Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance Maxim Any% PB in 32.11
Channel: Tobias Nerg
Date: 2018-02-04

This game and cathegory has seen a big boom of players from Japan these past 2 months, which makes me happy! Last week my 32.7 was bopped by a Japanese player named T-2_2DFG with a time of 32.4. Also another japanese player called gyosso has quickly made his way into the low 33's.

I've said before that this is the only record that I will defend until the end, but being a father to a 7 month old boy sure makes it hard to find time for speedrunning nowadays. This past weekend though, my wife and son went to visit his great grandmother which left me alone for a whole weekend, the first time since June 2017.

I decided to try and make my response then, which ultimately proved to be fruitful! I spent 3 hours derusting all the strats during saturday, FINALLY understanding an inconsistency I've always had in my runs, the only part about the run I don't understand; The spacejump zip after the candle-whiplaunch zip. Consistency for that part had been like 5% before, but now it rose to about 50 - 60%, giving a lot more potential to runs making it past the candle whiplaunch. I have to thank Sopha about this since I skimmed through the comment he made on my Maxim Any% Tutorial video and the key to the consistency was to go from left to right instantly and ONLY when maxim zipped upwards.

I slept on it from saturday to sunday, and literarily on the 50th attempt on Sunday this run came out of the blue, quite shocking me in the process. Regrettably I didn't check my mic before starting to stream, so you can't hear my commentary and hype at the end of the run.

This run is very good and hits all points of luck needed for this run. Dracula fight could have been a couple of frames better (I could have started the second shurikenglitch a couple of frames earlier, turning around earlier), but as it stands, this is now a VERY hard time to beat, factoring in all kinds of luck you need for this run, namely:

1. Even if you do get the candle whiplaunch it's not a guaranteed zip into the right wall, I think the successrate of the zip for me during these two days has been like 15% at best..

2. Depending on which frame you press jump during the spacejump ascent in the wall going upwards before dracula's chamber, you will hover in the ground before dracula's chamber for different amount of time. I THINK I got the perfect frame here since I only spend 3 frames in that screen (which can range to up to 2 seconds or more).

3. Dracula pattern. To execute the quickkill with 2 shurikens, he has to move FORWARD towards maxim to gain maximum glitched damagehits from the shuriken

All in all, I really enjoy the competition these past weeks in this game, and If anyone wants to learn it I have a tutorial on my youtubepage. Stay safe, speedgamers!