Speed run of Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse chosing Alucard as the spirit parter done during October 2003.Out of the four possible endings, this one's my favorite path through the game. The other three go through basically the same exact stages (except for the extra Clock Tower level with Grant), so it was a breath of fresh air to play through some new levels. Plus, Alucard's ability to fly as a bat makes for some interesting shortcuts through many places.
Optimizing Alucard's flying can by tricky however, as you need lots of hearts if you want to fly for long periods of time, and the trade-off it takes to collect those hearts isn't always worth it. Also, Alucard is a complete wimp when it comes to fighting, so you always have to transform back into Trevor. The transform animation is VERY slow, so this adds to the time trade-off whenever you want to fly.
This one's definitely not my best stuff. The first few stages were a comedy of errors before started to pull it together. The last stages were a lot smoother, though I really screwed up the last Dracula battle by running out of axes. Personally, I'd give it a C+, though it's tough to argue against a complete run on a game like this. So many ways to die!
