AGDQ Practice: Castlevania Symphony of the Night in 33:14

This video serves a couple purposes:
1) To test uploading videos longer than 15 minutes.
2) To show a little progress compared to my 34:34 from a few years back.
3) To promote Awesome Games Done Quick, Speed Demos Archive's charity marathon. It's happening from January 6th to the 12th. I'll be playing both this and Dracula X Chronicles around midnight on the 8th. Check out all the info at speeddemosarchive dot com.
4) To get some opinions to see if this is worthy to be submitted to SDA. I'm thinking not, though.

Eh, I don't feel like annotating. I'll point out stuff here:
- 0:00 Final Stage Bloodlines was perfect.
- 2:19 Missing the Cube of Zoe twice is lame, but very funny.
- 3:03 The things that drop acidy spit love to screw me over.
- I probably collected too many hearts during the 1st 10 minutes. The big heart at 8:33 was definitely unnecessary. I don't even know why the hell I decided to get that one.
- 9:34 I usually don't screw up on those skeletons. I dunno, they were just getting me that day.
- 10:01 Screwing up Soul Steal hurt me twice.
- 10:41 Werewolf/Minotaur went very well.
- 12:01 For some reason Alucard didn't want to jump there.
- 14:31 Batucard!
- 15:02 My strength must be low. I can usually kill Karasuman with less Shield Rod hits.
- 17:20 These rooms could've been smoother.
- 17:58 The game screwed me out of a wolf dash.
- 18:25 In hindsight avoiding that Heart Max Up is more trouble than it's worth.
- 18:57 Richter skip on the first try.
- 21:09 Fucking Medusa Heads. Well, it could've been worse. One could've hit me at the top of the first Flying Armor room.
- 22:34 Bullshit hit from the skull.
- 23:21 I didn't get IWS all the way across. But I got most of it.
- 23:49 I'm officially naming these RomKicks.
- 25:42 RomScout uses a better strat for Death's first form that I just can't replicate. I didn't even try in this video, and likely will never.
- 26:37 I don't know why I transformed there. You can jump to that platform easily, then double jump up and then fly as a bat.
- 27:34 One extra cast had to be used on Medusa because of low strength. I'm betting my strength will be worse at the marathon.
- 28:50 Botched the divemorph twice in that stretch, then screwed up IWS, causing the fall in the big room to be awkward. I got the IWS in the room before Olrox to make up for it.
- 29:16 I can usually kill Akmodan II with six holy waters. That's why the last hit was late.
- 30:10 That just sucked.
- The rest from there is great. One cast Shaft kill. Killed Drac before he squished Karasuman.
- And as a final note not about the run per se: Sony better stop flagging these Castlevania videos. I'm sure there's someone in Germany who would really like to see this but can't. It just ain't cool, Sony. Quit it.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Castlevania
• Symphony
• of
• the
• Night
• speedrun

[Destakob]

best one yet. question.. how do you start with that Heart Refresh?

[Satoryu]

@Destakob Finish Final Stage: Bloodlines with 0 hearts left.

[iammai17]

i dont understand why the gold and silver ring werent collected to meet maria and get those glasses that could see shaft controling ricter? why didnt you have to fight him? please explain?

[Satoryu]

@iammai17 Cause it's faster to just skip him altogether.

[iammai17]

@Satoryu sorry but im still confused. how can you skip past ricter? how is it possible to get to the inverted castle without destroying the green orb that was controlling ricter? and to do that you must have the glasses in your possession. could you give me a clearer explanation? thanks =D

[Satoryu]

@iammai17 By using the wolf relics to jump up to the throne room like that, it screws up the cutscene triggers. Instead of loading the Richter fight, it loads the cutscene afterwards, which takes you right to the inverted castle. So long as you unmorph;if you're still a wolf while the cutscene starts, you won't be able to jump up to the staircase before the portal.

[tikkeltje]

DAFUQ

[manydk]

hey at 8:55 how were you able to change from the wolf to bounce off the fire to give you a extra boost of height.

[HuggableEmo15]

Did I just watch Michael Jackson's Moonwalker but with Zombies and monsters? O_O

[medomuffen]

if you ever died.. you would be fucked lol