In darkness, a hero returns. The Castlevania Netflix series

Very true. Konami slapped on the Castlevania branding when they realized that they could reboot the series as 3rd person action/adventure game.

That and via time travel thanks to St. Germain, they found out that Devil May Cry: DmC by ninja theory was going to be garbage fire.

Fuck Konami.

6/10

I think a lot of you guys are drinking the kool-aid and riding the hype wave. This was very average.

Negatives
Horrible voice acting, bad dialogue, minimal action with very little excitement. I couldnā€™t find Trevor more unlikable. Say ā€œI donā€™t careā€ or ā€œIā€™m out of practiceā€ again Trevor, Iā€™m not sure the audience heard you the first 3 times you said it. His goal in life is to eat food and get drunk? Wtf is that? Heā€™s going to take on an evil army from hell but he gets his ass kicked by a couple of town drunks? Right.

Positives
I thought the story and the potential for the future was very good. It has a very nice mix of conflicting forces.

This could have been great, but way too many flaws.

No hydrostorm

0/10

Trevor got his ass kicked by the guys in the bar because he was drunk. You ainā€™t going to be fighting at your best when youā€™re impaired. A sober Trevor didnā€™t have any problem kicking ass.

Episode 3 covers why he wanders the country eating and drinking. Heā€™s not taking his familyā€™s excommunication well at all.

Lets also not pretend that he didnt take 2 shots to the balls during said fight along with drunk status effect.

Agreed

Having your family fortune taken away, your ancestral lands burned, house name lost all honor, and you are excommunicated from the Church, I think your life will degrade to looking for food, getting drunk and finding a spot to sleep for the night, especially in medieval Europe. No one fights in top form when you are puking drunk and barely can stand. And you have to constantly train to keep fighting skills sharp.

That said

Spoiler

Trevor fought Alucard to a drawl and he killed a Cyclops that can petrify people with a eye beam

name another castlevania animated adaptation that hits the right beats and tone as this show homie

No, this shit does NOT count at allā€¦

youā€™d be hard pressed for one surely.
with the backlash that itā€™s receiving, the netflix castlevania is the adaptation that we need but donā€™t deserveā€¦

The show was pretty good for a start, it has a lot of potential. The comedy was a bit offputting at times and the animation is a bit stilted overall but I look forward to seeing more character development and more action next season.

What backlash? Itā€™s got a 91% rating on rotten tomatoes. Itā€™s generally been received positively by fans elsewhere too.

I saw it over the weekend.

I know nothing of Castlevania so I went in blind.

Pros:

Art style, voice acting. Action/Gore

cons:
The first two episodes were a bit slow.
Animation in terms of framerate was a little choppy in episode 4 fight.

I am intrigued for the next season though.

Overall: 7.5/10

iā€™m a fan of the show myself but that other 9% still knock on stuff about the show pretty hard.
things like the music/soundtrack not based on the game, grant not in the show, how the animation is poor, plot/story issues, etc.
just like this guy:

ā€œbacklashā€ may have been too extreme of a word but you catch the gist, no?

I understand. The series overall has been viewed positively and thatā€™s what I care about. It needs the positive word of mouth since the show got no promotion.

Fuck anybody bitching about Grantā€™s irrelevant ass.

I cheesed the fuck outta CV 3 platforming with DaNasty.

Who the fuck is Grant?

It does not mater, no one cares.

Also more reason to love Sypha

Spoiler

https://68.media.tumblr.com/591cd896fe181b34995adb4a3cd41208/tumblr_oss2v7V4Cj1qagwwio1_500.jpg

Iā€™m OK with Grant not being in the show (at least in season 1 anyway). The three characters are more relevant to the series than Grant ever was.

People hating on this strike me as the kind of people hating a New York high school actually looking like a New York high school in Spider-Man Homecomingā€¦

lol@ sjw comments.

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/02/09/first-time-warren-ellis-wrote-castlevania-animation-ten-years-ago/

Warren Ellis feels the same way.