PoR is my favourite of the three despite its two-player gimmick nonsense and crappy anime-styled artwork. But you probably won't get into it if you didn't like the other two DSvanias. The first two are also fun games to sequence break in.
Also bible thumpers and fedoras need to fuck off.
I want at least part of the game to take place outside the castle. Which I'll give a bit of credit to some of the worst Castlevania games for doing, namely CV64 and LoS.