Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (Dominus) - Any% Speedrun (

I saw no point in recording a regular playthrough of Soma mode as the achievements are quite trivial. I'll be doing a full Julius run as well, but I'll be doing aiming for Soma asap, then dealing with the other bosses for the rest of the achievements.

I got real sloppy in the Abyss, but this was only my 2nd completed attempt so I'm not exactly experienced in that section. Don't care though, sub 30 is fine by me, I'm not spending 1000+ hours chasing stupid WR's. I'm well aware I don't do any real advanced movement like backdash canceling and BDHops or even air kicks, but my goal was sub 30 and I could do that without taking the time to master those techniques. With practice, I could probably get sub 20 pretty easily, but I'm not a patient enough person for that.

Easily could of saved a couple minutes if memory corruption was a bit more consistent. It's a toss up if I can get it to give me a decent load out before I can't suspend anymore. This spot in the Abyss is the only one I can get to consistently let me back in bounds. Other spots let me do the memory corruption using an axe zip far earlier in the run if I wanted to in order to skip gathering the succubus soul, but 70%-90% of the time those spots resulted in permanently being stuck OOB. In the Steam version, doing memory corruption will crash the game after about 45 seconds to a minute if you remain out of bounds and continue flying, so suspending the game to stop and run back in is required. You need to be moving out of bound for about 20-30 seconds to get a decent kit to pop into you inventory, and sometimes (I'm guessing when you hit a boss zone trigger while flying around) around that point you will no longer be able to suspend. AFAIK, there is no soft reset in the Steam version, so thats why I opt to reload a save on the title screen when I need to reset to try memory corruption again.