Can You Beat Castlevania SOTN Without using Animal Forms?

Alucard, Son of Dracula is back in Transylvania, but this time we are cutting him off from his animal forms, as he is a recovering Furry
This means, we are not allowed to use the Bat or the wolf form.
Lacking the primary mode of aerial transport, we may end up in some sticky situations.
Castlevania Symphony of the Night is being played on a Xbox Series S
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Extra Music Used Throughout
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Strate Logic inc - Metal Gear Ac!d 2 OST
47 Frequency 140.85 (Alert Mode Level 1 Part 1), Alt - Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake
JunkerHQ - Snatcher
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Special Thanks
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VG Maps for the full maps of the game
Spriters Resource for the used Sprites
Symphony of the Night Speedrun Discord
#challengevideo #sotn #challengerun #canyoubeat #castlevania

[@calemr]

The work with the map is some real high quality production.

[@sirrando]

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed them, I wanted to try and show both the scale of the castles and the help orient people who hadn't played much before where in the castle I was

[@Vicstier]

Man I’m so glad I found this channel. You’re quickly becoming one of my favorite creators to see postings for.

[@sirrando]

Thank you, thats very flattering to hear. glad your enjoying the videos!

[@ChinNinja118]

Watching this while my partner is next to me, the look I got at the I'm "coming mother" part was brilliant

[@sirrando]

I do t know ow what you mean... he was just rescuing her That's all that was going on there 👀

[@itstrugrizzz9203]

This was great and I thought of a random idea Ninja Gaiden is a game notorious for being very difficult beat Ninja Gaiden sigma with an non-upgraded wooden sword on Master Ninja difficulty EDIT: forgot to say great editing, it is very good

[@sirrando]

Thank you! Glad you liked it! The ninja garden games were great. I will investigate the possibility of a run there at some point t

[@ryannorman182]

Enjoyed the editing! Haven’t been watching much recently so coming back and seeing one of your vids is a great start 😁

[@sirrando]

Great to have you back, hope you enjoyed it!

[@ryokophreak]

This didn't show up on my feed. :( Gonna watch it right now!

[@sirrando]

Oh dear! I think that's happened to a few people. Hope you like it!

[@ryokophreak]

@sirrando Was really good. Well done. :) But yeah, youtube can be very unreliable sometimes. Even with the bell icon activated it doesn't always tell you --__--

[@hibbs925]

Awesome to see you upload a challenge run.

[@sirrando]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@plissken4570]

As per usual, doing a bang up job mate! Keep it up, looking forward to your next adventure!

[@sirrando]

Thanks, good to see you again! Glad you enjoyed my little jaunt through castlevania

[@CB-L]

Love the editing. Laughed pretty hard at this Hahahaha

[@sirrando]

Thank you, the editing was tricky on this one

[@CB-L]

@@sirrando*_I'm coming mother!_*

[@sirrando]

👀

[@duffman18]

I love your videos mate. They're really top quality, and you're funny and interesting, it's great. It would be cool if you went through some of the other metroid-like castlevania games too, the gameboy advance ones, cos they're pretty great too. Perhaps not quite as good as SOTM. But they're top quality metroidvanias, a genre that's absolutely drenched in games and so it's particularly hard to stand out of the hundreds that exist, but the GBA castlevania games still do to this day The DS one is great too. I'm mainly thinking of you though. Like, if you haven't yet played them, then you'd be in for a treat, if you're a big SOTN fan. They've got the same kind of addictive gameplay loop and cool big arse bosses that are fun to fight. So you making videos of them would mean you get to play some great games.

[@sirrando]

Thanks. Glad you liked it! I was actually investigating some runs on Harmony of Dissonance. Or some of the other GBA games. Just a case of finding an interesting challenge

[@costby1105]

Malachi and Cthulu's names were switched likely in an attempt to avoid a lawsuit from whoever holds the Rights to Lovecraft's stories.

[@sirrando]

Very likely. At the time the works of HP lovecraft were not yet in public domain

[@Neremworld]

@@sirrando It's funny as 'Cthulhu' wasn't actually the name of the enemy in Japanese either! The one labelled as 'Malachi' in English (aka obviously Cthulhu) was 'Evil', while the one who GOT the Cthulhu name was 'Devil'. So yes, the switch was completely unnecessary.

[@RevanBartus]

But enough talk, have at you!

[@pauIo1179]

Very good video and great editing!! Note you can use the watch and freeze those Flea riders at Keep (much easier).

[@sirrando]

I did know that at the time, I was just too daft to remember to do it, would have made life a whole heap easier!

[@RoryButler]

Love SOTN. Didnt seem as tricky as I anticipated - the turkey jump looked hardcore though, dread to think the timing required for that!

[@sirrando]

That was definitely THE difficulty spike, overall was good fun to have a go at, definitely on the easy side. time to go difficult again 👀

[@Skirish]

Well, i ended up letting out a hearty laugh in public mere seconds in after the furry bit, so this'll be a good time

[@sirrando]

Thank you! glad you enjoy my terrible writing

[@Objectorbit]

Surprised you didn't mention the first Doppleganger is weak to the Watch.

[@sirrando]

Well, you see. The thing is... Yeah, I forgot about the watch, not gonna lie

[@jonburkitt3729]

Keep up the good work, lad!

[@sirrando]

Thanks! I aim too!

[@BinarySecond]

recovering furry, holy shit

[@sirrando]

haha, glad you liked that one

[@memestealer2561]

first time i played this many years ago, i fucking did this challenge run on accident

[@sirrando]

That's the biggest Chad move I have heard about all day

[@donquixote8462]

I knew this run would be pretty easy. After playing SotN, more recently for the first time since it's release, I was really kind of underwhelmed by how easy the game is overall. If you have anywhere near the best equipment available to you, you can melt most enemies. Now no equipment run would be a cool run to see for that very reason.

[@sirrando]

That's true, it was pretty easy, but I did learn some interesting things about the game, Equipment less would be doable, a couple of areas would be a right pain lol

[@ash.j-tg4re]

Someone has actually down it already, look up nyarly

[@13JackStorm]

Kinda amazing this hasn't been commented yet. What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

[@sirrando]

But enough talk, have at you!

[@13JackStorm]

That's what I like to see

[@JayTekken1]

Well done

[@sirrando]

Thank you!

[@gaminggoddess85]

I think the "chi" in Malachi is pronounced "kai".

[@sirrando]

Huh, well, learn something new every day!

[@donoteatmikezila]

Fellow Linux enjoyer.

[@sirrando]

Yes! But how did you tell from that video? The mouse cursor when the Google search happened?

[@donoteatmikezila]

​@@sirrandoThe KDE cursor and the Manjaro favicon on your bookmarks.

[@sirrando]

@@donoteatmikezila haha, well spotted. Yeah I am a Linux shop over here

[@sirrando]

So, your challenge, should you choose to accept it is to figure out what distro I am not using in upcoming videos (Majaro Proprietary drivers, just, crashed everything, and the open source ones are too slow to stream)

[@donoteatmikezila]

I'll have my eyes open.