On my first time finishing this i gave 4 stars because the linearity kinda anoyed me, but replaying it i mostly didn't care about it, glyph mechanic is by far the most fun mechanic i've seen on this series so far(since i didn't played lament of innocence and curse of darkness too much yet), almost everything you get has it's utilities, from magic to physical, you can play this game in a lot of different ways with this, and i love the boss fights, probably my favorites from the series. Perhaps the only thing that really bugs me in the gameplay is how you can only get some equips if you get lucky and the chest spawns, i also don't care too much about the village side-quests, but the 2 extra locations, one being an enemies rush challenge, and other a platform challenge, are really awesome, by far my favorite extra from any castlevania game. Albus mode unfortunately is kinda boring for me, i didn't felt like it to finish. Visuals are pretty and OST as always with Castlevania has some amazing tunes, Dracula Castle theme being by far my favorite, and Shanoa isn't my favorite protagonist from the series because there's Alucard, but she's awesome, her speech when entering Dracula's castle is based as fuck