i feel like this game has been kinda frustrating as far as updates go for me. i remember back when the game first came to steam in fall of 2020 and i had actually finally gotten into this game and had made great memories and pumped a lot of hours into the game up until the point i had to move for the start of college in 2021. from that point on in 2021 though the nail was in the coffin for this game for me. i already kinda had lost any desire for the game by the time i moved even when this was the time when they were adding new characters and they just added storm point (given its one of the worse maps in the game but i didnt know at the time) and i still just didnt care even when new things were being put in. i never really came back except for a few random times over the past couple years just to play for like 5 hours over a week then forget about it and uninstall again a month later. i think after this last time i just uninstalled its probably gonna be the last time i play for a while because my friend was getting so hyped up about the most recent update with the revenant rework and it got me thinking about how maybe there was something new to look forward to with the game when in reality it was just all the same maps with minimal changes to the POIs and the newer maps like storm point and broken moon that i just dont care about because of how boring they are. i feel like theres always this promise of something new getting added into this game every season just for it to feel like once the new update comes out the game just adds minimal change and feels like its just stagnating to the point that nothing feels new anymore, even the content im not as familiar with. i even unboxed heirloom shards before my last time i uninstalled and not even that is enough to get me to want to keep playing. given this is still a 4/5 star review, i still think all that time spent playing this game in late 2020-mid 2021 was well worth it and those are memories i think back on fondly, but ever since then i have just never been able to find that same love for this game because its slowly but surely been losing its luster every time ive come back

played this back when i pretended to like fire emblem back when it came out and i just remember how miserable the pull rates for 5* units were it was insane. i know they fixed it later on but that was well after i uninstalled it. every once in a while i reinstall the game to get platinum points on mynintendo when i remember that shitty ass club nintendo replacement exists. hate this damn game man its boring and it has the gacha game problem of making all of the units too complicated when you come back to the game 4 years later and their abilities all have a paragraph of text like a yugioh card and it sucks it just sucks hate this damn game man

i didnt even know this shit existed until last week when i looked at the wikipedia list of castlevania games and im so glad i did because otherwise i would have missed out on this. im glad that they were able to take a game as shitty as the adventure and really polish it and add so much to it to make it a new amazing entry. its pretty fair most of the time, its a lot of fun to play through, you can beat it pretty fast, theres some replay value with the routes you can take on levels with the keys, this game just fucks. all i could think about while playing this is what if we got more castlevanias of this quality to this day with such great spritework and animation