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Castlevania: Harmony of Despair (2010)

Duration: 2:03

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See my improved run here! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck0jPvKDDR8

Ok. This stage was actually pretty fun to plan.

The only real option for non-Yorick users to get over that wall is to lure the Imp from a few levels above and dive kick off of him and over it. I've found that if you stand still against the wall, the Imp will attack you (which is bad). However, if you jump off the candle and as high as possible, the Imp will waste his "turn" to change heights. Then as he gets close he will gladly let you jump off his face and over the wall.

The fight against Menace is REALLY tricky with Simon. I need to destroy two of his weak points, so I dive kick off an axe to get onto the Axe Armor ledge and destroy Menace's chest with a flurry of dagger as he is spawning. After one weak point is killed, he will die after a certain amount of damage, so I damage the face a bunch on my way down to his knee. Not much else to say about that. Just unload any weapon I can as fast as possible. A quick note: if Menace decides to jump as his attack, you lose 7 seconds because he will not die until after he lands. I need him to decide to walk first, but I need to kill him before he moves. This is the only time I have ever killed him this quick.

There are two time-consuming mistakes in this run: I missed the corner boost after aggro'ing the Imp (off the little bumpy pile of bones at the top), and I messed up the climb through the gel blocks. Overall, they cost almost 2 seconds of lost time. In 6 hours of attempts though, I only was able to get the quick kill once, so expecting good Imp behavior and perfect execution on top of a quick kill is unreasonable for me.

I am very pleased with this time, considering my initial goal was around 1:06. :D

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