This is a tool-assisted speedrun. For more information, see https://tasvideos.org/3400M
TAS originally published on 2017-05-23

If science fiction is to be believed, the ultimate evolution for biological beings is to discard the physical body and become an entity of pure energy. For video game characters, it seems to be the ability to zip through walls.
In this latest TAS by zggzdydp ( https://tasvideos.org/Users/Profile/z... ), Simon Belmont joins the league of characters possessing this ability.

Castlevania II: Simon's Quest is the story of Simon's horrible weekend
without sleep. Two years after defeating Dracula, the hero is physically
weakened by Dracula's curse. He must gather Dracula's remains and
incinerate them at the ruins of Castlevania in order to end the curse.

This movie is 85 seconds faster than the previous effort by the same author. We recommend to read his comments ( https://tasvideos.org/5418S ) for explanations on how this improvement was achieved.

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This movie has a full Atlas Map encode (    • Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (Any% T...   ), which shows the standard encode overlaid on a zoomed out map.