It's an effin amazing game when you're playing co-op, which is what the game is made for, it branches away from a normal Castlevania game, and that might be why it gets some flak.

Jew: If you cross both spotlights on SPOILERS: Death, it basically does a ton of damage to him and he gets sent back to his actual room and can't leave it anymore and swoop around the stage. I play as all the characters, Soma has the most kills, but my favorite is Charlotte and Jonathan.

I'll just run all the characters down for you.

Alucard is a really good beginners character, I used him first and I really liked him, but when you get later into the game, you don't really want to play as him, because there's a lot better. Now, if you actually get the best, and I mean, effin' best equipment for him he's pretty good, but still not comparable to Soma, Jonathan is debatable.

I personally think Soma was extremely overpowered and not a good choice for the game. He's the only character who gets guns. He gets a pistol, and a motherfuckin' RPG. But if you're really looking to dominate shit, Soma's the guy to do it in terms of a Melee/Ranged/Magic-using hybrid.

Jonathan was one of the two characters that was really shunned at the start when the game came out. Jonathan can be summed up in 2 words. Absolute shit, but as soon as you start leveling up his equipment, which makes his whip do more damage the more levels you get with your equipment. He can be pretty damn close as beastly as Soma with fully leveled all weapons, and you level up your, as they're called in the game, sub-weapons, by killing monsters with them, and you obtain new sub-weapons as random drops. Jonathan also can't equip weapons. His whip is always equipped, but you can equip his sub-weapons.

Charlotte was the other character that was shunned at the start when the game came out. She's like Jonathan, but with spells, she's really shitty too until you level up her spells, and you can learn new spells by absorbing certain attacks from enemies. They level up by absorbing the spell again and again till it hits level 9, and you can't absorb a spell from the same enemy twice. She can be a fuckin devastating spell caster when you fully level up Heal and some of her other spells. Charlotte's melee attack levels up as you level up her spells. She also can't equip weapons, her melee spell book attack is always the one she uses.

Finally, we get to Shanoa, I never really played as Shanoa, she was kinda boring to me, but she's a spellcaster as well. She learns spells by absorbing them in a different sort of way, but similiar to Charlotte's way of getting spells at the same time. She levels them up just like Jonathan, kill shit with the spell your leveling up. I can't really say more, I know she has less spells than Charlotte though.