#castlvania

[kinzza-petrushkovna]

Olrox★Mizrak❤

[mairon199]

ICON ALUCARD / cutie warrior bun :D

[slagzz]

Daily affirmation: I will have everything they had, and they will all be dead 🫡

[amechyofsorts]

I think what really frustrates me about Castlevania Nocturne is that it feels like a case where the only ones that come out losing are actual original Castlevania game fans.

Everything in it that people praise about it, a lot of it due praise, is either story and character stuff that's entirely removed from anything in the games, or technical stuff, chiefly animation.

We're one and half series in and the series writers are still disgarding major parts of lore and character motivations in favor what are essentially OC's with the name of a character from the games, sometimes not even that.

It wasn't so noticable in the first series, particularly during the first two seasons, since it was primarly based off of a game with very, very little story, being an nes game originally. And even then there was a very glaring lack of Grant (Warren Ellis is a hack). But here in Nocturne it feels so much more worse, as we have a story where it's main cast, the iconic characters from the games, are some of the thinnest characters in the whole thing. Maria is the major expection, but Richter feels like secondary character, little more then a love interest to Annette, who feels like the real main character, who again, has nothing do with her namesake from the games. Richter getting the big final fight of the season feels like borderline a joke, when he's basically done little to nothing aside from standing next to Annette, who has all of the actually interesting personal struggles and even the main plot for beating the big bad at the end. Juste and even Alucard at this point feel like glorified cameos and fight scene fodder. Olrox, Erzsebet and Drolta are again effectively brand new characters. It might not be deliberate, but it does become rather notable when characters who again, have nothing to do with the source material, feel like they are getting significantly more care from the writers then the characters a Castlevania fan might have been excited to watch the series for, like the connection to the games is something they just begrudgingly have to bare with, when they really want to focus on "their" characters.

And like, I don't resent any people who aren't fans of the games for liking the series, obviously. But it's just feels really frustrating to keep coming back to this series, which I absolutely loved in the beginning due to it being a great looking, interesting adaption of a franchise I love, and feel more and more like the creators don't care about us original fans as a part of the audience at all.

I once said that it's more important for an adaption to be good on it's own then to be accurate to the source material, and I stand by that, but there is a point where it outright starts to feel like the creators don't even really like or care about the source material. There were things and characters from the games I was excited to potentially see this season, which I didn't get, which is fine by itself. But I feel less and less interested in this series when I can pretty much just guess that I not only not see it in any further seasons either, but likely the creators didn't even consider it in the first place. They have their own shit to do, but they'll still gladly try to sell it to us as Castlevania.

[sleepyminty]

You either die third wheeling or live long enough to become the fun uncle of the family that you third wheeled for the rest of your life

[blahaj-blazt]

I just described Trevor and alucards dynamic to my mother as “two sides of the same booty cheek”

[clear-robot]

Oh yeah it arrived:] I'm soooo happy with it , I'm probably gonna use the cd for vibribbon lmao

[xarcanicdragoonx]

Castlevania drawings