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Castlevania Nocturne is now on Netflix!

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Shmerl Nov 3, 2023

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Quoting: PenglingEven at its weakest points, the Netflix Castlevania shows have never been anywhere near as bad as those!

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.

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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

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Arehandoro Nov 5, 2023

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Quoting: ShmerlI checked it out. I didn't like the writing to be honest.

Same here. Not only the writing, I also think the voice acting is poor. I liked the original Netflix Castlevania series much more.

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Shmerl Nov 5, 2023

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I didn't really have an issue with voice acting in either of them, but dialogue in the spin off often feels cringe (which is not the fault of voice actors). And I pointed out my major issues above. Just not something I can enjoy.

I wish they put more effort into finding good writers. Having fancy animation with poor writing is just a weird combination.

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