Definitely one of the most finished and polished entries. Really like how deliberate the controls feel, but I would personally give the jump a bit less of starting lag. Just to make it feel a bit more responsive, even if the lag is on purpose.

Enemy and obstacle placement is fantastic, really loving the old school level design!

I'm a BIG fan of classic-style Castlevania, and though the controls in here took a little getting used to, it was all fine once I got the hang of them, I'm very glad to be able to find someone else with an appreciation for the old-school Castlevania experience! I'd still remove the delay from the Jumping though, Classicvania had a delayed whip, but not a delayed jump, and well, I'd prefer to use up + attack rather than just up to throw the sub-weapon, but that's just me... Also spectacular pixel art! Good job on that!

All that said though, I'm afraid this game falls a little too out-of-spec with the original Game Boy... Sure, you stuck to the 4 colours, the 8 x 8 pixel grid, the resolution, and even the single BG layer limitation, but you're not only rotating sprites (which the GB couldn't do) the music doesn't even sound like Game Boy music! It sounds closer to like, GBA music, except higher quality...

Really neat game; very nice looking!  Very challenging!  If you get a chance be sure to check out my puzzle game.

The clunky controls became a little problem for me while playing, which made the fun score kinda low in my part, however, it is a very challenging experience that works well with the music and graphics.

A few people are mentioning the "clunky" controls being a drawback from the gameplay, I disagree. This takes me straight back to the retro days of gaming. The Castlevania vibes are fantastic, each action has a weight to them and that feels perfect for this style of game. Awesome art too!

Very good pixel art, challenging game. One of the bests i played until now :D!

Awesome graphics and great mood to the game! It would be nice with checkpoints though :)

The gritty action mixed with the weapons  and clunky movement makes me think of BattleToads x Castlevania, and I love it. The aforementioned movement does interfere with the action a little.

The game could be fun if the controls weren't so clunky. This is mostly because there is a delay from when you press x to when you jump. You also forgot to say that you could attack with z on your itch.io page, and this lead me to die multiple times. The game looks amazing but the audio seems average. One other design decision that grinded my gears is that there aren't check points. It is incredibly tedious to play through the level to die to the same challenge over and over again. On the bright side it seems incredibly polished(except the jump) and the level design seems good as well.

Super fun, graphics awesome and challenging. Despite the SD character design the ambience is feels heavy and mature. I am very impressed by the result !