Long time Metroidvania fan, first time SOTN player. Yup, sure was the start of IGAvania's. It's kind of crazy to me to see all the stuff that he reuses all the way back at the start. And seeing all the SOTN callbacks in Bloodstained.

Great visuals, great vibes, great soundtrack. The voice acting and story is awesome as shit too, like that whole last talk with Dracula rules.

I was surprised there were subweapons, and even though I felt like they fell off at some point, they were pretty cool. Shield also was a nice surprise to me that I also didnt use, but neat.

My problems were too many sword weapons, enemies can be kind of fuckerish if all you have is a small horizontal swipe in front. Becomes very apparent in the second castle where they start having extremely annoying enemy encounters. I also don;t like the second castle too much cause every jump is just out of range so its just annoying to navigate. Some bosses are just extremely annoying to fight, especially the large ones because they usually don't have good platforms to jump on.


I'm not gonna say it;s my favourite cause I had plenty of gripes, but fuck its a good ass start.