How hard are the other metroidvania Castlevanias? Only metroidvania Castlevania I beat so far was Order of Ecclesia. I heard it was hard and it was hard for me for sure, but still manageable. I'm playing through Portrait of Ruin with being around the second version of the portraits and honestly it feels like it's on par with OoE in terms of difficulty except for bosses, though the Death boss fight was pretty tough. I also played a bit of the start of SoTN but I got really annoyed with how much knockback Alucard took from damage.

I know there are ways to break the games like how in OoE you can combine Dominus Agony and Death Ring together to nuke bosses, but I prefer to beat these games without cheesing.