This was the first Castlevania game that I've completed and I also managed to finish the game with 200% map completion, but experiencing this was truly a beautiful narrative experience and one that I'm only excited to come back to.

Sure, the backtracking can be a bit much, but it also just helps that the map is always so much fun to head back into and explore to find new secrets coming one after another. Now I need to make it a priority to finish more from the Castlevania series.