I like to think this is actually how Soma fights. He's just DBZing his way through literally everything at a million miles an hour.

I like how, right after getting double jump, the TAS starts using the kicker skeleton movement tech--and then immediately gets a fleaman soul, for which the description is "hops around madly". (around 7:06)

Commentator: A lot of these souls seem useless Guy: Yeah, blah blah this one soul does so and so Game: “Waiter Skeleton”- Slings hot curry at it’s foes

I like the part where the walls become more of a quiet suggestion.

I dont blame the commentator too much. Itd be hard to start explaining something and by the time youre finished the tas is already several segments further along.

Well, my childhood just got irredeemably mangled. And it was glorious.

Coders and support for the run: Fz-last, p4plus2, klmz, melos, pike, hellagels, and dwangoAC. Runner introduction starts at 0:24. Run starts at 1:02. Couch commentary is provided by Brooke. Raelcun is host.

Thank You GamesDoneQuick for providing us entertainment, very helpful.

I'm coming from this as someone who has 100% Aria of Sorrow myself and just played the game in general multiple times. Being more familiar with the game really makes this TAS run SHINE. The RNG manipulation is disgustingly good. Getting souls in 1 kill, the perfect jumps both normal and glitch, the abuse of character placement and Guard points... It was a fascinating watch, and very fun to watch as the game is inhumanly dismantled on a fundamental level. Very cool.

Yeah got further in and now understand the critisisms with the commentary, even as someone who's played through Aria and watched a few speed runs some terminology was hard to follow.

Some people come for the speedruns, I come for the WORLD CLASS COMMENTARY

Amazing tas of one of my all time fav games

I’m am really REALLY enjoying all these speed runs. My life is not going how I want it too( not gonna elaborate, everybody got probs) but seeing my childhood games get broken, and game mechanics being completely abused, tasbots, the donations, all the feels for games well all love is what I need. Thank u gdq. And the gamers that pour all this time into games.

Maybe Dracula dying at the Battle of 1999 was all part of his plan. Maybe he knew how DBZ his successor is going to be...

The commentary was... Not very good. I wish they explained more about the zips or the rng manip, because Aria is a really cool example of it. They didn't even explain stuff like how balore was a late-game boss, the fact that they were at lvl 2 means nothing to someone who's never seen the game.

20+ hours of casual play shortened to less than 20 minutes.

"That's not normal" I played this game and all of this is perfectly normal.

This is a great TAS, but I feel like the commentators really could have done a better job. Aria of Sorrow isn't exactly the most well known game out there, but the main commentator kept talking like everyone in the audience knew a lot about the game, when not even the others on the couch seemed to know anything about it.

Castlevania with ultra instinct.

I mean, everything was explained in the previous, human AoS run.

Dude can't say Muramasa right for his life

this is epic

Can tasbot file my taxes?

6:55 No. Fair. I was eating. 😂

TASBOT 2020. Make playthroughs fast again!

They don't even explain why the weapon at 6:10 is so important

soma embraces his destiny

Like how the tas bot has more people there than any other run.

"Get ready on time-and time."

I want to see some Order of Ecclesia play one year

"claim sole-eye-us" not even close but I understand, Gaelic ain't common. For the record, it's more like "clee-ehv suh-lesh"

Number 1!

Wait, so that flash passing across the screen in Underground Reservoir is an enemy? This is the first time i've ever heard of this, what the fuck.

silly me. i'll never be able to do this ;w; cool run btw, one day i'll donate to GDQ.

AGDA 2020: Robots play everything while the humans party and drink. SPOILER ALERT: While they sleep the robots go on a rampage and overtake the convention center

Not a single comment about the guy knee drumming at the beginning?

This was my favorite from the TAS block, I played that game a lot, so this is very amazing to watch. Very impressive, too bad the commentary sucks.

Duango is a badass, but TAS could have had better commentating

DWANGO!

Geeze this game is gonna need a drink and therapy after that.

I guess Soma got the soul of Melee Fox somewhere in there.

AoS is exactly like Symphony then? Same level, enemies, bosses Also i liked the commentator he just was kinda nervous and i can understand

A note on the commentary: Commentary takes practice, practice, practice so I hope this was a learning experience for the commentators who kinda floundered to keep up with what was happening since it seems like for as knowledgeable as they were about the game, they simply couldn't coordinate with one another to keep up with what was happening. This is why Blechy is such a beloved commentator because he's concise and extremely quick on his feet because in addition to learning the games inside and out, he's also practiced at commentating enough to be able to adapt on the fly when he's unable to finish an explanation before a new skip/glitch/etc occurs that requires him to drop a line of thought in favor of another.

good golly!

My brain hurts

Great TAS run poor commentary.

Nothing makes me feel so obsolete as watching TASbot doing his thing.

The map layout is extremely similar to SOTN, I wish they mixed it up to make it new and unfamiliar.

3:17 hi son!

I've never played the game so the commentary really didn't help there. The TAS is already hard to follow, but there was very few explaining. Usually in TAS commentary they give you some things to focus on even if you don't know the game, here I was simply lost ^^'

This bot doing some manips

"Sorry for using an emulator" As if every single person in that room has never/doesn't use an emulator. They're more common than people like to believe.

People over here complaining that the commentator did a poor job on an ultra fast tas. He explained the whole run in his 50 minute segment during the same GDQ. Maybe watch both?

holy shatski

shit GDQ already began? WHY THE BELL FAIL ME?

5:56 how did he 1 hit the iron golem? Because I'm about to be upset that it's possible...

what properties does tabot have that he could survive with 1hp? did the hitbox change based on what they've programmed it or thru a glitch?

They should have let Fleaman's soul explain it. But then again, who's the one hopping around madly here?

18:18 IGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA IGA、許させません。

why isnt black panther used

My favourite IGAVania.

Yis. Edit: C H R O N O M A G E Edit 3:skyfish

I thought these Castlevania games were about vampire slayers, not ninjas!

Wait... who is playing?

does anyone know what emulator was used

I thought they did ok commentary wise and I haven't played the game

Don't think those dudes like each other.

Why does he always get the souls on the first kill?

skyfish

The commentary guy really didn’t do much there...

can someone explain what the fuck is going on, how a bot is able to do that?

Psh, walls are more of a suggestion, really.

Is TASBOT AI? Ive never heard of this thing

Holy shit how can the game keep up with the guy playing

I have no idea what anyone is talking about. The commentary was fine.

Awesome game Awesome run Bad commentary

Lmao wtf is going on :D

Hey dwango ac, in ur next video, look up world record spyro year of the dragon tas by Jeremy Thompson, please.

People really talkin shit about commentator lol? Did you actually SEE what was happening on screen? He did pretty damn good all things considered, hell, I'm surprised everyone in the audience didn't just collapse from seizures do to all the screen jittering and flashing imagery lol. Also, shoutout to Commander Keen in that audience, I SAW YOU! Keen speed run next year!? (crosses fingers

Commentary (and lack their of for a really short run) was whack

*complains about commentary because everybody else is*

God, they all look sooooooo greasy

Tas collecting 120 souls, using multiple glitches and using/changing many souls/weapons to compete the game in 17 minutes. And people think commentary is bad for failing at making it clear? Rofl

This was the most boring TASbot yet. mari0 was nice, but after the previous TASbot blocks continually stepping things up (ACE, Twitch Plays TASbot, Maker All-Stars, 3-TAS video chat), this is one hell of a letdown.

Using a fabricated bot to do a speed run. Sketchy

I like near the beginning of the run, the announcer is like "What just happened there?" With the creeping skull arm. Ok. First off. I never botherd to use or even have seen that move before, but since we all literally just got done seeing that exact same arm on the skeleton, you would figure that's what it is. I enjoy the commentary, always enjoy the runs a gdq. However I don't really like unaware or ham reaction announcers. Like no duh that's a weapon.

>Main criticism being they don't explain much Maybe because *they literally already ran Aria prior to the TAS Block.* I'd look there for actually explaining Aria than a TAS.

Why play castlevania when you can just watch it.🤔 But jokes aside I'm kinda upset that the crowd didn't react to the comment about the person's mother surviving cancer but clapped at just the speedrunner name being announced a bunch of heartless people no respect.

TAS in GDQ seems... artificial. For me, it is a insult to the people with great gaming skills that are able to do a lot of pixel/time perfect tricks.

Most boring TAS ever