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"We want more RPG videos!" "But *we* want more Castlevania videos!" Nyarly, an intellectual:

Speedrunning trivia: The RPG used to be the weapon of choice for both the Any% and All Bosses categories (until it was made obsolete by Malacoda last year). Speedrunners would get partway through the game, save, and invest several minutes clearing the boss rush just for the RPG - it was THAT good compared to other options. Definitely one of the best Castlevania bonus weapons!

Soma be like: "All of you laughed at me when I came here only with my fists, now I came back, WITH A ROCKET LAUNCHER"

“Rockets deal slash damage” What, did you strap a knife to the front of the rocket?!?

"Soma, you shouldn't go into the castle, it's too dangerous!" Soma: _Whips out a rocket launcher and a year's supply of ammo_ ". . . On second thought, go ahead, you'll be fine."

I'm pretty sure this is just Soma's method of blowing off a lot of steam after the horror of the fists only run

The RPG actually isn't affected by your strength or attack stats; the amount of damage it does is fixed for each enemy and boss. Because of this, you should equip your best defensive gear when using it.

13:18 As someone who recently played Dawn of Sorrow for the first time and had to look up how to do that exact seal, the issue is generally that Dawn of Sorrow prioritizes drawing fast over drawing accurately. Drawing the outer perimeter of the shape as a circle helps significantly.

Haven't seen the video yet but the title has some "I am done. No more punches, I'm going for the rocket launcher" energy

Nyarly really feeling the burn with that magic seal bs, imagine dark souls with such a mechanic

Let's just all agree that the magic seals were a bad idea.

Dracula's servants are rage, brutal, without mercy. But you... you will be worse.

Props for using the Judgment version of 'An Empty Tome'. That game's soundtrack carried it on its back. Also, here's an apropos line I found from Alvin and the Chipmunks: "Your Kung-Fu is no match for my rockets."

Death Scythe is still the best weapon in the game in my opinion,It took me ages to grind it as a kid. But the power and protection it gives you is amazing

This might be the first time the notification has worked correctly and not shown up hours or days after the upload

Living for the Castlevania content. If Konami won’t make more games at least we can challenge run the old games

Hey, Nyarly, I mean this in the most respectful way possible, but please never apologize for uploading a video. And don't worry, self-imposed challenges don't always have to seem impossible to be fun (for example, RE4 speedrunners tend to favor the NG+ categories to the standard New Game ones; the game itself is easier, but they're still really entertaining to watch)

I've been absolutely loving your new runs! I've never been into Castlevania but your videos have made me respect the games

Yeah menace is not the real final boss of dawn it's the meatball monsters that are the real true final challenge and it becomes a dps race to see if you can kill menace before they kill you.

Feels like there should be some secret weapons from Contra or something. Imagine having the spread gun.

Glad to know there are rom hacks for the Seals. Been wanting to replay this on steamdeck but dreaded using the thump pad for seals.

There should be a rom hack that does the magic seals for you, but fails 50% of the time

I actually did this run casually, and it was a heck of a lot of fun. Would recommend.

You think needing to hit the mannequins in the Puppet Master fight twice is difficult? Try needing to hit them four times on hard mode. I ended up using the knife special to get around fighting the Puppet Master until after Zephyr, by which point I was much better equipped.

Much as the Positron Rifle from Aria seems fun (and great at giving everyone in the castle cancer!), I'm pleasantly surprised at how stupidly good the RPG is. I was never able to obtain it from the boss rush in Dawn (same with Aria's posi-rifle), but an easy mode run of just blowing everything up was a great idea.

here's a very "in brand" run you could do. either a "summoner" run, or a "minion" run. summoner would be using only summon blue souls, and yellow souls. minion would be more broader, with would include any ability that summons a monster, which includes the witch aprentice and the zombie dog(or abbadon).

Fun Castlevania Fact: For the US version of Castlevania 1, the Holy Water was translated to the Fire Bomb in order to avoid ties to religion. I'd like to imagine that this run is just an "advanced" fire bomb. Or the rockets are just filled with holy water idk.

If fighting is sure to result in victory then you must fight!

Rockets would work fine underwater as long as the fuel mixture carries its own oxidizer. Maybe even more effective because the pressure wave would propagate much faster in water

On the topic of sealing death, I've ran into the same problem using original hardware and cart. No matter how fast or precise I did it, the seal wouldn't count and i was thrown back into the fight. I thought maybe you needed to do something special before sealing like hitting 'em with a certain weapon/soul or having a certain item equipped. But finding nothing online and after many, many attempts I just kinda gave up and did it really fast and sloppy (pretty sure i missed 2 nodes) with it actually accepting it, sealing him for the victory. My next two playthroughs same thing; quick but precise = fail. Extremely fast and sloppy = success. My conclusion is that the seal is glitched in that it has to be done in a split second or just over and over again until it glitches itself to work.

Bat Company's hitbox is very weird and it took me quite a while to figure out how to avoid it reliably. I mentioned the low-level guide I wrote in one of my comments on your other videos, and in it I also wrote up my findings on this topic. There is a good amount of jump-kicking involved. So yeah, there's that as well as how to dodge Abaddon's attacks. And how to...make do against Menace.

Mina:soma is a good guy 🥰 Soma:i m gonna kill everyone with a rocket launcher 😅 Mina: ok maybe not that much 😐

Soma: kaboom? Nyarly: yes Soma, kaboom. Soma: =D

1:30 Devil may cry 1 is definitely up there in that list for me

Something about action-horror games in the 90s and 00s just wanting to give you an RPG/ATA by the end is hilarious to me.

I guess you could say that Soma... Stopped pulling his punches!

Bro yk that nyarly content be hitting DIFFERENT. But man back to back like this? I'm here for it.

I love your Castlevania video man

16:53 BOOM! Headshot!

TL:DR, Local JC Penny model Soma Cruz acquires a Ruchnoy Protivotankovy Granatomyot and decides that demonic forces shouldn't exist. He proceeds to clear the entirety of Dracula's castle in the span of 10 minutes.

Slowly switching to castelvania territory and I'm completely OK with it 👌

God I’m so happy he called those menace meatballs langoliers

You know, after watching you go through torture with the fist only run, you really deserved to have fun and just unleash devastation upon your enemies!

Soma Cruz straight up went Leon Kennedy mode

I wonder how many games have RPGs listed as rocket propelled grenades, comes to mind every time a see one, lol Edit: not saying it's wrong or anything, it's a common phrase, it just makes me think every time I see it if any games have the original acronym description rather than the retrofitted one

You have done with fists. Guns. And even a rocket launcher.But now...face the worst! Can you beat it with Milican's Sword or Terror Bear!?

I never had trouble with magic seals on the original DS, even when the touch screen started wearing out and scratches started appearing. I wonder if this'd be even easier on a gorilla-glass screen or using a PC drawing-tablet or something. The worst part about these boss battles was how long they were if you weren't grinding levels & souls.

As a child i never passed through Death thanks to the seal, just years later, after i lost and found my ds, i managed to beat it

nice to know: those leech like creatures resemble the langolier monsters from a steven king novel/movie. and there is theory that the 3 heads of menace are Celia/Dario and Dimitri.

I haven't watched the fist only run yet, but here's a bit of advice for anyone that doesn't like Dmitri, and for any possible future runs. Dmitri will copy any soul power used against him, so you can make the fight extremely easy by making him copy the skeleton soul, which overwrites the soul he starts the fight with. Also, it's only after I typed this all out that I forget you're restricting yourself in the souls you'll use in these challenges, but oh well.

I would just like to point out that you can craft a frigging Gatling gun in Curse of Darkness.

Bro is the rpg good? Nyarly: that s a lot of damage!!!

Soma: what I'm funny like I'm some sort of clown? I bet you think i shouldn't have a GUN EITHER!!!

alt title: the run where soma is done with everyones shit

Dawn of sorrow completed. S rank. Unlocked infinite ammo rocket launcher

A part of me wishes that enemies were programmed to see you have a super weapon and be like "Oh shxx! Run!"

You should do more videos where you use the most powerful or best thing to trample through the game

Dawn of Sorrow if it were made in America

Imagine being a demon in Dracula's castle and you see a white hair dude holding an RPG

(Ka-clack) RAWK-IT LAWNCHAIR

Cultist: HES HERE!! Celia: Good...lure him in and Ki- Cultist: HE'S GOTTA ROCKET LAUNCHER!! Celia: Wha- Cultist: AND A SHITTON OF AMMO Celia: ...... Cultist: *screams, an explosion and the radio goes dead* Celia: O_O

Ancient problems require modern solutions.

"I'm just a Soma with a rocket launcher"

10:23 to 10:36 Catharsis for people with a fear of clowns

I love these playthoughs

Unrelated to the challenge but Soma Cruz is a nice looking husbando.

Now I will wait for "Castlevania Curse of Darkness with only the Gatling Gun" to be made somewhere on the internet xd

this was soma's vengeance.

Pulse rifle was one the best and most entertaining weapons I've used on any metroidvania game sad it didn't make dawn of sorrow arsenal

Just a tip for Abaddon, the safest place to hit him is in the corner behind him. So if he's facing left, hide in the right corner. Most of his attacks don't reach there.

Damn he play sorrow remind me about the world end with you

the reason the RPG is a slash weapon is because of the shrapnel the case of the missile becomes during the explosion

I think should Konami make a Castlevania DS Collection, I hope that they make an option to toggle off the Touch Screen on or off. The former will let you use Gyro Controls or the The touch screen in Handheld Mode to activate while the Later will Activate the Magic Seals for you or in Portrait of Ruin and Order of Ecclesia where you can Float with the D-Pad/Analog Stick and attack with the attack Button. For the Special moves, they can use fighting game Inputs similar to Zangetsu in Bloodstained Ritual of the night.

Plot twist: the fast forwarding is actually the unedited footage hes just that good

'I don't know how my RPG would work underwater.' Actually, RPGs work fine underwater.

being a non castlvania player, what weapons does this game not have, i thought it was like medieval witches and warlocks but i've seen everything from sword, to gun, and now RPG???

Did this lvl1 hard mode with rpg and ngl it is fun seeing body parts go flying

If you're gonna be doing fun stuff like this, PLEASE do SotN with Crissagrim. That sword is truly one of the most broken weapons in any game I've ever played, and you can *duel wield it.*

Yes man! Absolute favourite type of video you do

the head of an RPG's rocket (on some models) contain molded plastic explosives that turn the copper tip of the round into basically a rapidly extending spike. I'd understand them doing piercing damage but slashing? Why?

Order Of Eclesia is my favorite, I hope you do a chalenge run of this game someday.

An entire RPG run.... is that "Salil Al Sawarim" suddenly playing in the background there?

So I started blastin' ~!~

Immediate Like for the Langoliers reference.

The final seal is very annoying because the timer or something is bugged. I literally almost never beat the game unmodified.

Even the RPG isn’t enough to make Bat Company less annoying

Nyarly and the RPG

[Metal slug announcer] *_RAUKET LAOUCHUH_*

13:20 That right happended to me when i was on that part on the game, i was doing the magic seal perfectly but i still failed, then i just tried doing the magic seal insanely fast, and it did work most of the times

not much of a challenge run but i WHOLEHEARTEDLY enjoyed myself

LETS GO NYARLY UPLOADS FOR THE WIN

I loved this video. I love your videos. Thank you for this recommendation.

Idk I might be built differently but I hear *everyone* complain about the magic seals in Dawn of Sorrow... I never had an issue with them...

Finally, the Resident Evilvania

Nyarly how are you doing all i want to say although i am waiting for a new SMT/Persona challenge run i love to watch all your videos even if it’s not related to it Such an amazing under appreciated youtuber that deserves more credit

Nice Video, I love your Castlevania content

The moment I saw the title of the video I immediately went "What the...?"

"It does make this weapon less than ideal for close range" You don't say.

ROCKET LAWNCHER