We got a poster, from Adi Shankar's facebook page:
Well it's DEFINITELY got the mood down!
I'm not feeling it. It's not bad, I just think it's missing the point.
When I first saw this weeks ago (yes, this has been unveiled
much earlier than Shankar posted it on Facebook) I thought it was just a random "evil castle" artwork they found on Google to use as illustration.
For a random artwork whose purpose or character I didn't know at the time, I thought it looked properly terrifying and technically good. But now that I know this is supposed to be Dracula's Castle, I'm not very fond of it.
For me it looks too forced, too "metal". While the obvious bizarre structure conveys the "you will not want to be here, man" feeling, and while it's a good thing that this design draws parallels with the CVIII castle in overall disposition of stuff, it looks to me that someone didn't get the part where Dracula was supposed to be living PEACEFULLY amongst humans, in a castle that holds a façade of a "totally normal albeit a bit too large castle" until Dracula lost his mind. You can't be very peaceful when you live on the Obviously Evil Castle, can you?
From what I gather, and this comes a lot from personal opinion based on what I have perceived on the series mind you, the castle doesn't LOOK obviously eldritch from its exterior. It's only when you squint that you start noticing the absurd stuff from the outside -- in special Dracula's room hanging on nothing but a stairway. The devil is on the details, and this poster is too on-your-face, I think.
We don't know much about the plot, so we don't have much context or know if the castle will like transform or something, or if Dracula will shape up this evil castle when he goes mad. It could be anything and I'm passing early judgment. But this looks like somewhere where Bowser would live in, not Dracula.
EDIT: Coming from the future to tell myself that yeah, the castle was exactly this from the onset, and yeah, this "teaser" poster was as final as final comes.