yeah easiest 5 stars for the audio lmao, the music went so hard, i also clearly see the castlevania style here too, also i like how the werewolf's howl wasn't trying to be realistic and it just fitted the nes limitations, i liked how i had the choice of either getting stronger or going head on, but the thing is the boss felt too easy with me just having to stay on the very right part of the map and just spam attack and the boss was down in no time, making the feature of going through more levels to actually make the boss more doable kinda useless, plus some of the enemy placements in general ( but especially in the werewolf levels) was a lil frustrating, for example the enemy plants being placed near a gap in a way that when the player does a dash attack he either misses the enemy and gets damaged or just falls down and instantly dies :'), but other than that the art was pretty good too (even tho the zombie enemy that is just a reskinned player sprite with a green tint felt a lil strange lol), so yeah it's a really solid entry and the music/sfx def made the curse a lil easier ;) ;)
also if you have some free time maybe you can check out my game and drop some feedback there :)