I gotta say, I'm pretty pleased with newer handheld Castlevanias. I remember back when something like Legends would have been par for the course. Handheld gaming's come a long way since then, and it's awesome to get a good sized Metroid-style game every year or so.
That isn't to say that laziness present in PoR doesn't irritate me. Okay, reusing Rondo sprites is one thing, but would it have killed them to, you know, make a few more new sprites instead of ripping them from DoS? Especially considering they took some of the shitty ones, like Mimic. LAZY.