The Many Flaws of Castlevania Nocturne

What is a man? But a miserable little pile of Secrets?!

BUT ENOUGH TALK! HAVE AT YOU!!!

Today's video we're talking about Castlevania's latest forte into the world of animation, Nocturne, and how I have a good number of issues with the series. I expect several people to ignore what I actually say however, because that's the trend now-a-days whenever you express any sort of negative opinion that's not approved by the stans of twitter/x.

CHAPTERS
0:00 - The Night Begins...
2:03 - Pacing and Plot
10:03 - The Heroes
18:14 - The Villains
22:51- Added Complaints
25:53 - Conclusion
28:40 - End Credits

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[laughingman]

The fact that the main cast sneaks to the vampires and crouch while blantantly visible from a few yards away showed me how brain dead their tactical skills were.

[Sasquatch-fxgw]

Nocturne feels like it needed 3 more extra epsiodes in it. It felt like it was moving a mile minutes

[geardog]

“What version of Joseph Joestar is like Richter?”

(Sees Olrox)
Richter: *FEET DON’T FAIL ME NOW!*

[JakeTheJay]

Part of the issues I have is how everyone treated Richter like he was super incompetent and yet he was the one making plans and killing monsters. Somehow HE'S the incompetent one though. If anything, the girls who were calling him the stupid one were more rash and idiotic, just wanting to rush in! There's even a whole scene where Annette connects with her family spiritually or something and they literally call her out on her bullshit when she got pissed Richter ran. SHE RAN

[Harpagio]

24:35 The issue with night creatures goes much deeper than that. In the first series, night creatures are established to be only loyal to their creator/summoner, to the point where the vampires had to put a collar on the forgers, because otherwise the forgers might rebel and take all the night creature servants with them. But now they're just.... not?

[JustaMetalFan]

Damn. one hand the rewritten SOTN script is done much better to make it sound less cheesy, but on the other hand, the original "what is a man?" line is just so iconic that its hard to appreciate the improved script since they took it out.

[UnwillingWatcher-ne]

The plot recycles itself at least 3 times in the span of what? 6 episodes?
Richter's mom sacrifices herself to save him
Annette's mom sacrifices herself to save her
Maria's mom sacrifices herself to save her

Like fucks sake, we get it. Killing moms is a cheap way to give your characters motivation, but if you do this a fourth time I'm going to flip

[gpscroll]

Man Simon dodged a bullet with them skipping to Ritcher.

[topcat]

Honestly it would’ve been nice if they actually had few episodes were there getting to know one another before one of them becomes a night creature so I can feel sorry for him.🐱

[vergillives]

The main problem is all the setup is to setup for Annette with very little after thought and an episode for ritcher its like it was supposed to be a movie and were forced to make a series

[nickievison]

My issue with Annette was that she came across as fairly unlikable at times. Such as when she dismisses the difficulties of Richter's traumatic past and loss of magic.

[zangetsu]

Dang. If swearing made people mature then Travis Touchdown is one the most mature video game characters ever!

[michaelcooper]

Yeah, I couldn’t get into Nocturne like I did in the previous series. It honestly felt most of the problems that were in that series got amplified in Nocturne, like the F-bombs and weird narrative choices. It’s honestly telling that when you ask some people what the best parts in Nocturne were, they’d ofter say “When Alucard showed up in the end” or “Juste showing up”, instead of anything relating to the new characters. And I say this as someone who isn’t really into Castlevania stuff.

[Grimm]

Honestly, one big problem with Nocturne comes from the original show because they wrote themselves into a corner with Dracula's ending. They can't rely on Dracula this time. So they are pulling from vampires throughout history and other games in the timeline. Elisabeth has great potential as a villain, she was the leading lady Castlevania Bloodlines using the current world war to resurrect Dracula. But now it just feels kinda hollow. With how the story they are telling now is it seems like they wanna combine Rondo of Blood and Symphony of the Night but not build into it. What is their pay off gonna be in the end? They showed off Alucard way too early. Annette is trying to fill in Older Maria's role i guess? It is just kind of a mess.

[TheMattsem]

It is crazy that Belmont doesn't know what a night creature is but Annette she know them but she doesn't know Dracula who wrote this garbage

[zillauniverse]

Sad when even Van Helsing movie from 2004 feels more true to Castlevania than the Netflix shows.

[SkepticalBucketman]

I tried to give this show a chance, watched until I got to episode 5 (it has 8 for those who don´t know) and dropped it, in case this video didn´t summarize it well enough (which it did), here´s what you get:

*So Richter what´s your problem?*
- "When I was a child a vampire murdered my mother before my eyes"
*Man sorry to hear that, that must have been tough...And what about you Annette?*
- "When I was a slave child, a vampire murdered my slave mother before my eyes, we both were slaves by the way and no one was going to put a slave mark on me"
*But..I can see the mark on your left ha..Anyway that must have been tough...Hey Tera, what abou-*
- "When I was younger, a big, evil, very dangerous vampire that happens to be the one causing all the problems now took my sister away from me and turned her into a vampire, so she sort of killed her, had to do something about it"
*...Oh..But...That means you knew all along and didn´t say anyth-... I guess Maria is fine ri-*
- "ReVoLuTioN GoEs

That´s all you are gonna get, and these are your main characters, wait I miss the singing guy, he sings and seems kinda nice, he sings by the way..A lot

For the bad guys we have: Angry, dumb and cartoonish Church leader guy, who is also a forgemaster (I dunno), Erzsebeth Bathory which you are much better off reading her real story, gay Aztec vampire which...Is just curious as to what´s happening there and Cyberpunk vampire lady, which is just 100% loyal to big cheese vampire lady. And oh yeah, forgot about the equally cartoonishly evil slave holder vampire that lets Annette escape for no reason and decides it´s a good idea to hang around 10 minutes before sunrise to get a snack...Yep

[monk]

“I was gonna say something cutting and brutal but I couldn’t come up with anything” is how I felt seeing that scene
Also what’s up with everyone and their mothers being magicians?

[emberdragon]

Annette: I wasn't about to let myself be branded like a slave

Also Annette: *_Literally brands herself with the slave symbol_*

[zerorock]

I wasn't a fan of the Netflix Castlevania shows to begin with, but it sounds like I dodged some holy water here.