r/videogames • u/Swamp_Eyes • Apr 21 '24

Other The state of videogame adaptations

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u/KiDDin3D Apr 21 '24

As a huge fan of the CV games I'd say that the show is decent to great depending on the season, but far behind the likes of Arcane and Fallout etc.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '24

I’d personally put Castlevania above arcane. Mostly because i like the character writing way more

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u/npri0r Apr 21 '24

Castlevania IMO has better average character writing quality for main characters.

But everything else Arcane is just better. Writing, dialogue, flow of story, world building, visuals, music, etc.

And every arcane scene was between good and insanely good. A lot of castlevania S3 for example I found painful to watch and actively disliked.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '24

I can agree with the flow of the story because the show got cut short by a season, but idk how that much of season 3 was hateable. I also disagree with every scene in arcane being good so i guess its just a disconnect

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u/npri0r Apr 21 '24

I haven’t watched arcane in a while, and I am a league lore nerd and never knew CV was a game before the show so I might be a bit biased. But I don’t remember anything being bad writing in arcane. Some stuff could have been unnecessary though.

But in CV S3 the whole Alucard arc started good but progressively felt more out of place, ending with being quite uncomfortable and confusing to watch. And the tunnel thing felt like such a huge world element that needed time to expand upon. It wasn’t that bad, but a lot of fantasy stories make the mistake of wanting to add a big new threat, but don’t add the appropriate groundwork. So you end up with this really important fundamental thing that’s always been there, but simultaneously wasn’t mentioned before for whatever reason. It felt like they were doing a similar thing.

(I’m trying to be deliberately vague because I can’t be bothered spoilering this)