Castlevania -- 2-loop Speedrun (Hard Mode) in 24:27 [Former World Record]
121(Hard mode starts at 13:10)
Cleaned up this run, happy with it.
If high efforts were made to optimize this category, this time could still go 20 seconds lower or so. Sub 24 still seems extremely unlikely.
Loop 1 time was 11:34 , Loop 2 time was 11:28. Keep in mind that loop 2 is a little bit faster by nature thanks to an exclusive skip in level 2 that saves 15 seconds.
-Q: What is the purpose of this run?
-A: When you beat the game, it allow you to replay it again on Hard Mode. This adds new enemies, makes them faster, and makes everything deal maximum damage from the start.
So the goal of the 2-loop run is to beat the game once to access Hard Mode, and then go through it.
An interesting quirk about Hard Mode is that it's not just enemies that are faster, but Simon's subweapons too. This notably makes it so that the standard kill on Frank doesn't work (holy waters fly offscreen instead of landing on the floor) and so that 2-cycle Dracula is harder due to the crosses being more difficult to recatch.
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