Castlevania SOTN Batmaster

Описание: My 200th Batmaster video! 😍 (Counting only the main video of each seed.) Time surely goes by fast when you are having fun! 😊

For this special event I decided to do a scenic Batmaster run with complexity 10. In the scenic route there are 118 possible relic locations, that means you usually need to explore a large portion of both castles. And there are locations locked by Holy Symbol, Soul of Wolf, Cube of Zoe (stopwatch) and Demon Card, so there are 3 more progression relics.

I choose complexity 10 to increase the linearity (and decrease the chance of baits), and looks like that allowed me to finish the run much faster, because I got 2 vlads out of logic (one that is "locked" behind Holy Symbol, that you can get if you are able to tank the water damage, and another behind Merman Statue, that you can get if you are able to fly). And happened that those two vlads where pretty high in the complexity chain, so I could safely predict that there were no more relics in first castle and I ignored Silver Ring and Form of Mist and continued exploring 2nd castle.

It would be much more faster (more than half an hour) if the seed was not of the "early Jewel of Open" kind, that made me shield dash through half of first castle before finding Soul of Bat.

It was fun, anyway. It was so long ago that I played scenic route, that it was very nice to experience it again.

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Castlevania Symphony of The Night randomizer speedrun.

Seed generated in https://dev.sotn.io
Seed name: CGM_BatMaster_200
Preset: Batmaster
Complexity: 10
Relic locations: Scenic
Goal: Default
Randomize options used:
Tournament Mode
Accessibility Patches
Enemy Drops
Item Locations
Starting Equipment
Prologue Rewards
Color Randomizer
Magic Vessels
Anti-Freeze
That's my purse!
Infinite Wing Smash
Fast Warps
Remove Prologue
Relic Surprise
Shop Prices
Starting Zone 1st Castle (random start location)
Guaranteed Drops
Reverse Library Card
Immunity Potions
Godspeed Shoes
Library Shortcut