NES Castlevania Sub 12 Any% Speedrun Tutorial
This tutorial should help give new players an idea of what strategies to learn for the Castlevania (NES) Any% Speedrun. With the strategies that I go over in this tutorial, any runner can easily achieve a Sub-12 run and push their time even as far as the 11:3X range. These strats are also helpful in tournaments and weekly races (every Thursday evening at 6PM ET). Once you're comfortable with the strats in this video, you can move on to the best strategies available for the game.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:32 - Starting the Game
1:26 - Backup Stopwatch and Bat Boost
2:29 - Bat Crit Setup and Backup
5:08 - Level 2 First Stopwatch and Bat Jumps
7:36 - Medusa Head boost w/ Whip Buffer
8:04 - Crusher Room, Bat Damage Boost, Double Shot Manipulation
9:47 - Medusa Fight (Standard Kill)
11:10 - Stage 7 Easy Fleaman Strat
12:11 - The Birds and the Bones, Axe Pickup
13:53 - Cross Pickup, Potion Manip, Backup Pillar Boost
15:11 - Ouijawii Bridge Manipulation for Mummy Boss Fight
17:28 - Cave Skip w/ 3 Whip Buffer
19:18 - Fleamen Alley
20:40 - Bone Dragon Manipulations and Frankenstein's Monster (Standard Kill)
22:18 - Beginning of Level 5
23:15 - Fast/Slow Bone Strats
24:38 - Standard Stage 14 Route
25:47 - Standard Stage 15 Route with Bone Pillar D-Boost
26:30 - Death Fight
28:03 - Bat Bridge and Clocktower
29:48 - Dracula Fight Setup
30:13 - Drac 1 Fight Strats
34:23 - Drac 2 "Cookie Monster" Strats
35:41 - Credits and Outro