Castlevania Nocturne is awful

[@trevorpearlharbor5171]

For a Castlevania show set in during the French Revolution, there's very little of it happening in this show. No Maximilien Robespierre, no Marie Antoinette, no public beheadings, no fighting in the streets. It's sad when fucking Assassin's Creed better represents one of the most brutal moments in French History than this show does.

[@erikuu96]

Lol what do you expect when the writers have to retcon actual historic facts so they can insert their woke agenda

[@MuhammadAli-xw4yc]

Oh you highlight what those pagans done to each other but what about these racist french did in africa. What they did to pagan africans, muslim africans, Jew africans,Amazighe and arabs in africa. These dang french did a whole lot worse.

[@grzegorzflorek5623]

​@@MuhammadAli-xw4ycWe: Nocturne has serious issues. You: Africans had way worse than anybody else. We: ??? Okay... What was the point of that? Stay on topic, please.

[@ocboy5163]

The French Revolution part of the story had so much potential and could’ve been epic but it was unfortunately wasted.

[@TexasHollowEarth]

@MuhammadAli-xw4yc - ... ever met a Creole person? Yeah they'll tell you it's their French heritage that makes them BETTER than their black counterparts. Double-standards are all the rage 🤷‍♂️

[@MarvinHartmann452]

I like the fact that this is revolutionary France and the characters are more diverse than modern Los Angeles.

[@wolfbane7497]

I like the fact of how they glorify the French Revolution when in reality with the worst thing to ever happen. And everything the priest was saying about the French Revolution was absolutely right. Because no matter how hard the revolutionaries were on the Revolutionary side they were massively executed every single day. For not espousing or getting the correct days right for their new religion and new calendar.

[@thibaldus3]

That's 1984 for you. "Who controls the past controls the future."

[@johnnycrown5097]

More diverse than modern France even...

[@erikuu96]

I bet their thought is, If you can have vampires and demons, why not black people

[@johnnycrown5097]

​@@thibaldus3this is fucking scary... I'm tired of them doing this in the name of my skin color... When I see movies and shows like these or see obvious racism against white men in real life, I cry inside and sometimes outside... This isn't right... This is not normal... What pisses me off is the way most white people treat it, either they don't care, they're in support of it, they care but it's not their top priority, they care but they see it as a regular problem, they care but they try to hide it behind something else to come out unbiased or even worse, they care but they turn it into a joke to laugh at it, turning it into a joke... These attitude is normalizing it and it's scary... Look at the way people celebrated across the spider verse, the new miles morales movie whereby white men were treated like shit in it... No one cared about it because the story was good according to them when the racism should be the obvious problem... These idiots are literally saying they're cool with racism as long as it comes in a good story... They have no idea how much damage these stories are doing to the black community, making my fellow blacks so racist, you won't believe the way they see white people... You guys have no fucking idea... I would warn you guys to stay away from a black community in the city and even if you hate everything right wing, support that right to own arms like your fucking lives depend on it, you don't want my community to be the only one armed (illegally of course)... You haven't seen this type of hatred, you might think I'm being hyperbolic but I'm seriously not... you guys seriously have no idea how much damage these movies are causing... You guys behave like you're safe because you've been safe for a long time you think everything is still the same, not even close... Want a very very mild example... Go watch the progression of a KZbinr called just some guy... It's not a representation of the level of hatred in my community, it's just to show that this hatred is spreading and it can get anyone pretty hard... I'm sad about the white people who're being pounded into the ground by this racism... I'm scared that racism is turning into a virtue as long as everyone targets one race... I'm scared that almost all entertainment are trying to normalize it knowingly and unknowingly and the schools have long since become grounds for propaganda to push this racism into kids... But what I'm scared of the most is actually selfish of me... I scared and sad of the inevitable backlash... When some sensible white people rightfully get tired of this bloodless silent oppression and wrongfully become racist in return since they are seen as nothing but, no matter what they do, they deceive their way to power and ice the precedent of the normalized racism to switch the culture and the law racist back towards black people and black people would actually be at fault for it and only god knows what it would lead to...

[@N7gamer1337]

What I hate is how Ezerbeth literally has an entire army of vampires at her disposal but still needs the night creatures for some unexplained reason.

[@Hungabrigoo]

Especially cause there is like 3 of them left and they practically get killed as fast as he can make them.

[@SolitaryLark]

Same reason Dracula had an army of vampires and still used night creatures.

[@namishusband818]

@@SolitaryLark Tbh, Dracula specifically hired Isaac and Hector to help him out with the goal of wiping out humanity (and they served him in the games as well) because he trusted them more than the vampires.

[@george_3252]

my beef is turning ezerbeth into a fucking furry

[@johnlloydkalata1962]

@@namishusband818 Thank you! I really have a problem of "Fans" trying to compare Dracula with this Dragqueen Vampire villains.

[@thibautisserant]

I remember laughing my ass off during one particular scene where the crowd throws food at the group, including a fresh piece of bread. Fucking bread. The revolution happened in part due to a shortage of grain, meaning no bread for the people. Bakers where dragged in the street and killed because they were suspected of keeping bread to themselves. It was a slaughter over this specific food (which was a staple part of the peasants' diet at the time) And they show us a jackass throwing away bread in the middle of this time period ?!

[@DehydratedDarkness]

I thought that it was a potato honestly, but if it was bread that's a good catch

[@MrBuns-yi2hk]

I was watching with my sister, and I remember saying "no way they would waste good bread like that."

[@samanthachavez9063]

They'd rather die of starvation than not be angry protesters

[@Ninjaananas]

But those were monarchists. They probably did not suffer the same poverty like the revolutionaries.

[@septimiusseverus343]

Ever heard of the Civil War in the Vendee? The Revolution was primarily an elites thing. Tons of commoners supported the monarchy because the Revolution took a bad situation and made it even worse, with economic collapse, even more starvation, civil war, political purges, and foreign wars. Perhaps you and the showrunners you simp for in this comment thread should read up on actual history.@@Ninjaananas

[@beo3627]

Im starting to think the writers are more on the vampire's side than any Belmont's.

[@danielhicks4826]

That fits all rabid leftists hate all whites/Christians/Europeans, and literally love advocating for pedophillia aka trans kids, so of course they would by default sympathize with anything blatantly evil while trashing the actual heroes of the supposed to be story.

[@machIANvellian7797]

Of course the belmonts are primarily icky manfolk

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

They are. Because the writers are misanthropic.

[@DenofBarjack]

@@TheStraightestWhitestWhy do humans hate themselves so much?

[@matthewcarroll2533]

@@DenofBarjack Probably because people like the 'writers' at places like Netflix. Crazy how once you've seen the lowest form of humanity you start to devalue it.

[@jacobyullman5005]

Something else I'd like to point out that was confusing, and annoyed the shit out of me, is how fast and loose they played with the vampires' weakness to sunlight. Despite how big of a deal they make about the vampire messiah being the "Devourerer of Light", the sun never seems to be THAT big of a problem for the vampires. We're constantly seeing them walking about during the day, going near open windows, chilling under a lightly shaded area, or just holding an umbrella. The worst example of this, in my opinion, was the scene in th church between the priest and the black vampire lady. The church is fairly brightly sunlit with daylight pouring through the windows, and she's completely fine. She only even gets slightly burned when she purposefully sticks her hand in some videogame godrays coming through the windows. If vampires can beat the sun with some light shade, an umbrella, or some clothing that completely covers them, then that completley undermines the importance of the sun as a major weakness for vampires.

[@MisterZimbabwe]

If you're talking about the lady who wears the horse shoes and has the purple eyes on the black sclera, she's not a vampire, she's a succubus. The show never fucking SAYS this or hints at it in any way.

[@Drak976]

@@MisterZimbabwe Are you sure the makers of this show understand that difference or know that? They might have accidentally got it right. It feels like I have RLM living in my head now lol.

[@MisterZimbabwe]

@@Drak976I would imagine they had to have known since the character in question is a black version of a boss you fight in Symphony of the Night.

[@jacobyullman5005]

@@MisterZimbabwe Well, others like Orox are seen in similar lighting conditions and regardless she still was shown to have a weakness to sunlight, just as vampires do, so it still applies. She doesn't seem to be a succubus in any way other than her appearance when transformed. Could be that her transformation is just some kind of vampire magic, like Orox turning into a dragon. We know the writers aren't above changing anything they want from the games, so it wouldn't be a surprise if they changed the succubus boss from Symphony of the Night to be a vampire.

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

This already became a problem in S4 of the original, where during the girlboss moment of Striga cutting down a few dozen innocent men and women which the show celebrates as a cool and badass thing btw which totally isn't misanthropic btw, she tells her vampire comrades to just cover their skin with some rags, after which they literally just go Covid mask style with the slit of their eyes still very much exposed to the sun without any issues.

[@lukebarroso449]

Trevor Belmont, Sypha, and Alucard would have taken those vampires out in no time.

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

Sypha is the biggest Mary Sue in any piece of fiction along with Isaac. They'd have solod.

[@hokutoshinken-chrisarmstro131]

Alucard "Bitches love cannons".

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

Well, yeah, but they were really overpowered. These characters are also sometimes ridiculously powerful, like Richter's flame whip can burn any vampire, but night creatures they just get set on flame and keep coming?

[@danelwind2574]

Sypha was REALLY overpowered in the past series, that you can actually notice magic was seriously nerfed from episode one. (WTH Mrs. Belmont?!, those ice daggers looked like cheap sewing needles)

[@tarans9958]

Un-netflixed richter could too, plus fuck black annete

[@TheCr0oked1]

you know what's annoying? we are post Simon; every Belmont is supposedly able to take Dracula on their own Richter did not even know what a night creature was.

[@phoenixdouchebag904]

Post Christopher, actually. He was the first Belmont to defeat Dracula on his own.

[@TheDalinkwent]

I fucking hated that scene..it made no sense he would be clueless about them.

[@jeremyallen5974]

It'd be like a character fighting in the second Tiberium war not knowing the difference between a Tiberian Fiend and a Visceroid or who Kane even IS

[@mr.stuffdoer8483]

Almost like his mom died before he would’ve been taught a lot of stuff

[@TheCr0oked1]

@@mr.stuffdoer8483 you mean like trevor

[@darkroninmarvel]

Heck, what pisses me more is that in the source material, Ritcher was an absolute chad, the definition of hotblooded. So, him getting butchered by Netflix is a crime

[@matane2465]

Same as they did to Hector.

[@yagamifire7861]

Yup Richter is a hot headed bad ass amongst the Belmonts

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

White men aren't allowed to be capable or badass dude. Hector's treatment in the original will always be the most unforgivable shit ever. And their racist agenda isn't hidden whatsoever since they turned Isaac into this blackwashed Mary Sue who was over the top badass. They even had the same episode wherein Hector got duped and enslaved like a bitch constantly cut to Isaac taking over an entire town from an evil (White) sorcerer. As if they were literally subliminally telling you: ''White men are soft, weak idiots, weaker than women. Black men are powerful, intelligent kings. Stronger than white men.'' It's gross.

[@123bboymeandyou]

Then go play the game and stop watching the show 😆😂🤣

[@AdrianFahrenheitTepes]

@@123bboymeandyou I suggest the same. Even the remastered Rondo of Blood is available on PC and you can save the game

[@Crispedmint]

It's so clear to me that the writers have no idea how the actual Castlevania story happens. Richter Belmont is canonically the most powerful Belmont and in the events of Rondo of Blood (or Dracula X) he literally goes and fights everything with 100% confidence.

[@decadentgamer3108]

Yeah and he was doing just fine in the beginning until the episode he ran away which made no sense lol. I could understand if they made him a bit hesitant when he sees his mother's killer for the first time in awhile but he has demonstrated that he has no problem fighting when he needs to so for him to run away while abandoning his friends seemed very out of character for sure. If they wanted to show that he still was having self-doubt, they should've done a flashback of when he was still in training to do that, not NOW when it's been shown that despite not using his magic, he had confidence in his whip abilities and resourcefulness. If they were afraid of him coming across as too OP, they could've had him lose to Olrox and then retreat (with his companions lol) and that could've served as a personal goal for him to defeat Olrox once and for all in the next season.

[@kombatman8802]

Richter is the second most powerful Belmont

[@randomguy3392]

​@@decadentgamer3108 Agree. It is really out of character for ANY Belmont to run away. Like, Richter didn't even put up a fight with Olrox. It would makes sense if Richter tried to fight him and make a tactical retreat because he is not strong enough yet. The problem is how shitty writer make Richter look "Badass" by says "WHO'S FUCKING NEXT" to hype things up, then immediately runs aways after seeing Olrox and abondoned his teammates. And I don't buy excuses from other peoplpe saying "normal human with ptsd as a child would run away." Nahhh, to the people saying that: - First, not all characters would run aways because of ptsd. Some character would in fact tried to take revenge, why not make Richter do that. - Second, he is a BELMONT. People from Belmont clan are not normal human; they are trained to have strong will and to slay vampires. They aint got time for ptsd bs.

[@decadentgamer3108]

@@randomguy3392 Agreed. And if they wanted to show Richter still had some feelings of guilt and mourning, he could've had a flashback to show that he was dealing with that in said training and finding the resolve to avenge his mother and continue the Belmont tradition of killing evil vampires.

[@devildavin]

@@decadentgamer3108 there is nothing wrong with fleshing out Richter some more but my issue with writers is instead of working with whats arleady established they just make up their own shit now. Richter could still feel guilty about not being able to help his mom but it should have went farther that be almost becomes obessoed with being the best vampire hunter, maybe even over training and kind of negectts his adoptove family in his purusit of power.

[@thecursedcontroller8437]

Imagine being someone who dedicated their life to fighting vampires and evil, then you have the gall to say with a straight face, "Who's Dracula?"

[@Rhaivanna996]

I screamed at the tv when she said that 🫨

[@omt4293]

That absolutely made no sense. I was like WTF?!?

[@Ninjaananas]

Dracula has not been an issue for 300 years in Nocturne.

[@d2solo]

@@omt4293u realize it’s been 300 years since the events of the first story happened right?

[@omt4293]

@@d2solo yea but she has dedicated her life to fighting vampires, she should know who the most infamous one of all is, the one who wanted to destroy humanity. But we all have our theories on this.

[@againsttheriver3657]

Night creatures have been established to be combination of deformed body AND a random soul from hell, not the soul of the person who was used, but a random soul from hell. This was very well explained and established. This is not the only time they broke well etsablished lore either. For example, crosses for some reason have magical power that burns vampires, in this show even though it was very well etsablisbed that vampires simply get confused by perfectly geometrical shapes blocking their eyesight.

[@hamster6827]

I mean not really issac was talking to one of his night creatures and they were talking sbout their past live

[@againsttheriver3657]

@@hamster6827 past lives as in past lives of the souls that were summoned from hell. Rewatch the show. His name is Flyseyes, he was made from some random human, yet he has a soul of a philosopher from ancient Greece

[@DBWave94]

​@@hamster6827Yes, really. If you bothered to actually pay attention to the show, you'd know that the fly creature (Flyseyes) was the soul of a persecuted philosopher originating from ancient Greece. But no, let's just contrive established lore to make sure opera boy lives on...which is exactly what they did.

[@aclevername7613]

Yea the scene where annette trapped the vamp in the cross cage I was immediatly calling bs. Just stupid. Crosses only screw with their eye sight and even going with real world myth faith is required. Technically any holy or faith symbol could work AS LONG AS THE WEILDER HAS FAITH. Yet for the black washed annette the in show universe breaks its own rules and breaks real world myth and so on as well. Ruined the scene for me.

[@Ninjaananas]

Hector brought a dog's soul back into ita original body. It was already possible then. And the maschine works differently than normal forgemastery. That with the crosses was a joke that people took way too seriously. It has already been established that religious symbols can hurt vampires.

[@ChadKing69]

There are people braindead enough to want these writers to adapt Berserk

[@TarkTheWild]

Hey, you can get away with raping Guts in that one! Cause that's literally happens to him.

[@theimage7030]

Warren Elis could've done it. Not whoever's writing nocturne

[@orest0273]

Berserk is hard enough to be adapted into an anime,let alone into live action by those idiots

[@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881]

If they did it would be the casca and farnese show and guts would have all the bad stuff that happened to casca happen to him. Also they'd make casca black, not the type that matches her appearance like a halle berry type but a dark as heck pretentious dreads type

[@RileyJ3866]

@@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881she’s actually apparently supposed to be of some Indian (or possibly Kushan) descendant , I think. All I know is Kentaro confirmed she wasn’t black

[@Gentou76]

This is why Japan should work on their franchises.

[@boxinglearner1996]

Exactly

[@Rasengan9000ttt]

Konami are bad parents.

[@mindandbody7971]

This was a Korean studio, but I get what you're saying.

[@dantefromdevilmaycry9857]

@@mindandbody7971 Powerhouse Studios is Korean? Last I checked their headquarters was Texas.. did they move? Or are you perhaps referring to Studio MiR?

[@mindandbody7971]

Studio MiR I was referring to. @@dantefromdevilmaycry9857Not that I have an inside scoop on the details, just knew from what was credited.

[@matthewdonaldson2662]

My main issues with the show are as follows: 1.Villains: None of the villains pose a threat. In his first episode, Dracula nuked an entire city and razed an entire country to the ground. We got to see just how unbelievably powerful he was first hand. He was intimidating, cold, ruthless and cunning yet still sympathetic and redeemable. This new villain, whos name I can't even remember, we don't see her until the fifth episode. She has nothing unique about her aside from her being able to float. We don't see any crazy powers, she has no compelling motivation. All the other vampires make a big deal about her yet since we know absolutely nothing about her for the majority of season 1 we have no reason to fear her. 2. Location: The entire season takes place in one town, yet apparently the whole world is at stake. In the original, we got to see the war against humanity from multiple points of view and perspectives. Even people as far as Italy were aware of what was going on. In Nocturne it feels like there are simply no stakes as we only see the conflict contained in a single location. 3. Bad writing: The original show had amazing writing and pretty much zero plot holes or inconsistencies. Everything that happened made sense, but Nocturne? Nope. An example would be Richter's grandfather who serves literally no purpose outside of helping him regain his powers. He shows up out of nowhere with no foreshadowing, reveals who he is and fucks off after only being shown in one episode. That would be like if Alucard in the original showed up for one episode to kill Dracula and was never seen again. Another thing are the plot holes. Why did the Abbot send nigh creatures to the girl whos name I can't remembers house if she is his daughter? Why would he risk having her and his love interest killed? I'll tell you why, because I bet they added the reveal latter in development because they ran out of ideas. Why does the main Villain need Orox or whatever his name is on her side? What is so special about him? Also, why does the story take place during the French revolution if it has no impact on the plot whatsoever? They could have swapped out the time and place and it wouldn't have made a difference. Why are the main villains' cronies working for her? What are their motivations? Why does the Abbot hate the revolution? How did the Abbot learn to make night creatures? How did night creature Edouard betray the Abbot? He is bound by oath to the forge master. Did they literally forget the rules of their own universe? There are more issues I have with the show but I think you get it.

[@thibaldus3]

Propaganda will always be more important than good writing. They certainly focused on giving us lesbians and gays and the demographic make up of today's Los Angeles in 18th century France.

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

Erzsébet Báthory is a threat, but she is barely a character, only shows up at the end. Also, they never explain why she only decided to blot out the sun now, when she could apparently do it any time?

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

3. is so true. The night creatures only show up at Maria's house so the plot can happen and Richter can discover they exist, but when you consider Maria is the abbot's daughter you realize he would never have sent them to attack her.

[@jeremyallen5974]

Oh yeah? Then how did that cocksucking priest consecrate the water in season two if what Blue Fangs had said WAS true that God HAD actually abandoned the prick?

[@trashfire9641]

A holy knight having gay sex with a vampire. That was the breaking point for me, and I skipped almost all the black stuff.

[@RLRProtocol]

At this point I’d rather have Japan create an Anime reboot of Castlevania even if they tend to yell out names of their techniques while using them then explaining said technique to their opponents half the episode.

[@thetraveller4839]

Same here.

[@natsur1361]

Watch the whole series before judging it

[@RLRProtocol]

@@natsur1361 duh!

[@Chentis]

​@@natsur1361we did and we agree japan should make there own

[@Ninjaananas]

​@@Chentis Castlevania was praised for not beins so anime. If you people had your way, it would be way less successful.

[@DavidM_10]

I'm an atheist, but I'm also tired of the moral cowardice of Left-wingers attacking Christianity, while avoiding all criticism of other religions which actively despise their ideals.

[@happysaladd8951]

The jews payed them to attacking christianity

[@Milky____]

Ima human, I also hate libtards that do that shit.

[@albogypsy2842]

Woke Cultists are not leftists, they are Satanists. Simple as that.

[@THEBLACKRIGHTWINGER]

Join me

[@AdrianFahrenheitTepes]

I’m on a similar boat

[@oldmoviefan692]

I wonder if the writers realized that the whole "nobody has had it as bad as me because I was a slave" concept could easily have been about a white person. At the time of the French Revolution, the Barbary Coast slavers were still a thing.

[@123bboymeandyou]

It was a vampire…..a vampire show about a video game….and you get all this out of the whole season? 😂🤣😂🤣

[@PeruvianPotato]

​​@@123bboymeandyouGiven it's a prevalent theme, yes!

[@123bboymeandyou]

@@PeruvianPotato prevalent theme….bruh it’s a made up show about vampires…..

[@PeruvianPotato]

@@123bboymeandyou Yeah man, it's not like a literal episode was devoted to slavery. Totally a minor topic!

[@123bboymeandyou]

@@PeruvianPotato there was no episode all on slavery….it was a backstory of a vampire…..owning slaves…..a vampire….lemme say it again….vampire…..vampire show….about a video game….vampire….and slavery is what doesn’t make sense?

[@m.l.jhanson6718]

I'm 28, black, spiritual and one of those "peace and love" guys. That being said, I'm soooooo sick of B.S of shit like this. Reaper, keep doin' what you doin' bro and call these people out on their crap. They are what they accuse everyone else of being. Racist, sexist and creeps. I'm sticking with Anime and Tokusatsu.

[@grindelston5968]

Yeah mate, it's obvious projection isn't it? They desperately want us all fighting each other. Rise above it.👍

[@demgutts]

Jamaican, spiritual, and in agreement.

[@fallenknight3016]

i have done the same

[@xSilentZeroXx]

Real shit, y'all deserve to actually have your stories told. Not just white people stories with black characters. (or in this case, Japanese stories with white characters turned black.) This shit is frankly repugnant and needs to stop.

[@sboinkthelegday3892]

Maria the Vrigin witch (Junketsu No Maria) was so awesome, as far as ponderous, semi-historical actiony talkies go. And Shoukoku no Altair is a great spin on the actual historical Umayyads in Medieval Persia, without being tied down with accurate history and locations.

[@juanca0718]

"But Castlevania always had politics" That's what they say when they want to justify the terrible story and writing of this show. The people that made this show hate the fans and Castlevania.

[@kombatman8802]

Keep believing that buddy

[@Rihcterwilker]

@@kombatman8802 he's right

[@kombatman8802]

@@Rihcterwilker same applies to you

[@javierlopez9789]

​@@kombatman8802they are right

[@kombatman8802]

@@javierlopez9789 Both you and them are wrong.

[@mr.graves2867]

Being a Christian, I stopped caring about what society says about being a follower of Jesus a very long time ago. This doesn't surprise me because anytime a Christian is depicted in movies or shows they're always the bad guy, a fool who dies early, or a crazy cult leader who doesn't say or do anything even remotely Christian except quote scripture completely out of context. You'd figure that a show about vampires and vampire hunters, there'd be a competent Christian fighting the vampires and demons instead of a bunch of witches, unbelievers, and characters who only embody the social justice league of today instead of the time period it's supposed to be about.

[@mr.graves2867]

@@Anoneemus_Noenayme thank you very much

[@RandoGrunt]

Like the other guy, very well said. Nothing really I feel like I can add to this other than commenting you summed it up perfectly for how many of us feel and what too much of media has been doing.

[@mr.graves2867]

@RandoGrunt again I say thank you, it's sad that it's come to this, even in the classic hammer films with Christopher Lee playing Abraham VanHelsing or even playing as dracula Christianity was fairly used as the main weapon against evil, now its a cliché that sits next to killer clowns or vengeful spirits. I just feel that it deserves so much more than a world view others kick around. God bless you and yours sincerely 🙏

[@Darkseidsolosfiction]

Another christian here

[@flawedzak]

what did you feel about the gay knight did he bother you

[@theholypineapple2377]

After they butchered, skewed, and served He-Man medium rare I had no hope for this and hearing it was produced by Netflix just curb stomped my hopes to the ground further

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

Yeah, Castlevania and He-Man revelation were both huge disappointment

[@l.aliban5122]

⁠​⁠@@SwiftNimblefootwhich Castlevania? Because the the regular one was pretty good

[@Pro-Diletante]

I’m so so afraid of what they are going to do to Dante. He’s one of my favorite characters he’s an icon. I hope I pray they don’t him.

[@l.aliban5122]

@@Pro-Diletante I hope so to 😩

[@StuartEaston23]

@@Pro-Diletante And I'm waiting to see whatever the hell they do with this Tomb Raider show. The way you feel about DMC is how I am with Tomb Raider. I'm super cautious about these upcoming shows.

[@Musoc999]

Would've made much more sense for the vamps to team up with the revolutionaries considering the latter actually brought about dechristianization in France. But of course, too politically inconvenient.

[@SammEater]

I know right, you think the beings that are weak to religious artifacts like crosses would want to erase that very religion from their area not make even more of it. These writers are dumb.

[@black-redpill3]

​@@SammEater There is a thin but fine line between dumb, and evil.

[@dariovirga7711]

Remembering how my first VtM character was a Nosferatu embraced during the French Revolution (A priest lynched by the mob), I guess I can only ponder on the irony

[@thirdcoinedge]

Vampires are meant to represent the aristocracy, most of them actually being aristocrats and having a significant stake in the feudal power structure of France. Hence, they would cooperate with the social institutions like the Catholic Church in order to maintain their position of power over the masses, especially considering so many nations have emerged that are at least capable of taking on their armies due to technological progress, rendering a vampire empire less possible than it was in the late 1400s (but not impossible). The revolutionaries are people fighting for their right to govern themselves, something creatures who largely see humans as nothing more than cattle take as an inherent threat to their dominance in the world, which it is.

[@black-redpill3]

@@thirdcoinedge So from that premise you gather creatures that have been klled off by the thousands, if not possibly millions by this point in time by the Church, is going to then fight against the dissolving of the Church and the endless feeding frenzy a destabilized and governless population France would be. Still not buying it

[@kyriellepunongbayan6909]

they turned a strong masculine whip cracking holyman warrior into an blasphemous sadboi 😢

[@sebastyann123]

"strong masculine" he says about a character in the castelvania universe lmao

[@DehydratedDarkness]

​@@sebastyann123Considering that Simon literally looks like Conan the Barbarian, yeah

[@Angelzvx]

@@DehydratedDarknessYup, and Julius later on looks masculine. As does Albus and Hammer. And off original timeline you have Gabriel. Bishounen Castlevania only lasted so long.

[@rahim.z8837]

​@@sebastyann123Are you one of them?

[@jarrettcox3557]

This is what I love about this channel. You say it sucks but you actually go into depth and clarify and give it context rather than just ad hominem

[@xSilentZeroXx]

That he *also* ad hominems the shit out of it is just icing on the cake.

[@poplock174]

But he actually sat there to watch it all to then complain about it that's a sad life now when season 2 comes and he dose another video I will know he is a super loser

[@cjhorton123]

​@@poplock174cool story bro

[@Ebh55.]

Is he homophobic though?

[@jamkadesmond5809]

Everything he stated was fact the fact he put much details is how committed he was to watching only to be disappointed by too many factors,I felt disappointed too

[@MichRoyal]

8:30 had me DYING with laughter. That entire scene when I was watching the series was SO AWKWARD. I kept covering my face with my palm, wishing for it to be over, and wondering if this was supposed to be moving or good? I felt like I was watching a parody from Boondocks as it was so goofy.

[@masakazuwatanabe6742]

Same lol had to put my volume down because I was cringing. I even took a piss for a sec after I came back he's still singing.

[@graylykan2739]

The singing sounds so fake to me, as do the crying from Richter and Annette. Just cringey and obviously fake. I also can't tell if the English accents are genuine or if the actors are all American trying to sound English.

[@DarkMark-cf1ec]

sounds like hes cooming 💀

[@headkicked]

It was a self insert character, for sure. So was the pink haired vampire lady.

[@georgeray1906]

I'd rather stab my ears with sharp knitting needles than hear more of that "singing".

[@Constellasian]

The same thing happened to The Witcher. The main character began to get side-lined by supporting characters. Fans want to see the Belmonts because the canon lore is centered around them and their legacy for the most part. Yes, later games like Order of Ecclesia had a non-Belmont main character, but it was part of the lore. The Belmonts began to disappear and others had to fill in the gaps. It was a big disrespect to the fans to get rid of Dracula, side-line Richter, and race swap a minor character: Annette. The worst part was turning Annette into a modern day "boss babe".

[@greghannibal]

At least in the Witcher we got to see Garult be badass for a little while before getting sidelined.

[@animezilla4486]

I disagree with you first of all there's nothing wrong with a boss babe as you put it secondly Annette was a well-written character I know some people have issues with her being race swap but other than that she's a well-written character me personally I don't care if she's a girl boss because I seen lots of guy bosses as well so

[@otakuthegreat]

@@animezilla4486 bruh shut your insipid self up

[@tarn2992]

Adding Dracula in would be a disrespect to the story and how Dracula was

[@terryliliana]

The problem with annete is that we already had a girl who was considered as powerful as the Belmonts: Maria. Magical loli Prodigy using the power of the 4 sacred beasts, went and helped Richter during his quests and unapologetically kicked ass left and right. She canonically was key in defeating Dracula and saving the kidnapped maidens, and only got captured herself because she got overconfident once, after that she wised up.

[@LycanInsanity]

"Gay Aztec Vampire" had me laughing so hard my spine started hurting

[@hariman7727]

...I need to rewatch Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. The Pillar Men are ancient beautiful monsters who are actual varied characters which contrast the cast of heroes in their attitudes of loyalty and honor and more, and while The Pillar Men LOOK a little iffy, they're manly men of various kinds and make great villains.

[@headkicked]

And his gay crusader BF.

[@dayweed85]

​@@headkicked i love those 2

[@whynot1548]

Christianity is an easy punching bag. Mainly because u don't have to worry about ur car blowing up after u trash the church

[@Discount_blackbeard]

Tbh it should be any religion that the vampire hate would be a cool concept

[@ArbiterEx]

Or getting beheaded for tearing a page from an absurdly stupid book.

[@benjaminthibieroz4155]

@@Discount_blackbeard that's the case in stories that try to adapt vampires into other settings, where they suffer from the sight of religious symbols. That's also the case in most myths about vampire-like creatures you find in other cultures, typically eastern Asia. A common explanation (at least in fantasy) is that since religious beliefs are always tied to the forces ruling afterlife and life cycle in some way, and vampires are undead that defy that order, the faith wound the very structure that allows them to exist.

[@Discount_blackbeard]

@benjaminthibieroz4155 wild how they didnt put it here cause they legit have other forces at work, thanks for the heads up too. Most of my knowledge is vampire the masquerade

[@livery955]

Oh no, we worry about clergy molesters, mass shootings, and domestic abuses instead.

[@zen7RZ]

Remember when they actually turned a black African slave into one of the best character arcs in the entire show? Remember Isaac? Remember how his slavery arc was just a short flashback and was just a by the way? Wasn't there for a sob story, just a defining event. This was the same team that worked on the OG characters. How they fumbled these new characters is beyond me.

[@AdrianFahrenheitTepes]

They didn’t build decent cohesion between them. The trio in the first series had relatability between each other not so much between the four in this one

[@zen7RZ]

@@AdrianFahrenheitTepes Yeah, but then you remember that all four are VERY paper-thin to begin with. There was never going to be any dynamic relationships because they could never thrive as individual characters. It all feels rushed.

[@callofghidorah1158]

Absolutely on point!!! For as irritated I initially was at Isaacs race swap, they made up for it by making him one of, if not the best character in the entire show. In this show however it is clear they wanted to have Annette be the main character but knew they still needed the Castlevania name to bring in audiences. Also if they are going to use an egyptian god as the source for vampires.... WHY DID THEY PICK SEKHMET INSTEAD OF APEP!? THE LITTERAL GOD OF DARKNESS WHOM RA ALWAYS FIGHTS AGAINST!? Even then it feels weird that a Russian vampire is drinking the blood of an Egyptian God, that such a different geographic location that it isn't even funny.

[@AdrianFahrenheitTepes]

@@callofghidorah1158 Either they can’t tell the difference between different East European ethnicities or they are trying to make an out of time reference that doesn’t really fit today since in the late 18th century you had the Russian Monarchy, not the Russian Federation and they were not hostile to the USA back then, in fact they were Allies sponsoring the Union in the American Civil War, even to the point of blockading the North American continent with the Russian Navy, or sponsoring the USA in the American Revolution. That and in spite of the name of the historical Dracula being Vladimir, he was Vlad Basarab and he was Wallachian or Romanian, not Russian. Even the actual Elizabeth Bathory was a distant cousin of his, her husband actually also commanded a war against the Ottoman Empire and in spite of being an alleged serial killer, she had four daughters of her own with her husband Ferenc

[@zen7RZ]

@@callofghidorah1158 The Sekhmet trope kinda makes sense if you think about it. Apep is more the world-devouring God of Chaos while Sekhmet is a War Goddess who constantly lusts for human blood. So making her the goddess of vampires doesn't sound too ridiculous.

[@botatobias2539]

As someone born in the Wallachia region of Romania (Târgu Jiu), this is particularly painful. A sort of "look how they massacred my boy" type of moment.

[@travisadams6279]

Im sorry for your loss. This is a travesty.

[@elijahherstal776]

I'm sorry. ...yo are there still vampires there? I got some pretty legit firearms but if I can't bring those... I got a damned good wheelbow, and some tomahawks and machetes and stuff. Can we go hunt some fangers?

[@patrick4662]

Did you like the first castlevania on Netflix? The one from 2017?

[@botatobias2539]

Yes. It was pretty on-point, the one thing that really bugged was that Wallachia was Catholic. Classic case of Western self-projection that only got worse as time went on. I appreciate the name "Greșit" though. A fictional city literally named "Wrong".

[@elijahherstal776]

@@botatobias2539 so that's cool and all but can I plan on coming to hunt vampires or not?

[@TwistyMcFisty]

"We have a rat infestation, and the great idea to get rid of them is to introduce snakes" Reminds me of another Simpsons episode" "Skinner: Well, I was wrong; the lizards are a godsend. Lisa: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards? Skinner: No problem. We simply release wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards. Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse? Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat. Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas! Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death."

[@cybertramon0012]

There's a book a remember reading as a kid about a king who had mice always getting into his cheese. He kept bringing in animals to scare them out, only to have to bring more in to scare the last ones. Up until he had to bring the mice back to get rid of the elephants.

[@whoisyouranime]

I miss the good old days when Castlevania had a simple horror story: Dracula/Satan comes to life with a bunch of evil monsters and a Belmont/Alucard goes to the castle and kill them. It's that simple.

[@nunuonroad9969]

You can’t make a show like that lol it would be boring af

[@FxCalibur]

@@nunuonroad9969 If it was boring then why did they bother "adapting" it? The answer was because despite its simplicity it told a good story, and didn't need four episodes of fluff to get to the point.

[@nunuonroad9969]

@@FxCalibur even a 4 episode show about a dude running through a castle killing things would be terrible. Games only function like that cause they’re interactive, other mediums need more than that. I’m not arguing that it’s a good adaptation, it’s clearly not (even though I thoroughly enjoyed it), but making it JUST like the game would be a very bad idea. Even the last of us, which is basically a TV series in game format already, had to take SOME creative liberties for it to work as a show.

[@Ziero_H]

@@nunuonroad9969hmmm don’t see how that would be terrible

[@FxCalibur]

@@nunuonroad9969 Well sure, every medium has its advantages, and liberties. You could add to the existing story, which was more than a dude just killing shit. Its one of the main complaints of Nocture, that doesn't follow any of the OG. Four episodes, with the budget of eight, focusing on the key fights and moments of the game while remaining faithful is what the fans wanted. The One Piece LA had its fair share of problems but it achieved an almost faithful adaptation of 45 episodes in just eight. Everybody liked that show, no one likes this, except for the action scenes that you don't think could sell a four episode show.

[@the_bane_of_all_anti_furry]

can we appreciate how thos guy never put any boring lenghty intros and never ask for subs or likes?.

[@AdrianFahrenheitTepes]

Come to think of it yes, I actually appreciate him not asking for likes.

[@sekonsanyt593]

i dont think giving castlevania to group of woke edgy atheists was a good idea... they are literally enemies of the source material

[@nevaehbrown6245]

Y’all call every show that changes a WHITE character race woke pls be fr

[@lmahu6627]

@@nevaehbrown6245 Would you like it if we whitewash an African story, then?

[@spiffygonzales5160]

​@@lmahu6627 We wuz shaka Zulu an sheet 😂😂😂

[@nevaehbrown6245]

@@lmahu6627 do it lmao ill be sitting here waiting 😭👩🏿‍💻

[@ScottLavell-kf2or]

@@lmahu6627 Nah, we'll come up with an animated series about the life of Malcom X. we'll make him a white boy and mormon from Salt Lake City, Utah.

[@X_x_ShadowGaming_x_X]

You forgot to mention the point where the Vampire Annette captures CONVENIENTLY reveals the master plan of the vampire to her before he dies.

[@MrLolguy93]

Remember when we wanted to have adaptations of our favorite games and books? Man, were we dumb

[@user-bn5do2ev3i]

careful what you wish for,i guess

[@RandoGrunt]

I regret every wish I made for that when I was a kid hungry for more.

[@user-bn5do2ev3i]

i once wished for resident evil movies ohh well....@@RandoGrunt

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

The Jew heard thee.

[@1beatcher]

​@@user-bn5do2ev3ilook on the bright side, there's the RE cgi movies

[@SammEater]

I feel bad for the animators wasting their talents on shows like this.

[@NevaehCyanide]

Wouldn't even surprise me if half the animators were onboard with the story this show went.

[@hatchell18]

It’s really good. Most people love it. Don’t blindly believe some crappy KZbinrs views on it. I feel bad for sheep like you who don’t have an opinion of their own

[@SammEater]

@@hatchell18 Ok Netflix, very cool.

[@hatchell18]

@@SammEater not Netflix lol. Go on all the videos where they show clips of some of the scenes in the show or the ending cliffhanger, or the trailer for season 2. Millions of people love the show. It’s a very small minority that are hating on it and calling it awful. It’s the furthest thing from awful. The person who made this video has trash taste 100 percent🤷🏻‍♂️

[@SammEater]

@@hatchell18 Just like "millions of people" liked Captain Marvel and Loki season 2. Lots of people liking =/= being actually good

[@verde5738]

This is the result of companies hiring creatively bankrupt "writers" who only want to use their position as an opportunity to spread their own ideologies. It's what separates the professional writers from the complete amateurs, a professional's sole focus will be on telling a compelling story within the confines of the universe they're working with, whereas an amateur will reshape the universe to fit their own ideas and then try to build a story around it.

[@DoctorDestyNova]

Not to mention people seem to be ashamed of old monster movies like Dracula. I mean it’s vampires vs Christians in Dracula movies

[@Saku19]

​@@DoctorDestyNovaWell, that doesn't align with the the popular narrative, "Christians Bad!"

[@pikmin369]

​@@Saku19hell yeah

[@Nukerunin]

Seeing Richter have that panic attack and run was probably the worst part of the series for me. That shit literally disgusted me more than any of the actual characters in the show. I was like "What...? No you didn't --" This is a dude who literally raided Dracula's Castle solo at 19 years old and bodied the shit out of him, the spirit of Death himself, and countless other dark forces to save some of his villagers and friends. He's supposed to be fearless.

[@thetraveller4839]

Modern writers and the audiences they want to cater to actually hate the strong, virtuous male hero. It's partially why we'll never have an adaptation of Simon Belmont. And after what they did to Richter, Trevor, Hector, etc, that is actually for the best.

[@kombatman8802]

Not everything from the games has to be the same. It makes perfect sense why he did it too.

[@Ipetam]

Whats the point if the character starts off strong and unbeatable and fearless? Whats the point if we dont watch that characters journey to getting there? If you want the games then play the games.

[@particularjustice3911]

​@@Ipetamdude nigga abandoned the only real family he had that shit is disgusting and makes the Ricter power up bs

[@porksrgoth]

In a show it wouldn’t work having his mother killed in front of him without carrying the trauma that brings. There has to be some sort of relatable ness and realism in it too, since the games are mostly focused in action and butt-kicking it would be easy to assume the hero is “fearless”. In a show the character has to go through their turmoils and develop themselves, learn, grow. It’s not all strength from the jump like in the games. It’s a slower and more complete build up if you will. There is nothing wrong with that.

[@MaverickhunterXZero]

I made the joke the moment I saw the showrunners whining that people didn't like Black Anette the show was going to revolve around Richter being a crybaby and looking to his mommy-GF to save the day. I hate being right.

[@otakuthegreat]

Same but I love being right lol

[@Lightskinemagic1995]

U literally didn’t watch the show he only cried an tan away from olrox because of the traumatic connection with him killing his mother other than that richter saves the day in every fight an is the only one to face every vampire/ demon head on an head up

[@MaverickhunterXZero]

@@Lightskinemagic1995 You didn't play games since Richter would never run away. Nor is Maria French.

[@blacky8987]

@@Lightskinemagic1995 lol people how really like this franchise not fools like you where like wtf why they made this mf chad so patetic? lol

[@Lightskinemagic1995]

@@MaverickhunterXZero bro u do realize that argument is stupid lol richter in the games dosent run away unless u make him run away an on top of that when he saw olrox in the 7th episode he tried to kill him

[@OkamiToge]

I was scoffing at them, trying to ship the white guy and black girl when they had zero chemistry between each other and not really any moment at all either except for one where both of their mothers were killed by vampires, WHOOPDY DO it's a world of damn vampires I'm sure 70-80% of everyone else lost their mother's/parents the same way in a world where vampires and demons exist.

[@l.aliban5122]

Yeah that’s the only thing that kinda made me go “🤨” like they could have had more chemistry then what they where given

[@saldzbob9972]

Especially when in the game black girl wasn't even black she's an aristocrat and the source material has nothing to do with the french revolution.

[@kehindeomolaoye8020]

The source material is not enough for a 8 episode season so they had to make some shit up.@@saldzbob9972

[@Dayz671]

When I saw that moment that when I was like where tf did this come from?

[@PrimarisUltramarine]

Didn’t they change Isaac into a black because his original look was too emo and weird?

[@InvictusSolDeus]

One thing that not many people know (or directly ignore when they know it because it breaks with their woke mentality) is that the conquest of America by the Spanish was achieved thanks to the alliance with a multitude of Native American tribes. In general, in the Conqueror armies there were barely 10% Spaniards (sometimes even less), the remaining percentage were native allies (Tlaxcaltecs, otomis, huejotzingos, xochimilcos, cholultecas, chinantecos, totonacs, guaranis, cañaris, huancas, chachapoyas, muiscas, etc.) For example, the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan was conquered by an army of just over 1,000 Spaniards and between 80000-150000 (some sources raise the figure to more than 200000.) native allies, belonging to peoples conquered and oppressed by the Aztecs. But believe me, when Orlox's flashback is shown, we will only see Spaniards killing Aztecs.

[@danielhicks4826]

Oh how dare you 100 percent of indians were peacefull saints!.

[@thanglongnguyenvu3815]

I am not surprised. Natives were not peaceful as these wokies have continuously preached.

[@makutas-v261]

Gracias 🙄

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

Also, don't forget how that alliance was made by the Natives, not the Spanish. They came to the White man asking them to rid them of rival tribes.

[@BLACKOMAMBO]

Similar to the French alliance with Native in North America

[@omt4293]

“Who’s Dracula?” -That single line right there made Annette Into the most moronic character of the series.

[@buntado6]

When Annete said "African roots" that irked me, always that word to encompass the entire continent, never the name of a specific country or colony. You'd think that if Africa was such an homogenous hivemind it wouldn't be ravaged to this day by warlords and constant coup d'états. Not even Isaac hamfisted his islamic faith this hard, if at all.

[@theimage7030]

I didn't like Annette's character that much either for other reasons. But having a problem with the phrase "African roots" is a bit much. It's no different from someone saying "proud to be an American". Yet you don't even have to cherry pick America's sins. I digress. Let people embrace the good aspects of their cultures.

[@buntado6]

@@theimage7030 I'd be less cynical if it wasn't obvious that for them, the whole culture is unquestionably good. Have you noticed how the only times we get stories about Africa or Mesoamerica, it's always in a historical context where western civilization is present? They don't care about anything related to their roots if there's no white bad guy they can blame for the bad stuff that happens. Otherwise they'd be confronted with the prospect that, in a story with a purely non-white cast, it's non-white villains wouldn't be mere henchmen or tragic figures driven to heinous acts by white people. Compare this to the mainstream reach that stories set exclusively in Japan or China have, in time periods prior to the arrival of western civs.

[@gilgameshkingofheroes5903]

No comment on the rest but I kinda dislike when everybody just lumps in the entire african continent in one.

[@gilgameshkingofheroes5903]

@@theimage7030 Disagree. "Proud to be American" usually refers to the US specifically. This doesn't have much to do with a countrys sins as fa as Im concerned. I just dislike it when people seem to treat Africa like a country.

[@poopbutt6241]

She said African roots because most likely she doesn’t know where. She’s a slave. They took people all over. Since she has Yoruban gods and goddesses as her powers then she most likely is Nigerian

[@Mr.Branderson]

Creative backstory introduction is absolutely dead in movies and shows today, they always go with the laziest possible route, which is a flashback

[@Underworlddream]

From what it sound like, the story would have made more sense (but not by much) if the Revolutionary were working with the Vampire to overthrow the French government and the church, thinking that they can backstab the vampire but in reality they would be trading one harsh master for another.

[@thibaldus3]

This. But then we'd have some nuance to this show. ANd nuance isn't good marxist propaganda.

[@delta2372]

Or they could have just used the actual fucking game with no bullshit wokeness and have it be how the game portrayed it.

[@MoonPhantom]

Now that... Would have been an interesting story with actual nuance. I like that idea.

[@schnek8927]

@@MoonPhantom Hence why it wont happen. Their stunted minds cannot go beyond "BAD WHITE MAN HAS ALL NEGATIVE TRAITS AND GOOD BLACK GIRL AND/OR FEMININE MAN HAS ALL GOOD TRAITS!" Dump a truckload of propaganda on it and there you go, all woke shows.

[@gimmeyourrights8292]

Or they could've actually adapted Rondo of Blood.

[@thisismyyoutubecommentacco6302]

I made it through six episodes just cause I wanted to get to that clip of Richter getting his magic back since the animation was pretty good. Honestly I was putting up with most of it with enough eye rolling and fast forwarding through all the lecturing and white guilt, but where I finally drew the line was the historical revisionism when Annette goes to the spirit world, and her spirit mentor have their ridiculous conversation about her ancestors where they pretend like African kingdoms and empires never had slaves or committed human sacrifices.

[@jakelionlight3936]

yeah i think eps. 6 was where most people gave up. lol including me...

[@OodldoodlNoodlesocks]

I felt the worst part about it all is that they don't even commit fully to their own pandering when they blame the white slavers on most of them being vampires.

[@notyetawomen5257]

Oh god it’s reminding me of the Women King situation 😂

[@Ninjaananas]

You should not have fast forwarded because you got a bunch wrong. They did not say anything about what you implied there. White guilt was not a thing either.

[@thisismyyoutubecommentacco6302]

@@Ninjaananas sure bud. Keep shilling.

[@robinthrush9672]

Y'know what? Now I'm glad they skipped Simon.

[@snknero9935]

Same here they ruined Simon character .

[@KaosNova2]

They would just make him down in the dump depressed and bitter anyways.

[@robinthrush9672]

@@KaosNova2 That would work if they covered Castlevania 2 after making him a total badass to cover Castlevania 1 in a few episodes. Can't have that though. Even Trevor spent more time having his ass kicked than kicking it.

[@givemysundaeback]

Eugh. I'm a Soma fan. I'm not looking forward to Nocturne ending, because we all know I'm next.

[@Ninjaananas]

​@@givemysundaeback There is whole line of other Castlevania protagonists between Soma and Richter.

[@asaknight321]

Castlevania the original was brutal, emotional, and was overall an incredible experience. The dialogue felt important and emotional with some lines especially from Vlad Dracula himself still sticking with me to this day. You know how some people say helluva boss's dialogue is only with random cursing, edginess and sex jokes? That's this show.

[@trevorpearlharbor5171]

"There ARE NO INNOCENTS! Not anymore! Any one of them could have stood up and said 'No! We won't behave like ANIMALS anymore!'" That's one of my favorite Dracula lines, and I haven't watched Season 1 since it released. Graham MvTavish fucking crushed it as Vlad Tepes, and was one of the reasons I marathoned the series. This Castlevania is just another wokefest that beats you over the head with its message. It's a disgrace.

[@SirRorschachJack]

Only the first season was good with the series finale also. It was boring af and too game thrones wannabe after that

[@Unapologeticweeb]

was good but when it comes to vampire stories nothing beats helsing ultimate castlevania the original first season is a good second tough

[@asaknight321]

@@SirRorschachJack Yeah.. like some parts were meh but tolerable

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

Castlevania was hot woke trash that was only decent because of insanely good voice acting by Graham and Richard.

[@tomr.5321]

Wow, 18th-century France looks like Uganda.

[@happysaladd8951]

"We wuz kangs n shiet"

[@philipearakaki]

Theres like, three Black characters in the series, two are from literal French colonies and one is a Nubian Egyptian Imortal Vampire.

[@Ninjaananas]

​@@philipearakaki This comment section is infested with racists.

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

@@Ninjaananas 🤡

[@Ninjaananas]

@@TheStraightestWhitest Try it with arguments.

[@willn8664]

I'm actually surprised you only references Annette from the video games. But didn't with everyone else. Juste (Harmony of Dissonance) - was never stated in the video games that he was Richter's grandfather. He was one of the most powerful of the Belmonts only second to Julius. Orlox (Symphony of the Night) - was actually a badass sub boss who was a vampire night. Video game never stated his Aztec origin. Elizabeth Bartley (Bloodline) - was actually Dracula's niece NOT an egyptian vampire goddess. Hope this helps a bit. Don't know if you actually played all of the Castlevania games but I felt these should have been addressed as well in your video.

[@free_at_last8141]

Death in Season 4 was like the Duel of the Fates in Episode 1. It actually shocked me back into the story with a realization that I was supposed to feel entertained.

[@attackdoughnut]

My heart always bleeds when I see how the writers sh*t on the hard work of the animators. I really like the visual style but can't tolerate everything else just for the action scenes.

[@cybertramon0012]

That's how I felt about Masters of the Universe, Revelations. The art style was phenomenal, but it had to be saddled with such terrible writing.

[@markusnank]

The fact he can be saying it’s “dog shit” less than 30 seconds in is the kind of commitment to reviews I can get behind

[@laurenphantom]

Nocturne ruined my favorite characters. Richter and Maria, especially. They were so much more badass in the games, and much more like how young adults were in that time period.

[@laurenphantom]

@Koga_Manjidani honestly I was wondering about that too. It doesn’t make any sense lmao.

[@decas5505]

@Koga_Manjidani If you think Maria isnt a badass then you clearly didnt play ANY Castlevania game in your life, Maria is a playable character in many Castlevania games and in some of them she is even stronger than Richter (Castlevania Rondo of Blood) And regarding why the whip isnt working in the series, is just bad writing man, Nocturne is FULL of bad writing

[@Fauwkes]

@Koga_Manjidaniah, i see you’re retarded

[@விஷ்ணு_கார்த்திக்]

I can't take this show seriously after hearing *"Gay Aztec Vampire"* lmao I also love how unoriginal they were with designing richter's mom, she's literally a genderbent ricther. Same hair, costume and face.

[@AdrianFahrenheitTepes]

The video game Metal Gear Solid 2 had a gay vampire a while ago. The same guy came back in Metal Gear Solid 4.

[@benjaminthibieroz4155]

Personnaly I'm far more annoyed by the Gay Templar... hello, vow of chastity, rings any bell? Huh no, that's a religious rule, then it must be bad. Let's bang the freaking vampire whose people sacrificed children to a sun god (just realized the irony about it too)

[@terryliliana]

Gay aztec vampire? "JoJo fans have joined the chat"

[@hariman7727]

@varalderfreyr8438 The Pillar Men: "Who is this foolish brat vampire?! We're going to kill him just on principle!"

[@hideousruin]

I didn't realize half France was African back then.

[@philipearakaki]

If you consider the colonies than a Very significative part of France was black

[@Ninjaananas]

I did not realize France had a population size of 8 then.

[@stronensycharte64]

​@@philipearakakiEveryone is ni-

[@mohamud60]

Oh yea 3 black characters with two of them being from the French colony of Haiti (called Saint Domingue at the time) and one of them being a vampire automatically makes half the population black of early 1800s France?

[@jtmmmm27]

I loved how compact and aggresive the first season was, then every season after became more infected with the woke disease trying to stretch out pointless storylines to secure as many seasons as possible.

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

It became pure Netflix trash, written for the binge.

[@MrFLstyle]

Oh you mad they brought in slavery that france benefited from. Awwwwwww

[@ultimateme3049]

Isaac was in the first season and he is ALSO a race swapped character.

[@Steven9567]

benefit ha thats a good one@@MrFLstyle

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

@@ultimateme3049 And that was already a sin, but it wasn't as unforgivable. Turning Hector into a pinata for a bunch of women while turning Isaac into an overpowered Mary Sue who never even so much as met with any hardships, that was where it became overtuned cringe.

[@CanuckIV]

How about we just leave a Castlevania anime up to Japanese animators? You know they won't screw it up.

[@Ragitsu]

Awesome Japan.

[@kek-senpai243]

Yeah. Rondo of Blood's intro alone is better than the entirety of Nocturne.

[@thatguy9088]

At this point I half expect them to paint the vampires as the good guys and anyone whose religious or moral as the bad guys deserving of their fate.

[@greghannibal]

The pro Satan agenda. God is more powerful so therefore Satan is an oppressed minority. And as we all know, underdogs are always in the right.

[@nightsong81]

They're working towards it.

[@andreschion2334]

Did you not see the first season? Or the first episode? " vampires as the good guys" XD. Olrox is the only vampire who aids the team (not counting alucard since that's kind of his thing) And even then, he does it begrudgingly as a morally gray character. "anyone whose religious" Well, yes. pre-french revolution status quo was encouraged by religion. Not to mention that's always been a thing in this series. " or moral " Example of a moral character "Deserving of their fate", plz

[@thatguy9088]

@@andreschion2334 First of all, my comment was made in sarcasm. I made no claims that the material was presented as such, only it wouldn't surprise me if it devolved into such. Secondly, no, the French revolution had little to do with religion and more to do with a grossly unfair system of justice and power, coupled that with the majority of the country starving while the king threw lavish parties. Finally, yes, I do feel traditionally moral archtypes are being vilified. For a series whose source material where religion played a fairly big part, we see no positive representations, only negative ones. And were I a betting man, I would bet that any religious person or hetro-couple with children wouldn't survive, while anyone of an alternate lifestyle would not only survive but made the hero. But since we are exchanging tropes, give me an example of a non-hetro villain, in any recent media. The only one I can think of was a character in the Terror series, first season. And even that is a few years old now. So yes, I do see quite regular jabs at traditionally moral characters and values.

[@supergamergrill7734]

@@thatguy9088 Isn’t the Aztec vampire a non hetero villain or atleast Anti-hero because he isn’t good. He just has the mindset of my enemy of my enemy is my friend. He probably be kinda good by the end, but that doesn’t change the fact he killed our main protagonist mother. or that annet women , I don’t hetero vibes from her but either bi or lesbian. But that can be me or even the vampire God in this show. She definitely seems bi to me since she literally was infatuated with a human women. But really, we are seeing more lgbtq villains. It’s that time is slowly changing, just like in media. It only became recent that putting lgbtq characters as any main character was seen as ok.

[@KingEgyptian]

God help us with Netflix's DMC anime adaptation.

[@gimmeyourrights8292]

I heard it's made by the same people, fuck me.

[@Pro-Diletante]

@@gimmeyourrights8292NOOOOOO

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

Vergil will be black and objectively superior to Dante, who will be kept White. Dante will be a crybaby bitch. Every female will be constantly berating him while he stands there taking it all like a bitch before they show him how things are done. And it'll turn out he's not the son of Sparda. Sparda didn't even have sons at all. It was a daughter the whole time. A black girl.

[@damonwillis3004]

@@gimmeyourrights8292 From what I heard and saw it's being produced by the same guy who made the first Castlevania Netflix show and has a different writer. Plus, the guy who was behind the DMC games from 1 to 3 and maybe 4 is supervising it.

[@gimmeyourrights8292]

@@damonwillis3004 I'm still nervous.

[@satoro26]

I seriously think whoever wrote the script for this show looked up character names on wiki and ended the research at that. You could even safely assume they didn't watch the first show since they don't know their own lore and world rules.

[@Alivair]

Case in point, the first series went in depth with how night creatures work. Corpses implanted with souls from hell. Nocturne seems to have forgotten that part. People that have been dead for days, when converted to nigh creatures, somehow retain their souls 🤔 That's not how devil forgery works

[@c.b_palemoon]

@@Alivair Not even the first show got how Devil Forging works. While the original concept presented in Curse of Darkness was a type of Alchemy in creating demons based on materials, in the show it is just a type of Necromancy to create monsters, forgetting that each monster has its own mythology.

[@seanpatrickperfecto7426]

The worst part for me was when Richter all of a sudden got his magic back out of nowhere. Then immediately after Juste disappears, further emphasizing that his part of the show was a complete waste of time.

[@luispalao7418]

There’s nothing wrong with him getting his magic back, but for him to suddenly be an expert after so many years of having not practiced it, it just isn’t believable. I would’ve liked to see Richter unlock his magic but only in short weak bursts, and over time he trains to become stronger.

[@Ninjaananas]

​@@luispalao7418 Just wait until you learn about lore accurate Maria.

[@AlainBoudard]

As a French who dispise the so called revolution, your comments resonate to me ... You state the obvious but people are too matrixed with this anti christianity... Thanks anyway buddy !

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

The revolution was an early attempt at the powers that were behind marxism too to establish a common European empire, ruled by big money and deposing church and nobility. Thank goodness Napoleon arrived...

[@PsicoPrime]

wait do you mean that in the show? you're not like monarchic or something like that, right? jk

[@AlainBoudard]

@@PsicoPrime seeing the acomplishments of the democracy in France, yeah, I'm probably more royalist than anything else. Anyway I despise the narrative our schools and books try to sell us, the revolution of the people against the evil noble... that's crap.

[@HypK799]

If you go beyond a surface level look at the French Revolution (and most revolutions to be honest), you can come to the conclusion that the peasantry was actually upset about more day-to-day things like the lack of food and it was really only a small group who wanted political and social change. It's been a while since I have read up on the French Revolution, so I am not 100% on that being a reasonable interpretation. I know that is definitely what happened in the Russian Revolution.

[@AlainBoudard]

@@HypK799 in France, basically, it was a movement of the newly rich people who benefited from deregulation (which lead to starvation of the poor), but wanted the formal power still detained at the time by the nobles. The so called people gathering did explicitely exclude the poor. And in the same time they managed to slaughter a lot of partisans of the king. It was a coup, and it was successful so that they wrote the history books the way they liked.

[@outhere2157]

I see people praising this standards at all time low

[@lukaszspychaj9210]

For some reason people are way less critical of animated shows

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

​@@lukaszspychaj9210They're starving.

[@Roark787]

@@TheStraightestWhitestThey're addicted to a need to be entertained.

[@lukaszspychaj9210]

@@TheStraightestWhitest There are decades of amazing films and series available to watch

[@PeruvianPotato]

​@@lukaszspychaj9210Because they tend to be manchildren that while actually capable to construct their own opinions, often parrot each other and are overall manchildren

[@AnaFolkenstal]

How to turn a good series into shit: 1. Be a successful first season 2. Have "progressive people" influence season 2 3. Wait until the show turns to shit 4. reboot with new and super woke characters 5. blame fans if the "reboot" didn't work

[@johnsullivan937]

Dont forget number 6, after the show is destroyed move on to the next semi promising series to rot and infect with out of place social messaging.

[@123bboymeandyou]

What was woke about it?

[@thirdcoinedge]

...This is a sequel to the original show. It's not a reboot.

[@AmieEss]

​@@123bboymeandyouNumerous brown people in a European village? The race-swapped Annette? The nonsensical Christian antagonist who makes a deal with literal demons?

[@israelquiles9127]

6. Come to KZbin and cry about it

[@shulkash8799]

“Richter’s mom was killed by a gay Aztec Vampire.” Me: I didn’t know the Kars and the pillar men were in this show, can’t wait for the Belmonts and the Joestars to work together to save the world.

[@thetraveller4839]

😂😂😂

[@samiamtheman7379]

Considering what happened in the French Revolution irl, the Priest's fears that the revolutionaries would try to destroy Christianity weren't unfounded.

[@daanstrik4293]

Most of his fears weren’t unfounded. The revolution famously became very bloody. Once mr robspierre (I think I spelled that wrong but whatever) came into power. Its one of the reasons I thought he would end up helping the heroes while the heroes question the revolution a bit more. Mayby even helping the church in the end. I mean, that was litterally the plan: Build an army to kill the vampires. The revolutuonaries were merely a convenient minor enemy that could be used to buy time

[@newdivide9882]

After the Woke-creep starting in season 3, I had some doubts about Nocturne, but SHEESH. I’m almost 2 minutes in and this is… well, I’m shocked there’s 19 more minutes. How much worse can it get??? Also, it still blows my mind how the writers in season 4 literally gave themselves an out for having a random village of brown people (Alucard asking if they’re the descendants of Carthagians) and they just go, “Lol nope” by saying they were just “always there.”

[@ouromov2895]

People farm the word "woke" far too much. There was nothing "woke" about the first series. It had interestingly written characters that all had somekind of a storyline going and somekind of a problem to solve, whether it was a physical obstacle, or some moral obstacle. Isaac's race is not integral to his character and his backround was fleshed out. A random "brown" village in a place where the Ottoman empire roamed about for eons picking a fight with the actual historical dracula is nothing new either nor is it unbelievable enough to take you out of the series. Though two random japanese people coming in was a bit odd, atleast they had a reason to travel so far.

[@juannaym8488]

@@ouromov2895 these random japanese people were really just... random japanese people. They didn't have any impact on the show. They were really were just random japanese people

[@ouromov2895]

They did kind of test Alucards faith on humanity a bit and reminded him that at facevalue people will view him as an "evil vampire" but honestly they should've made it affect Alucard more. I don't think they were random, but they should've done more with that towards Alucards growth. @@juannaym8488

[@jorgeblanco1929]

@@juannaym8488 the funny thing is that you could take the hunters out of the story and the only effects would be saving Alucard a bad time and making season 3 a little better

[@wingsoffreedom3589]

Nah the way they treated Christianity was over the top and based in critical theory in other words Christianity had power and thus is the oppressor and everyone else is the victim according to critical theory. There was some definitely woke elements to the writing but overall the show was good.

[@guilhermeosti9526]

Its kinda sad that we went from Isaac who was such a good character to this.

[@CyberLance26]

Isaac was an interesting character but i did not like that they made him black. Also i did not like that the stuff that happened with Isaac and Hector had nothing to do with the stuff that happened with Trevor, Alucard and Sylphie. I thought they would all meet at the end but nope.

[@ArgonYouTube]

@@CyberLance26 Well Isaac and Hector both chose their own paths, wouldn't make much sense for them to meet up with the trio.

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

Isaac was a blackwashed Mary Sue Islamist preaching cringelord. ''good character''??? Low standards.

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

@@ArgonKZbin Hector didn't choose a fucking thing. He was a White man. He wasn't allowed to choose.

[@ArgonYouTube]

@@TheStraightestWhitest Eh? At the end he goes his own way, no longer a prisoner of Carmilla, forgiven by Isaac, and now free to choose a path of his own.

[@eglantinepapeau1582]

that vampire has pink hair during the french revolution, why ? did she go back to the future, kill a tumblerette, drank her blood and stole her hair dye ? 🤷‍♀

[@ScottLavell-kf2or]

Perfect review. Nailed it 100%. Binge watched the entire first season. Was so pissed off I vented to my wife who couldn't give a darn and I normally would have just seethed to myself but they did the Belmont's dirty, did Christianity dirty, did a dis-service to the fans in every regard. This was a "slavery bad; mmmmmkay" and "down with the patriarchy" lecture combined with inter-racial gay porn in the intermissions dumpster fire.

[@grindelston5968]

I wonder how many bergs and stiens are in the credits

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

@@grindelston5968 It'll be about 70%, easily.

[@stoyanpetkov3853]

A 1-2 minute non-explicit scene that just had two naked men is what you consider "interracial gay porn"? Miss Thing, the first show had a near identical scene with Trevor and Sypha. Did you screech about that one too?

[@thatitalianlameguy2235]

​@@stoyanpetkov3853no because it was canon and made sense for the times and was developed well lmao

[@ScottLavell-kf2or]

@@stoyanpetkov3853 MISS? Tell me you're either blind or dumb without explicitly telling me you're either blind or dumb. And yes; I was rather disgusted with Alucard's bi-curious 3 some. I'd love it if my kids could watch something exploring the lore of something I grew up with; but no because we have to jam LGBTQIA agendas and race baiting and identity politics and pro feminist tropes and political activism into everything these days and yes I was also rather disappointed with Isaac at first. His character arc somewhat redeemed their decision and he did end up killing the insufferable feminazi so I can pretty well forgive that but I was still disappointed in their decision to change his character and race swap him.

[@geddyflea6645]

So…no castle, no dark priest Shaft or Dracula in castlevania nocturne? Isn’t Annette Richter’s girlfriend? Isn’t Maria Annette’s little sister? Funny, I’ve played almost 20 castlevania titles and not one time did o fight the church or encounter the topic of slavery, or even bump into a black character because, oh I don’t know, the location of the franchise takes place in Transylvania. God I hate Netflix

[@AdrianFahrenheitTepes]

Lords of Shadow had some bad characters and in Castlevania Curse of Darkness, The Grim Reaper pretends to be a priest

[@philipearakaki]

Annette being Maria Sister is not really canon

[@Ninjaananas]

Shaft can still appear. Dracula was made unusuable by Warren Ellis so you cannot blame the Nocturne writers for that. Annette is obviously going to be his GF. Corrupt clergy men are pretty common in Castlevania games. You probably just missed it, but with 20 games, you should have come across some if you put attention to the plot.

[@petew.7870]

*Obamaflix

[@MrNickPresley]

@@Ninjaananas Well, let's see.. There's Shaft, I don't know if Barlowe from Order of Ecclesia counts specifically (although the organization name does imply church connections), Graham Jones from Aria of Sorrow was a cult leader, Zed from Curse of Darkness is just Death in a trench coat. It seems like a lot of them aren't so much corrupt Christians as they are Dracula's own cultists or cohorts trying to bring him back.

[@LastBastian]

When the simp started singing, it was so over the top comically bad, that I burst out laughing! I thought, this can't be real!? ...but it just kept going on and on... Had to fast forward his parts!

[@albogypsy2842]

ahaha that was hilarious, I'm still laughing 😁😁

[@Aedrion-]

Let's not forget the following too: - The highly Christian Templar who is shocked that his Abbot has a child, freely indulges in gay sex, which was considered just as grave a sin back then. - The Night Creatures are weaker than the vampires and created very; very slowly. There's only 16 or so. Meanwhile the vampires have a literal god and an army of vampires. - This means the whole plot to destroy the machine is nonsense, and it fails, after having been set up for a whole episode. - They have no plan at any point to deal with the actual bad guys, instead trying to save the simp and euh... the blonde girl. What was the point? - The vampires can now turn into demons or something? Or anime monsters? - Random Super Saiyan transformation where he can instantly kill anything he sees with no effort, but is suddenly useless the next episode. - So much preaching about modern sensibilities. It's very grating And probably so much more. I skipped parts because they were unwatchable - such as the horrible singing - and even the parts I didn't skip were shite.

[@level1865]

Well the first point, the templars are supposed to be completely celebate. Both straight and gay weren't allowed

[@Aedrion-]

@@level1865 And even if he wasn't a Templar, pre-marital sex was also a sin. Like this show is just full retard xD

[@Jips907]

Castlevania ended when Dracula died. Everything else is filler😂

[@snknero9935]

Pretty much yeah but even with that show was already garbage it was boring as hell.🥱

[@Hepheat75]

What was Netflix thinking? Were they on crack or something or did they just forgot to pay the writers and used AI to write the script?

[@OkamiToge]

It's probably used the same AI I want to say disney uses to somehow make trash movie after trash movie lol.

[@grindelston5968]

Nah #justjewishthings

[@Psychoangel-d23]

they paid the wrong writers who are so goddamn up their own asses, they are a reverse oroboros.

[@ouromov2895]

I heard the old writer got fired because of some allegations. So the new writer had absolutely no idea what to do.

[@juannaym8488]

@@ouromov2895 the old writer wasn't too involved in the original show, he just plastered his name on it, like Roiland or Hartmann did

[@samjohnsondraws7540]

Once I saw Richter sobbing in the trailer, I gave up my hopes for a grungy, snarling badass like Trevor Belmont

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

Trevor was heavily emasculated by Sypha too though.

[@arekmg0003]

OHHH NO!!! We can't have Richter Belmont, a human being, have emotions like any other person! Men with emotions and actual character development? Boooring. That's so unrealistic! All men in movies and TV shows need to be super buff, NEVER show emotions, never listen to anyone, act better than everyone, be better than everyone in every way, NEVER lose in anything and never listen to anyone. Now that's a REAL man!! I TOTALLY don't have issues everyone!

[@AdrianFahrenheitTepes]

@@TheStraightestWhitestThey cheated Trevor by letting Alucard give Dracula the fatal stab.

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

@@arekmg0003 How did you have time to write this drivel when you're this busy fighting strawmen every waking moment?

[@arekmg0003]

@TheStraightestWhitest Well just like how many anti-sjw's just cry at literally everything these days. And someone has to point out to these idiots how their complaints makes no sense and are dumb as usual. But what we can expect from them am I right? They cry at the sight of women and people of color 😆

[@benjaminthibieroz4155]

The "super diverse" village in season 4 puzzled me hard. Forcely inserting modern stuff into History is annoying already... but if you do it, can you at least be consistent? For recall, the show starts with a woman being burned at the stake by the omnipotent Church for practicing science. And you're gonna make me believe that in the very same country a queer woman can rule a village while openly having multiple bisexual relationships outside of marriage and everyone being fine with it? This kind of dissonnance is constant and really drives me out. Camelia's endless babbling about "men bad, women in power good" was also tiring af. Edit: as a French, the portrayal of Revolution also super annoys me. It was far more complex that "evil nobles and corrupted priests vs the heroic commoners". You may just saved me way for wasting hours of my life. Thank you

[@thetraveller4839]

So true. I'm expected to believe the Church is evil, but incompetent at the same time. They couldn't even bother to put in a character from the games, but instead we have a diverse, queer version who may as well have been an OC. I just looked up the French revolts myself and can only concluded that Netflix and Clive Bradley do not have the writing chops to do it justice even as a backdrop to the main story (what little there is).

[@GigaChadh976]

Yeah everyone celebrates the revolution despite the fact that the economy was damaged to such an extent that the common folk demanded the monarchy to return in the form of napoleon.

[@ispaceghost]

I watched the first 3 episodes and quit. The whole time I was thinking "Reaper would hate this show." And now I am rewarded.

[@whackyzachy1482]

Thank god Simon Belmont wasn’t in this show, but god damn why did richter have to be butchered so hard?

[@viethoangtruong54]

At least Richter is not turned into a woman or a trans. But like I said, they need a sacrifice to push their agenda across.

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

@@viethoangtruong54 If he was, he'd have been OP. The only reason he was treated this way was because he's a White man.

[@AdrianFahrenheitTepes]

Just go play Rondo of Blood. Richter is a hothead in that one

[@saldzbob9972]

@@viethoangtruong54 they might end up turning him into a religious zealot

[@mazking1366]

How was he butchered?

[@fmc291]

Look at Corporate Hollywood embarrassingly trying and failing to capitalize on the Anime/Manga market. 😂😂😂😂 Keep trying Hollywood and Woke elites.

[@CyberLance26]

They often love to call American animated shows and movies Anime nowadays.

[@kagetsuki23]

@@CyberLance26Asia will own the entertainment industry from now on. Korea is not playing around.

[@Steven9567]

they have infected the asiain already @@kagetsuki23

[@philipearakaki]

Ah, yes, famous non-woke and non-pollitical market called anime

[@ZombrexFiend]

Nah, once I see a character has been race swapped I'm definitely not watching that crap. Just follow what was given.

[@Ragitsu]

They do not deserve your money...they do not deserve your time.

[@ivansSpam]

I was pissed that it took 6 episodes for the Belmont to actually be cool and even then he is still severely underpowered

[@danelwind2574]

Yeah, Richter is supposed to be the protagonist (deuteragonist, if we include Maria) but he gets zero development until one episode that unlocks his magic and... he still plays second fiddle to the female characters. (The scene of him fleeing Orlox with the tail between his legs because of trauma was just an awful disservice to the character and his fans)

[@CyberLance26]

I have noticed that many action and adventure shows nowadays focus way more on female characters than on male characters even if the main character is a man. Most people that enjoy these kind of things are men and boys and that used to be the audience they mostly focused on when they made things like this.

[@PrimarisUltramarine]

Well he just unlocked his powers, and he’s going up against a literal god, of course it’s not gonna be an instant win.

[@coal4208]

@@PrimarisUltramarineright the show wouldn’t be very enjoyable if he just won all the time.

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

@@PrimarisUltramarine < Simping shill.

[@doublep1980]

Original Castlevania series was written by Warren Ellis, who is an acclaimed comics writer. Sadly, he got meToo-ed and replaced with a bunch of diversity hire hack writers, who have neither a clue about the Castlevania franchise nor the history of the French Revolution.

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

Warren Ellis is a woke crotchgoblin himself. He is the one responsible for destroying Hector because of his sexist racism towards White men. He said he despised how capable Hector was and thought Theo James' voice was too ''Heroic'', so he wrote as many scenes as he could get away with of him getting tortured so he'd have to scream and moan in pain. A very disturbed individual, typical Hollyweird writer.

[@SpScarletSpider]

The thing with Ellis though, is that he was leaning hard into the wokeness just as much and even admitted he had no knowledge of the Castlevania lore or care for it (one of the reasons why Grant wasn't even used as a character). I think the trajectory of these shows still would have eventually gone down this route. Perhaps some of the characterization would have been better thanks to Ellis' contributions, but we still would have had the same results at some point. The agenda supersedes a logically constructed story nowadays, and Ellis, as a self-proclaimed far leftist/socialist, would have jumped on the bandwagon.

[@mazking1366]

​@@SpScarletSpiderwhat does woke mean.

[@corentinesummers8259]

​@@mazking1366it is when the things you see in the source material aren't adapted faithfully.

[@tygrenvoltaris4782]

​@@corentinesummers8259wrong meaning. Woke is enlightenment this woke term is stupid from stupid channels. Its just bad writing and agenda not woke

[@ocboy5163]

I was initially thinking about watching this show but with some earlier criticisms and watching this made me change my mind. Thank you Reaper, wish you more subs

[@Jabberstax]

It's crap from the start. I couldn't make it past episode 2.

[@vincentvillanueva6081]

Well I went into it blind... I really enjoyed the first seasons. This is God awful 😖

[@ganymede8257]

As someone who watched the show myself, the review is utterly dishonest. This "The writers hate Christianity" talk is so unsufferable because the show clearly separates god and the corruot Christians who follow him. Mizrak, a character shown to be devoted to god, rather than the church and Tera both tell the priest he isn't doing god's work. They never insult god, they oppose the priest who has lost his mind in search for power. This review was just a bunch if preconceived opinions that were clearly decided on long before watching the show

[@despair_ts1823]

I beg u to not watch this sht!

[@SolBadguyZAC]

You forgot some details bro.... During the black annette deal in ep3, it wasn't that he just sicked the dogs on her... Oh no no! He specifically told her to run, because the thing that spooked him the most about the dealings going on at his plantation originally was discovered in her, and where as before he went to go snuff it out directly leaving no stones unturned, for some reason he decided to let this loose end get a chance to become a problem later on! On top of which, even if he wanted some sort of fun out of this incident, Vampires are much faster than humans in this show and could catch up to them rather easily, even with a mile head start, and he doesn't even NEED bloodhounds to smell her as a human. You CAN'T make up this amount of failure here!

[@ildiran]

I swear to god the whole 'man fuck christianity' was an overdone trope when I was a fuckin teenager back in the 2000's, these people have the hindsight of 15-20 years on top of that and either don't have the imagination to think other religions might do bad shit, or they don't have the balls to go after them because they know it'd affect their bottom line.

[@gipsymelody1268]

well other religions not really was a thing in euroope... but hey only the silent kid get bully ;) :D

[@salado1944]

Ahem....you know the holy crusades were a thing right? Not saying that if you are a Christian you are automatically bad or something like that, but i belive that the show attacks the church and not Christianity as a whole.

[@hariman7727]

It was overdone when I was a kid. And I'm over 40.

[@MrS-pe6sd]

I don’t know if it’s a millennial thing or what, but new shows seem to think storytelling is describing the traumas of your past to another character. It is boring and weak

[@KaosNova2]

I mean your past could be part of the story, if there is context for it. Maybe a character didn’t tell another character about his or her self and someone is disappointed about the lack of reveal or trust.

[@hariman7727]

They subvert expectations by subverting proper story structure and good storytelling.

[@ouromov2895]

It was really lazily written, and stupidly paced. Richter didn't feel like the main character he went from full on fear and ptsd to "Oh hey, I have main character powers." It was so sloppy and unearned, I found myself cheering for Orlox more than anything or the Haitian slave girl, I don't even remember bird magic girls name. Although his stupid brother needed to stop his opera singing. I stopped myself mid-episodes to just almost say outloud "WHy is he STILL singing!?". It felt like a cheap knock-off from the original. People who say this is historically too diverse or something need to stop and do some research instead of jumping into conclusions. The Haitian (Saint Domingue) slave revolt was happening tandem to the French revolution. Around the same time France started to abolish slavery as a whole. But I agree, to ignore such a rich setting as the french revolution to flash a guillotine once and just have one town meeting where people yell "viva la revolution" is such a miss from the writer. Animation was still good tho!

[@AtlasAdvice254]

Annette was legitimately speaking one of the worst written characters I’ve ever seen. The moment she starts berating Maria and richter for being children and not having experienced the real world while they’ve been actively fighting vampires in their country, getting angry at richter for saying they NEED A PLAN when her inability to control her emotions got (whatever tf his name was) killed, just made her incredibly unlikable. Then getting angry at richter for having a panic attack at seeing his mother’s killer and not being able to muster the courage to fight back WHEN SHE WENT THROUGH THE SAME SHIT FOR MOST OF HER LIFE TIME just makes 0 sense. Nothing about her character is interesting or well written. Hell they could’ve made her motivation that she wants to eradicate the concept of slavery itself in the world and THATS why she journeyed to Europe to begin with and happened to find out about the vampires and sought after her enslaver to try and finish him. But that wasn’t even what sparked her to go to France!

[@Ninjaananas]

It is called giving characters flaws that they can grow out of.

[@AtlasAdvice254]

@@Ninjaananas I don’t disagree with doing that in concept, but the character should be likable enough or have redeeming qualities/goals so you support their character arc. Annette could’ve had a few flaws to grow out of but could have shown her being the rational one from her experience with the slave revolt. Instead their raid on the island goes to hell because of her inability to control her emotions. Have her be the one to push for a plan after the raid went to shit to show she learns from her mistakes. There were a lot of creative decisions that if done differently would make her more likable, instead it’s like they tried to make her as unlikable as possible. It’s frustrating because there’s a LOT of potential for her character but now they have to just make her likable

[@Ninjaananas]

@@AtlasAdvice254 Annette is likable with redeeming qualities and goals. She sailed across the world to safe people she did not even know. She assists Maria and Richter a lot, who needed Annette for a bunch of things. Annette has a trauma like Richter. She cannot simply forge that. She is a foil to him in how they process their trauma.

[@goodaimshield1115]

@@Ninjaananas No, she really is not. She's among the most unlikable characters I've ever come across, in literature, cinema, or any other medium. She sucks, for real.

[@headkicked]

​@@Ninjaananas What "redeeming" qualities? Losing her self control and getting her friend killed? So much about her character is just contrived and convoluted.

[@rileyjfosbre6383]

Funny story: I watched the first season back in college and got really into it, to the point where I recommended it to friends and family. And then I just didn’t bother watching the other seasons. Now I’m hearing how the fell off and my fear of missing out has just evaporated.

[@mazking1366]

Lol, "it fell off because gay vampires" get a life.

[@valzy2267]

@@mazking1366 he didn't even say anything about gay vampires no need to pull the homophobia card here

[@mazking1366]

@@valzy2267 considering the video this is commented to its a safe assumption they are as homophobic as the video's creator.

[@makzer8770]

​​@@mazking1366Dawg, when I was watching the show, I didn't give a single damn about gay people or black issac in the first 4 seasons, because the show was good, the gay characters weren't annoying. In this case literally everyone is either black, gay, or both. It just looks goofy keeping in mind the time period.

[@mazking1366]

@@makzer8770 No, it doesn't. You're just racist.

[@Wolfshalifi]

Man I liked the original castlevania but completely expected Netflix to fuck it up

[@om-qz7kp]

The issue is that there are people that liked nocturne. Beyond me tbh

[@Ninjaananas]

​@@om-qz7kp Because it is really good.

[@om-qz7kp]

@@Ninjaananas Hahaha

[@headkicked]

​@@om-qz7kp They are willing to look beyond the bad writing and poor handling of the IP because it's animated well, looks pretty and has self insert characters for them to salivate over.

[@SadgeFrawg]

looks like tumblr story syndrome

[@snknero9935]

Tumblr and Twitter both cancel cells to internet.

[@JonathanRodriguez-nz9nw]

Earned a sub, you said it better than any other reviewer, and can be said of maaaaaaaany other works of modern fiction: these cowards paint Christianity as an evil because it is the safest group to ever do that to. And that is just one literal sin of this woke-message-spewing schlock

[@bunbunny8851]

Imagine making an adaptation for Castlevania but have neither Dracula or a castle to fight in. I want to see Belmonts fight Dracula. Not this history revisionist pigslop.

[@AdrianFahrenheitTepes]

Even in the Vampire Hunter D animated movie, which this series badly ripped off the Carmilla design from with the low neckline and cleavage and red hair, Dracula in the Vampire Hunter D movies is mentioned as being out there, somewhere.

[@bunbunny8851]

​@@AdrianFahrenheitTepesVampire hunter D is one of my favorite movies of all time and I watched it when I was younger, it left a huge impact on me. The fact that Nocturne blatantly ripped off Carmilla's design from the movie but made her infinitely less interesting had me rolling my eyes into the back of my head.

[@AdrianFahrenheitTepes]

@@bunbunny8851 What’s interesting is what Carmilla in the VHD movie has almost the exact same lines as the Succubus in Symphony of the Night about Dracula being his father

[@salado1944]

Bruh you stupid? Theres 2 entire seasons of the Belmont Gang trying to find dracula to kill him

[@ganymede8257]

.... you do know there's a 4 season castlevania series on Netflix?

[@Drjd-yq4bl]

The only time I got really excited watching this was when Alucard showed up. I just imagine him giving the group especially Ricter the biggest dressing down in their lives. “Ricter, Trevor would be so disappointed right now!”

[@AdrianFahrenheitTepes]

Yeah well Alucart is the babysitter of the group now that the Mommy is gone. And yes, I said Alucart on purpose

[@Drjd-yq4bl]

@@AdrianFahrenheitTepes cause he’s carrying?

[@Retribution8]

The original, i felt, was somewhat tasteful towards Christianity, you could tell they didnt like it but kept the "evilness" of the church contained to a few crazies rather than saying thay the whole church was pure evil. They also ended up leaving it alone after the first two seasons.

[@philipearakaki]

Maria is the only character that says the church is wholecloth evil and shes an unreliable narrator. Calm your tits, Castlevania as a whole, even the games, are Very anti church

[@LucidTyrant]

The Leftist Playbook to character writing is always the same: -Take the established main male character and make him weak or just kill him off -Insert an OC that is somehow significantly stronger than the main character and carries every combat while the main character looks like a empty headed brute or clown -Make the main character only gain personal development with the help of the OC -(Optional) Have the main character give up his role to the OC

[@thibaldus3]

@@LucidTyrant Never have a straight white guy character have a straight white son. He'll always a plucky tomboyish female protegee, a diverse gay descendant, etc...