Not the least bit surprised, they really need to start making the demos at E3 playable for everyone for a limited time. It should have been become a mandatory thing years ago.It sounds like you were expecting this to be a pure Classicvania.
Well they labeled it as "going back to its roots" and blah blah blah and we are getting a 2D GoW clone (sorry but that sequence when killing that boss was.... GoW...) I WASNT expecting a Metroidvania/Igavania (God I hate to call the games like that) but we are basically receiving the same troll game as LoS and its "reboot liberties". Cornell an old man that looked like a dwarf, Brauner and Olrox two savage hulking vampires, Frankie a mechanical spider. Dracula a Belmont.
What will be now? Oh wait, they already did it: Dracula and Death going to night clubs and riding cabs to gather forces to fight Satan.
I hope teh music fares better, LoS had almost no music and repeated 6 tracks in all levels, making them EMPTY of personality.
Sorry I DONT hate Coxvania/Kojimavania (God stop) but the trolling of them is too much. It seems that THEY (MS) really hated IGA and his work and said: "I have come to put an end to this"