LogFAQs > #976521755

Honest opinion from someone who didn't play it back then; You can definitely feel how old it is, and how later Castlevania games used a lot of the ideas it came up with, so it actually feels kind of clunky and "Oh, I've done that before" in places where it should feel more special I suspect.

That said I really need to give it another try because I highly suspect a game praised this much will reveal why it's still worth playing if I get past that. Unfortunately, I have a version on a PSP castlevania collection so the screen real estate is also super tiny and has borders.