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Castlevania |OT| A miserable little pile of episodes - Netflix 7/7
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TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
This is me exactly.
I know far to many women like that.
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
I don't have a mic for PS3 so I'd have to be silent but I'm up for games!
I... don't know? I guess the real question is whether you're interested in a somewhat campy but well intended fantasy animation about the evil church, Dracula, and errr stuff? I don't think it's particularly great for someone who doesn't care about Castlevania at all, but I'll say anyone who at least watched someone play SotN at some point and though it was interesting would probably not feel it's a waste of time? But then again, this season has no real ending. It's a 90min-ish prologue to the meat of the story, which won't be out until next year.
Nocturnowl
Member
I just binged it, if you can count 4 episodes as a binge.
I'm very pleased, I always knew I was right to back Trevor as best Belmont.
So I guess I'll just pop myself into a coffin for a year for the continuation to turn up.
I'm very pleased, I always knew I was right to back Trevor as best Belmont.
So I guess I'll just pop myself into a coffin for a year for the continuation to turn up.
No worries. I don't have a mic, either. Just keep in mind that I've only played as Alucard and Charloette a little bit, and I don't have very good gear for either. The furthest that I've gotten so far is stage five. My PSN username is kubevubin. What's yours?
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
Check out my profile. And i don't care much about gear or skills for that matter. Just want to have fun. Anybody else that want to jump in, feel free to do so. Let's rock that castle! Now I'm wondering if I did max Charlotte on PS3...
BrutishMrFish
Member
I don't know a thing about the games and thought this was great. It's on the lean side and doesn't bog itself down in over-explaining the details of the world. The music, animation, and voice acting were all really good, too. Even though I want more, I didn't feel unsatisfied by how the season ended.
Yep.
I love how they found out a way to make sense of Alucard being inside a coffin on the original game. In fact, the whole adaptation of the classic elements was impressive
The hypest moment in the show was clearly
when the castle rose up for the first time. I got filled with glee.
Gentleman Jack
Member
I can only imagine it's already enough of a pain in the ass to work with Konami without also having to negotiate international music licensing rights.
Yes. That is pretty well explained, I thought.
E_Darkness
Member
I've always had a casual interest in Castlevania but I've played none of the games. But whips are cool and so are vampires. I've watched a lot of SotN speedruns over the years Alucard is cool design wise. This was actually kinda rad. It makes me actually want to get into the games now. Feels like a movie split into 4 parts honestly.
Only issues I had was: this was too short and the animation gets kinda rough/choppy in places, but that some how adds to the 90s anime charm it has?
Ep 1 is a bit rough (I've seen a few people drop it because it's a bit corndog at the start), but if you can get passed that you should be golden. I'm in for the ride, probably gonna play a few of the games now thanks to ep4
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I wish there was an easy way to play the Castlevania games nowadays...
Only issues I had was: this was too short and the animation gets kinda rough/choppy in places, but that some how adds to the 90s anime charm it has?
Ep 1 is a bit rough (I've seen a few people drop it because it's a bit corndog at the start), but if you can get passed that you should be golden. I'm in for the ride, probably gonna play a few of the games now thanks to ep4
as that Trevor/Alucard fight was actually great
I wish there was an easy way to play the Castlevania games nowadays...
Samurai G0SU
Member
It ended to soon. 
((((
((((Play Castlevania 3, you'll be surprised by how close the series adapts it. And still holds up! I'd recommend using infinite lives cheats though.
MagnaderAlpha
Member
To be fair, Lords of Shadow games had no "Castlevania music" either, at least lacked most of the original tunes (maybe a slight arranged melody hear and there, but only briefly and noticeable to the trained ear) and went the "epic cinematic" route.
Moff
Member
Or he could play Akumajou Densetsu because it doesn't have insane difficulty scaling, plus having better music.
Oof, after the many positive recommendations this negative one kind of hit me mainly because I really love Bloodlust and have been considering it as a perfect Castlevania movie replacement for years as well. Granted, I've yet to start watching the Castlevania series but now I'm less sure I'll like it.
Crap, just saw this comment about the music, which was my biggest wish they'd get right after the art style. Surely they would have been able to compose a soundtrack based on the official music from the games if they have the license, no? Why not go that route? Sigh...
Eh those games are well beyond the acceptable difficulty levels these days.
OricWindstar
Member
So, should I prepare myself for there to not be any music from the games in this?
BassForever
Member
Did castlevania 3 have the scenes ep1
of lisa being burned at the stake crying out to Alucard not to hate them? I know thats shown in sotn not sure if that's shown in cv3 or was back story lore that wasn't shown till sotn
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
no that was added to symphony of the night
Yes
No, that was in SOTN and was kinda not equivalent to this one. The series itself is pretty light in storytelling, most of important moments are more referenced than shown.
OricWindstar
Member
Lame. But, glad I know that going in.
Traveling by foot, as she advised.
Heretic Kazuma
Member
OMGOMGOMG! I cannot wait to get out of work today and binge on this.
Kojirospath
Member
I liked it, but that was more of an appetizer really. Ended up liking Trevor more than I had expected to based upon the first episode. Alucard is way more badass though. Hope we get s3 SotN.
Ban Puncher
Member
Went in with zero expectations and came out thinking 'not bad'.
The action scenes sorely need a lot more in-between animation frames. Gets real choppy and cheap looking when stuff is really happening.
The action scenes sorely need a lot more in-between animation frames. Gets real choppy and cheap looking when stuff is really happening.
Yeah, the snimation was rough on some parts, but I still think this has been one great adaptation.
The story pulled me right in. I binged on the episodes without moving the slider, and that's rare in me.
In the end I want more, so a new season, with 8 instead of 4 chapters is awesome.
Jaguar King
Member
so I watched again with the Japanese dub, the voice acting was much better in Japanese
interesting thing that I noticed
interesting thing that I noticed
they didn't change Trevor's name to Ralph which was his name in the Japanese versions of CV3, SOTC and CoD