[TAS] PCECD Castlevania: Rondo of Blood "100%" by adelikat & arukAdo in

This is a tool-assisted speedrun. For more information, see tasvideos.org/...
TAS originally published on 2009-12-28
Contrary to the other Rondo of Blood TASes on the site, this one not only goes through the hurdles of saving three useless villagers from their prisons (with some of said prisons even resembling their regular habitats), but also plays through all the picturesque levels just to prove that Maria isn't really a suboptimal character. No videogame character fighting dark priests by stoning them to death with small white birds should ever be called suboptimal.
If you want to see a shorter run through the game, we suggest watching these: Richter any% in 23:18 (tasvideos.org/..., Maria any% in 24:22 (tasvideos.org/....

[@FemboyDestroyer8008]

POV: You are a skeleton about to get ran over by a cartwheeling child.

[@michaelschrieber6461]

25:00 that should’ve been the thumbnail lol. That’s the face of a kart wheelin, stand using, chicken throwing killing machine.

[@NYCZ31]

Kinda funny how it becomes "Richter who?" for much of the game

[@beanking5432]

I think Maria was trying to do her best Sonic the Hedgehog impersonation

[@goodninji8]

Richter Belmont.
The Smoothest Moonwalking Vampire Killer that ever lived.

[@ShyShyTAS]

Thank you for making this. After seeing OneyPlays play and not finish this. I needed to see a speedrun of this game.

[@boofis8953]

34:51
That animation was smooth

[@gigaslave]

Maria's Stand power is too powerful lol

[@vhailormercykiller1174]

She also stole Sonic's spin :D

[@quailron1581]

KONO POWA

[@BaronYoungOfficial]

How do you go fast as Maria?
Just keep rolling rolling rolling rolling rolling.

[@bubbletea_]

Maria rollin around at the speed of sound

[@sonicboy678]

Really, Maria's only disadvantage is having a much harder time taking hits.
I wasn't expecting the switch _back_ to Richter, though I probably should've seen the code coming...

[@HarbingerYT]

Maria's the "easy mode" but as a trade-off, she's a glass cannon.

[@m_5373]

Richter Belmont, the first Keyblade wielder 🤣, 7:38 that Sync, 21:38 I love this theme ! ❤️, 37:35 _Final Stage : "Bloodlines"_

[@michaelalameda2002]

Personal Computer Engine Compact Disc.

[@Siegehart]

This 100% got RoBbed again.

[@Giffsen]

One of my favorite classicvania titles

[@mr.jes5e12oss2]

*Thank you very much for the Upload while you have the Tool-Assisted Speedrun!*

[@ricardop.b.7490]

María Renard is a stand user

[@magnusprime8947]

Nice remix of the boss music from the first Castlevania.

[@retro3188]

I know, right? Poison Mind is awesome!

[@sinjironagasakinagasaki5392]

Alguien mas noto que la música de selección de partida es igual a la de castlevania círculo de la luna

[@gv82089]

Este juego salió antes

[@davistoa]

Wow, I had no idea this version of Rondo of Blood featured some German voice acting. Makes me wish I hadn't slacked so much during German class.
Pretty cool, though.

[@Trimint123]

Yeah, only the opening part is in German.

[@davistoa]

​@@Trimint123 Which is why I specified by "some". Did go look at the later cutscenes to doublecheck. But that just makes it even stranger, if you're gonna go with the ""fancy"" opening narration being foreign, then why do the standard Japanese for the actual dialogue? I don't even fully understand why they chose German, I guess since Richter is German (considering the name) and the game takes place in his hometown? You'd think it would be Romanian, since that's where Dracula's from, but I guess it's just since Japan has that weird fixation with Germany, as always.
Edit: I googled it and found some guy on Reddit that had an answer for it:
"The person responsible for the intro being in German and for naming Richter was composer Akiropito (he also directed the visual scenes). I actually asked him on Twitter about this, and he replied that he believed at the time that the language spoken in medieval Transylvania was very close to German (this isn't correct of course). The confusion may have been caused by the fact that during the middle ages, there were large groups of German immigrants in Transylvania who formed separate towns and retained their own language. As for Richter's name, in an other tweet Akiropito mentioned he named him after German musician Karl Richter, because he was really into Germany at the time. So that's another reason why the opening narration was in German."

[@spicybreadproductions1972]

I only know Guten Tag (good morning)

[@davistoa]

@@spicybreadproductions1972 Close :) That's 'good day'. Guten Morgen is good morning. I bet Evangelion taught that to a lot of people.

[@quailron1581]

I love the 90s anime cutscenes.

[@alexop5919]

Is it Castlevania or Sonic?

[@helorumtheknightsofmambrin2155]

Well done Kemo sahbee.

[@josephjennings3146]

11:05 - SHE BE ROLLLLIINNNNN AT THE SPEED OF SOUND

[@dankman9533]

i see now why GUN had to blow her brains out

[@sdgdhpmbp]

@@dankman9533 Wrong Maria... probably.

[@robm1448]

Ohh... This is going to be good

[@듀얼쇼크]

9:04
マリア -平気- 兵器だもん！

[@Conan_the_Based]

The real MVP Is Shin protecting Maria with his Nanto Koshu Ken.

[@jennasloan396]

Maria Renard for Smash

[@thesealverse]

Mano teve sync em 30:47 nao é possível que nao foi de propósito com a mudança dela batendo a musica com a mao no chao ahahahaha

[@Blackshroom]

Wtf how he moon walking?? Probably picked that up from Simon lmao

[@spicybreadproductions1972]

Indeed

[@mjorge0alves]

Simon's father, Michael Belmont.

[@brianmercerjr2282]

RoB 100%

[@chrisfalcon_vt]

Alex before he appeared in RPG Maker 2000.

[@bryandedon7459]

I didn't know any of this was a thing. I don't have a clue what's going on.

[@HarbingerYT]

Rondo of Blood?
It's canonically the last game starring a Belmont set before the Demon Castle War of 1999.
Dracula is resurrected by the dark priest, Shaft, and captures 4 maidens. Maria (the only playable one), Iris, Terra, and Annette (Richter's love interest).
It was only released on the PC Engine in Japan (called the Turbografx-16), though it did get a rerelease on the Wii's virtual console.
There's a sort-of side-game/port of the game to the SNES called Dracula X (or Vampire's Kiss in Europe), and a remake on the PSP called Dracula X Chronicles (which also contain unlockable versions of Rondo of Blood and Symphony of the Night, with the same english cast as the one in the base game).
Those Rondo and Symphony ports were then rereleased on PS4 (backwards compatible on PS5) as Castlevania Requiem.

[@Yos_Belmont]

Maria súper belmont

[@gaspump]

Always funny watching Richter talk down to Maria when she unlocks what is basically easy mode (on a casual playthrough). The power of Belmont is no match for a flipping loli with animal friends!

[@derthevaporeon]

So basically, the mother of HSR Herta kekw

[@Gaunter_ODimm]

12 year old girl overpowered looks like :

[@ineptgamer3814]

This is horrible to watch. Why aren't you playing it properly...?