Castlevania: Dracula X - October 30, 2018

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SDAVerification: 2018-10-30 01:54:47 pm

2018-10-21 01:49:08 am

Game Page: http://speeddemosarchive.com/CastlevaniaDraculaX.html

Castlevania: Dracula X (ntscus) (snes) [Any %] [Single Segment] [Bad Ending]

Decision: Accept

Congratulations to 'lildingus'!

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SDAVerification

2018-10-21 01:49:08 am

Run Information

Castlevania: Dracula X (ntscus) (snes) [Any %] [Single Segment] [Bad Ending]

Verification Files

http://v.speeddemosarchive.com/CastlevaniaDraculaX-20181018/

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puwexil

2018-10-21 03:30:23 pm

Professional Second Banana

A/V quality are fine for a SNES game.

Have always had a soft spot for this game's speedrun, despite the game itself having a mostly-deserved reputation as an inferior port of Rondo of Blood. Dracula X's large number of damage boost skips (some of which are quite precise/difficult) and heart count routing being hugely important (subweapon multipliers are purely heart count-based, item crashes are needed for several boss quick kills, and hearts carry over between stages) make for a quite different speedrun from Rondo or any other CV game.

This run is well done overall - definitely improvable due to missed jumps & hits on bosses here and there, but a solid improvement to the current site run and an easy accept from me.

LotBlind

2018-10-30 12:23:25 pm

A/V: very good.

Without being an expert on the series, I think the planning looks thought-out and the execution sufficiently good as well.

Accept!

ktwo

2018-10-30 01:54:02 pm

Nice improvement over the previous run. After having watched both the previous and new run, there are a few things I'm wondering about though:
8:27 - Were the attack and the wrong backflip meant to manipulate something or mistakes? The previous run was 4 seconds faster here. Maybe the inputs for the special attack and backflips are close?
10:36 Is the movement of these guys completely random? If not, would it have been possible to jump over to his platform, immediately duck (to prevent knockback), get hit and use the I-frames to jump over to the next platform?
11:59 Wouldn't it have been possible to jump up these stairs? This is just one example, but it seemed like more stairs could have been jumped than what was done.
15:00 Funny, when I watched the current run, I had a feeling that those platforms would be possible to manipulate. Nice to see that there seems to be a method for it now.

Overall, lots of new strats and some more risk taken. The execution admittedely looks improveable in some areas, but I guess going for tighter tricks, earlier platform cycles and such will hurt the consistency to some extent.

Accept

Nice improvement over the previous run. After having watched both the previous and new run, there are a few things I'm wondering about though:
8:27 - Were the attack and the wrong backflip meant to manipulate something or mistakes? The previous run was 4 seconds faster here. Maybe the inputs for the special attack and backflips are close?
10:36 Is the movement of these guys completely random? If not, would it have been possible to jump over to his platform, immediately duck (to prevent knockback), get hit and use the I-frames to jump over to the next platform?
11:59 Wouldn't it have been possible to jump up these stairs? This is just one example, but it seemed like more stairs could have been jumped than what was done.
15:00 Funny, when I watched the current run, I had a feeling that those platforms would be possible to manipulate. Nice to see that there seems to be a method for it now.

Overall, lots of new strats and some more risk taken. The execution admittedely looks improveable in some areas, but I guess going for tighter tricks, earlier platform cycles and such will hurt the consistency to some extent.

Accept

SDAVerification

2018-10-30 01:54:48 pm

Decision posted.

lildingus

2018-10-30 02:15:58 pm

http://www.twitch.tv/lildingus

8:27 i was a frame late with a damage boost
10:36 the problem is health, iframes sort of get ignorned by axe knights so i could have been chained to death quick
11:59 walking up was timing as to not get hit by fireballs/bats
15:00 funny thing is if you go too fast the top platforms dont spawn

Worn_Traveler

2018-11-02 09:14:27 pm

Formerly known as Skullboy

I didn't get around to verifying this in time but good job! Nice use of the Pikemen (those guys are jerks).