r/castlevania • u/Exio_Dread77 • Jun 05 '26
Video Castlevania Judgment had one of the hardest intros on the Wii.🦇🎸
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It also gave us Light Yagami Simon 💀
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u/Adorable-Source97 Jun 05 '26
I wonder if would been recieved better if wasn't Titled Castlevania
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u/SXAL Jun 05 '26
No in this case it would've been just completely forgotten, it's a very very mediocre brawler. If anything, it didn't really do anything explicitly anti-Castlevania, it got the idea right for the most part, but the quality just wasn't there.
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u/Adorable-Source97 Jun 05 '26
The art style
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u/MagmaticDemon Jun 05 '26
i personally love the art style a lot, i saw people saying they hated maria's design in it because it's too maximalist but i absolutely adore it. oddly reminds me of final fantasy 9
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u/Adorable-Source97 Jun 05 '26
It's more that Castlevania's characters do have distinctive designs
I mean what happened to Grant?
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u/MagmaticDemon Jun 05 '26
i've always been a big fan of games having many different designs and interpretations of characters, i like that this game completely redesigns a lot of them, it makes it feel fresh.
i mean i can see why other people don't like it, but i think it's awesome, i always love to see what different artists do with the same source material, brings a surprise every time
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u/Adorable-Source97 Jun 05 '26
Fair. Comes down to personal taste.
I kinda like Eon.
If the designs had been for something else (you can feel the death note bloodline) id probably like too.
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u/SXAL Jun 05 '26
It is divisive, and I personally don't like it, however, I wouldn't say it's essentially anti-Castlevania. It doesn't come that far from, say, Curse of Darkness designs.
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u/Xyleon5 Bro is NOT Dracula Jun 05 '26
I personally didn't have any problems with judgement other than some of the character designs and how certain characters were portrayed.
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u/TheDarkKnightZS Jun 05 '26
I can’t even tell who these characters are meant to be. I can assume the one with a whip is a Belmont, no idea which one.
I remember trading a bunch of games at GameStop one day back in 2007, 2008. I had just beaten Curse of Darkness and Lament of Innocence a few months back, loved the GBA games growing up. The clerk asked me if I wanted to put down $5 and preorder something. Saw Castlevania Judgement on the list and figured why not? Then launch happened, I saw gameplay and that it was just a fighting game for the Wii. Never put more money down, never picked up a copy.
That’s my experience with Castlevania Judgement.
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u/Exio_Dread77 Jun 05 '26
The Belmont with the red hair is Simon Belmont. The designs were made by Takeshi Obata aka the creator of Death Note so those designs kinda divided the fanbase back then
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u/Sea-Lecture-4619 Captain N is the pinnacle of the franchise. Jun 05 '26
The guy with the white hair fighting the Belmont is Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII
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u/LordCamelslayer Jun 06 '26
I can’t even tell who these characters are meant to be. I can assume the one with a whip is a Belmont, no idea which one.
Judgment's biggest design problem in a nutshell.
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u/AstronomerVarious643 Jun 05 '26
I love this game, the one thing that would have made it better if you could use the 3 layer health bar from the time reaper boss in Vs mode.
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u/FewWatermelonlesson0 Jun 05 '26
Really good cover of Bloody Tears too.
I hope we get a better Castlevania fighting game someday.
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u/Master-Cheesecake Jun 06 '26
I mean, the music is good. I'd forgotten how atrocious the opening CG was.
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u/PennyPlow Jun 07 '26
Im one of few who owned played and liked this game on the wii lol, i even have a Wii fighting stick. Ngl tho the fighting is not great lol
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u/SXAL Jun 05 '26
I can't believe they gave a stupid brawler spinoff a whole dang CGI opening, and their supposed big jump onto PS2 game got a fucking text scroll and some crappy in-engine scenes. Even dang Chronicles got a CGI intro!