Castlevania Judgment for Wii Reviews by Gamers

I should first state that Castlevania: Judgment was the reason why I started a GameFly trial. A number of professional reviewers have written that they thought this game was terrible, but I was able to find amateur reviews on YouTube from people who enjoyed or even loved the game, so I thought it would be best to rent it.

Castlevania: Judgment is something of a mixture of several fighting games: the weapon combat of SoulCalibur, the 3-D roaming combat of Power Stone and some of the fan service of Super Smash Bros. "Some of the fan service" because there are certainly aspects to the characters and stories which bug me; if this had not been a part of the Castlevania franchise it would be a bit more forgivable. While the music features new versions of old favorites such as "Vampire Killer" and "Bloody Tears," the designs of the characters are not what one expects from Castlevania.

Once you get past things such as the odd dialogue to tie some of the stories of certain characters to each other (after all, fighting games are not known for their stories), there's a fairly good game to be played.

Controls:
I started with the Wii-mote and nunchuck and found it
was precise enough to complete the game on Easy difficulty several times over without being tiresome. The "hold down/charge a button and press another" method is a simple way to add some variation in a game which doesn't feature crouching attacks or d-pad inputs. I switched later to the classic controller for more precision. I don't see any need to use an arcade stick.

Gameplay:
You can view your characters moves while paused. A sub-weapon can be added into some of your combos to extend them. Inputs are the same across characters, but none of them suffer from cloned moves. Each character certainly has a unique play style, with some (Grant, Cornell, Dracula) having an additional use for their hyper meter than just the one-button hyper-combo (without a cinematic). Not deep, but good.

Camera:
Works well!

It was a little bit better than I expected. But what I didn't like was that their was a little character roster I'am used to a lot of characters. Batlles end way to fast wish you could change the fights a little more like changing damage percentage and stuff like that.And also the game to me is a little short. So overall it is an okay fighting game.