What I didn't like about Nocturne vs Castlevania is several things. (Coming from someone who doesn't know anything about the games.) 1. Continuity. I saw so many vampires crying water tears when before that was only Alucard because he was half human. That's just one example. 2. They completely ruined forge masters. Before it was so unique and personal for the master to summon night creatures. Hector had his hammer to create a specific pitch, while Isaac had a knife. And as Miranda said, "This life takes its toll" meaning that the magic came at a cost. Now there's just a machine??? That Hell delivered by FedEx or something??? It would've been so much cooler if the priest was actually a forge master, claiming he was purging people of demons when actually summoning them. 3. It took the sacrifice of an entire town to open a portal to Hell and now you just need a book and a sorcerer to chant some bullshit. No cost, no agency. 4. They completely sidelined Rictor like he was a minor character. Trevor at least felt like a core character that the others relied on, even in a half drunk state. And he went instantly from 0 to 100 because he "just had to". Boooo, where is the character development? Where is him healing over the trauma of losing his mom? Not there at all but gets his magic back for wtf reasons. 5. Everyone can do magic now, you ain't special. And where did all these other Gods come from? 6. I hate the main villian. The Lioness is so disappointing after Dracula. Her motivation is the same as every generic vampire. Rule to world and enslave humans as livestock. Oooo, okay Carmilla, calm down. Dracula had an actual motive to start a war with the humans. He was built up so well in such a short amount of time you actually empathized with him. She's just evil and God-like powerful without any build up or story except through annoying info dumping. What happened to show don't tell? It all just comes across as forced and bland. The show used to have great characters, a great main villian who is felt long long long after he is killed off. 7. You felt for Alucard immensely after he lost his mom and had to kill his dad, and his only two friends left him all alone after. Just so much better characters and story in Castlevania. I don't empathize with any of the new ones because they failed to establish them well. I don't care about these random mothers they keep killing off better than Disney because they never made you care. I loved Lisa instantly and cried when she died. I don't even remember Rictor's mom's name.

@Alteori

9 ай бұрын

Mmmmmmm damn you hit the nail on every head! You were 100% correct in everything. The show did suffer from a lot of continuity issues. I even was asking those same questions 😂 especially when it came to the night creatures. It did feel rushed and there should have been more character development. I still loved the show but I am aware that the reason I like it is very superficial 1. Richter 2. Anime vibes. I'm completely aware of this and maybe a little bit ashamed 😂 I think it also turned for me when Richter faced off against Olrox and he had his panic attack. I know people called him a coward and they're probably right in that instance because he left his family there. However, it felt like a very real moment for the character and something that he would have to overcome, the shame of it. I also wished they would have delved a little bit more into that because he was very scared due to it being a very powerful vampire but never once considered that his family might be dead? He left them there and never looked back. Why would he have a reason to think there's still alive. I would have loved if we saw the turmoil of that and the relief on his face when he realized that they were alive and just see him grow as a result. It felt like they didn't have enough time and didn't know if they were going to get reviewed and so they just tossed everything in.

@anaalicia5029

9 ай бұрын

@@AlteoriLGB people? Just LGB? You’re one of those? I liked your videos sofar but this sounds very TERFy

@dislike_button33

9 ай бұрын

​@@anaalicia5029Haha you talk just like the journalist. "You're one of THESE types so I'll be closed minded to the rest of what you say."

@anaalicia5029

9 ай бұрын

@@dislike_button33 no, I said I watched her videos, Einstein. LGB is an anti-trans thing, like the hategroup LGB Alliance

@javiervasquez625

9 ай бұрын

8. They made the Church and Christianity look like villains when in the games they are the ones who HELP THE BELMONTS save the world across the timeline all the way into the Sorrow games. Funny how Netflix can push an agenda so freely against Christianity despite History (both real and in Castlevania) telling a completley different story.

Saying user reviews are useless is like the biggest cope ever. These people wouldn't know what irony is if it hit them in the face.

@AKATenn

9 ай бұрын

User reviews are useless only when the websites hosting them pick and choose what reviews count.

@brandonscott5544

9 ай бұрын

NETFLIX PROBLEMATIC ISSUES CENTORSHIP REVIEW

@MorrisseyMuse

9 ай бұрын

User reviews generally are useless since 99% of people are bias idiots who will exaggerate scores

@JamKyt9

9 ай бұрын

^Exactly the fans support and fund a franchise because they like it and thats how the creators are able to create more content for it.

@kazekamiha

9 ай бұрын

Funny, I find Critic Reviews to be useless most of the time.

"Oppression" "Horrors of slavery" "Focus on gay characters" Ah, it's another one of _these_

@tenanaciouz

9 ай бұрын

bro literally every fucking episode of the show was bringing up slavery like holy shit we get it guys slavery bad. Legit dropped the show to episode 5 and refused to finish it. Fuck this woke ass lecture shit. Also of course the black female vampire was "a priestess of sekmet" meaning they are shilling the black egyptians thing again.

@ZGuy0fSci

9 ай бұрын

funny how the same things, never focus on those who did the Slaving and Selling of the Slaves; as showing reality would be... Problematic to their naratives about the eeeeevil white people... who were the only ones doing anything to stop the trades in the west. (if that nowdays was a mistake or not to each to judge, lol) oh well.

@Eluderatnight

9 ай бұрын

Less than 5% of pop making up 40% of cast in EVERY SHOW.

@Allustar

9 ай бұрын

Why do we constantly need the horrors of slavery shoved down our throat? Like I know slavery was bad, but shows don’t need to always be about slavery or about oppression.

@hope-cat4894

9 ай бұрын

​@@AllustarOr at least show different kinds of slavery. Slavery isn't always race-based, but that's the only kind writers seem to focus on now.

Critics: We need to hear the voices of people of color! People of color: I don’t like the film. Critics: User reviews are racist!

@Alteori

9 ай бұрын

Exactly!!!!

@LoboGuara5bruxaria

8 ай бұрын

Unlikely that would faze them. At most, critics will simply say: "Well, some POC can be stupid and racist too, so their opinion is invalid!", nevermind the fact that doing so will only alienate the people they want to "help".

The show in general is just another case of "Skin Suiting". They took an existing property and slapped their own ideology into it because they know the company wouldn't risk money on an original show with this stuff, and they know an original show with this stuff would bomb. So they needed to latch onto an established name to try and add some level of legitimacy to the message they want to push. Of course they usually mask this as a "Subversion of Expectations", but at this point the subversion IS the expectation. A show like one piece is the actual subversion these days since it follows the source material. So of course they have to attack and try to silence anyone that has a problem with what they're doing. Pretty much standard operating procedure at this point.

@cloberlobster2276

9 ай бұрын

The same could be said about the 1st castelvania. They completely chose a different direction for the story. The same old story that some people already know isn't going to be that interesting on-screen, me thinks.

@yourdad5799

9 ай бұрын

They did that to the original and it went hard regardless so. This show went hard too so what's the problem

@cloberlobster2276

9 ай бұрын

@@yourdad5799 they say because the black girl is a Mary su. Which I Kinda agree with, truly seems that way because the show was rushed to, it needed a lot more time to let all the characters develop more. I don't know why people are complaining so much, this is only the first season, there's bound to be more episodes.

@Vain737

9 ай бұрын

"A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down." That's the thinking behind pieces of woke propaganda like this. "A spoonful of recognizable intellectual-property makes the propaganda go down." They dress it up in the skinsuit of something you like in the hopes that this will make you more likely to internalize it.

@redmage777

9 ай бұрын

Funny thing is there is no garontee that it would bomb. Django seemed to do well enough... I see potential in the "Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter" franchise for just this kind of story.

Sounds to me critic's see reviewers as a threat to their authority.

@Alteori

9 ай бұрын

This exactly!!!

@apexpredator4937

9 ай бұрын

Them..." RESPECT MY AUTHORITAAAAAAAA!" 🤣🤣🤣

@IrieTheGreat

9 ай бұрын

@@apexpredator4937for the last time Cartman, nobody is going to respect your authorita!

@brandonscott5544

9 ай бұрын

WOKE CASTLEVANIA RUINED

@y_s4021

9 ай бұрын

It's really weird, because they united to attack the public, like a threat to their own existance.

If you going to have a singing character make sure the voice actor know how to sing God damn it was torture

@dohavename6775

9 ай бұрын

I wanna torture myself, where was it?

@Alteori

9 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@tigeruntamed6036

9 ай бұрын

😂 omg I thought I was the only one who thought that personally. I think they might have gotten someone else to sing when he was turned into a night creature it was better but still annoying

@TheMattsem

9 ай бұрын

@@tigeruntamed6036 yeah the night creature singing not bad but the human singing was terrible the show was obviously rushed

@daryatislenko4651

9 ай бұрын

It was so ridiculous that I burst out laughing the moment he first sang. Unfortunately, the creators of the show thought it was epic so the dude didn't shut up even behind the bars😅

If creators wanted negative viewer reviews to stop, they should try making good shows.

@phondekarvidhesh

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, they fire whoever came up with the story of Nocturne its trash.

@chichiboypumpi

9 ай бұрын

heh, BRAVO!

@Goremize

9 ай бұрын

Exactly, the problem being is they care more about forcing in a message then just making a good show.

@l0rd_breeigo-sama954

9 ай бұрын

@@phondekarvidhesh honestly, he story isnt THAT bad, it is just not representative of a pre-established IP. If they made a new story set in a world with characters from the games it would be loved by so many people. But they dont, they dont even Think to make new deep characters instead of just making new characters and acting like they in any way represent the already established characters. Like Isaac is an amazing character and one of, if not the best character from season 3-4. But no one would have a problem with him, if his name was i dont know Abraham or something. Because if you want to make an adaptation, you shouldnt not adapt the thing youre trying to adapt

@orrorsaness5942

9 ай бұрын

Facts! Watch the Pensuke FIles instead of this woke garbage, @@phondekarvidhesh

Never understood why critics believe that they're the only ones allowed to have an opinion.

@Alteori

9 ай бұрын

Thank you. The audiences are the ones spending their hard-earned money.😂

@Aivottaja

9 ай бұрын

They want to peddle as if their profession is needed.

It's truly perplexing how some critics can rate a great show or movie like 'Bullet Train' poorly, only to later insult those who dislike a genuinely terrible production. The inconsistency is both confusing and frustrating.

@beauwalker9820

9 ай бұрын

It really makes it seem like most "professional" critics are contrarians. They hated the Super Mario Movie, yet fans loved it. They hated live-action One Piece, yet fans love it. Yet... They love anything fans hate like the new Indiana Jones, or James Bond. Maybe they just hate fans...

@andreafraustoz

9 ай бұрын

PTSD from Rio 2 review bombing after getting 80s to 40s Rio 2 was made to be colorful as ghibli film, not a dreadful anime about colonialism

@Allustar

9 ай бұрын

Their egos are larger than the moon.

@MagcargoMan

9 ай бұрын

AHAHAHAHAHAHA... you're joking, right? Bullet Train was a mediocre film that used style to pretend it was more clever than it actually was, what with the villain's plan being stupid and relying on luck to actually go his way. Also funny you bring this movie up here on a video about a show where people are critical of a character being blackwashed, because a lot of Japanese characters were whitewashed in that movie (it's based on a book).

@zzodysseuszz

9 ай бұрын

⁠@@andreafraustozno instead rio 2 was a dreadful movie about anti-deforestation propaganda.

"They just took a well established character and changed EVERYTHING about it! Why don't people like it?! They're just racist!" - this "critic", apparently...

@tio_john

9 ай бұрын

Exactly and this aplies to all characters just remanber Batman from BvS some people still talk abbout the changes and how they liked or disliked it.

@christophermonteith2774

9 ай бұрын

The thing is, even that can be done well, albeit a massive risk, and the character has to be selected carefully. They just don't want to admit when they mess up

@orrorsaness5942

9 ай бұрын

Facts! @@christophermonteith2774

@saloz9483

9 ай бұрын

I couldn't take the show anymore after season 3 and my god what they did to my boy hector in that show was dirty. Thank god I didn't bother with this one.

Also note, that it's okay for mainstream media critics to mass negative review a movie because it has elements in that they disagree with politically, but dare us plebs do that then we are "review bomng"

@orrorsaness5942

9 ай бұрын

IKR!!! Show them what is up by watching my series, The Pensuke Files! mainstream media critics hate that so much, they are trying so hard to ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist!!!

I like how they make the revolution look like a modern peaceful protest. A really bloody revolution that happened during huge famin. They took a historical setting perfect for a Castlevania story with all the possibilities to show shades of gray, all sides of human nature and somehow managed to make it one of the bad parts of the show. And the show is full of things like this. Either the writers were incompetent or didn't prepare for writing this at all and didn't watch the original as a reference.

@starofgalaxies

9 ай бұрын

I always get nervous when a historical setting is put in a supernatural world. It seemed like vampires were a pretty well known entity, but it has no influence on the world in a meaningful way. It might come down to my preference for thought experiments like if vampires were a well known nuisance how would that have changed history, if they fought on a human side in a war or played both sides that would have an impact and would change things. It's pretty boring to say they just kept to themselves until this one event and then disappeared again to not have any impact on the world so it turns out exactly the same as ours. Same with magic. Annette mentioned it was part of her bloodline, so where are the other welders? Surely she wasn't the only one who got put in this situation that triggered her abilities. Or that this gift would've been taught, she recognized where the gift was from so clearly there was knowledge about it, would've been different if the god heard her prayer and gifted right then and there. And why if this gifted existed wasn't it used before to defend her people? Why now? Did someone make a deal in order to be spared? Was the last known user murdered in order to prey on the undefended people? I have a lot of questions and a lot of it is pointless because they don't feel the need to explain why despite magic and vampires slavery still happened the exact same way it did in our world why everything happened the exact same despite the impact of magic.

Yes, a Belmont character being cucked in his own show is a problem. There is a reason you play as a Belmont in the majority of the Castlevania games. It is jarring to watch the supposed main character become a side character in a series where his family name means something. It's a legacy of family members who have fought vampires. Nope. Let's turn it into the Annette story instead.

@ninboy97

9 ай бұрын

netflix saw what kevin smith did with He-man and said "this is fine"

@orrorsaness5942

9 ай бұрын

netclix saw what kevin smith did with He-man and said "fans hate this? We need to keep this going to D E S T R O Y the reactionaries" or something.@@ninboy97

@orrorsaness5942

9 ай бұрын

@@frigyou1078 facts! Reject Net Sux Embrace The Pensuke Files

@theshamanofenterprise7408

9 ай бұрын

But it's not. its still clearly about Belmont but there are more characters now. Isaac got his own complete story and it never overshadowed what Trevor was doing with Sypha and Alucard. Richter gets focus too. he had an arc of over coming his trauma and regaining his magical powers. people are just mad because Annette was more prominent and had a personality. I don't get it.

@dartzshado1779

9 ай бұрын

No, people dislike this because RICHTER fucking BELMONT (THE MAIN, AND I MEAN *MAIN* CHARACTER OF CASTLEVANIA NOCTURNE ) got less screentime as opposed to THE FUCKING *SIDE* CHARACTERS. My guy. DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT THE *MAIN* COMPONENTS OF A BASIC STORY EVEN ARE? Also, putting in more characters in a story doesn't excuse the poor and utter garbage writing of Castlevania Nocturne. Just because you introduce more characters in a story that doesn't mean that the roles of "main" and "side" character magically disappear. The fact that Annete, Maria, Edouard and Drolta got FAR MORE screentime, lore and character development (which was pretty mid at best for each of them, some got more some got less) than the main character and the main big bad Ersebet, is and should be considered a concerning thing. This is a PRETTY OBVIOUS INDICATOR THAT SOMEONE WHO WROTE THE SCRIPT FOR THE SHOW HAS: A) NO IDEA WHAT THEY ARE DOING SO THEY ARE TYPING THE SHIT THAT THEY HOPE WILL STICK B) IS MOST LIKELY EITHER BLIND AND/OR JUST A BRAINROTTED MORON Let's deservingly butcher the characters now, shall we? Maria - a girl who openly calls Richter a dick and is just waaaaay too mean to him for no apparent reason whatsoever even though he was still traumatized earlier in the show. Not to mention how big of a mouth she has, she might as well speak for Richter himself. Also, is the swearing really that necessary? Like, I didn't mind it in the original Castlevania,but here it really shouldn't have been as prominent. + She and Annette talk like modern fcking people about the current day shit you can't escape from at all these days in media and how EVERY SINGLE FUCKING THING IN EXISTENCE NOW IS ABOUT RACISM. Like, holy shit can you NOT for 5 FUCKING MINUTES MY GOD. Annette - Honestly the biggest offender in all of this right there with along with Edouard. 1st and foremost THE ENTIRE LORE OF THIS SHOW WAS MADE TO TAILOR HER AND EDOUARD'S EXISTANCE. IF YOU THINK FOR A SECOND THAT I'M BEING DELUSIONAL HERE, THEN IDK YOU MIGHT AS WELL TAKE A LOOK AT THE ACTUAL CANONICAL CASTLEVANIA LORE TO CHECK FOR YOURSELF. My second question is why have they RACE SWAPPED A ALREADY PRE-ESTABLISHED AND EXISTING CHARACTER FROM THE CASTLEVANIA GAMES? Ummmm I'm pretty sure that there was NO need for that and it's just stupid at the end of day. It was unecessary and it shouldn't have happened at all to begin with. What's more is that throughout the entire show she was WAAAAAAY MORE INSUFFERABLE THAN Maria, which isn't a compliment to Maria but whatever... . Like why are you such a rude bitch? What's the point of you talking to someone when you're just going to act like a dick towards them and be a nuisance whilst opening your mouth every chance you get to say how hard your entire life has been just because you were black? PRETTY SURE THAT THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE WHO WEREN'T NECESARILY BLACK WHOM LED A ROUGH LIFE TOO, BUT THAT DOESN'T MATTER. SHE WAS A SLAVE. SHE WAS THIS. SHE HAD TO DO THIS. SHE HAD TO UNDERGO THAT. SHE IS A CAPABLE LEADER AND YET SHE STILL GIVES RICHTER SHIT FOR BEING A "CHILD" AND IGNORANT OR SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES. BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH. OK WE GET IT BY NOW. JUST SHUT TF UP. + Castlevania (in the games) had introduced religious concepts other than Christianity in their games such as, again, Maria. Her power "dominion over animals" is, from what I can remember, connected to the Chinese "four holy beasts" - 4 divine animals of great power. My point here is that although this idea comes from a different belief system entirely not related to Christianity at all when researched in detail is that this was never expanded upon as much because it wasn't and isn't as important as the main religion which weaves it's way throughout the history, design and storytelling of Castlevania, Christianity. (Sure Islam was introduced trough Isaac in the previous show but it wasn't delved too deep into because it simply wasn't as important for the story where Christianity has a stronger hold already.) Then where do these so called other gods come from? Annette's god ? Never explained in greater detail. He just exists and that's it ? Oh really now? And the cherry on top is the fact that SLAVERY, and POC HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE STORY OF CASTLEVANIA ACTUALLY. GO FIGURE. RIGHT? Which means, that all of that raceswapping was made MOSTLY IF NOT ONLY TO SPREAD A HEAVY LEFTIST AGENDA and to earn internet brownie points from the braindead masses which can't relate to a character if said character doesn't have the same skin color as themselves. WHAT AN AGE WE LIVE IN. DAMN. (Oh and if you were thinking of bringing out the "Isaac was raceswapped too" thing, there is a KEY DISTINCTION TO BE MADE HERE. The old Isaac from the games actually sucked and the raceswapped version of him from the previous Castlevania show ACTUALLY MADE HIM INTO A REAL HUMAN BEING WITH EMOTIONS, COMPLEX THOUGHTS AND HIS OWN AGENDA. He wasn't just a lazy political bias figure, self insert, POC annoying piece of shit like Nocturne's version of Annette. HE WAS WRITTEN WELL, WHILE ANNETT WASN'T. NOW THAT SCREAMS "BAD WRITING".) Edouard - just a race-baiting OC POC with no inherit use/utility in the show. From what we've seen now he was just useless, boring and serves just to be Annete's POC sidekick. Not much to say about his lackluster character. Just bad overall. Drolta - Wierd. Her character is just all over the fucking place. She was actually the least bad of all the characters mentioned here because (in my mind at least) had she been written better altogether she could have made for a really good and complex character, but no. She is just a puppet and brainless servnt to Ersebet, 0 actual character. Her visual design is REALLY, REALLY WIERD. What's up with the weird black sclera and NEON PINK EYES AND ENDS OF HER HAIR. Like what? She doesn't even look/feel like a Castlevania character. If anything she feels more like someone's poorly made POC self insert for the show which somehow weasled its way into the final version of the script. She had potential IMO, but the writers behind the show obviously didn't. The end. (also f in the chat for this character,... if you know you know.) And lastly, Richter did indeed get a powerup nearing the end of the first season of Nocturne but the way he got to it was bad, cliche, and poorly thought out. It was crammed and left out to be squished in later into the story after they realized that the POC side characters (Annette and Eduard and maybe even Drolta to an extent) needed their lore and stance of every single thing expanded upon more than the story and natural progression and development of the main character Richter. Also, yes Annette had a personality,... and a really shitty and insuferable one at that. Good riddance. I could write this all day and I still wouldn't be able to fit everything wrong with this abomination of a show, character, lore and design but it's pointless, because I can't change the shit writing of someone else, but I sure as hell can change my own by learning from the mistakes of these modern-day, unoriginal, boring and utterly appauling fucktards that call themselves writers. @@theshamanofenterprise7408

That opera singer guy drove me nuts. I feel like we all have that one friend who is a theater kid, and will just abruptly break into song and sing at you and you have to sit through it... that was him.

@Alteori

9 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@jorgeblanco1929

9 ай бұрын

Fr I was waiting for a night crearure to kill him

@dragonmaster1360

9 ай бұрын

@plasmawolf7960 I don't know if this was supposed to be a joke, but... I legitimately have a friend like that. He just randomly breaks into song (and it's, alas, usually the same tired, cliche songs EVERY time), and expects us to listen and not interrupt...

@plasmawolf7960

9 ай бұрын

@@dragonmaster1360 I have multiple friends like that. Usually they’re show tunes.

@thethrashyone

9 ай бұрын

Theater kids are the worst. Although I could just be biased...I was a metalhead kid, myself.

I just like to point out. Castlevania is a Japanese made IP. So majority of first time fans were Japanese.

@KeybladeMasterAndy

9 ай бұрын

I don't think I've ever heard "first time" being used in place of "OG"

@beauwalker9820

9 ай бұрын

I hear Castlevania is more popular in America though. Probably why Konami kinda ignores the series. This TV series isn't Japanese even though it has an animesque style.

@tio_john

9 ай бұрын

Yea but unfortunatly the rights where given to netflix and the westernalised it

@sharavy6851

9 ай бұрын

​@@beauwalker9820Aria games were attempts at pulling in Japanese crowds with a more defined anime stylistic and they tanked.

@matrix255

9 ай бұрын

@@sharavy6851 Dawn of Sorrow and Portrait of Ruin used anime style because those games were released in the DS and Konami wanted to appeal to a younger demographic. They didn't tank, they sold very well and are also great games.

Honestly, these days words like "sexist", "racist", or "homophobic", have been used so much, and made to fit such a wide category of attitudes, you might as well just replace them with the word "smelly." Because from people like the writer of this article: "everyone who hates this series is smelly!" is a pretty good reflection of the level of their critical thinking and maturity! One of the first things I learned in my degree in philosophy, is that ad hominem arguements don't work. any argument, based just on the nature of one's opponent, the "You only think that because your a so and so", Drops any discussion below the level of intellectual discourse, and into the level of insult!

@angrybrony

9 ай бұрын

sooooo like "woke".

@orrorsaness5942

9 ай бұрын

IKR!!!

@darktenor4967

9 ай бұрын

@@angrybrony Depends upon how it is used. If it is used in the sense: "so and so is a woke writer so you know their work will be rubbish." Then yes, the term "woke", would be adhominem, since it is a judgement made of the person, not of their work or their arguments. Sometimes it is indeed used in this way. If however the term "woke", is simply used as a synonym for a longer set of criticisms of a given piece of work rather than those who create it, placing social messaging, ideology and diversity before other writing concerns, featuring a set of specific tropes to support certain demographics while deliberately belittling and villainising others, then the term "Woke", is a reasonable critique of the work, the same way that if I wrote a story in which all the villains were one demographic and all the heroes another I could be called "racist", or a story which involved specific rants about the goodness of one sex or the evilness of the other, I could be called "sexist." Racism and sexism exist, just as wokeness exists, (indeed often wokeness evinces racism and sexism), however holding these terms of critique to their proper application, and remembering to criticise the art and not the artist, or the argument and not the one who makes it is usually the way to a better discussion. If one person thinks a work is good because it's diverse, and another thinks diversity doesn't matter, that is fine, they can have a disagreement. However, if one person just says: "you only think that because you're a right wing racist!" and the other says: "well you only think that because you're a left wing liberal lunatic!" That is the point arguement has left the path of reason. then again, asking the internet to follow the path of reason is probably a fruitless enterprise! :D.

@thethrashyone

9 ай бұрын

@@angrybrony Except woke actually has meaning, unlike "HUR DUR UR BIGOT / NAWTSEE / REEECIST / MUHSOGGYKNEE". Amazing how you people have the audacity to claim that woke has been beaten into the ground when you have all been active participants in beating all the aforementioned slanders so fucking far into the ground that they've begun to resurface in China.

@DarkMark-cf1ec

2 ай бұрын

@@darktenor4967 using "woke" is all about how you handle it, like politics skyrim politics: amazing Disco elysium: amazing (allmost fucked up, but the estonians who are extremely anti-communist went against the clear propaganda the creators were setting up) baldurs gate 3: bad (really.. they had to make the druid grove a "ze border controll evil and bad and ze racismus" quest?) When it comes to racism baldurs gate is horrible at it. While my father is progressive and I am not, he was suprised that I read and watched "green book", which executed it very well. A message of someones worldview should not be a lecture but entertain thoughts

"Wokevania" is a good description 😆 Btw i was in a guild in a online game where one of the guys pretended to be a girl when interacting with enemy players, some avoided to attack him while others even gave him resources 🤣

@Eluderatnight

9 ай бұрын

Look up "Vlad Gamer Girl"

@gorasul12

9 ай бұрын

@@Eluderatnight Vlad Ncl? If so, so did i find a video where they switch while asking people to take photos of him/her 😂🤣

@Eluderatnight

9 ай бұрын

@@gorasul12 that'd be the one. Lol

@gorasul12

9 ай бұрын

@@Eluderatnight Found the gamer girl ones, i think i might get cramps from all the laughing 😂🤣🤣 ,thx for recommending me to this creator 😁👍

My most complaint is that Iam bored of seeing only evil church guys in all the Castlevania Iam not even Christian, but find it really annoying how much they kick into it Authors really be like: "This Christian nonsense have no place here" Also them: "Magic metalbending god makes X-men! Magic metalbending god best!"

@Saltedroastedcaramel

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, not a big fan of that especially near the end of season 3. Even more when founding out that the Games weren't like that.

@kyriss12

9 ай бұрын

this man. I'm not religious either, but the sheer amount of crap Christianity gets just because it the in thing all the pseudo intellectuals do annoys me and I've noticed it pops up allot in fantasy both western and manga. That's one thing I liked about the first series is they had a more nuanced take where the church was the moral and spiritual foundation for whatever community it was in. In cities full rich elitism, or backwoods fanatics the local church would be corrupt, but in places where everyone pulled together and held out hope while literal hell was breaking loose, the church were the first ones on the front line helping those who needed it.

@thatonejoey1847

9 ай бұрын

@@kyriss12 everyone crapping on Christian but you never see them try that stunt with Islam. Actually scratch that, some swedes did and now Brussels is on high alert for threats of a second attack

@aliaab123

7 ай бұрын

I actually really like Abbott as a character but I get your point.

@kaiserfranzjoseph9311

7 ай бұрын

@@Saltedroastedcaramel didnt they basicly stop with the church stuff after the bishop died?

I just find it funny that they're saying user reviews are pointless when a critic is legit the same thing a user, someone who watched it. Just a different title. Smh the way people don't use common sense before putting out their fee fees on how everyone else is wrong except them.

@stealthbrawler

9 ай бұрын

Hell I'd say reviewers are better because the vast majority of them aren't being paid to review a specific thing. By receiving money for the job among other favors given by companies to help garner positive scores from critics in order to manipulate a score (Deathloop as a prime example, since that game was given an overwhelming score yet is on the lower End for Arkanes games in reality) I'll take an honest review over a critic any day..

@tio_john

9 ай бұрын

​@@stealthbrawlerexactly and that's how KZread game reviewers became a thing. Until some of them became sellouts

Characters aren't representation and should never be such, the very idea itself is the antithesis to good writing, when someone writes an evil doctor in a story that kills their patients that doctor isn't "representation" of all doctors nor are they meant to suggest that all doctors are evil people who kill their patients, the very idea itself is baffling and bizzare!!! Creative writing isn't the congress or some kind of a representative republic, the appearance and background of any character should only be determined by what makes the plot, character progression and character interactions more interesting and engaging...period.

@melancholyman369

9 ай бұрын

Facts!

@ZGuy0fSci

9 ай бұрын

*cont. And if it is based on prior existing works, rather than being an established AU or OG work all its own, that it should respect the source material as a celibration of it rather than an attack upon it along with attacking those who raise objections. Pretty much. As thats the issue why people take issue with this kind of stuff., that people will be angry but when left to simmer down if a product is good and from a place of love/respect, it becomes in time accepted if even beloved. Attacking people for it means it forever bad.

@Spamkromite

9 ай бұрын

Woop, I second all what you said 💯Characters in a fantasy world should be the ones driving the plot towards a denouement that will put us in situations we never experienced and/or give us solutions to them (I'm not pro "gratuitous amounts of zetsubou" without a solution to those dramas). If you get in the title the promise of a fantasy that you never saw before, but you get the entire opposite of it, then it's a narrative scam and people are in their right to be disgruntled. They shouldn't remind us that RL sucks and that your problems exist in this world too after promising to deliver a fantasy but then you twisted it to accommodate your views on RL stuff that is no longer the case. That's blatant propaganda, using actors to perform a play that reflects the untruths we are tired of fact checking left and right across the media. But the problem is not only that, the problem comes when you steal the original roles of former characters in a fantasy (for example, Red Riding Hood) and change it completely to push a story to hyperbolize a problem that has been already solved centuries and centuries ago on Earth (and that ironically is now hidden behind trafficking with them in secret behind a façade of CONSENT supported by the UN, to which they could care less, but I'm digressing here). When you steal characters from a former story to push a message that only entertains the ego of the producers, that will always cause backslash because people don't want to waste their time being lectured on stuff they drone about on every single damn series they put their talons on. They stole a franchise to lecture us about something the drone on and on non-stop, and that obviously will make people old and new to the franchise very angry. If it isn't a story about slavery using original characters and using real historic drama events like Assassin's Creed for example, the point of the series is moot. They are just rubbing in your face "we have the power to use whatever you remember and loved and twist it so that you either reject it or embrace it more". And truly, it made people to appreciate the retro story more than their neo-bs. In fact, I downloaded the games to play them in their original pristine state, with flimsy Caucasian princess in distress included (which, could have done more than just being a flower-pot of a character but whatevs). Anyway, they are creatively bankrupt and we only are receiving the scraps that fall from their mouths after they chow them thoroughly. Nobody wants to lap on the fallen curd from the mouth of culturally deficient curmudgeons that makes their entire personality about fixating on the colour of their navels. Their reactions to our backslash is just stuff to be written on a psychological series about "How to Cope with Criticism when your are a Narcissistic Self-Entitled Person 101" and "How to Survive to Break the Toys of your Fellow Kids".

@Titan990

9 ай бұрын

Superman is quite literally a fucking symbol of hope and justice. How the fuck is that not representation?

@AscendantStoic

9 ай бұрын

@@Titan990 Read what I wrote again ffs, hope and justice are universal concepts, they aren't what people refer to when they say "representation", it refers to either racial groups, sex, sexual orientation or jobs ... not universal concepts.

Annette being changed raised some flags but most old fans seemed to be hopeful at first as OG Annette had quite little involvement in the story. (though it was sad, as she still had a role in story nonetheless) The issue people do have is how smug and insufferable that new character is. Basically if we were to sum it up: she has personality of Amber from Invincible but with added superpowers.

@mateusfelipecardoso40kview3

9 ай бұрын

Reverse Isaac!

@Clauses878

9 ай бұрын

This. It was just another Amber op Mary sue and basically always argued with Rictor and plans always ruined. Not gonna lie she just felt like a really big downgrade.

@mrflux9375

9 ай бұрын

This comment just explains it

@Spartiatai300

9 ай бұрын

Basically if you race swap a character don't make the race the entire identity of the character. Sad to see how the show has fallen. They had a nice setup with the French revolution as a setting but they just couldn't help themselves.

@maikilreategui1271

9 ай бұрын

🎯 Isaac was also changed. Atleast his character was likeable.

Don't like negative reviews? Here is a novel idea, don't attack the fanbase and/or don't make a bad show. How hard is it to understand?

@themurmeli88

9 ай бұрын

Yeah but it takes so much less effort and time to half-ass everything and write copy-pasta about "Reeeeeeeeisism!"

@nemesisalex9424

9 ай бұрын

To them, the show isn't bad. Because they made it and followed all the propper and "virtuous" tenents, the show should be perfection so if anyone disagrees they're wrong and evil and should be ignored. But since they can't ignore the critics because of their whack egos, they want them to be censored

@Allustar

9 ай бұрын

@@nemesisalex9424They may think what they’re making is good and that’s whatever, I don’t care. Attacking the fanbase only makes people mad and also makes you look like a pretentious, egotistical prick.

@orrorsaness5942

9 ай бұрын

this, @@nemesisalex9424 reject woke castlevania embrace the pensuke files

@angrybrony

9 ай бұрын

when did the attack the fandom?

They did my boy, Richter, dirty. If they are setting him up to be useless, I can't imagine what what they would do to him in the Symphony of the Night portion. Alucard: "You mean to tell me you aren't possessed by the dark priest Shaft to pose as lord of this castle to mask Dracula's return?!" Richter: "Nope. I'm evil because I'm white, lol."

"There is an insanely low chance a woman of color will be able to see your movie and review your movie" What? Are there only so many copies of the movie available? Are there only so many audience review slots on rotten tomatoes?

@Alteori

9 ай бұрын

Exactly. It sounded condescending as fuck

If I recall Richter is supposed to be basically the strongest Belmont physically and magical power was extremely high too which was why he could cast item crash spells. 🤔 but I played the games long ago and his character flaw shown through in symphony of the night. He was young, but very effective as a fighter. So if he's being useless that explains fan backlash because that is the opposite of Richter 😅

@FasterthanLight11

9 ай бұрын

He is not only useless, at least at the beginning, he is a coward, but at least he has character growth, everyone else is a perfect Mary Sue who look down on him. And not only that they made his grandfather a fucking coward goober too.

@reicherwallace6774

9 ай бұрын

@FasterthanLight11 Being a coward is not a bad flaw but it's misplaced for Richter since this man regularly showcased bravery befitting the Belmont bloodline. It sounds like they reallocated his stats to the side characters. 😂

@ReinhardTristanHeydrich

9 ай бұрын

The most strong Belmont in the history don't have a own game. His name is Julius Belmont. he fight Dracula 100% full power while have an Eclipse in the sky in 1999. This Dracula Defeat is definitively. In the history of games of course. there a 4 hours videos from "Master Aluacard" of all timeline of Castevania.

@reicherwallace6774

9 ай бұрын

@ReinhardTristanHeydrich I'm well aware of Julius. But for the point in the story and for a long time after Richter is canonically the strongest Belmont. At least that's what most of the games would have one believe. Julius is pretty damn badass though.

@Aivottaja

9 ай бұрын

Richter is probably the second most powerful Belmont in terms of abilities with Julius at his peak being the most powerful.

It’s weird how they change the story of the games for tv to fit a different audience, it’s basic marketing to know what your audience is and make a product they like. What is the producer thinking trying to isolate the fans of the game series by changing things so dramatically.

I am Mexican (and the biggest castlevania fan) my main issue with it is the slauther of the actual lore, all they had to do was copy it and the show would have been amazing, we already had a super strong female character (that everyone loves) as the form of maria... and they had the audacity to go "we should create our own black strong independent, men imasculating heroine in the form of a race swapped Richter's wife" While in the main story a dark priest named shaft started kidnapping young virgins to resurrect dracula, while richter being trained as a Valmont DID NOT WANT THAT RESPONSIBILITY! Until his girlfriend got kidnapped, then he goes "OH HELLL NO" and on the way he starts alone but slowly and surely start rescuing more and more people (in this case the virgins witch included maria) they could've had all these amazing characters for example a deeper view on the kidnappend women, but i guess we cant have a man saving women in modern times!!!!!

@princeeverlove

8 ай бұрын

TRUTH💪🏼 THANK YOU!

Remember in the 1st Castlevania, Isaac only has one flashback about him being a slave and its done, hes character revolves about him passing judgement to humanity while his views were being challenged in every turn until he finally found his answer. A character that is not bound be his ethnicity but his ideals. Its sad that most media push front characters that are ideals are there ethnicity and gender and waving it into our faces. They will never stop and its worrying that every quality media will all reduce this given time. I only have one move question: Where is the One piece live action reviews? 😂

As someone who values the art of written word and language in general, I can say without hesitation that the biggest issue I, and many others like me, have with modern writers and the shows/films they write for is how contrived the writing itself is in order to shoe horn in, for the sake of argument, let's say a gay character or a person of color. Their very presence is not the issue, it's whether or not they belong in that world, story, time period, whether they are depicted as real, well rounded people and not just a "token," if you will, etc. Same can be said for subject matters or allegories. Ex: Why is this film about dinosaurs and intergalactic space travel suddenly fixating on this character's combat with gender identity? There are more pressing matters at hand. But when you genuinely bring these criticisms up in a constructive manner, you're labeled a bigot or, as Brie herself so boldly put it, the show/film wasn't made for you. Okay. So then I don't watch it. Catch 22, bitch! You're still a bigot!

@beauwalker9820

9 ай бұрын

Also, when they solely use a minority character for the purpose of being preachy or political, it feels like they only define that character by what they are, then who they are, and are just exploiting them to preach their political religion, rather then make a genuine good point on an issue. It's also annoying they pretend diversity never existed in anything before 2010, which undermines all the representation and diversity old shows and movies had, undoing decades of progress we made.

@orrorsaness5942

9 ай бұрын

This, @@beauwalker9820 Watch The Pensuke Files, Rippaverse, and Manga instead of what these "modern writers" say!

great to see speaking up about how weird and fake everything is around pop culture atm, and often very out of touch with the people its meant to be representing.

@jneilson7568

9 ай бұрын

That definitely happens when they see people as types rather than individuals.

If they wanted just a badass female lead they could've just adapted Order of Ecclesia:3

@sirellyn

9 ай бұрын

They want woke washing woke colonization. They don't care about good material.

@beauwalker9820

9 ай бұрын

Or Sonia Belmont.

@fillerbunnyninjashark271

9 ай бұрын

Because these cartoons are canon

@sharavy6851

9 ай бұрын

Or they could have just dipped after the 1st series.

@matrix255

9 ай бұрын

Oh I would have love an adaptation of Order of Ecclesia. Shanoa story is very interesting imo.

I just wish adaptations of Castlevania really tried to adapt from the source material. Nocturne didn't even try.

one tidbit about that girl (Maria) you hate in castlevania, she was supposed to be this cute little sister cheery ball of sunshine that fights alongside Richter, she also grows up to be a cool sexy strong woman that would need the help of Alucard save Richter at some point in the timeline, she was supposed to be this light in the dark type of character an all around likable person. so yeah they butchered her character made her an activist and a less likable person, if they just went with the original characterization of Maria they would actually have one of the best "actually" strong female character in Castlevania.

Lol. So I have a question. Do you think that if Netflix made a TV series about Shaka Zulu, but cast him as a white dude, do you think that reviewers and critics would be cool with that? Lmao, what if Amazon made a series about the video game 'Th Suffering', but changed that main character to a blonde haired blue eyed dude? Would they be cool with that you think? What about Fallout 4 with an Angelo Saxon Preston Garvey? Fallout New Vegas with a straight Veronica and Arcade? League of Legends with a super straight Vi? Whatever man. A person could go on and on and on ad nauseum with this stuff, and it only ever goes in one direction. But when people point this out, they get called racist/sexist/homophobic. Jesus man, Anita Sarkeesian is calling and she wants her old grift back.

@superplayerex2431

8 ай бұрын

Ironically enough, there is a Fallout 4 mod out there that changes the demographics of the game to reflect 1950s America (very little to no black people and no women in roles of power) and amongst one of such changes was Preston Garvey becoming an Anglo-Saxon. People on Twitter and Reddit hated it and caused such an outrage about it, it got banned off every big mod site like NexusMods and Moddb for allegedly being "racist" and "sexist" despite the fact that the author clearly stated that the mod wasn't made to offend people and was simply meant to imagine Fallout 4 staying true to the retro-futurism of the 50s that the series had been using for so long. It's funny, because there's also plenty of mods that change the demographics of games to be entirely black and/or female and there's no outrage over any of those. It just shows you how many people are buying into ideology to the point that they see the double-standard they are presenting as completely moral and just.

Richter got his big anime power-up… then was only able to fight Drolta to a draw, got wrecked by the big bad and then it was highly implied Drolta was going to effortlessly kill him had Alucard not shown up. Not much of a power-up. :(

I liked the show but its kinda gross that they hide reviews and not let people express what they think about the show. Its not hatespeech its criticism.

Am I that out of touch? No, no. It's the children who are wrong.

If they wanted to make a show about someone other than a Belmont they could have used ANY OF THE OTHER GAMES. Soma Cruz aka the Reincarnation of Dracula. Or maybe go for something that made Castlevania CASTLEVANIA and go with Symphony of The Night because people know Alucard. Like you don't want a story about the Belmonts we got like 20 games about that.

@TrixTrix228

9 ай бұрын

the aria games will be heavily criticized by them because mina is a central plot that is damsel in distress, at least in the first game and we all know how they feel about women needing men. problem with them going straight to symphony of the night is it's heavily tied to rondo of blood since it's a direct sequel to richter's story

@ericaquintana1206

9 ай бұрын

@@TrixTrix228 I remember wanting an adaptation of Aria/Dawn of Sorrow. Seriously hoping they forget about it now, lest they give Mina the Modern Woman treatment.

@despair_ts1823

9 ай бұрын

Omg they coulda used Order of Occlesia with Shanoa if they didn't want the damsel in distress stuff!!! 😢 She's one of my favorite characters in the entire series!!!

Regarding black guys in horror movies I saw The House on Haunted Hill in a theater in Brooklyn. At the end a guy stood up and said "Damn, brother lived AND he got the white girl?!" The crowd erupted in laughter

@Alteori

9 ай бұрын

💀💀💀💀💀

This is just stupid, either way people will be swayed. Censoring doesn’t help. It’s like with the aot fandom and the one piece fandom. Deliberately bringing down the overall score on individual episodes just so that they aren’t reviewed high. Nothing we can do to stop it you just gotta accept that it’ll happen. Censorship is not a solution

I just checked Rotten Tomatoes. 100/45, a god damn 55% difference. When critics rate something with 100% it's the masterpiece of the year, which means the audience will rate it between 95-100. Either that, or the score is corrupted.

@seekertosecrets7618

9 ай бұрын

Some of the reviews might be bought like it was in the past couple of months.

@thethrashyone

9 ай бұрын

A perfect critic score is ALWAYS a red flag. I'm not much of a government regulation kind of guy, but if there were a way to make it illegal for studios and critics to knock boots behind the scenes, I'd be all for it.

@Mediados

9 ай бұрын

@@thethrashyone Why not, government regulation is the only way to make sure capitalism doesn't get out of hand like woth the big gaming companies.

@kevinbell5674

8 ай бұрын

​@@Mediados Maybe it's because some people don't actually like authoritarianism.

@Mediados

8 ай бұрын

@@kevinbell5674 It's called a political scale, not a political wall. There is more to it than 2 sides.

Same reason i dont get why people just accept race swapping as if that isnt racist. Literally black facing a character (or whichever other race they swap to) but somehow thats not considered racist? Like what the holy hell, it makes zero sense how thats ok but its not ok irl, clearly if its racist irl, it should be considered racist in every other medium.

@thedothackerkeyblademaster

9 ай бұрын

Race-swapping's not the same thing as black face. Black face is specifically a white person making themselves look black. Race-swapping is changing a character's established genetic race (something that's not possible in reality). Both can be racist, but for different reasons.

@bronze5548

9 ай бұрын

@@thedothackerkeyblademaster True, I was just giving a example of what could be seen as race swapping or an equivalent of and how it's all racist.

@Saltedroastedcaramel

9 ай бұрын

​@@thedothackerkeyblademaster At this point race swapping is the new blackface.

@ReinhardTristanHeydrich

9 ай бұрын

I hate the google translator and my own english skills. I can't understand this: "Literally black facing a character (or whichever other race they swap to) but somehow thats not considered racist?"

One of my friends is producing an unscripted show about black women and the first guest was an attorney who bemoaned that only 1 out of 10 lawyers was black. I immediately asked my friend if she had done any research and after 2 minutes of internet investigation, found that only about 10% of the students in law school are black - soooooooo, the percentage of black attorneys directly reflects the numbers actually going to law school. The issue isn't lack of opportunity or representation - it's what minorities tend to make their career goals - in the black community, it's heavily weighted on trying to be a rapper or pro athlete (I know this from my time helping out in the inner city with my black doctor friend's organization who is trying to give black youths different aspirations - professional aspirations).

@Elemental278

9 ай бұрын

Maybe generations of indoctrination into thinking the only road to success is to become an entertainer got something to do with it. Luckily people are getting taught now..they have a brain to use, good as much as the rest when put to good use

@Alteori

9 ай бұрын

Totally agreed. Most of what people decide to do in life has to do with what they're influenced by in their community. For example, a lot of Caribbean children are encouraged to be doctors, lawyers, accountants, nurses, firemen etc. There's also a sect of the Jamaican community that aspires to be track stars because, I know it sounds silly but, most Jamaicans are born with that natural ability to become sprinters. It's the same with Chinese and Africans and science or business management. In the US you also see a lot of old school. Chinese people run the restaurants that their families did or help them do it. There's a strong sense of community and family and duty to your parents in the culture. It also depends on your stand in society. But now with social media and the internet, Brie Larson's comments came off as very ignorant and backhanded to imply that black Americans would not get the opportunity to see these movies as if they are SUPPOSED to be interested in it because it's a love letter to them. She thinks they wouldn't get an opportunity to see it because she thinks they're too poor or stupid. That's how she came off sounding. It sounds as though she has an image of minorities in her mind and it's not a very good one. So yes she does come off his very white savior and that's what turns people off. Also, as you said with the Democratic and reflection of such, We have to consider the distribution of people based on region and state. A lot of people don't take this into account. Apparently she doesn't either and that's why some actors need to take a humble pill, because it shows how closed off they are from the rest of the regular world.

@FF-tp7qs

9 ай бұрын

Your friend should be commended

@wumpusrat

9 ай бұрын

Not to mention that only about 13% of the population in the US is black. So 10% of a given profession being black seems about right, statistically. It seems like a lot of people, especially the ones whining about "how few black people are in X profession" have gotten the impression that the US is like 30-40% black or something.

@marshalsunrise6582

9 ай бұрын

​@@wumpusratits kinda impressive though, if you're 13% of the population and are 10% of any given profession it means your doing something right

So they basically say that they do not want to listen to the opinions if their CUSTOMERS. Thus sure is a good business model.

For anyone in the comments still unfamiliar with the three games mainly referenced by Nocturne, spoilers ahead for Bloodlines, Rondo of Blood, and Symphony of the Night as to why Nocturne season 1 was ultimately a bad adaptation. Also, spoilers for Nocturne season 1. 1. In order of game release date, it was Rondo, Bloodlines, then Symphony. Timeline-wise, the events of Rondo were around 1792, 1793-ish, Symphony about five years after, and Bloodlines supposedly 1917. The first intentional mistake Nocturne makes is positioning the witch Drolta and the rise of the resurrected Bathory (mistranslated as Bartley in Bloodlines) during Richter's era instead of 1917, thereby forcing the Nocturne series to tell not only the combined Rondo/Symphony story as originally expected, but also share screentime with a ham-fisted time-displaced Bloodlines storyline. 2. Moving Bathory and Drolta out of time takes away the ability to tell the story of John Morris and Eric Lecarde in the future, and tangentially takes away the ability to use an adaptation of Bram Stoker's story in that telling as backstory for Morris. 3. Rondo has historically been touted as the best "Classic-vania," purely action-adventure platforming game without the Metroid-style "search action" key-lock mechanisms later games in the series like Symphony popularized. It had a fairly simple plot, however generic it was, told partly through anime-style cutscenes - Dracula's minions kidnapped certain village maidens for sacrifice to finish his resurrection and Richter is tasked to rescue them and stop him. Two of the maidens, Tera and Iris, have _zero_ powers and _do absolutely nothing_ in the fight. One of the maidens is Maria, who was captured _because_ she has powers and becomes a playable character after you rescue her, though you have to start a brand new game afterwards to explicitly choose her path. The fourth maiden is Annette, who has _zero_ powers and was only captured _because_ she is Richter's fiancée and explicitly used to bait Richter. With that being said, the choice to make Tera be Maria's mother wasn't necessarily a bad one. The choice to make Tera a Speaker in the show also wasn't even that far out of left field. It gave her a bit of presence, but ultimately detracted from Richter and Maria being awesome. The way more egregious mistake Nocturne makes is giving _Annette_ powers and agency and making her anything other than "Richter's fiancée captured by the enemy to be used as bait." It doesn't matter how that sounds. _The whole point of Annette in the game is to literally bait Richter and nothing else._ No random Edouard character that never existed, no Caribbean slave ancestry that never existed, no miraculously hassle-free trans-Atlantic trip to find the Belmonts, just a purely passive damsel-in-distress character explicitly there _because_ she's _Richter's fiancée_ and not some virtue signal. 4. Ignoring for a second that not every Castlevania game features named Belmonts or that the official Belmont lineage (especially those parents and/or children of named Belmonts who _have_ appeared in games) hasn't been canonically declared, who the heck is Julia Belmont and why should we care about her? The show didn't do nearly a good enough job to make us care about her before ending her, and as a result I care exponentially more about _Sonia Belmont_ from that one canceled CV game than I do about Julia. 5. Olrox. A semi-optional boss in Symphony (highly skilled players are able to maneuver and obtain certain required items without the Echo of Bat relic he guards), he was advertised as the big bad of at least the Rondo half of the show since there's been no mention of dark priest Shaft in any of the promos. Because of them choosing to time-displace Bathory and Drolta, Olrox has been relegated to "elite mook" status instead. A better story would've been Olrox being a remnant European aristocrat vampire/vampire-monster hybrid (a nosferatu, perhaps ;) ) being the one who gives priest Shaft the idea to resurrect Dracula to kick off the events of Rondo. 6. The poorly written abbot. He's basically dark priest Shaft but they go so far out of their way to not call out his surname as Shaft or Shaupft or any such variant that they took a boat to America. Because he's basically Shaft, they already screwed him up - Shaft was explicitly about resurrecting Dracula while this abbot thinks he's doing holy work. Adding in him being Maria's father is also goofy nonsense that didn't need to be there if he was going to be Shaft. 7. The ruined setup for Symphony. Most of why (in-game) Symphony happened was _because_ after Rondo Richter "went missing" for five years and Alucard felt dark magic was in play. Not only was Alucard introduced five years too early in the show, thereby meeting a _lucid_ Richter and _young_ Maria, but because of all the extra nonsense the show added and changed the Symphony first-half storyline of Richter being controlled by dark powers can't be used properly and effectively anymore when it's time to switch the show's focus to Symphony proper for various reasons. In my opinion, the biggest mistakes the Nocturne series made in season 1 were screwing around with the Castlevania timeline to bring Bathory and Drolta a hundred plus years earlier into the Rondo era and all the changes they did to accommodate that, giving Annette powers and agency and all the changes they did to accommodate that, and ruining not just the Rondo storyline but potentially the Symphony storyline as well by changing key people and motivations to accommodate the excessive nonsense such as that previously mentioned. It's clear the writers have no respect for the source material.

@Lastjustice

8 ай бұрын

Great breakdown as I have similar thoughts on how they screwed this up too. While I get giving Annette more story was a good idea for a change, completely inventing a new character that needs a crap ton of story time to set up was NOT. I like the character they made(I'd been down with a Castlevania game set in the Carribean where you play as character who uses same powers and backstory), she just isn't Annette at all as I feel she doesn't fit into the story of this game. She doesn't serve the purpose of the chaarcter to the story. She's another action girl who eats up a bunch of screen time to justify why she is there. Black writers wanted to make a black character who they could put their point of view on things, which is fine but make your own story instead of clogging up an existing one. There's other issues with this as you aren't just race swapping Annette..you would be race swapping the entire Belmont family going forward. This is presents a problem, especially when you consider the lore of the games. The whip the Belmonts wield, it requires you to have a strong connection to the Belmont bloodline to use it. It will kill you if you aren't a true heir to it, as this happens to the character Jon Morris. The Belmont bloodline has been a major part of the story, as Maria gets her divine power from it as she is a distant cousin to Richter. The Belmont family always been of Europeon descent, so this doesn't gel with the lore to race swap Annette and make her the mother of Richter's kids. This compounds further as Richter is the last Belmont for a very long time that does anything noteworthy as nonBelmont vampire hunters picked up the slack for a awhile.(The reason for the developers to sideline them was so they could experiment with new gameplay styles instead of being stock to same whip/item system the Belmonts use.) So now if you make Annette the mother of these kids, then you have the in universe answer of biracial kids were not good enough to do the job. The failure happens on their watch. It's a terrible look from that standpoint. Finally Annette and her power set are a unique thing they went through all the trouble setting up. If they have her marry Richter, her legacy just gets folded into the Belmonts going forward. I;d rather she just stay her own thing instead of being absorbed by the Belmonts. If they continue the series to the battle of 1999 with Julius Belmont, one of her heirs could be there fighting along the rest of the cast and that would be cool. So if were up to me they would take the final girl, Iris that they didn't introduce, and let her be the mother of Richters kids since Annette has nothing in the common with the original character anyways. She doesn't serve the same purpose in the story even.(Iris, Maria, Tera and Annette) Have Iris be the one Richter ends up with, and let Annette who's a new thing live on as her own entity. This probably won't happen because who cares if you bulldoze a white character and their mythos while everyone else is a sacred cow in the race swapping game. This getting tiresome as if you're going make a brand new thing...make a brand new thing.(If this wasn't CV I would completely fine with this as a random vampire hunter cartoon.) if you're going make a story after a game, then stick to it.

For me, its the animation. It has a half done look to it like it was traced over and they skipped frames.

@CollectedG

9 ай бұрын

That final fight between Richter and Erzabet was like watching a flipnote.

@RocRolDis

9 ай бұрын

@@CollectedG It reminds me ofnwhat that AI anime looked like

@Alteori

9 ай бұрын

The animation does have that quality about it. It bothered me at first but then I got over it but it is very noticeable. I don't remember feeling like that in the first Castlevania, but for some reason it stood out to me here

@RocRolDis

9 ай бұрын

@@Alteori Maybe there was a rush for some reason. It looks like they changed some animation studios. Powerhouse is still in production, but the actual animators were MUA/Tiger for CV and DR Movie for Nocturne

I've long decided that professional critics' reviews are useless to me, because what they value in entertainment isn't what I value. Somehow it's never occured to me that they shouldn't be allowed to give their own opinion.

@Cau_No

9 ай бұрын

I had that experience with a friend when we watched a movie together in my home cinema, it was 20 years ago. He had read bad critiques of it before, but he also knew at that time I had a very selective DVD collection and trusted that when I liked it, he probaby would find something in it too. After watching, he told me "I'll never trust critics again!" The movie was Fight Club. (1999)

In my ever oh so humble opinion if the show focused more on Richter than Annette I don't think people would be complaining as much.

@despair_ts1823

9 ай бұрын

Probably

I'm sorry but if the worst parts of the writing just so happen to be the woke parts and the most poorly written characters are often the colored ones, DOESN'T THAT TELL YOU THAT YOU'RE NOT WRITING THOSE THINGS WELL?!

Damn, that was really good coverage of this. I started only interested in seeing why the new castlevania was getting tanked, but I ended up staying for the whole video.

"I want to be griefed~!" And that's the early 00s gaming spirit I can respect :)

People that get mad when you say colored person instead of PoC are hilarious because they mean the same thing lol

@Alteori

9 ай бұрын

EXACTLY!!!!!!!! I never understood that. I cringe every time someone says person of color because it just seems like a veiled way of saying colored person.

@ReinhardTristanHeydrich

9 ай бұрын

In Brasil. "Esclarecimento" is a way to say you actived the light. Making the things more easy to see. Like giving a better explian. but people think it has something to do with skin color. And that people starting using "Escurecimento"

Wow, people are so FRAGILE with criticism. I hate to see what the writers' room was like. Here's what really pisses me off about the Wrinkle in Time issue. THE MOVIE WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE MADE FOR DIVERSITY's SAKE. Good lord. Do people even KNOW what the author Madeleine L'Engle is about. She's like a modern day C.S. Lewis INSPIRED by George McDonald, a CALVINIST REVEREND that is responsible for Modern Fantasy as we know it. Not only did Ava SPIT on Madeleine L'Engle's work, but also George McDonald's OVERALL importance to the genre.

One of the things that ring a warning bell to me is the french revolution. It's being portrayed as a overall good force, like how most schools teach it, and the nature of it being needed to wipe out the old ways of the church nobility and vampires. So if you know a bit about history, and you see the streets running with blood as the revolutionaries spiral and eat each other alive, kill their king and turn on the French countryside itself for not being too revolutionary. The Guillotining of priests, men, women, ministers or workers. Then the collapse of the bread market, society, the pillage and looting of churches and what seemed to be the level best attempt to destroy French society in the name of reason. When the abbot starts dressing down maria about the revolution he was right, so he had to be a demon summoner and in league with the vampires to discredit his opinions. Maybe next season as the revolution progresses have Maria confronted with the Jacobins, their executions of their own their purges, have her try to rally the people, and be called a counter revolutionary, she can still be a republican, just have her tempered or opposed. What would have been interesting to see, would have been the church being a force of net good or allies. The revolutionaries are to focused on reason and scientific enlightenment, and the destruction of the establishment and constant violent deaths let the vampires run wild through the streets and countryside. A revolutionary with a musket ins't doing much against a vampire (look what happened to Jacques) But the church? The Hospitallers or Inquisition or other backed hunting organisation? They've been doing this for centuries, they know what to do they know how the game is played, they know what the Belmonts are and they help. Holy water, crosses and silver. They might not beat the big bosses but they do better than the revolutionaries.

Corpo White Knight: But original source material Castlevania is a very high bar as a standard for an adaptation! Original Castlevania: BRUH... * *in Famicom bits and pixel graphics with barely any convoluted story to tell* *

I'm a black guy. I watched the first episode and it did not hook me at all. Haven't continued the series, and I don't plan on it

@neoanimegirl

9 ай бұрын

Im native and I don't wanna even bother trying to watch it. I heard about the major changes and I was like nope. So Im just watching the shit storm 😂

@Alteori

9 ай бұрын

That's fair and I'm not going to be one of those people that try to make you feel bad for not sitting through it. I completely understand and if you don't hook people at the very beginning, you can't expect them to sit through the end. I watched it out of principal because I watched the first one and because I like the Richter character. But the show got better for me near the middle. If I had anything else more pressing to watch, I would have fallen off of it.

The biggest sin of Nocturne is its boring. Eight episodes in and virtually nothing of substance was accomplished. As far as Anette goes I'm just going to say this. Race swapping isn't the issue. Who complained about Isaac being black or his entire story changed? If anything frankly I think he saved an otherwise weak season 3. Anette is just poorly written and insufferable.

@purpleprinc3

9 ай бұрын

Loved Isacc!

@melancholyman369

9 ай бұрын

Issac was aight, he's not great but he looks great because season 3&4 was shitty

@AscendantStoic

9 ай бұрын

The issue is that they hide the poor writing and terrible personality of the race swapped character behind their race so you can't ever criticize the character without getting slapped with all kinds of -ist and -phobe accusations. So when people see race swapped characters now their bullshit-o-meter goes red because they know it's probably being done to cover garbage writing and/or virtue signal, not for any creative reasons.

@szklanylabirynt151

9 ай бұрын

@@melancholyman369 The most boring man in Dracula's court.

@szklanylabirynt151

9 ай бұрын

@@melancholyman369 Sarcasm ofc 😛

Fascinating essay, Alt. I just may read the original article, myself, to get that full context of what you went for here.

I like how these bigots don't even think about their customers. They are so entitled that they have forgotten where the money comes from. I would he so easy to make a good product with a franchise that is dated from 1986. Tons of games, on various different platforms and diverse lore spanning over generations of characters with different traits from different time periods. And what they do? The easy race swap, gender swap play the victim card. A truly sad resolve. This particular series that have chosen to adapt was a unique game for the PC turbo engine and the first fully anime style Castlevania game. So much to use, so many characters...

This show would've been much better if they actually stuck closer to the games. Richter wpuld have to fight Dracula with the unique issue of having to live up to centuries of familial reputation and essentially the entire world counting on him. He rescues Maria early on, who develop a sibling relationship of him needing to protect her at all costs, which annoys her and pushes her to master her own magic powers and the two eventually become an unstoppable team. Dracula could subvert his previous roles and be a mentor figure to Richter, being interested in the techniques he developed while also indirectly showing him old techniques lost to time while they fight. If they absolutely had to do the french revolution angle, have dracula manipulate key figures so he could perform his plan undetected and steal all the maidens in the chaos. They could even have a post credits scene of Richter going insane and Alucard suddenly waking up to set up a symphony of the night season.

@Raximus3000

9 ай бұрын

They screwed the games and setting from the get go. At this point studios ought to put in a clause to follow the source material rather than disregard it.

I love Castlevania Source material and I could care less about people of color in this show and representation every time they try to represent us I never like it it's kind of funny no matter how much representation they give I never like those characters I have always identified more with the white characters than the colored one and that is not because of color because all the characters they give us are about racism and oppression and I'm sick and tired of it give me a good character is it too much to ask please 🙏🙏🙏

@Riseofziggy

9 ай бұрын

How do you feel about Blade ? I’ve only seen him in the Wesley Snipes films but gotta say he’s awesome and kind kinda reminds me of Alucard( the Hellsing one not Castlevania)

@briekmohammed5318

9 ай бұрын

@@RiseofziggyI like the Blade movies and Hellsing anime I used to love blade in his previous iteration but I don't like this new version in the comic There is almost no bloodshed and he never kills humans that are his enemies he's one of the few diverse characters I like the rest are terribly written and are complete trash I hate it when they bring in real world problems because it ruins my escapism in stories I could care less about racism in stories now that we are on the subject do you get any good suggestions on something to watch ???

@Riseofziggy

9 ай бұрын

@@briekmohammed5318 Well let me see. In terms of vampirism I generally go to anime so I would recommend case study of Vanitas if you’re looking for more of a mystery without blood and I would recommend kekkai sensen or blood blockade battlefront, it’s more goofy and doesn’t have an overarching storyline really but the fights are really cool and has an interesting world) if you haven’t seen JoJo’s bizarre adventure I highly recommend that first two parts are about vampires ( fights are a bit over the top and I think part two is where things really get good so takes some patience), vampire hunter D two anime movies. For non vampire anime stuff that’s more just action with blood and demons Id say try demon slayer, chainsaw man, drifters is really good and done by the same guy as hellsing, devilman crybaby( dark as hell even more than berserk) . For live stuff I’d also recommend Constantine which is based off the hellblazer comics, hellboy movies ( live and animated great comics as well) , Van Hellsing the movie with Hugh Jackman, and the Sandman series on Netflix. Also this is kinda different but if you want something more humorous but still with a kinda dark I’d recommend “good omens”on Amazon prime it was based off a book by Neil Gaiman( the guy who wrote Sandman) and Terry Pritchett. It pretty much follows the book takes place in modern time where the anti christ is born and the apocalypse is nigh one demon agent and one angel who have found they prefer the human world they’ve lived in so long try to prevent the apocalypse. It’s funny, somewhat dark, and has a great story with strong actors including David Tennat and Michael Sheen it’s just something I’d recommend to anyone. That’s all I can think of off the top of my head hope I helped.

yeah Castlevania Nocturna was hard to watch because of the Black Slave girl, I forgot her name. It got better at episode 8, when Richter Belmont came back. Here are my reasons for not liking her. ARROGANCE AND LACK OF GRATITUTE, she claims Richter is a coward for running away from his mother's killer, as if SHE would do any better against the vamp slave owner if SHE lost her powers like he did. She is only excellent because of a power that isn't even hers and she also has never stop to be reflective and be thankful. COMPARING HER STRUGGLES, she was constantly invalidating peoples experiences with the "MY PAIN IS BETTER THAN YOURS" typa shit. Her lack oof emotional intelligance, lack of empathy and just general shit attitude. MARRY SUE, She doesnt fail or learn anything and the only loses she suffers are because someone else was wrong.

Here's the truth of why user reviews are useless: We live in an era of corporate socialism. What is corporate socialism? Well the way things work today, they get your money to fund themselves even if you don't consume or pay directly for their product. How? From every single other product you buy. Every product you buy in the store advertises, and part of the cost of that product is from advertising, and companies pay for advertising. That means even if you've never seen an ad, even if you've never seen these shows, every product you buy is actually funding these shows. They've set the whole system so that your money automatically gets funneled to them one way or another. So even just buying a loaf of bread can mean you're indirectly funding shows like this. I know that might sound a bit hyperbolic, but it's true in every sense, because mundane everyday products you buy every day ultimately end up funding these things. Every person in America unwittingly pays for it in the checkout line at the grocery store and everywhere else. People can no longer actually vote with their dollar, because corporate media gets the dollar no matter what.

im black and it sucks! and I love Castlevania

Castlevania Nocturne doesn't deserve a lot of hate, but reviews are still important.

I appreciate your thoughtful analysis on this matter, Alteori. Wish there were more pop culture KZreadrs like you. 🙂

I wanted the show to be good man. I didn't play rondo of blood, but just looking over the wiki Annette's role in the story was much different. They completely changed her, just like they used a non-cannon ending for Juste Belmont. Juste succeeds in saving his friends and defeating Dracula, and Annette is a damsel in destress. If they wanted to change the damsel thing, that's fine they did that with the first series to Sypha. Though Sypha had chemistry with Trevor and Alucard, she was very likable while also being a badass. This version of Annette has literal god powers and is catered to by everyone in the show. They all love her even though she's very rude to all other the others. She's been turned into a Mary Stu. What makes the Belmonts and Belnades so cool is that they are regular people punching up. They fight Vampires and Demons using their intelligence, magic heirlooms passed down for generations, and spells you have to learn. I think the reason the first series worked because it knew what we wanted a story about these misfits taking on Dracula an evil Vampire Lord. Don't tell me that the show would be stale of it just did the same story again because the games have been telling the same story again and again for 37 years and every game is well received. Besides all you have to do is make it entertaining with well written character drama.

I've never cared all that much for review sites for the most part, because I usually like to watch/read/etc. something *for myself* to make up *my own opinion* first. Unless I'm concerned about whether or not I could be wasting time/money on a movie, etc., then I *do* like to check out the general consensus among other users to gauge the risk/reward of buying into something. It can be 50/50 if I'll let a movie's reviews prevent me from watching it anyway, for example, but I like having the option to hear what people thought of it *even if I may not agree*. Because surprise surprise: *they may have very valid points/reasoning for disliking whatever it is they disliked*, and that can help me make an informed decision on the property they reviewed. I *can* appreciate that aspect of user reviews, since I'm, you know, a (mostly) well-adjusted human being that has partaken of that ever-more elusive fruit known as Common Sense.

using the term "coded" means that you don't have an actual argument but you still want to argue your feelings as if they're proof enough.

Dude...the singing monster- ahahaha🤣 And everyone cries constantly. Just, how are we supposed to take any of it seriously?

The moment we start censoring people for just posting their reviews, it’s a domino effect that will revoke our freedom of speech eventually. It’s a dangerous slope, and I’m very much with you, just because someone reviews something differently from oneself doesn’t mean that it’s a review bomb. Plus, I always find it ironic that when it’s negative, it’s a review bomb and never the other way around, or when it doesn’t have the representation that people want, it’s review bombing when the reviews are positive because it has what people miss having in their movies or shows. All I want is a stimulating story and interesting characters, which don’t have to strictly be dynamic. I don’t think that I’m asking for too much.

It's interesting seeing how Americans get so upptiy about someone being called a coloured person, I understand it can be seen as an insult. Though here is South Africa coloured is a genuine demographic of our people (mixed race mostly black and white), the coloureds have their own culture and are quite proud of being themselves. So i always find how americans view the word to be kinda a whiplash in a different direction.

At least they can’t touch Berserk like they wanted to. Whew.

@eliaspanayi3465

9 ай бұрын

Berserk won't get any adaptations that they CAN change

Mentioning Rotten Tomatoes doesn't make their point any better cuz Rotten Tomotoes are known for accepting payment for good reviews of the show. These critics trying so hard to remove User's Review cuz they wanna monopolize the review, only their side will be heard and no one else. Imagine that. It will be terrible for sure. For sure Forbes and said Critics lose money for caring that much about these trash shows. They sucessfully removed the visibility of Dislikes in KZread tho cuz a lot of cry babies in KZread.

Love Castlevania, the first show. The 2nd one the fights are banger still, but all of the singing and crying sorta sucks. As an older person that is hard of hearing I cannot even understand what soprano boy is even signing without subtitles. Also there was a lot of nonsensical crap, like a trap door in the middle of a street... so nothing heavy ever goes over that, it looked wide enough for a cart. Random people who have no intention of running into each other constantly meeting at the same time as a plot driver. There were other similar plot devices that suck included. So for the fights and some of the dialog its good. I really liked the water effects.

@fillerbunnyninjashark271

9 ай бұрын

You mean the fights they always cut away from after a couple swings to listen to people talk about it instead? Loll

I think this happened on KZread a few years ago. The Dislike count got removed because the official trailer for the show Santa Inc got so heavily downvoted vs upvoted that the creator threw a baby hissy fit on Twitter. Steve Reviews did a short video on it I think, or else it was in one of his episode/show views.

@YarugumaSou

9 ай бұрын

Santa Inc wasn't the reason. Sleepy Joe is.

@chucklebouf5379

9 ай бұрын

It was to stop people from dunking on Biden's White House videos.

@housewilma4904

9 ай бұрын

but it was not only ok but heavily promoted by youtube to do the same thing to the previous president.@@chucklebouf5379

@peterrealar2.067

9 ай бұрын

@@chucklebouf5379 WHICH ARE TOTALLY DESERVED. The list of reasons to HATE this Administration is becoming SO LARGE that it would become a non-fiction novel.

i was expecting richter to talk about more about how his mother died and how he's looking for vengeance and training. i was hesitant hearing of all the race swapping but i chose to give it a chance cuz people said it was good and... well besides the initial fight with orlock and richter's mom.. it was rather disappointing. pacing is too fast, acting is bland (marie talking about revolution being an example. it sounds bland and flat kinda like megan fox as nitara in mortal kombat) and characters have no room to breathe and develop. we just see richter with a bunch of random characters without developing why they have powers and why he's with them or himself... where was his training and build up? and then we suddenly add two more who had to save richter in the second episode? just too fast.

With all stuff in the news I needed an Alteori break. I am a mix of white, brown, and black (going in the order of how people usually see me). By the time I got to 7:18 mark of the video I felt the need to tell Ms. Larson to "Shut the F*** Up!". You now that scene in a show or movie where character splits or duplicates themselves (delusion or power it does not matter). I was imagining my main three ethnicities wanting to spit apart into three separate people just so we yell even louder at her. Sometimes I will do something that makes me think I have set the bar for stupid way too high, making it too difficult for others to have a crack at it. Then I see someone vault over that bar without any effort at all. Thank You Alteori for showing me that someone today.

This "issue" tends to be overcomplicated. You said it best when you suggested that the writer was being disingenuous. Character is not defined by how someone identifies, or by how they are represented in media. Race, gender, sexuality, etc. These are not "character" traits. If someone is defined by one of their inherent properties, that tends to make that person less compelling to anyone who doesn't "identify" with those properties. Good character, in media or in real life is determined by actions, not arbitrary personal attributes. To suggest otherwise displays a lack of critical thinking and objective thought. Being of mixed race does not make me, as a person, more compelling. However, if I always attempt to treat the people I encounter with dignity and respect, then THAT is a representation of my character. Imagine a world where people focused on what people do, and how they treat others, as opposed to their outward appearance or their personal preferences...

The climate of movies and series are a lot in line with video games, if you replace monetization with politics. I agree and fully support diversity and representation, but most of the bigger studios only really hire writers, directors and actors (more so the fist two) that care more for diversity and representation than making something good. They seem to believe that people will support them just because they are making morally right choices, however, hiring solely based on these choices instead of talent lead to poor writing, a lack of strong direction and faltering acting that then leads those moral choices to become associated with bad quality. Combine that with those that strongly believe in those moral choices just calling people that do not like a poorly written, poorly directed, movie bigoted for not liking something not designed to be enjoyed but to preach at them. No one likes to be preached at unless they are in the congregation.

@Lastjustice

8 ай бұрын

These people act like there's only two choices, make a mediocre product with a diverse cast or an excellent product with a ton of white people and Sam Jackson. Like there's no inbetween. As if there's no way make a good produce unless you preach to people your politics. Sorry tell the story you were paid to tell, not the one you want to tell at it's expense. Make something else if that's your goal.

Yeah i was told I'm an angry yt dude that hates success of blacks for having the same opinion because of my name which is Anthony and I'm black so yeah thats how people counter race swapping lol

Haven’t seen Nocturne yet, but that’s telling. If the show was good, they wouldn’t have to censor people

Too much time spent subverting expectations, too little time spent exceeding them

Save your time and watch Hellsing Ultimate for your vampiric bloodlust

I’m just tired of seeing a trailer for characters I want to see…. Only to have other characters introduced and taking time away from the main character. Even if these characters were in the franchise. Let Richter have his show then do another show with those characters. To be honest it’s not bad … I enjoyed it. Olrox was never really a character just a boss so his story is fine to me. It’s just weird that people seem to want to insert their characters or agenda into already established stories instead of just creating your own. It’s very fanfic.

@fillerbunnyninjashark271

9 ай бұрын

Because these people cannot write

@neoanimegirl

9 ай бұрын

​@@fillerbunnyninjashark271exactly

I'm going to give this "critic" in the article a word of wisdom that my mom gave me. "Opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one". Sorry you had to see their stupidity, Alteori.

Representation for the sake of representation destroys creativity and media

"You didn't answer my phone call." "Sorry I was sleeping and wasn't woke." "YOU'RE NOT WOKE?! RACIST!!"

@Alteori

9 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

This is exactly what happened with Bridget. You cannot criticize her charatcer at all without being labeled transphobic, unless you are trans yourself. Also, Jacksepticeye did this with The Last of Us 2 game. A lot of people didn't like it, and he just painted all of the critics as misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic bigots. This is just a shield for them.

@Denise_1374

9 ай бұрын

Oh yikes, he really did that?😐

@addison_v_ertisement1678

9 ай бұрын

@@Denise_1374 Yeah. He made a short out of it. Also, funny thing, CoryxKenshin, Jacksepticeyes best friend, hated that game. So, Sean is calling his own friend a bigot.

@fillerbunnyninjashark271

9 ай бұрын

Bridget is a dude who was gaslit by his mom to think he was a girl... so he left to prove himself to his family...

@Saltedroastedcaramel

9 ай бұрын

Making Bridget trans is very transphobic in itself both allegorically and literally.

The editing in this is Absolutely hilarious.

The hold Annette thing is crazy to me because she's barely a character in the game to begin with. The only thing we know about her is she's Richter's girlfriend and she gets kidnapped. Not to mention her design is different between the two different versions of the games

@MG-do5vb

9 ай бұрын

thats what i am saying, Annette could have been anyone any race or whatv. Someones values and personalities arent fixed on the color of their skin.

@Lastjustice

8 ай бұрын

@@MG-do5vb If it's so unimportant then WHY CHANGE IT? This isn't just race swapping Annette..it's race swapping EVERY SINGLE BELMONT THAT FOLLOWS if she is Richter's love interest. The Belmonts have always been white. It's been a strictly Europeon affair, so no this is an issue. The lore which was created by Japanese people was set this way. It would be like if someone made a mexican character in feudal japan and spent have the story explaining why they were there in the first place and berating the character who was supposed to be the lead. Annette isn't a bad character she just didn't fit into the story as it was AT ALL. If someone wanted make castevania game starring a chaarcetr like her fightinf thru the carribean I'd played it, but she should never been Annette because she has NOTHING in common with the character.

@MG-do5vb

8 ай бұрын

@@Lastjustice​​⁠​​⁠​⁠”it’s race swapping every single Belmont that follows” not technically do you know how genetics work? If ritcher and Annette do end up together and having children their child will be mulato like Edward and if I’m correct the next big Belmont after ritcher is Julius Belmont which is just an ancestor of ritcher not even a son or grandson or great grandson. By the time it reaches Julius their race would have “cleaned” (as people like you would like to call it)and turned white if that’s all that matters. Also about the story of castlevania it is set in a fantastical world where vampire exist but that follows accurate world history. Ritcher was alive during the French Revolution according to his chronology. Thus this explains the setting for nocturne. Now you are wondering what do slaves have to do with French Revolution??? Well I’ll leave that to you to learn history. Last point “Annette from the games and Annette from nocturne aren’t the same at all” how would you know? The only thing depicted about her was just that she was Ritchers gf and that she looked white if you could even tell by zooming into pixels. Other than that Annette from the game just served as an princess needed to be rescue escapegoat. What would you rather have a character with substance and development or a poster child for archaic female roles?

@Lastjustice

7 ай бұрын

@@MG-do5vb As far as genetics, I am part Cherokee regardless of how many generations it was back as I'm like 5%. Just because it will be probably less than even a 1% doesn't mean it's gone or not part of their family history if I ever have kids. It's part of the tree, so no this was never part of the Belmonts and their race and heritage has always been wholly white. Their bloodline always been a major plot point, but these writers knew jack about anything. (Hence their wacky take on nightcreatures that violates all existing lore of them in several ways.) Annette's role was completely changed from what she was, and her and Edouard went to great lengths to explain their role in the story. Drolta was black, and no one needs be told Black people can be vampires too, hence you don't see me dragging Drolta. (I feel she should have been the main villain of season 1, and then introduce the vampire messiah afterwards, but that has nothing to do with her race.) Drolta and elizabeth battory present other issues as they stole villains from later stories in the time(Bloodlines), but that's another discussion. Annette and Edouard had too much time devoted to them when neither was an existing character in the story as they were. Every white character was treated like an afterthought in their own story. They even managed to drag Juste as another Luke Skywalker/Last jedi washed up loser who gave up. Richter just gets his powered out of nowhere because the plot can't focus on him long enough have a real geniune breakthru with his Grandfather.(Who he randomly found because reasons.) The revolutions barely get any attention and just a segway to stuff a oh racism and slavery is bad angle into a story that never had any of these elements. You never know the French reolvution was happening because the town they were hanging out in was both clean with plenty of food. This definitely wasn't the case in the actual event. (Hence the whole let them eat cake thnig pissed off a bunch of people.)There were never any opera singers in Castlevania so every bit of these characters needed way too much time to deal with why was present. Screentime they badly need to work on what was already there. If they really wanted a blank slate, they could picked a different era of Castlevania, like Simon as he has no existing supporting cast. It was just him charging into the castle alone, so there was plenty of room to take more creative liberties since Dracula position in the story was changed. I'd fully expect them to add additional characters for that reason so there's someone else to talk to. If they say had vampire hunters assembling from around the world to hunt vampires assembling from around the world to complete some sort of ritual in Draculas castle, then it wouldn't be that big of a stretch into if we had someone from Africa and japan(as we saw Asian vampire hunters in season 3 of Castelvania that trained with Alucard.) or wherever else you felt like joining in on Simon's hunt and his follow up story. Especially if they had backstory to deal with the respective villains. This all organic to the story and doesn't require taking a time out to move things along. Given there was only one existing character to handle, they could probably have balanced the new ones with the one that had to cover easily. Instead, they picked a game with several existing characters, and half assed the majority of them while focusing on their pet characters. The overall story greatly suffers for it, especially the pacing as everyone just randomly bumps into the plot as there's no sense of direction or urgency despite the supposed end of the world happening. Maria and terra just go to bed in their house like it's another day, despite being this huge threat on the horizon. Everything was so sloppy and lackadaisical. I just think if Annette was actually kidnapped, you'd lite a fire under Richter, and given this story a clear direction from the jump. Even if she escapes or is soon let go by Orlox since he's playing both sides as a way to lead around Richter. There was dozens of ways of flesh out Annette beyond swapping her race. If changing a character race is only way you know how spice them up, then you're a trash writer. They were lazy and their final product shows it. They failed to balance all the existing characters with their new pet ones. (And created stupid replacements, instead of using the dark priest shaft, they made the mentally challenged Abbot, who's entire plan is dumb beyond words.) The story already had an action girl with Maria, and Richter is the hero, so what is new Annette doing for this story besides clunking it up with completely unneeded B plot? I think there's room for character like Nocture Annette in the mythos of Castlevania, just not in middle this story. If they made a game of a character like her hacking their way across the Carribean, it would been fine or made a brand new IP of this character. Instead they frankensteined it into a full story that didn't work. Castlevania wasn't full of girls being captured scenarios like Mario Bros. This was to show the vampires were trying make it personal for the Belmonts as they attacked the hero's girl. This story was an outliner, and women actually like being saved when bad things happened to them, so let's stop that's not the case when Feminists are writing. They could have still flesh out Annette a bunch of ways, as she could been dropping clues for Richter as she was smart enough to lead him to next safe house, or gutsy enough to escape. (You can have Maria with her as both were captured in the game.) This fallacy we can't improve a character or make interesting unless she is a girl boss character is nonsense. This makes the odd attack on women the only time they aren't weak if they're being like a man. Women can be strong in many ways.

@MG-do5vb

7 ай бұрын

@@Lastjustice lol just cuz you are 5% Cherokee or just cuz a white person has 1 % African genes doesn’t they are not white. You seem so fixated on “pure race” “pure genes” that you are starting to sound a like a white supremacist or a race diversity teacher lol. Also Annette’s role was not only changed but it was made meaningful and not just some gf that needs to be rescued. It seems you rather have a rather bland character with no importance in the story than being just a trophy to be rescued from Dracula… I love how you don’t care about Maria’s side story taking too much space in the show or taking Belmont from the limelight but when it’s a character of color you get big mad. Notice your own racial biases and please educate yourself so you don’t spout more racist bs.

It's almost as if everyone forgot how Sypha was much more powerful, than Trevor in the first series. Or how much time was spent on the Hector and Iisac storylines. We had entire episodes without a Belmont in it

Changing a characters race just to add slavery for the sake of adding slavery is stupid. Also making the main character a bitch who left the people he is suppose to love to die by a bunch of powerful vampires is also stupid.

Well me, Alteori, and the writers of the show all have this in common, we know next to nothing about the source material from Castlevania.

@infomotionfittv837

9 ай бұрын

It's all on Google. Look it up.

Sooooo 100% critic reviews is fine and not weird/suspicious at all but half the audience not liking it this is an issue? Give me a break.

I literally saw one of the reviewers saying that they too had the problem of their critics getting removed by the google

Someone once said: 1. Respect the history of the material 2. Show characters doing heroic things 3. Don't insult the fans These people who write or run this media(TV, movies, comics, video games) intentionally don't follow these simple things to push their personal and political agenda or ideology. Lost count of how many things I noped out of anymore including this series

@defoley5

9 ай бұрын

I once got to meet one of my favorite writers at a book signing, I asked him how I could be successful at storytelling. He said “Always show the utmost care and concern for your quality and the content of your work, every time you don’t you’re insulting your audience”. Sadly he passed away pretty early in his life, but those words resonate with me when it comes to almost everything these days.

@DudleyDawg

9 ай бұрын

In their minds, they are 1. Fixing the "problematic" material from the original. 2. Showing their usually self insert character as the unstoppable hero that can do no wrong while talking down to the original hero of the show. 3. Catering to the "modern audience" and not the "toxic" fans of the original material with the excuse of being more inclusive.

@defoley5

9 ай бұрын

Too many stewards think they’re kings, and too many self appointed kings are tyrants

@RoccoSFer

9 ай бұрын

@@DudleyDawg damn right...the only recent show that follows the 3 things mentioned earlier is One Piece live action on Netflix go figure🤷

@liamwarner5749

9 ай бұрын

@@RoccoSFer Strangely that show was well received and liked, I just can't figure out why . . .

Lafayette, true blood, best character ever. I hate this show and the changes, especially isaac and Annette 😆 🤣 😂. I'm jamaican/Chinese, before anyone else jumps to conclusions,

Literally one of the best characters in the original Castlevania series was Black