First of all, a premise must be made: of Castlevania this game has the prefix and little else, otherwise it is really a novel reboot for the saga, which will bewilder all those who have played and enjoyed any of the previous chapters. That said, I don't consider it a Castlevania so I think of it as a good, extremely competent action adventure that manages to offer different facets of the genre and blend them together to make the title long-lived, varied and definitely replayable. The technical and artistic compartments also offer evocative and very beautiful passages to look at, an uncommon work that in some cases really leaves one speechless. The feeling, however, is that the game duration could have been reduced to better balance the fights and make them less repetitive, as well as to give more exciting narrative and gameplay moments, which are precisely the factors that do not allow Mercury Steam's first effort to become one of the best exponents of action adventures on the first try, while remaining a recommended purchase for fans of the genre.