IGN Review of Bloodstained is up!

From the review:

Note that the Switch version is currently experiencing major performance issues and INTI Creates has issued a statement that it is shifting focus to address them.

I'm no psychic, but I'd wager that this is news to Inti Creates.

I'm just kinda pleasantly surprised at all these glowing reviews - not because I don't think the game deserves them (it does, obviously), but because of the fact that a lot of the previous coverage in the press was about how Miriam felt "floaty" and "slow", how the game felt "empty", and how the journalist "just wasn't that excited for it." 

What I really think helped change the narrative in the press were the graphical improvements and - importantly - the trailer that highlighted them. That's really when most of the media got on board with the game (with the sigh-inducing exception of Kotaku). And just as responsibility for the Switch version's shortcomings falls squarely on 505's shoulders, so does credit go to Angel and his team for turning things around completely as far as perception of the game in the mainstream press is concerned.

That trick in particular was very impressive, and we should all commend them for it.

The effect of that trailer was amazing. The general reddit gaming population were also by a large majority posting the same kind of comments about it looking slow and graphically unimpressive. But when that trailer dropped, suddenly the entire thread about it was overwhelmingly positive. It was really cool to see, actually.