Between the smutty actions of Maria and the blood all over the place, it feels like I'm watching a porno blood fest.

Many enemies have blood fiercely squirting out of their bodies when you attack them, forcing me and my children to look away from the TV screen.

You are around 600 years old and ashamed of your cursed blood line

At a time when side-scrollers were falling to full 3-D games, Konami proved that there was still room for a good 2-D game in the gaming

The graphics are classic 2-D, which might turn off some gamers hoping for something more like Castlevania 64 (which was fully-rendered 3-D)