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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

I wish they would do game accurate Castlevania toys like NECA did for 30 seconds a decade ago.

Not a fan of the animated series. I watched the first season and it was so boring and hardly anything like Castlevania. The least they could have done was given the show a gothic rock operatic soundtrack.

I understand what you're saying. The show is not a direct adaptation of the games, and takes a little here, a little from there, and then still adds something new.

But not in a bad way, just different. Give the next season a go. The second season does delve more into the lore, though, and they do eventually play a song from the games (although it's likely they really can't use the game music very much because of rights issues and not having Konami themselves involved with production).

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Originally Posted by Dolemite

Hardly anything like Castlevania? Well, it would have been a pretty boring cartoon if Trevor did nothing but walk from left to right the entire time while whipping at enemies over and over. Obviously they had to expand on things from the NES game this is based on and deliver an actual storyline, which so far seems pretty loyal to the established lore to me.

I mean, it's about Dracula and a guy named Belmont with a whip who fights him and his monsters and it uses Ayami Kojima-style art & character designs, so I fail to see about the inaccuracies you're talking about.

I'm hoping the announced season 3 deals with the Symphony of the Night storyline (it's really the only direction that makes sense given the ending of season 2) so we can possibly get some figures based on that game. Alucard looks fine in season 1 & 2 but I'd really like to have a figure based on his gothic renaissance look from that game. The NECA one released years ago is okay, but it has a lot of shortcomings and it's really expensive on the secondary market.

While getting a SotN styled Alucard would be nice, I don't see them jumping ahead 300 years for the next season. Season 3 will likely involve some adaptation of the PS2/XBox game Curse of Darkness.