For me the first good and the best 3D Castelvania already approach comes almost to the quality of the popular SOTN.
Finally with OpenWorld and freelance cameraman. Both in a world that can be proud of and one must say that the game world is here really well actually. There is variety, fun and exploring the mixture or the change between modern times and the Middle Ages, works very well.
Fought is but here affects the combat dynamic, more exciting and more fun as its predecessor. The latter of which you get not at all enough especially with bosses, because you finally do it, that you should do in a boss battle also, namely fighting within the meaning of slap, run for cover, attacks to dodge and counterattack and no forever (uninterruptable and generally superfluous) ongoing cutscenes which pull the boss fight only in the length after being climbed on the foot of a giant ice for the 20th time with 3 times high click ...
The soundtrack is also very gleungen and fit at any time. He mixes from mystical BGM and also has something of classic arcade. What a little annoying that the main character is apparently still took over the eastern battle cry with. I think something should have been quasi translate into (in my case English) ported language. but that's just a needle in a haystack.
The somewhat excessive violence that would remind me partly to a SAW "donate your blood" also can be a little milder.
But all in all is Catslevania Lords of Shadow 2 one of the best third person action adventure (as opposed to its predecessor) have encountered. The game time is actually quite considerably, my last closing times went almost entirely for LOS2 it and still has no end in sight and no playing time to stretch artificially.