On a visual level, Castlevania is downright impressive. The animation is beautiful and fluid, and the action still has enough weight to keep things grounded. While the series still retains much of the game's Japanese roots, the backgrounds, color scheme, and overall style are heavily influenced by Gothic and Baroque art, while keeping in mind the franchise's video game origins.
Castlevania's second season is far from perfect, but it takes the building blocks of its first batch of episodes and does what any adaptation of a revered video game franchise should do, which is satisfy longtime fans while giving the uninitiated a treat. Something fun to eat.
In Season 3, Castlevania's fight scenes seem elaborate and expensive, so it makes sense that it's not action-packed all the time. Netflix's Castlevania works because it's using its new medium to really explore these characters and this story in a way that games can't.
Castlevania Season 4 is a largely satisfying ending to this stellar video game adaptation, even as it leaves the door open for future stories (...) There are definitely some hiccups, but Castlevania Season 4 does the right thing with these characters, giving them satisfying endings.
Castlevania's second season is far from perfect, but it takes the building blocks of its first batch of episodes and does what any adaptation of a revered video game franchise should do, which is satisfy longtime fans while giving the uninitiated a treat. Something fun to eat.
In Season 3, Castlevania's fight scenes seem elaborate and expensive, so it makes sense that it's not action-packed all the time. Netflix's Castlevania works because it's using its new medium to really explore these characters and this story in a way that games can't.
Castlevania Season 4 is a largely satisfying ending to this stellar video game adaptation, even as it leaves the door open for future stories (...) There are definitely some hiccups, but Castlevania Season 4 does the right thing with these characters, giving them satisfying endings.