Mostly, I found, what the glyph system did was limit me in my ability to gain and swap out equipment. In practice though (and I'll grant, maybe I'm just a more cautious player), I never ran into a point where I found the need to play it safe because I was dangerously low on magic (and the option that I'm just really good at Castlevania is simply ridiculous). In theory this should up the difficulty of the game, since you have to conserve your power so as not to be completely hosed in the middle of a battle. Thus, if you attack in too big a flurry, you'll end up out of magic and unable to even use a basic sword. Any time a glyph is used, Shanoa's magic meter decreases (as in previous games, the magic meter slowly regenerates). The twist to the gameplay style this time around is that Shanoa exclusively uses glyphs for all her attacks. And like many of the recent games in the series, Ecclesia is a lot of the same old-same old with a new veneer. Like its predecessors, Ecclesia is a platforming/exploration/RPG hybrid (the so-called Metroidvania genre). Order of Ecclesia was the last of the Castlevania games released for the original Nintendo DS. Shanoa, de-powered and without memories or emotions, is sent out to retrieve the Dominus glyph and defeat Albus, preventing the glyph from being used to actually bring Dracula back from the dead. During the retual to bind Dominus to Shanoa, the Order is betrayed by another of its agents: Albus. The spell, Dominus, had been assigned to Shanoa, a female agent of the Order. One of those groups, the Order of Ecclesia, was researching a spell (a glyph, to use the in-game terms) that would allow it's user to "seal" Dracula (seal, destroy, temporarily detain - it's all the same in the Castlevania series).
In order to keep up the balance between good and evil, other groups came together to find ways to stop Dracula - without the Belmonts, there was no one chosen by the "Powers That Be" to rid the lands of Dracula's ever present evil. In the years after the events of Rondo of Blood and Symphony of the Night, the Belmont family disappeared (leaving their whip in the hands of other successors).
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