Castlevania Nocturne suffers from getting too "Netflixed", an issue the original Castlevania didn't suffer from too much. You can tell that with the original series the creators were given free reign (for the most part) to do what they desired and tell the story they wanted as Netflix likely didn't notice them too much until season 3. This series obviously had Netlix execs looking over their shoulders the whole time.
The series was hard to get through. I had to put it on 1.25x speed and it still made me cringe at parts. It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't great either.
The plot seems to lack any sort of focus and there are major flaws in character reasoning. We see the trope of "I killed your mother in front of you but I'm going to let you go even though I'm a 200+ year old vampire and should know better than to let a survivor go who will come back and kill me in 20 years" like 3 different times! If you're that old you should KNOW to kill the damn kid or they will hunt you down later. Hell, Olfrox essentially said he hunted down Richtors mom for the same reason.
Theres also the issue of having characters killed off and then revealing the character's backstory. Deaths lose meaning if we don't know who the character is or have any sort of emotional attachment to them as they've been on the screen all of 5 minutes and had 3 lines.
Too much personality and race swapping done to meet quotas. In the first series we see this done with Isaac, but it was MASTERFULLY done to the point that you didn't care. He had personality, motivations, and even though he was a villain, you rooted for him to at least not die. Here we see Annette being annoying and condescending and me hoping she goes away.
The characters themselves seem to be one dimensional and lack almost all depth. They are defined by the one or two bad things that happened to them in the past. That's it. That's their whole character. The villains all have a personality that can be summed up as "generic bad guy" (with one or two exceptions). In the first series we had goddamn dracula who for the first time in his life opened his heart only to have it crushed. He had to fight his son. We have the vampire sisters each having their own special views on the world and methods to see their view through. In nocturne we have random black vampire lady serving the "messiah" who kills guards because...she wants to do it? Or something? Her whole personality is "violent lackey".
If one piece live action taught us anything, its that Netflix letting people just do their jobs and make a good series without Netflix sticking their noses in it, the series that get released would be fantastic. The thing is, you can tell when Netflix shoved their noses in it. Its so tell tale.
The series was hard to get through. I had to put it on 1.25x speed and it still made me cringe at parts. It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't great either.
The plot seems to lack any sort of focus and there are major flaws in character reasoning. We see the trope of "I killed your mother in front of you but I'm going to let you go even though I'm a 200+ year old vampire and should know better than to let a survivor go who will come back and kill me in 20 years" like 3 different times! If you're that old you should KNOW to kill the damn kid or they will hunt you down later. Hell, Olfrox essentially said he hunted down Richtors mom for the same reason.
Theres also the issue of having characters killed off and then revealing the character's backstory. Deaths lose meaning if we don't know who the character is or have any sort of emotional attachment to them as they've been on the screen all of 5 minutes and had 3 lines.
Too much personality and race swapping done to meet quotas. In the first series we see this done with Isaac, but it was MASTERFULLY done to the point that you didn't care. He had personality, motivations, and even though he was a villain, you rooted for him to at least not die. Here we see Annette being annoying and condescending and me hoping she goes away.
The characters themselves seem to be one dimensional and lack almost all depth. They are defined by the one or two bad things that happened to them in the past. That's it. That's their whole character. The villains all have a personality that can be summed up as "generic bad guy" (with one or two exceptions). In the first series we had goddamn dracula who for the first time in his life opened his heart only to have it crushed. He had to fight his son. We have the vampire sisters each having their own special views on the world and methods to see their view through. In nocturne we have random black vampire lady serving the "messiah" who kills guards because...she wants to do it? Or something? Her whole personality is "violent lackey".
If one piece live action taught us anything, its that Netflix letting people just do their jobs and make a good series without Netflix sticking their noses in it, the series that get released would be fantastic. The thing is, you can tell when Netflix shoved their noses in it. Its so tell tale.