What's your least favorite parts of previous Igavania games?

I agree with everything posted so far. I guess if I had to pick something else I'd say the relatively low difficulty. Compared to the classic Castlevanias or even something like Circle of the Moon Iga's games were fairly easy. Order of Ecclesia was a step in the right direction, and I was hoping the next game would be even more challenging, but then Konami went all wacky and ruined everything.

My least favorite issue that started to rear its head more and more each game.

Repetitive level design. Lots of box rooms, lots of copy and pasting, too much to the point that I wasn't really as excited as I normally was when exploring.

It's a huge fear of mine with this game Especially since they're saying it's the biggest castle

Teleports that cycle instead of a menu where you choose where to go.

It's not a huge deal but I would love to just pick where to teleport instead of waiting.

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I have to say I agree with GenericSoda. I played Phantasy Star Zero, Phantasy Star Online 1 and 2 and Phantasy Star Universe, and all of them except PS-0 had really great weapon-swapping controls. In fact I hope they do something akin to PSU/PSO2, where you could set up to 6 different weapons to a palette, which you sould easily bring up with a button and scroll up and down using the D-pad.

On topic, there isn't much that annoys me in Igavania games. The only thing that bothers me sometimes is how rare some items are. I replayed OoE last moth and it I literally killed +150 Lorelais before she dropped the Merman Meat item. That to me is awful. I can only accept very low drop rates in MMORPGs where the economy plays a major role, but in my opinion in a singleplayer game no droprate should be lower than 5%, especially if it is just loot.

100% ok with reused assets like the dual castle HoD and inverted castle. They both had enough visual appeal that I didn't mind. Portrait of ruin was probably the most noticeable but even then I still didn't mind. Although those extra areas in PoR had lots of reused enemies and i'm not talking about palette swaps, straight up reused from one portrait to the other.

On topic. least favorite parts were in AoS and DoS regarding the New game plus. By the end of the game you get this amazing ability to move 2-3x (black panther, speed up, or rapidus fio) faster and when you start a NG+ you lose that ability. And this isn't some progression ability like the double jump or super jump. As you would not be able to sequence break with these abilities except get certain items earlier. Thankfully PoR and OoE corrected this.

Any platforming that requires pixel perfect timing of jumps should be left out (or pixel perfect timing of anything for that matter). I'm not worried about this for Bloodstained though, because IGA himself said he hated that kind of thing in the Miriam walk-animation clip.

Indeed, the Training Hall, being optional, was the the perfect solution. I'd love to see something like that in Bloodstained. Honestly it's a waste to get all those platforming skills (OoE had a lot of them) and never getting a proper challenge on how to use them.

Ok so since a topic like this is important since it helps build a better game I am going to explain in detail to the best of my ability the things I hated in past castlevania games and hope that do not surface within this new game

We already covered the DS Stylus Pentagram sealing mechanic in Castlevania Dawn of sorrow,But I am just going to mention it again because it's such a pain and bad idea it deserves a mention...again,and I hope nothing similar happens in this game,even a puzzle for the castle done in such a manner would be a pain

I wanna state that I hated one Toy-Maker area in Castlevania Mirror of Fate for the 3ds,You play as Alucard in this area and this area is insane and will drive you mad,the area is connected to at least several other areas and thus is connection zone but is littered with spikes,electric floors,pitfalls,etc...and most of the time you need to use this whip upgrade to traverse the area via a trolley like pulley system,the whole area is basically one big puzzle on it's own but because you need to traverse so many time even one little mistake and your falling into multiple kinds of hurt...if you only had to visit this area once to get a very nice item,I wouldn't care,but the fact they make this a connection area which you must visit so many times just frustrated me to no end,I hated having to traverse it and I hated having to come back to it over and over again with avoiding spikes and doing roller-coasters all over the place,basically if your going to make an area you need to revisit several times don't make it in a such hazardous manner

In RPG side of terms,I hated things like Portrait of Ruin where you were given certain quests to accomplish,and your given them early on but oddly their quests that could not be completed till near the end of the game,so if theres quests in the game I would prefer their given around times they can be accomplished,I also hate grinding tediously for hours for a certain rare item,im all for rare items and rare discoveries in games,but when a item has a drop rate of maybe 1 in 200 that's...a real pain especially when you don't have any means to increase those odds

And I might be a little picky when I say this,I have no idea why but when it came to any metroidvania castlevania game potions were always expensive as it's weight in gold,their a basic survival tool and I know having too many of them can make the game too easy but the prices for them were almost always atrocious,if you had a mechanic in the game where you can farm for items and make your own potions or maybe have your own garden and craft healing items,then the high prices would not be as painful

The only other thing I can think of I would hate to have in the game is controls in which multiple actions are done with the same button,I don't think this was a problem is previous games...but i'm just throwing that out there,for instance I would hate it if attacking and climbing ladders was done with the same button

While the touchscreen gimmicks of DoS are awful and deserve all the hate they get, I don't think we need to worry about them, not even for the Vita/Wii U versions. DoS was fairly early in the DS life-cycle and they did that just for novelty, just so that you could say they made something out of the touchscreen which was a new thing for games at that point in history. You could see that as the DS Igavanias progressed, they used less and less gimmicks. In fact I don't think there's any obligatory touchscreen nonsense in OoE at all.