Well I was interested in investigating this information as avoiding death stealing your equipment allows you to combine the Alucard shield with the shield rod early by doing an early Colosseum boost allowing me to get an insane amount of damage on enemies saving a lot of time and MP in the process making me easily be able to create a much better run with some better routing to optimize the route between bosses and shatter my old PB along with some good shielddashing and tetra spirit.
I am interested in this because I really like this game and I think its really cool even if no one else thinks so I am also a big fan of Rondo of Blood but I have not beat it quite yet because its so hard I am still stuck on the Ghost of shaft and learning how to backflip on a dime at the right time to avoid getting damaged enough to destroy him and possibly get close to beating the game