Well, my girlfriend went out of her way to pre-order Castlevania Portrait of Ruins before I did.
I have a lot of things running through my head.
First off all, we were both in agreement we dispise the anime art of Dawn of Sorrows, and thought the cover to Portrait of Ruins was a tragic car accident. Second, I showed her the EBGames off for a collectors edition with a fancy box, art book documenting the art of the series, a soundtrack, a DS Slip case, a Stylius...... and NO GOD AWFUL ANIME ART ON THE COVER! Speaking as an artist and a Castlevania fan the art of Dawn of Sorrows was really laughable pretty much all the time. I can imagine that there was a decision to replace Ayami Kojima from making the franchise stale, but then we got Curse of Darkiness which will be a random game we will call upon when we want to recall obscure Castlevania storylines much like Portrait of Ruin's origin. We both are in agreement that discarding Ayami from the Castlevania games was the worst mistake Koji Igarashi, but we both in agreement that Dawn of Sorrows was the BEST out of the series recently.Third, and the BEST Reason, it's only 35 Bucks. I loath pre-ordering from EBgames or gamestop. I think I only ordered once, but I'm more comfortable with heading down to Target or a larger franchise that doesn't want to bother you with extended questions on your gaming habits. "How often do you play the sims? Do you need an expansion pack for that?" Actually I prefer online shoping just to avoid it altogether even if I have a friend working there and even they have to ask me about subscription to Game Informer.
Although, my girlfriend didn't hesitate to think about that and continued into EBGames and reserved herself a copy of the game...... meanwhile I'm a schmuck who's going to get a crappy anime cover just to avoid all that. HA! I'm kidding, in fact I'm inspired by her and am going to preorder a copy without worring about all those little things that bother me about EBGames.