Meat, also called Pork Chop, Leg of Werewolf, Beef Jerky, Mutton Chop, or simply Food in some games, is a food item usually hidden in breakable blocks which can restore the player's health. Some games have large and small varieties of meat, which would restore different amounts of health.
Game specific information[]
Super Castlevania IV[]
Unique to this game is that small pieces of meat (called "Small Pork Chops") can be found as fixed drops from certain candles (the only similar case would be Castlevania: The Adventure, where certain candles drop health replenishing Hearts). They can also be found during the fight against Dracula by knocking out his light orb attack. Dracula uses this attack twice during his boss fight after receiving enough damage. The player can exploit this pattern to replenish all their health by refraining from hitting Dracula and instead focusing on hitting the orbs only, which the boss will keep on producing until he receives more damage and enters his next phase.
Castlevania: Rondo of Blood[]
- Main article: Tasty Meat
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night[]
Meat is the highest health-restoring food type in Symphony of the Night. There are a couple of other items that give as much HP as meat, though, including the Sushi (+100) and the Saturn-exclusive Delicious Meal (+75).
Castlevania Legends[]
Meat also appears in Castlevania Legends, which restores half of the player's health.
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin[]
The New York Steak is a requirement for completing Wind's "Build Your Strength 2" quest. It can be found by breaking a ledge in the room before confronting The Creature or as a drop from a Gorgon. It restores HP +1,000, which makes it the best HP-restoring type of meat in the game.
Castlevania: Harmony of Despair[]
In Harmony of Despair there are two kinds of meat. Small meats are common and give 29 HP (Meat Strip) or reduce HP by that amount (Rotten Meat). Large meats (Boneless Ham, Roast Beef, Tasty Meat) are three star items that give 100 more HP, and also give a CON and/or STR boost. Most other food items that contain some meat in them also increase CON or STR.
Item Data[]
Item Data: Meat | ||||||||
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Image | Name - Game Type - Users Description |
Attributes / Consume | Statistics / Sell | Found | Notes | |||
Bovid-like meats | ||||||||
Restores half of your life. | Common Drop: Hanged Man |
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Sirloin steak [use] | HP +100 |
Find: Castle Keep Drop: Lossoth, Minotaur |
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Restores most of your HP. | Buy: 3,000 Gold |
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Restores 80% of HP. | Buy: 3,000 Gold |
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Recover 50 HP. | HP +50 |
Drop: Gorgon, Fox Hunter, Hipogriff, Merman, Werewolf, Were-Horse |
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Recover 100 HP. | HP +100 |
Drop: Abiondarg, Imp, Grizzly, Minotaur |
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Restores 290 HP. | HP +290 Sell: $200 |
Find: Underground Reservoir Rare Drop: Killer Fish, Needles, Red Minotaur |
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Restores 290 HP. | HP +290 Sell: $200 |
Find: Condemned Tower Rare Drop: Gorgon |
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Restores 29 HP. | HP +29 |
Find: Entrance |
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A juicy, mouth-watering steak. | HP +1,000 Sell: $1,250 |
Find: Dark Academy Drop: Gorgon |
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Restores 29 HP. Yummy! | HP +29 Sell: 72G |
Buy: 290G Find: Monastery, Wygol Villager, Ruvas Forest, Wygol Village (Jacob's shop) Drop: Merman, Armored Beast |
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A High-quality cut of choice meat. | HP +1,000 Sell: 1,250G |
Buy: 5,000G Find: Wygol Village (reward from Aeon, Jacob's shop) Conditions: Complete "Can't Cook Without Ingredients" quest. |
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A thin Viennese cutlet. | HP +230 |
Find: Mystery Manor |
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Restores 129 HP. | HP +129, STR +5 Sell: $360 |
Rarity: *** Find: Chapter 6 (Hard) |
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Well done | HP + 30% Sell: 1S 80C |
Find: Royal Chapel, Castle Keep Drop: Malachi, Dark Octopus, Frozen Shade, Armor Lord, Flame Demon |
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Cooked with Incredible precision; only a hint of pink remains. | HP +129, STR +3, CON +3 Sell: $320 |
Rarity: *** Find: Chapter 6 (Hard) |
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Galliforme-like meats | ||||||||
Roast turkey [use] | HP +80 |
Find: Abandoned Pit to the Catacomb, Castle Keep, Entrance Drop: Flea Rider |
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Restores half of your life gauge. | ||||||||
Restores a little HP. | Buy: 2,500 Gold |
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Restores 50% of HP. | Buy: 2,500 Gold |
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Restores some HP. | HP +100 |
Find: Throughout castle (all) |
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Restores a large amount of HP. | HP +200 |
Find: Throughout castle (all) Rare Drop: Owl Common Drop: Poison Lizard, Master Lizard |
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A little piece of meat on a bone. Recovers HP. | HP +29 Sell: $90 |
Drop: Fishman, Merman |
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A big piece of meat. Recovers HPs. | HP +290 Sell: $700 |
Drop: Lizard Man |
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HP +29 |
Find: Candelabras Drop: Various enemies (Trevor Mode only) |
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HP +290 |
Find: Candelabras Drop: Various enemies (Trevor Mode only) |
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Restores 5% of Desmond's total health. | HP + 5% |
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Restores 25% of Desmond's total health. | HP + 25% |
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Feeds a small family | HP +120 Sell: 2S 40C |
Drop: Malachi, Dark Octopus, Frozen Shade, Sniper of Goth, Frozen Half, Cloaked Knight, Winged Guard |
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Porcine-like meats | ||||||||
Power: Partially revives lost power; Comment: Appears with secret Whip stroke | ||||||||
Capture these and restore slices of your Life Gauge. | ||||||||
Partially revives lost power | ||||||||
Revives more lost power | ||||||||
Restores your health. | ||||||||
(RoB/DXC) |
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Refills the life gauge. | Drop: Mummy Man |
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(RoB/DXC) |
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Refills the life gauge. | Find: 3. Cathedral |
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(RoB) |
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Refills the life gauge. | Find: 3'. Caves |
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Restores some of the player's life. Food is hidden inside wall, etc. | ||||||||
Castlevania pot roast [use] | HP +50 |
Find: Castle Keep, Clock Tower, Entrance, Outer Wall, Reverse Caverns, Reverse Clock Tower, Underground Caverns (...) Drop: Flail Guard |
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Restores 29 HP. | HP +29 Sell: $145 |
Rare Drop: Minotaur Common Drop: Gorgon |
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Restores 29 HP. | HP +29 Sell: $145 |
Rare Drop: Catoblepas Common Drop: Needles |
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Restores 290 HP. | HP +290 Sell: $250 |
Find: Tower of Death Drop: Catoblepas |
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Restores 290 HP. Delicious! | HP +290 |
Find: Somnus Reef, Dracula's Castle |
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Ham it up with this salted pork shank. | HP +350 |
Find: Forsaken Cloister |
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Restores 29 HP. | HP +29, STR +3 Sell: $75 |
Rarity: * Find: Chapter 3 Drop: Minotaur (5.30%) |
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A real ham for a real hungry person. It weighs a ton. | HP +129, CON +5 Sell: $320 |
Rarity: *** Find: Chapter 5, 6 (all Hard) |
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Restores 86 HP. | HP +86, STR +5, CON +5, LCK +5 Sell: $75 |
Find: Chapter 10 |
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Rotten meats | ||||||||
A slab of rotting beef. | HP -200 Sell: (cannot be sold) |
Common Drop: Zombie Soldier, Flesh Golem |
Effect: HP +200 if Flesh Golem soul is equipped | |||||
A slab of rotting beef. | HP -200 Sell: $0 |
Common Drop: Ghoul |
Effect: HP +200 if Ghoul soul is equipped | |||||
A slab of rotting, fetid beef. It smells terrible. | HP -200 Sell: $1 |
Drop: Zombie |
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Your ticket to a brand new echelon of stomach problems. | HP -200 Sell: 1G |
Drop: Zombie |
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A slab of rotting beef. | HP -29 Sell: $7 |
Rarity: * |
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Trivia[]
- Despite being referred to in some manuals as "Pork Chop", the sprite is often perceived as, or mistaken for, a roasted chicken or drumstick.
- In most metroidvania games, Meat restores 29 HP. This references the word niku, or "meat" in Japanese. Likewise, the numbers "2 9" can also be read as niku in Japan.
- In the episode "For Love" of the Castlevania animated series, during the fight between Dracula and Alucard, a meat dish can barely be seen hidden inside a piece of a broken wall; this is surely a funny nod to the fact that meat is often hidden in walls in most games of the series.
- This little Easter egg was actually part of a small contest held when the second season was released, where the first viewers to find it would receive a poster of the show.
- This type of food item is humorously known among the gaming community as "Wall Chicken", with the term becoming so popular that it's now part of gaming culture worldwide and being frequently referenced among diverse forms of entertainment media. Part of the humor comes from the fact that:
- It would be absurd that someone would store food inside of a building's structure or that it was used as a construction material.
- It could remain in an edible state after a long period of time.
- Even if this was the case, it would be all dirty and not advisable to be consumed in that state.
- In the game Dust: An Elysian Tail, there is a health-recovering item called "Mysterious Wall Chicken", which as its name implies, is obtained by breaking certain walls in a nod to how similar items are often found in the Castlevania series hidden behind breakable walls.