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I heard a lot of positive things about this game from the AVGN, so I decided to give it a shot myself. Not being a hardcore fan of Castlevania I'll try to give it an objective review. First of all, the graphics are very good for the SNES - DAMN good ! The backgrounds are not just solid colors like in other games - they're colorful and really detailed and so is Simon Belmont, the protagonist you play as. The soundtracks are awesome too: they are varied and lively and make you want to turn the volume up, not down ! As far as the controls go, they feel just right, at least as far as I could tell on a computer keyboard - without playing with an actual control pad, it's hard to comment on. The buttons used to control the character are configurable, giving you better flexibility with the control pad, as you can configure the buttons however you want. It seems they hit all the key elements of a great game: great graphics, beautiful soundtracks and responsive controls. One thing I'll definitely say is that the game IS very difficult ! It may not seem so at first, but the later stages are packed with enemies and instant-death traps. By the time you fight Dracula at the end, it's almost impossible to beat him without an emulator with save-states ! The good thing is that if you lose, you only have yourself to blame - you can't blame it on the controls for instance, like you could in Dragon's Lair on the NES, where 90% of the time you died because of the atrocious controls. You can't blame your failures on the game, no matter how hard you try, because it functions as it should, so there's no excuse NOT to keep trying. Bottom line, this is a great game in the SNES collection and I give the AVGN credit for letting me know about it. Now I see for myself why he praised it so much in his Castlevania review. Give it a try !

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