Castlevania Rebirth - played through it, impressions

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noname2200 said:

Khuutra said:

That's.... not artificial challenge any more than limiting the height of a jump is artificial challenge, unless you think the ability to whip diagonally is the default (it's not). That'd be kind of like complaining about MM9 because you can't do all the fancy moves from MM6

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.

Uh, no it isn't?  You can't even do it Rondo, Bloodlines or Dracula X (and all came after SCV4).  Hell, you can't do it in the Metroidvania's either.  SCV4's the only major one you can whip diagonally in iirc (dunno about some of the GB games)? :/