A lot is ‘going on’ right now, I know. But were you there when Netflix dropped the Castlevania: Nocturne Season Two trailer on an unsuspecting populace? Most of us were just going about our lives, doing day-to-day things with no idea that Netflix was gonna drop a banger. In the middle of the day! This has the feel of the Drake/Kendrick battle. Arcane just did the damn thing and is still the talk of the town, then “boom!” here comes Castlevania with the heat! This is a play-by-play of the trailer, so brace yourself for lots of gifs!
It opens with the team lamenting their very public defeat (the Sun is gone!) at the end of season one. Richter, Annette, and Alucard trying to get it together and consider their next steps. The priest Emmanuel looks forlorn while mourning the un-death of a loved one. Cut to: Erzebet Báthory, aka Sekhmet aka, the queen of this Euro/Afro vampire shit going Perfect Cell and giving Richtor the business off aura alone! She flexed her back muscles and had your boy in submission. Yo, Castlevania: Nocturne going off.
A reminder of what was lost, what remains of Tera dipping in and out of the shadows in her new form, a blur of fangs and magic. Images of a fully obscured, magically eclipsed Sun. The idea that vampires can rip and run the streets all time of day now. A roughed-up but resolute Maria, fresh off the loss of her mother and brooding while glaring out at the city from the French countryside.
Then it gets gully. Richter goes ultra instinct parrying night creature tentacles and hits the mean Street Fighter III Ryu shin-shoryuken stance with the headband on tight and eyes bluer than Elijah Wood’s. With the arms busting out the sleeves of his mother’s hand-me-down Victorian tailcoat!? Bet your bottom dollar some vampires are gonna get their ass beat to some rousing orchestral music. Maybe a gothic choir doing adlibs for said whooping(s). It’s going down.
Alucard delivers a quick monologue about the stakes, his ride-or-die vibe is on ten. ‘Either I’m giving Erzebet the fade, or I’ma die trying. If that happens, need a Belmont to spin the block and air her Jellicle cat looking ass and her vampire army the hell OUT.’ Cue the Castlevania Belmont/Alucard banter and character relationship we know, love, and pray never changes.
Right back to the heat – we jump to the meanest four-sided gang war in reimagined history! Blue-coat revolutionaries, red-coat nationalists, vampires, and hunters! It’s really Les Miserable featuring Bloods and Crips with some magic in it. It’s glorious! The cannons booming as Alucard orchestrates an army like a conductor. His longsword, Heirloom, going to work turning Erzebet’s vampire followers into shoestring french fries (pun, intended?) while Erzebet is going HAM on everything moving
Richter is digging deep in his bag of inherited magic to pull off an ice bladed Psycho Crusher while Annette channels the Orisha Ogun like an earth bender giving these Europeans some Yoruba justice (gotta ‘axé’ that). Season two of Castlevania: nocturne even got Richter’s grandfather, Juste Belmont, putting work in! Facing off against Tera and hitting that Royal Flush like Gambit in Marvel vs Capcom with the flared sleeves. Blades getting thrown around with reckless abandon.
Things get wild, Maria Renard is back in the building and she ain’t conjuring nothing cute anymore. No companion birds and adorable turtles, nah. Her portals don’t even have that glow, it’s a pitch-black abyssal portal beaming in a legitimate hell dragon.
And like an infomercial with the late, great Billy Mays: but wait, there’s more! Black by popular demand is none other than every cosplayer’s dream bad biddie vampire, Drolta Tzuentes! Back from her apparent death and came back with her hair loc’d up like a neo-soul singer. Catching NPC bodies to make up for lost time and going 1v1 against Alucard for what is destined to be a banger of a fight. Y’all know, no Nocturne season is complete without Richter going ‘Eye of the Tiger’ with the blank expression, bright blue eyes going dummy, and headband flapping in the wind!
I don’t know all of what Castlevania: Nocturne Season 2 has in store, but I know it will look fantastic, Olrox’s hair will be laid, fantastic hands will be thrown, large scope battles will be fought, and I will be SAT. Check out the trailer at the top and stay tuned for the season to drop on Netflix on January 16th!
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