Incompetent to an impressive degree. Did no one at Konami think that maybe, just maybe, normal people wouldn't feel like dumping all their hard-earned quarters into a borderline-impossible game that sends you all the way back to the beginning after 3 continues regardless of money spent? Feels like an arcade cabinet made by and for masochistic space aliens who overheard the people they abducted talking about Castlevania between probing sessions