I loved the show. Itās amazing to me that WArren Ellis+Netflix could do such a great job on Castlevania when it seems apparent that Konami doesnāt give a shit anymore. I thought everything was well done, and they had a lot of ground to cover in a mere 4 episodes and did it well. Dracula is one of my favorite characters in the show and I like that heās presented as a tragic villain which is kind of how he is in Coppolaās movie, but not always so much in the CV series other than Lords Of Shadow (which, the 1st game is fantastic and is totally Castlevania, the people saying itās not probably didnāt play the 64 games and are objectively wrong, but thatās a whole other thread.) It gives his character a lot of dimension rather than him just being straight up evil for no reason.
As for character selection, Grant was actually the character I used most in CV3 other than Trevor, but I agree that heās probably the most expendable character of the cast of that game. I always thought he was a thief though, not a pirate. Maybe he got caught poking around Draculaās castle and thatās why he got turned into a monster? Either way, it would be cool to see him in there, but if he isnāt, I donāt think much will be lost. Although in his CV3 ending he becomes a leader of the people against the hordes of Dracula, so maybe he will show.
Either way, the first 4 episodes were great and I canāt wait to see what Ellis/Netflix (who Iām really happy is taking this project on!) have for season 2.
yeah i remember buying castlevania 3 in middle school for a few bucks, getting home and playing non stop. getting grant finally after many tears and sweat yeah it was sexcellent. how you gonna base a series on castlevania III and not have one of the BADDEST characters? dumb dumb dumb. still i give it a 7/10. its no db super thats for sure
Castlevania Judgment is shit and the worse shit in the entire series (well ok maybe the LoS games are worse because they tried to reboot and shit on the original lore, mercury steam are money leeching opportunist trash),
it ruined the character designs of a lot of legendary characters.
even Shanoaās artist (Masaki Hirooka) HATES the artist of Castlevania Judgment (Takeshi Obata), and that piece of shit bastard knew Masaki and made Shanoa look worse on purpose.
they literally have personal hate between each other.
so it doesnt matter who was in that game, that game was one of the worst games ever with the most trolling character designs to make the fans upset.
it was an even bigger insult than DmC overall. Obata was like Konamiās pet troll that sabotaged CVJās character designs on purpose. Konami can troll harder than even Capcom.
My only real issue with the show was Trevor didnāt seem to care about what was going on, despite the fact that the Belmonts had sworn to fight Dracula and creatures of the night. It seemed strange that he didnāt really give a shit until later. Maybe they decided not to include the canon of Lament of Innocence, but even that is strange since it seems like they want to stick fairly close to the canon of the series. I know even Iga had a hand in the script as the series developed over the years, but how much influence he had, I donāt know.
Either way, I enjoyed the series. Hype for season two!
It seemed clear to me that Trevor took the excommunication of his family hard and the way the people treat him had him throwng his hands up and saying āfuck it. Yaālls problem now.ā Hence the lack of caring in the beginning. He didnāt start to care until there where people involved for him to care about, the Seekers who continue to care till the bitter end.
What they need to do is make up their fucking minds. Episode 1 and 2 were a drag. Episode 3 was alright and 4 was the only one I can say I truly enjoyed. Clearly they can animate, clearly theyāre not good at pacing nor making a very good story either. I wish they would just speed that shit up and give us 4 episodes or near non-stop flight scenes like Trevor vs alucard.
Also fuck the speakers and their B class voice acting of forced spanish accents. I cringed every time they said anything.
I wanna see them fight classic enemies and bosses while metal remixes of classic themes play.