I'm not trying to be a fanboy or anything, but the edge said the game was "UGLY" and "unimaginative ", a lot of readers said that the reviewer was constantly comparing this LoS 2 with SoTN ( one doesn't have anything to do with the later except for " castlevania " in the title).
I think if you played the demo and looked at all the screenshot of the game, anyone can conclude that the game is anything but ugly and unimaginative, quite the contrary, it's a pure gem architecturally speaking and art wise.
I definitly loved the demo.
As for the gameinformer review, I keep reading here and there that they give it a 6/10 but i can't find that damn review anywhere

It should obviously be on their website but NO. I can't find any review on
http://www.gameinformer.com
As for the price of the tomb edition.... 100 euros for that??? they can't be serious. I definitly prefer the tomb in it's current format though, the old one on the first pictures showing the CE, well it looked like a box of chocolat to me.
I had to pre order the special edition on amazon.co.uk where the price was 57 pounds which in the end costed me 75 euros ( reasonable for the quality of it, but the tomb edition is definitly not a 100 euro ish collector to me)