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

Look up Castlevania: Nocturne of Recollection.

Alucard is such a dork.

The end credits. Seriously, it's over!?

But seriously the overall challenge of the games. I want to be challenged, have multiple attempts at boss fights instead of them being just HP tanks. Give me dynamic foes to test my skill/mettle against!

A sword cannot be forged unless heated.

actually i have the opposite problem, dos  its a button push and youve swapped, theres 2 options so you dont have to cycle or accidentally pick the wrong one
ooe i cant stand that i have to hold down a button, cycle through, and im constantly overshooting or picking the wrong set cause i went the wrong direction, or getting hit cause  my backdash is occupied, its as unintuitive as having to use A to use an item in skyward sword instead of B >.<
i think a mix of the 2 systems would be better, where you can have up to 3 sets like ooe but you have the added option to turn set c off for a more dos setup, and have swapping mapped to a single button press (maybe l1/r1 by default) so you arent having to perform an awkward button combo to swap and are less likely to overshoot

anyway, as for the other games i dont have any issues with sotn that arent because of my playstyle, i end up way overleveled in a lot of games because im ocd about lists and collecting stuff, i can still go into that game and try something new like early doublejump or wolfjumping to see how far i can get

cotm isnt an Iga game, but it still needs to be said that this is why dark for darkness sake is a horrible idea, that game you hant see half of whats going on most of the time even backlit, its soooooooooo sloooooooooooow to move around, and the most horrid idea ive seen in any cv game is to have a magic centric mode and STILL HAVE THE ARENA TAKE AWAY YOUR MAGIC!!! >o</ _|_|_ so now youre vastly underpowered, probably underlevelled cause magic spam, and cant get 3 rooms in cause the one thing your character is good at is completely useless

hod, its got to be the music, the blips make the awesome soundtrack really hard to listen to, although they stll manage to make vampire killer have all the epic and make the blips work in its favor

aos/dos, the insanely low drop rates, hands down

por i really wish had larger areas, with maybe a bit more variety within them, like instead of having 2 seperate portraits with the same theme have each portrait have 2 entrances, and have a room that serves to keep you from going into that 2nd section too early, but once you open that room from the second entrance you can then continue into the areas that were previously inaccessible because you didnt have x relic

ooe see above, also magic pixel syndrome and wombo combo, i just spent 3 hours going 3 rooms and dying to enkidu, then another hour fighting that tsunami boss hoping the ai didnt just spam that splash attack i cant dodge cause i have to get so close to avoid the hair whip, or i get hit once and get juggled between enemies and lose half my hp in seconds, or an enemy will just spawn inside my hitbox (damn you bitterfly!!!), i die so fucking much in that game, and im on normal ;_;

loi and cod have copypaste syndrome bad, other than that and some occasionally twitchy hitboxes i really liked the games

Things that I don't want to see anymore:

1- As Clear mentioned, I don't want to draw with a Stylus again.

2- Too many godly weapons, If 1 has to be in the game then the developers should hide it very well. Crissaegrim (aka. Valmanway) and the Alucard Shield + Rod made everything way to easy.

3- The stealing system of Curse of Drakness.

Yeah, this is almost word for word what I said on this in another topic haha. I think we'll be fine in that regard.

I've been dodging this topic for a while because I don't have anything significant. Just kind of subjective things for me, I guess:
I really don't like the circus/clown areas of previous games
The classic straight-still swing animation of the whip is important to me, and if a sword whip or whip-like weapon doesn't have that, it just doesn't fill the gap for me
I miss the sub weapons in the later games and like item crashes/spells more than enemy skills

I think that's about it, but more preference things than real problems.

Oh no, did I get them mixed up? Shoot.

I guess I'll backtrack on that and also add the addendum of wanting more than two equipment loadouts.

Parts of the games that feel lazy, that feel like padding. That may be a general term, but almost all of IGAs games have this problem. Symphony of the Night had it with its Inverted Castle, Harmony of Dissonance with its Spirit Castle/Castle B, Curse of Darkness with its entire level design but especially Dracula's Castle, Portrait of Ruins last paintings, the works.

Hopefully IGA doesn't fall into that problem here, but wanting to make the biggest castle without relying on that copy/paste work is a very hard task, especially if their goal is to meet an estimated March 2017 deadline. They have about a year to get the main game done.

^this...very much, this....

im ok with cut content if its done for a good reason, like space constraints (not as much of an issue now but it used to be), it ends up being a drag on the story or becomes redundant due to edits, or is found to contain a bug that just cannot be fixed without starting over nearly from scratch, and sometimes an idea that sounds great on paper can quickly become a nightmare to implement or just ends up not being fun in practice

time and money constraints are unfortunate and much harder to justify but sometimes its just the evil side to being a business or at the mercy of beancounters, i hate it but its a necessary evil

now cutting content to be repackaged and sold as dlc, or cutting off part of the story cause dicks is never ok, konami fucked up the mgsv ending, los1 made a story jump that made −459.67°F sense unless you bought the dlc, then hinged the entirety of mof and los2 on that dlc, i dont know about ac2 dlc but i will say this, having dlc that happens during time jumps or after the story is fine, as long as its either a side story, a 'what if', or that shows the story from another point of view is fine, just dont do it to the main story, if you need an extra part to bridge canon its better to include it as a prologue or a special feature on the next game