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I finished the game today and had a lot of fun with it. It's no Metroid Prime, a number of gameplay issues prevent it from reaching that quality, but otherwise it's a well executed effort that manages to improve on certain aspects of the older games:
Spoiler:
While I have much love for the original series, SCV4 and SotN in particular, the notion that all evil in the world, along with Death personified would gather under the banner of some random Transylvanian count always strained my suspension of disbelief quite a bit.
So when that creepy voice began one-up-ing Zobek right before the last battle, I almost dreaded the imminent appearance of a gaunt, probably bearded Bela Lugosi look-alike. ("Oh hi, I'm Dracula! What's up?") Satan was still very much left field, but a pleasant surprise in so far, as he worked much better for the overall story. When it comes to Christianity-inspired demon hunting, there really isn't a more logical pick for the role of the supreme villain.
Gabriel becoming Dracula on the other hand did not surprise me at all, they really could not have foreshadowed it more heavily (even Zobek's mid-level musings aside): Loss of his wife, increasingly dragon-styled armor, dominion over various monstrous creatures... That's why the post-credit scene did not annoy me like an overeager post-Unbreakable Shyamalan twist ending would have. It was really more a matter of "OK, cool, where do we go from here?"