Netflix’s Castlevania should be your next dark-fantasy fix

While the infamous "video game curse" is still prevalent today in modern-day adaptations, Netflix's Castlevania animated series was arguably the first to break that pattern. It originally premiered in 2017 with a brief, four-episode-long first season, but the impact that it had seemed to finally tap into the potential of video game series adapted for TV and/or film.

The jury is still out on whether live-action productions could do justice to their source material - though, perhaps HBO's The Last of Uscould produce that first major shift - but the animation medium looks to have unlocked something. With fantasy cemented ...