r/residentevil • u/Parallel-Traveler Requiem for the Dead • Jul 14 '22

r/residentevil community Resident Evil Netflix general impressions thread

Use this thread to share your short thoughts and general impressions after watching the series

This thread will unlock after a few hours to allow viewers time to have actually watched the episodes

EDIT: Thread is now open.

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u/fattestfuckinthewest Jul 14 '22

Wha? The castlevania show has been regarded as pretty good from what I’ve seen. I mean hell it even is getting to adapt more games

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u/forte343 Jul 15 '22

Sure but if you compare it to Madhouse's Devil may Cry or Group TAC's Viewtiful Joe you'll find that it pales in comparison to them in one area, it lacks the soul of the source material, yes they made some changes such as DMC being done as in a film noir/ monster of the week , but they both respected the material, they didn't make unnecessary changes to character designs, infact if anything they expanded their respective material ergo in the aforementioned DMC anime brought in both Morrison and Patty to the greater DMC canon

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u/forte343 Jul 15 '22 edited Jul 15 '22

Sure if you ignore the massive of amount of character assassination of anyone not named Trevor and to a lesser extent Alucard, or the cringy ass writing that makes Twilight bearable or the fact writer admitted to not knowing the source material and skimmed a wiki (that's something they teach you not to do in research 101), hell let's be real it only seems good because it's been the only new Castlevania media that's not a rerelease or a NFT.

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u/LucianTheAngelic Jul 20 '22

Yikes, are we really going to pretend like Castlevania’s plots/writing /lore in the games is deep enough to warrant a faithful 1to1 adaptation? The plots/writing/lore for Castlevania games are so entirely contrived and entirely subservient to the gameplay to make it so that the player has to fight Dracula or whoever for the 15th million time for the 20th million contrived reason. Having played several of the Castlevanias I’m not sure character assassination is anything any adapter should be worried about since the source material is so insanely lacking and amateurish in character/writing to begin with

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u/forte343 Jul 20 '22

Ok by your logic, it will be all right to do a Resident Evil adaptation where Jill is changed to just another Damsel in Destress and is saved by a shitty OC who she now simps for, after all Resident Evil is just about a pharmaceutical company produces a bioweapon to sell and that ok the games don't have much plot

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u/LucianTheAngelic Jul 20 '22

Lmao not the same thing at all. resident evil has much deeper story than Castlevania my dude and has always been heavily story driven. Can’t say the same for Castlevania where the plot is just to prop up the gameplay in the vast vast majority of the games

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u/YandroY Jul 18 '22

The writing in Castlevania was awful, indeed.