A fun continuation of what Symphony of the Night did, but a little bit more scaled down to be on a portable. Exploring Dracula's castle is as fun as always, the music kicks ass, and the powerups you find for defeating bosses are always fun to use. However, I didn't really like the way items were handled in this game. Drop rates are incredibly low, and there is no shop so duplicate pieces of equipment become pointless. There are also these cards that you can combine to give yourself various effects, and those cards are also locked behind random enemy drops. I would have liked it more if the cards were something you naturally found around the map rather than something that you have to grind for. The last bit of the game becomes a bit of a slog, with the second to last boss being in a particularly annoying to reach area and the final boss being really cheaply designed imo. Despite that, I still had a lot of fun with a majority of the time in this game, so it's def worth trying if you like metroidvanias.