Topic: [Netflixvania] Castlevania X: The Demon Castle Legend Cut (Final Remastered Ed)

[Jeepy]

Small update:
-Classic Konami logo is now remade in widescreen.
-Added the church cross from The Castle of Cagliostro to the CV3-like prologue (at the frame with Trevor kneeling near the ruins, so now it looks more like the opening scene from CV3, where Trevor prays in front of the same cross).
-Other small improvements.

(Main download link updated)

[X]

I just remembered something. Even if there isn't enough footage for Trevor to fight Dracula there was a scene where Trevor did give Dracula a rather heavy blow with the Vampirekiller. That scene could be used to the effect as the final Deathblow against Dracula.

[Jeepy]

You mean the one when Trevor strikes Dracula after Sypha traps his leg with ice spikes? It's already used when the trio arrives to Dracula's room, and re-editing it to the very end in Alucard's room might look a little awkward, but it might work. Thanks for the feedback!

[X]

Welcome 

[mgfcortez]

I think this be cool but watch a bit of it, and the voices are way too low sadly. makes it un watchable. you have to not get too carried away with the music too the point it drowns out the voices. but looks pretty cool. it cut off when Trevor met the learners or whatever their called. might download but 15 gbs. I hope this has 6 channel audio for such a big file size if not no reason for such a big file. anyway thank you for the work.

[Jeepy]

I remember trying to re-balance the sound channels, so both the voices could be audible and the music not being way too loud, but it's pretty hard, since the original show's sound channel had music on its own (and trying to remove it with an AI doesn't work perfectly most of the time, as it cuts out some sound effects and such),
 and to some degree I wanted to switch focus on the added music from the games (since Castlevania games always were known for godlike melodic and melodramatic soundtracks),
 so I decided to settle on what sounded acceptable for my ears (being able to hear characters' voices and listen to the added music without any distractions). Maybe I just got so used to it I didn't notice it. 

In any case, thanks a lot for the feedback! I'll see what can be done to improve the sound balance.

It's a 4 hour long film, so 15 gigabyte file size should be excusable, I hope. You can download it pretty fast from the main link on Dropmefiles.

[Eric Roman]

I never realized Castlevania has it's own "Should Moon or Venus kill Beryl"

Does now! XD

Tally another with the "where's Grant?", "Dracula's War Council made no sense", "WTF new random monsters instead of harvesting the Monster Dictionary", "Carmilla's clique was a waste of effort (even if Lenore's the hottest thing this side of Venus Weed)", and "the final season could've been A LOT shorter" sentiments. 

Slogra and Gaibon aside, after the three-part was finally done, disaster was to follow...according to my perspective, of course.  We're left in the end with a noteworthy, high-quality production accessible to everyone.  At the expense of those who know better.  Ey, they tried and it was an honest to goodness try. 

But it's one of those things I'll have to grin and bear forever (like so many things I've lived to see spoil).  As Portrait of Ruin, the adaptation had a lot of potential and awesome stuff going on but wound up tremendously flawed if you're showing up with expectations so calibrated as N's marketing commanded. 

Then we have scenes like this:

Cleopatra: Carmilla's house is on fire.
Guts: Yeah, I'm tired of fighting.  Let's elope.
::they leave::

Hrumph. 

Or one of my favorites:

Zobek or Something, friend of ANOTHER NEW CHARACTER WITH PETS IRRELEVANT TO CASTLEVANIA: DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM?!  LIKE AND SUBSCRI--
::gets hung up on::

I'm intrigued to see this edit, it'll be fun to see how it runs with the fluff excised. 

Unlike how the Rondo preview left me curious about what of its robust cast and worldview will be ignored and supplanted.

[mgfcortez]

I remember trying to re-balance the sound channels, so both the voices could be audible and the music not being way too loud, but it's pretty hard, since the original show's sound channel had music on its own (and trying to remove it with an AI doesn't work perfectly most of the time, as it cuts out some sound effects and such),
 and to some degree I wanted to switch focus on the added music from the games (since Castlevania games always were known for godlike melodic and melodramatic soundtracks),
 so I decided to settle on what sounded acceptable for my ears (being able to hear characters' voices and listen to the added music without any distractions). Maybe I just got so used to it I didn't notice it. 

In any case, thanks a lot for the feedback! I'll see what can be done to improve the sound balance.

It's a 4 hour long film, so 15 gigabyte file size should be excusable, I hope. You can download it pretty fast from the main link on Dropmefiles.

well take it from me if you got a blu ray with 5.1 6 channels. you can get the audio without the music. I myself took both Chinese movies monkey king 2014 and monkey king 2 2016 and removed the Chinese and then Dubbed them in English. most of Monkey king 2014 was done with the soundtrack, but part two was done with blu ray 6 channel audio. some sounds I was unable to remove. but most of the 28 minutes I did for MK2 before my pc died and they did a Dub of their own. lol was clean audio.

I will link the download in this reply if anyone wants to see them in English. also proof I know what I'm saying. you can watch the second movie online but got to download the first probably because of the two hour run time.

anyway if you should be able to rip the blu ray audio and use a program like Audacity to get the center track from the 6th audio channel track. it would be really nice to her the voices better. I did enjoy the old school Castlevania audio in the show. I plan to watch more now that I downloaded the 15gb file. take care


Monkey King 2014 English Dub.
https://www.4shared.com/s/fGYJkcJJkba

Monkey King 2 2016 28 minute English Dub.
https://www.4shared.com/s/fSyFNFOPEba

[Jeepy]

Hey, it's been a while. For the past few months, we've been working hard on a remastered version of our Cut, and now it looks and sounds better than ever!

-One of the biggest differences is completely re-done audio - now the voices and sound effects are much more audible and better balanced with the music (many thanks to mgfcortez for the feedback and suggestions!).
-Some scenes were shortened or outright deleted, since they either didn't serve any purpose or were leftovers from the original show's scenario, not making sense in the context of our Cut, or being out of character (such as Trevor and Alucard bickering, or when Alucard says "this place looks like the museum dedicated to extermination of my people" in the Belmont hold, when he should be hating his vampiric side).
-Some shots and scenes were added for better context, logic and overall flow, or to get some secondary characters a bit more screen time so they wouldn't feel ignored (such as Zead whose earlier presence now makes much more sense for some action scenes in the first half of the film). Alucard now hears Lisa's last words, and Carmilla has been added (both as a sort of a tie-in with her Judgement dialogue with Sypha, and to additionally minimize the Church bashing of the animated series, to not have a single 100% guilty party involved in Lisa's death; now it looks like the bishop who sentenced Lisa to death genuinely regrets his actions, and Carmilla might had a hand in it since she's horny for Dracula and wants him all to herself), and more.
-With the advent of AI, we've redone Isaac's looks and voice, so now he has scenes with an animated face and sounds like Liam O'Brien. We also added voiced narration for the prologue and the epilogue, using the voice of Michael McConnohie, who voiced Rinaldo in Lament of Innocence.
-Some minor music has been added or replaced.
-Also, lots of small edits we've completely missed the first time - better transition here, missing effect there, color correction, fixed errors, better context and progression, etc, etc.


Probably the only thing we wanted to do but gave up on, was the idea to remove the scar on Trevor's face until the third act, where he gets to fight Dracula and Death inside Dracula's castle (similar to CoD manga) but the amount of time it takes to edit all the frames is just not worth the effort. In the context of the animated film, at least Trevor's scar is kinda believable from the get-go, since Trevor had experience fighting monsters and lived in isolation, but it's still a shame it's not entirely accurate to the game lore. At least Trevor's facial scar is not as much of an offender as Sypha's shoulder scars she has in S3/S4 scenes, which is something we actually addressed and decided to fix for our Cut! If you have watched both the original Netflixvania and the Demon Castle Legend Cut, you've probably noticed that Sypha doesn't have the scars on her shoulder until the finale in our version - I was crazy enough to edit more than 3500 frames to cover it up, but since Trevor has much more screentime, covering his facial scar would require an insane amount of time to do frame-by-frame editing, and since we don't get paid for this, we decided to leave it as it is.

Also, we've added the isolated BGM track for those who would like to try their hand at fan dubbing.


With the Final Remastered Edition's release, we're most likely won't be coming back to editing it again, so we hope to bring you the best possible version of the Castlevania anime, which is as faithful to the games as it can be.

Original post was updated with fresh download links.

Happy Easter, Happy 40th Castlevania anniversary, and enjoy!