Castlevania Rebirth - played through it, impressions

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KylieDog said:
Make or break question: Can you use the whip diagonally?

Nope.  It's the same as the best Castlevanias (Dracula's Curse, Rondo of Blood).  The game is slavishly oldschool, but still somehow newschool friendly, just like the other WiiWare ReBirths (Gradius & Contra).  M2 really are the masters of this sort of thing.