Castlevania: SOTN (PS1/Hack) Deathless Run - Part 1 - Hard/Survival/No Exp Mods (Normal Castle)

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Published on October 30, 2023 10:38:49 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEO7IQdqBlQ

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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997)

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Halloween is almost upon us Ladies and Gentleman and this is a special occasion! Welcome to my Playthrough of Castlevania Symphony Of The Night my favorite Castlevania ever. On part 1 i will cover the entire Normal Castle and in this entire playthrough i will cover every cutscene in the game alongside all 4 possible endings all while i do it on a Level 1 run completely deathless meaning no game overs. This run also has a couple of mods that has the intention of making the game harder and i will summarize then down below:
Hard Mode Hack: This mod not only gives every enemy in the game at least 2 to 3 times HP, Defense and damage Output but it also balances some of the more overpowered weapons within the game like the Crissaegrim, Marsil, Holy Sword, Shield Rod Spells and much more while some items have been completely removed from the game as theres no way to properly balance then like the Duplicator. It also gives some of the bosses of the inverted castlevania extra resistences to the Holy attribute. The Duplicator in the shop has been replaced with the Mablung Sword which has the effect to cast Shield Rod spells but the Shield Spells now got balanced to have a HEFTY MP cost of over 300MP so its literally impossible to do it in a level 1 run regardless.
Survival Mod: this mod disables HP and MP recovery from save points making you use Alucards arsenal of healing related spells like Dark Metamorphosis to heal and careful usage of MP, It further increases the health of all bosses as well some to a higher extent compared to hard mode mod and finally this mod also gives you a Infinite Distance Wing Smash just like in the Saturn version so as long as you have MP to maintain the Wing Smash or crash into a wall it will wont end.
NoExp: This mod is pretty simple as it simple reduces every enemy Experience point payout to 0 so its impossible to level up yourself and your familiars as well.
Quality Hack: This hack makes the game full screen by filling the borders both on top and bottom while also fixing most of the known glitches in the game that involves clipping through walls, the glitchness of the Sword Brothers Spell while also making the death skip impossible alongside more quality changes like setting the audio to Stereo by default instead of mono and improving loading screens time. It also makes the lid to the place where Hell garden was supposed to be in Saturn already open which has a extra save point (same on the inverted castle). Because of this, you can reach more than 200,6% map completion.
For a level 1 run of this game to be possible in a new game file so no "Replay" file, you need to start the game as Alucard while you have 25MP. This is done by defeating Dracula without taking damage and with the Cross sup weapon giving you a bonus 5 MP and Hearts to Alucards base stats. Since this is the first run i cannot skip the cutscenes to defeat Dracula in less than a minute to gain the amazing +5 to all stats in doing so but what i can do is defeat Dracula in less then 2 minutes which makes me gain +2 luck to my base stats making farming for itens ever so slightly better. 25MP is mandatory as if you 20MP your mist form at its base wont even last long enough to be able to pass through the places its supposed to pass in the first place but 25MP does. In this playthrough i will be cutting from the video the grinding that i will do in various areas to get certain weapons,Armor, acessories etc to help me complete the Level 1 challenge deathless so at those times i will off screen farm it so if you notice in the video me pausing and the ingame timer or kill numbers suddenly jumps thats why.
Because i only have 25MP and it cannot be increased outside of a level up unlike Health and Hearts which can, some spells i will never be able to use like Soul Steal and Sword Brothers alongside some weapon specific abilities as the Hard mod increased the mp use of weapon specials across the board.

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