A good game after the first ending, an awesome game after the real ending.
The game follows similar story line, gameplay and visual style as previous Castlevania installments. The gameplay is perhaps slightly toaned down from Dawn of Sorrow as there is no more soul collection system. Instead you use Jonathans ability to use any weapon in the game, or Charlottes spell casting abilities. You can have each of them traveling by themselves or you can have both of them out at the same time, giving opportunities for dual crushes and other double teaming methods. Often you will need both of them to push something out of the way for example. There is also the introduction of quests, you beat one and get a new one, and there are a few different paths you must take to beat all of them. Many of the quests are very difficult to find and figure out because the castle along with all of its portraits are very large. You must go into portraits in this game to access different areas and you must defeat the evil affecting that area to cut off draculas power from the portrait. The Graphics are similar to Dawn of Sorrow's except the previous game probably had more creative and unique environments over all. The variety of monsters was notably impressive though. The sound was great, the music was just as classic and epic as ever as far as Castlevania goes, and the sound effects were just as good as they ever were. I do recall some voices from the last game, which would have been a very cool addition into this one as well. If you make it past the first ending (which is very disapointing i have to say ) then the game gets much more exciting, and it also lasts quite a bit longer. TO GET PAST the first ending use sanctuary when fighting the sisters! Overall this was a great game. One or two parts (such as fighting the Vampire Killers Memory) will test your patience but you will feel great after finally beating them. This is definitely a worthy game!