Hot take: Castlevania Judgment isn't a bad idea. It was just executed poorly.

..........the char designs bug me the most about it

I think some work but yea, for the most part the Takeshi Obata art doesn't quite look right

....so what you're saying is there were a lot of bad judgment calls in execution?

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a castlevania fighter in concept is no more out there than soulcalibur already is

castlevania fighter; good idea
castlevania fighter with bizarre character design and writing choices, alongside a gameplay system that sort of cheapens the whole nature of it being a fighting game and makes it more like a series of annoying 3d action game bossfights; not great

you need a better IP attached to sell that style of fighter (naruto, jojo, i think there are a few others like it but those are the main ones that come to mind)

gsai - precisely.

I don't want to crap on arena fighters cause there's a time and place for them. It just didn't really work with Castlevania

yeah