== Death Skip ==

After the Prologue, and for the remainder of the game, you play as Alucard. A few rooms into the run, you will come across a section where the game tries to force you into a cutscene with the Grim Reaper (also known as Death), who steals your starting equipment. It is possible, however, to execute a glitch known as a [[Reverse Shift Line]] to skip this cutscene and keep all of your starting equipment, which is some of the strongest equipment in the game.

The most common method for performing this glitch uses the Neutron Bomb earned during the Prologue. Have Alucard jump over the last Warg prior to the cutscene room with Death while his XP is very close to the XP required to level up. There is a raised set of steps leading into the next room that has a breakable block. By breaking this block, you can move into the correct position, and walk left while using the Neutron Bomb to kill the Warg, triggering the level up animation. By buffering a backdash and holding right while the level up animation plays, you can trigger the glitch. The positioning and timing is very precise, so it is often necessary to use [[pause buffering]] to set it up correctly.