^I can see where you're coming from with your Julius points but they kinda had to nerf him or else no one would use Alucard or Yoko. How is Alucard almost worse than his CV3 self? To each their own but I didn't think Julius mode was hard. Moreover, I thought the Soma fight was fun.
Completely agree.
There is a reason why they had to nerf him for reasons listed above.
And regarding Alucard, they very well could not have him being able to do most of his moves from SOTN, cause then he would beoverpowered and nobody would want to use Julius or Yoko.
So they limited him to very basic stuff such as the Alucard sword, Hellfire,Bat form and the super jump.
He is nowhere near as worse as CV3 Alucard if you ask me since all he was limited to was hellfire and bats.
Also another thing Alucard had going for him was the Diagonal sword slash and that came in handy for some of the smaller monsters.