Rosenkreuzstilette - The Count (Sepperin Castle IV)

"WHAT IS A MAN!?!?!?"
-Dracula
A video of me whipping my way through Sepperin Castle IV, the Castle Keep
RKS is the n-th game of the Castlevania franchise. Prove me wrong.
Fun fact: This video was originally over 20 minutes long, but due to the Cirno video thing, when I made this video I couldn't upload videos longer than 15 minutes. So after I had this video ready, it had to go back to editing, where I took the lengthy dialogue and doubled the speed. Since the dialogue, but not the music, was fast-forwarded, I needed to slow down to normal speed whenever sound effects happened. With that came the obvious problem of the music being off-synced. You will notice particularly in one part.
I finished doing the edit and uploaded the video. But while annotating, I noticed that the editing I only did it for two key parts only. The video and audio were WAY out of sync in some parts, so back to the editing block. After some creative cut and paste of the audio, this is the result. Is not a 100% faithful representation of the game, but it does the work for the most part.
Anyways, this is it, the final confrontation against Graf Michael Sepperin. The stage itself has two route. I don't think there's any good reason to pick the bottom route though, since the upper route has that nifty Bomberman Easter egg. Which now that I think of it makes sense to be there, since Zorne is the Bomberman representative of this game, she is the adoptive daughter of the Count, and this is the Count stage. Hooray for epiphanies!!!
Other than that Easter egg, this stage is very standard. And very dialogue heavy. I'll leave a button commentary if you want to skip the pre-boss dialogue. The post-boss dialogue... just leave the video and see you next time.
The boss of this stage is Graf Michael Sepperin, the leader of Rosenkreuzstilette. I love the "word" Rosenkreuzstilette. 'Blades of the Rose Cross' just sounds badass for a military organization, religious or not.
In case it is not painfully obvious enough, he is an expy of Dracula from Castlevania (in the sequel he even throws a glass of wine at you!). By the way, "Graf" translate into "Count", so he is Count Michael Sepperin.
Before Desperation Mode, Sepperin attack pattern consist of him teleporting around the room. If you attack him before his teleportation is complete, he'll teleport immediately, dodging your attack. If you wait, he'll throw a projectile that cause pillars of fire to rise on the floor, with every two pillars leaving a comfortable landing zone to dodge. Immediately afterward he'll transform into a bunch of bats and ram you. He'll continue do these two things until he gets tired and start teleporting again.
Upon reaching Desperation Mode, he'll disappear in his own shadow and rise as a giant demon wherever you're standing. His pattern now consist of throwing three fireballs at you, jumping towards you while throwing fire pillars. Upon landing, the shockwave will stun you if you are touching the floor, making you easy target for the fireballs.
Sepperin is weak to (semi-ironically) the Harness of Sorrow (Klageharnisch). Why semi-ironically? The Harness is Trauare's weapon, who is Zorne's best friend, who is the adoptive daughter of the Count, fighting to gain the love and acceptance of her adoptive father. So basically, the Count gets thwarted by his adoptive daughter's best friend, the adoptive daughter he apparently neglects in favor of Iris. Friendship, **** yeah!
Oh yeah, Iris. We haven't seen her since the first video in the prologue, right? Speaking of the she-Devil...

[@hjt091]

The stage music in this level rocks so hard.

[@raak1010]

AH, I just noticed KZbin edited involuntarily my annotation about plebeian ignoramuses :(

[@littlekuribohimposte]

Oh, the Frozen jokes.I love your annotations. Maybe once this game is over, Tia can ask if she wants to build a snowman?

[@blu_wraith6693]

hmm, the video length is quite fitting XD

[@InzuDraRagna]

In the Major's speech annotation it's "desert" not "dessert". Dessert is something one will eat after a meal. A desert is a place, either hot[i.e. The Sahara] or cold[i.e. Antarctica], that gets very little precipitation.

[@raak1010]

Thanks, although a simple "You misspelled 'desert'" was enough.

[@InzuDraRagna]

I know. My brain hasn't really been working thanks to the recent heatwave that was where I lived.

[@MDKGunner]

Fun fact: there's going to be a english dub of Rosenkreuzstilette and even the talk text is going to be dubbed too just need to wait for it to be released

[@raak1010]

That thing has been in the making for ages now.

[@MDKGunner]

Yeah i wasn't sure if it was well known or one of those hidden tidbits of information

[@raak1010]

MDKGunner If you had a vague idea of what the western RKS community has been up to, it's common enough knowledge

[@MDKGunner]

Ahh well my mistake regardless let's hope it does finally come out soon

[@Amiratruha]

***** i loled with the pun when freu showed up XD

[@ThePinkSnowflake178]

when will the next part come out?

[@orandza023]

you got something wrong in the description.Michael in his first phase will only ram into you after you attack him.

[@MithosOkuu]

Never go full derp xD

[@Alstar]

Video lenght is 13:37 All planned, good job raak.

[@raak1010]

I took me to be half asleep at 7am to finally get this comment.h4x

[@SSM24_]

yey raak video ^o^

[@serisdovakhin]

1:40 why not do a playthrough of those games btw?

[@raak1010]

Touhouvania is on my to do list. Individual Castlevania is not. Touhou is somewhere on my to do list in the "eventually" part.

[@serisdovakhin]

i was going for Touhouvania, cant wait to see you roleplay Sakuya's crazy adventures through the mansion.

[@raak1010]

serisdovakhin First have to roleplay Reimu in the first game.

[@serisdovakhin]

oh god.....thats going to be priceless Marisa: whats with the lack of facial expressions Reimu: what? Marisa: nothing.

[@raak1010]

***** Weren't there only 9 days? I want to do it soon, although I don't think the later stages will be beaten without items

[@MsEkkaia]

12:26 ... sup elsa

[@MDKGunner]

So Tia is the only one able to beat Iris? errr hello Freudia spoilers but look what you do in the sequel also no news on the official eng version of the two games :(