Well, I guess I'm a conservative when it comes to the Castlevania series, my favourite one is still the NES Castlevania III. I didn't really like the N64 Castlevania's, but I liked Lament even less than those. Not to say there hasn't been bad 2D ones as well. None of them have really been bad games, but certainly substandard for the Castlevania series. I don't really know how it is possible to make the series into 3D, I think Konami needs a development party which is more experienced in the field to make the game for them. They should look into some North American or European developers who have been doing 3D games for 15 years. Nintendo successfully put together Retro Studios, and they did what was said to be the impossible. In my opinion, Nintendo didn't successfully convert the Mario series to 3D, at least not with Mario 64, but Mario Sunshine came a lot closer, just still not nearly close enough, maybe the rumored upcoming game will be able to do it. Sega did a very good job with some of the levels in the Sonic games; especially Sonic Heroes (despite how many people might disagree).