That is a lot of fun.

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HE TOO DANGEROUS TO BE KEPT ALIVE

Unlimited POWAH!

SAAAAME. Any clear file with the chaos ring is the funnest thing in the game

Maxim Mode in Harmony of Dissonace is the worst for that. The OOB speedrun is literally shorter than the ending scene.

glitchless and all bosses is the best thing ever

I've been waiting for a glitchless run at gdq for a long while, I'm glad it's finally here

He's a Belmont after all

@@---Mattia--- The strongest Belmont to be exact :D

And Soma is Dracula so according to Pokemon logic that's super effective

We'll he didn't died so im relieved

And man fought Drac in 1999, Aria takes place in 2035 and Julius is STILL an absolute unit

*did*?

UPDATE: We still do

Aria has been nominated by many many reviewers as the best GBA game, it's a master piece. Many Castlevania fans also consider it better than symphony, me included.

Thank god for emulators!

True, but if you have a Wii U, then it's available on the eShop.

@@MrCharly780 Can confirm, played it for a couple hours now and it's better than Circle of the Moon. Can't say for Harmony but it's probably a bit in between.

@@IanZWhite00 Harder? HoD was the easiest on GBA.

Nah bro the best castlevania is order of ecclesia

@@IdkWhatShouldIWriteHere Nah bro best castlevania game is portrait of ruin

@@warpuppythedragon659 nah bro the best Castelvania game Is rondo of blood

Nah bro ,the best castlevania game is symphony of the night

@@passandosobre9694 correct

Why?

Like, can you kindly explain to me please? I love AoS but I didn't know why the knight was there in the first place.

@@xertifiedthicc Maybe it's​ just there to protect Dracula. But since Soma is Dracula's successor, it lifts its sword for him. (it's​ probably​ just there for foreshadowing)

@@thisisaloli4622 What about Julius Belmont during Julius Mode in the game? Why does the same knight let him in to fight Graham? I know this question might sound stupid since Julius Mode is just extra game content that likely isn't even canon, but still.

@@Starry_Wave I mean, Julius is a Belmont, and since Chaos is the architect of Castlevania, it's likely that only Dracula, and a Belmont can cross that final door without breaking in. Atleast that's how I interpreted it.

Show me the lie!

Bloodstained keeps up as well

Dawn of Sorrow is a massive letdown compared to Aria, SotN and the other NDS Vanias

​​@@wallacesousuke1433 I have to say that from NDS games, I like DoS the most and Portrait of Ruin is my least favourite.

always wondered how the hell it was pronounced, thanks :D !

Double fun fact, it not only means Sword of Light was also the name of Padraig Pearce's controversial irish republican publication, An Claimh Solais, which was anti british occupation propaganda.

@@MARIOMAC82 Ah yes, Padraig. How could we forget him? He told us not to, after all.

@@Narokkurai It's because Celtic is really annoying with its spelling like that. For some examples: The first syllable in "Celtic" is pronounced like the word "cell", for some examples of names: "Fionn Mac Cumhail" is actually pronounced "Fin mcCool", "Scathach" is prounouced "Ska Hawk" and "Cu Chulainn" is "Ku Hullan". "Cell-tick" is a particular favorite of mine since I'm slavic and english-speakers keep fucking up the pronunciation of the first "c" in "Cyrillic" but in the exact opposite way to "Celtic", if they just switched the way they pronounce the first "c"s in those two words, they would both be objectively more correct.

This is information that every Fate GO player could stand to learn.

He hasn’t seemed to quit according to his twitter. Could someone give me context to this comment?

@@theendoftheworldasweknowit3858 > I think Dennis misunderstood. It sounded to me like VB was only retiring from Aria, and would be moving to new games.

how do you "retire" from speedrunning,lmao

@@andrearosario8512 by not speed running a specific game anymore, OR just not speed running entirely

@@andrearosario8512 right? some games for me were kinda ruined because I sunk 7 or 8k hours into them. Like chewing a piece of old gum :v

And the flavor text is entertaining too sometimes.

The time he didn't die was even more impressive. +joke

It's really heavy and not like final sword it can't jump cancel hit so it's suck in speedrun

Yeah, it's so fast the vid didn't get a single frame of it. You can see the before and after if you advance frame-by-frame, though.

It's been two years but that's the sky fish, a notorious monster in the game as it's one of the hardest souls to get, as it's so fast that you need the ability to stop time to even hit it, which needs you to fight the optional boss fight to even get the soul for, which of course is RNG, and even with that stopped time, the Sky Fish moves faster than most monsters, and you also have to stop time at the same time it whooshes past the screen to hit, as if you preempt the time stop, it won't appear, and even with that, you need RNG to go in your favor to get the soul.

I'd say the DS games look almost if not as good

this is a glitchless run

It's easier, but longer to do so. The gun is only really used to cheese it.

Well, the silver gun does light damage (i'd imagine) and julius is definitely light element, so...:V

Silver? Holy damage? Ranged? Nty

Sooo u didn't had a DS right?

@@IdkWhatShouldIWriteHere Dawn of sorrow isn't as good if you ask me.

Death and Julius are the two hardest fights in the game. Chaos can be difficult, but there's a save room just to the right, and you can just use all of the healing items you want.

You can SEE it though on a GBA, so that's a plus over CotM

Eh, the composition of the songs is good, it's just the way they did them is just too high pitched. Listening to the orchestral soundtrack done by fans reveals that.

I respectfully disagree, I liked the soundtrack so much that I recorded it from the sound test using an emulator, still have the folder here.

Chapel of Dissonance is the best the Castlevania song though, so that redeems the entire soundtrack.

I mean CotM can be seen on an SP and anything else, so.

You mean casually? From what I remember there are a few points where enemies get substantially more difficult (especially bosses) and you're more or less expected to grind for a bit to level up, if you never did that then yeah it was probably a rough time. It's very RPG-like in that way, any problem can be trivialized by just punching enough skeletons beforehand.

The game is just too damn good to blame you.

You should try Order of Ecclesia, :P

The game is only 30 the GBA can't go to 60

Death Is a threath in most games, but here he's not

Ever played Portrait of Ruin and Order of Ecclesia?

Harmony of Pissonance ? Have it on the dual pack with Aria. Ran through it once just to say "I did it", but contrary to the DS games and AoS I'll probably never re-run it.

Yeah. I think the music itself is occasionally fantastic, but man did they fuck up the sound.

the entire room is the boss, the snakes are only part of it

It's supposed to be a representation of the darkness growing inside the main character, it's kind of hard to depict! If you die against it you get an ending where the main character becomes evil and takes the olace of dracula. So I think it's actually a pretty cool final boss