u/logamus_prime

While playing and messing with all the different attacks I realize that Leon never actually cracks the whip, It only swooshes. I was a little bit confused at first But then it dawned on me that as far as we know he doesn't actually know how to use it and Ronaldo never showed him how. So I think it's a really cool detail that they made him unable to crack the whip since he's not proficient in it and is just swinging it around. This could be me reading too much into it given my personal experience with the whip.

It looks like his main basic attack is a sidearm crack though it's hard for me to get a good look because of its speed and the resolution. And then if you do the basic combo he follows it up with an overhead crack but again he's unable to properly crack the whip. there's a whole another argument on whether or not you need to actually crack the whip an order for it to actually be effective against enemies since it has to go supersonic in order to penetrate flesh. Personally I think in the case of the alchemy or vampire Killer whip it's not as necessary since it already has magical properties and just needs to make contact at a relatively high velocity though a proper supersonic crack is definitely preferable.

I also think that the whip is only about seven or eight feet and proportion to him and everything else. Which I always thought was the proper link for the Vampire Killer anyways in terms of practicality though I do think it has the magical ability to expand its length at will.

Anyways I just thought it would be fun to point out the difference between castlevania's depiction of a whip and real world with physics as best I can since I still see myself as a novice with the whip. And I'd like to give a nice big shout out to u/sageoftime for enabling me to play Lament of Innocence as well as every other Castlevania I previously didn't have access to.