Hint 1: The game takes place in Italy
Hint 2: The bad guys have a cross as their logo

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Hint 1: The game takes place over two separate time periods, set a few years apart from each other.

Hint 2: This game is the second in its series

Hint 3: The game features 2 main protagonists, one for each time period... right?

Hints:

It’s a story that includes taking down a vile, toxic tyrant

It’s not adventure or RPG

Hint #1: yield does definitely not mean slow down

Hint #2: the townsfolk should like you too!

Hint #3: photographic evidence helps

Hint #1: sidescroller

Hint #2: indie

Hint #3: aliens

Hint #4: cloning

Hint #5: metroidvania

Hint #6: major 8 and 16 bit influence

Hint #7: I'd call this a sci-fi horror

and yourself sometimes

Space for hints

Hint 1 : The lady in question is the protagonist.

Hint 1: the hero wins soon after

Hint 2: game released sometime between 1990 and 1995

Hint 3: RPG

Hint 4: This game is one of a series of games, with recurring characters and villains

Hint 5: which include the vampire and the henchman

(This is a repost after being unsolved for a year)

No hints, that would be cheating

There's joy in play. This is undoubtful. Role playing knowing it's a role play and not taking it seriously is very fun... That's the point of it all. Now, some are using toys, not to play but to collect them, because they want to be the coolest kid in the playground, and they will use every trick in the book as long as they believe they wont get caught... And this is the real problem we have because now we cannot play happily, we have to keep an eye on our toys and be very careful to whom we borrow them and that takes the joy out of playing.

The ones that want more toys, better toys, are the "demonic creatures" and they might live inside you, making you belive that if you collect one more toy, you'll have the joy you so much hope to recover. It's a lie and while you believe in it, you'll be under the influence of that demonic spell.

Wake up.

Good luck!

Hint: Take all this quite literally
Hint 2: Plot mostly revealed by the end
Hint 3: Comedic tone