Sotn Richter - Mechanics Guide

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More or less a glossary for Richter in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. This is primarily aimed at teaching interested speedrunners of the game about the greatest platforming character of all time. It should be a good primer for either category you're interested in learning.
That said, Richter is the kind of character who really needs a mechanics guide to supplement a room by room "any% guide" in my opinion, so hopefully this can stand as a long-term resource for all players.
A note on controllers: due to the high-execution nature of Richter speedruns, players tend to be very particular about which controller they learn with. In the end though, it all comes down to preference. Many people like myself see the "fighting game style" inputs and jump to arcade stick, but the record has traditionally been held by 360 pad players, while others have used keyboards to great success. There is no skill cap or skill boost from any controller, so the best choice is the one you're most comfortable playing with.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Basic Moves / Buttons
3:46 - Special Moves
8:29 - Game Mechanics & Techniques
SotN Leaderboard & resources: www.speedrun.com/sotn
Any% run with input display: • Castlevania: SotN - Ri...
Huge thanks to Wild Mouse for lending his voice to this project!
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Mouse also developed the SotN randomizer:
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Music credits:
Winning Eleven 2000 U-23 - Main Menu theme
ChainDive - Movin' on
Fate Extra - Deep Sea, Battle v2
Plok - Beach
Street Fighter III 2nd Impact - Sharp Eyes
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@chunkymilk 2 жыл бұрын

nerd.

@Pedro_Martinss._ Жыл бұрын

Otaku

@zel3079 Жыл бұрын

Ironic coming from someone with that profile picture 💀

@grunchchristmas Жыл бұрын

weeb

@youabotcuh3009 4 жыл бұрын

Man I wish my teacher explained exactly like him

@yursaman 2 жыл бұрын

This shit is going to be my first fighting game

@astra8815 3 жыл бұрын

I hear that fate extra music in the background, good taste my guy

@thatbo8902 3 жыл бұрын

This retains all the properties of a normal backflip. Sounds so scientific

@HybridAngelZero 2 жыл бұрын

This is fantastic, thank you! I don't plan on speedrunning, but I love knowing all the ways to play with a character, and this is an all-around great resource. Also, I decided to try out a lot of this in Richter mode in Portrait of Ruin for DS and surprising amount still works in that game! Uppercuts just seem to be gone, and Vault Kicks will automatically bounce off walls instead of slow falling, but pressing attack no longer seems to let you bounce off of enemies. Most instances of direction lock seem to be gone outside of Vault Kicks, he runs by default and the backflip is replaced by a normal double jump. Also, 10/10 music choices

@StockeTepes 2 жыл бұрын

Such a comprehensive guide on an optional character… love to see it! Great tutorial man love the vibe of this video as well. Definitely going use this next time I play SOTN

@s.d.8016 3 жыл бұрын

So ahead of its time. Amazing game

@tsp184 3 жыл бұрын

This is why I love intricate mechanics in games. Thanks for this awesome video.

@alexhernandez9697 3 жыл бұрын

I just started a save with richter and it felt really slow until I saw your video, thanks dude! it's really well done and very easily understandable

@karenannefromusa 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for doing this! I'm not a speed runner, just playing for fun, but you are right, there is hardly any information online about the Richter mode. I'm having trouble with the jumps in the Colosseum, so I thought I'd look at some videos on KZfaq for tips and ideas.

@furret002 2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: you can perform a wall jump with the blade dash. step 1: blade dash at a wall, step 2: jump in the opposite direction after a few frames richter is in the wall. Basically how this works is that all blocking terrain acts like a platform and when you get in the platform it will act like one and simultaneously push you out, so that is how to do wall jumps as richter. I don’t know if this is helpful to speedruns but it is fun to test out. The easiest way to perform this glitch is by using the mobile version

@furret002 2 жыл бұрын

Nobody has documented this glitch I have ever seen

@furret002 2 жыл бұрын

It can also easily perform backflips

@zeromythosver. 3 жыл бұрын

Music choice for this vid was on point dude, made it both informative and kept me nodding my head to some great VGM I’ve got in my own personal music playlists

@Klatrymadon 5 ай бұрын

Excellent work! This is an important video - the nuances and 'tech' aren't disseminated nearly enough, so it's great to see their being discussed at length here, as they would be for a shmup or a fighting game. Wonderful presentation and track choices, too. It was also nice to see the Q4RAF - it's such an execution-heavy game, even with Alucard at times, that I always play it on stick these days. Thanks for doing this!

@sobasimmons2681 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this mechanics guide on Richter! I was having trouble with my playthrough with him.

@Th3Sauc3Boss 2 жыл бұрын

Very informative video and great music choices.

@Whurlpuul 10 ай бұрын

Really well thought out and executed video, much like the gameplay. Kudos!

@nobody910 Жыл бұрын

i like your BGM, tonality, content and edit. you should have at least 10k subs. i hope you can do more not only on castlevania but any game you're passionate with. you have my subscribe!

@BlinJe 3 жыл бұрын

Also I never knew vault kick had any usefulness, holding attack during is a game changer, you're a legend.

@rgbarrios0331 3 жыл бұрын

This is very informative, thank you.

@dosito86 3 жыл бұрын

Back in 97 the prima guide listed "maelstrom attack" with 360 motion + attack. All it did was the blade dash Fast forward to portrait of ruin it made Richter do a crazy combo. Was this omitted in SOT

@toyvania Жыл бұрын

you are the best Castlevania teacher I ever had.

@alexanderstilianov 2 жыл бұрын

The whole "old-school arcade fighting game tutorial" feel this has is both hilarious and genius considering the inputs the game has.

@fellchris 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing video You deserve so much more views Made the game 10x fun now

@theesengovender1870 2 жыл бұрын

this guide is amazing!!!!

@F1nicky 3 жыл бұрын

Man i didnt even know half of these, and I almost beat the game as richter! This is a very well done video, thanks!

@RashaEX 3 жыл бұрын

glad you could learn something :D

@AyuNico 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this! I just wanted to know how to do the specials, but most other guides are terrible at explaining the motions

@MagicMikeXx 10 ай бұрын

The music, the video, the TEC, youre a legend

@backloggamereviews 3 жыл бұрын

This has no business being so fun to watch 😆

@peterkenny8653 3 жыл бұрын

awesome guide thanks

@Veg1v0 2 жыл бұрын

Great video bro 👍🏽

@knightofsilence5562 3 жыл бұрын

That thumbnail was top tier

@junoslenstorm4914 3 жыл бұрын

Well edited, friend

@HauntedFennie 2 жыл бұрын

Ok, I never actually know the backflip hit on the slide jump was perfomed like that Thanks for the info

@starmanssciencechannel1834 2 жыл бұрын

awesome job, this video needs more views

@TheMapleDaily Жыл бұрын

I wish there was one of these for alucard, as well for aria of sorrow/dawn of sorrow for Soma and Julius

@MaverickHunterX97 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome explaination :D

@brohonestley_123 Жыл бұрын

bro needs more subs this quality content

@RashaEX Жыл бұрын

I'm good thx though

@DaedalosC9 Жыл бұрын

Excellent music list

@gts013 2 жыл бұрын

Music choice on point. 😁👍

@3andreandreandre3 Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot Man!

@mike_cherry77 8 ай бұрын

Thanks I needed this lmao just got done beating the game

@AHeroOfTime 4 жыл бұрын

Good stuff

@doortelos1529 3 жыл бұрын

I kinda spit my drink when I saw you using a pad realizing that this is gonna be a very technical video

@hyrothesecond 4 жыл бұрын

Pretty Sweet

@CountOfMonteCristo_ 3 жыл бұрын

Nice music choice!

@tokuwriter2872 3 жыл бұрын

This character actually makes the game feel like Castlevania.

@MaskedGuyCh 2 жыл бұрын

SotN already feels like a Castlevania. You just control the son of Dracula instead of a traditional Belmont, which adds a great twist to the formula. I love that about SotN, Alucard is awesome!

@tokuwriter2872 2 жыл бұрын

@@MaskedGuyCh I love alucard too! I just prefer the Whip mechanics the franchise is known for. If one of Alucards weapons were like a demon whip or something to that effect, I would play him more often after I finished the main game, but that’s just me.

@TheDoughboy1917 3 жыл бұрын

Dang, I'll never use any of these, but it's certainly interesting!

@kairi85 Жыл бұрын

so dope

@Toomnyusernae 3 жыл бұрын

Backflip off the vault kick. If you hold down + square you backflip further. I was hoping for some obscure weapon tricks. Ah well.

@RashaEX 3 жыл бұрын

Hah, sorry to disappoint. The intent was to cover information relevant to speedrunning, most of all.

@RedHairdo Жыл бұрын

@@RashaEX Well, the video _is_ titled "Mechanics Guide", rather than "Mechanics Guide for Speedrunning". I enjoyed this very well-made video and learnt plenty of neat things, but I too like to just learn more about SotN mechanics regardless of applicability to speedrunning, as that is just a subset of the entirety that the game has to offer.

@dougbull3230 3 жыл бұрын

I loved the difference between richter and slacked play completely different giving you almost an entire new game.richter is just as bad ass as alcurd but its still more fun playing as a vampire and getting familiars.i loved that.having familiars pet like allies was pretty new and never seen before this.now the pet mechanics is in every arpg.

@ricardosousasoares1502 4 жыл бұрын

Nice

@ayaanabdullah937 10 ай бұрын

Richter is effectively the hard mode of the game to newbies like me, since he has less specials than Alucard, no equipment, and he takes a lot of damage. But honestly all of that is offset by how OP his limited moveset is lol. So i guess he'd be a Glass Cannon kind of character in a Fighting Game.

@dmas7749 2 жыл бұрын

i always wondered how to do the backflip after a slide kick

@BlinJe 3 жыл бұрын

Why do FGC vibes work with SoTN so well ??

@DemCombos 4 жыл бұрын

Niceee

@ryuzxa Жыл бұрын

I literally just watch a guy playing Castlevania sotn with fight stick. Crazy

@ghoctav Жыл бұрын

Thanks rasha ..

@yam83 2 жыл бұрын

Okay, this Galamoth is TOAST

@Rinne_Z_rank Жыл бұрын

Help when I do the uppercut movements and button presses it doesn't work

@spudsT 3 жыл бұрын

Wish the uppercut was this dope in smash. Kazuya, man….

@Doctor-Stoppage Жыл бұрын

I've been playing the game for a day and didn't know the uppercut existed. 😂

@marianokaz1503 Жыл бұрын

I can almost never succesfully do the Blade Dash because I have a cheap controller with a cheap d-pad and it's always frustrating how I have so much difficulty doing it.

@Foxhound3857 Жыл бұрын

Is there any version of the game in which the Flame Whip crash actually works as intended (double damage/Fire element)?

@RashaEX Жыл бұрын

nope, flame whip doesn't do anything in any release of the game.

@carltonleboss 5 ай бұрын

Judgement wasn't the first Castlevania fighting game. It was in fact, Symphony of the Night.

@chicoscience502 2 жыл бұрын

Doing consecutive blade dashes with the psp d-pad is very hard

@danielmarques5768 3 жыл бұрын

I need this soundtrack

@RashaEX 3 жыл бұрын

All the music used is credited in the description :)

@lordvenus7999 2 жыл бұрын

ur so pro

@justinwallace269 3 жыл бұрын

I challenged myself to beat the game with just the Flame Whip and no other item weapons. Pretty silly considering the flame whip does absolutely nothing, but his other moves do so much damage that it still made a decent Oh-Shit button and cool visual effect. The only boss I couldn't beat like that was Galamoth.

@BlinJe 3 жыл бұрын

drove myself fucking insane trying to beat Galamoth with no subweapon. I want to say I did it, but it was years ago and i can't remember. involved a lot of uppercuts and blade dashing through his legs.

@justinwallace269 3 жыл бұрын

@@BlinJe I can totally picture it being possible, I just didn't have the patience for it lol. I seriously wish we could collect the weapons and cycle through them instead of replacing them. That and having a working flame whip that increase your standard attacks, uppercuts and dashes, with a stacking damage over time effect. Richter should be incinerating these guys.

@nate5490 Жыл бұрын

@@justinwallace269 this guy was whooping my ass as alucard. I cant imagine doing it as richter

@justinwallace269 Жыл бұрын

@@nate5490 It wasn't easy that's for sure. I used the clock weapon to defeat him. I tried holy water at first, but I ran out of ammo because the guy is just so fucking powerful. Had to get him in a reoccurring patter too. Took multiple tries but I pulled it off.

@michaeloverton04 10 ай бұрын

Funfact: if you hit any of the transformation buttons while dashing, you'll reset the after-image effect. There's no purpose aside from looking kind of cool.

@bigdaddyww1 6 ай бұрын

Hydrostorm with damage stack slaps though don’t see using any other sub weapon

@cosmicalejandro 2 жыл бұрын

Cant seem to get the hang of doing consistent Blade dash...

@markhovscrch4050 6 ай бұрын

I still can't do the blade dash with my Xbox 360 3rd party wired d-pad nor N3DS XL

@KatSuYeah 2 жыл бұрын

This is why i both like and dislike the mobile versions. One is because it has button shortcuts for things like sliding, but then if you want to, say, uppercut, you gotta do the button combo

@keyon08 2 жыл бұрын

And what about Maria guide ?

@rgbarrios0331 3 жыл бұрын

3:31 Muda! Muda! Muda! Muda! Muda! Muda!

@kawadejesus2257 2 жыл бұрын

Maneiro video não entendi oo que voce tava falando mas endendi como fais as coisas

@Goetaxd 29 күн бұрын

So that's how you dash

@desmonddoolin2680 9 ай бұрын

This killed my thumbs 😅

@Sergeezie 3 жыл бұрын

Where are the rest of the characters like Maria and Alucard?

@RashaEX 3 жыл бұрын

I'm mostly a Richter player myself, but there are fantastic resources for the other characters if you check out speedrun.com

@pugwold 3 жыл бұрын

Is a stick better than a gamepad for sotn?

@RashaEX 3 жыл бұрын

I mentioned in the description, but you can use whatever you're most comfortable with. People have played at top level with pad, stick, and keyboard.

@tio.lacrios6085 3 жыл бұрын

Just use Hidro storm.

@christopherdiniz3836 3 ай бұрын

a unica skill que eu nunca consigo usar é a do backflip

@darkwintar Жыл бұрын

Pra mim

@sgntzz Жыл бұрын

can u bot heal as ritcher ?

@RashaEX Жыл бұрын

grabbing an HP Max Up refills your health and boosts max HP by 10. Only other way to heal is at save points.

@transformerboy8898 2 жыл бұрын

Can you do one for alucard please

@RashaEX 2 жыл бұрын

The Alucard WR holder actually made their own! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/paxohptjvq6pe5c.html

@kingdomheartsfan4441 Жыл бұрын

This man is using a fight stick to place castlevania, unreal

@Anti-Yeet Жыл бұрын

It is like a fighting game

@kingdomheartsfan4441 Жыл бұрын

@@Anti-Yeet true, I commented before i actually played it and then I got the game and saw the spell list LMAO

@Chaos__64 Жыл бұрын

That blade dash input makes no sense to me.

@RashaEX Жыл бұрын

it's basically Up followed by a quarter circle forward - numpad notation would be 823. If you can do hellfire with Alucard, you can blade dash.

@asmara9779 Жыл бұрын

who on earth play castlevania using joystick? you should use hitbox.

@arquivo1617 3 жыл бұрын

É o melhor modo do jogo. Mas por que é que os fãs odeiam esse modo ?

@staysharp2453 3 жыл бұрын

SOTN já é o castlevania mais simples e com menos conteúdo dos 7 em 2D, e como toda campanha com herói secundário, tem ainda menos conteúdo. Não sei se os fãs odeiam ou não, mas a campanha principal de todos os castlevanias é mais divertida

@useroffline6641 3 жыл бұрын

vocês dois fumaram pedra, só pode

@Trufas0410 3 жыл бұрын

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