*sorry my english isn't perfect*
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I was always fascinated by TAS movie so I decided to create my own and discovered the world of tasing. So this is my first tasing attempt on castlevania aria of sorrow. I decide to make the boss rush where my RTS time is 1’26. And the current record is 1’21’38. I couldn’t find any tas of the boss rush except some crappy one on youtube so I decided to create the first decent tasing .
I complete the boss rush in 1’17’90 no glitch version
Description of the rush
Giant skeleton : It’s not possible to get faster on this first boss. Even If I killed him faster I have to travel the room using black panther soul and the door will be open anyway.
Manticore : Same as previous. Note that sliding below the door allow soma to go a little further than If I had entered the door normaly. Gain of few frames.
Great Armor : I don’t think I can gain any frames here. I use black panther the all way and killing him faster doesn’t change anything because I have to travel the room to the next boss.
Man-Eater : not even a boss, all I have to do if using lubricant soul with 1hp to increase strength and use red minotaur soul.
Big golem : I have to use blocking mail armor to be able to dodge the first hit and be invulnerable for few frames. Allow me to use Black panther soul almost the all time. Ascalon is the best weapon to increase strength of souls but I have to switch to claim’s solais at the end because the weapon does cancel the animation when soma get back on the ground.
HeadHunter : same as man eater.I can’t be faster to kill him. But my dashing animation when the door open is terrible and I have no idea how to do It properly. Some frames can be gain here.
Death
Death is in my opinion the hardest boss in the game. He makes incredible damages and has so many hit points. I think I can gain some frames at the end using the positron rifle that I don't have...I'm not sure it's gonna kill him because no website can give me number of hit point of every boss.
Legion
I hate him. WHY? cause I have no idea how I can perform the legion quick door (basically you have to kill him at a frame perfect to make the door open much much faster) . I try every possible frames at the end and there is no way to perform the trick. Someone has to help me there. Few secondes can be saves. The rest is OK i guess.
Balore
Balore is tough and I try so many differents strategies. I used soul like medusa to stay in the air while crushing him but didn't work as well as I was expecting. It seems that Valmanway is a excellent weapon against him . I try to make as much damage as I could with claim's solais,final sword and Valmanway and no doubt that the last one is the best by far. The key on this boss is to use lightning doll (triple hit) and red minotaur soul on the same jump then switch to valmanway. It's funny to notice that you kill him before he used its transformation.
I think this strategy is the best. But maybe someone knows a quickest way...
Graham
Graham has 3 transformations. They key here is to kill its first transformation before he dissapears. Graham has 2 attacks on its form . He can through 3 fireballs and you can avoid them by attacking them or some huge black balls that you can't destroyed.
I don't know how to manipulate the boss but I notice that graham will choose it's attacking depending on how fast you will attack him. I lost about 10frames by waiting in front of him because graham will attack by using the fireball instead of the black balls.
The rest on the battle is easy , just a combinaison of lighting doll and red minotaur.
final word
So this run isn't perfect but good enough for a first TAS attempt and it was fun to discovered to world of tasing. However I will collect every different strategies to make a better time.
1'11'XX is possible I guess. All I have to do is to make a better time against death (30-40frames can be gain) ,legion (4-5seconds for the legion quick door) and graham (10-20frames).
Sorry my english is not my native language. Thx you for watching.
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