The gamespot review is a bit harsh.. let's give this one a chance!
User Rating: 8 | Castlevania Judgment WII
This game is not bad at all! It's really fun after you take a little time to learn how to play it, and the multiplayer works great. The controls are not as bad as gamespot makes them either, there are plenty of options that don't require insane wii remote waggling and you can even use classic and gamecube controllers. Honestly i don't know what made gamespot rate this game so low, i mean, let's have a look. The gameplay is not bad, i haven't played any other fighting game like it (and the one that it is normally compared to i have never played), it's sort of a 3D free roaming thing, where you fight your enemy and you are free to move around the stage to break objects and stuff. The camera angle CAN be kind of annoying, but honestly not enough to make it bad. I mean, it's a fighting game, for most of the time the characters playing will be close to each other, so no bad angles. Controls work awesome in my opinion.. they could have put in a lot more attacks, which would have made it more interesting, but honestly by keeping it this way it just shortens the learning curve. But it's important to say here that learning to play this game is not only learning attacks, because if you don't master dodging and blocking you won't get far. When it comes to the game modes, it's pretty standard. Reminds me a lot of Soul Calibur 2.. with the story modes, arcade, survival, and a sort of adventure mode (castle mode) where you can unlock things. The main difference is the Castle mode unlocks accessories to dress your characters instead of new weapons, which is pretty cool too since some items are ridiculously funny. I have a few complaints about the story and castle mode though... i mean the story mode is funny with some ridiculous concepts, but you have to finish it with every single character twice, which gets kind of boring. Castle mode has the same problem, you have to finish it so many times. The missions are different, but it sucks that they didn't do something more like the weapon master mode on Soul Calibur 2.. Also in castle mode, some missions are ridiculous, and extremely annoying, such as braking objects, and there are enemy ambushes all the time, which instead of being a challenge are just annoying. The characters in this game are just.. weird. I haven't played many of the castlevania games, but i can tell if you are a fan, you won't enjoy them too much. Most just look (or sound in the case of Eric) completely gay and the dressing up part makes them even more so.. The girls all seem to have extremely huge bosoms (reminds me of soul calibur yet again), which is not such a big problem, but it can get weird sometimes.. The graphics look great in this game, and the hyper attacks are all awesome! It kind of sucks that some of the hyper moves are harder to use, like Aeon's move, and others are just so extremely easy, like simon's and Trevor's.. But i guarantee that if you learn to properly block and dodge, it really doesn't matter what character you use. So in closing, this game is really not bad, give it a chance if you like fighting games similar to soul calibur. It's fun and addicting enough to overcome its own flaws.. 
