With all due respect to IGA, he just remade many times SOTN. Even he said in HoD, he said that he wanted the game to be very similar to SOTN, even Juste had white hair like Alucard, brought M. Yamane to the game's score. Don't get me wrong, the formula of SOTN is good. The Metroidvanias are fun to play, but the story was getting kinda dumb. I am enjoying very much the LOS universe, and this is the way Castlevania games should be made from now on IMO. I just want to know what happened in the 1999 demon castle wars and that's it. LOS developers made a very serious story giving every character a reason to be. Dracula is evil because the circumstances and his own behavior made him take the path to the dark side and the Belmonts are trying to rid the world of their evil ancestor. Looking deep into the story, everything has a reason to exist, and that is freking cool. The gameplay is cool, the visuals are great, and so on.