[TAS] DS Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow "Julius, in bounds" by Cpadolf in

This is a tool-assisted speedrun. For more information, see tasvideos.org/...
TAS originally published on 2012-07-28
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (2005), the first installment of Castlevania on Nintendo DS, is a direct sequel to GBA hit Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow.
Like its predecessor, after finishing the game, you can choose to ignore pretty-boy Soma Cruz and instead play as Julius Belmont. Unfortunately, it seems that Julius's skills have waned a bit since his last appearance ( tasvideos.org/... ). Yoko Belnades and Alucard easily pick up the slack, though.
This run avoids the use of large-skip glitches that can be seen in our other run of Julius in Dawn of Sorrow ( tasvideos.org/... ), showing off more of the game.

[@fedgetfurious]

Imagine the terror in the bosses eyes when they hear -flapflapflapflapflapflapflap- coming for them

[@kyotheman69]

I question what I'm watching, I was like WTF?

[@SonplaysMinEcraft]

IT'S ME, ALUCARD ON THE NINTENDO DS©

[@BaronYoungOfficial]

Poor Julius. Even though the category is called Julius mode, he hardly gets used because he doesn't have as fast movement techs as Alucard or Yoko.

[@InsightOnVideogames]

Truth be told, speedrun or not, Julius sucks at pretty much everything in this game

[@OwlsNeck]

after going back to aria julius for a bit it makes me mad, he feels like he's wading through mud in this game

[@bronzeadollur3271]

@@OwlsNeck age finally hit the Belmont

[@Ninjaananas]

@@OwlsNeck Julius in AoS was Incredible. But I prefer having two extra characters.

[@Lukmendes]

It's not just his speed, he just doesn't have any real advantage over Alucard and Yoko, he has a whip, but Alucard's sword has almost as much range, but also is faster and you can do land cancel with it, his sub weapons also waste too much MP for the crap damage they do, his third jump is completely useless since it barely makes him move higher too... If his sub weapons were stronger he could be alright, but the way he's made barely gives him a real advantage, at least he can fight Abaddon in a safer way than Yoko/Alucard thanks to his cross, so that's something at least.

[@norsechipmunk]

0:30 Flying Armor 2:03 Dario 3:06 Puppet Master 4:36 Balore 6:26 Rahab 7:46 Bat Company 8:40 Dmitrii 8:57 Malphas 10:09 Gergoth 11:41 Zephyr 13:13 Aguni 15:15 Death 17:21 Abaddon 18:15 Soma (TAS skips Paranoia)

[@IamTheDrakarlord]

A legend among mortals

[@mapes2572]

bruh paranoia was my favorite boss

[@alexpetrovich85]

I like that they even changed intro stage music to Castlevania 3 for the Belmont/Belnades/Alucard team.

[@HarbingerYT]

There's another area that has a different theme as well. The Dark Chapel's theme changes from After Confession to Bloody Tears.

[@oohfun241]

Its just not the same without "ULEULEULEULE"

[@lazykyuubi4300]

Yoko is using her ice magic to slide everywhere

[@cgmonkey]

This game looks incredible

[@Atylonisus]

It's pretty fun, had a fun new mechanic at the time where you'd "absorb" enemy souls and be granted powers based on the enemy's own abilities. Some of the abilities would get stronger the greater # of souls you had for each enemy. One of the bosses granted you a DBZ ki blast like kamehameha

[@m_5373]

*ULELELELELELELELELELELELE MODE* From Aria of sorrow

[@funhow123]

Both Julius and alucard use lightning fast jump kicks while Yoko just glides around the floor

[@hypemynizzle]

Back dash literally go BRRRRRRRRRRRR

[@somefries3101]

0:57 Yoko was Lancer's drill sergant in sliding

[@Zeoinx69]

Julius is sitting most the game in some Paradise dimension the other characters sit when not being used sipping fine wine and trying to explain Julius why Man is nothing but a bunch of secrets... before they are thust back into the Castlevania.

[@remylebeau8934]

Demons get their own guest house inside Castlevania? My, my... Dracula is a kind fucker.

[@BIIIIIGMAN]

How long did it take you to do this? This is amazing

[@Ryoten2289]

13:40 When you're upstairs and mom says the pizza is here

[@pcachu]

Brawl Metaknight mains be like 17:22

[@dermilestailsprowerbeutel6644]

the best are, if the chars move but dont move, for example 2:34 thats Funny :D

[@zhengminzhang9027]

💃

[@hernandogaribaldi8627]

Is it possible that you can cancel animation like that without tas?

[@kupoe]

nope. maybe once or twice, but not consistently I think, it requires frame perfect movements. its like the people who play CSGO and pretend their bhop skills are legit. you can hit one or two, not 40 in a row.

[@MoundN]

Didn't you waste a lot of time at 10:30 bc the downkick doesn't scale as hard on alucard as it does on soma.. I believe gergoth was long out of his invincibility frames and it felt like you wasted seconds for just 100 damage. I might be totally wrong though

[@MoundN]

@@zero_mt18 why is that? Could he not have attacked gergoth during the transition?

[@SirHammington]

3 useless answers in 3 different comments. Truly the pinnacle of youtube commenting. I'll provide to you the answer that the author wrote himself, if by some miracle you haven't read it yourself in those 8 months. -The boss in Condemned Tower is a bit weird. He has 3800 HP. After bringing him down to 1900 he will crush the floor and drop to the bottom (though he'll finish his current movement pattern before breaking the floor). He then can't go below about 900 HP before his shackles break of, which is why I slow down after a while in the fight (as I'm not in a hurry to deal damage to him). However, having him go of screen, it's possible to inflict one more hit to make him go below 900HP. As it's only one extra hit I did a super long dropkick to do a lot of damage to him instantly, while still getting down to start hitting him again as soon as he could take more damage.

[@MoundN]

@@SirHammington huh. That's so interesting thank you a lot for clearing it up I actually haven't read this in all this time.

[@iLiokardo]

0:52 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@AxelGame]

ULE ULE ULE ULE ULE ULE ULE ULE ULE ULE ULE ULE ULE ULE ULE ULE ULE ULE ULE ULE

[@IamTheDrakarlord]

another one Tsc Tsc Tsc Tsc Tsc the dust

[@piocco7]

アルカード「ﾕﾘｳｽ…ﾀﾋねっ！」

[@burinku21]

Como faz isso ensina ai

[@plengkungaduh9123]

please play Herc's Adventures - PSX, i love your play, thanks.

[@EvaOfficial2005]

Upload to 1:55 PM UK

[@kof9895]

Wow

[@_QWWQ_]

I miss the ule ule

[@Eben09876]

Dissapointed. 2/10 No ULE :(

[@stuff5499]

Julius in bounds (take 2)

[@onetime5632]

👍😃👍

[@poderosodragon1295]

julius mode final boss is really bad

[@colors3002]

Yeah this is hacked

[@vili_volo1831]

This is a TAS prick

[@Potpie_king]

A Belmont, a Belnades, and Alucard walk into a castle together... Where have I heard of that one before?

[@AlsoMeowskivich]

I still love how Julius mode is a straight up AU ending for the game you unlock by getting one of the bad endings.

[@Debman_]

This game... Sweat Memories...

[@stargazersdance]

Don't you mean "sweet"?

[@illb456]

@@stargazersdance he said what he said LMAO

[@stargazersdance]

@@illb456 LMAOO

[@JohnnyLeyenda]

I have sweaty memories but not particularly from games

[@lazykyuubi4300]

I feel that

[@anton993]

10:27 still my favorite part

[@tiwitiwi6202]

julius mode is hard even in normal difficulty, no weapons no potions, need high attack points by grinding level ups

[@cherrycheetos]

damn look at yoko go, she zoomin'

[@anton993]

I believe in Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow TAS supremacy

[@azublu]

The only time Alucard is better than Yoko for a speedrun

[@O-03-89-ALEPH]

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