

How do I know this art is official? Because it came with a certificate and, let’s be honest, nobody would ever fake it. Was it expensive? Well, getting it framed was! The art was under $10. I literally - I’m not joking - have cel art from this show on my wall. On the other hand, what do you think gaming IP multiverses are now? They ain’t doing it to warm your hearts.Īnd this is all coming from a fan. And obviously this show used its interconnected universes to market wholly unrelated games. So, yes, nobody back then really cared what the show’s producers did with those characters. That wasn’t a style choice that was a not-ruining-the-game choice.
#Captain n simon belmont full
Full disclosure: I worked on Kid Icarus: Uprising and that game sounds nothing like this. He’s not as horrible a person as Simon Belmont, but you gotta buckle up. Pit) speaks in a broken Pig Latin-type dialect that borders on torture.

You know what’s cooler than a vampire hunter? An unlikable vampire hunter.

There is something truly weird in turning the stolid, severe guy from the cover of Castlevania into a self-obsessed creep. I know it’s a cartoon for kids, but it’s been over 30 years since the show was on the air and Simon Belmont would get his ass fired for the shit he tried to pull on that lady. She’s royalty and runs Videoland while being passive-aggressively courted by Kevin and regular aggressively sexually harassed by Simon Belmont.
