picked this up over the weekend. It's gotten pretty mixed reviews, but I'm really enjoying it. Basically the levels are just giant castles, and you just go through and kill the boss at the end. This game is all about 'gearing up' instead of leveling up which is what I think turns people off (that along with the 30 min. time limit). The first time you play a chapter you don't really know where to go and are under geared, so the 30 minutes goes fast, but if you've played Castevania games before it's pretty easy to pick up. Other cool things about the game are it doesn't really tell you what your skills are, so you have to have some knowledge about the characters you're playing. It gives that nostalgic feeling of trial and error and learning as you go that older NES games had. I didn't know I could slide or dive attack for about 2 or 3 hours. If you like dungeon crawls and Castlevania this game rocks.