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Castlevania: Harmony of Despair (2010)

Duration: 2:39

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So. Wow. This is an improvement of nearly 7 seconds over my submitted run and 4 seconds over my previous uploaded video. While working on a co-op run of this level with Aftermath, I got pretty good at it again and decided to try improving that old 2:14 I had. The result is this video.

I hit every single corner boost except for the two boosts leading into disk armor rooms. Those are rather ugly misses. I also had a bit of bad spectre luck that cut back on the distance of my corner boost in the treasury and my long dive kick in the following room. If I nail everything and get this luck still, I could save maybe 2 seconds. I have had 3-4 runs make it to Drac after hitting nearly all of those tricks, but he gave the single fireball pattern every single time. Bah. This is my fastest time into his chamber I think, and definitely the only run with a 1-round phase 1 against Drac using these new strats, so I'm taking it. I will not be improving this ever again.

The main improvement here besides hitting more corner boosts is using caviar instead of high mind ups. Since I now have Fuma Helm and Retro Cloak, I had much more MP and INT. Caviar gives me enough health to damage boost through the last final guard instead of needing to jump over him (which requires really good luck), and it also gives me a substantial damage bonus to Drac. I do 27 more damage per boomerang hit on the final form of Drac. Thanks to this, I have exactly enough MP to kill all 3 phases without an MP-healing item. Really sick! I love the way this turned out.

Enjoy! This is the final run of this stage.

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