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== Prologue ==
=== Goals for the Prologue Section===
*Gather enough Hearts to have 41 Hearts before entering Dracula's throne room
*End the Prologue fight while holding the Holy Cross item (optional)
*End the Prologue fight with 0 Hearts
In the Prologue, you play as Richter. Your performance in this section affects your starting equipment and stats during the main game when you play as Alucard. Your primary goal in the Prologue is to beat Dracula while meeting the conditions necessary to give Alucard two items in his inventory at the start of the main game, the Neutron Bomb and the Heart Refresh:
- To acquire the Neutron Bomb for Alucard, Richter must have 41 or more hearts Hearts BEFORE the wine glass cutscene that triggers the fight with Dracula. Note that accessing the secret treasure room at the top of the stairs is required to be able to get this many heartsHearts. - To acquire the Heart Refresh for Alucard, Richter must have 0 hearts Hearts remaining by the time the photo burn cutscene begins after the fight with Dracula.
Richter begins the Prologue at the bottom of stairs that lead to an entrance room and Dracula's throne room.
[[File:SOTNPrologueRichterUppercut.png | 280px]]
At the top of the stairs, hidden in the ceiling, is a secret treasure room. The fastest way to gain access to it is to use Richter's uppercut move (Down, Up + Jump) while roughly halfway between the chandelier and the ledge. If you are in the correct position, Richter will pass through the ceiling and you will gain access to the secret treasure room without needing to lower the hidden staircase. If you are not in the correct position, you will collide with the ceiling instead. There is a candlestick containing 5 hearts Hearts on the right side of the hidden room that you will want to collect before dropping back down into the entrance room.
Once you are back in the entrance room, collect 6 more hearts Hearts from a candlestick and the vase. Along with the 30 hearts Hearts Richter starts the Prologue with, you should now be at 41 heartsHearts.
Move to the left to enter the throne room and trigger the fight with Dracula (having 41 hearts Hearts at this point fulfills the condition for acquiring the Neutron Bomb for Alucard). During this fight, Dracula has two forms. In his first form, he will teleport and throw projectiles. The easiest way to defeat Dracula's first form is to get the Holy Water sub-weapon from the leftmost candlestick in the throne room and use your Item Crash (Triangle or Y) with the Holy Water to cast Hydro Storm.
After defeating Dracula's first form, he will transform into a large monster. In his second form, he jumps around while throwing projectiles. The easiest way to defeat him in this form is to use your Item Crash again while whipping him and throwing Holy Waters. Remember to use up all your hearts Hearts during this fight so that you end the fight with no hearts Hearts remaining to fulfill the condition for acquiring Heart Refresh for Alucard.
== 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.
[[File:SOTNDeathSkipMapBuffer.png | 280px]]
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. The simplest way to arrive here with the correct amount of XP is to have killed all but this last Warg as well as between 2 and 3 Zombies along the way here. 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.
There are other methods of performing Death Skip, as well. The most common of these alternative methods is called [[Spell Death Skip]], and uses the Summon Spirit or Tetra Spirit spell to kill the Warg.
[[File:SOTNRichterSkipVisualConfirmation.png | 280px]]
=== Wolf Method Richter Skip Tutorial by Turbodog702 ===
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== Inverted Castle ==
After you teleport into the Inverted Castle, transform into Bat. Almost the entirety of this section will be spent in Bat form and involves chaining Wing Smashes together in long hallways and precise bat movement around and through enemies as you make your way through the Route. Along the way, you will encounter a fight with Medusa. Medusa is one of the bosses that drops a Relic that would ordinarily be required to complete the game, but since we will be performing the [[Relic Skip]] in the upcoming section, there is no need to collect it.
## As the sixth Wing Smash finishes and Alucard untransforms, hold Up and to the Left while mashing the Jump button (if at any point you are forced out of the ceiling, you will have to return to the room again and start all over)
## Keep mashing the Jump button until the flickering stops and you are forced into the other Save Room just outside of the lift that leads to Dracula's chambers
=== RSL Method Relic Skip Tutorial by Turbodog702 ===
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Once you have successfully executed the [[Relic Skip]], equip Buffalo Stars in both your hand slots and take the lift up into Dracula's chambers. After exiting the lift, fly up and around the barriers and drop into Dracula's chambers to begin the fight with Shaft. Position yourself along the left wall and alternate using both Buffalo Stars while jumping to finish Shaft as quickly as possible.