Pretty good game, and a pretty good sequel to Bloodlines. I enjoyed it but I had previously abandoned it due to not being able to beat the final boss and not being able to get True Vampire Killer either...Nest of Evil being required for 1000% percent didn't help...by previously, I mean a few months back and before the current playthrough I had restarted the game before and quit early like a week ago. So I basically played the game twice and had started it thrice...which really dragged it for me and sucked some fun out in some places.

It's just not my fav Castlevania or anything anyway sooo...the duo and other characters are very charming tho, the duo idea is very interesting and done well though it definitely felt like Charlotte was much weaker compared to Jonathan...which is bleh. Plot is interesting and the new lore they drop about the in-universe history and what happened to the Bloodlines characters.

Either way, it's a good time.

I used the Portrait of Elegance hack which replaces the anime style portraits with Ayami Kojima styled artwork (using from Grimore of Souls and other edits to match the characters), really helps make the game much better.

I've done everything 100% besides Nest of Evil (which gives me 900%) and I've cured Vincent, I also got the Alucard Spear so I now have all the OG Bloodlines weapons....maybe I shouldn't have cured Vincent for funnier results? Oh well!