The game is filled with invisible walls (like Alice: Madness Returns), which can be overlooked, but at times there were so many other places I wanted to explore that are just unexplorable

Riding a troll for example will let you smash walls, and you can certainly fight with it, but you're pretty caged in with the creatures you're allowed to ride making them have limited use as a mount

And if the ledges you can grab onto didn't blink, it would be impossible to find them, because although there are ledges everywhere in the game that would seem like you could climb, the invisible room walls prevent you from grabbing most of them.4

No longer are you stuck in an improbably huge castle, fighting bosses for power-ups that let you explore more of the castle, nor are you breaking down walls in hopes of finding strangely placed boosts

because this game keeps you on rails and blocks you from jumping to your doom in places you're not supposed to jump by the infamous "invisible walls".

Also, the first few levels have invisible walls aplenty, and take place in open areas that you'd think you could openly explore, but you can't

In great Castlevania fanfare, Gebriel gathers relics that boost his powers as he learns new moves and acquires subweapons

Many of the boss fights are quite epic and amazing as you move along

:Castlevania PROSGRAPHICSFor those of you who enjoyed GOW3 as I did, well, Castelvania BLOOOOWS it away.

You will most likely die a

Once activated, light magic will heal you as you hit your opponents and shadow magic makes your attacks much more damaging