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MoD is a well executed but otherwise aggressively bland Castlevania clone. By that time though basic competence had replaced substance as the baseline for "good" for the system so I understand your confusion. Kenseiden is a jankier but much more interesting Not-Castlevania really.

I won't deny Golden Axe Warrior is basically a better LoZ1 in every way, but it's still a 1991 game barefacedly templated after a 1986 one, which is something somewhat silly to attach praise to.