
While a Battle-type Innocent Devil will obviously help you the most during a fight, it won't be able to heal you like a Fairy-type can. As you can only have one summoned at a time, there's a cool bit of management going on with what abilities you want available to you at any given time, coupled with which Innocent Devil you'd like to feed experience to (as only the currently-summoned Innocent Devil gains experience during battle). But aside from that first use, there aren't many other places where you'll be required to use this ability, and the same basic rule of thumb applies to the other Innocent Devils.What makes them cool though is their general use throughout the game. For instance, when you first get the Bird-type Innocent Devil, you'll need to use its glide ability to help you jump over a large gap in order to continue. While this somewhat sounds like it would be akin to the way the Metroid games work, it's only so on a very small level. Luckily, Konami pulled off this aspect of the game pretty well and it goes quite a ways to helping this latest Castlevania romp be an enjoyable experience throughout.Speaking in a general manner, the overall course of the game is that you'll fight through one section of the story, fight a boss of some sort, earn a new Innocent Devil and then use said devil's powers to help you reach the next area of the game.

But when he hunts down Isaac to seek his revenge, Isaac taunts Hector and essentially forces him to regain his Forgemaster abilities in order to exact his revenge.Curse of Darkness lives and dies by a few of its main features, with Innocent Devils being the major one of them. Forgemasters, as they're called, practice a dark art, and as such Hector gave up his ability to conjure Innocent Devils when he turned away from Dracula's teachings. Hector and Isaac are the only two mortals with the ability to call upon Innocent Devils, creatures who serve their conjurer with utmost loyalty. Hector gave up the dark ways sometime around this point, and left behind his devil forging abilities. At one point in time, you were both servants of Dracula, but his death three years prior to Curse of Darkness has left the thrown of evil in a state of chaos. And as such, the tale of Dracula, the Belmont family and more continues on the PS2 and Xbox with Curse of Darkness.As Hector, you seek revenge against your former ally, Isaac, for having killed your wife. The original Castlevania is one gaming's most classic and beloved adventures, and while the series has seen both its ups and downs since then, everybody loves a good vampire tale.

Castlevania: Curse of Darkness is the umpteenth game in the vampire-laden series (we've lost count).
