Castlevania Lord of Shadows is dissapointing
The game concept also feels very similar to God of War, and Dante's Inferno. I feel that half and half of the concept was GOW and Dante's Inferno. The titan in this game looks way to similar to Gaia in God of War. The concept of the wife dying in this game and trying to tell him something is almost the same as when Dante's wife died and he was trying to search of her.
As for controls, I hated it or I didn't care for it that much. I feel that the controls weren't set up right and I didn't like the fact that you couldn't change the settings of the controls of the game. I believe that developers or creators should of make that available so that players can play comfortably to whatever controls they feel are comfortable. The control L2 in this game feels like there was too much things going on. L2 is used for blocking, and dodging, and other special effects which is the relics for example, it's also use for tremor crush (L2+square), earthquake punch (L2+triangle), shoulder crush, flame dragon tail, etc. Overall the L2 section was just too much for me, and it would have fit much better if the dodging section was R3 or it should have given you the ability of being able change video perspective and what happen to R2? is it honestly use for only grabbing things? Initially, R2 is usually for grabbing things, but in this game, I feel that they could have improved it a little.
What I also didn't like about this game was that, it gave you too few options of where to go. It's very direct and specific where you should go. It didn't give you enough choices to explore where you want to go. In my opinion, the pretty and marvelous game graphics went to waste, because I feel that it was just for display. It should give you the ability to being able to explore because this game can be considered as RPG/Action game and most RPG games are adventurous
Overall, I am rating this game 5 out of 10 because of the complication of controls, and the concept of the game wasn't original. I feel that this Castlevania series didn't meet up with my expectation of Vampire Hunter and Dracula. It felt like it was all over the place for me both controls, story, and with the skills that was provided or move skills, and also.. not to forget the layout of the game.
Don't get discourage if you want to give it a try. These are just my personal opinions of what I thought about this game.