While you're here, please consider supporting GamingOnLinux on:
Reward Tiers: Patreon. Plain Donations: PayPal.
This ensures all of our main content remains totally free for everyone! Patreon supporters can also remove all adverts and sponsors! Supporting us helps bring good, fresh content. Without your continued support, we simply could not continue!
You can find even more ways to support us on this dedicated page any time. If you already are, thank you!
Reward Tiers: Patreon. Plain Donations: PayPal.
This ensures all of our main content remains totally free for everyone! Patreon supporters can also remove all adverts and sponsors! Supporting us helps bring good, fresh content. Without your continued support, we simply could not continue!
You can find even more ways to support us on this dedicated page any time. If you already are, thank you!
Login / Register
- Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher (UMU) gets a first official release
- Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx gets shut down
- More info on the Valve (Steam) collab with Arch Linux and potential future hardware support
- DOOM ported to run almost entirely on AMD GPUs
- Epic Games reduce their cut for Unreal Engine games for same-day Epic Store launches
- > See more over 30 days here
-
Creative Assembly confirm Alien: Isolation is getting a…
- Zelox -
Creative Assembly confirm Alien: Isolation is getting a…
- Brokatt -
Uncompromising wilderness survival game The Last Plague…
- Purple Library Guy -
Ridiculous physics platformer Mosa Lina added co-op, ga…
- amatai -
Nazi Zombies: Portable is a free and open source Call o…
- chaussettes - > See more comments
- What game do you truly regret buying?
- Craggles086 - System 3, Interview & Last Ninja backlist
- Craggles086 - New Desktop Screenshot Thread
- pilk - Ethics statement updated
- Liam Dawe - Weekend Players' Club 9/20/2024
- DylanFox - See more posts
View PC info
Yeah, I can imagine :) I haven't played the games though, so I didn't analyze it from perspective of being a game adaptation. I simply liked the story in the original show (before S4) and especially enjoyed those Witcher-like themes in that world.
But characters I cared about most got treated really badly in S4 (Lenore and Hector getting such a depressive ending) and those above themes like "who is the real monster" were ruined in result, which all contributed to a huge disappointment.
Spoiler, click me
I did read about games themes though, and if anything the show was an improvement in initially giving vampires free will, which is what I mentioned above was the idea that vampires and humans aren't better than each other.
S1-S3 stressed how idea of hating or seeing other side as completely monstrous / having no innocents is wrong and evil in itself, which equally applies to vampires hating humans and to humans hating vampires.
I quite liked that. But then S4 (and Nocturne too) leaned heavily into portraying humans as redeemable and having free will and pushing on vampires the idea of being doomed and lacking it. That was a major part of what I disliked.
Last edited by Shmerl on 3 November 2023 at 6:41 pm UTC
Same here. Not only the writing, I also think the voice acting is poor. I liked the original Netflix Castlevania series much more.
View PC info
I wish they put more effort into finding good writers. Having fancy animation with poor writing is just a weird combination.
Last edited by Shmerl on 5 November 2023 at 6:16 pm UTC
View PC info
Last edited by Shmerl on 17 September 2024 at 4:30 pm UTC
View PC info
I'm talking more about the previous show (it would have been better for it to end at S3 which was a cliffhanger in many ways, vs getting that bad S4).
In the case of Nocturne I guess Netflix didn't see a potential with it. Bad luck with writers I suppose.
Last edited by Shmerl on 17 September 2024 at 5:35 pm UTC
View PC info
I feel like film/television adaptations of video games have gotten good recently, at the very least they aren't terrible by default nowadays. If you told me to pinpoint where I think that happened, I'd probably say it was the Sonic movie or Detective Pikachu.
Don't get me wrong, there are still video game movies that're terrible nowadays (I do not have faith in that upcoming Minecraft movie, I don't think adapting something as specifically stylised the way Minecraft is into live-action is a good idea.), but they've gotten way better on average.
Maybe because people that grew up with video games, and have actual attachment to them, are finally getting roles in these movies, rather than giving it to someone who doesn't give a damn about the video game world and just wants to make a quick buck with a recognizable intellectual property.
Also you can crucify me for this but I enjoyed the Mortal Kombat movie. Thought it was fun. Been a while since I've rewatched it, though.
Last edited by pilk on 18 September 2024 at 2:09 am UTC
View PC info
On a side note, whether something is a "good adaptation" can be a moot question if the intent is to simply mean good result.
I.e. sometimes it can be a good story but not such a good adaptation in the sense that it's not too close to the source material. On the other hand it can be a good adaptation in being close to the source, but still a bad story. Add to that, that you should also consider the quality of the source material writing wise.
Last edited by Shmerl on 18 September 2024 at 4:16 am UTC