Uploaded October 2012 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This is the first ever single segment low% run of the game. Low% means that you are only allowed to collect one relic: the Soul of Wolf. The Flamberge is a required drop in order to move vertically, and I had HORRIBLE luck on that drop (normally I'd expect it to drop around the 20 minute mark and it didn't drop until after the 40 minute mark). I would recommend skipping over that part if you watch this.
This wasn't really intended to be single segment and was being played extremely casually, but I figured I'd upload it since I happened to complete it without needing to load a save. The time of the run also happens to beat the previously known low% RTA record of 1:38:55, but of course is extremely improvable due to using save points, having horrible drop luck, and being overly conservative with the mana prisms. A sub-hour time is possible but I don't feel like working on this category seriously for now. My more serious current projects include Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (Julius mode) and Ninja Kun: Ashura no Shou.
For the sake of making the "highlights" easier to find, I'm going to give you time stamps of the splits and special glitches/tricks.
Doppleganger fight - 06:55
Getting Shield Rod - 12:06
Getting Flamberge - 40:36
Richter skip to 2nd castle - 44:15
Medusa fight - 55:37
Getting Heart Refresh - 1:03:50
2nd Clock Room - 1:18:00
Dracula relics skip - 1:23:17
Shaft skip/Dracula fight - 1:36:04
This is the first ever single segment low% run of the game. Low% means that you are only allowed to collect one relic: the Soul of Wolf. The Flamberge is a required drop in order to move vertically, and I had HORRIBLE luck on that drop (normally I'd expect it to drop around the 20 minute mark and it didn't drop until after the 40 minute mark). I would recommend skipping over that part if you watch this.
This wasn't really intended to be single segment and was being played extremely casually, but I figured I'd upload it since I happened to complete it without needing to load a save. The time of the run also happens to beat the previously known low% RTA record of 1:38:55, but of course is extremely improvable due to using save points, having horrible drop luck, and being overly conservative with the mana prisms. A sub-hour time is possible but I don't feel like working on this category seriously for now. My more serious current projects include Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (Julius mode) and Ninja Kun: Ashura no Shou.
For the sake of making the "highlights" easier to find, I'm going to give you time stamps of the splits and special glitches/tricks.
Doppleganger fight - 06:55
Getting Shield Rod - 12:06
Getting Flamberge - 40:36
Richter skip to 2nd castle - 44:15
Medusa fight - 55:37
Getting Heart Refresh - 1:03:50
2nd Clock Room - 1:18:00
Dracula relics skip - 1:23:17
Shaft skip/Dracula fight - 1:36:04
![Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin RTA in 15:03 [OBSOLETE]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/c5q8F5y9ekM/mqdefault.jpg "Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin RTA in 15:03 [OBSOLETE]
Go watch my current record here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dU p6Vyv0
This is the new WR as of 5/21/13, overtaking the previous record by more than 90 seconds and my own personal best by nearly 2 minutes. This is mostly thanks to a few route optimizations with zips, although I think I executed the Dracula fight much better than my previous best. Astarte fight, not so much.
I was up all night and tired before attempting this, what can I say? I mostly just did the run because I was excited about the new route stuff. Im sure the time will drop a lot whenever I feel like doing a more serious round of attempts. Sorry that this is also my first full run in a while not to include commentary; I just didnt feel like talking because of how tired I was. Hope you enjoy the run anyway!")
![[OBSOLETE] Castlevania: SotN all bosses speed run in 38:18](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/e1qBWsG4adg/mqdefault.jpg "[OBSOLETE] Castlevania: SotN all bosses speed run in 38:18
This is a run from early December that I had sitting around on my hard drive. I havent worked on the category lately, so I figured Id upload the best run I have so far. This category only came into existence so I could do something a little different for the game at SGDQ 2011, and I pretty much have routed the whole thing myself since then. This is a category that has been raced pretty often on SRL, so at least it has some competition going through there.
Update: this run focused on the in-game timer instead of real time and had an in-game time of 36:09. By this point, that in-game time has since been beaten in real time lol. So yea this run is pretty outdated.")
