implemented due to impending deadlines. We know they had to hurry the game along, since there's a whole area that got cut from both versions of the game. The Saturn port gave them enough time to implement Maria as a playable character, but not enough time to complete that missing area or put in her special ending.

I call bullshit on that. Considering how Maria works as a PC (if you've played Richter in SOTN, Maria works pretty much the same way, just different moves), it's not that they didn't have time. It's that Konami was fucking lazy. They had no excuse not to include it in the Saturn version as they had all the time of the PS version + extra time after that.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.