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I beat the game! It was great. I'm thinking it's probably my 2nd favorite metroidvania (slightly prefer SOTN), and probably in my top 40 games.

I think what makes it so successful is the variety of gameplay, and it all works great. 90% of weapons and souls I found, I'd try 'em out and be like ooh!! That's awesome! Previous Castlevanias didn't come close to that, maybe like 10% of the weapons and abilities felt good, and the rest would be like "why is this here".

This is true for the various upgrade and customizations systems as well, just a ridiculous variety of fun choices. The cooking system looked annoying at first but I ended up loving it, intentionally finding the right enemies to farm for materials, to upgrade specific stats.

And I felt the difficulty was just right, pretty hard, just hard enough to make me want to actually put effort into my builds. Never frustrating though, just right.

I do really like customizing Miriam too, also one of the best parts.

The game is definitely janky though, I had 5+ system crashes (can't remember the last time my computer crashed...) and that one laggy boss fight.

I still have to put SOTN above it though, because the atmosphere and music just doesn't quite live up to SOTN, and that's a really important aspect for these games for me.
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