Talk:Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse

it's kind of a shame that the judgment crew is so obviously, screeeeamingly unfamiliar with this game! the trio of partners do have backstories (Mr. P has a translation of the japanese Dracula's Curse manual on-site), and while we north-america-side didn't get much characterization in the way of dialogue, the JP version makes it really clear what these people are like in the way they talk to trevor, and the form of speech they use. grant, for example, nicknames trevor 'sir knight', and basically talks like kamina from Gurren Lagann ('nakama yo!'); sypha's language is very polite and gender-neutral, and she says right off 'thank you for helping me, it was starting to look like i'd be stuck there for quite a while'. she's not a snowball woman. ;p and alucard is...alucard, and he's the only one they got right, but he's pretty easy. he also has a very confusing-to-interpret archaic formal speech pattern!

i know this seems nitpicky and 'oh lol oldsk00l fan', but CV3 is one of my favourite games of all time. (even if i've died ten thousand crackheaded ways playing it.) i'd love to see the entire quartet done justice. SotN has a lovely alucard, and trevor shines in CoD (judgment folks, he's not a jerkface egotist; he admits when he's fouled up and when he's not as suited to a task as hector - do you play the games?) - but sypha and grant are neglected, or completely character-derailed. seriously. sypha's not frosty, and grant is not shy.

this is a beautiful, epic, glorious game, it's one of the best in the series, and i'm patiently awaiting the day that it gets the recognition and treatment it warrants. -'burd aka Yukie1013 03:35, 2 April 2009 (UTC)