PART 2 is up now. There are actually genuinely funny moments if you give them long enough. But I have to say, they are really giving this game a lot of credit for having come into it so late. It's refreshing to hear someone talking about the pure gameplay/visual reaction, rather than over-thinking it and nit-picking its flaws. They're having a lot of fun with it. They went so far as to say it was more in the classic vein of Castlevania visually and gameplay-wise than Super Castlevania IV. I imagine the alternate path coming up will trip them up a bit, though.
does arcade flow mean it plays like haunted castle
I've never played Haunted Castle, so I could only speculate to that point. But what I mean is that it has a really snappy pace that pushes you forward with a variety of enemies and obstacles one after the next, and after each stage, there's a score tally screen where you can earn an extra life if you survived with no damage.