>Play Castlevania Symphony of the Night in my PS1
>beat the game. Felt short, inconclusive, didn't understand why everyone was wanking it so hard like Super Metroid
>''bro did you get the googles?''
>the googles?
>turns out you they put a path to the final boss straight away but if you explored the castle you'd get googles that would see a magical ball in the boss fight
>this would open ANOTHER castle, upside down, that would take you to the true ending
>I only learned that months later
>meanwhile I killed off everything in Lament of Innocence without knowing there were secret bosses that yielded elemental whips
>it took me years to learn there was a Fairy evolution in Castlevania Curse of Darkness that could press the weird button in Cordova Town (I don't remember but think it was Cordova) that would blow up the wall
>I farmed 999 of each crystal with the Devil familiar, not knowing you needed the Chauve-Souris to evolve him
Bros...