Decided to play through all the Castlevania games in chronological order, skipping the PS2 ones because they're exceptionally terrible. So I started here. As it turns out, I'm really not good at the "Classicvania" style games. All the ones I've played and loved were the more "IGAvania/Metroidvania" style ones. This is a decent game for an NES platformer, but it's got really stiff controls and rather obnoxious level design.