Castlevania: Symphony of the Night by Dr4gonBlitz in

[@blackwidow7804]

One of the best games ever made.

[@Rihcterwilker]

It's awesome to see that SOTN is, to this day, being played in gdq. This masterpiece never gets old.

[@lewisdob8031]

Must be terrifying to see Alucard's backside rushing towards you.

[@hamiltonsupreme8191]

26:43 Alucard: “What?!”

[@TucksPoris]

27:12

[@chrisb8698]

Ah yes, the Vampire Michael Jackson simulator.

[@Tucanazo69]

Christopher Black lmao

[@wowliker642]

Well he is moon walking.

[@fudomyoo77]

omg totally lost it

[@magico931]

Hee heee( Micheal Jackson sound)

[@oaktree2406]

That's exactly what I was just thinking. I was going to make a comment saying "this is literal moonwalking".

[@skudzer1985]

This whole video sounds like an overactive dog sniffing constantly.

[@bradsilvers5793]

never ending supply of sniffs..sounds like my dog lmao..tickles

[@rarafagaza4318]

More like satan's dog doing lots of cocaine

[@Fiddlesticks86]

😂

[@stewiegriffinfortnight2160]

skudzer1985 shield dashing ftw

[@Night-Jester]

The button inputs were insane in this. So kick ass one of my favorite most entertaining and slickest runs

[@francomanzotti3745]

hehe thank hehe hehe thank hehe thank you! hehe he... farewell for now!

[@TPRacingKG]

Love that I can hear the game! =)

[@Gaskinmoo79]

Best PS1 game ever made. Great run.

[@Bizzeplayn]

This was so cool to see. My favorite game of all time. Thanks guys!

[@6Monto]

so thats how u walk, my whole life was a lie.

[@TheLegless101]

Using a shield resets the back slide so if you keep alternating your fingers between them you can move fast like that.

[@TheLegless101]

It's also pretty fun to do

[@earlfloyd4076]

@@TheLegless101 r/whoooooosh

[@warpuppythedragon659]

This is the best castlevanya ever

[@tpspeed]

"It was discovered by Sock Folder." Me: Of course it was

[@carlosalencar2313]

Elegance and composure. Congratulations to everyone involved.

[@OwlyEagles]

I like how the guy in the back doesn't understand how it works but he still tries to explain it by explaining what we just seen by describing what we seen.

[@THamm-xt8jm]

Dude takes like an hour to explain something that should only take 10 seconds

[@embrezar]

I can't believe this game can be done so easily. I still love this game, and I love playing it... but watching it get destroyed is almost heart-breaking... I put so much time into grinding for items, and this person beats the whole game in under 29 minutes. Good job player, well done, and you made me want to play this game again. I spent hours trying to get certain items, and this person beat the entire game in less time than the RNG took to give me a single item that I probably didn't even use.

[@ruggedlemmings9163]

To be fair, it only looked easy. Getting those glitches would be nigh impossible for casual players like you and me. These runners spend hours mastering frame-perfect inputs and precise positioning to pull this stuff off. The only glitch I could ever consistently pull off in this game was the Death skip to keep all your Alucard gear at the beginning. :P

[@BylePatch]

CosmoSpeedruns beat this game in like 8 minutes a while back, you should look up that run

[@embrezar]

The Duplicator is awesome. I have a video on my channel (although I think it might be private, not quite sure) where I use the Duplicator and the Bat Pentagram to show what is, in my opinion, the easiest and quickest way to level familiars. The Duplicator is pretty OP, honestly.

[@TheLegless101]

Well the game itself is not too difficult. It was made for new people to be introduced to the Castlevania series and is one of the easiest games in the series. The 100% run is also around 1:30:00 as well. Also the Alucart set gives you more luck and there are also luck potions you can use to increase your chance of getting certain drops.

[@joemurray]

This game and runs always teaches me new things. Really amazing

[@Matthewsavant]

That’s insane! Absolutely out of control.

[@pizzaholic]

25:34 -Me watching almost every speed run lol

[@ThePanget111]

Imagine being a minion in there and getting killed by a moon-walking vampire

[@squiggofant]

Somebody is shoveling sand in minecraft

[@giorgiofenu5563]

judging by the speed it has to be a diamond shovel, the iron ones aren't that fast

[@ethanhawksley9097]

Giorgio Fenu probably has eff 5

[@00ooo000o]

I love this game

[@WutTheDeuceGaming]

A game I would never try to speedrun just because it's such a treat to play all the way through every time. I may try the skip Death cutscene just to start with Alucard's main weapons though.

[@studlytheknight]

Just a thought. Instead of "no bosses" shouldn't it be called, "Just Dracula"?

[@phantomspaceman]

Nice run by Dr. Four Gonblitz.

[@rarafagaza4318]

Can someone explain me the Death skip? Didnt play SOTN as much as Dawn of Sorrow, because yknow... Souls are cooler. But i would love to farm this run now

[@unusualfrog779]

Rarafag Aza basically sotn has a mechanic where if an attack does a lot of damage to you you get hit with super knock back which will send you flying into the nearest wall, ceiling or floor, so they exploit this to get knocked back and go right over the trigger for deaths cutscene

[@enetsaj25]

OMG I LOVE THIS GAME! NICE SPEEDRUN BTW

[@businesscat8320]

Holy! Sh*tttt! 1080p 60fps. AGDQ just got upgrade

[@ShortStoryGeek1]

how did he know all this trickss amazing such a cool dude

[@ArturLapurinsh]

Amazing Run!!! Superb.

[@kashkhastyle8311]

One of my Favorite games from PS1

[@YukoValis]

24:12 at this point he didn't have to worry about exp. I'm curious why he didn't use like constant bombs to clear the screen when backstepping through that hallway.

[@vordaq]

It's cool to see how every trick just barely becomes possible after the last.

[@tempatempo3805]

Romscouts no kill run of this game was the best.

[@nicolasconcianci6364]

Someone can explain how the library glitch works at 15:25??

[@johnmervinruiz1981]

So cool 😍😍😍

[@jsoaps2]

I want to know how he does infinite wing smash.

[@xtlm]

Shouldn't this run be called Dracula only?

[@rubemevangelista3868]

xtlm husbando%

[@cedrio1027]

insane bro

[@shacrime4544]

This guy is a god!

[@Gaming_with_Azalea_Jane]

I could not possibly count the hours I spent playing this in college.

[@JR-sv3dh]

Best game ever.

[@karlhnedkovsky5214]

Good run!

[@oNeHanDGuN]

best run ever..!!!

[@Codeman73H1337]

8:49 Wow, I never realized you could do Death Skip from the first (leftmost) warg in that room; I've always been doing Death Skip from the second! Do you need more precision to do it from that warg than the second? Also, I always thought that you had to walk in and immediately back out of the cutscene room before letting the Warg lunge at you and send you through Death Skip? Can someone help to make me less confused about this situation? Is this ALL because the runner is playing on the 360 instead of the actual game disc? On another note, it's really amazing how much of the game you can skip. I didn't think "no bosses but Dracula 1 and 2" was even possible!

[@dr4gonblitz]

Codeman73H1337 hey, all you have to do to skip death (works on ps1 and 360 versions) is jump over the first warg in the room after his bite attack and immediately walk into his butt while unequiping the right gear. The cutscene will try and play so you can't open the start menu until you save and reload or load a new area from a CD room.

[@cactusyackestudios]

Juega brutal wow mis felicitaciones

[@ahmedp800]

Amazing!

[@r4tbu564]

Who were in the couch, BTW? I don't think they were ever introduced

[@ValentineValteri]

I didn't even KNOW that entire Reverse Castle existed. I've just been killing Richter.

[@fawfuls]

You've missed out on a lot of the game then. The reverse castle is harder, has different bosses and enemies, and you get the better ending that way by fighting against Dracula instead of Richter.

[@ValentineValteri]

Yeah. I kinda found out how to get in there after I watched this. The sad thing is it was just as easy, if not easier than the first castle.

[@fawfuls]

I don't know if I'd agree on it being easier, but at least the music is different. They could've re-used soundtracks for the reverse castle, but it's cool that they used differing ones.

[@ValentineValteri]

Well I had ended up getting that sword that strikes multiple times plus the ring that "Gives you the strength of 24 men" So I just ran spamming my attack button and killed every enemy in like less than a second.

[@fawfuls]

@@stinkfinga4918 Yeah. It was harder for me on my first playthrough, but recently I've been playing again and it definitely is easier.

[@ianwong411]

when i was i boy we finished it in more than a week. you finished it in just half an hour

[@thegreatMSG]

no blind folded? XD

[@YukoValis]

and no MechaRichter either. surprise surprise. : )

[@AnvilPro100]

No his controller broke

[@stewiegriffinfortnight2160]

Damn! You’re shield dashing is insane!

[@fpejanovic]

can't hear the guy in the middle explaining anything over the audio

[@joemurray]

One of the greats

[@cretinboy3740]

6:47

[@nelc2399]

Start 7:16 Thanks me later

[@calvin6314]

No, I'll thank you now. I won't remember later. Thanks

[@kentmont]

This is awesome. How did you come about all these secrets?

[@NinjaSox7]

26:44 LMAO DID THEY PROGRAM ALUCARD TO SAY THAT?

[@freewilliam93]

What is it the guys too loud over him.

[@SSJvegito501]

When he died, how did he get into the save room near Medusa? I did not see him go there and save. I re-watched the part to make sure. I thought he was going far back before getting into the inverted castle again.

[@boogienightsmarkwahlberg6011]

i know, he said he had a save state specifically for that part, thats why he named the toon medusa. How can run still be valid? The 2 save states had different hp so there is no telling what else could be different. I was looking through the comment section for this very reason and you were the only one who has mentioned it.

[@andyoats]

When it comes to a GDQ run, using safety saves is perfectly OK. The idea of these isn't to create an official run, it's to entertain viewers and get them to donate to their charity by doing something they love. As for the validity of the run, you're absolutely right. Using a separate save file in this manner would have it rejected immediately. But again, that isn't the point here.

[@TheLegless101]

It really doesn't matter if the run is valid or not, almost nobody get's a world record or even a PB in a Marathon. I've only seen it in very obscure games that very few people speedrun.

[@Thelemorf]

Boogie Nights Mark Wahlberg doh *facepalm*

[@ABCDEFGHdumbo]

Tell me: what... -end-

[@travisflesher89]

Fantastic job Dr4gonBlitz!

[@furtox7024]

Sick

[@alisont5335]

Could the sliding noise be any louder?

[@milmil5350]

Moonwalker 🌒 symphony of the night

[@101mrcrazyman]

*HE HE!* *SHAMON!*

[@raptecclawtooth9046]

And i was happy for my 400% well...

[@ZeroEscape2074]

I love glitched speedruns, you get to see all kinds of fuckery that you'll never see

[@RobsterCWell]

36:40 they applauded after the scripture

[@Makotao1995]

what is the plataform??

[@MAD22324]

Xbox360 arcade

[@DarrenT777]

Is he doing the speed run on Xbox 360 because it is a better version to speed run on?

[@yoyosilverx5108]

The load times are faster on the 360 version

[@tubbytabby8908]

I like the Castlevania reference at 13:11.

[@spark1400]

Yeah it was very subtle, i don’t think many people picked up on it.

[@FelipeAlves-wr1nr]

Bom demais essse jogo "!!!!!

[@nicholasrossi5465]

My speedrun of this game is a swift ten hours

[@yujm7]

I cannot aid one who opposes the master

[@GarryFam]

what console ? i wan to play

[@dadangsudadang5963]

Garry Fam original playstation. Also rereleased on x360 (xbox live), ps3 (psn) and psp (in dracula x chronicles).

[@jennyinutil2018]

I still don't know how they do the richter skip.

[@steakcrust558]

I'm pissed that this is the one game I knew all the speedrunning tricks to. I use that wolf transform trick in the time stop shaft room too. I had no idea that all these things combined makes for speedrunning

[@steakcrust558]

everything except for the total warps you do

[@steakcrust558]

holy shit that climb outside the castle gate

[@Azmodanful]

He changed the savegame when he died to the black panther

[@calvin6314]

Tafarel Oliveira Yes, and he mentioned that. He created a safety save for that exact instance

[@emmastone7734]

Calvin Collins yeah the problem is that his health is higher in the second save and that’s cheating because he skipped health max ups to save time and then just started up another save where he got those max ups

[@RaspberrySuprise]

He did that for marathon reasons, it's not going to be a legit scored run. It's only "cheating" if he tried to submit it.

[@Zeuts85]

@@emmastone7734 " yeah the problem is that his health is higher in the second save and that’s cheating because he skipped health max ups" This wasn't a scored run--just a spectator marathon. Besides, the additional health had no actual impact on the run given that he took no hits after that point, and probably any hit still would have killed him.

[@RepugnanciaDulzona]

Ooh yes!!

[@steakcrust558]

and its the baller ass 360 version

[@xongasful]

Namoral esse maluco não é normal

[@Spiritoid]

I speed runned this game in 2007 on the xbox 360 hiscores I was ranked #2, I beat it in 50 minutes.

[@matthewgalloway5668]

Lol

[@crypticDJ]

scootscootscootscootscootscoot

[@jeremysladek6623]

This was a great game! I kept playing it endlessly to collect ALL the items/weapons! It was great, just wish I could have seen the character's face lile in Lament of Innocence, or better yet Curse of Darkness.

[@steakcrust558]

theres an easier way into the librarians room. just make those ghost books come out and do that downwards kick dive move and damage boost off both of the ghost books and you should land on the edge you cant jump to.

[@Slow1337ex]

Alucard backwards dashing sounds like a dog sniffing lol

[@JorgeMendez-ik6pv]

que nivel!!!

[@Obcy.mp4]

Cool how a castlevania video has 666 views

[@entritur]

I really hate the move tech they use to move faster in this game. Backstep i just can't stand.

[@TheLegless101]

Why's that?

[@BastienYaiba]

Michael Jackson would be proud

[@TooMuchToCareAbout2]

Servant: "Dracula, my lord, Alucard has entered the castle." Dracula: "Prepare our defenses, ready the bosses. It will take him days to reach this location." 28 minutes or so later... Alucard: "Trouble the soul of my mother, no more!" Dracula: "How in the f..."

[@vpad1015]

15:24 I wouldn't be able to get that at all. Nice.

[@sirhawkjames]

I'm thinking about this game and I realize how sacrilegious it is that I haven't seen a speedrun of it yet

[@steakcrust558]

wow I didn't know that some of the same tricks I use when I play this game are the same exploits speedrunners use. I always skip death and slogra and gaibon. I cant do it on command tho like most speedrunners

[@naoseioquecriar]

...and welcome another SOTN bug session! Please take a seat and enjoy!

[@ShortStoryGeek1]

are these crowds are tough? its actually an impressive cant believe they discovered these skippss

[@pgfinna]

I had no idea how many Castlevania's I played growing up

[@SakisTotsikas]

He is an amazing speedrunner of course , but using another save from a different playthrough is definately out of the rules. For the situation is ok to do it, but surely this playthrough can not be consedered as an official recorded time.

[@unusualfrog779]

kostasbillo no one tries to get wr in marathon runs so it really dosent matter

[@TheLegless101]

Lots of Marathon's use already played on save files for runs that have an RNG that is set at the beginning which affects the run. Normally they would just keep resetting until they get it but would be really boring to watch and a waste of time for an event like this.

[@Thelemorf]

And he explained that in the beginning of the run.. Insanely hard tricks to pull off in a marathon.

[@ginisis22]

I never watched any speedrun to be honest, this bow it is? You mean you can do anything glitch or trick or anything??

[@wamenslot]

My first run of this game was completed within 25 hours, later i did it in 8 hours. Damm, how the hell they find so many glitches ? Good work for a speedrun, but i just love roaming the castle.