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[Gors]

I know I'm coming into this discussion late but I just wanted to state the fact that castlevania 1 and 3 are terrible, castlevania 2 is great (though heavily flawed), and the DS castlevanias (and the latter two GBA castlevanias) are the best games in the series by far

While I like all of them (except 2 which is a clusterfuck of a game), the enemies in those DS/GBA Castlevanias are still not 'fit' for the gameplay style imo, except for bosses.

And I don't retract anything I said here regarding about Castlevania here, as that's part of the game, to be honest. It's hard, but it's not impossible. I like them because of the challenge, design and music; also pointed by everyone here, it's fair. I still think that comparing an obviously shit game (such as Action 52) with Castlevania was a dense move though.

But to each their own. That's why Castlavania changes a lot between games; there are classic games, Metroidvania games, a fighting game (which was dumb but w/e). Koji Igarashi himself said that those games get stale easily so that's why the genres change somewhat regularly.