Richter Belmont against the Final Boss | Vampire Survivors Ode to Castlevania

[@jeremyhicks4517]

When I started this DLC. I was like. Man this is a big map, and a lot of content. Then I beat Death. Then I realized the DLC was bigger than I realized. Then I found out the DLC has secrets. All this content for less than 5$. I've spent $70 on a game and got less content compared to this DLC. They really worked hard on this. Bravo.

[@jaeusa160]

Poncle is the only mad lad who would completely undersell the DLC's content by ~65% just to preserve the surprise.

[@Toksyuryel]

@@jaeusa160 "over 20 characters"

[@jaeusa160]

@@Toksyuryel Emphasis on "over" for sure lol

[@BlackdragonTheShadow]

Pretty sure I saw somewhere there are like 80 characters in total… dear god

[@jaeusa160]

@@BlackdragonTheShadow This DLC is basically as much content as the entire 1.0 Vampire Survivors, and arguably another DLC or two on top for good measure.

[@bird2112]

for a vampire to be playable it took the game to break a part as shown the directer dying and rebirthing into a new beginning, and i think thats beautiful

[@BlackdragonTheShadow]

I’m surprised it broke apart now given how broken some of our runs are

[@gv82089]

Just like Dracula

[@ActionAbe1]

the black disc thing in the end is cute little reference to the ps1 version of symphony of the night. if you put the ps1 disc into a pc you get alucard saying a similar line and then the song plays

[@ng8221]

@@ActionAbe1 I didn't knew that was a reference, It blends really well with the humor of the game I though it was just a joke.

[@hiroranger2156]

@@ActionAbe1 what's the song name tho

[@MitoNova583]

@@hiroranger2156 no official name from what I know, but most uploads call it the Bonus Song or CD Song; searching "sotn cd" should be enough to find it

[@welshmanthebestbanana3635]

This expansion is such a huge love letter to kanomi, castlevania, and the fans. It is so good and just keeps unlocking more and more! This is pretty much the hype of supersmash brothers ultimate and EVERYONE BECOMES A PLAYABLE CHARACTER from all of castlevania series. And im not gonna spoil how much that everyone means for dex.

[@tohothewriter8002]

"Illegally good" when talking about the music is more flattering than Dex makes it sound, since the DLC is sanctioned by Konami. According to the devs.

[@LordDragox412]

Pachinko Survivors D:

[@r3ktfox146]

Believe me if the dlc was not sanctioned by konami we wouldn't have this amazing dlc. In that regard konami doesn't play

[@The_MEMEphis]

​@@r3ktfox146I wouldn't say that The vampire survivor developers have shown to be pretty consistent with their quality output and each DLC for the most part being better than the previous one I think the real advantage that this DLC had with Konami was funding which allowed the DLC to be as big as it is

[@Notmanyusernamesleft]

Song is an arrangement from"Vampire Killer" from Castlevania 2 yeah?

[@Amirifiz]

Vampire Survivors rendition of Wood Carving Patita is amazing. Like, I was sitting at the pause screen stunned at how amazing it is.

[@edward9487]

That ending was amazing. Unfortunate the Director died protecting you, but collecting his fragments was quite... interesting. Watching you rebuild the world. And then sending you to the character select screen and showing you the new unlockables one at a time, and putting Dracula himself before you... MMM. This is top tier.

[@jaeusa160]

Eh, The Directer "died" this way the first time. He'll be back.

[@ohnoezitsjoez]

I'm an old Castlevania fan, and doing this as Richter, all the easter eggs and nods, and then the big reveal at the end.... I was just absolutely blown away by this DLC

[@awkwardliiwastaken]

15:13 - Dracula He's voiced by everyones favorite vampire, Astarion ie Neil Newbon

[@jaeusa160]

Funny. I hated the fetish marketing for BG3, but Astarion actually ended up my favorite of the main characters.

[@Jettison42]

SungWon Cho voiced Richter and Death!

[@quinnalves715]

Dex, the sheer number of secrets built into this dlc is so insane, informing anyone about any given one would spoil a minuscule amount

[@xkall5391]

Possibly the best tribute i have seen in my life the devs must really love Castlevania

[@lucacattaneo3982]

I was like "man, I really would like to see a new Dex's video on Vampire Survivors DLC right now"....and I got it. Amazing 😍🤩

[@Klorolllio]

Hes always on time when you need him haha

[@Floofiekun]

Death stealing your items reminds me of how he yoinks Alucards starting gear in SotN

[@chaoschris8194]

I really think you should play Symphony of the Night! At least that one. So much DNA from Castlevania is baked into this game its nuts.

[@scantilycladvlad6138]

@@chaoschris8194 I second this.

[@morehmal3837]

Agreed. Stop making vids and do a stream of an SOTN run. So many things will make so much more sense when you do.

[@jaeusa160]

I did the same thing with Richter the first time, went stacked with some strong weapons. Quite overkill. As for the boss, almost brought a tear to my eye when everyone shows up to fight.

[@daveed9115]

Welcome to "Part 2" of the Ode to Castlevania DLC! Here's some spoiler-free advice for how to proceed (for Dex or anyone else). 1) You want to keep grinding away at the new bosses and unlocking teleporters. They are necessary to progress. 2) As you figured out in your last video, the teleporters "cycle". You never have to worry about walking back. 3) Check the Unlocks and Secrets menu - you'll notice a lot of new things there to help guide you. 4) The Mad Grove arcana is great, but it's not all-powerful. Stuff that's behind doors you have yet to unlock won't teleport to you, and there are certain rooms where pickups are basically locked in place. 5) In my view there are (so far) 4 "parts" to the DLC, representing the things you can unlock. Part 3 will start when you notice a BUNCH of new pickups (more than you already got) on the map. Part 4 is once you've figured out what to do with those pickups. Each part gives you more things to unlock and secrets to uncover.

[@MarcoOdW]

I think i listended to a conversion you had and you talked about part 3 and now i am only starting with part 2. DAMN this is more bigger than i expected. This is nuts.

[@Nemesis0405]

It's a little bit sad that your actual first reaction to the credits wasn't recorded. This moment definitely is on par with the surprise Moongollow update back in the early days.

Neil Newbon can't take a break from voicing vampires... Wait... a vampire? In my Vampire Survivors? What a blasphemy!!!

[@ng8221]

Don't worry Dex, I went with the weapons of Leon, Trevor, Simon, Maria, evolved them, got the Alucard shield without knowing what it does, got surprised by it, then obtained every book+more weapons, killed every Boss on the map just to get all whiped by Death. Yeah, is a little funny, but it really set up the stakes of the fight and the power of Death, like, they expected the player to get stacked for Dracula, just to perform the greatest UNO reverse card.

[@EmmanuelStoilov]

I will never skip on any dex video as always thank you for the upload i enjoy your content alot and cannot wait for you to get even deeper into the DLC schönen Tag oder Nacht

[@ripl0x]

Well, now I'm excited for all the extra VS content coming. All the limit breaks and fun combos. Also, if you like the music of this DLC, you should check out a band called Master Boot Record. I've been listening to them for years and I finally got to see them live and they kicked ass. You won't be disappointed by their music.

[@RebirthOG]

:( I've been waiting so long to see you react to this ending and it wasn't even recorded... man.

[@juancarlosfernandezperez6843]

If I recall, the remix of "Beginning" (Christopher's default theme) was done by Keygen Church

[@pzbt]

That fairy in the end credits is a familiar you can aquire in Symphony of the Night. This DLC is so goddamn good

[@universedawn4202]

I was banking on seeing your first time rection to truly see if a real vampire survivors fan would experience the amazement, because I got spoiled through a video.

[@MarcoOdW]

Didnt you miss a lot of content skipping all unlocks ? i had a blast with the familiar like shield woman ( last charakter before richter ). A lot of death spawned after 30 minutes and couldn kill me ^^. What a surprise :P. But yeah. the last fight was a blast. I really needed to wait to watch this video, because i didnt want to be spoiled. it was worth it ;). now i can enjoy your run ^^. greetings

[@VGHistory1]

No because he already did everything

[@bearstachio8572]

Dex, re: 13:05 - You’re gonna love that weapon (Familiar Forge) - I got it pretty early in the game when I unlocked Hector. Not only is Hector’s weapon (Mace) great, but I’ll just say without spoilers that Familiar Forge has a mechanic similar to the Among Us DLC - just a LOT more crazy. Can’t wait for you to try that out!

[@jabcmw1]

Between this and brotato, you definitely keep busy!

[@monkeygame7]

For some reason “i know the word propagate from coding…..databases….” Killed me 😂

[@acetraker1988]

Amazing DLC and Run...

[@Sebasaiga]

thank you for that video i waited for this

[@IRules2244]

This dlc literally has more content than the base game and dlc (except for maps, but I don’t think hat counts because the new stage is MASSIVE) It sucks to have missed your reaction to this. The credits cutscene literally had me in tears and goosebumps.

[@LuuneTheMoon]

"Ooh Dex ! You should use evolved Refection to kill some twin girl bosses at the top of the clock tower, it's a very strong weapon !" "Ooh Dex ! If you ever see some new collectibles in the clock tower you should pick them and max them !" I hope that's the right amount of spoil you asked for and that it helps !

[@johndeljoy8071]

Dracula is impervious to Death after minute 30 :) Have fun :) And you can character evolve some characters (like Mortacio for example, but for some new chars)

[@xBrokenMirror2010x]

I'm excited for the solo limit breaks. One of the things I'm worried about, having tried some of them myself, is that many of the new weapons will probably struggle in solo-weapon situations, they simply don't have the AoE. So I expect that several of the weapons will simply fail catastrophically to do solo-weapon limit breaks, and I hope you show us some of those too. Even if it's a bonus at the end of a limit break that did work, or as a cut where you show off several weapons that don't do well in limit break to at least showcase all of these new weapons. I'm also excited to see how you limit break Alucard's Shield (Final Evolution of the Sworb) since it needs to merge 5 other evolved weapons (or 6 counting itself). You'll probably need to set it up so that you have all weapons banished except the 5 weapons you'll merge into it, so that you end with one single weapon (or you wait for the vs tweaks mod to be updated, and simply give yourself 5 super candy boxes and select the weapons you want with a 1 weapon slot limit). I'm excited to know which 5 weapons you'll merge into it. Though perhaps you may just lean into it as a truly absurd run and try to merge as many evolutions as possible into it using candy boxes. The weapon is pure chaos and I love it.

[@MH_Zard]

I think the RPG and the Wrecking Ball are the most insane ones by far solo imo. Though I havent unlocked everyone yet.

[@jaeusa160]

I'm not sure what kind of ratio I'd put on it for these as Solo weapons, but a LOT more and more % of functional ones than Among Us and Contra's selections I feel like.

[@xBrokenMirror2010x]

@@jaeusa160 I think many of them will have a really nightmarish earlygame. A lot of these new weapons don't provide consistent and reliable AoE, or can only attack to the Left or Right (So you always take damage from enemies that come from top/bottom). They may be fine if you do manage to get into Limit Break territory, but getting there will be painful. Like, you probably won't be able to start with Wicked Season to actually do some of them, which is lame, of course.

[@xBrokenMirror2010x]

@@MH_Zard The most fun I've had with solo limit break so far has been Rapidus Fio (Evolved Sonic Dash). It's really stupid. Dex will HATE it. It basically just turns any character into Avatar Infernus with super garlic.

[@jaeusa160]

@@xBrokenMirror2010x Wicked Season isn't even very good anyway anymore. Like it's not bad, it's just with Silent Old Sanctuary, Sapphire Mist (if doing Scan for stats), and possibly Bugaloo of Illusions... is Wicked Season worth using Inverse to triple enemy HP for no reason? Because if you're trying to take things to dummy extremes, you really want Scan+Mist. I haven't started Wicked Season in forever, and I don't even miss it. Dex does, of course, but I'll settle for 95% of the results with like 10% of the risk. ;p The other alternative delays Wicked Season too in terms of Midnight Bolero and Arcana fishing. I do feel like extra Arcana chests were buffed a bit in frequency with this patch.

[@who6242]

I think Draculas voice actor in this also did the voice for Heisenberg in RE8

[@brendygram]

DEX EATING GOOD FOR A WHILE

[@LordRixuel]

16:05 Dracula: well, can't beat Belmont, might as well join them!

[@NeillSmith]

So thankfully I've already seen this fight before I found this video, but putting a massive spoiler like that is the thumbnail isn't cool.

[@lightspeed5150]

I'm about to come 00:20

[@denniscordes1387]

The OtC Addon/DLC is nuts… so much to see, play, exploit, unlock. I played the whole sunday and i'm not halfway done... 😂

[@xBrokenMirror2010x]

If you want to kill death, it might be possible since you can go into the fight with your Arcanas and stats. A stacked Wandering the Jet Black might be able to do it, since it can get you to "Kill Reaper" levels of damage pretty reliably. If you're able to start the fight from an endless mode, you could also just farm up unlimited stats with Lifesign Scan and get every arcana before you start the fight. EDIT: I decided to go and try to kill death, I'm 99% sure you cannot kill death, but you can absolutely break the fight. I went into the fight with Infinite Corridor, Crimson Shroud, 2 million HP, and all of my stats at their effective cap, as well as a Wandering the Jet Black, and all of the other insane weapons I could think of. I've been sitting here on p1 of the fight for the last 10 minutes. So I don't think it's far off to say that I've dealt infinite damage, and he still isn't dying. I suspect that crimson shroud does just outright break the fight though, since you can't die. Alternately, it could be because Greatest Jubilee is spamming infinite freezes and they do freeze him (Or Infinite Corridor is freezing him, or both) Wandering the Jet Black did 200G damage. Infinite Corridor and Alucard's Shield (Infinite Corridor was in the shield) combined only did 500m, So I guess he's immune to that, or doesn't even have an HP value at all.

[@Tarim06]

The CD and the message this is a computer CD don't play it in a CD player.. is a nice touch from all those years ago - where Game CD's would have that message on the first track. The second track would be game data then any other tracks were usually audio tracks - speech or music. Damn this is one DLC that is really worth the money and it only gets crazier after this! :)

[@Plajek007]

Nooooo I wanted to see your reaction doing this the first time ! :'(

[@gussharky7614]

There are, indeed, super secret characters you can unlock, but first, you have to defeat Legion, he's a boss in the new part of the map you unlocked

[@thepainpanda7681]

Wow, they really went all in on this dlc huh? Bravo Poncle, bravo

[@BlackdragonTheShadow]

Well what did you expect the devs were gonna do for a Crossover with the Franchise that inspired their game?

[@Your_Degenerate]

Odd that it's the Alucart sword which is a knock off of the Alucard Sword. In Symphony of the Night it's a bit of a gag weapon that just looks like Alucard's and doesn't have a special attack. Perhaps the real Alucard sword is unlockable?

[@eduardodiaz9942]

The Alucard Sword is the evolution of the Alucart Sword

[@mattm8870]

Swort upgrades into the sword then the shield.

[@stephenp8232]

Waiting for the chain whip that you can control with your mouse... You should play Simon's Quest, and the symphony of the night which is still in my Gameboy like 20 years later.

[@xredgambit]

I've been playing the poop out of this DLC and it's fantastic.

[@BlackdragonTheShadow]

Dex not gonna give spoilers about what happens after your most recent unlock but as a Wise Jedi once said “This is where the fun begins “

[@siekensou77]

what...... that's crazy amount of content

[@oofnt]

The whole bossfight with Death and all the VS characters appearing was already amazing to me, but the part after that revealing I still had more hours to waste... This game is crazy

[@aceofconquest5745]

That is crazy VS is so good

[@FlammieLL]

Was a little mad when he spoiled himself already with this stuff offscreen. So hopefully we get to see his reaction to all of the new stuff the map has to offer, now the rest has been unlocked!

[@fekorak]

There is 31 secrets in the DLC, so thats a lot of things to discover. What you can do without me spoiler the reward is defeat all the bosses in a single run or beat any stage with only fire weapons (don´t use selector weapons).

[@thenonexistinghero]

He says not to spoil but then proceeded to spoil himself on the whole unlocking process of the DLC and rushed through...

[@DexTag]

@thenonexistinghero I dont know where you get that from, I asked in the last video specifically to get the spoiler on how to progress on the map. I didnt say I dont want spoilers, only if the last run would've unlocked further progression

[@Henryhannover]

Can i somehow find a list of everything? Because i am now at unlocking the secret chars but i dont understand 90% of the unlocking conditions cause they are cryptic

[@certainlynotmalo1.0.0]

He said: "I tried to gather the needed information without getting spoiled at all. (Edit: for clarity, he looked up what he needed to do without letting himself get spoiled on what will happen if he does so, if i understood that right. And you obviously missed the last video.) Maybe next time, resist your first impulse and listen twice to make sure your comment has actual validity. Just a tip in general.

[@bearstachio8572]

@@Henryhannover Not sure you caught my response when you asked that earlier - but hit up the Vampire Survivors subreddit now - you’ll be pretty overwhelmed though (but in a fun way, don’t worry - it’ll fire up your excitement even more 👍)

[@monkeybench]

Would love to see a Dracula run

[@mateusfelipecota]

Commenting again but the music of that character was made by Keygen Church/MasterBootRecord, his music style is unique I recommend you to give a listen to him. The difference between KC and MBR is only style, KC has a more gothic style and MBR more a retro/ computer style

[@BuckStedmanTV]

what they did with that death fight was really cool

[@TheDagool]

i love dex’s strong german accent

[@drawbyyourselve]

I wish we get more DLCs like this. Id love for Capcom properties to be included, imagina monster hunter, resident evil or more konami ones liek silent hill, bomberman and metal gear...

[@alejandroandrade9890]

11:55 how did he get the Bone evolution? I've played for hundreds of hours and I've never seen that weapon pop up like that. I play on Switch, I don't now if there are any version differences vs PC version.

[@Henryhannover]

I am now at the secret chars but i dont understand 90% of the unlocking descriptions. Does someone know where i can find explanations? There is nothing in the wiki

[@IcySeaSurfer]

The first thing you should do next is explore the new areas and get the new relics! There's also a certain room that may be unlocked now too 😉

[@WhisperByte]

Unlocking Brauner is super annoying so you should do it soon (maybe off stream) just to get it out of the way. There's a painting gallery above Slogra and Gaibon's room where floating paintings spawn between minutes 24-25 and then again 26-29. You need to kill them with Blood Astronomia arcana. Don't use Hurry mode. It might take a couple of runs. Also, kill that winged boss that spawns at minute 25 with Quincy then use the character that you unlock to fly above the water that surrounds the castle until you hear an unlock jingle. And finally, fight the final boss again with Richter but use the union of all 4 clockwork weapons.

[@Henryhannover]

Thats crazy, i dont understand 90% of the unlock conditions of the secret chars. Thank you for explaining a few! But how die you understand what you have to do??? 😂

[@WhisperByte]

@Henryhannover people on VS discord pooled their ideas and Castlevania lore knowledge and figured it out. Brauner was the last one discovered

[@rllynz7535]

as someone who play castlevania sotn when in middle school this brings memory when i defeated belmond regarding the (Spoiler), daymn i don't know they have 2 stage in there, i thought it only contain one stage.

[@Alpha7721]

Can you make for every secrets post death scene in OTC DLC?

[@eldemonioangel9554]

no way he just fucking died and played it off xdddd

[@leonstarkwryt5254]

Jeah, unlock everything!

[@darthkarl99]

If you think the damage numbers you've seen so far are crazy, wait till you see the maces volution, those numbers are so big they show even when damage numbers are turned off.

[@Salfred99]

Until when will the DLC be on sale? Or is it permanent?

[@wu9311]

Hector is character is would suggest. He's insane

[@Just_A_Dude]

Okay, Dracula is insane if you read what he gets for his special ability.

[@lucapangrazi9217]

Honestly, theres no point to building before death, best strat is pick awake, walk to the teleporter and just walk straight to the boss arena at level 1 and just do it but thats only if you want to be efficient

[@canadian_grim_reaper]

Omg ProZD was the voice actor?? figures they would have him as the big bad.

[@S_crook]

I think the Switch version is bugged. The spells won't work, the Librarian merchant doesn't spawn, the ebony and crimson stone doesn't activate... so I'm stuck and can't unlock my last secret characters :(

[@akonako364]

I love when Vlad gave up the script millions of times. And join the fun crusade instead lol.

[@Ham24brand]

I hope you do an all whip run

[@Golladan]

I wonder if a no-movement challenge with Charlotte and only the tomes is possible.

[@rickygarcia4246]

I heard there's 80 characters... I don't know if this is true or not, I am making progress, but good god this DLC is painful lol. I have to guess what evolves what

[@SammhaelSouza]

I took a look at the progress of my Vampire Survivors otc DLC, I counted 75, I'm not sure if there might be any additional secret characters

[@Mezzying_Around]

All these steps for even more content. Poncle went whole hog on this one.

[@videomaniac6255]

I have a spoilery question i want to ask about the dlc, as ive only played the map twice, making an extra response in case people dont want to look.

[@videomaniac6255]

So my question is, I've heard there's an upside-down castle in I think symphony of the night, can you activate that in this dlc? My first thought was that inverse mode would need to be activated to start. It wasn't the whole process though.

[@MonsterRen]

It sucks that the switch is broken at the moment I can't unlock a lot of secret characters so I guess I have to wait for the patch when it comes and I was shocked when I did this

[@seki108]

I thought I would would be getting the DLC done before the Holocure update on the 15h, and then the extra 20 popped up.

[@BlackdragonTheShadow]

Oh there’s more… ALOT MORE…

[@crookedspin]

Kinda sad seeing you just rush through all the unlocks! Each one could've been a video checking out the characters and weapons. I guess you'll get around to it in the end

[@DexTag]

Na, I think thats boring making a video and the only thing that changes is +1 weapon. The upload schedule will return back to every 2nd day soon, so this would've taken 20 days just to get the boss kill

[@BlackdragonTheShadow]

Well hope you’ve been kill Cave Trolls between runs as you may or may not need to have killed a total of 3,000,000 of them for an unlock… which possibly the most painful kill enemy Y X amount of times I’ve seen in the game

[@Notmanyusernamesleft]

I think "explosions propagate" means here that they chain, one causes another. Odd way to word it nevertheless.

[@JairHernanG]

Perdón gente una pregunta, el escudo de armas, la espada espectral y otro ítem, no me aparecen en la colección de objetos, no puedo obtener el último logro ni tener la biblioteca de monstruos completa, no entiendo si es un error del juego o me falta algo por hacer, me podrían ayudar? Gracias

[@natewayne2913]

There is two more secret bosses you need to beat

[@formalcat9526]

So that means our cosmic entity is gone forever? I thought the director in the lore is the "big man behind the curtain" but it helps you fight death

[@VGHistory1]

No. Directer gets reborn.

[@tiberiubutum580]

i've spent yesterday like 10 hours with every single weapon fully upgraded. even with those i was not able to kill it... i don't know if it is intented but i will sacrifice a goat to know how to kill it... it is my missing bestiary entry. this keeps me at 99.99% :D

[@Fishman465]

Bugged atmosphere, that's why it isn't being addrd

[@copystrike9406]

Next time play Dracula and end the new added bossea in the new unlocked ares and be ready for the surprise you'll get after finishing the stage with him *Don't tell him that there's more than another 10 characters that'll appear in the selection menu*

[@MuhammadAliHassan-r7t]

Could do limit breaks without lifescan because I like to see the struggle to unlimited power

[@olivierdasilva5585]

Try and unlock ALL the secrets even the ones you unlock later in the dlc progression

[@goodbrothernero9732]

Getting every dlc weapon and evolving them will probably destroy the game😅

[@darenabryant9100]

Well looks like you're secure for content for a nice while, lol.

[@NickArcade]

But wait there's more

[@iamsushi1056]

Jeez. Happy content, huh?

[@AkujiTester]

I bought this DLC on a whim, but haven't gotten around to playing it yet. When I saw Jonathan, Charlotte and Soma I knew I was in for a fun ride. Those are the MC's from the 3 Castlevania games I played and I'm now really looking forward to spending some time on this DLC

[@jimburlington8488]

Does this make you want to go back and play Castlevania?

[@LunaticEdit]

20:22 if you know, you know :)

[@ashmaDey]

epic

[@jaeusa160]

@17:20 I think the whole sequence is scripted regardless. For the 2nd time I went in, for a Secret reason, I did in fact have enough movespeed to prevent the Scythe from TRYING to hit me. Once it starts attacking, you will be hit no matter how far you can go to progress the fight's script I assume. But if you don't get close enough for it to try to attack, you can kite endlessly as far as I can tell, but I think Death simply has infinite HP until all the scripted events cycle through. Much like how The Directer was himself a largely scripted fight, with some unavoidable shenanigans, and more about the spectacle than a fight.