Speedrunners Broke Castlevania's Most Annoying Mechanic
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• Castlevania Dawn of So...
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00:00 intro
00:54 run start
02:13 get your money up
03:03 zipping explained
04:46 speedrun continues
05:42 more broken stuff
09:18 RPG route explained
10:57 back to the abyss
12:18 double zip
13:18 more boss fights
19:10 final boss
21:34 end
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Listen, you have a touch screen, you gotta gimmick. It's the law
Ecclesia had the best gimmick
Thankfully Mario Kart DS has the right idea of just make up your own emblem.
@@theblaze5530 The Albus teleporting, right? Its obscenely fun!
You're not far off. With each system Nintendo has implemented certain mandates to get certified and for the DS it was that there must be touchscreen controls for some gameplay element. Other notables being using motion for the Wii, the pad for the WiiU and having 3d for the 3DS. They were all eventually relaxed but Dawn of Sorrow (drinking game: take a hit for every DS game that has a "DS" initialism) was close enough to release to be caught in that.
@@phorchybug3286 but it also have the microphone gimmick in Ballon Battle
Initially thought that the "RPG route" was role playing as a vampire because of the succubus souls. Actually, it was much more literal than that.
Well Soma almost kind of is a vampire anyway so it's hardly even roleplaying.
I'm surprised you did not mention that this glitch can be used to obtain all three possible endings in one speedrun
what
I like your funny words magic man
the fact that the other route involves a goddamn RPG is really the banana on the bread
This is the first time I have ever heard this saying, and I feel like it should be a timeless one that everyone had used at least once in their lives.
12:06 One point of clarification, the wiki just straight up lies about the drop odds here, the soul drop is not anywhere close to 12%. In reality the odds are around 2.35%, or roughly 1 in 43. Which, granted, when compared to Dawn's more dire drops getting as bad as 0.39% (1 in 256), still generous in that context at least.
edit: 14:25 Quite generously, for being only in the final few rooms of the game, Black Panther in reality is actually 12.5%, being 1 in 8
Fix the wiki
So did you fix the wiki?
2:11 "this bald man" This is a disrespect to Hammer, and you're about to pay dearly for it.
final boss Stephen King with the Langoliers
3 days late with the same thought...
I always thought they looked like goddamn Langoliers.
I think the single best part of the game is the Soma fight in Julius Mode, it's so sick. I especially like how Soma has a voiceline for whichever character you enter the room with, plus the incredible music...
Nothing like drawing magic seals to zip into oblivion (also banana bread?)
Those seals don't even work all the time on emulator, which is why the "No Touch Screen" hack is allowed for the RetroAchievements set for this game. Did I feel silly when I realized that after failing the same boss several times...
What emulator are you using? I'm using Desmume and never had any issues.
@@gamerofthetime Desmume core in Libretro. This was quite a while ago. Should mention that I'm using a touchpad on a laptop.
Patching out the seals improves the flow of the game so much.
@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine Debatable.
@@gamerofthetime I thought they were cumbersome, awkward, and needless at the time, they were clearly there because Nintendo mandated that the devs made use out of the touch screen gimmick, hence why this iteration of it was not seen in the other DS games.
Trying it on emulator with the patch after having played it many times over the years, I thought it made it much more fun to fight the bosses. I didn't have to tear my grip and grab the stylus out of my mouth to draw perfectly on a tiny screen in an increasingly tiny amount of time, I just had to engage in the combat itself.
I remember discovering the succubus-cutal glitch as a kid by accident and then going crazy around the castle with it, trying to finish the game as quickly as possible and being absolutelly taken out of my mind when i discovered that you could go off-bounds on save rooms and go around in such a way that gave you itens like Alucard Sword and the souls from Julius Mode.
I was way too obsessed with this game tbh and i couldn't be happier i got the chance to feel this way, my favorite Castlevania game ev4r
Note: I never could really finish the game as quick as i wanted, i avoided saves and even with them, doing Menace low-level is hell
I not only never struggled with the seals but felt cool doing them.
Perspective is a wild thing.
ETA: I think I should clarify, having watched like 30 more seconds, that I only ever played casually
I hereby state that we would indeed like a Julius run featuring Diagon.
I actually enjoyed those seals. It was a nice touch where you do the final move yourself.
It did help that I was good at it and almost never failed though. Probably saved me from a lot of frustration.
I was never bothered by drawing seals in this game. I can't imagine how much people would hate a game like LostMagic - the combat was entirely based on drawing runes in real time.
Lost Magic is ABSOLUTELY goated. Love my boy Isaac Lightbrad
I've never played this particular Castlevania before, but I do feel like with what I've seen, there are a lot of games with notably more obtuse touch screen gimmicks that I imagine would drive speedrunners bananas. Bread-and-butter casual playthroughs might find it frustrating to have some of their progress undone if they mess it up, but assuming the mechanic works properly (like I said I've never played the game so I don't know how accurate the touch controls are), I don't think I would've found it as annoying as some do. Even so, it's definitely interesting how it allows for such wild skips, though funnily enough it's the tutorial that makes this possible - had Konami assumed the players didn't need to practice the seal motions, then runners would be a lot more limited in what they could do.
The gimmick is notably frustrating on PC emulators, its near impossible to do any kind of seal with the mouse and you can't even do it slowly since its a timed event. Thank god for patches.
@@josefinae1403 Reminds me when I tried to play the first Megaman Starforce game on emulator. What should have been a very standard touchscreen minigame was near impossible, and it was required to progress. I had to slow down the emulator speed to get through those sections.
@@Antifrost if you played Castlevania Aria of Sorrow, this is a worthy sequel, i still prefer Aria but Dawn is good
@@josefinae1403 I actually never had any problem with the seals on the emulator, and I was dreading the hell out of them because I thought they were going to be miserable with the mouse. And yet I think I only failed a seal once.
@@ezelalia5739 I actually like Dawn slightly more than Aria by virtue of it being a bit more challenging IMO, but they're both top tiers in the series.
I really enjoy these Speedrun explanations.
I wonder which one will be next?
Maybe how to speedrun Banana Bread? Burn %?
Love the video! I'd say more but I think I hear the oven beeping which means my banana bread should be just about done.
This is such a cool video, basically a condensed explanation of the whole speedrun route. I hope you do more of these for other CV games. Keep it up Dr4gonBlitz!
These speedrun collabs are super informative and hella fun to watch!
Whoa, fascinating! Cool vid - thanks for the edit/share, DB! I like tours like this
Another great speedrun explained. Thanks DB and Diagon
first you need a bananaa, then you need some bread....... spread banana on the bread then you have banana paste and maybe banana slices on bread
That was soo good.
You are so good at explaining speedruns!! it's really impressive how comprehensive everything you say is
I get why speedrunners hate it, but in my casual playthroughs of dos I always thought the seals were a fun final flourish on boss fights
edit : ok so i made this comment before i was somewhere i could actually hear the video, turns out speedrunners like them, regular players dont like them
also banana bread
Ooh, this one was on my main page, I hope algorithm is picking your chanel back up!
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8:10 I remember doing this with the cutall all the time when playing the game as a kid, felt so good discovering something like that was possible, like eating a delicious piece of chocolate chip banana bread.
Banana Bread.
These glitches feel crazy to me as someone who hasn't attempted speedrunning, but they're quite fascinating!
A yes, a type of non-yeast bakery product that is the saddest end for a certain yellow fruit.
Was only aware of the RPG route, so it is really cool to see this route.
Banana Bread
I enjoyed hearing and seeing the speedruns, please do more!
I love how there are so many exploits in this speedrun but all the RNG requirements makes speedrunning DoS seem like a gamble.
You always do such an excellent job breaking down these runs and the strategies.
I loved this game when I was a kid. It was the source of my first ever rule breaking in my life, which was to sneak my DS up to my room in the middle of the night when everyone else was asleep and playing with headphones on. We were only allowed 1 hour of video game playing a day, so this was MAJOR.
Also, the soundtrack (and also obviously setting) was so sinister. It led to even MORE heart pounding excitement, cuz I would constantly whip my headphones off to listen in a panic, thinking someone was coming to catch me.
The only was it could have been better is if I could have enjoyed some Banana Bread with it at the same time... ;)
Excellent video, and thanks to Diagon for explaining! Very nice. When they preformed the first Zip with the Axe, I thought right away, "Wow, that's like the Sucubus-Cutall canceling glitch you can use to get around barriers and out of bounds..." only for that to also show up! That was pretty neat!
5:15 Fuck... Apparently, whoever localized the game assumed "kataaru" (the Japanese term for the weapon) was the name "Cutall," whereas it is literally an adaptation of the proper word for this type of bladed weapon, the katar.
Glad I don't have to perform a magic seal when making Banana Bread, it would be terrible! Thanks for uploading this, it was amazing to watch!
This and a prequel are one of my all time favorites. I love these games so much. Great to learn something new about them
Those little balls of teeth during the final boss have GOT to be inspired by the monsters in the old movie The Langoliers.
They're almost spot-on copies.
Great video!
Dancing former vice presidents
Never tried Banana Bread before, but I'd like to. Also, nice vid. Love how informative they are, and I always learn something new.
"THESE LITTLE JERKS!" Sir, they are called "Langoliers"
pain à la banane
great video!
I've learned a few things here heh
hmm it would be nice to have some banana bread huh
I just adore this game so much. Seals not so much. Great job by you and Diagon! Banana Bread!!
now i want banana bread
Those tricks were so insanely easy looking, that made me crave some banana bread.
Homecooked Banana Bread goes hard though, no RNG about that
I used to think the Malaconda Tail used to look like a stream of diarrhea and I'm glad it's being used as the main attack
Love seeing this speedrunner stuff! Also banana bread is delicious!
Hey Dragon I wanted to ask, with a couple of Aria/Dawn of Sorrow vids out now, are you looking to grt into speedrunning those games?
12:17 What game is that musical jingle from?
I know I've heard it before, likely SNES.
The fucking banana bread burnt while i was enthralled by the video, thanks for that dad
Diagon just flexing with his seal skills, a true CHAD. Also BANANA BREAD.
That banana bread glitch is insane wow
Never thought I'd see Banana bread as a part of a major glitch.
All starts with Dinner Dog
Al Gore rhythm banana bread.
What did they do *this* time?! 😂
I should have known DoS speedruns would be super broken, it's a Castlevania game.
The reason that the zips happen is The same reason why it happens in some mega Man X games and even Mario games where you can clip in between two walls and you're in a specific spot that the game will register you in for one frame and then the next frame you're going to be pushed aside to a certain degree and then set back into an X and y axis
GREAT VIDEO
This deserves an algo push
I always really wanted to play this game, hahaha. I had no idea the seals were that problematic; I thought they looked as cool as banana bread.
I don't think I've ever dropped a seal, and I played through the game like 20-30 times as a bored teenager back when it came out - I also revisited it in 2020 when I suddenly had an abundance of spare time, and it was still great
Just here for the banana bread...
I remember doing horizontal zips with the succubus soul a long long time ago after reading about it on the game FAQs forum, this rules
That tail!!!😂😂😂
holy shit it's Jupiter Climb
I gotta try these glitches on my next playthrough.
I want some banana bread.
turning those magic seals into magic spells
I'm guessing not every page or screen has a valid "load zone" connected to it so it uses some default or placeholder value?
Best Metroidvania. All the DS games are great, but there’s just something about this game I can’t get enough of! ❤
i loved this game when i was younger. but i never knew that soul was so strong because of how dumb it looked.
Where can you find the full map at 2:06???
I did the sensible thing and played the ROM hack that removed the need for touchscreen controls.
oh i learned to do this several years ago after seeing it in a gdq run
I watch what the speedrunner do and a thought come to my mind, the same thought that come when I look online about Elden Ring walkthroug
"How do you find this?!"
Sure do love a good loaf of Banana Bread
Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring
Banana Bread- no, wait
Shit, I haven't had banana bread in a while, now that you've got me thinking of it. Anyways, awesome vid dude
I remember this game! As a child i never reached tge first boss lol . I tried multiple times too
If anyone wants to chat with me, I'll be in the Load Zone.
my mom makes some SUPER good banana bread with chocolate chips and mini Reese's in them. melt a pad of butter on a slice and it's just. divine.
I literally beat Dawn of sorrow for the first time yesterday, what
I dont speedrun but can it be that opening practice is checking your location and brcause your hit box is over a load zone thr preactice location check reads the room and saves that to memory. Then when you complete the practice it pulls that memory for your new location.
Humans and drawing, such a love-hate relation
spoiled milk explosion in 3-
BLEEGHUGHU!!
oh fuck...
thanks for reminding me of the LAbeast
man i love me some banana with bread
Dawn of Sorrow was my first and so far only Castlevania game. I still love it, gimmick and all. Though, I would like a remake or something on newer systems that doesn't use it.
Imma go for some banana bread now
sounds tasty
Can I still join the club if I don't use the passphrase? Something about a banana or whatever. I dunno, I wasn't paying attention. Gotta make that bread.
I always knew that banana bread would break the gamr.
As a Pokemon Ranger GS enthusiast, the only response I have to people in a snit over these seals is "skill issue."
I want some delicious banana bread
Thank you for delicious Banana Bread!
banana bread sounds really good right now
I just don't bother and typically use a magic seal removal mod.
Bless me actually being able to play emulation via ds carts