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Quick Look: Castlevania Judgment

We shake our controllers at each other to see who will give up first.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Jan. 18 2009

Cast: Jeff, Ryan

Posted by: Vinny

140 Comments

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Edited By Wright

one of the most awesome things I've watched on the site. need to do more of these XD and WTF DOES THE B BUTTON DO?!

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Edited By Duke_Lion

That was the funniest video since the Too human one.

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Edited By valiantgoat

Why didn't they make it a 2D fighter? It could have still had a chance of being decent then. Then again, why am I not asking why did they make a Castlevania fighting game?

Thanks for giving everyone a look at a terrible terrible game that nobody had plans of ever playing.

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"Move or die!"

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Edited By Endogene

Ok now the game is not good but you guys should at least have gone through the tutorial before the game has way more depth than just a one attack and a special weapon.

It has pretty much all the depth that a 2D fighter has, it has guard breaks, cancels, juggling, super attacks, hyper attacks etc...

The game is better than what you have showed off it.

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Edited By Gregomasta

Damnit all, what does the B button do?

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Edited By zityz

Why? really why? first off some franchises dont work well in 3d I find, castlevaina is one of them, then they make it a 3d fighter, then they make it sa shitty 3d fighter with stupid circled all around it. the only quality thing about this was the coments being made. This looked like it was planned to the ps2 but they brought it over to the wii.

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Edited By brukaoru

Who ever thought a CastleVania fighting game would be good... Ugh... Hilarious video guys. Actually made it worth watching the awful gameplay.

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Edited By ArcBorealis

Turning 3D fighting games into action adventures is one thing.

Doing it the opposite was is just plain wrong. I really wonder what Konami was smoking when they came up with this game. It's not so much the gameplay as it is the art style (why the hell does Simon remind me of Light from Death Note!?)

Still, you guys did a good job with the commentary. "Castlevania...Judgement" *repeat*
LOL

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Edited By Snipper_138

it was just entertaining to see you guys douche around on a crappy game

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Edited By MichaelScott

I think it's awesome you guys got this game 2 1/2 months after it came out just to mess around on it. lol

Great vid.

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Edited By Cyborg

Awe this game is so cool i want it! Nope, can't even type that without bursting into laughter! I will definatly be running to the store for that game! for sure! Thanks Jeff and Ryan for showing me the triumphant return of the Castlevania games to the next gen consoles :) lol just kidding.. althought the game was terrible the video was still good showing that you guys are of greater entertainment than the Wii, oh did i say that outloud, my bad, LOL

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Edited By Nets

The Wii fannieboys were right. I am jealous of their high quality third party efforts on the platform regardless of the ratings.

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Edited By TheJadeAngel

Library Card Denied !

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Edited By benderunit22

Owls are still a threat

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Edited By darro

When I first heard there was going to be a Castlevania fighter, I knew it wasn't going to work and the footage here and the stuff I seen before pretty much proves it.  As a fan of the series, this is one game I ain't getting an time soon or ever for that matter. Best part was the commentary of course.

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Edited By RipTheVeins

"maybe we're just not good enough at it.."..."NOT GOOD ENOUGH!"

hahaha...couldn't have planed that timing :P

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Edited By squidracerx

Why do Belmonts get hurt by holy water?
Why does Trevor sound like a phone sex chatline when he gets hurt?
Who was the girl with the owl?
And when did episodes of Time Trotters ever "air"? (I saw the original preview for the first episode with Wu Tang I think back in the Gamespot days but no more than that!?)

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Edited By UKSamwise

It would be pretty cool if they have a quick look of Street Fighter IV, me personally I haven't played street fighter that much but hearing how good Jeff is at fighting games the video would pwn.

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Edited By DukeTogo

What a piece of shit.  I got more entertainment watching this video than I would playing the game.  That dude who makes these games should get that whip he carries around with him used on himself for letting this get get made.

Do yourselves a favor folks, pick up the Castlevania games on your favorite consoles online store, any of them would be better than this trash.

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Edited By FiestaUnicorn

Why didn't anyone choose to play as the mummy?

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Edited By Cynic04

"The Wii fannieboys were right. I am jealous of their high quality third party efforts on the platform regardless of the ratings."

Agreed, the only way they could sell more copies is by renaming it Wii Castlevania.
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Edited By Brackynews

Not playing this while I could be playing Dissidia.  Not even a little.

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Edited By Junpei

Best part of this was the Labyrinth reference at the beginning

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Mystery Science Theater?

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Edited By chewii101

More "previews" like these would be awesome!

Maybe occasionally do a video like this based on a purposefully chosen terrible game...?
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Edited By yukoasho

I'm with Snipper 138.  That was awesome.  Best line: "Why are you playing as Sephiroth?"

Seriously guys, you need to do even more of these bad game rips.

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Edited By mcdrew77

This is not Castlevania, but at least the video is good.

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I'm pretty sure this was purposely chosen..

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Edited By Razor

GJ guys, I would like to see more FEATURES like this as I myself cannot afford to go out and buy games just to try them out.  ME WANT MORE

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Edited By DrRandle

This is an awesome video. That being said I dunno I rather liked this game as a Castlevania fan. It wasn't great, but it was kinda fun.

You also should really not play with the wii-mote. That was just carelessness.

And I get the mockery, but as a Castlevania fan, yeah I actually recognize all of this. Just throwing it out there.

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Edited By Kajaah117

This video makes me hope Giant Bomb makes it's own version of the Broken Pixels series. Or at least does more hands-on videos with crappy games.

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Edited By toowalrus

His reference to Owls as "Sky Nachos" was a reference to the Colbert Report. He was making fun of PETA, who refer to fish as "Sea Kittens" ... you wouldn't eat a SEA KITTEN, would you?

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Edited By dark_maggot

Wow this game is so weird, what happened to Castlevania?

Great Commentary guys.

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Edited By Ashuku

I like these quick look videos a lot. 

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Edited By mementomori

hahah 9:30-9:40


its finished!

aaaaaaah

HEHAH!

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Edited By singular

Those "Quick Look" videos are definately a thing you guys should keep doing. The game looked boring though. By the way: Jeff, if you had her show you her id you wouldn't be on parole ;)

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Watching Jeff and Ryan play is more entertaing than the game itself.

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Edited By AdmiralViscen

These quick looks are a great idea guys, keep up the good work. Hilarious shit

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Dracula is no longer a threat.

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Edited By RenegadeSaint

Castlevania!
...
...
...
Judgment!

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Wow, that looks horrid!

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Edited By Shade

That game looks pretty horrendous. I wish they would make a castlevania game that is like the ds games for consoles, instead using high res art or make it 3d while keeping the side scrolling aspect. It's a shame that these low quality games are still being made.
On the bright side, that video was nothing short of hilarious! Castle Vania..........Judgement. LOL keep it up guys, absolutely loving these quick looks.

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Edited By Marzy

Lol! doesn't look too bad, in my opinion.

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video was way too long and boring to watch

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Edited By SunKing

I laughed my ass off, what is with Konami and owls? Also, anybody find it funny that the holy water sub weapon is still as sucky in this game as it was in the 2D games?

But yeah, the game does look pretty crappy.

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hahaha..... 'that's why im on parole'.

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NOT GOOD ENOUGH! haha