Castlevania: Judgment.. OUT!!! Impressions, comments.. ALL in here.

Hellow my fellow lovers of Castlevania...

We would have 2 official thread. This one and Judgment: Battle

The day is here, we have another game that seem it is quite look and that promise to give us TONS of moments of fun.

Did you get the game already? share your thought with us.... Talk about what you love, like, dislike and hate... 

Make this your third place for Castlevania: Judgment. (the second is the battle thread :P )

Enjoy...

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Castlevania: Judgment, Everything there was before the release. A jump to the news of the past.

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got it, like it enough, just hate the SNK syndrome with some characters. also maria is the cheapest character ever. other than the SNK syndrome, its a fun fighter to me. the story mode is short. also i liek the different play styles for the weight classes. i suck with heavy people like simon, but im way better with mid-weight people like shanoa and alucard.

the block doesnt respond fast enough because the characters ahve to finsih animations and poses before they decide blocking would be a good idea, but thats one of the only problems ive had with the combat so far. so other than that, and the overpowering problems, i reallyl ike this game. its just a little too soon for me to make my real evalutaion of it. i still need to wait for the initial "holy sh*t" factor to wear off so ill be able to notice the flaws i might be over looking if there are any more. but im still really sick of maria already. lol

Story mode is great, I love how Maria is obsessed with breasts. She calls Sypha's huge and "Sacred Gifts" (Sypha says they get in the way) and mentions that Carmilla's are bigger than hers too (Carmilla asks what she's babbling about)

Every character has unique lines for most characters, which is nice. The time period it takes place in is unique for each character, it seems to be mid-CV3 for the CV3 crew, Post CV3-Pre SotN for Alucard, Mid OoE for Shanoa, Post Rondo for Maria and Mid LoD for Cornell.

@Omega: I did the same.. Maria and Sy kick the hell out of me. :lol: and I still have not get the tutorial :lol: BTW: I quit in the middle of the 1st story with simon, bc wanted to try the others mode.. and ... well.. I did not know that it did not save my progress :lol: I was on Shaona already :(

I have not connect the OoE yet..

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So about story mode, I was quite disappointed, mainly bc i was specting more of exploration or SSBB like... I do not advance is just "apper" from one room to the next.. but oh well... is OK. I have just try one so maybe has more after.

That said love the way the actually connect them.. for the lil I have seen. And btw: "belnades one of the 3 legendary warriors" (or something like that) by Simon. that was AMAZING... 

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Tried the Castle mode... and :D ITEMS!!! enough said :lol:

And I guess you have notice but noone has mention... Like IGA said... we get one extra surprise character :D:D:D

I have to unlock that ... :D:D

I almost can't wait for you to sadly admit that there are only 14 characters. People have already finished story mode (You fight someone called the Time Ruler) and theres no signs of a 15th charactersemianonymous

:( that is mean...

But when you play there is a ? in the middle.. and 7 block on each side, which would add 15 blocks... really.. count them..

Who/what is between Simon and Alucard?

EDIT: nvm.. I know now... oh well.. oh and... semi.. bad semi.. that was mean, you could have just answer that it was a random option.. yea.. I did not click on it, why I dunno :P

It seems that CV:J may become partially canon, and get a sequel. It seems that Aeon is part of a group called "Order of Time" (joining groups and clans such as Ecclesia, Shadows, Belmont Clan, Lecarde Clan, Morris Clan, Dracula's forces, the church, and whatever government group Arikado works for) which exists to protect time from Lord Galamoth. Because the time reaper cries out Lord Galamoth when he is killed, its fairly obvious this is a set up for both a major addition to the timeline, but a sequel actually featuring Galamoth.

This makes several changes to the timeline, too.

1: Aeon and the Order of Time are canon, and St. Germain is a member of this order

2: Galamoth officially can use time powers

Possibly more, but I have yet to beat the game, so I'll confirm this later and make additions to the timeline we have.

one reason this cant be cannon. logic errors.

shanoa has cerberus glyphs, but at the time she was taken to the other place, sh still hasnt made it to the castle and cant have those glyphs yet. other than that, there hasnt been anythin i really noticed that didnt fit the story to that degree

Small issues like that are easily glossed over. The game itself could very well be canon, but be re-written as "Aeon tested 13 of the characters, and then defeated the Time Reaper". Hell, the dude travels time, he could have given Shanoa certain powers.

Besides, if this takes place prior to the events of OoE, she could very well have the Custros glyphs under her posession.

Like it or leave it, Judgment is selling very well, apparently. A large amount of it is due to the twilight fans, buying up anything and everything with vampires in it.

Chances for a sequel are looking very good. Thank god, as much as I love it, there are some gameplay flaws that are getting really annoying...

Gamespot review for this game is up. However it got a 3.0

http://www.gamespot.com/wii/action/castlevaniajudgment/review.html

BIG OUCH!

well written, poorly researched.

I've never had an AI glitch where the enemy stands in the poison pit. Closes I've had to that is when I managed to force the enemy to stay in the poison by repeatedly timing dagger subweapon.

Meanwhile, third-rate characters like Eric Lecarde, Cornell, and the Golem are cripplingly weak and easily disposed of by the faster and stronger collective of famous faces. 

lol. Eric and Cornell are both fast and strong, and Golem is one of the strongest characters in the game. He has a single combo that can take down just shy of half of the enemies health, or at minimum, smash away their shield and do damage.

While using throwing knives, hungry bats, and other Castlevania-themed goodies aren't very useful. 

Does gamespot have a laughing face Icon?

Oh wait, found it :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

They also clearly never bothered playing around with the options, or they would have found mappable control options.

lets just take a look at this Mitch bloke who wrote the review...

Street fighting, Xbox are the first things I see. No surprise, he considers Judgment so poor because he doubtlessly like "hardcore" fighters.

oh wow, I just noticed. This guy got his start working on Xbox games. He prefers them. He reviews them. What the **** is he doing reviewing a more casual wii fighting game?!

HURR DURR DURR

:S wow.. I will go with a 5.0-6.0 but 3 is too much...

oh well....

so I was playing this a bit (mainly bc is killing me taht i have a CV game that I still have not passed)...

and everytime... REALLY???!?!??!?!

NICE FREAKING WAY OF KILLING ALUCARD!!!! I swear, teh art of this game is just beyond being OFF!!!!!!!

Presumably the original maker wanted them to look the way they originally looked.semianonymous

was he/she drunk when he saw the oroginals? 

Obata publicly stated that he didn't give a damn about the original designs, and was going to do them his own way.

This is the result.