[TAS] NES Holy Diver by Vatchern in

This is a tool-assisted speedrun. For more information, see tasvideos.org/3549M
TAS originally published on 2017-11-11
Here is a game that was made as a tribute to Ronnie James Dio ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_... ) and features him as the main character. Also, the name of the game is taken from Dio's band's Holy Diver ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Diver ) album. Beside that, the ending contains additional references to other famous rock/metal figures.
Gameplay of this game is very similar to Castlevania and some textures and the last boss are similar to Contra's. This game is also known to be nearly impossible to complete on a real console.
This is a 00:24.66 second improvement over the previous ( tasvideos.org/890M ) movie.
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This movie has a full Atlas Map encode ( • Holy Diver (Any% TAS) ... ), which shows the standard encode overlaid on a zoomed out map.

[@phazonclash]

Love the music in that game

[@porschephile2k3]

When I was a kid I used to rent Famicom games for a week. The guy who owned the rental store recommended this to me because he knew I liked Castlevania. Oh boy, I couldn't even get past the 2nd stage so I returned it midweek and got something else. Irem made some really nasty difficult games back in the day.

[@Baximus]

That walking animation is fantastic.

[@malcovich_games]

A game about the DIO song?

[@zazelby]

And Zakk and Randy are almost certainly named after Zakk Wylde and Randy Rhoads, who were in Ozzy's band after Black Sabbath broke up.
Ones I'm less certain about: "Black Slayer" seems to combine Black Sabbath and Slayer's names. The Crimson Kingdom might be a reference to King Crimson, but there's no direct relationship between KC and Ozzy.

[@zazelby]

... also, that symbol on the wall that repeatedly appears in the first stage (the skull on a cross, with a snake winding through its eyes) is extremely familiar, but I can't quite place it (and I can't find it on Google images).

[@MKKTeam]

This and Dragon Fighter are Beasts of difficulty games!!

[@alienboya]

A game about Ronnie James Dio. Great song by DIO btw.

[@Avrelivs_Gold]

a very memorable game

This game fucks you harder than life itself! But it's a pretty good game in overall. It's kinda like Castlevania. Also read the background story, holy shit!

[@handsomebrick]

I can't believe this game is from '89.

[@VillageofShadows765]

I like how it's kinda like a Castlevania clone very 😎

[@gabrielalves-ub1ij]

This game is very hard

[@itachixmaster]

the HP bar looks like zelda 2 HP bar :v

[@martincaro7798]

That's a castlevania like ?

[@l3igl2eaper]

Top 5 Game list -IGN

[@MrMarowak]

Nick Gherz despite the name, at least there isn’t too much water

[@BronzeLincolns81]

so this is castlevania and megaman's intellectual lovechild?

[@dustintyree8832]

i dig this game, but the bosses are way too easy...