I will wait to judge the game on its merits rather than on concept art.
That being said, since I normally am not into this type of game, it is doubtful I will purchase. But I think there is a lot of over-reaction by some people who don't like anything different than the regular formula.

Mike from Morgantown

yeah they always look feminin. I don't care that much.

Is just that it seems more "cartoony" than the ones from "simphony of the night" which were a but more gothic.

I still think the game will be very fun

I'm sold (And you can too!)

Cause its a castlevania game no one wants to see... No castlevania fans that is.

I'll probably be getting the game, but the radical departure in art style is off-putting. Eric? Fine. Alucard? The knight thing kinda works for him.

But what the Hell did they do to Maria?

It's the same genre as brawl (Brawl isn't a fighting game it's an action game) so it must be at least better than Power Stones, 4 player on this would of been Nice, but 2 players is ok.

7 more characters left! Hope I'm included

http://www.konami.jp/gs/game/dracula_wii/

Are the character arts done by the same guy who did Death Note? Maria and Simon look like fantasy porno versions of Raito and Misa. o_O

Oh wow. The second art for the girl is gorgeous, and even the first looks nice, but the third is just horrible. I barely knew anything of this game before, but now it's starting to piss me off. =P

oh yes...the art for Judgement is done by the artist of Death Note and creator of Hikaru no Go

and..hmm the art looks nice though..it doesn't bother me...I mean..I'm not complaining about Alucard's change from black-haired to blonde..

nor am I complaining about his change to Genya Arikado

and..I'm actually interested in Knight-style Alucard


I want to see what they'll do to Soma...better? worse?

they better damn put him in there AND use the Corridor theme...>_>

Actually, the more I look at these designs the more they piss me off.

Half the point of the Castlevania series in terms of aesthetics is that it's a Japanese interpretation of a distinctly European visual mode. Obata has abandoned that entirely. Dracula looks fine, but that's it. Maria is an abomination, Eric isn't recognizably a man, don't get me started on Aeon, Simon Belmont looks less like that unstoppable Conan-style bad-ass that he actually is and more like a big gay Anne Rice bondage king...

And Death. The Death design is the worst offender of them all. Death and Maria. But ESPECIALLY Death.

So, what, the whole "Angel of Death" motif is somehow old hat, now? They couldn't try to reinterpret what an angel of Death is supposed to look like, so Obata cops out and throws us an overly generic shinigami from Death Note? I understand the necessity for a new design for the character, but if you can't stick to some kind of western aesthetic then there's no point in including Dracula in the game in the first place.

These are Western archetypes and Western characters, they call for an approximation of a Western style, if not for the integrity of the series' aesthetic then for the sake of tradition and recognizability.

Dracula looks fine, but the rest are just God-awful.