Am I the only one feeling a bit disappointed?

I wish multiquotes were a slight bit easier to preform in this forum.
That's why the comparisons were being drawn to previous Iga games, not other general Igavania games. That said, the complaint wasn't so much about control than the animations themselves.

That's the argument trying to be made here. Not that it actually plays sluggish, but that these animations make it appear more sluggish by adding extra frames of animation where they aren't necessary. This concern isn't so much for the majority of us backers who have already gotten to play the game and so know that it actually does feel like Castlevania. This is in concern for others who see the trailers, see that it looks sluggish, and consider not buying/slacker-backing the game. Those of us who have actually played it knows that it plays great, but these people who can only watch it see something that betrays that, and all they have is other's word on it that "yeah guys it plays great, we promise!"

Perhaps if they release a short demo on or soon before release to the public, that'll help suede this issue as well. But it wouldn't really be hard to touch up these animations.

Again, this is more about animations than control. The hangtime is more than double Alucard's, but this is a 2 frame to a 5 frame difference. A 15th of a second to a 6th of a second.
The difference between them is 3 frames, a tenth of a second— not really enough to significantly hamper her horizontal movement but enough for the animation to uncannily stick in your head and appear slow and awkward. Unless Bloodstained was about extremely split second pixel perfect platforming (which it's most certainly not... heck, I don't even think the Classicvanias were...), shortening the horizontal movement by 3 frames wouldn't make an impact on the control of the game.

Yeah, minor animation tweaks was pretty much the whole point of that tumblr. The asker asked why it looked sluggish, and the developer's answers stuck to animations and poses. It wasn't about how the game feels to play, just how it looked. And to be honest, even I was a bit worried about the game until people started actually getting their hands on it to play it last year.

Oh.
Well neat. Thank you for the info, that will hopefully be helpful in the future.
(Tries to think of more words to extend this post so that it seems worthwhile of a forum post.)

... FRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMES

Edit: I just read it in my head like how a zombie moans "Braaaains" all of a sudden and it made me think of a satirical dystopian future of PC Master Race zombies talking about that sweet 4kHD60FPS action.

The only issue with Alucard I was pointing out was the turning animation. Sure, it looks cool, but it feels slow and unresponsive. Before long, most players skip it by jumping because that's faster and more responsive. That's pretty critical considering the sort of game it is. If I recall correctly, later Igavania's shorten the turning animation by quite a bit and possibly even push you at the same speed as if you were just running forward.

Otherwise, for the most part Alucard looks and handles great.

I haven't even played this demo and I can see that. I'm not sure why people say the game looks slow. In comparison to what, exactly? Perhaps a frantic match of Marvel vs. Capcom? It looks perfectly in line with other Castlevania titles to me. Minor graphical qualms aside, I think the gameplay is a faithful recreation of the SoTN experience. I'm also perfectly okay with the "floaty" jumping. Improve the animations if you like, but it seems fine. Alucard's jumping wasn't exactly realistic, but it worked with the gameplay, as I assume this will. When you're dodging projectiles and flying unrealistic distances between platforms, it seems silly to expect conventional jump physics.

Isn't the animations that is bothering me, but the background - the scene - as a whole.

It lacks polish and colors. Now, everything seems so blank and lifeless. You have Miriam with bright colors stand out in a dead scene. Not dead by aesthetic, but dead because of the lack of colors, the lack of live in it.

The thing is that many of us thought that the game would look 2D on a 3D engine like Guilty Gear Xrd but with the art from this game artist instead of anime but sadly inti-Creates could not achieve what Arc System Works had achieved and went for their own thing simply using shaders with 3D assets so it looks like Symphony of the Night but IDK if it will work in the end. I will wait till the details get added, maybe with those the game will look better.

This is unrelated to this game but here you can see the old model of 2B on Nier:Automata before the details got added. blog.us.playstation.com/2017/04/03/an-exclusive-look-at-the-creation-of-2b-by-nier-automatas-character-modeller/ So I guess that the characters and the stages are at phase #2.

Let me get this thing right.

Post Processing will add grain, fog, dirt, dim lights, softer shadows, filters and such on the textures of choice, right?

In that case, the "too clean" statements are pretty much nullified after that switch is hit "ON"!?

Comparing the village and the latest Galleon Minerva footage, it seems like both areas have been brought into some kind of processing. If there are areas that should be "porcelain perfect" I guess they are "done". But since these changes on those areas changed within a few months, they became way nicer in details.

Galleon Minerva: imgur.com/TYit14N
The Village: imgur.com/a/LWuYe