Super Castlevania IV Stage 4

The Trick Manor (カラクリ館, also translated as The Mechanical Castle or Mechanical Clockwork Mansion) is the fourth stage of Super Castlevania IV. It is made up four distinct parts: a trap-filled tower, a rotating room, a spinning pathway, and an endless tower filled with rising stone blocks.
==Sub-stages==
Stage 4-1: Trick Room (also called the The Endless Tower) - features ruins and green rotating platforms that require lightning-quick reflexes lest you be dumped into oblivion. Its boss is Puweyxil.
Stage 4-2: Rotating Room (also called the The Rotating Chamber) - walk up to the floating hook and hang on for dear life as the room rotates it's spiked-walls and assaults you with medusa heads.
Stage 4-3: Rotating Cylindrical Passage (also called The Spinning Hall) - the background spins as you traverse the area avoiding skeletons that burst out of the back walls and the crumbling walkways.
Stage 4-4: Pathway (also called The Lower Tower) - get through the last part of the tower while the platforms rise from below to try and crush you to your death. Its boss is Koranot.
==Enemy Data==
==Notes==
*It is possible, and highly likely even, that the sub-stage names for 4-1 and 4-4 found on the Nintendo Power map were switched.
**4-1 is the first block in the stage and as such is situated lower than the rest of the stage. Additionally, there is no aspect of this block that could be described as "Endless" aside from the creepiness of the red-eyed skulls that are always looking your way.
**4-4 features a vertically looping layout that can be ascended or descended endlessly (until time runs out) as well as being situated at the top of the stage.
==Gallery==
===Screenshots===
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===Design documents===
:Design documents found in The History of Castlevania: Book of the Crescent Moon.
SCV4 Rotating Room.JPG|Stage 4-2 design document
SCV4 Rotating Cylinder Design Doc.JPG|Stage 4-3 design document
Super Castlevania IV Giant Boss Concept.png|Concept for a generic giant boss which would be used for the final boss in this stage.
===Maps===
Stage 4 Nintendo Power Super Castlevania Map.JPG|Nintendo Power map.
Super Castlevania IV Stage 4 Rip.png|Stage rip
Super Castlevania IV Block 4 Map.gif|In-game map
==Videos==
Super Castlevania 4 Stage 4
==Other appearances==
While most stages along the most direct route to Dracula's Castle in Castlevania II: Simon's Quest are represented in Super Castlevania IV, Berkeley Mansion and Brahm's Mansion are off this route and appear to have been moved together as separate towers of Stage 4 in front of, and relatively near, to Dracula's Castle. Each tower has their own background music and bosses, probably making them represent the two different mansions.
Brahm's Mansion probably corresponds with the Endless Tower. Its boss, Death, was replaced with an enemy similar to Death's giant skull form in Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, Puweyxil. It has skulls whose gaze follow the player around, similar to how stages Death resides in tend to have skulls lying around.
Berkeley Mansion, which was the first mansion in Simon's Quest, but not along the most direct route, is probably represented by the opposite tower of the Trick Mansion, the Lower Tower. In the Simon's Quest map, it appears as if Berkeley's Mansion could be reached by traveling through the Denis Marsh, which surrounds part of it. No such path actually existed in Simon's Quest, but the next area after it in Super Castlevania IV is a similar marsh. The levitating blocks are likely a reference to the special block that moves up and down at the beginning of Berkeley Mansion when you equip the White Crystal.
==References==
==External links==
*YouTube - Prototype tool-assisted playthrough - Stage 4 @ 11:38
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