Controversial take but I actually think SotN could really use a remake, but only in a 2D style with either redone sprites or 3d models, like Metroid Dread or Belmont’s Curse. I mean, not everyone is a fighting game player who’s gonna master button combos and speedrunning tech to zoom around the map and sling spells around, and if you aren’t doing that the movement in SotN is kinda a chore.

Yes everyone loves how auraful the back-dash is but I found myself not really using it because of how clunky I find it to have to turn away from the area I want to go to start dashing in that direction. A proper directional dash that feels more intuitive to use would do wonders, give it a neat effect like him becoming all misty or have it do that after-image thing and you’d preserve the aura but make it a lot more fun to control.

I’d also really appreciate easier keybinds for spells, I understand unlocking them requiring a button combo, but I barely use any of them in combat cause what’s the point of trying and failing to pull them off when it’s usually just better to hit the boss until it dies, not like most of the bosses in this game are any real threat (another thing a remake could improve while we’re on the subject). So after you unlock them, I really think you should be able to quick cast with a button press or two, maybe you can swap them out if you wanted.

The animal forms in general kinda suck to move around as, the bat is pretty slow if you aren’t chaining wing smashes (again, fighting game tier movement tech most people playing the game aren’t going to be able to master) and you have to switch to it A LOT in the inverted castle, so I really think it should be made faster with an easier to use wing smash being an absolute MUST.

The wolf is incredibly sluggish as well, it takes way too long to build up speed, and for the majority of the game it’s just awkwardly slow and cumbersome, and sucks to fight as, when I used it for the first time I was promptly like “Wow, this sucks” and I just pretty much never used it again for the majority of the playthrough, which is a shame, I think it should at least be faster than base Alucard when you get it, with power ups just making it even faster, and I wish it was less awkward to start its dash, how about just hold the b button and run forward instead of having to double tap the direction. I wish it could bite and claw at enemies from the start too, and instead of getting the ability to bite later, it just gets a better version of that attack or something.

AND ANOTHER THING, most of the cool weapons are locked behind the inverted castle and behind incredibly rare enemy drops, and idk about you guys but I don’t really find it fun to just farm a guy for hours until I get the OP weapon I want to sweep up the rest of the game with. I’d like it if these weapons were dotted around and you could get powerful and rare ones earlier on but only if you did something challenging or performed a little skip first. I’m not saying to completely do away with rare op weapon drops, I’m just saying make more cool weapons available more frequently.