“You Were Tricked!” Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Review

Despite almost everything being derivative, and the combat being fairly simple, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow improves on a few ideas and has enough to deliver a complete package. It might give a sense of "I've done this before", but only if you're educated on the genre. The thing this game does best is completely detach itself from those blasted self-replicating "Metroidvania" games, which by the way, is incredibly ironic.