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Castlevania |OT| A miserable little pile of episodes - Netflix 7/7
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Razgriz-Specter
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Judgement makes that look great by comparison.
I didn't want to post it twice in this thread lol
Boobahzone
Member
There's only 3 memorable Belmonts. Juste, Leon and Daryl
Prophaniti
Banned
Finished it last night. Alucards belt look like an 80s thong. My GF and I couldn't stop laughing. I think if the show wasn't so gory I wouldn't have liked it. I hope they up the violence in the next season. They definitely need to work on quality but I feel like it's hard to judge after 4 episodes. Most shows are Kind of off for at least half a season.
Apparently, it's still Trevor.
Auron_Kale
Member
*Belmondo
In the crude 8-bits of Simon's Quest , and accompanying artwork, he was definitely wearing that armor. My favorite and most memorable Castlevania.
Weird
SporeCrawler
Member
i like some of the judgement designs. cornell is much superior to its n64 counterpart. sypha and eric lagarde is pretty awesome. trevor, shanoa and simon (i mean its basically light from death note) are pretty okay. death is one of my most favorite designs. alucard, aeon and camilla are bad. maria renard is just trash....
it was a bit strange that they completely disregarded genya arikado, soma cruz, yoko belnandes and julius belmont
i really hope the netflix money will allow them to do
Castlevania III -> Castlevania -> Castlevania Rondo -> Castlevania Symphony -> Castlevania Aria and Dawn
they said that they will consider castlevania for the switch due to high bomberman sales.
it was a bit strange that they completely disregarded genya arikado, soma cruz, yoko belnandes and julius belmont
i really hope the netflix money will allow them to do
Castlevania III -> Castlevania -> Castlevania Rondo -> Castlevania Symphony -> Castlevania Aria and Dawn
they said that they will consider castlevania for the switch due to high bomberman sales.
Peroroncino
Member
Just finished and it was amazing, can't wait for more and I'm glad season 2 will be longer.
Head.spawn
Junior Member
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
I binge-watched it last night and found it surprisingly enjoyable. By far the best video game adaptation I've ever seen.
The good:
- The art style and grimdark atmosphere. The whole thing was metal as fuck. The backdrops were glorious too.
- The blasphemy and unapologetic anti-Christianity. Warren Ellis gives no fucks and I love it.
- The edginess. Sometimes it's just juvenile or dumb but here it works perfectly. Warren Ellis is one of the rare people who can make edginess actually cool and entertaining, instead of trite and eye-rolling.
- The animation was fine. I don't get the complains. The whip action sequences were baller.
- Good VA. Everyone was pretty good in their role. Armitage in particular was fantastic.
- Good plot/story/characterization. Especially for an adaptation of a game with minimal amounts of those things. Or perhaps because of it; CV always had interesting lore but not much of those, so Warren Ellis can just fill in the blanks and flesh out the characters and stories better.
- The dialogue was a little goofy at times (tone was all over the place), but still entertaining. I laughed at the testicles line and the goat fucking jokes and the "have some class" line and all the swearing too.
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and the duel were really fucking cool.
- The gaming references/fanservice; all the
stuff,
boss fight (it was almost a Dark Souls boss fight haha, loved it), whip melee action, knife crash, axe subweapon, holy water, the occasional "platforming", etc. I'm secretly hoping for a chicken-in-wall reference at some point somehow, but that might be going too far. xD
The not-so-good/needs improvement:
- Way too short: it's just starting to get really exciting and then it ends. Booo
- The music was really forgettable.
- The monsters were cool enough, but I would have preferred more iconic Castlevania monsters and demons.
- Maybe tone down the goofy dialogue a wee bit? A few jokes/quips here and there are fine but sometimes it did feel a bit out of place.
- The whole
sequence was too long and unnecessary. It felt like an Uncharted parody, and not in a good way.
The good:
- The art style and grimdark atmosphere. The whole thing was metal as fuck. The backdrops were glorious too.
- The blasphemy and unapologetic anti-Christianity. Warren Ellis gives no fucks and I love it.
- The edginess. Sometimes it's just juvenile or dumb but here it works perfectly. Warren Ellis is one of the rare people who can make edginess actually cool and entertaining, instead of trite and eye-rolling.
- The animation was fine. I don't get the complains. The whip action sequences were baller.
- Good VA. Everyone was pretty good in their role. Armitage in particular was fantastic.
- Good plot/story/characterization. Especially for an adaptation of a game with minimal amounts of those things. Or perhaps because of it; CV always had interesting lore but not much of those, so Warren Ellis can just fill in the blanks and flesh out the characters and stories better.
- The dialogue was a little goofy at times (tone was all over the place), but still entertaining. I laughed at the testicles line and the goat fucking jokes and the "have some class" line and all the swearing too.
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Alucard
Also shirtless Alucard ooooof *fans self*
Sypha
Cyclops
The not-so-good/needs improvement:
- Way too short: it's just starting to get really exciting and then it ends. Booo
- The music was really forgettable.
- The monsters were cool enough, but I would have preferred more iconic Castlevania monsters and demons.
- Maybe tone down the goofy dialogue a wee bit? A few jokes/quips here and there are fine but sometimes it did feel a bit out of place.
- The whole
collapsing underground
Hell naw. It was perfect
Me too!
Bloodporne
Member
Watched for 10 minutes, turned it off. Might give it another shot further down the road but it looked pretty fucking bad.
Davey Cakes
Member
I agree. This might have been my least favorite part of the show thus far. It tried to hit on one of the video game-y aspects that you'd expect from Castlevania but didn't really translate well.
It was a really unnecessary sequence. The whole placement of it felt off, and the way it segued in from the village square battle made it seem even more directionless. It'd still not be the best scene if that was altered, but by doing the 'collapsing floor' thing with the entire square, I was biased against it from the beginning - in addition, it only made the abuse of that device throughout the scene more grating.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Just watched the episodes...they are.....ok i guess.
Too tryhard with the violence for my tastes. Don't get me wrong, i love suffering and misery in my shows. But in this it shows they are just trying to hard to be edgy, killing babies and shit for no reason.
Not fan of the music at all. The VO also kinda sucks, too calm and somnolent for my testes.
Action and animation were cool. I like that they are using SOTN and C3 as template.
Too tryhard with the violence for my tastes. Don't get me wrong, i love suffering and misery in my shows. But in this it shows they are just trying to hard to be edgy, killing babies and shit for no reason.
Not fan of the music at all. The VO also kinda sucks, too calm and somnolent for my testes.
Action and animation were cool. I like that they are using SOTN and C3 as template.
Finished it over the weekend (had to watch final episode on my phone... my GF is not at all interested in this), and I absolutely LOVED it. What a tease though... I which it ended on something a little bit more significant, but this would have been the perfect 4 episodes of a 10 episode season.
Watch it in one shot last night, as a really big castlevania fan, i was actualy suprise how much i like it overall !
The animation is not perfect, the music is forgettable, but the way they expose the lore of draculas curse is amazing. They add a such a interesting layer of the base story with the preacher and believing in god, background story of the belmont familly. And the greatest thing is i think so far they really nailed the original content. Like sylpha spell, fire, ice and wind, they are all from the game. the sub weapon trevor use, the salt and holy water. Everything was well place into the series.
I've saw a lot of complain about gore and violence during cities attack, i think it was amazing and it show really well that dracula is just cruel.
I'm really looking foward season 2 ! I can only imagine if they decide to expand the world with ritcher universe during rondo of blood and SOTN during later season.
The animation is not perfect, the music is forgettable, but the way they expose the lore of draculas curse is amazing. They add a such a interesting layer of the base story with the preacher and believing in god, background story of the belmont familly. And the greatest thing is i think so far they really nailed the original content. Like sylpha spell, fire, ice and wind, they are all from the game. the sub weapon trevor use, the salt and holy water. Everything was well place into the series.
I've saw a lot of complain about gore and violence during cities attack, i think it was amazing and it show really well that dracula is just cruel.
I'm really looking foward season 2 ! I can only imagine if they decide to expand the world with ritcher universe during rondo of blood and SOTN during later season.
Nice! It's for sure the best video game adaptation I've ever seen. We've got a long way to go, but this is for sure a good starting point.
It only has 11 critics on RT though. I'm not sure that score would hold up if more people reviewed it.
Alex_Mexico
Member
When did they say this? This is news to me!
A CV Collection containing all the Classicvanias is such an easy, cheap and quick cash grab it's not even funny! Do it and piggyback off of the series' 2nd season!
Auron_Kale
Member
Just did my rewatch in Japanese.
Was funny listening to the voices as the voice of Trevor was originally Alucard in SotN and all of the more recent games so my brain had to detach from that.
And while it was hard not to hear Roy Mustang's voice coming from Alucard, I think Shinichiro Miki did a good job that seemed to suit the character better, at least for me.
Was funny listening to the voices as the voice of Trevor was originally Alucard in SotN and all of the more recent games so my brain had to detach from that.
And while it was hard not to hear Roy Mustang's voice coming from Alucard, I think Shinichiro Miki did a good job that seemed to suit the character better, at least for me.
Veritigo_X
Member
Just watched this today and really enjoyed it. My only major complaint is that I wish it kept going, but I guess that speaks to how good it was.
Does everyone think the bishop (the guy that burned Dracula's wife, can't remember his name) really died? Seems like kind of a waste if he did since I liked him as a villain and would've thought Dracula would make his death more personal.
Does everyone think the bishop (the guy that burned Dracula's wife, can't remember his name) really died? Seems like kind of a waste if he did since I liked him as a villain and would've thought Dracula would make his death more personal.
I doubt it. I think he was turned into the dark priest Shaft.
Wolf Akela
Member
While it'd be cool if he became Shaft, I think he's deader than dead. We saw his legs stop moving around, make horrible slurping noises and blood splash.
ProtomanNeo
Member
You would think konami would have had a video game tie in ready go with....Never mind it's konami.
You motherfucker.
Watched the intro again and there's a wolf and some bats right after each other. Wonder if we'll get to see Alucard doing some animorphing.
P.S. I'm one of the few who enjoyed Lament of Innocence on the PS2. Liked the basic story, whip combos, and character designs. And the save rooms. I think the game gets a bad rap, though I understand the complaints of it just being a repetitive dungeon crawler.
P.S. I'm one of the few who enjoyed Lament of Innocence on the PS2. Liked the basic story, whip combos, and character designs. And the save rooms. I think the game gets a bad rap, though I understand the complaints of it just being a repetitive dungeon crawler.
blame space
Banned
I thought this was really good.
So, I just went into the Wii virtual console store and purchased CV2: Simon's Quest, CV3: Dracula's Curse, and CV: Rondo of Blood, none of which I've ever played or played seriously. Rondo of Blood with that SotN connection...hnnnnng. On stage 3. Music is amazing in this one.
Rondo is easily my favorite of the classic Castlevania games, it's just a wonderful perfection of the original formula, and a culmination of what makes the Castlevania series special. There's a lot of fun call backs to the original game in it later on, as well.
Auron_Kale
Member
Well, you could always play CV3 first, since that's what the Castlevania series is based off of. But Rondo is also awesome just because of the branching paths and using either Richter or Maria.
Yeah, I can already see why it gets the love that it does. Looking forward to finishing it and exploring all of the paths. The VA adds an interesting tint to the game...kind of cheesy when you open up that first door with a key and find...a young Maria?...and then some anime stuff happens. I'll have to look up the translated text online afterwards too.
Oh, and the intro being in German with Japanese subtitles threw me for a loop.
I'll do that too. In my life, I've played...
CV1, CV4, Bloodlines, SotN, CV64, Lament of Innocence, and all of the Gameboy Metroidvanias.
Weird that Bloodlines isn't available on Wii virtual console.