I had recently tried to get back to playing this, however, I am stuck and unable to continue.

The game was a fun little castlevania clone, closer to the original series with a linear level progression like the first game, however, you can swap freely between weapons and you can use spears to help climb walls to get to other areas and there's a shop to buy equipment and so on.

However, I had some real issues deep into this game. I don't know what has caused it, but for some reason after a certain level the UI didn't work anymore in both the pause menu and the shop menu, meaning I could not buy any more health pick-ups and upgrades simply because I can no longer function with the menu and this also extended to the death-screen, disabling the ability to restart from checkpoint and such.

I would've scored the game a little higher if it didn't break down like this and as far as I can tell, that's just how the game works and has been designed. It's not too horrible, but I wouldn't recommend buying it.