Aria of Sorrow Hardtype! New Weapons, Rooms, & Encounters (Full Playthrough)

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[@JupiterClimb]

You can find this game here: www.romhacking.net/hacks/7330/

[@luminatron]

Thanks for playing. Genuinely had fun watching. Shame you didn't get a Positron Rifle drop from Legion or find any of the Katana-types. Also, Agartha has no element, prolly why it's kinda mid. Alastor also deals huge damage but Final Armor resists everything. Sherman Ring has 5× the exp it normally gives and you don't gain stats for the first 10 levels so I thought it was a better choice... I might have to rethink that. im not gonna fix the arena skip coz that was a ballsy move ngl E: nah i have to fr

[@JupiterClimb]

@@luminatron It really is a great hack! Had I known about the Sherman buff, I might've chosen it. That's quite a boost.

[@JasonMacGyver21]

Em qual emulador vc recomenda jogar essa versão do jogo,é que arquivo vc usa ele ? É dá pra jogar no Android?

[@luminatron]

@@JasonMacGyver21 i use bizhawk, you need an ips patcher like flips, yea if you have an emulator on android you can

[@JasonMacGyver21]

@@luminatron pq vcs só dão o arquivo corrompido?

[@Tanriel_Bloodwood]

"I'm gonna go the intended % route" - JupiterCilmb, not even 30 mins before skipping half of the game

[@dabiggestratintown]

The fact that soul drops are super high, combined with how each soul is hyper-buffed, really adds an interesting type of player expression, especially with some of the best souls just laying around

[@Neo-qf7jn]

Bro traumatized with Quetzalcoalt bcs of that Dawn of sorrow chapel room💀

[@ThatGuyRusty]

Recently found your channel because I was doing my own playthrough of Aria of Sorrow. Super entertaining stuff, man. I love your enthusiasm as you play.

[@Shyguymask]

LOVE the recoloring work here.

[@xgqbriel]

Same

[@rodrigoferreiramagalhaes3828]

The best AoS romhack I've seen until this moment. And there's no better player to show it off to us than Jupiter, really man your gameplay is fantastic !!!

[@taciolothar3794]

É maneirinho mas é difícil demais, deveria ter um normal Mode e esse Hardtype. O Mod Alter dá 10 a Zero nesse aí.

[@thiagotafurisantos2308]

​@@taciolothar3794Mano, você sabe se ainda dá pra jogar essa hack, quando eu baixo o patch no site do comentário fixado eu não consigo tirar o zip porque diz que o arquivo está corrompido.

[@TheTolnoc]

I didn't even know Giant Ghost had that attack! Amazing what a few extra HP can do for a monster.

[@YuNarukamiKun]

JC: “…and no healing.” Giant Worm: “Am I a joke to you?”

[@krullachief669]

I love how, because they remixed the game so much and made it so much more challenging, they offset some of the challenge with much, much better soul drop rates. It's just a good choice.

[@Jurarigo]

There's room for improvement, but it looks very fun! Chaos should probably be immune to Dark elemental weapons like Death's Scythe, though.

[@MaskedGuyCh]

52:05 That's one too many Manticores there lol Probably my biggest gripe with this romhack, enemy placements creating slowdowns is not something you want to have in a mod/romhack. But otherwise, this is a very good romhack with some cool ideas! I loved the shortcuts.

[@fable23]

Of all the changes made by this hack, I think my favorite is the way it handles spells and MP. By making spells more expensive, but giving you increased MP regeneration, the hack encourages you to use spells without being completely reliant upon them. They're meant to be part of a larger offensive plan rather than your bread and butter, which I think is nice.

[@jimmygnartr0n]

idk why but blasting crows with a nine milly was hilarious to me

[@tehberral]

It's one small thing, but I really appreciate fixing the mistranslations. Skula and Ronginus have always bugged me. Lubicant is just funny though.

[@Gamerdude535]

And the Gladius actually makes sense animation wise in this hack! Cuz it’s a type of Short Sword it shoulda been the same size as the normal short sword in vanilla. But for some reason it’s really long for a Gladius normally lol. Though it seems out of nowhere that it’s Fire element in this game too.

[@Mittzeki]

This is the equivalent of the luck code in symphony

[@DJCherryTempo]

I've noticed that alot of ROM hacks of Aria of Sorrow make it so you cant really grind Red Minotaur for EXP anymore. They seem to fix the MP issue with Red.

[@DarkSymphony777]

it's kind of sad that only good non-mod hard mode in castlevania history was order, since it would have added doing what IGA did in the rest of games, especially portrait. would have added a lot of added replay value to the games. hell it would be interesting if a metroidvania comes along and adds a hard mode that includes unique enemies and bosses to the mix.

[@AndrewMooreMar]

1:17:38 Those poor Kicker Skeletons can't kick! 1:20:51 Those flashy effects can be neat, but I think they can also be troublesome for some, if photisensitivity is on the line. 1:21:41 Did you stand on the water without Undine? Defnitely know what my next hack is gonna be. After I finish Wario Parallel worlds, of course.

[@AliceErishech]

1:20:51 It'd be better if rather than that weird flashing effect, if the tileset just changed every few seconds or something. That'd take a lot more work though.

[@luminatron]

hehe it's like the jiangshi from ooe. uh good point. i might have to look for a different avenue to grey out the chaotic realm. yes, scylla (spirit 2) comes with undine (spirit 1).

[@luminatron]

@@AliceErishech true. that'd be cool fr.

[@AndrewMooreMar]

@@luminatron Ahh, true, you explain the stacking soul effects on the README file. I haven't finished my playthrough, so I didn't met those myself yet.

[@wannabecinnabon]

Durendal and Durandal are interchangeable, they're both correct. Durandal is absolutely the cooler spelling though.

[@somacruz10]

54:16 recolor makes it looks like Sotn location 😊

[@luisgarciamoraga1449]

The black panter be like im speed !!!

[@somacruz10]

You know, I like loop idea. It's kinda adds more immersion like you walking around castle and towers. Gives more 3d dimensional feeling to his locations.

[@TwoHonest]

This hack was so fun to play, the version I played had a double balore and double chaos

[@kidwuulf5692]

29:52 you can still make that jump, if you time your double jump right (starting from the water) I've accidentally done it once and confirmed it by doing it twice...

[@azublu]

He knows. Jup is a world record speedrunner for this game, the rom hack just moved the platform enough to where the jump no longer works

[@luizricardo4165]

Bro Those fleaman 💀💀💀

[@SomeDemoMain]

It makes me irrationally angry to see that the Handgun attack sprites use Soma's OG palette instead of his custom one.

[@nicoloenricorimoldi7425]

Why did you make me notice it? I can never I see it.

[@AliceErishech]

This is just speculation but I'd hazard a guess that changing Chaos might be more involved than changing other bosses. It seems like it probably has multiple pieces that would need to be modified at the very least.

[@luminatron]

Nah, I tested it, actually far too easy to just double the Chaos fight. Which I am doing in the next patch.

[@AliceErishech]

@@luminatron Is it? That's actually a surprise. I figured that with all the moving parts, it was probably multiple entities and probably some extra hardcoded stuff tied to the room itself.

[@sleepyren_]

fleaman jumpscare

[@LogosGaming]

This seems so fun, can't wait to finish the ROM hack i am playing to go play this one

[@krokid94]

How did you get the background recolor as well?

[@DigidesteinedSayian]

The version of Aria where Soma is an American exchange student.

[@NecroRiddick]

Thanks for sharing the link, although I don't know how to make it run on the emulator, what should I do, I see it's an IPS file but the emulator apparently only works with GBA extensions, what am i missing?

[@GenyaArikado]

I love your voice...unique and cool

[@LogosGaming]

cant w8 to play this one, so many good games, reprise, hard type, alter, serenade all so good. i even did my own with aos rebalanced and other patches and dsv editor

[@luminatron]

btw an update to this coming in a few days still testing for bugs

[@saudalghazwi9908]

I download the game but it did not play please help

[@SinisterSama]

Would this be a thing with the randomizer???

[@pehhii]

Nebula, final armor, agunea and a few more were from the unused sprites in the game, for sure.

[@mrsjosna574]

Wish I could get the same thing but in alter map. (Maybe with a few more guns in game)

[@Mangeneitor64]

Why are the colors of the enemies, scenarios and weapons different? I patched the game with the mod and the only thing I changed was the color of Soma's clothes.

[@Znagol]

Luminatron is great

[@robertoleon578]

How i can play this in classic boy?

[@eliesgod4414]

how do i play this hack? I have to put it in another castlevania or how is it done? please help

[@dbaglee4497]

Go to pinned comment, go to link, download hack, use any IPS patcher and apply the IPS file you downloaded to a clean copy of Castlevania AoS, enjoy.

[@Gamerdude535]

Nooo I’m pretty sure Int scales damage for souls in vanilla aos too. Otherwise what else would it possibly do unless it’s for mp regeneration like in Circle of the Moon

[@keydey9406]

What did you do to make the game look like that? I'm playing the mod but it doesn't look like that

[@taciolothar3794]

Recolor

[@LycanTroop3]

Wish someone would make a mod that would let you attack diagonally

[@memelord2988]

This feels like 2d dark souls

[@fettel1988]

Did it look like that Milican drop was going to despawn?

[@NaturalHarmonious]

I really like your commentary.

[@alexandermanahan8522]

its no working

[@jaydenwebster7510]

I'm not a fan of the flashing effects in Chaotic Realm personally. Looks pretty cool otherwise.

[@zentazym1]

I think the hack is harder now. I just played and there were two Balores in the arena boss fight. Looks like more rooms were changed as well. I swear the AI of a few enemies was changed as well to be more aggressive / annoying. Also CS got nerfed and can’t be jump cancelled now 😢

[@bobosmith101]

Oops! Yeah, you definently weren't meant to go to Arena that early, right? But it was a viable option.

[@renren958]

Great hack!

[@4zael_]

Wait... WHY JUPITER'S VERSION OF BALORE DOESNT HAVE 4 ARMS!!!??? *Visible trauma*

[@grandpurrsuivant5779]

35:30 is that off-brand menace?

[@AliceMMD]

0:27 Aria of sorrow: california edition