Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse is one of many 12 months’s finest video games, mixing outstanding visible model, impactful fight, and balletic traversal. Additionally, as a bonus, all people is actually sizzling. It isn’t glorious as a result of all people is sizzling, but it surely actually does not harm. In that regard, it’s totally harking back to Hades and its sequel, which discovered that if we’ll often see character portraits for dialogue, they could as effectively be straightforward on the eyes.
Proper off the bat you see Trevor Belmont and his daughter, Rose, disembarking in Paris. Trevor is a silver fox and Rose is an attractive (if barely terrifying) maiden. As you enterprise additional into the fortress, you discover characters just like the Zealot, Isaac–a goth prince if ever I noticed one–and the Warrior, whose identification I will not spoil however let’s simply say will attraction to followers of tall, sturdy ladies. The Fallen, a corrupted beast of a person, is not too dangerous to take a look at for these gamers who got here of age with Magnificence and the Beast. Even Medusa has a sure sort of bizarre magnificence, if you happen to’re prepared to look previous the snakes. Don’t look immediately on the snakes.
The perfect instance of all this can be Carmilla, the blood witch vampiress who wears a slinky little crimson costume. It seems trendy till you understand it is simply thick rivulets of blood dripping off her physique always. Gross! And but. Hm.
And do not even get me began on Dracula himself. When the lord of darkness lastly seems, he makes the very engaging Trevor Belmont appear to be a schlubby dad by comparability. The character is usually portrayed as a metaphor for temptation or lust and, having seen this depiction, look, I get it.
The general ratio of hotties is considerably diminished by monstrous boss characters. There are undoubtedly some members of Rose’s tarot deck who aren’t engaging or, effectively, human. The Brittle King, for instance, is a roughly human-shaped factor made out of shards of stained glass. I am not going to presume to say that will not attraction to anyone, however in all probability not most gamers, not less than.
For probably the most half, although, the human and humanoid characters in Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse are remarkably, ridiculously handsome, and that does not appear unintended. It is only one extra method the sport feels easy and welcoming in each facet, and it is sure to encourage numerous items of fan artwork.
