Those who have been reading me for a long time know: as a child, I loved adventure games. Thus, Zelda, Battle of Olympus, Faxanadu and other Simon's Quest games particularly marked me. Of those I just mentioned, Castlevania II remains the one I liked the least, which is why it is the last one I am tackling. In redoing it for my site, I think I see why. The atmosphere of the game is particularly successful, the slightly dark music of the villages, the excellent music of the day and the extremely strange but nonetheless striking music of the Dungeons. I think I hadn't launched this game for 25 years and yet, they were still in my head. I don't mean that I remembered them by listening to them but rather that I remembered them before and that I was able to hum them (or hear them in my head, the dungeon music is not singable). Anyway, this atmosphere, forest, village, dungeon,... is the success of the game but the big black point is the "dungeons". It's also what we were entitled to expect as being the most successful. Somewhere, a dungeon should have resembled a level from the 1st one. That's what we were waiting for. And I'm not talking about the bosses... From 1 to 4 via 3, the bosses are a known thing, mastered, a hallmark of the series: grandiose, original, striking enemies. There, there are in all and for all 3 bosses in the whole game. It's ridiculous. Allowing oneself not to put a boss per level is shameful. Moreover, they are all 3 failed. Overall, the dungeons are extremely bland in their construction and even their scenery is too light. An obvious lack of personality where a screen from Castlevania 1 is enough to know what level you are in. Add to that vicious and pointless traps, the "fake floor" which will sometimes make you re-traverse the whole level. In short, let's not sulk our pleasure of traveling through Transylvania because this part remains very successful for me. There isn't that much scenery but you are really immersed in the atmosphere and the bestiary is still very nice even if we meet a lot of skeletons in the game compared to the rest. Usually, I tell you that the walkthrough spoils the fun but not here because it is one of the rare games where I got stuck at the time (at the same time, I didn't speak English but anyway, it's not so easy to find the clues).