Castlevania Rebirth - played through it, impressions

[Khuutra]

noname2200 said:

To be honest, I kind of do think that the omissions from MM9 are also an artificial challenge. As to the inability to attack diagonally IS a fairly standard Castlevania move now: after IV, I believe every Castlevania game had the ability to do so if you equipped one item or another.

I would accept this if the game were designed to be played with diagonal whipping, but according to the OP it isn't, and most of the problems solved exclusively by diagonal whipping do not seem to exist in the first place.