the story is the best part of this game, the plot and presentation work in conjuction to make what is my second favorite story in castlevania so far (altho order of ecclesia might become my second favorite soon-ish)
the gameplay's pretty good, using weapons feels nice and i like the spell system
the castle is great...and then the game inverts the castle just to pad itself out
the inverted castle fucking sucks why does the last like third of this game have shitty music, frustrating and unoriginal ""level design"" and literally nothing to add to the actual experience. we could have just fought dracula after shaft and it would have all been good but noooooo we need to flip the castle 180 degrees