Given Castle Bloods’ nature as a fully-interactive story-based game-adventure, the majority of the entertaining leg-work belongs to the cast, and they were very successful at maintaining a realistic, cohesive fantasy narrative. Though their numbers were short (little more than a dozen interactive actors and another half’s worth in boo-scarers), their personalities were huge, so we didn’t feel ill-attended at any point.
Spending several minutes which each character gave us a greater sampling of their acting prowess than we would normally experience at a ‘pass-through’ attraction. Truthfully, unlike our last visit, there weren’t any wildly lackluster performances this time.
Though some denizens were clearly more benevolently-disposed toward we mortals, they each offered unique and witty personas with which to challenge and snark us. The gypsy (Cara?) was our favorite, as any vampire willing to openly admit a fondness to a shirt covered in flying cats must surely be woven from a superior fabric. Like many of her brethren, she was a bit harsh, exceedingly short-tempered, and openly-mocking, but also fair and helpful. She may not immediately admit it, but the ol’ softie even warmed up to us by the end of our interaction. In fact, I’d go so far as to posit that we made a sincere cross-mortality connection over the exhumation of my ‘burden.’
The nameless scientist and his tweaking assistant, Zap, were an entertaining duo, even if the former may have been a little too eager to gamble our well-fare for the greater good. Wisp and waft, a much more somber and morose pair were both excellent as well, timing their interplay perfectly. Atonlio and Morpheus were also both incredibly memorable, the former as one of the only straight-forward-altruistic Bloodians toward us, and the latter for his soft-spoken trickery and good humor. Our team-howl with the handsome werewolf was a highlight of our evening. Sometimes lycanthropes get lonely too. Madam Spider may have seemed a twinge BOSSY, but what does one expect from a woman who spends all day caring for thousands of screaming infants? She, too, had unofficially-aligned herself with Team Potter by the end of our exchange; she had that certain twinkle in her eyes…all of them ‘ you know what I’m saying?
In all seriousness, extra props to Ms. Spider who had just joined the production THE DAY we visited and still put forth a great performance.
I said it, see??? We’re cool now, right? So… maybe don’t eat me?
We were very impressed by the spectrum of characters that we encountered, many of their off-script ad libbing abilities, and the amount of good-spirited snide laughs they invoked… mostly at my expense.
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