Castlevania - Portrait of Ruin (Hard/Level 1/NO DAMAGE) Part 1 - Entrance

► Playlist with playthrough: https://goo.gl/cX2A5r
► Playlist of Single Character Challege: https://bit.ly/2DCMK1q
**Read the description for details on this challenge run**

Ok. Hard Mode Level 1 on a fresh New Game file. Is it possible? Yes it is. Will it be easy? Oh, fuck no.

I'll spare the obvious bullshit this thing will be but there are several things I'd like to point out:

I WON'T use Ancient Armor. This means most regular enemies will be killing me in two hits, late game ones can very well do instant-kill moves. Bosses will most of times either do one-hit kill or at very least two-hit kill moves pretty much through the entire game (that if you get HP Max Ups).

I WILL be collecting every HP/MP Max Up for the sake of showing where they are since I feel they're the most important upgrades of the entire game (especially because MP Max Ups in particular are extremely important).

New videos might take days to finish and upload. Anyone who's ever played this game might have an idea where I will probably get stuck.

I WILL grind and get stuff like Shuriken at Master level before moving to City of Haze because fuck doing early game without at least that. I've tried and every video ended being over 20 minutes and boring as shit.

Any grinding will be obviously done off-screen. While I won't use items of an area ahead of me, after I'm through it, and if the area has something potentially useful for me, I'll grind to get it (unless I get the item on-screen). Because no way I'm going to go through this challenge run without some VERY good preparations before the next area.

I WON'T do Wind Quest duplication glitch.

If you think I'll do Nest of Evil without at least Sage Ring and stuff like True Vampire Killer... Fuck that noise. I won't go even remotely close to that place without my favorite gear available. However I won't do outright broken shit like Miser Ring + Gold Ring + High Money stuff and **maybe** not using Holy Claymore or Magus Ring either. That'll depend on how much Nest of Evil pisses me off (expectation: a lot). To be honest I'm not even sure if it's possible to finish that place in Level 1 at all (without Vic Viper, Konami Man and Twinbee at very least).

Lastly, learn a valuable lesson for Hard Lv.1: a little bit is better than nothing. Grab every point of STR or INT you can get. I'm not kidding when I say squeezing every bit of STR and INT might save your life here. Additionally, effective damage in this game, unlike Dawn of Sorrow, is of utmost importance and even more important is knowing which enemies are susceptible to Petrify, Curse and Poison.