I never did play more then the demo of LoS, not that it wasn't probably a good game, it just didn't spark my interest enough to actually buy it. I know about the story for the most part from spoilers and honestly the only thing that has sparked any interest for LoS 2 is the fact your playing as Dracula. Like you are playing as Dracula, that is what the game is about, LoS led up to this.
What I think is... Lame, but at the same time I understand it for what type of game it is, and that is Dracula is using a whip...
It might be a dark magical whip he unleashes out of his hands but that is straight up Belmont style whip action with the added teleport. Ok that's fine, whatever, like I said Dracula is the only thing carrying it for me, otherwise I would utterly care less about the game. My personal opinion