Uploaded October 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Something about the Ricochet Rock lets you have 2 frames when killing the skeleton to backdash pre-level up. Potion is to avoid getting hit by the skeleton on the teleport. Lining up at the start is somewhat lenient (2-3 pixels maybe?) but having the hand on the right side behind the railing and having the gold on the arm in full view is a good cue to go. -- twitch.tv/romscout/c/3064190
Something about the Ricochet Rock lets you have 2 frames when killing the skeleton to backdash pre-level up. Potion is to avoid getting hit by the skeleton on the teleport. Lining up at the start is somewhat lenient (2-3 pixels maybe?) but having the hand on the right side behind the railing and having the gold on the arm in full view is a good cue to go. -- twitch.tv/romscout/c/3064190
![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.")
