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Post by XombieMike on Dec 25, 2023 17:41:51 GMT -6
theyre coming out with multiplayer?? geez, i need to start keeping tabs on this game. its exciting tho, i know i coulda used co-op on my first playthrough. It's not that kinda coop
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Post by XombieMike on Oct 4, 2023 9:02:40 GMT -6
I agree with all of Puri's points and also share the sentiment that the writing is better than Ellisvania and that the character design is good. Honestly, as I watched Nocturne I always had "how will Brent take this next "church bad" aspect of this show?" For his sake I wish they would throw the church a bone, and for everyone's sake I wish they could have made the Abbot's motivations believable.
It's easy to focus on the negatives, and I suppose I'll join in and add my own gripes, but I'd like to express foremost over everything else I say that I enjoyed Nocturne so much more than Ellisvania. In fact, I enjoyed it as a Castlevania fan that now has more humbled expectations. I don't know how much of that rests on just that it isn't Ellis, but that is a weighing factor for my experience. I think in the new show they avoided talking about Dracula and whatever they did with the whip. To us big fans of the game canon, Dracula and the whip are pretty important to follow, as is the lineage of Belmonts. The show makes it very obvious that game canon isn't important to the show. They have the goal of using game canon, character names, and other references simply to let the fans know they recognize it is there. Their other goal is to tell an interesting story about fighting vampires and oppression. It deserves to have the Castlevania brand because you can't have the show we have seen without the characters being so inspired by their namesakes. Sure Alucard, Richter and Maria could be renamed and the character design be divorced from their inspired namesakes and the show be called something other than Castlevania, but it works better with all of it there.
My gripes are; 1. Why didn't they draw Richter's eye in that one shot that they even used in a trailer?
2. Erzsebet fails to be an interesting big boss. Bloodstained has a lack luster end boss with Bael, but has a great couple of villains such as Gremory and Dominique. Nocturne has the same problem (less so actually), but with Olrox and Drolta picking up the slack. You can even count the plantation owner as a good villain. I wouldn't count the Abbot as a positive contribution to the equation due to his wonky motivations that simply don't work, but I do think the Abbot was a developed character that served purpose and moved the plot forward. Can we have a have a good story without Dracula as the antagonist? I feel like Dracula is so important to a good story, but he has to be used in a compelling way. As Puri mentioned, we have no castle in Nocturne and I think Castlevania without a Castle and no Dracula for vania just makes it a side story.
3. Ok, they gave us ONE song, but this is supposed to be Castlevania! I don't care if they have excuses on why they aren't using more of the best music gaming has ever known. Every bad ass fight scene should come along with something. Even if you can't use established Castlevania music at least write some new music that gives us new tunes to play for the rest of our lives. I've never even played Lament or Curse due to my console and life situation when those games came out, but I've listened to their soundtracks many times and love them so much.
4. Well everything Puri said. Particularly the Abbot's motives and how a man of faith can have causal sex with a "soulless vampire" outside of marriage. Mizrak is an interesting character. Flawed, but faithful with plenty of room to develop. Also, I'm one of those Castlevania fans who sees what they want to see with Juste getting the bad ending. I don't mean in relation to canon, as I've been pretty clear I don't think this show is obligated to adhere to any game canon. I mean in the sense that he failed to save the ones that mattered to him, and he survived. He didn't die and get a game over, but he got the bad ending of his own story. I think it was interesting to do that with him, but I think they screwed up in two big ways with Juste in this show. 1. As I think it may have been Lets Rollplay pointed out, he needed more furniture in his house and 2. his sad defeated ass didn't move the plot forward in any way and they didn't show much character growth at all with him. His motivations feel unjustifiable and he could have been written much better.
5. Also to reiterate something Puri mentioned, but this bothered me enough to really detract from the moment: When reading the book to open a portal to Hell they say it's written in Enochian, "the langaue of Hell", which is stupid. It's the language of angles. Play Bloodstianed, you twats, or at least use Wikipedia.
Ok, gripes over. Again, I actually really liked Nocturne and will be binging season 2 when it comes out. For all my talk about motivations that don't make sense, at least we don't have Richter possessed by Shaft spouting nonsense about how he needs to resurrect Dracula so he can fight him some more.
Things I liked: 1. Richter got his headband while he was in a rut from some cute revolutionary French girl, then when he got his mojo back he put the headband on and it was awesome.
2. Maria's actor looks so young! They made Maria clever for her age and were presented with "well in the game she fights by summoning birds and cats" then they just actually made that work in the show. Well done!
3. Annette is awesome! I'm a Toph Beifong fan from Avatar the Last Airbender and it's great to see Annette use those powers. We certainly didn't need Annette to remain a damsel in distress to be rescued from captivity, so I'm glad they didn't do that. She has her own Innocent Devil now, and I think that duo could continue on hunting vampires together in great adventures. I don't know if her and Richter will make a branch of the ol Belmont line together or not. I don't care either way, really. This show's main theme revolves around oppression of the meek by the powerful, and Annette's story adds to that very well. It's also repeated with the church, the French aristocracy, and the vampire messiah.
4. Olrox has always been an interesting character to me. Who is this vampire living in Dracula's castle with his own quarters? Orlok - Nosferatu, born of rights issues with Bram Stoker for Dracula became his own thing. Characters like Orlok and Carmillia are always good wells of inspiration for Dracula adjacent villains. For Nocturne I wish I would have caught that he was Aztec earlier on, but that's on me. It should have been more obvious with the Quetzalcoatl transformation. The second form was an easy and early way to communicate to the fans that this is Castlevania and you might get some tasty references, but we are doing our own thing. Don't worry about canon and prepare to have your expectations recognized yet be surprised with something new. Olrox kills Julia out of revenge but doesn't kill Richter. Either to let him suffer the same need for vengeance he has had to suffer for his loss, to further punish Julia, or simply because he doesn't kill children. During the show, we don't really see Olrox as a mindless blood sucking vampire, but one we are forced to question if he really has a soul or not. Mizrak jabs that he doesn't, but only in guilt and retaliation when Olrox belittles him for not loving him, a defense mechanism to avoid attachment due to his prior pain. Olrox obviously does care for Mizrak because he risks opposing Erzsebet by saving him later. He is told to bend the knee, and it's obvious he doesn't want to. He sees Erzsebet as another conquistador forcing him to give up his atonomy under her rule. As with Annette, it fits the shows main theme. I really like the complexity of what they have done with Olrox and I look forward to seeing more! He is well written and well developed with more room to grow in a few different directions.
5. Richter is likeable. I will skip comparing him to the Ellisvania Trevor. Richter is vunerable while still remaining cool. He shows growth throughout the story and I'm rooting for him. It's stupid that his whip didn't hurt Erzsebet. I like how Julia was styled to look like Richter from SotN. Julia Belmont's story would be cool to learn more about. What was going on in Boston during the American Revolution? Since the American Revolution fits the theme of the show, maybe we will learn more in a future season. This show has no hesitation to dive into long flashbacks.
6. Drolta is amazing. Her shoes when she first shows up on screen are hoof like. It foreshadows her succubus nature and they look great. They do a lot of cool stuff with her hair. They just knock it out of the park with her design. When she revealed her succubus form and used that attack from the succubus in SotN... wow man. So cool! It looks like they snagged the name Drolta from some Rondo stuff I didn't even know about, but it obviously has no tie to the game lore. Simply using a name without anything else entirely seems to be making a point about what lore fanatics like myself can expect. While I accept that the show is on it's own canon, if you're going to use something from the lore of the game series at least do something interesting with the original idea to make it your own while keeping it Castlevania in some way than other in name. Unless they named her Drolta to throw off lore hounds that she was a succubus, they just should have named her Lilith.
7. Edward (I'm not attempting to spell his name right) started off with a very cringy song, but after that first song he was a well written character. Innocent devils are a thing in the show now. Again, I hate to compare this to the first series, but in season 1 all the night creatures looked the same. Even though they didn't use Castlevania monsters from the very deep well of available things to reference, they did some unique monster designs that I enjoyed. Too bad they can't do the same with the music! Edward did good in his role to show that the good guys aren't invincible and to develop Annette.
Ok, I could go on, but I gotta work! Glad to see long form conversations still exist in the world of Discord and Tiktok!
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Post by XombieMike on Sept 13, 2023 8:41:21 GMT -6
In a private message, LetsRollplay had pointed out the following:
When they were first brought to the Alchemists Guild,
Miriam was 2 years old (Assuming she was 18 at the year of the Ritual, she was born in 1765) Gebel was 4 years old (He's 30 at the start of RotN, which takes place in 1793. He was born in 1763)
On the year of the Ritual (1783),
Miriam was 18 (Born 1765) Gebel was 20 (Born 1763) Johannes was 20 (Born 1763) Alfred was 47 (Born 1736) Dominique was 15 (Born 1768) Zangetsu was 25 ( Born 1758)
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Post by XombieMike on May 30, 2023 8:59:20 GMT -6
Not that I'm aware of, but if there were they would be listed with the rest of the mods.
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Post by XombieMike on May 1, 2023 6:57:38 GMT -6
Is there a mod replaces Miriam's default boots into Kung Fu Shoes permanently? So that I can equip other weapons without taking off her Kung Fu Shoes. No, cosmetically this is possible, but equipped as a secondary weapon it is not. No mod currently exists for this, but if you would like to do it yourself we have a modding post on this forum and a Discord modding community.
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Post by XombieMike on Mar 13, 2023 5:16:40 GMT -6
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