Misure Belmont move's like a snail, the controls are sluggish, he can't jump properly to say his life and the graphics are quite ugly.

However, the whip mechanics work very nicely and it has a decent difficulty level.

Not brilliant but, bearing in mind how old it is, I can see how newer iterations into the series could be good-great games and will try and hunt down a DS Castlevania.

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If you're a Wii owner, I suggest you buy Actraiser instead.

I agree, but Super Castlevania IV was one of the first games out on the SNES, so it certainly didn't have the graphics that some of the later SNES games did.
But I have to agree with you 100% about the jumping. They were more like hops than jumps.