I was looking at the instruction manual for this at my local EB and wow... so not impressed by the artwork; don't care about the anime artist that did the work. Alcuard looks so feminine it isn't even funny. I know he kind of had a kind of quaint appearance in his original rendering but he was more handsome than gorgeous - this craptastic version almost reminded me of that pretty boy Ghaleon from LSSS.

Forget about Alucard - look what they did to poor Simon!  Some Harajuku "elegant goth" crap.

Even if the game did play well, I wouldn't buy it just to send a message not to f--- around with Castlevania character designs.

The thing that confuses me is that I'm kind of fond of the artist's other work... but I can't believe how terrible the designs for this game are.  Poor, poor Maria. 

I haven't heard any music from this Castlevania Judgement yet, but when I listened to Nobuo's rocking Lord of Vermillion album, I thought *THAT* is what a Castlevania Fighting game should sound like.