This Castlevania III clone suffers from the chief sin of modern remakes – it makes obvious what its inspiration left to player imagination and discovery (the most egregious example being the pointing skeletons that telegraph the diverging routes). Yes it's tight, it's polished, and it's lean, yet the design is so heavy handed that there's no room to breath. 8-bit titles, intentionally or not, featured “unnecessary” stretches of space that let the experience grow beyond the borders of the television. But with Bloodstained, what you see is what you get – for better and worse.