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For the ones I've played a lot of:

Rondo of Blood > Symphony of the Night > Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon > Curse of Darkness > III > Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night > Order of Ecclesia > Portrait of Ruin > Dawn of Sorrow > Aria of Sorrow > IV > Lament of Innocence > Chronicles (PSX) > Harmony of Dissonance > Circle of the Moon > CV1 > 64 > Adventure Rebirth > Judgment > Bloodlines > Dracula X (SNES) > II

The only problem with SotN in my opinion is, it's a bit of a weird imbalanced mess, gameplay-wise; however, I don't think the gameplay of metroidvania games is really that important. As long as it feels good to use the weapons, it's fine.

Instead, I think metroidvania games are all about beautiful visuals, atmosphere, music, all the artistic aspects. And, just having a really surprising world, with a lot of variety. I think SotN is one of the best games of all time in all of those categories. That soundtrack is super weird. What the heck genre is that Wandering Ghosts song.

For the ranking of the rest of the metroidvanias, I have RotN > OoE > PoR > Dawn > Aria, they're pretty much equal to me on the artistic aspect. I think this ordering is explained by how excited I am to find new things in them. In Aria, it's just crappy soul after crappy soul. It doesn't feel that fun. Meanwhile in PoR, you've got two characters you're equipping, with weapons, armor, and their separate magic techniques. That's awesome. And then in RotN, there's so many ways to customize your character it's just ridiculous.

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For soundtracks, I'd probably put:

III > Curse of Darkness > Symphony of the Night > Rondo of Blood > Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon > others

(interestingly, that's also my top 5 up above, but in a different order... perhaps soundtracks play the biggest part in if I like a game)
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