SUCCUBUS

I been thinking about it and it seems 2D videogames dosnt get too many figures at all (aside of Mario). Some jewells from the 80s and 90s have just a couple of figures if they are lucky (Darkstalkers, Samurai Shodown) and one of them is the great Castlevania. Is weird how crazy popular it was but totally untouched by the toys market.

The only company that pick up the Castlevania name was NECA at the begining of the century (the new Dimaond Select figures dosnt count since they are based on the series, not the games) and make only one single series of four figures: Simon Belmont, Alucard, Dracula and Succubus. I still dont understand why they did Simon and not Richter but anyway....i only got one figure, the Succubus.

It is odd how crazy detailed this figure looks and how she actually looks like a bunch of pixels on the game, with not even a face, but this figure is entirelly based on the awesome Ayame Kojima artwork. She is on the standar scale of action figures soo she atches the size of most figures of most brand (bigger than Figma) and cant stand on her own thanks to her high heels, but she comes with a pretty simple yet discrete base.

She is only artiulated in seven points: the head, shoulders, boots and wings and the wings and boots articulation are totally useless thanks to the sculpt and her head dosnt move much thanks to her hair soo basically, her only usefull articulations are on her shoulders. Back thin this was in vogue, all adult collectible figures used to be mostly statues with limited movement following McFarlane style and NECA was no exception.

Soo this bad girl is sculted in basically one single pose tough she dosnt looks stiff or anything,she is leaning to one of her sides and you can notice the weigth of her wings and how proud she stands. She is....barelly dressed with a tiny thiny almost invisible bikini and long high heel boots and a corse, she looks like a hooker, wich is totally perfect for someone like her.

Her face expression is cold and...well, kinda dead and with her pale color skin she dosnt looks too healty, her hair is beautyfully sculpted with flowers and the details on her gloves and corse are really well sculpted. The paint tough is kind of messy since the g-string is a little sloppy and theres a few sections were its obvious the paint didnt behave like it should.

Her wings are made with translucent brown plastuc with some black shades and sculpted veins, this gives them a pretty natural leather look and are one of the best parts of the figure. They have the perfect shape and size tough its a shame they cant fully open.

There is one detail here tough, since she is topless and NECA follow her original design and even show her in different conventions with her boobs out, but once the figure was released to mass market, it seems they doubted and put her a weird half bra on top of her boobs. The looks is awkard, soo i removed it and, evidently, they sculpted and painted her tits under it as it should.

Sadlly, they used glued the boob cover soo by removing it, her boobs lose some paint. I should pait that section but i am not expert, and by pointing it it would looks like her boobs have a different color over the rest of her body, something even much more awkard.

She dosnt have too many accesorys, only two. One of them is an axe, a very cartoony axe that fits perfectly on her hand, but while is temptting to give her the axe, is evident this is a weapon for Simon, not her. Is weird when they add accesorys of other figures really since i dont have Simon.

The other accesory is a Fleaman, one of the most classic and super anoying enemies from the game. He is small and incrediblly gross and disgusting, with blue veins covering his skin and deformed teeth and white eyes, a big hunchback, he dosnt looks human at all. Its pretty cool to see how sick and horrible this guys really look since in the game they are kinda cute.

I really dont know why i didnt get the ther figure sof this series, probablly because she is the most colorfull of the collection but i would love to have Simon and Dracula to make her company, tough this figures are crazy expensive by now.