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Castlevania: Harmony of Despair (2010)

Duration: 1:55

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This is the best run I have ever and will ever have of this chapter. My best time prior to today was 1:00.07. I got a 0:59.93 run after a few attempts without caviar and with only one corner boost on the pendulums. This run is the only other sub-1 minute time I have ever gotten. I had unbelievable luck.

I won't do any in-depth notes here really, because everything is as perfect as I could hope for. I'll just make a few notes of things that went really well and don't normally happen:

Double corner boost of the pendulum. I require at least one corner boost off of them, but a double is ideal. And really hard.

Corner boost in the imp room. I also require this, but I often run into the bottom imp. The R.Dagger was supposed to kill him, but he dodged it. The Bible normally kills all the them anyways, but he flew through that, too.

Harpy luck! Holy shit. That harpy was in such a good spot! I have NEVER seen a harpy in that spot in a run before. Unbelievable. My time in this level is probably as good as a perfect level with Soma just because I don't lose time luring that harpy over. I was sweating bullets because I accidentally aggro'd the left harpy and the imp was closing in. Very dangerous situation.

Death. He behaved very, very well. This is his fastest pattern. The next fastest, flying to the left and throwing sickles, is like 0.8 seconds slower. All other options result in my death. Fortunately my bible killed the imp.

The only room for improvement here is if I got the same exact luck, and then did a few more dive kicks on the crumbly platforms leading to death instead of trying to dodge the imp.

I show the equipment I used in this run after the video, just so I don't have to answer questions later.

I am so happy I finally have a run of this level! Time to move on.

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