Another year, another Castlevania.
Like Portrait of Ruin and many other Castlevania's the player's statistics improve during the game as you make you way through nicely animated 2d environments looking for the lord of all demons, that being Dracula.
During your quest you find new weapons and magical powers which you can combine. You also find or purchase equipment such as rings and clothing which also improves your stats a bit lke a role playing game. The main gameplay is traditional 2d platforming action.
At one point in the game i was moving through the Bowels of Dracula's castle and the colours and traps reminded me a lot of Super Castlevania 4. I think this was done intentionally. Then i realised i liked the old Castlevania 4 better then Ecclesia. All these level-statistics and special items, who needs 'em? I just want to move from a to b defeating monsters and levelbosses, killing Dracula once more and see his castle destroyed.
Still i found this game to be dangerously adicive, the hours flew by.