In the Prologue, you play as Richter. Actions performed Your performance in this section affects your starting equipment and stats during the main game when you play as Richter will determine 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 starting state start of Alucard once the main game begins. These effects include: - If , the fight ends Neutron Bomb and Richter has 0 hearts, Alucard will start with a the Heart Refresh in his inventory.: - If To acquire the Neutron Bomb for Alucard, Richter gathers ''more than'' 40 hearts (must have 41 or more) and does so hearts BEFORE the start of wine glass cutscene that triggers the fight, Alucard will start with a Neutron BombDracula. - If Richter dies and gets revived by Maria, Alucard will start with a Potion. This Note that accessing the secret treasure room at the top of the stairs is not something we want required to do, particularly due be able to get this making Alucard's starting stats weakermany hearts. - If To acquire the Heart Refresh for Alucard, Richter ends must have 0 hearts remaining by the fight with time the Cross (rather than Holy Water), Alucard will start with an extra 5 MP. - Alucard will start photo burn cutscene begins after the game fight with 80, 75, or 70 HP. If Richter defeats Dracula without taking any damage, Alucard starts with 80. Taking more damage will lead to less starting health, so we want to avoid taking damage. - If Dracula is defeated in under 42 seconds, Alucard will have stronger stats to begin with. This is convenient because we want to go fast in our speedrun anyway.

1. Launch up into Richter begins the Prologue at the ceiling bottom of stairs that lead to the treasure an entrance room (the one that the staircase comes down from. Donand Dracula't extend the staircase though; although no opening is visible, Richter can still go through the gap). With proper alignment, Richter will strike the candlestick to the right, gaining 5 heartss throne room.

2. After falling back down from At the top of the stairs, hidden in the ceiling, strike 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 first candlestick chandelier and the vase on ledge. If you are in the tablecorrect position, These Richter will pass through the ceiling and you will give gain access to the secret treasure room without needing to lower the hidden staircase. If you 1 and are not in the correct position, you will collide with the ceiling instead. There is a candlestick containing 5 hearts respectively, adding up to on the right side of the 11 hearts hidden room that you need will want to collectbefore dropping back down into the entrance room.From hereOnce you are back in the entrance room, go collect 6 more hearts from a candlestick and the vase. Along with the 30 hearts Richter starts the Prologue with, you should now be at 41 hearts. Move to the left to enter the throne room and trigger the fight with Dracula (having 41 hearts at this point fulfills the condition for acquiring the Neutron Bomb for Alucard). During this fight , Draculahas two forms. You have 2 Hydrostorms availableIn his first form, he will teleport and 11 normal floor-throwsthrow projectiles. The majority of these flooreasiest way to defeat Dracula's first form is to get the Holy Water sub-throws 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 be tossed off-screentransform into a large monster. In his second form, just to get rid of themhe jumps around while throwing projectiles. This fight should be pretty easy. You just need The easiest way to make sure not defeat him in this form is to finish off Dracula until you're down use your Item Crash again while whipping him and throwing Holy Waters. Remember to 0 use up all your hearts to ensure during this fight so that you get end the fight with no hearts remaining to fulfill the condition for acquiring Heart Refreshfor Alucard.