I absolutely cannot wait for this game, but the 8 bit Simon Belmont?... I mean, I guess its free, so I can't complain.

Nothing beats the pre order stuff from Portrait of Ruin though.

As for the reviews being negative to middling, well yeah. This is a hard game, almost unforgivably so... Which makes sense, since it's a remake of an old pre-SotN Castlevania. The difficulty and controls are exactly where they're supposed to be, but they're the source of most of the complaints and bad reviews. I'm not surprised they didn't like it. That's just my cup of tea though

If you don't enjoy the 8 bit and 16 bit era Castlevanias, you're probably going to be a bit disappointed in this game.