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REVIEW: Castlevania: Nocturne Series Review

I mean most of the people complaining about the show are the chodes complaining about it being woke.

Those sources your mentioning, its pretty much positive for the most part. The show is largely well received by the majority of the audiences. Some games purists making a stink about obsessive rigidity to the source material is not a majority.

I mean "ugly mess" seriously? No one thinks that. The show visually is objectively gorgeous, very little about the animation or art is ugly.

I wasn’t referring to the Nocturne series. Read it again.

I'm just happy Richter's was given justice in Smash Bros Ultimate.

I assume you were referring to the reviewer? I did find the snide remarks towards the games and dismissal of them a bit tiring, and the pre-emptive comments on how fans of the game who complain about the changes as well. In general I don't get why Netflixvania fans always feel the need to trash the games in their praise of the show. I get if people never played the games before which I know a lot of fans of the show haven't given their age, but it always comes off as disrespectful.

Does the show whitewash the french revolution?

Or it does a proper job depicting how it began as a freedom movement that devolved in a glorified genocide that led to the rise of a melomaniac maniac to power?

I've one-hundred percented Symhpony of the Night, Harmony of Dissonance, Aria/Dawn of Sorrow, and Portrait of Ruin multiple times.

Yep. Someone hated those games so much they created a well produced, heavily marketed adaptation that has been critically well received. That dastardly fiend.

The way that this season framed slavery, for example, seems out of step with the reality of what was actually going on in that era, the truth being that slavery was practiced by many cultures across many different races and countries for many centuries, including the French Revolution era. It wasn't something that was originated by or practiced by just "white people"...yet this show frames it (and to a greater extent colonialism) as such, which is lazy and feels like a variation of what conservatives do to "own the libs", except in reverse. To me it was a missed opportunity at legitimate nuance, though probably not an intentional one by the writers.

I've also been chomping at the bit for a Dawn/Aria adaptation, mostly because the show could *really* do a lot with the modern-day setting that the games never really capitalized on. Either that, or give us an incredibly moody Order of Ecclesia miniseries. I'd kill to see Shanoa brought to life in the Netflix Universe's style.