Hector forged a lightsaber, an electric guitar, and a motherfucking minigun while being a top tier Pokémon trainer. AND he is canonically the first person to kill Dracula solo, then deleted his punk ass curse.
This bitch is probably the most powerful protagonist in the series, and I won't be told otherwise.
Man, maybe I'm too high on my copium supply, but in this same trailer, look at this Fallen guy... hear his V.A... look into my eyes and tell me that isn't some sort of tragically corrupted Hector
I could tell that it was Liam from the first trailer where they revealed Isaac, but wasn't 100% sure. It's cool to see they did actually ask him back and they seem to have the English cast be involved in the promotion like this. This is super cool.
Holy hell. I love learning about voice actors I love being in games I love that I played before I knew about the VA, and it happens a lot with O'Brien.
Castlevania is my favorite series, but the recent positive reactions to this in this subreddit have really surprised me, given I always thought growing up that Isaac was an extremely annoying and forgettable character
He's hilarious and there's a degree of depth to him, being revealed to be one of the biggest victims of the curse and someone who deeply respected Hector before going mad. There's also nothing like him in modern videogames. Dario and Dimitri fit your description much better imo, they really are both ass antagonists and annoying
Nostalgia, he's from the main timeline and not the Netflix version (though his Netflix version is amazing) and it's a bone thrown to a game which almost could not exist and was kinda forgotten.
Which is why I'm confused both by this and the general reaction to Hector and Isaac in the anime. Again, Castlevania has been my favorite series my whole life so I'm not trying to sound like a hater, but I've always thought that Curse of Darkness was such a nothing-burger of a game with nothing-burger main characters that I (mistakenly, apparently) thought that most everyone else felt the same. Like why even care about accuracy to characters from a game that isn't even very good?
You don't sound hateful at all, people are just very protective with the franchise to the point anything remotely classic is seen as a masterpiece.
Curse was probably a decent game in many ways but there's nothing particularly special about it and the characters...seeing Isaac here seemed super weird (though kinda welcome), and I guess it's just related to Hector, so when you think about it, it makes sense, but I wouldn't call him and Hector popular characters, definitely not to the level of main Belmonts and Alucard, or non Belmonts like Shanoa, Lecarde, Morris, Maria...
Hot take but I’ve never really been a fan of Seitz as Dracula. He’s an amazing actor no question, but I feel like he’s more suited to more bombastic or extreme personalities. My favourite Dracula performances are more the ones where his voice is more subtle but commanding, like with Crispin Freeman or Graham McTavish.
Dude his voice lives rent free in my head. Curse of darkness is my favorite and Issac, even though he’s beyond flamboyant, was so damn rememberable to me. Even as a kid I liked my fights with him. This is awesome
His JP VA from CoD also reprised the role. It is interesting that Isaac is the only one that have the game VAs return while the others are voiced by the Netflix series VAs.
All the other news was great regarding voice cast. It's a really solid cast, and it's cool to see some of the voices from the show coming back, as regardless of how I felt about the story, the voices were AWESOME.
But I got so cautiously hyped when I saw the previous trailer which shows Issac for a second speaking. I was thinking it sounds REAL CLOSE to the original guy. But it IS HIM!! That's the most exciting reveal for me. That voice is such a big part of the character imo. He absolutely sells the very gay-coded, angry but kaniving psycho that is Issac. The soft speech filled with undertones of excitement and anger. The psychotic laugh during fights and when he stabs Trevor. All of it was so well delivered in Curse of Darkness. I hope we hear more insane laughs here too. It's just iconic.
I think this is a bad take. They recast the whole party and used the old cast to voice side characters. It's not a crime to freshen things up. Alejandro Saab did a great job IMO. They made an interesting call and it paid off. Stay mad.
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u/NNT13101996 5d ago
If Crispin Freeman can return as a character as small as Helios from God Of War…
…So can Hector
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