Users reviews are useless because they're easily astroturfed for bonkers reasons.

Critic reviews are useless because they are largely just ads bought and paid for.

This has forced me to create a new system I like to call "talking to your friends". If I wanna know if a movie or show is good, I ask Rebecca or Muhammad because they have similar interests to me. If I wanna know if a game is good, I can talk to Eugene or Jake. Is this music any good? Well, Marcy has similar tastes to me but not always so it's a toss up.

If I don't got no friends with that interest, well, time to find a niche online community and start chatting people up.

Don't they mean the uselessness of critic reviews?

Pretty standard stuff. A handful of bigots go ahead and review bomb stuff they hate.

Usually that's an indicator that the show is really great. Personally I thought the original Castlevania series was fantastic, so I'm looking Forward to watching this one.

Powerhouse Animation is usually worth watching for the visuals alone.

I finished Nocturne last night and it was…eh? Well it’s half a show isn’t it? It’s the same as the OG Netflix Castlevania S1, where they set all the pieces up for S2, so I’m willing to wait it out and see where it goes. The 53% does feel accurate to me as a score honestly, even though I’d personally put it at like ~60%.

The highlight of the show for me was Richter and Maria’s interactions in episode 1, and I thought we would get more of that than we actually did. I don’t mind Annette, but like…I wish we got more RICHTER (and Maria, Tera, and Orlox by extension) and saved Annette’s story for later.

It also just …weirdly felt too rushed and too slow simultaneously. 8 episodes was not enough for the story they wanted to tell, and I wish they just focused on the Belmont side for now.

While many people actually just say the quiet part out loud, it’s too “woke,” others code it with the “bad writing, bad characters” claim. The writing of course being the “woke” parts, mainly, the characters being those of color, usually.

This paranoid lunatic really believes that criticism of a show's writing and characters is some kind of dogwhistle. The first series of Castlevania was decent, but very silly; it was a 6/10 at the absolute highest. Or, if I was a character from Castlevania, I would say "the first FUCKING series of Castlevania was DAMN decent, but very FUCKING silly and SHIT; it was a DAMN 6 out of BITCH 10 at the absolute FUCKING highest". It's not a particularly amazing series and this one is worse, as continuations are wont to be.

Considering this is a Forbes article, my assumption is that this is a bought-and-paid-for PR statement. Why would you post anything from this corporate rag in the first place, OP?

Lmao what? User reviews are useless because people leave their opinion on the show?

I really don't find rt to be useful. Take away the fact that critics are being paid to give positive reviews, it's just a measure of like versus dislike, so 100% of critics liking it is really just saying every critic thought the show was at least decent, but it doesn't give me any sort of scale. It's like a giant pass fail, but there's no indication of whether the show barely passed across the board, or was actually quite good.

That being said, have not seen this series yet, but plan to

The original one was great and honestly Nocturne ain't that bad as well so far.