You're telling me that last month i played through this game for the first time i was wasting my time catering my equipment to the luck stat? That's funny
Thanks for covering some Aria! Was great to help out in a small way with this video Edit: Watched the whole thing, IMO your best video to date. Super easy to follow, editing skills are getting unreal
Bro, I legit forgot I was watching one of your videos and when you were like "I'm here with one of the best Castlevania speedrunners." I was fully expecting you to say Dr4gonBlitz.
Death was just complete busted. It was a substantial difficulty spike on the Death boss fight itself, and then it goes down again because the worst is behind you.
Aria and Dawn are my two favorite games in the series. I spent many, many, many days and weeks collecting souls, playing and replaying the games and seeing someone beat it in less time than a coffee break is both amazing and very humbling in skill.
Those Lubicants were the worst part of going for 100% achievements. I spent about 40 minutes in that one room before finally getting their soul to drop!
You’re finding your meta with each video, DB. I fucking loved this one. It feels like when you take time during your streams to explain a mechanic or a route. The details, the thoroughness, and the humor are all here. Seriously great, dude 🤘🏻
Great video explaining the basis of an entire speedrun in a short amount of time. To clarify on zips, "human" Soma gets zipped upwards whereas any transformation (Bat, Manticore, etc.) zips horizontally opposite to the where you are looking. Hence why, in the arena zip, being 2 pixels in a wall after Right + L (backdash) + R (Bat Transform) causes a zip to the left. Also, loading from a suspend puts Soma in Human form where he entered the room. As for where zips send you, there are two main types that rely on your X and Y position in a room and the memory address associated with a room. If you leave a room on the left, you end up on the right of the room on its left, normal stuff. If this is via a zip, your X and Y position isn't that of any entrance/exit to the room and therefore in a wall/floor/pillar. However, if there is no room to the left, the game takes some data which shouldn't be used as room's memory address as the memory address for a room.... Co-incidentally, this memory address can be the same as that of another room somewhere else in the castle and so it sends you to that room. As it still tries to account for your previous X and Y postion, this usually ends up in a wall.
This is always something I wondered. The luck stat in Aria of Sorrow doesn't work. Ok this is something I have to ask. Is Koji Igarashi allergic to functioning luck stats ? It feels like in all his games the luck stat either is broken or worthless. Even in Bloodstained the luck stat scales weird.
2:30 reminds me of a few skills in Shining Soul II that don't work, like the Dragonite's elemental resistance skill, which increases the visual number of your resistances, but the game doesn't take it into calculation
16:31 ... i like me some Castlevania, I like me some Aria of Sorrow... But saying "this is the greatest boss in the history of action platformers," is the overstatement of the century.
a small note from a huge aria fan: you don't need the books, only the souls they hint at, and you don't need to beat legion (although I still do almost every time)
I did a bit of speedrun of this game, mainly Julius runs but did some Soma any% no 0HP and seeing it got sub 11 its just beautiful, now i want to play it again.
Really awesome breakdown, enjoyed hearing both of you explain the mechanics. I'll have to watch some more Aria of Sorrow speedruns soon. Editing and narration on this one was on point as well, definitely one of my favorite videos you've created
it's especially insane to think about how like, even if you ran past everything without fighting, just running normally through the castle without glitches, 11 minutes probly isn't enough time to run from the start of the castle to the last room
This is utterly hilarious...... often I think about people using their time to do utterly pointless stuff and roll my eyes but this is so hilarious and the commitment to doing it so beyond me that I kind of love this! My afternoon is a little brighter for havei g been distracted into watching this 😂🙏🙏🙏🙏
When I played this game just a month ago, I enjoyed taking all my time getting all the souls haha. This kind of speed run is just totally impossible for me. Knowing that there are those kinds of tricks that can be done with this game is just impressive.
Collabing with these runners for other games to explain the tricks required to make a run work provides such a cool insight and makes for entertaining and informative videos. Thanks @JupiterClimb !
Yeah I really think this format has a lot of potential and I'm excited to ask more of my friends to help me learn and teach others about cool speedruns
It was based on seeing your run SOTN that got me to play it for the first time ever a few years ago. Since then my 360 finally red ringed on me which sucks. These videos are always interesting to me.
This Speedrun is the equivalent to a Mario Speedrun but with rng manipulation, I am absolutely stunned by runners that have the dedication to do this speedruns
Question: How would the RNG manipulations affect the All Souls (where you need at least one of every soul before defeating Chaos) and All Bosses (where you need to defeat all bosses, including Graham and Julius, before defeating Chaos) categories for Aria of Sorrow? I imagine that the RNG manips for all bosses might be used for the Dracula souls. However, for all souls, are there some souls where it would be faster to not manipulate the RNG? Or is it faster to manipulate the RNG for every soul in all souls?
I remember hearing my first JupiterClimb commentary at a GDQ and thought "This dudes got his announcer voice down" and then realizing that's mostly just his natural cadence. What a chad.
Actually holy, I totally forgot you were the SOTN speedrunner this year. I went and set up my first randomizer immediately after that run because couldn't stop thinking about it. I streamed like 4 runs to a friend in Discord too. You'd think the thousands of KH2 randos Spike would get me to bite but, good old SOTN. (I have also since tried a KH2 Rando)
you could imagine my joy and happiness and total lack of regret after finding out luck is worthless when i spent hours maxing my luck soul to max and having it equipped my whole game
That isn't *that* unusual. Ever since certain damage "pushed" (ie Doom, Quake) people have been taking advantage of it, although it used to be for finding dummied out secrets/exits than speedrunning. Gotta love crashing the game to desktop because you went to a test exit devs thought they made inaccessible, or getting to the "all weapons dev cache" in the first area.
See this game is so good because every run is different. You may get those weapons but unless you grind for those you'll never have the same soul loadout and have to make up a good strategy with the souls you get to drop. It's genius
it will always baffle me how i, as an 8 year old child, was able to somehow get the true ending without looking up any guides whatsoever. though my older brother had to fight a few of the bosses for me lmao
4:17 is crazy to even think about. I've never even heard of any sub-pixel perfect tricks before this one, and here's one where you have to also get the perfect damage boost right after too. I can barely wrap my head around this shit! Super Castlevania IV will always be my favorite but I have a lot of respect for sotn and the gba games because the speedrunners are absolutely insane! Keep it up guys!
FWIW, a guy from my D&D group who is from the UK pronounces Claimh Solais "clive solash" or thereabouts. (It was in a game he DM'd themed around Irish stuff.) I told him that made sense because all letters are made up anyway. Dunno if that's completely accurate, as I'm just relaying secondhand here, but since it came up, there ya go.
Bro i played smth like these. It almost like castelvania there was Upgrade card and if u defeat boss u lose and castle Will be cursed but if u kill blood moon first then u fight in world of giants then go to ice place u fight a boss who can do zawardo but i forgot the Name of game
I can't believe that glorified apes have somehow bonded together to make video game consoles, let alone custom tools to manipulate RNG on a DS Castlevania game, like this should say everything about humans in a positive way. It's beyond belief that any of this exists.
See if I did a speedrun of this game I would simply get the 1 in 100 million luck
Unless it's a 1/11 chance...
true// luck is broken
DB daily is just built DIFFERENT
So would todd rodgers 😂
Sure thing Mr. Early Bat
"this is the chaotic realm, hence all of the sepia tones" was not lost on me
You're telling me that last month i played through this game for the first time i was wasting my time catering my equipment to the luck stat? That's funny
There's mods to make it useful!
Thanks for covering some Aria! Was great to help out in a small way with this video
Edit: Watched the whole thing, IMO your best video to date. Super easy to follow, editing skills are getting unreal
@JupiterClimb you are very talented sir! Keep up the great work and let's keep pushing this category further and further! God Bless you ALL!
Love your content man! Your morris and joshu run in DoS is one of my faves.
you were fun to listen to
Wow, i love all your content but i never knew you were also one of the best speedrunners! Thanks!
where the hell did you get your accent from?
18:49 Ah yes, SDGQ, Summer Dames Gone Quick, my favorite event of the year
Bro, I legit forgot I was watching one of your videos and when you were like "I'm here with one of the best Castlevania speedrunners." I was fully expecting you to say Dr4gonBlitz.
Castlevania speedruns are so fascinating to dive into, all the minor optimizations and RNG manipulations are so cool to see!
I always loved Aria of Sorrow, and it's bosses felt the hardest ever. Speedrunners always leave me in awe on how can a game be run.
@KungFuAndrewTV easier said than done. Balore and the final boss in this game will beat your ass even if you're a speedrunner lol.
I never forget my first time beating the final boss. Feel so rewarding to end a great game.
Why is chaos said to be so hard? He was a total pushover the first I fought him and I didn’t even do any research on his moveset before I fought him.
Circle of the moon hands down has the hardest bosses out of the 3 gba games
Death was just complete busted. It was a substantial difficulty spike on the Death boss fight itself, and then it goes down again because the worst is behind you.
This was my gateway Castlevania. Watching speedruns, especially recent developments on Julius runs with extreme zips is a higher level of pleasure.
I love the art of speedrun, so much strategy involved and all done in the shortest possible time, each run is unique.
Aria and Dawn are my two favorite games in the series. I spent many, many, many days and weeks collecting souls, playing and replaying the games and seeing someone beat it in less time than a coffee break is both amazing and very humbling in skill.
To be fair, 100% completion speedruns take a while too.
Those Lubicants were the worst part of going for 100% achievements. I spent about 40 minutes in that one room before finally getting their soul to drop!
For me, it was the Gargoyles. Never again.
For a moment I thought you said 40 hours
@@Summer-us5qlAt the rate I was going, it may well have been 😂
You’re finding your meta with each video, DB. I fucking loved this one. It feels like when you take time during your streams to explain a mechanic or a route. The details, the thoroughness, and the humor are all here. Seriously great, dude 🤘🏻
Great video explaining the basis of an entire speedrun in a short amount of time.
To clarify on zips, "human" Soma gets zipped upwards whereas any transformation (Bat, Manticore, etc.) zips horizontally opposite to the where you are looking.
Hence why, in the arena zip, being 2 pixels in a wall after Right + L (backdash) + R (Bat Transform) causes a zip to the left.
Also, loading from a suspend puts Soma in Human form where he entered the room.
As for where zips send you, there are two main types that rely on your X and Y position in a room and the memory address associated with a room.
If you leave a room on the left, you end up on the right of the room on its left, normal stuff. If this is via a zip, your X and Y position isn't that of any entrance/exit to the room and therefore in a wall/floor/pillar.
However, if there is no room to the left, the game takes some data which shouldn't be used as room's memory address as the memory address for a room....
Co-incidentally, this memory address can be the same as that of another room somewhere else in the castle and so it sends you to that room. As it still tries to account for your previous X and Y postion, this usually ends up in a wall.
Great video!
Glad to see it come out after hearing about it on Dr4gonBlitzDaily for a while.
This is always something I wondered. The luck stat in Aria of Sorrow doesn't work.
Ok this is something I have to ask. Is Koji Igarashi allergic to functioning luck stats ? It feels like in all his games the luck stat either is broken or worthless. Even in Bloodstained the luck stat scales weird.
thats why i always use luck cheat lol. but im casual so dont mind me
I love the documentary style here. *chefs kiss*
thanks for covering this run, really great work DB!
Fucking legend™
Chewy papi
16:48 "Cause this bone dragon here does what it wants" might be my new tinder bio
I absolutely LOVE speedrun explanations like this. Love to see more of these DB!
2:30 reminds me of a few skills in Shining Soul II that don't work, like the Dragonite's elemental resistance skill, which increases the visual number of your resistances, but the game doesn't take it into calculation
Claiomh Solais is supposed to be pronounced closely resembling "Clausolas".
DB will appreciate this because this is a Yu-Gi-Oh card lol
Speedrunners are truly the craziest, most persistent people on earth. This was an amazing run.
What a banger of a video. Loving to see these collabs, first Adef and now Jup.
14:34 COMMUNITY
37:13 Well done. Love the story behind it, your narrator voice is on point, and love the co-op explanation with JupiterClimb
Great stuff DB, I love this kind of video!
16:31 ... i like me some Castlevania, I like me some Aria of Sorrow... But saying "this is the greatest boss in the history of action platformers," is the overstatement of the century.
That run by chewy is pure insanity. Execution was absolutely on-point.
Really awesome vid, came out awesome! The collab was super nice!
a small note from a huge aria fan: you don't need the books, only the souls they hint at, and you don't need to beat legion (although I still do almost every time)
great video. loving the guests to showcase speedruns
I did a bit of speedrun of this game, mainly Julius runs but did some Soma any% no 0HP and seeing it got sub 11 its just beautiful, now i want to play it again.
Really awesome breakdown, enjoyed hearing both of you explain the mechanics. I'll have to watch some more Aria of Sorrow speedruns soon. Editing and narration on this one was on point as well, definitely one of my favorite videos you've created
it's especially insane to think about how like, even if you ran past everything without fighting, just running normally through the castle without glitches, 11 minutes probly isn't enough time to run from the start of the castle to the last room
Aria speedruns really changed from the last time I checked. Learned new stuff!
Really cool video!
It's nice to see you branch to other castlevanias 😃
Awesome. I always love seeing your efforts to explain and display cool speedrun tech in the community.
I love your speedrun analysis videos. Keep up the good work!
Amazing video! Very easy to follow and superb commentary from JupiterClimb.
Best video you've ever done. Well done dude.
The metroidvania GOAT
Always a delight to see runs of this game, and cool to see some analysis on how its done.
bro your video just appeared in timeline and I gotta say, your channel is awesome! hoping that one day you got more subs, u deserve it!
This is utterly hilarious...... often I think about people using their time to do utterly pointless stuff and roll my eyes but this is so hilarious and the commitment to doing it so beyond me that I kind of love this! My afternoon is a little brighter for havei g been distracted into watching this 😂🙏🙏🙏🙏
When I played this game just a month ago, I enjoyed taking all my time getting all the souls haha. This kind of speed run is just totally impossible for me. Knowing that there are those kinds of tricks that can be done with this game is just impressive.
Amazing video as usual db gj, also jupter is great ❤
Also,the fight with balore was amazing, as a casual he aways gives me trouble, so much skill in a single fight
What a cool video. I love the deep and detailed explanations into all the tech involved in achieving such an amazing run.
Great video. Can’t wait for the next one
Never thought I would be seeing the guy with Hammer in sunglasses png to appear in another video as a guest
perfectly done video and a perfect run great vid DB
Cool video! Aria of Sorrow is my beloved so very glad to see a simple yet insightful commentary about its speedrun.
Thank you for explaining how the RNG manipulations work, I've always been fascinated by that stuff. Can't pull any of it OFF...
Collabing with these runners for other games to explain the tricks required to make a run work provides such a cool insight and makes for entertaining and informative videos. Thanks @JupiterClimb !
Yeah I really think this format has a lot of potential and I'm excited to ask more of my friends to help me learn and teach others about cool speedruns
Awesome Video, great content and very well explained. LOVED IT!
Love the evolution of the content mang! this video and the editing are fire
It was based on seeing your run SOTN that got me to play it for the first time ever a few years ago. Since then my 360 finally red ringed on me which sucks. These videos are always interesting to me.
I love this community! I have never vibed quite like this before!
Outstanding video! I love AoS and this is a great overview.
Dang, you got the real Hammer to collaborate with you instead of dr4gonblitz
0 HP is still the real Reset City :D
DB and JupiterClimb collab
Super slick video DB! Great job! You're getting really really good at making videos. Thank you! 😊
This Speedrun is the equivalent to a Mario Speedrun but with rng manipulation, I am absolutely stunned by runners that have the dedication to do this speedruns
Thanks for making this video, Castlevania glitches and rumors on early internet forums in 2003-2005 were a big part of myl childhood
actually "nerd emoji engaged" you only need dracula souls for the first phase of the graham fight
Question: How would the RNG manipulations affect the All Souls (where you need at least one of every soul before defeating Chaos) and All Bosses (where you need to defeat all bosses, including Graham and Julius, before defeating Chaos) categories for Aria of Sorrow?
I imagine that the RNG manips for all bosses might be used for the Dracula souls. However, for all souls, are there some souls where it would be faster to not manipulate the RNG? Or is it faster to manipulate the RNG for every soul in all souls?
thank you for making this video guys i loved it
I remember hearing my first JupiterClimb commentary at a GDQ and thought "This dudes got his announcer voice down" and then realizing that's mostly just his natural cadence. What a chad.
Actually holy, I totally forgot you were the SOTN speedrunner this year. I went and set up my first randomizer immediately after that run because couldn't stop thinking about it. I streamed like 4 runs to a friend in Discord too. You'd think the thousands of KH2 randos Spike would get me to bite but, good old SOTN. (I have also since tried a KH2 Rando)
"Whut!?" Nice edit/narration etc. - this is a very intriguing vid! tnx for your efforts! Extra credit to Jups, too
And Chewy? Did I not give props? How the H.
It feels so good seeing a game I played as a kid back in the 2000s become known as a classic and has these awesome speedruns
you could imagine my joy and happiness and total lack of regret after finding out luck is worthless when i spent hours maxing my luck soul to max and having it equipped my whole game
I found higher DPS to faster farming is better
@@noredine well yea considering luck doesnt increase drop rates lmao
I could never do speedrunning, especially not a Metroidvania game. I love playing through them and enjoying the story and mechanics.
the pixel perfect damage boost jump is what speedrunning is all about. shaving off time in the weirdest way (weird in relation to normal play)
That isn't *that* unusual. Ever since certain damage "pushed" (ie Doom, Quake) people have been taking advantage of it, although it used to be for finding dummied out secrets/exits than speedrunning. Gotta love crashing the game to desktop because you went to a test exit devs thought they made inaccessible, or getting to the "all weapons dev cache" in the first area.
I saw chewy4u's run first day on UA-cam. It was so impressive! Kudos to covering it and breaking it down.
If SummoningSalt wont do it, Db will do it, and do it classy!
See this game is so good because every run is different. You may get those weapons but unless you grind for those you'll never have the same soul loadout and have to make up a good strategy with the souls you get to drop. It's genius
Easily one of my favorite videos of all time.
I love aria of sorrow. It's my second favorite Castlevania.
Excellent video. Praise be to Joel
The best vídeo i watch in this channel, so fucking clean. And Jupiter is awesome in comments
it will always baffle me how i, as an 8 year old child, was able to somehow get the true ending without looking up any guides whatsoever. though my older brother had to fight a few of the bosses for me lmao
Wow my favorite 2 castlevania creators talking about my favorite castlevania game
Another DB banger? Yes 👀
Randomly found your channel, solid content keep it up!
I like watching stuff I already know from my favorite childhood game. 11/10 video
4:17 is crazy to even think about. I've never even heard of any sub-pixel perfect tricks before this one, and here's one where you have to also get the perfect damage boost right after too. I can barely wrap my head around this shit! Super Castlevania IV will always be my favorite but I have a lot of respect for sotn and the gba games because the speedrunners are absolutely insane! Keep it up guys!
Hell of a good video DB❣️Very professional too! 😊
❤ thank you much for the title of the video. It made me laugh out loud all morning.
istg Castlevania games are decades old and older but every time you watch a Castlevania content you always discover something new lmao
You give just enough info to keep me interested but not enough that I check out.
FWIW, a guy from my D&D group who is from the UK pronounces Claimh Solais "clive solash" or thereabouts. (It was in a game he DM'd themed around Irish stuff.)
I told him that made sense because all letters are made up anyway. Dunno if that's completely accurate, as I'm just relaying secondhand here, but since it came up, there ya go.
Dream: 0.00000125%? You gotta pump those numbers up!
Wow, glad to see one of your vids pop off like this! And this one is really well done.
Fantastic video. Very well done and easy to follow along.
Bro i played smth like these. It almost like castelvania there was Upgrade card and if u defeat boss u lose and castle Will be cursed but if u kill blood moon first then u fight in world of giants then go to ice place u fight a boss who can do zawardo but i forgot the Name of game
Oh AlSo i remember the 8 bit version (end game lcoation secret) and boss at begininng that is so healthy op
I can't believe that glorified apes have somehow bonded together to make video game consoles, let alone custom tools to manipulate RNG on a DS Castlevania game, like this should say everything about humans in a positive way. It's beyond belief that any of this exists.
The moon castlvania with the combat cards, was TEN times better then this one.
This one SUUUUUUUCKED
Didn't know Fingers was doing speedruns
Ahh nah, mans broke the record using the Logitech controller they use for the underwater tours
What model is it? lel
Loved this! Really appreciate this vid. Was very entertaining!
@3:38 “manipluation” 😂