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[Tier: Moons][Fastest Completion]DS Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (USA) in 03:30.71 by mtbRc.
DeSmuME movie (.dsm) (date: 2014-02-06)
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Submission #4184 — Author's comments
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Obsoletes movie #2357 (03:50.05)
Rating: 7.6 (14.5 votes)
   
- Best ending
- Major skip glitch
- Final boss skip glitch
- Uses a game restart sequence
- Heavy glitch abuse
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: RPG
Dawn of Sorrow (2005), the first installment of Castlevania on Nintendo DS, is a direct sequel to GBA hit Aria of Sorrow. Everyone is trying to kill our hero Soma Cruz, since in the previous game he absorbed all of Dracula's attributes. Leave it to weird cults to try and bring about the end of the world by unleashing this power.

The game is so fully broken at this point that there really is no plot in this run. Or final boss. Or much of anything at all. Using movement optimizations and a new zip, this movie completes the game 19.33 seconds faster than its predecessor. More details about the glitches can be found in the author's comments.

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Added [Tier: Moons][Fastest Completion]DS Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (USA) by mtbRc in 03:30.71 (2014-02-06)
- obsoletes [Tier: Moons][Notable improvement]DS Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (USA) by mtbRc in 03:50.05 (2013-04-12)
- - obsoletes [Tier: Moons]DS Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (USA) by McBobX in 07:43.76 (2013-01-18)
- - - obsoletes [Tier: Moons]DS Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (USA) by gocha in 08:20.12 (2009-10-17)
Added [Tier: Moons]DS Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (USA) "Julius mode" by mtbRc in 09:01.49 (2013-09-24)
Added [Tier: Moons]DS Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (USA) "all souls" by Kriole in 35:08.59 (2012-12-12)
Added [Tier: Moons]DS Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (USA) "Julius, in bounds" by cpadolf in 19:20.63 (2012-07-28)

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