It's actually not as bad as I feared. It has a parry system, & that's always appreciated. The move to 3D was clearly a mistake though. Symphony Of The Night was peak. This game is generally quite ugly, & the cut-scenes are hideous, whereas all the 2D titles have a great deal of charm, even the very early ones.
At least this game has attractive female characters, so that's another point in it's favour. I wouldn't recommend paying full price for this, but I got it for a couple of quid on sale & for that price it's OK.

Please release 'Castlevania: Symphony of the Night' on PC.

> Combat combos can be fun.
> Design of environments look cool.
> The story is interesting.

> Short game.
> You play as three characters, so you feel less connected to your character.
> Not a true Castlevania game, it feels like a spin off.
> Sometimes it felt like there wasn't enough room for combat, the spaces felt tight.
> Puzzles were lame and annoying.
> No reward really for backtracking, because you get given a new character anyway in the next act.

I recommend getting it on a sale, it's definitely not as good as the old Castlevania games. But it also wasn't horrible either. It's an average game, somewhat enjoyable.

I came here after beating the first Lords of Shadow game Ultimate edition thinking I would love the continuation of the series, but I just can't enjoy this. Everything here feels like such a downgrade from the first Lords of Shadow game: the level design, the return to side view from pseudo 3d erd person, the graphics are worse, the art and aesthetics are worse, the beautiful and detailed animated cutscenes of the first game are now dancing Paper Mario drawings several times worse than the grim art of the first game. The cluncky and laggy combat animations are annoying to behold, the leveling up xp system that automatically unlocks moves for you as you level up instead of allowing you to purchase the moves you want with xp currency removes player choice from you. The myriad pathways in the levels that are inaccesible until you get a power up on further chapter that will allow you to explore. I've been spoiled by how good the first modern game of the series is and can't entertain the thought of beating this one.